An amazing, poignant and lyrical trilogy, into which Leo Tolstoy invested many autobiographical motifs. The life of Nikolenka Irtenev, a boy from an aristocratic Russian family, passes before the reader day after day - children's games, relationships with friends, first love, the death of his mother, absurd and funny mistakes of the first steps “in the world”, which seem fateful and tragic in youth. The hero of the trilogy grows up literally before our eyes - and we involuntarily experience his joys and sorrows, victories and defeats as our own.