Her eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain.
Udod's happiness was brief. Serafima made him sleep in a separate room. When the 20,000 rubles were spent, the girl's mother began yearning for the days when there had been no man...
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