About the book: year / Elizaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (Vasilieva), better known under the literary hoax pseudonym Cherubina de Gabriak, was exiled to Tashkent in 1927 for participation in the anthroposophical society. There, at the suggestion of a close friend of recent years, sinologist and translator Yu. Shchutsky, she created another literary hoax - a cycle of seven-line poems “The House under the Pear Tree”, written on behalf of the “philosopher Li Xiang Tzu”, exiled to a foreign land “for his belief in the immortality of man.” spirit." A year later, Elizaveta Ivanovna passed away... So, having started her creative path with a hoax, she ended it with a hoax. “One of the most fantastic and sad figures in Russian literature” was called by A. N. Tolstoy.