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Heroes
Ranevskaya Lyubov Andreevna (landowner)
Anya (daughter, 17 years old)
Varya (adopted daughter, 24)
Gaev Leonid Andreevich (brother of Ranevskaya)
Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich (merchant)
Trofimov Petr Sergeevich (student)
Simeonov - Pishchik Boris Borisovich (landowner)
Charlotte Ivanovna (governess)
Epikhodov Semyon Panteleevich (clerk)
Dunyasha (maid)
Firs (footman, old man 87 years old)
Yasha (young footman)
The action takes place on the estate of the landowner Ranevskaya. It's springtime and the cherry blossoms are in bloom. However, the magnificent garden was soon to be sold for debts. Over the past five years, the landowner, together with Anna, her seventeen-year-old daughter, has lived abroad. On the estate were Gaev, her brother, and Varya, a twenty-four-year-old adopted daughter. Things were going poorly for the landowner, there was practically no money. Ranevskaya was constantly spending money. Her husband passed away six years ago due to drunkenness. The landowner fell in love with another and began to live with him. Soon her son Gregory drowned. Ranevskaya could not bear such grief and went abroad. The lover followed her. He fell ill, and the landowner gave him a job at her own dacha. She took care of him for three years. And when she was forced to sell the cottage for debts and moved to Paris, her lover robbed her and disappeared.
Brother and daughter met Ranevskaya with Anna at the station. The maid Dunyasha and the merchant Lopakhin were waiting for them at home. The clerk Epikhodov came. Something happened to him all the time.
The carriages arrived. The house was filled with people. There was excitement in the air. Ranevskaya examined the rooms and recalled the past with tears of joy. The maid was in a hurry to tell Anna about the proposal made to her by Epikhodov. Anna gave Varya advice to become Lopakhin's wife. Varya dreams of giving Anna as a wife to a wealthy man. The governess boasted of her own dog. The neighbor's landowner asked for a loan of money. Practically no one heard and the servant Firs constantly muttered.
Lopakhin told the landowner that the estate would soon be sold at auction. To avoid this, it was required to divide the land into parts and rent them out. Ranevskaya did not want to cut down the magnificent cherry orchard. Lopakhin wanted to be with the landowner as long as possible. However, he needed to leave.
The landowner at first did not recognize Pyotr Trofimov. He became ugly and became an eternal student. Ranevskaya cried, remembering her son Grisha. The boy's teacher was Trofimov.
The landowner's brother was left alone with Varya and tried to talk about business. There was a wealthy aunt in Yaroslavl. However, she did not feel kindred feelings for them: Ranevskaya did not become the wife of a nobleman and did not lead a virtuous lifestyle. The brother loved the landowner, but called her vicious. This angered Anna. Gaev continued to plan for the future. The landowner must ask for funds from Lopakhin, Anna will go to Yaroslavl. In general, they will do everything so that the estate is not sold. The brother of the landowner even took an oath. Firs took him to bed. Anna is sure that her uncle will do everything.
Lopakhin did not cease to persuade the landowner and her brother to use his plan. They were all together for breakfast in the city. On our return we stopped at the chapel. Right there on the bench, Epikhodov tried to explain himself to Dunya. However, she chose the footman Yasha.
Ranevskaya and her brother seemed not to have heard Lopakhin and were talking about something else. Unable to convince them, Lopakhin decided to leave. The landlady asked him not to leave.
Anna, Varya and Trofimov appeared. The landlady started talking about proud man. Trofimov believed that there was no point in pride. He condemned the intelligentsia. Lopakhin entered the conversation. Each time he became more and more convinced that there were few decent people. Ranevskaya interrupted him and did not let him finish. Nobody wanted to listen to the others. There was silence. There was the sound of a broken string.
Soon everyone dispersed. Anna and Trofimov were left alone. The young man convinced the girl that the main thing is not love, but freedom. To live in the present, one had to suffer and work to redeem the past. Happiness is near.
The twenty-second of August arrived. The auction took place on that day. In the evening, a ball was held at the estate. The landowner was worried in anticipation of Gaev's return. An aunt from Yaroslavl gave fifteen thousand. However, they were not enough to buy the estate.
