"The Red Cabriolet", "Shtander!", "I Love You So Much", the entertaining "Flashki" series - a collection of amusing short novellas about a typical Moscow family, - and other stories by Elena Nikolaeva, were written in the United States and immediately found their reader. The charm of her prose, its easily recognizable, captivating sense of humor and its display of undeniable love for the Old City and its residents holds the reader's attention throughout,...