About the book: 2015 / Hussar lieutenant Rzhevsky is called to the capital on business. He leaves his squadron stationed in Konotop and gets into the britzka. Before him is Rus': fools, roads, inns, lively innkeepers, voluptuous landowners, carousing with officials, fights with merchants... Like any traveler, Rzhevsky keeps a diary - and from it it becomes clear that he is not such a lieutenant scoundrel, an unprincipled womanizer and a drunkard ! No, of course, that’s what he is - but also Lieutenant Rzhevsky, a philosopher, natural scientist and tireless seeker of eternal love.