In the story “Marina Petrovа’s School Year,” we meet cheerful, a bit carefree, sometimes stubborn, but always talented Marina—and we go to school with her. But the school where Marina studies isn’t quite ordinary: besides the usual classes, they also teach music; besides arithmetic and geography, they study notes and rehearse plays. In this story there is no fairy tale anymore. Yet how fascinating is the world of music that opens up before you—how much new you learn!