Masquerade

The former professional player Arbenin has long forgotten how he made his way to the top. Now he has everything — wealth, title, influence in society, a beloved beautiful wife Nina... however, old sins — cast long shadows, and at the luxurious masquerade, he is suddenly confronted with the reckoning for his past deeds... In addition to Masquerade, the collection includes other plays and prose works by Lermontov, united by the theme of the contemporary secular society of the 1830s — a burdensome era of imposed conservatism, an all-consuming pursuit of money and success, hypocrisy, and doublethink.