The Fox is a tiny student theater trying to outwit university management. Just one of the plots that the novel is dedicated to. The book covers three decades in the life of a Russian university; the metamorphoses of this small state reflect the changes of a huge country. There is a struggle for power, friendships, intrigues, crushes, fights, dates, and, more importantly, a series of magical changes in the characters, the main ones being current, former and eternal students. Whom you will meet here: an excellent student in the dress of a royal musketeer, a poor aristocrat, Don Juans, jesters, roofers, duelists. There are a lot of details of university life here that the reader would not even know about. "The Fox" is a novel about what youth is allowed to do.