Churov i Churbanov - Buksha K.S.

Ksenia Buksha (b. 1983) is the author of the award-winning "National Bestseller" novel "The Freedom Factory", a biography of Kazimir Malevich, a collection of short stories "Opens Inside" about all sorts of human destinies. Her prose combines rigid realism and lyricism, humor and grotesque.
"Churov and Churbanov" is a short novel full of cinematic movement with an unpredictable plot and a thick, gloomy St. Petersburg atmosphere. You live and live, and suddenly it turns out that you have a doppelganger whose heart beats in sync with yours. Not just a doppelganger, but your former classmate: an excellent or, conversely, suspicious type, with which you strongly have nothing in common in life can not be.
Nothing but death.
"They were measured for three minutes. At the end of the first Misha and Karina in chorus, but quietly said "fifty-seven", at the end of the second suddenly and at a different age, but both came out "seventy-one", and at the end of the third minute they said nothing, but looked at each other, and then Karina asked:
"Sixty-five?"