The same day, Bazarov runs into an old companion named Victor Sitnikov, who insists that they come and have drinks with a clever older woman he has met, Madame Kukshin. Kolyazin takes Arkady under his wing and invites the two young men to a ball. Bazarov and Arkady go to a nearby town to visit a successful relative of Arkady's, Matvei Ilyich Kolyazin. He wonders if the same thing has now happened between himself and his son Arkady. After observing the argument, Nikolai remembers a time he told his mother that she couldn't understand him because she was of a different generation. Both men lose their tempers, and separate in order to cool off.
Bazarov, for his part, argues that the young can do nothing more useful than renounce everything. Pavel argues that one cannot live without principles, and that the Russians are a traditional people, a people of faith. A few weeks later, an even larger fight erupts between Pavel and Bazarov. Bazarov persists in his arrogance, and thinks that Pavel has made a mess of his own life and now preaches to the young. She never accepted his advances, and eventually died in a state of insanity. Pavel was a well-respected society man and a captain in the army, but then he lost his head over an enigmatic woman named Princess R. He tried to get him to sympathize with Pavel by telling him Pavel's story. Arkady, though still loyal to his friend, notices how rude Bazarov is. Pavel is much prouder than his brother Nikolai, and he has no patience for the rude young man. The two old men are a bit taken aback, and, when Bazarov returns, he and Pavel have an argument.
Arkady proudly tells them that Bazarov is a nihilist, a man willing to question every principle no matter how much it is revered. One morning when Bazarov goes out to collect frogs (he enjoys doing experiments on them), Pavel and Nikolai ask Arkady about his new friend. He lives with his brother, Pavel, who used to be a great general. He has a relationship with a young girl named Fenichka who used to be a servant, and the two of them now have a son named Mitya.
Nikolai is a widower who has recently freed his serfs (members of the Russian peasant class, bound to a landowning lord), and he has been selling off his land to make ends meet. His father, Nikolai, is ecstatic to see him, and happily takes in Bazarov, Arkady's new friend from school in Petersburg. Arkady Nikolaevich returns to his father's farm at Maryino on the 20th of May 1859.
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