At the beginning of the novel, the heroine is 18 years old, she serves as a costume designer in the theater, not daring to dream of the stage, but the leading actress of the theater recognizes in her a talent of enormous strength. And so Nadenka Shubeikina becomes the famous provincial actress Neronov, playing with Mochalov and Shchepkin. She shakes the hearts of the audience in the images of Ophelia, Desdemona, Cordelia, and it seems that the reflection of a high tragedy illuminates her own life, the life of her ardent and suffering heart. The fate of Verochka, Neronova’s daughter, is completely different... “The Yoke of Love” is one of the most popular novels by A. Verbitskaya, whose works were once read.