In the whirlpool of Moscow

Biography of a village boy who got into the city Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern the hero falls in love with a dressmaker and leaves her as soon as she becomes a mother Then he meets with the owner of the tavern robs her and after a series of revels goes to prison Meanwhile a woman abandoned by him decides to commit suicide She is saved from death by a switchman who soon marries her Here after a few years the hero who returned from hard labor ends up and for the sake of the happiness of his own daughter decides to leave the owners of this quiet monastery alone