Beloved Star

She was born in the distant 1947 on an ice floe in the Kara Sea, at an Arctic polar station, and left this life during the hot summer of 2022 in Moscow, managing to complete this final book, give it... a title and write the last story for it already in a hospital ward...

Anna Radziwill grew up in Kolyma, Magadan, and even at the pole of cold in Verkhoyansk. But the unchanging point of attraction for her was always beloved Leningrad, where she after finishing school enrolled at Leningrad State University named after A. Zhdanov, dreaming of learning to write stories. However, they didn't teach this at the philological faculty, and very different life circumstances forced her to master a variety of professions: teacher of the Russian language and literature, engineer, editor of factory radio, translator, and even a service dog training instructor. And everything came in handy, because since her youth she internalized Kuprin's admonition that a writer must "see everything, know everything, be able to do everything, and write about everything".
This book is a tribute to the memory of a Woman with a whimsical fate and a truly Russian Writer. And gratitude for her inspiring creativity.