About the book: 2011 / The heroes of Irina Bogatyreva’s book - young people like her - boldly go to Altai for the wisdom of the ancients, travel through Russia hitchhikers or are carried away by completely unusual ideas. Provincial student Valka meets the young beauty Anna in Moscow, and they are ready to begin an affair... But Anna is a member of the Union of Thinking Patriotic Youth. Its members address each other as “comrade,” meet on Saturdays at secret meetings reminiscent of the meetings of the RSDLP of the early 20th century, consider love to be philistinism, any entertainment to be debauchery, and dream of universal equality. Who are they - overplayed teenagers or a new political force??