Girl with a teddy bear

“The Girl with the Bear” is one of the most famous and extravagant texts by V. Domontovych.
The events of the novel unfold in Kyiv in the 1920s. Ippolit Varetskyi, a chemical engineer and teacher, meets the Tykhmeniev family and becomes a tutor for their daughters, the serious Lesoa and the daring Zyna. It is Zyna who captivates him with her independence and avant-garde spirit. She strives for freedom and challenges social norms. But is a romance between two such different people possible?
This Kyiv text introduces the life of the townspeople and immerses him in the atmosphere of the city that existed a hundred years ago.