V. Martynov

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

The story is about two friends living in one of the provinces of central Russia. Pyotr Vasilyevich decides to marry off his young friend, Boris Andreyich. They visit a widow, two sisters of marriageable age, and the Barsukov family, which consists of two members: the father and his 19-year-old daughter, Verochka.

The television play is based on three stories by Turgenev: "A Meeting", "Pyotr Petrovich Karataev", and "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District".