History

Mrs Popova, young landowner, resulting from an easy family, does not recover of dead from her frivolous husband, to whom it dedicated a passion without limits.

Décide well to prove its love across death, it solved never again not to leave mourning and to give up the world. Today, that made already seven months that it saw cloistered in its den, under the glance impotent and despaired of its old Louka servant.

For two days, Grégory Stépanovitch Smirnov has made the turn of its debtors to save his property, and not only one does not want to pay it.

 Absurd pretexts, grotesque comedies, nothing is saved to him. And not shade of one kopeck. always by its trip, irritated by the cowardice and the selfishness of its similar, it arrives at the end of its tour decided well to be made respect and here that one levels it of a mood and mourning veils. Out of him it explodes. The machine is launched.