Trofimov reassured the landowner. It wasn't about the garden, it was worth facing the truth. Ranevskaya asked not to condemn and show pity. Without a garden, her life would have no meaning. Every day the landowner received telegrams from Paris. At first she immediately destroyed them, then read and tore. She is not currently tearing telegrams. She still loved her lover, who asked her to come. Peter condemned her for loving a scoundrel. Ranevskaya got angry and scolded him. Trofimov was going to leave this place, but as a result he stayed and danced with the landowner, who asked for forgiveness from him.
Lopakhin and Gaev appeared. The brother of the landowner immediately went to his place. The garden has been sold. It was acquired by Lopakhin. The landowner picked up the keys, which Varya had thrown on the floor.
Ranevskaya sobbed. Anna consoled her. The garden has been sold. However, there is still whole life. They will have another garden, more magnificent than the present one.
The house was empty. Those present, saying goodbye to each other, parted. Lopakhin was going to Kharkov in the winter, Trofimov was leaving for Moscow. Lopakhin and Trofimov exchanged barbs. Lopakhin offered Peter money for the journey. Trofimov refused.
The mood of the landowner and her brother improved somewhat after the garden was sold. Previously, they were disturbed by excitement and suffering. And now they have calmed down. The landowner was going to live in Paris using the money sent by her aunt. Anna feels excited about her own new life. Simeonov-Pishchik suddenly appeared. But he did not ask for a loan, but distributed debts. White clay was found on his land by the British.
Everyone settled down in their own way. The brother of the landowner became a bank employee. Lopakhin promised to find a place for Charlotte. Varya became the housekeeper of the Ragulins. Epikhodov stayed on the estate. Firs was going to be sent to the hospital.
An explanation was to take place between Lopakhin and Varya. The girl likes Lopakhin. However, she cannot offer herself to him. Lopakhin agreed to put an end to it at once. However, during the meeting arranged by the landowner, Lopakhin could not make up his mind and left.
Everyone left the house and locked the doors. Only Firs remained in the house, whom everyone forgot about. He complained that the master left not in a fur coat, but in a coat. Then he lay down and lay without moving. There was the sound of a broken string. In the garden you could hear the ax thumping on wood.
Work " The Cherry Orchard” was created by Chekhov in 1903. This is a play about the decline of noble life on the estates, about the imaginary and real owners of the Russian land, about the inevitable renewal of Russia. Chekhov presented the obsolete past of Russia with the play The Cherry Orchard. A summary follows below.
First, let's introduce the main characters:
Landowner Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya. Her own daughter Anya is 17 years old. Adopted daughter Varya, 24 years old. Brother Ranevskaya - Gaev Leonid Andreevich. Student Trofimov Petr Sergeevich. Governess Charlotte Ivanovna. Merchant Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich. Landowner Semionov-Pishchik Boris Borisovich. Maid Dunyasha. Young footman Yasha. Old footman Firs. Clerk Semyon Panteleevich Epikhodov.
"The Cherry Orchard": a summary of the first act
Dawn. Outside the window is spring, blossoming cherry trees can be seen. Only it is still cold in the garden, so all the windows are closed. Lopakhin and Dunyasha enter the room. They talk about the train that was late. And Lopakhin is upset that he could not meet Lyubov Andreevna, who in Lately lived abroad, at the station.
Then Epikhodov enters, he recently proposed to Dunyasha. Everyone hears two carriages drive up. The turmoil begins. The footman Firs enters, dressed in an ancient livery. And behind him comes Ranevskaya, Gaev, Anya, Simionov-Pishchik and Charlotte Ivanovna. Anya and Ranevskaya reminisce about the past.
Then Anya talks with Varya. She talks about her experience of finding her mother there without money, among strangers. But Ranevskaya did not seem to understand her position. She gives the lackeys a ruble for tea, and they order the most exquisite and expensive dishes. But in fact, the money was barely enough to get home. And now the estate must be sold, the auction is scheduled for August.
"The Cherry Orchard": a summary of the second act
Evening. Sunset. The action takes place at an abandoned chapel. Lopakhin is interested in plots for dachas. He believes that the land should be divided into plots and leased out. Only for this you have to cut down the cherry orchard. But Ranevskaya and Gaev are against it, they call it vulgarity. Gaev dreams of some kind of inheritance, of the Yaroslavl aunt, who promised to give money, but how much and when it will be is unknown. Merchant Lopakhin once again recalls the auction.
