The great artists whose works have become classics are not celestial beings, but ordinary people who, under the influence of passion, are capable of committing a rash act. Such, for example, is Dumas the son, who is in love with the Russian beauty Lydia Zakrevskaya, but she is married, so the romance cannot be happy. Ivan Turgenev acts in the same reckless manner - when he started an affair with a seamstress maid, of course, he did not think about what he would ultimately condemn his illegitimate daughter to, who would be born from this relationship. This is Mikhail Glinka, who, being married, starts an affair with young Ekaterina Kern... The reader will find these and other stories in the collection of works by the writer Mikhail Kazovsky.