Dissatisfied with his life of frivolity among the aristocracy of Moscow, young Dmitri Andreyevitch Olénin sets out for the Caucasus region. Here, among the natural beauty of his surroundings and the honest and industrious peasant people, Olénin hopes to obtain a more meaningful existence.
Yet Olénin is marked out as an outsider from the very beginning, and his ill-fated passion for Maryanka, who is betrothed to a local hero, does little to ingratiate himself with this society.
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