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Andrey Khalepa is a promising poet who is tired of bohemian life in St Petersburg, and now he is holding a revolver. No, he wants to end his life not because of his mistress's infidelity or the attack of that strange old man accusing him of renegade. Why is Khalepa a renegade, a renegade? And who was that lady with the old man? However, this meeting will become significant later. In the meantime, a shot is fired...

The novel was written by Volodymyr Vynnychenko in 1915, but the theme of the national question, and self-identification in particular, resonates with our present day as never before. Some of the characters' phrases evoke unbridled indignation, others surprise with naivety, and there are those that you want to disassemble into quotes.