Esta trilogía retrata dramáticamente el turbulento clima intelectual y político de Rusia durante el período crucial que abarca desde principios de la década de 1830 hasta finales de la de 1860. Sigue las vidas y las luchas ideológicas de figuras clave en el corazón del movimiento de oposición radical, especialmente en torno a las revoluciones europeas de 1848. Las obras profundizan en cuestiones trascendentales de libertad, identidad y el papel del individuo en la sociedad. Ofrece una exploración cautivadora de la formación de la intelligentsia rusa moderna.
This play is one of three sequential, self-contained plays which tell the story of some of the main actors in the drama of Russian radical opposition in the years pivoted on the European revolutions of 1848. The trilogy spans the early 1830s and the late 1860s.
and it was here, in the intoxicating anticipation and the dashed hopes of the 1848 revolution - when the loss of his political illusions were overshadowed by a series of personal calamities - that Herzen found his greatness, seeking the way forward for Russia, the just society and the good life.