Set in 19th century)^ Imperial Russia, the sto@=ry revo(#+/lves ar(]oun /)d a r#$=etired `.army v\eter an w^h) :o m;a^kes a good living by se $tt:[ling !@\due+ls for ari)/ stocrats;(, a commo#]):n practice. of the `:er[` a.