Forbidden in the Soviet era, poisonous satire on the “life and customs” of the “new people” - socialists who polemicize with Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” and “What is to be done?” Chernyshevsky. A book, the publication of which caused a deafening scandal in Russia - after all, readers recognized real people in the “anti-heroes”. The socialist community through the eyes of a person who does not perceive its beliefs and sternly analyzes its way of life - what could be more interesting?..