Two novels, included in the book "The Northern Tale", talk about love, honor and dignity. The first novel is about the Russian officer Pavel Bestuzhev, the second - about the artist, a Leningrader of the 1960s. Pavel serves on the distant Alan Islands, loves a wonderful girl - the daughter of skipper Anna Jacobsen. From the police reprisal, they and the soldier Semyon Tikhonov save the Decembrist Nikolai Shchedrin. A century later, a young artist Alexei Tikhonov meets the beautiful girl Marie, whose great-grandmother was the daughter of Bestuzhev and Anna Jacobsen . . .
