In a small Russian provincial town in 1828, Count Fyodor Turbin, a rowdy guard officer, arrives by chance. In the few days he remains in the town he rescues from dishonor Ilyin, another officer who lost at gambling, borrows money from a local snob but does not return it, and seduces a beautiful young widow, without concern for her reputation. Twenty years later, in the same town, the son of Fyodor Turbin, also a hussar captain, arrives. Turbin the son is polite, but rather mean and clumsy. He meets Lisa, the beautiful young daughter of the woman his father seduced 20 years earlier. Two Hussars is an admirable tale of guilt and sin born by the genius of Leo Tolstoy.
