Masquerade. Lermontov M.Yu.

The former professional player Arbenin has long forgotten how much he made his way up. Now he has everything-wealth, title, weight in society, adored beauty-priest Nina, however, in old sins-long shadows, and on a luxurious masquerade he suddenly overtakes the reckoning for the previous one.

In addition to "in addition to" The masquerade, the collection includes other plays and prosaic works of Lermontov, united by the theme of the modern author of the secular society of the 1830s-the painful era of conservatism imposed on top, the all-consuming pursuit of money and success, hypocrisy and doubles.