Women's love is often not subject to logic. Especially love a dead woman... Elena exaltation of the cross, rudely deprived of virginity, treated the men with irony. But having got acquainted with the attending doctor of the mother, imposing and serious Terekhov, fell in love without memory. Fatal passions and mysticism in the scenery of merchant Moscow of the early twentieth century is a new story by Irina Muravyeva, acting in an unusual genre of Noir novel. Mermaids and devils, rich gays and revolutionaries, suffragists and kept women-who only is not in this enchanting book! And they are all tragically linked to each other by a carnival of History in which everyone plays a part.