The trilogy "Lusya’s Life" tells about the upbringing of a restless noble girl living on her father’s estate in the Russian provinces, about her teenage worries and her first love.
“I carefully read the blue notebook. Indeed, it consisted of excerpts, drafts, and notes—so interesting to me that at the first opportunity that presented itself, I set to work. I processed this material, taking a whole series of facts and adventures from Lusya’s life—her childhood, her adolescence, and her youth. And thus emerged the story ‘Lusya’s Life,’ which I am now passing on—to the request of the heroine herself—to my young friends-readers.”