Life at Hand. Book Two

The revolution burst into the measured life of ordinary Petrograd residents like a fiery torrent: none of them, waking up in the morning, is certain they will live to see the evening, - such incredible trials descend upon the book's heroes day after day. How can the young doctor Timofey Petrov-Mokeyev rescue his namesake brother Vsevolod Yezersky, an officer of the White Army, from confinement in the basement of the Revolutionary Military Council, where the commissioner Klavdiya - the same girl-hetman Klava, whom Timofey protected from little Krysya in childhood - is in charge? How to remain true to your duty and warm your neighbors with the living warmth of your believing heart, if you are constantly threatened with arrest for your uncompromising attitude towards the activities of the 'knights of the revolution'?...