The House with the Mezzanine

A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov Once he meets a family of Volchaninovs living in the neighborhood in which there are two daughters the eldest Lydia a serious and strict girl with convictions who tries to help ordinary people and doesnt like the artist very much for his idleness and the youngest Zhenya or Misyus which soon takes a great interest in the artist The painter also falls in love with Zhenya but Lydia destroys their happiness