Childhood. Adolescence. Youth

Before the reader, the life of Nikolenka Irtenev, a boy from an aristocratic Russian family, is a day after day - - children's games, relations with friends, the first love, the death of the mother, the ridiculous and ridiculous mistakes of the first steps “in the light”, which are fateful and tragic in his youth..

The hero of the trilogy grows literally before our eyes - and we involuntarily experience his joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, like our own.