The Bride

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch the son of a local priest Nadya lives on her grandmothers estate with her mother a fairhaired woman tightly laced in with a pincenez and diamonds on every finger While Nadya is a woman with a great desire for education and independence Andrey is a friendly but rather vacuous and totally unmotivated man Sasha an ill and impoverished young man who is spending the summer on the estate has long been considered part of the family Sasha implores Nadya to follow her heart to go to Petersburg and attend the University