Evokes a historically crucial period in Russian history in terms of a large variety of characters whose destinies are interwoven - railway men, farmers, intellectuals, merchants, lawyers, professors, students, soldiers, the well-to-do and the destitute. Translated into English from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harare.

(Key Words: Fiction, Russian Literature, Nobel Prize Winners, Boris Pasternak, Doctors, Poets, Fiction, Novels, Max Hayward).