About the book: 2023 / On the night of June 21, 1998, a terrible hurricane tore the golden crosses from the domes of the bell tower and the Smolensk Cathedral of the Novodevichy Convent. Early in the morning, in the park near the walls of the monastery, Vera Alekseevna, a nurse from a provincial town, and a Muscovite, history teacher Fyodor Ivanovich, accidentally met. The teacher said that his wife was killed by bandits and thrown off a train, and his daughter Maria was forced to act as an escort. For Vera Alekseevna, life is not easy either. However, the teacher and the nurse decided to live together. And then the dark secrets of two destinies came to life. The new family faces a tough choice…