Поединок

Sub-lieutenant Romashov, a thoughtful young officer in a dull provincial garrison, hates the brutality and boredom of army life and falls into a dangerous love affair with a colleague's wife. Kuprin's novel caused a scandal for its picture of the Imperial Army. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.