The Fixer
April, 1969
from "Russkiia Zavetnyia Skazki"In Moscow there was once a beautiful young lady, Marya Poremskaya by name, who was brought up by her maiden aunt in an atmosphere of the greatest decorum imaginable. There was never a coarse word nor a vulgar noise in that house, you can be sure. But the result was that Marya felt a vague sense of something lacking about life, and she continually wondered what it might be.The time came for her to be married, and this was a grievous problem, for, as the o...
