About the book: year / "Friends went to a flower shop and took a bouquet of roses prepared for Veniamin. They went out into the street, slightly intoxicated by the damp and intoxicating smell of flowers brought from Nice, languid, tired from the long journey... Nikolai and Veniamin walked two boulevards, crossed the square, passed the cathedral and were about to go to the bridge out of habit, when suddenly a tree rose out of the fog. some hefty figure blocked their way…»