Chekhov Biography Cherry Garden

A briefly detailed retelling of May, it began to light, in a flowering cherry garden it is still cold. The room of the old estate, which is still called the "nursery", included Lopakhin and the maid. Lopakhin came here to meet the mistress of the estate, Ranevskaya, who lived in France for five years. Lopakhin was the son of a merchant in a village shop, a former serf. Subscribing, he remembered how once a drunken father hit him and broke his nose into the blood, and Ranevskaya helped him to wash.

Lopakhin became a successful merchant. He loved and respected Ranevskaya. Advertising finally entered the room Ranevskaya with her daughter Anya, brother Gaev and other meetings. Among the meeting was the epics, nicknamed the servants "twenty -two misfortunes." At the estate of the hosts, Varya met, who all this time led the farm. Ranevskaya rejoiced at the return home and was sympathetic to tears, passing through the half -forgotten rooms.

Tired Anya told Vara how hard her mother lived in France. She had to sell the house on the Cote d'Azur and move to Paris, to an apartment building. Ranevskaya seemed to not understand that she was completely ruined: she ordered the most expensive champagne, gave generous tips and barely scrape her home. There was no money for interest on the estate, and in August it was supposed to go from the hammer.

Advertising Lopakhin and Varya liked each other, everyone had long considered them a groom and bride, but he still did not make her an offer. Vara was always hard to see him, she dreamed of giving Anya to marry the rich man and go to the holy places. Trofimov came to the estate. He was a teacher of the seven -year -old brother Ani, who drowned in the river a month after the death of his father.

Meanwhile, Lopakhin suggested Ranevskaya a saving exit: to cut down the cherry garden, divide the land into plots and lease summer residents. Lopakhin swore that there would be a good income, and was ready to invest in money, but Ranevskaya was against: she was too dear to the old garden. Hearing about the sale of the garden, Firs began to grumble that “in the old time ...

Cherry dried, wet, pickled, pierced, and they sold cherries dried in a special way in the city for a lot of money. Lopakhin asked to think and left, and Ranevskaya and Gaev looked at the flowering garden for a long time, remembering his childhood. All, all white! Oh my garden! After a dark, inclement autumn and cold winter, you are young again, full of happiness, the heavenly angels did not leave you ...

Advertising with tears in the eyes of Gayev made a high -pair and pompous speech, turning to the old closet that he remembered since childhood. Trofimov entered, Ranevskaya barely recognized him, but then she hugged and cried, recalling her deceased son. Trofimov became old, around, but still remained a student, for which Lopakhin often teased him.

Ranevskaya went to rest, and Gaev shared plans for the salvation of the estate with Varya. He hoped to either marry Anya profitably, or take money from a rich aunt-graphic. Once Ranevskaya married a simple judicial official, the aunt did not approve of this marriage and stopped communicating with them. Gaev condemned his sister even because of her lover, instituted immediately after the death of her husband.

The appeared Anya scolded her uncle for these words. Gaev assured her that he would not allow the sale of the estate. Then Firs, who looked after Gaev, took him to sleep as a child. Varya led the sleepy Anya into the bedroom. Trofimov who saw them gently called the girl his sun and spring. Action 2. Ranevskaya tells about her past, and her daughter Anya thinks about the future a small abandoned chapel in the field behind the cherry garden.

Charlotte in an old cap sat near her, straightened a buckle on a gun belt and reflected on her life. She did not have a passport, how old she was, she did not know. Charlotte only remembered that her parents were stray artists, and she herself also performed in the square in childhood. When the parents died, Charlotte took the “German mistress” to her and learned to the governess.

Charlotte knew nothing more about her family. The advertisement of the billets considered himself a person developed, but he was so tortured by his own bad luck that he could not understand what he wanted to live or shoot himself, so he always carried a revolver with him. Lopakhin, Ranevskaya and Gaev appeared. Lopakhina was outraged by the frivolity of people who were about to lose everything.

He persuaded Ranevskaya again to rent the garden. She replied that "cottages and summer residents - it went so." Ranevskaya complained about bad forebodings. It seemed to her that she sang too much, and because of this her life would collapse soon. She always drew money, after the death of her husband, she started her lover. The first punishment, she considered the death of her son. After that, she could not stay on the estate, left for France, her lover - after her.

There he was sick for a long time, Ranevskaya nursed him. Then he fled to another with all the money. Now there is a telegram, writes that he is sick, begs to return. Then the conversation went about Lopakhin, who called himself an unconscious dark man. Ranevskaya believed that he needed to marry Var. Lopakhin was not opposed, but pulled with an offer.Gaev’s advertisement said that he was offered a position in the bank, but Ranevskaya reacted to this skeptical: her brother was not able to work.

Trofimov appeared, Anya and Varya. The student considered himself above love, but Varya watched them, afraid that he and Anya would not love each other. Trofimov from Ranevskaya continued yesterday’s conversation about a proud person. Trofimov believed that there are no such people, that “we must stop admiring themselves. It would only be necessary to work. ” He said that most of the Russian intelligentsia is incapable of work.

They philosophize, and in the meantime, the semi -literate people are drowning in mud and vulgarity. Trofimov and Anya were left together. The student said that all Ani’s ancestors owned living souls, and he and his mother also did not notice that they were living at someone else's expense. He encouraged Anya to quit everything and go to a bright future. Anya admitted that she no longer loves the cherry garden as much as before, and agreed.

Action 3. Ranevskaya arranges a ball, and Lopakhin buys a cherry garden on August 22, living rooms. Ranevskaya arranged a ball, gathered neighbors and acquaintances. On this day, bidding should have been held, and Ranevskaya waited for Gaeva with the news. She was worried, Trofimov tried to console her, saying that the cherry garden was in the past, but she thought otherwise.

Then she showed the student a telegram from a lover whom she still loved. Trofimov called his lover a villain, a thief and insignificance. Ranevskaya was angry and said that Trofimov was “clean, a ridiculous eccentric, a freak”, but then she asked him for forgiveness. Lopakhin and Gaev returned from trading. Gaev’s money was not enough, a certain gentleman interrupted his bet, but Lopakhin set up even more and bought the estate.

An enthusiastic and stunned merchant still could not believe that he got the estate. I bought an estate where my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even allowed into the kitchen. I sleep, it only seems to me, it just seems ... Varya took off the keys to the estate from my belt, threw them on the floor and left. The stunned Ranevskaya cried.

Anya began to console her mother, she called her with her, promising to impose a "new garden, luxurious than that." Action 4. The owners leave the sold estate, the cherry garden begin to cut down a briefly detailed retelling of October. The estate was empty, furniture, paintings, curtains disappeared, in the corners there were nodes and suitcases. Ranevskaya, saying goodbye to the men, gave them her wallet.

She was escorted by Gayev, Lopakhin and Trofimov. Everyone was worried about Firce, who was supposed to be taken to the hospital, but no one bothered to check where the old man is now. Trofimov was going to go to Moscow, continue the teaching. Lopakhin tried to give him money for the road, but he refused, considering himself a free person who could do without someone else's help.

Together with the rest of humanity, he goes “to the highest truth”, if he does not reach, he will indicate the path to others. In parting, Trofimov advised Lopakhin smaller Lopakhin with his hands, because cutting the cherry garden is also an extensions. Gaev took a place in the bank. Ranevskaya will go to Paris, where he will live with the money of aunt-graphic.