Brave Sanka leaves her home Presnenskaya Sloboda and goes to Moscow, unable to endure any longer the pressure of her stepmother. In the capital, dangers await her at every step.
By the will of fate, the girl ends up in a theater at Arbat Square.
Whoever got into the theater, whoever tasted that sweet poison, becomes bound to it forever by chains.
The plot of the novella unfolds against the backdrop of the pre-war and wartime events of 1812. “The Theater at Arbat Square” is the final novella of Sofia Mogilevskaya’s trilogy about Russian theater.