Not Life but a Fairy Tale (Ne Zhizn a Skazka)

What can the legendary Moscow beauty and femme fatale, the first editor-in-chief of Russian Vogue and Russian Interview, tell us about? About how she chose perfume and a white piano? About how princes serenaded her and gave her gifts? The daughter of the renowned surgeon S. Ya. Doletsky and the granddaughter of the first director of TASS, Ya. G. Doletsky, was and remains a person who approaches life with profound irony and piercing sincerity. Stars and modest people, bosom friends and sworn enemies, geniuses and villains, real men and weaklings, historical figures and windbags—all are the heroes of Alyona Doletskaya's new book, which dares to be intimately frank with her readers.