"The Cherry Orchard": a summary of the third and fourth acts
The Jewish orchestra is playing. Dancing couples all around. Varya is worried that the musicians were invited, but they have nothing to pay. Ranevskaya cannot wait for her brother to arrive from the auction. Everyone hopes that he bought the estate for the money sent by the Yaroslavl aunt. Only she sent only fifteen thousand, and they are not even enough for interest. Gaev and Lopakhin are returning from the auction. Guy is crying. Ranevskaya learns that the garden has been sold, its new owner is Lopakhin. She almost faints.
There is little furniture in the rooms, no curtains or paintings. Worth the luggage. Lopakhin warns that in a few minutes you need to go. Gaev went to work in a bank. Ranevskaya travels to Paris with her aunt's money sent from Yaroslavl. Yasha goes with her. Gaev and Ranevskaya are depressed, they say goodbye to the house. Anya thinks that her mother will return to her soon. And she will study at the gymnasium, go to work and begin to help her mother. Everyone gets out noisily and leaves for the station. And only the forgotten Firs remained in the closed house. Silence. The sound of an ax is heard.
"The Cherry Orchard": analysis. Basic moments
The summary tells us that Gaev and Ranevskaya are an obsolete past. The Cherry Orchard is dear to them as a memory of childhood days, of well-being, of youth, of an easy and graceful life. And Lopakhin understands this. He tries to help Ranevskaya by offering to rent land. There is simply no other way out. Only the lady, as always, is careless, she thinks that everything will somehow resolve itself. And when the garden was sold, she did not grieve for long. The heroine is not capable of serious experiences, she easily moves from anxiety to cheerful animation. And Lopakhin is proud of the purchase and dreams of his new life. Yes, he bought the estate, but still remained a peasant. And the owners of the cherry orchard, although ruined, are, as before, gentlemen.
The wise Litrekon in detail, but in abbreviation, conveyed the main events from the play "The Cherry Orchard". Brief retelling on actions is a necessary tool for preparing for lessons and exams. The plot of Chekhov's drama can help you compose interesting arguments for essays.
May, cherry blossoms. It's night outside, it's getting light. Lopakhin sits on the estate and awaits the arrival of the owners of the house. He wanted to meet them, but overslept, reading a book incomprehensible to him, and his servant Dunyashka wakes him up. With her, he recalls the kindness of Ranevskaya (she had already lived abroad for 5 years), the mistress of the house. As a child, his father hit him, and she supported him. Lopakhin himself made his way into the people, became rich, although he came from a peasant family.
Dunyasha, like all the servants, is in agitation: everyone is waiting for the owners. The clerk Epikhodov enters and brings a bouquet from the gardener. Epikhodov slips along the way and complains about his unsuccessful life. As he leaves, Dunyasha confesses that he proposed to her. But Lopakhin does not have time to react, as the owners arrive. They leave the room.
After that, the old servant Firs, who met the owners, enters the room, and the visitors and greeters follow him: Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya, her brother Gaev, her daughters Anya and Varya, the landowner Semeonov-Pishchik, the governess and servants. Varya, the adopted daughter of Ranevskaya, greeted the guests calmly, her mother enthusiastically examined the unchanged house, Anya, tired of the road, listlessly listens to Dunyasha's confessions, but perks up when she learns that Petya Trofimov, the teacher of Ranevskaya's little son, who drowned 6 years ago, has arrived (Petya slept and did not come out to the guests).
Anya tells Varya about her trip to Paris to see her mother. She feels sorry for her mother, because in Paris she is buried in the hustle and bustle and unnecessary acquaintances. Anya herself is uncomfortable there. She reports that they have run out of money, but the mother is still squandering huge sums. Varya says that this estate will also be sold under the hammer: there is nothing to pay interest. Seeing Lopakhin, Anya asks if he made an offer to Varya, but she replies that the merchant is not up to her, and he does not show his feelings in any way. She only dreams of passing Anya off as a rich man, and herself - to go on a journey to holy places.
While the lackey Yasha pestered Dunyasha backstage, Anya recalls that her father died 6 years ago, and then her 7-year-old younger brother drowned. As a result, her mother withdrew into herself and has not been herself since.
Anya went to her room, and the guests began to drink tea. The old footman Firs rejoices to tears that the lady has arrived, and Lyubov Andreevna herself rejoices and kisses the wardrobe. Lopakhin warmly welcomes Ranevskaya. He has a difficult relationship with her brother Gaev, but he treats her warmly, so he proposes a project to save her estate: demolish the house, cut down the garden and divide the site into summer cottages. This would save Ranevskaya's position and her property. But Gaev and Ranevskaya do not understand him: how can you touch the house and garden of their childhood? Lopakhin leaves with nothing, and Gaev, as if nothing had happened, jokes about the centenary wardrobe and its anniversary.
