The 19th century became the main character in Boris Vasiliev’s saga about the noble family of the Oleksins. The novel “The Gambler and the Breter, the Gambler and the Duelist” tells the story of the beginning of the “golden age”: the Decembrist uprising, the conquest of the Caucasus, Pushkin and his time; “Assuage my sorrows...” - about the tragedy on the Khodynskoe field, which began the next century - XX. Contents: Gambler and brigand, gambler and duelist. Assuage my sorrows