Bogdan Zhilin

Moscow, 1934. At the end of his life, anticipating his imminent departure, at the request of his loved ones, Lev Vygotsky agrees to several psychoanalytic sessions with the grand lady of world psychology, a student of Freud and Jung, Sabine Spielrein. Adhering to largely opposite views, two great scientists are trying to answer each other the main question of their time — is there a method to educate a "new person"?

The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…