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A melodramatic story of a young woman Kristina, who briefly manages to survive the illusion of a rich happy life, but cannot bear to return to the sad reality.
The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas. However, it turns out that even for him humanism is just a declared empty concept, serving to gain popularity. His whole democratization "mission" results in a farce, for which, out of offended vanity, he takes merciless revenge on his subordinates and on the whole environment...
Bulat Okudzhava's novella tells the evocative story of the old general Opochnin, a man who never betrayed morality and humanity. But at the end of his life, he still wanted to do something that would benefit others.
