Going Through Trials

Saint Petersburg, 1914. Young provincial girl Dasha Bulavina arrives at her older sister Katya's place. The girls are young and naive, they enthusiastically attend receptions, fall in love, make mistakes, and search for their place in life. However, the peaceful summer gives way to a tumultuous autumn. The outbreak of World War I, followed by two revolutions and the Civil War, scatters relatives, friends, and loved ones across all corners of the vast country... "Going Through Trials" is an epic of astonishing scale that Alexei Nikolayevich worked on for more than twenty years, repeatedly editing and rewriting the text. This edition includes all three parts of the trilogy — "Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", and "Gloomy Morning"