Pechorin and Maxim Maksimych come to the local prince for a holiday. The robber Kazbich also turns out to be there. At the holiday, Pechorin notices the prince's daughter, Bela
At an evening at the Ligovskys', Pechorin arranges a meeting with Vera. The princess reproaches him for not paying attention to himself and decides to make him jealous by flirting with other gentlemen.
A road carriage is driving along the road in the vicinity of Pyatigorsk. In it is Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin, exiled from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus for a duel with Captain Rokotov.
A drunken Cossack Ermolov bursts into the restaurant and kills the waitress. Grushnitsky manages to disarm him. Walking along the grape alley, Pechorin meets his old love - Vera.