The hero of this story is Lieutenant Rzhevsky, a character from jokes, a charming boor, who is rumored to have an affair with Natasha Rostova and 1001 other women. In December 1825, Lieutenant Alexander Rzhevsky finds himself in Tver, where he enters into a “dangerous relationship” with the fatal beauty and almost becomes a participant in the Decembrist uprising, as well as an accomplice in a criminal crime. To get out of this bind, you need a clear head, but here’s the problem - at the most inopportune moments, Rzhevsky loses the ability to think and reason, especially when he sees feminine charms... If not for the goddess Fortune, the lieutenant could easily become a pawn in someone else’s game and end up on Siberian penal servitude.