Подросток (1983)

The protagonist of the novel, Arkady Dolgoruky, is the illegitimate son of a nobleman. Throughout his childhood, strangers were involved in his upbringing, peers often teased him, and he grew up impressionable and vulnerable. Already a twenty-year-old youth, Arkady moved to Petersburg and entered to serve as a secretary to the old prince. Then he had an idea - to become as rich as the millionaire Rothschild. He hopes to achieve this goal with the help of his original theory of "tenacity and continuity" ...