What are women made of? / Zoya Boguslavskaya -- The siege of Leningrad : notes of a survivor / Lidia Ginzburg -- Sleepwalker in a fog / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Masters of their own lives / I. Grekova -- The monster / Nina Katerli -- In memoriam / Tatyana Nabatnikova -- The Ostrabramsky gate / Galina Kornilova -- Repairing our car / Natalia Ilina -- Five figures on a pedestal / Viktoria Tokareva -- Laine's house / Natalia Baranskaya -- The cave / Mari Saat -- Mitigating circumstances / Irina Polyanskaya -- The overlook / Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- Infirmary at the station / Inna Goff -- Parade of the planets / Larisa Vaneeva -- Sisyphus and the woman / Vytaute Zilinksaite