The Club Pawn Attacks

Ekaterina Andreevna Petrovskaya is a real careerist. She works as the head of the planning department at the company “Teploinghenering,” considers herself just a pawn, and dreams of breaking through into the queens. But her pawn is indispensable—otherwise they wouldn’t send her on responsible business trips and pay her a decent salary. And that salary is vital for Ekaterina, because her husband, a PhD candidate, Serëga Petrovsky, comfortably sits on her neck. He even reproaches Ekaterina that she lives beyond her means. But how can you live within your means when you have to pay off a car loan—and not only that? The family still needs to eat: her spouse, thin as a pole, eats like a tractor. Their son Pavlusha is growing by leaps and bounds—you don’t even have time to buy him new shoes. It would be nice for the whole family to go on vacation to Turkey, and for Ekaterina herself, too, she needs to dress not just anyhow, but according to her position. So Ekaterina Andreevna Petrovskaya whirls, turns, and twists her way out of everything. From one debt into another.

The situation gets worse when, all of a sudden, someone named Oleg Kovalchuk appears at the company. He arrogantly takes the position that our pawn has been aiming for for a long time—yet everyone in the company knows this man absolutely doesn’t have the knowledge required for such a role.