Without a road. At a dead end. Veresaev V.V.

Young Zemsky doctor Dmitry Chekanov, a truthful and pure sincere idealist and supporter of “small deeds”, sincerely tries to improve the lives of his peasant patients. However, even risking his life to help the sick cholera, he receives neither gratitude, nor even simple trust - nothing but the deaf hostility of the “men” to the “master”...

old man Ivan Sartanov all his life He spent, fighting with the autocracy, and now he is experiencing a historical catastrophe, where there is no "his part." People slowly rub the revolution and civil war into the dust. From high motives, terrible things are performed. And only the case determines who is tortured, who will die, and whom they will let go home...

This collection includes two novels united by the tragedy of the Russian intelligentsia - a friendly, frantically feeling of his own and experiencing collapse of his world.