Олег Нерицын, или верхом на Боливаре в город, которого нет

Uspeshnyĭ, no gluboko neschastnyĭ chelovek poseshchaet provint͡sialʹnyĭ gorod, v kotorom v i͡unosti provël neskolʹko nasyshchennykh i͡arkimi sobytii͡ami mesi͡at͡sev. Sovershënnye nekogda oshibki mozhno osoznatʹ i osmyslitʹ, a posle eshchë i pereosmyslitʹ. Mozhno popytatʹsi͡a steretʹ ikh iz pami͡ati ili zalitʹ vinom. Esli veritʹ psikhologam, oshibki takzhe mozhno prorabotatʹ i dazhe kompensirovatʹ. No chego sovershenno tochno nelʹzi͡a sdelatʹ s nekotorymi iz nikh, tak ėto ispravitʹ. Somnevaetesʹ? Sprosite u glavnogo geroi͡a ėtoĭ knigi. Oleg Nerit͡syn vsë eshchë molod i polon fizicheskikh sil. Priroda ne obdelila ego ni intellektom, ni lovkostʹi͡u, ni uporstvom. On daleko ne bezobrazen i sposoben bez odyshki vzbezhatʹ po lestnit͡se na tretiĭ ėtazh. U nego estʹ vsë, o chëm tolʹko mozhet mechtatʹ provint͡sial. Ego biznes aktivno razvivaetsi͡a, a krasotoĭ ego suprugi voskhishchai͡utsi͡a vse vokrug. Kazalosʹ by, samoe vremi͡a smotretʹ vperëd, v i͡asnoe i svetloe budushchee. No vmesto ėtogo on vsë chashche obrashchaetsi͡a k svoemu proshlomu i s uzhasom osoznaët, chto kak raz budushchegoto u nego i net.

A successful but deeply unhappy man visits a provincial town where he spent several eventful months in his youth. Mistakes made once can be realized and comprehended, and then also rethought. You can try to erase them from your memory or pour wine over them. According to psychologists, mistakes can also be worked out and even compensated for. But what absolutely cannot be done with some of them is to fix it. Are you in doubt? Ask the main character of this book. Oleg Neritsyn is still young and full of physical strength. Nature has not deprived him of intelligence, dexterity, or perseverance. He is far from ugly and is able to run up the stairs to the third floor without shortness of breath. He has everything a provincial could ever dream of. His business is actively developing, and his wife's beauty is admired by everyone around. It would seem that it's time to look forward to a clear and bright future. But instead, he increasingly turns to his past and realizes with horror that he has no future.