About the book: 2021 / City by the blue sea. The heart of the great Genoese Republic, which spread colonies across 7 seas. The city that equipped expeditions to the East during the Crusades, and the birthplace of Columbus, the most famous traveler to the West. A city of palaces inside out - luxury here is securely hidden behind dirty walls and wrought-iron doors, a city of armorers and bankers, merchants, sailors and port girls...Natalia Osis is a playwright, writer, PhD, teaches at the University of Genoa, where she has lived for the last 16 years. This book is evidence of great love, born in the theater and transferred from the stage of the Chekhov Festival to Liguria. It brings together delightful sunny Italy (Genoa, Naples, Venice, Milan, Tuscany) and the Voronezh steppes above the Don, Russian dachas with a samovar under an apple tree and everyday Italian life in detail, theater and literature, pesto, basil and focaccia, love for life and 4524 days of happiness.