Petersburg. History of one friendship, two treacheries, three desires and four corners, where love spawns. All was begun with that she sat before him, leafing through the endless feet, and he, yet never reading such interesting books, did not know, what page this novel was begun with. Roman, in that friendship self-possessed for years in the vessel of the mutual understanding was slowly strung by the flexible vine of love until glass did not crack and from within hot blood did not sprinkle to sweep to the hatred.