About the book: 2017 / Is there anything imaginable going on in the Russian Empire: a descendant of an old noble family, Mikhail Iverznev, fell in love with the serf peasant woman Ustinya, the property of his best friend Nikita Zakatov! And not only did she give a decisive refusal, remaining faithful to the groom, but she also turned out to be a fugitive and involved in a crime - this same groom, together with his brother, while defending her, killed the manager of the estate. And Iverznev would have suffered from unrequited love, if not for a new misfortune - he was captured by the gendarmes for distributing a suspicious manuscript among students. A beautiful sister rushes to save him, for whom Nikita Zakatov is dying of love and who meets Nikita on the threshold of the church where he just got married. On the other hand…