Saving the soldier, nurse Polina gives her blood, after which both are sent to the hospital. A week later, Fyodor calls Polina his wife and goes to the front. Returning home many months after the Victory, Fedor learns that Polina gave birth to a daughter, lived in his house for a while and left...
About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another incriminating feuilletons under the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamydia. Acquires enemies, friends, becomes a famous writer and leaves for Moscow.