What should newlyweds do after the wedding ceremony is over, the wedding dinner with dancing is over, the guests have left, and all the gifts have been delivered to their new apartment? The hero of the story, Nikolai Ivanovich Povolzhin, thought he knew the answer to this question, but because of his domineering, scandalous mother-in-law, he found himself in a tragicomic situation. The cook Lukerya, the embodiment of the worldly wisdom of the people, the sensitive confessor Father Nikodim and the cheerful Aunt Alla Stepanovna came to the aid of Doctor Povolzhin. Will the doctor be able to extricate himself from the snares of hypocrisy and selfishness and find marital happiness? The humor here is skillfully intertwined with pressing problems that have not lost any relevance, although the book was written many decades ago. Its author is a wonderful, undeservedly forgotten writer of the Russian Abroad. The publication is intended for a wide range of readers.