Writers Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov and Iosif Bergxenko were unbeknownst to me before Anastàssia Maxímovna sent me their short stories. To me, they are part in the fictionalization of fiction. Everything that happens in these stories strives to trace a kind of history of a land and country that could belong entirely to the imagination. After all, couldn’t the whole history of Russia during the last Century and a half be thought of as a grandiose fable? A country so big that it even seems unlikely to exist and populated by sagas of unfathomable proportion and has experienced and provoked earthquakes whose magnitude has been felt around the globe.