Volume 12

The twelfth volume of the complete works of Dina Rubina includes the nationally beloved novel "The Petrushka Syndrome," which the author specifically re-read and made some corrections to the text. For this volume, Dina Rubina also wrote a special introductory essay. Peter passionately loves his wife Liza and is fanatically devoted to his work. He creates puppets. His main masterpiece becomes an exact replica of Liza. He is obsessed with his creation, the boundary between fiction and reality, between the doll and the living woman blurs in his imagination. After all, the most captivating toy is someone else's life... The novel was adapted into a film in 2015 by director Elena Khazanova, starring Yevgeny Mironov and Dmitry Aronin.