About the book: 2018 / Thanks to his friend, Damian finds himself in high society, where he immediately becomes the soul of society. Invitations to balls, parties, picnics and holidays in country estates follow one after another. The girls are ready to do anything just to attract the attention of a witty and handsome young man. Almost forty years later, terminally ill, lonely, but very rich Damian is consumed by one thought: to whom should he bequeath his fortune? His former friend and now nemesis agrees to find the woman whose letter claimed she had fathered Damian's child. Going on a quest, the narrator encounters not only Damian’s past, but also his own... For the first time in Russian!