If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

She moved to Moscow in the early 1980s and started working in the Nauka publishing house. Several collections of short stories by Tatyana Tolstaya are popular all over Russia and Tatyana Tolstaya is regarded by many as one of the foremost writers of today. Family
She was born in Leningrad into a family of rich literary tradition.