This is the last part of the trilogy The Collection: the Petersburg Prose (The Leningrad Period). 1980's. The works included in the volume were composed and published in "Samizdat" and "Tamizdat" before Perestrojka, anticipating the stream of the divesting sociopolitical essays of the late 1980's. The main characters comprehend the existencial problems not through the prisme of the ideological preconditions, but through the authenticity of their personal experience.

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