Part I

After New Year’s, strange things started happening at the company: the number of orders began to drop, and the overall […]

In the autumn of 2009, a new chapter of my life began. Everything that had surrounded me before—my job, my

Soon, Masha and I set off on our first big trip across Europe. She had long dreamed that we would

In the summer of 2008, we often spent time at Masha’s dacha, not far from the town of Chekhov. On

In May, we went to play airsoft again — already the second time with this company. After the first trip

In the winter, I was still hoping that Vesta would come back into my life and that we could start

When autumn 2006 arrived, I was already a student in the evening department of MEPhI, majoring in Applied Informatics in

At the company where I worked, there was a plaque on a cabinet by the office entrance that read: “Those

Every day was filled to the brim, but there was a certain harmony in this hectic rhythm. I felt that