Introduction
December 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM
For his modest, if not to say still small and immature (by his own standards) years, Pavel was pretty smart and educated enough, studied at an ordinary unremarkable school on the Moscow outskirts next to MKAD where he had a good reputation as a diligent pupil, and his house was in certain kind of peculiar 'ring' (if it could be called that?!) — one of the largest highways of the south-eastern part of the great white-stone and golden-domed capital passed from the north, Volgogradsky Avenue, and the Kuzminki Culture and Recreation Park is spread out in huge sizes to the south in a dense wooded area. The windows of their apartment looked directly at the hospital for war veterans, behind the huge buildings of which the Father Frost Moscow Estate was unassumingly perched in the forest belt, although it was difficult to call this unremarkable crap, which the design geniuses managed to shove into such a backwater, or even call it such.
Their small family consisted of both parents and his elder sister. Dad and mom gave all their affection to her, and at the time of the appearance of Pasha’s person in the Smolyanitsky family, it was used up along with the mother’s milk. Naturally, this approach to the upbringing of the older child in the family has borne fruit. His dear sis Masha grew up to be very wayward, daring and spoiled person. She studied diligently for some excellent marks in elementary school, but as soon as she moved to secondary school she slipped a little. However, having received such a pretty scolding from her parents in the ninth grade, Masha took herself into stubborn and lazy hands and restored normal training. Even teachers were surprised by her metamorphoses, not to mention her classmates. That allowed her to graduate from the ill-fated school with a gold medal and enter the Central Music School named after Tchaikovsky composer at the Moscow Conservatory, because she was fond of music since childhood and also she was genuine anime otaku and even she had a YouTube channel on which she posted the so-called AMV.
In turn, Pasha could boast of some diplomas in computer science, because he loved programming since childhood. Another of his childhood passions was photographic art. It seems to him that this was transmitted from Pasha’s father who was a full-time photographer at some film studio, and his mother generally worked in a photo studio or in a video salon. Pasha have already mentioned that his parents disliked him as a second child, but their kind of dislike for him was kind of replenished not only by Masha but also by his stepsister Ulyana. At this point, it’s necessary to make a small lyrical digression and tell about her a little bit.
Ulyana was the first daughter of Dmitry Maximovich from his fist love — classmate girlfriend Zhanna Polyakova. As people say: 'all ages are submissive to love' or 'the heart wants what it wants' — after all, she was noticeably younger than him by a whole noticeable ten years. Unfortunately for the couple, she died unexpectedly and tragically in premature birth, having managed to give birth to a girl. Since she was born before the marriage was fixed, and Dmitry Maximovich himself was going to get married officially, he bought her a good three-room apartment in Lefortovo district, periodically supplying her with funds. By nature, Ulyana didn’t take after her father at all, being the very amorous person, so she recklessly and wastefully spent her father’s money on many guys, which was facilitated by her attractive appearance. It gave her some special pleasure to come to the Smolyanitsky family apartment sometimes and talk about her adventures, for example, how three male moneybags were 'loving' her at once. Usually at these moments, the mother blushed shyly, the father coughed disapprovingly, and the stepsister immediately changed a topic for conversation.
But if author omit remarks about her dissolute character, she simply adored Pasha as real bro, supported him in difficult situations, gave directions and parting words, read moral edification (but without boreness, and rather as a mentor or a senior person with more experience; although the levels of their mental development with his sister were about the same), and sometimes, with rare exceptions, she could buy me some cool stuff: tasty food like lollipops, chips, ice creams, sushis, makizushi, cookies, lunchboxes or some other similar crap (for which Pasha was very grateful to her). Ulyana’s only problem was annoying arrogance and excessive self-respect (which, however, both bothered and amused him at the same time). By the type of temperament, she was clearly a mobile choleric, participating in all sorts of hangouts; and he is the person of a phlegmatic nature, typical nerd and no-lifer, who was sitting quietly in class and secretly smoking from his parents. Apparently, this vicious predilection again passed on to Pasha from Dmitry Maximovich. It is also important to note that his mum, Valentina Alexandrovna, also didn’t hesitate to indulge in this. As one ancient philosopher said: 'Qui sine pecato est?', what does 'Who is without sin?' mean. Although Pasha may seem like a pure person and an innocent spring chicken, however, his personality is also not without its flaws and had its own oddities in his head.
It’s necessary to note that all Pasha relationships with Ulyana were mostly of an immaterial nature. But it was only until today, when suddenly and smoothly it flowed into the material phase, and the goddamned transitional age is to blame for everything… Author want to inform his reader that by this moment Pasha had reached the age of seventeen and was nearing the end of his schooling, and Ulyana had just turned twenty-two and was finishing the theater college.
