"Source of Happiness" by Polina Dashkova

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Polina Dashkova is the pseudonym of the famous Russian writer Tatyana Viktorovna Polyachenko. She was born on July 14 in Moscow, in a family of hereditary Jews Zelenetsky-Elansky.

After leaving school in 1979, she decides to enter the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky. During her fifth year of internship, she was hired by the Rural Youth magazine as a literary consultant.

In the nineties she was in charge of the literary department of the newspaper "Russian Courier". She has two daughters - Anna and Daria.

The creative activity of the writer

She made her debut as a poet. Her works were published in such magazines as "Sources", "Youth", "Rural Youth", as well as in the almanac "Young Voices". Gained wide popularity as a writer thanks to the creation of detective stories.

The very first book called "Blood of the Unborn" was a great success among Russian readers. Many of her works have been translated into French and German.

Dashkova came up with a literary pseudonym by combining the name of her daughter Dasha and a derivative of her last name (Polyachenko). The terms of the employer's contract forbid her during the interviewsay your real name.

Today let's talk about her trilogy "The Source of Happiness". This is a story about the possibility of real life extension. "Source of Happiness" Dashkova wrote in 2007, when humanity was already intrigued by scientific discoveries about artificial rejuvenation of the body.

The main character of the work is the billionaire Pyotr Borisovich Colt. This man is so rich that he is able to acquire any thing. He conducts his business perfectly and can make any deal. "The Source of Happiness" presents him to us as a strong personality, a winner. Now he set out to find a means to ensure eternal youth. Colt distrusts all sorts of myths about stem cells and the philosopher's stone. He is looking for a real means - the achievement of science. He was interested in the mystical discovery of a military surgeon-professor Sveshnikov, which was recorded in 1916 in the capital of Russia.

It is not known what the essence of the experiments is. Professorial notes disappeared during revolutionary times. The scientist himself, too, seemed to have sunk into the water. His life and presumed death are all in question.

This mysterious discovery is the mainstay of the work presented by the writer Dashkova.

“The Source of Happiness” - book twoThe next part describes the continuation of the story about the family of the mysterious Professor Sveshnikov and his research. In 1918, the Bolsheviks wanted to get a wonderful drug. To date, this discovery is a coveted prey for adherents of the occult order,seeking immortality.

The third book "The Source of Happiness" speaks of Mikhail Vladimirovich Sveshnikov and Fyodor Agapkin, who were the court doctors of the red leaders. They witnessed the events at the turn of the twenties of the last century. Stalin and Lenin were the patients of the mysterious doctors. The leaders consoled themselves with the opportunity to rise to the peak of their glory, while being in the guise of eternally young politicians. They hoped to get a cure for old age and death.

In the work "The Source of Happiness" there is an interweaving of the present with the past, where everything real is presented as a myth, and everything in the past seems real and so close. Peter Borisovich Colt is ready to sacrifice everything in order to get the treasured miracle cure. And here he is on the verge of unraveling the mystery. It remains only to plunge headlong into the abyss…