An Untimely Beauty

This is familiar to many women: you’re smart, you’re beautiful, but life somehow doesn’t work out, and all your wonderful qualities end up, exactly as the classic said, untimely and out of place. That’s the conclusion Vera Lomonosova comes to by the age of forty. And, having a strong character, she immediately decides to change her life.

But how? To quit an unloved job? To become a successful businesswoman? To find a luxurious man? Or, to sort things out within herself, does she need to look back into the past? Not only her own, but also her family’s past. After all, it was her father, Ignat Lomonosov, who passed on to Vera character traits that shape her fate. Love and fearlessness toward life—this was what belonged to the Lomonosovs of all generations…