The Unfulfilled Spring

The forty-first year. At the threshold of every home came trouble—war… Olya Aksakova, as her mother once did, works in a hospital as an ordinary orderly: she couldn’t get an education because she was the daughter and niece of enemies of the people. And it was precisely during those terrible times that love came to the girl—bitter, tragic, yet bright. But whom did she love—the murderer Shurka Rusanov, major of the NKVD Eгор Поляков! Yes, that very Polяkov who, remembering old grievances and taking revenge for his father’s death, did not spare Olya’s uncle, but helped Olya’s mother, Alexandra, stay alive. Will Alexandra approve of her daughter’s choice— and is she even alive, exiled to a faraway Siberian camp?..