Masterpiece Theatre The psychologies of both the landed gentry and the revolutionaries are further exposed as Peter Verkhovensky and Nikolay Stavrogin return to Russia from Switzerland and find that Nikolay's involvement with the half-witted cripple... (more)d girl, Marya Lebyadkin, is about to cause a scandal. Peter wants to make sure that no scandal touches Nikolay — but his motives for preventing it are far from pure.