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* PostMortemPossessions: Anna's departed soul wears the same cross that her body does -- the fact is spelled out when demons order her to take it off and she refuses since it's her beloved mother's gift.
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* DeagedInDeath: Everyone in Heaven looks like people in their thirties, including those who died at an older age. The critics actually disliked the notion, stating that the author overly emphasises the physical aspect of age while talking of ''spirits''.
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* AfterlifeTour: Downplayed. Due to HolyBurnsEvil, the not-so-virtuous Anna, although her guardian angel and her saintly relatives are willing to show her around, is only able to visit two places in the outskirts of Heaven: the Students' Vale, where the new arrivals get adjusted to the afterlife, and the Crystal Plain, where her distant ancestor is waiting for her husband in case he ascends from Hell. When Anna and her angel try to fly to a region where virtuous nuns reside, Anna can't bear the grace surrounding it and has to turn back.
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* UnexpectedKindness: Anna and the Big-Eared One, on their way to the outer CirclesOfHell, meet three other souls who demand they give them their bread. The three strangers fully expect them to fight back furiously, which is how the souls in Hell usually treat each other, and are absolutely dumbfounded when Anna (admittedly, after thinking of starting a fight) gives them three loaves of bread as a gift.
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* DeliveranceFromDamnation:
** Anna meets her ancestor Helga, who commited suicide but found God and was brought to Heaven during the Harrowing of Hell.
** Downplayed for [[spoiler:Georgy]] who, thanks to [[spoiler:Anna]], manages to get from the lower CirclesOfHell to its outskirts, where the demons can't reach the souls and it's possible to pray.
** Anna meets her ancestor Helga, who commited suicide but found God and was brought to Heaven during the Harrowing of Hell.
** Downplayed for [[spoiler:Georgy]] who, thanks to [[spoiler:Anna]], manages to get from the lower CirclesOfHell to its outskirts, where the demons can't reach the souls and it's possible to pray.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Olaf is a burly one-eyed man with two fingers missing, and Helga is a lovely blonde. The contrast gets stronger in the afterlife when Helga follows Christ to Heaven and Olaf stays in Hell.
* YourCheatingHeart: Georgy is quite the ladies' man, despite being married to Anna. To be fair, their relationship has a load of problems, since it's Anna who is an anti-Soviet activist but it's both of them who get in trouble for that, and, moreover, Georgy feels neglected by his wife (which Anna admits is often true). [[spoiler:However, it turns out he hasn't had a single affair for the past twelve years]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Georgy is quite the ladies' man, despite being married to Anna. To be fair, their relationship has a load of problems, since it's Anna who is an anti-Soviet activist but it's both of them who get in trouble for that, and, moreover, Georgy feels neglected by his wife (which Anna admits is often true). [[spoiler:However, it turns out he hasn't had a single affair for the past twelve years]].
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Olaf is a burly one-eyed man with two fingers missing, and Helga is a lovely blonde. The contrast gets stronger in the afterlife when Helga follows Christ to Heaven and Olaf stays in Hell.
* YourCheatingHeart: Georgy is quite the ladies' man, despite being married to Anna. To be fair, their relationship has a load of problems, since it's Anna who is an anti-Soviet activist but it's both of them who get in trouble for that, and, moreover, Georgy feels neglected by his wife (which Anna admits is often true). [[spoiler:However, it turns out he hasn't had a single affair for the past twelve years]].Hell.
* YourCheatingHeart: Georgy is quite the ladies' man, despite being married to Anna. To be fair, their relationship has a load of problems, since it's Anna who is an anti-Soviet activist but it's both of them who get in trouble for that, and, moreover, Georgy feels neglected by his wife (which Anna admits is often true). [[spoiler:However, it turns out he hasn't had a single affair for the past twelve years]].
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* SuicideIsShameful: When Anna passes the Lake of Despair in Hell, she sees suicidal souls frozen into its ice.
