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The article considers the poetics of T.N. Tolstaya’s story “Invisible Maiden”, namely, the features of the image of the inner world of the hero-child and the world around him — the Soviet dacha of the “thaw” period, with inseparable elements inherent in this topos — the owner’s house, plot, garden, kitchen garden, a lake, etc. The memoir nature of the text allows the author to accurately and succinctly convey the picture of the child’s world, fill it with colors, smells, sounds, populate it with real and fictional creatures, and at the same time describe factually correctly some features of the modification that the “estate topos” is experiencing in the 1950s – 1980s. Thanks to the peculiarities of the artistic method — magical realism — which is fully applicable to the work of the writer, the motifs of “gaining” and “losing” Eden, traditional for the estate text, acquire a new sound. The real world, the everyday coexists in the story with the “light”, bright, otherworldly. The estate-dacha in this picture of the world plays an important role, being on the border of the worlds and being a kind of portal between them.