When the merchant leaves, Gaev calls him a boor and hints at his marriage to Varya. She cuts off her uncle. Pishchik intervenes in the conversation and asks for a loan, to which Varya refuses for everyone. Lyubov Andreevna recalls her childhood and her mother, looking at the garden, but Petya Trofimov suddenly comes and reminds Ranevskaya of her late son. She cries and notices how old the student is, who still hasn't finished the course. Pishchik repeats the request for money, and Ranevskaya surrenders to the agreement. Gaev quietly notices to Varya that his sister does not change and still does not think about their situation. He blames her for the fact that a rich aunt from Yaroslavl does not give them an inheritance, because Love is "vicious" and at one time behaved "one cannot say very virtuous." Anya overhears their conversation. She asks her uncle to keep quiet, and he wants to send Anya to Yaroslavl - to ask her grandmother for mercy. Love itself, in his opinion, should ask Lopakhin for money. Gaev hopes for loans from all sides and vows that he will not allow the garden to be sold.
While Varya is talking about the household, Anya falls asleep with her uncle's soothing speech. Trofimov tenderly exclaims to her: "My spring!".
Action Two
Charlotte, Dunyasha, Epikhodov and Yasha are sitting. Charlotte complains about being alone and misunderstood, then leaves. Epikhodov is courting Dunya, trying to stay alone with her, but she sends him for a talma, and from that time on she kisses Yasha. He promises not to betray her trust. The gentlemen are coming, everyone is dispersing.
Lopakhin is trying to find out whether the owners of the garden will rent it to summer residents, but they ignore him and hope for a miracle, talking about nothing. In their opinion, summer residents - "it's gone." They still do not save, and only Varya tries to keep their spending. In response to Lopakhin's reproaches of frivolity, Ranevskaya tells her story: that she married a drunkard and a debtor, that, after burying him, she got along with her lover, but lost her son as a punishment, that there, in Paris, her lover robbed her and cheated on her, and she herself she tried to poison herself. Then she was drawn to her homeland to her daughter, and now she is here and receives a telegram from her lover with a request to return. Hearing the orchestra, she immediately wanted to arrange an evening in the house. Lopakhin told about himself that his father was a blockhead and beat him, but now he, a rich man and a merchant, also feels like a fool. Ranevskaya invites him to marry Varya, and he vaguely agrees, and the subject changes. Firs arrives and recalls how good it was during the time of serfdom, when he renounced his will and remained with the masters.
Trofimov and Varya come with Anya. Lopakhin ridicules Trofimov for being an eternal student, while Pyotr compares him to a predator. Everyone, except the merchant, admires Petya's mind, and he preaches the need for labor and human development, criticizing the current intelligentsia for idleness and empty talk. While before their eyes people vegetate in poverty and moral filth, they only talk about high things, but do not change anything and do not learn. Lopakhin supports him and says that there are few worthy and honest people around. A man passes by and asks for money, and Ranevskaya gives him the gold. Varya reproaches her, Lopakhin agrees to lend. Everyone, except Anya and Petya, leaves. Young people noticed that Varya was afraid to leave them alone so that they would not fall in love with each other (they expect to give Anya for a rich groom). But Petya declares that they are above love and strive for freedom and happiness. He convinced Anya that she needed to redeem the past of her family, who owned peasants and lived at their expense. Now they are again living in debt, and this must be ended in order to start a new, virtuous life. She gives him her word that she will leave the house. He also speaks of a premonition of happiness, despite his poverty and restlessness. They walk and look at the moon while Varya looks for them in the garden.
Act Three
There is evening and dancing in the house. The only ones not dancing are Trofimov and Pishchik, who complains about the lack of money. Varya passes and complains that there is nothing to pay the musicians. Petya teases her with Lopakhina, she snaps. Charlotte does tricks. Everyone is waiting for Gaev: an aunt from Yaroslavl sent a power of attorney for Gaev to buy the estate with the transfer of the debt to her. This is her gift to Anya. But 15 thousand is not enough, and Ranevskaya does not believe in the success of the auction. She again tells Varya about Lopakhin, and she complains that she has been waiting for an offer for 2 years.
