The Anti-Aging Pill

What should you do if you accidentally find out that your husband is cheating? What role do comrades and associates play in a new case? How do you deal with outraged public opinion? What dangers are hidden in the search for eternal youth? And how do you marry a sex symbol?

“— Here’s what I remember: I’m lying on the beach in Yalta, I’m twenty-three, and around there are soldiers,” Elvira Vikentyevna said. At these words she even squeezed her eyes shut.

“Apparently she remembered how good it is to be young, beautiful, and lying on a beach. Or maybe she remembered some particularly outstanding soldier.

— And where was I at that time? — Shura asked.

Of course, she didn’t want to spoil her mother’s mood, but from the shadow that ran across Elvira Vikentyevna’s beautiful face she understood that it was exactly this question that she had made her think.

— How do you mean, where? — Elvira Vikentyevna thought for a second. Even tried to frown thoughtfully, but the flawless forehead filled with Botox and Restylane didn’t budge. — I remembered! Your mother-in-law, your grandma, came and took you to live with her. In Siberia!

— From Yalta to Siberia? — Shura gasped.

— Why from Yalta? — Elvira Vikentyevna was surprised. — From Leningrad. I went to Yalta later.”