“Monument to a Football Player (A Scandal in a Noble Family)” is a story by Alexander Kuleshov. The plot, in an action-packed form, tells about the ugly morals of bourgeois professional sports: bribery of players, rigging of game results, crime and underground betting, how gangsterism takes control of sports. The plot and many episodes of the story are based on true events, although all the characters and even the country where the action takes place are fictional.