Ksenia Dobrovskaya was born in Russia, spent her childhood in Ukraine, and went to Prague with her family as a teenager. He calls himself an ideal example of adaptation. Citizen of the Czech Republic. She married a Czech. Involved in the political life of her new homeland. At the same time, neither Ukraine nor Russia are strangers to it. And she acutely feels that war is just around the corner.

Galina Vanechkova is a teacher of Russian literature, born in the 30s in the Urals. Survived the Second World War. In the 50s, she married a Czech, although she did not immediately receive permission from special authorities to marry a foreigner, and left for Prague. Worked at Charles University. She devoted all the years spent in Prague to literature and Marina Tsvetaeva.