Ranevskaya is nervous about the estate, and Trofimov says that she should not care: the old life cannot be returned. She answers that all the courage and height of Petya's convictions stem from his youth and inexperience. She needs compassion, because she has already experienced a lot, and today she received a telegram again and forgave her lover, she wants to go to him, despite his theft and betrayal. Lyubov Andreevna hugs Petya and asks not to judge her. She would give Anya for him, but she sees that they are not doing anything, and this worries her. Petya directly told her that her chosen one was a nonentity, and she covered her ears with her hands and insulted the young man, calling him "stupid". “At your age, do not have a mistress!” she exclaimed in response to his excuse that he was "above love." Petya is indignant, offended, and leaves. Then she asks for forgiveness, and he returns.
There were first rumors about the sale of the estate, but the buyer is unknown. Taking advantage of the pause, Yasha asks Ranevskaya to take him to Paris. There is a dialogue between Dunyasha and Epikhodov: the girl ignores him, and he suffers. Varya kicks Epikhodov out for a broken cue and accidentally hits Lopakhin as he enters with a stick. He also brought Gaev, who is loaded with expensive food. Lopakhin won the auction. Ranevskaya was stunned, Varya threw the keys on the floor and left. Lopakhin rejoices that he bought a house where his ancestors "were slaves." About Varya's act, he said:
She threw away the keys, she wants to show that she is no longer the mistress here ... (Rings the keys.) Well, it doesn’t matter.
Lopakhin raged and shouted that he could pay for everything, so the music should play louder and better than usual. Everyone leaves, only Ranevskaya remains and cries bitterly. Petya and Anya enter, and the daughter comforts her mother:
The cherry orchard has been sold, it’s gone, it’s true, it’s true, but don’t cry, mom, you have a life ahead of you, your good, pure soul remains ...
act four
Poor and silent Ranevskaya and Gaev leave home without saying goodbye to Lopakhin, who bought them champagne. Having received silence in response to the invitation, he also did not drink. He is going to Kharkov, and construction begins on the estate. Trofimov leaves for Moscow for lectures. In parting, he advises the merchant not to wave his arms and confesses his sympathy for him. They hug. Petya does not accept his money and says.
I can do without you, I can pass you, I am strong and proud. Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, the highest happiness possible on earth, and I am in the forefront!
The servants come out, Dunya mourns the separation from Yasha, and he indifferently remarks that everything is wild and bad in Russia, not like in Paris. Epikhodov wanders around in despondency. The gentlemen are coming. Gaev is invigorated and having fun: he joined the bank. Ranevskaya is sad, says goodbye to the house, is going to Paris. Anya is happy: finally a new clean life begins! Lyubov Andreevna sends through Varya that they do not cut down the garden until she leaves. She is going to skip the money in France that her aunt from Yaroslavl gave to buy a garden. Anya herself stays to study at the gymnasium and start working. She intends to support her mother and invites her to return as soon as possible.
Pishchik arrives and says that the British found healing clay on his site. He repaid his debts and moved on. Ranevskaya remembers Firs, and they report to her that Yasha arranged for him in the hospital. Thinking about Vara, she turns to Lopakhin with the intention of marrying off her daughter to him. He agrees and admits that he just didn't have the guts to propose. She calls Varya. He and she are alone. But Lopakhin talks about trifles and soon leaves, because he was called in the yard. Varya sobs and is about to leave: she has hired herself as a housekeeper.
Everyone says goodbye to the house: Gaev and Ranevskaya sob secretly and quietly, remember the old days, Anya and Petya rejoice in their new life, Lopakhin leaves Epikhodov to look after the house, which is being locked up. Firs remains in the house, everyone has forgotten about him. He grumbles that he has no strength, and that Gaev again did not dress for the weather: “Young-green!”.
HISTORY OF CREATION
Time of creation of the work. The play was written at the very beginning of the 20th century (1903), during the period of reassessment and rethinking of established values and old traditions. Three "revolutions" of the 19th century prepared a sense of catastrophe, which was described in art and felt by contemporaries: biological (Darwinism), economic (Marxism) and philosophical (Nietzsche's teaching).
