About the book: year / When discussing the works, Furman, unexpectedly for Vera Alekseevna, outlined some kind of developed, unconventional interpretation of the work (naturally, he learned last evening from Boris) with references to letters Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Liberal pedagogical principles (and maybe the devil himself) pulled Vera Alekseevna to enter into a discussion with Furman, and when the arguments were exhausted, the last thing that came to her tongue was indignantly bewildered: “What, in your opinion, am I a complete fool?” and I don’t understand anything about literature at all?..” Furman was unable to answer such an ambiguous question, and there was a long, thoughtful pause in the class - after all, Vera asked so sincerely... The reader is holding in his hands the second of the four parts of the “epic.” It features a teenage hero.