Thirty-three monsters is the first Russian novel to openly narrate a lesbian love affair. The action begins shortly before Christmas - which supposes a challenge from the author right from the beginning: a sinful love on the holiest days of the year; although it is also a perfect setting for the beginning of the novel, full of magic and fantasy, and ends last April, after Easter. In the midst of these two very significant religious dates, Lidia Zinovieva-Annibal leaves imprinted on the pages of this book the traces of her love with the writer Margarita Sabashnikova, a glorification of beauty as a primary objective in her life.

Despite being a relatively short work, Lidia Zinovieva-Annibal has been recognized by her as a cornerstone in Russian literature, in the Silver Age, in addition to being considered the first openly feminist Russian writer, capable of combining the demands of the Russian symbolism with a personal and poetic vision completely detached from reality.

The edition is completed with the translation of the prologue written by her husband, Viacheslav Ivanov, in 1907, for the posthumous edition of the novel, and with a compilation of unpublished stories by the author and others that appeared in magazines and newspapers under the title of Do not! eleven years after Zinovieva's death.