Demons

"Demons" is one of the most tragic and terribly prophetic works by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. In one provincial town at the end of summer, the mysterious and attractive Nikolai Stavrogin suddenly appears with his fussy comrade Pyotr Verkhovensky, and then his imaginary wife Khromonozhka. Hearts are broken, plans are upset, there is vanity and confusion all around. And while high society is quarrelling among itself, somewhere beyond their small world, a secret society of nihilists is plotting its own bloody and soulless plan. Having conceived a work on the topic of the day, Dostoevsky created it "to the anger of the ages." It is both a psychological thriller and a social drama of a world in which people have lost harmony and meaning, having felt the fatal influence of new ideas.