The Cherry Orchard is the last play by A. Chekhov. This is a symbolic farewell of the writer to life. He created it as an epilogue to own life and as an epilogue to Russian literature - the golden age of classical Russian literature was actually ending, the silver age was beginning. The work contains elements of both tragedy (a metaphor for the end of life) and comedy (the characters are depicted in a parody). The main event in the life of theater in Moscow. The play "The Cherry Orchard" was Chekhov's first absolute success as a playwright. It was written in 1903, and already in January 1904 the first production took place at the Moscow Art Theater.
This work formed the basis of a new drama. It was Chekhov who first realized that the old theatrical techniques were outdated. The nature of the conflict, the characters, Chekhov's dramaturgy - all this was unexpected and new. There are many conventions (symbols) in the play, and they should be interpreted based on the author's definition of the genre - "a comedy in four acts". This play has become a classic of the Russian theater and still remains relevant. It manifested the artistic discoveries of the playwright, which marked the beginning of modernism in the literature and dramaturgy of Russia. At the end of the piece, the ax is knocked and the string is broken. Chekhov says goodbye to the old Russian life, and to the landowner's estate, and to the Russian landowner. But, above all, it is imbued with the mood of the writer's farewell to life.
At the end of the play, all her characters leave, having forgotten the old servant Firs in a closed house - they all have no time for him. Both kind Petya and romantic Anya forgot about Firs. Chekhov's innovation. The play does not have a main character. If in the classical drama the hero manifested himself in actions, then in Chekhov's - the characters manifest and reveal themselves in experiences (the pathos of action was replaced by the pathos of reflection). The author actively uses remarks that form the subtext: silence, silence, pause. New form conflict: “People are having lunch, drinking tea, and at this time their destinies are broken” (A. Chekhov).
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WHY THE PLAY IS NAMED "THE CHERRY ORDER"
The central image of the play is displayed in the title of the work. All the action takes place around the cherry orchard: sometimes the events themselves unfold there, the characters constantly talk about it, they try to save it, it unites all the heroes of the work.
The small homeland is a secluded corner of nature, the family nest of Ranevskaya and Gaev, in which they spent their childhood and youth. Such places become part of the person himself. The symbol of beauty - the cherry orchard - is something beautiful and delightful, a beauty that always affects the souls of people and their emotional state. The symbol of the passing time is the departure of the nobility from the life of Russia.
Smart and educated people unable to save the garden, that is, their way of life and way of life. In the play, the garden is cut down, but in life, noble nests are disintegrating. "All Russia is our garden." These are the words of one of the characters in the play, Petya Trofimov. The Cherry Orchard is a symbol of the future of Russia, reflections on the fate of the whole country. Will the younger generation be able to grow a new blooming garden? This question remains open in the play.
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GENRE PLAY
The plot is the sale of a cherry orchard, the owners of which are the bankrupt nobles Ranevskaya and Gaev, brother and sister. The new owner of the garden is the merchant Lopakhin, the grandson of a serf who used to work on this estate.
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FEATURES OF THE GENRE
A. Chekhov himself called The Cherry Orchard a comedy not for genre definition. Thus, the author noted that the play should be performed as a comedy. If you play it as a drama or tragedy, you will not get the intended dissonance, and the deep meaning of the work will be lost. In the play, in fact, there are many comedic moments, situations, characters, lines. "The Cherry Orchard" has the structure of a musical work - the play is built on leitmotifs, musical techniques, repetitions are used, the sound of a broken string appears twice. There are many tears in the play, but the author noted that these are not serious tears, you can laugh at them. The funny in Chekhov is intertwined with the sad, the comic with the tragic - everything, as in real life. The characters are like sad clowns. “I didn’t get a drama, but a comedy, in some places even a farce” (A. Chekhov).
