Belgrade

Nadezhda Alexeeva (1988) is a prose writer, playwright, and "lawless comet in the circle of calculated stars": her debut novel "Midnight Woman", set in Valaam, was a finalist for the "Big Book", "Clear Glade", "Lyceum" awards and the MHT award.
In... her second novel, modern Belgrade is intertwined with cozy old Yalta at the beginning of the 20th century, the estate of Melikhovo, and hot Ceylon... Young writer Anya is forced to emigrate to Belgrade, following her husband — cold, empty, and unwelcoming — she tries to acclimate to a foreign city, understand her marriage, and longs for Russian snow. Shortly before her departure, she completed a novel about the love and non-love of Chekhov and Olga Knipper — and unexpectedly, Chekhov's plots begin to resonate with her own biography