There lived a poor noble Frol Skobeev in the Novgorod district. In the same county was the estate of the landlord Nardin-Nashchokin. Frol conceived of “making love” with Annushka. He met with the clerk of this estate, went to visit him. At this time, a mother came to them, who was constantly with Annushka. Frol gave Mom two rubles, but for what - did not say.

Christmas time came, and Annushka invited to her party noble daughters from all around. Her mother also came to Frol to call his sister to the party. Sister, at the instigation of Frol, announced to her mother that she would come to the party with her girlfriend. When she began to get ready to visit, Frol asked her to give him a girl's outfit. The sister was frightened, but did not dare to disobey her brother.

At the party, no one recognized Frol in girl's dress, not even his mother. Then Frol Skobeev gave mother five rubles and confessed everything ... She promised to help him.

Mom offered the girls a new game - a wedding. Annushka was a bride, and Frol Skobeev (whom everyone took for a damsel) was a bridegroom. The “young” were escorted into the bedroom. There Frol Skobeev opened to Annushka and deprived her of innocence. Then the girls entered them, but did not know anything. Annushka quietly rebuked her mother, but she rejected all the accusations, stated that she did not know anything, and even offered to kill Frol for such a "dirty trick." But Annushka felt sorry for Frol. The next morning she let go of all the girls, and Frola and her sister stayed with her for three days. She gave him money, and Frol began to live much richer than before.

Annushka’s father, Nardin-Nashchokin, ordered his daughter to go to Moscow, because there were good suitors marrying her. Upon learning of Annushka’s departure, Frol Skobeev decided to go after her and marry the girl at all costs.

Frol stopped in Moscow near the yard of Nardin-Nashchokin. In the church he met the mother of Annushka. Mom told the girl about the arrival of Frol Skobeev. Annushka was delighted and sent Frol money.

The steward had a nun sister. When her brother came to her monastery, the nun began to ask her to see her niece. Nardin-Nashchokin promised to let his daughter go to the monastery. The nun said that she would send a carriage for Annushka.

Having gathered to go on a visit, the father warned Annushka that the carriage from the nun's sister could arrive at any time. Let, they say, Annushka gets into the carriage and goes to the monastery. Hearing about this, the girl immediately sent her mother to Frol Skobeev, so that he would get a carriage somewhere and come to her.

Frol lived only by going on bailiffs. Poverty did not allow him to have a carriage. But he had a plan. Frol went to the steward Lovchikov and asked for a carriage for the time “to watch the bride.” Lovchikov complied with his request. Then Frol got the coachman drunk, dressed in a footman’s dress, sat on the goats and drove to Annushka. Mom, seeing Frol Skobeev, announced that they had come for Annushka from the monastery. The girl got ready and went to the apartment to Frol Skobeev. The father returned home and did not find his daughter, but was completely calm, knowing that she was in the monastery. And Frol, meanwhile, married Annushka.

Frol brought the carriage with the drunk coachman to the yard to Lovchikov. Lovchikov tried to ask the coachman about where the carriage was and what happened, but the poor fellow did not remember anything.

After some time, Nardin-Nashchokin went to his sister’s monastery and asked her where Annushka was. The nun was surprised to answer that she hadn’t sent a carriage and hadn’t seen her niece. The father began to grieve over the missing daughter. The next morning he went to the sovereign, reported what had happened. The sovereign ordered to search for the daughter of the capital. He ordered the kidnapper of Annushka to appear. And if the thief does not appear himself, but is found, then he will be executed.

Then Frol Skobeev went to the stolnik Lovchikov, told about his act and asked for help. Lovchikov refused, but Frol threatened that he would accuse him of aiding: who gave the carriage? Lovchikov gave Frol advice: to throw himself at the feet of Nardin-Nashchokin at all. And he, Lovchikov, will at the same time stand up for Frol.

The next day, all the stolniki, after the mass at the Assumption Cathedral, went out to talk on Ivanovskaya Square. Nardin-Nashchokin recalled the disappearance of his daughter. And at this time Skobeev went out in front of everyone and fell at the feet of Nardin-Nashchokin. The stolnik picked him up, and Frol announced to him his marriage to Annushka. The shocked steward began to threaten that he would complain to Frol the king. But Lovchikov calmed Nardin-Nashchokin a little, and he drove home.

First, the steward and his wife cried about the fate of her daughter, and then they sent a servant to find out how she was living. Having learned about this, Frol Skobeev ordered his young wife to pretend to be sick. Frol explained to the visiting servant that Annushka was ill from her father’s anger. The stolnik, having heard such news, felt sorry for his daughter and decided to bless her at least in absentia. He sent the young icon.

The servant took the icon and carried it to Frol. And Frol before his arrival told Anna to sit down at the table. He explained to his father-in-law's servant that Annushka had recovered from her parental blessing. The servant told the master everything. After this, the steward went to the tsar, said that his daughter had been found, and asked to forgive Skobeev. The sovereign agreed.

Then Nardin-Nashchokin sent Skobeev all kinds of stocks, and he began to live richly. And after some time, the stolnik invited his son-in-law with his daughter to his place. Parents first scolded Annushka, but then they put her and Frol at the table. Having mercy, Nardin- Nashchokin gave Frol two of his estates, and then he gave the money.

A few years later, the steward died. He made Frol Skobeev his heir, and Frol lived his life "in great glory and wealth."