The novel "Arina" - about great love, and even on Russian soil The young provincial Arina, of course, of unearthly beauty, and in addition a student of the Higher Women's Courses, falls in love with one person in Moscow named Konstantin-Mikhail (obviously, the author meant the Grand Duke). Their mutual feeling is overshadowed by the fact that Arina is trading herself because she "feels an urgent need, even a duty, to develop her abilities, to study at the university, to take part in higher spiritual activities" . But at the end of the novel it turns out that the girl is absolutely clean... This indecent story is called “Arina” (1919)