I have said that my passion dated from that day; I might have added that my sufferings too dated from the same day…' Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy, First Love describes a young man's feelings as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love. When the Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly falls in love with his new neighbor's daughter, Zinaida. The capricious young woman has many admirers;