Lament for the Departed Drawing Teacher

Maya Kucherskaya is a prose writer, philologist, and author of the books "Modern Patericon: Reading for Those Who Have Fallen into Despair," "The God of Rain," "Aunt Motya," "You Were Completely Different," as well as the biography "Leskov: The Overlooked Genius." She is the creator of the program "Literary Craft" at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Creative Writing School. "Lament for the Departed Drawing Teacher" is a dramatic story about how to overcome the darkness within oneself. Characters of all kinds - an emigrant student, a fallen monk, a young mother, an orphan boy - are caught in a moment of life-changing crisis. The outcome is unknown, but this does not deprive the heroes of their sense of humor and hope that they will nevertheless manage to walk on water, dance on the roof, and grow a tree from the music of Bach.