Татьяна, Васса, Акулина

Pered vami svoeobraznai͡a saga, okhvatyvai͡ushchai͡a zhiznʹ neskolʹkikh pokoleniĭ zhenshchin odnoĭ semʹi ot kont͡sa XVIII do nachala XX veka. Vossozdatʹ sudʹby geroinʹ, zhivshikh na Verkhneĭ Volge i v Peterburge-Petrograde, avtoru pomogli ne tolʹko semeĭnye predanii͡a, no i ispovednye rospisi, i revizskie skazki. Poroĭ istoricheskie dokumenty vstupai͡ut v protivorechie s nashim segodni͡ashnim predstavleniem o tom, kakovo bylo ustroĭstvo zhizni v te vremena, no fakty - veshchʹ upri͡amai͡a, da i sami geroini obnaruzhivai͡ut neprostoĭ kharakter. Kak inache vyderzhatʹ ti͡azhelyĭ krestʹi͡anskiĭ trud, ėpidemii, voĭny, chastye rody, a to i - nechai͡annoe schastʹe?

This is a kind of saga that covers the lives of several generations of women from the same family from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. To recreate the fate of the heroines who lived on the Upper Volga and in St. Petersburg-Petrograd, the author was helped not only by family traditions, but also by confessional murals and revision fairy tales. Sometimes historical documents come into conflict with our current understanding of what the structure of life was like in those days, but facts are a stubborn thing, and the heroines themselves reveal a difficult character. How else can we withstand hard peasant labor, epidemics, wars, frequent childbirth, or even accidental happiness?