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LYUBOV ANDREYEVNA RANEVSKAYA
Once a wealthy noblewoman Ranevskaya traveled to Paris, had a dacha in the south of France, and “generals, barons, admirals danced” at balls in her house. Now the past appears to her as a blooming cherry orchard. She cannot adapt to new conditions - she continues to squander money, showing lordly carelessness in everything. “She is good, kind, glorious…”, says her brother Gaev about her. “She is a good person. Light, simple ... ”, Lopakhin speaks about Ranevskaya. He enthusiastically admits: “My father was a serf with your grandfather and father, but you, in fact, you once did so much for me that I forgot everything and love you like my own ... more than my own.” Ranevskaya is also loved by Anya and Varya, and the landowner-neighbor Simeonov-Pishchik, and Petya Trofimov, and the servants. She is equally affectionate, generous and kind to everyone. But everything positive traits, connecting with carelessness, spoiledness and frivolity, often turn into their opposite - cruelty and indifference. Ranevskaya generously gives gold to a random passerby, but there is nothing to eat at home. Lyubov Andreevna invites an orchestra to the ball, unable to pay the musicians. Frivolity and inability to live independently appeared thanks to the serfs who did all the work on her estate. She says that she cannot live without a cherry orchard, but the orchard has been sold, and she is throwing an inappropriate ball in the house. Ranevskaya is emotional and inconsistent in her actions. In the first act, she resolutely tears, without even reading, the telegrams from Paris. In the future, the heroine no longer does this, and in the finale of the play, calmed and cheered up, she willingly returns to Paris to her former lover, who tormented her, leaving Varya and Anya without money, forgetting about Firs. Love for her is the most important thing in life (the name and surname are not given by chance - the heroine is impressionable, sensitive and vulnerable). At first she assured that Paris was finished forever. But when the Yaroslavl aunt sent money, it turned out that they were not enough to save the estate, but enough to return to Europe. The nobility of Ranevskaya is that she does not blame anyone for the misfortunes that befell her. And no one reproaches Lyubov Andreevna for the fact that she actually led to the complete collapse of the family estate.
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LEONID ANDREEVICH GAEV
Gaev is the embodiment of the image of a miserable aristocrat. He himself admits: "They say that I ate my entire fortune on candy." Gaev can be called an overgrown baby: he is 51 years old, and the lackey, who is already 87, undresses him before going to bed. Leonid Andreevich got used to an idle life. He has two passions - to play billiards and make passionate speeches (it is no coincidence that the surname Gaev is so consonant with the word gaer, which means a jester; the one who clownishes grimaces for the amusement of others). He looks like a parody of an educated nobleman. he has a special speech, replete with billiard terms, a characteristic word - "whom?". Worthlessness, laziness, idle talk and conceit - these are the main features of this personality. Anya says to Gaev: “Everyone loves you, respects you ... How good you are, uncle, how smart!” But Chekhov questions this opinion. Along with the lordly elegance and sensitivity in Gaev, lordly arrogance and arrogance are noticeable. Leonid Andreevich is convinced of the exclusivity of the people of his circle (“white bone”) and every time he makes others feel his position as a gentleman. He is gentle with his relatives, but contemptuously - squeamish with the servants ("Go away, my dear, you smell like chicken," he says to Yasha. "You're tired of you, brother" - to Firs). He considers the “grimy” Lopakhin to be a boor and a fist. But at the same time, Gaev is proud of his closeness to the people, he claims: “It’s not for nothing that a man loves me.” At the beginning of the play, he swears on his honor that the cherry orchard will not be sold. But Lopakhin buys the garden, and no one remembers his empty promises and words. Gaev and Ranevskaya rejected Lopakhin's proposal, but they themselves were unable to save their estate. This is not only the frivolity and impracticality of the ruined nobles, this is the idea that the nobility is not able, as before, to determine the path of the country's development. Their heightened sense of beauty does not allow them to make a commercial enterprise out of a poetic cherry orchard. The actions of the characters demonstrate to the viewer that it is impossible to trust the words of the landowners, even sincerely and excitedly. Returning from the auction where the cherry orchard was sold, Gaev does not hide his tears. However, his tears instantly disappear as soon as he hears the blows of the cue. This proves that deep feelings are alien to him.
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The former serf of Gaev and Ranevskaya becomes the new owner of the cherry orchard. In the recent past, his ancestors were serfs who worked on the estate, "grandfather and father were slaves", "they were not even allowed into the kitchen." Lopakhin exclaims: “If my father and grandfather got up from their graves and looked at the whole incident, like their Yermolai, beaten, illiterate Yermolai, who ran barefoot in winter, how this same Yermolai bought an estate, more beautiful than which there is nothing in the world.” Yermolai managed to get out of poverty and achieve material well-being without outside help. he has many positive traits: he remembers Ranevskaya's kindness, he is hardworking (“You know, I get up at five in the morning, I work from morning to evening ...”), friendly, “a man of the greatest intelligence,” as Pishchik speaks of him. The enterprising merchant has great energy and grip. His industriousness and perseverance were formed in difficult living conditions, and they tempered his purposeful nature. Lopakhin lives for today. His ideas are rational and practical. He correctly assesses the position of Ranevskaya and Gaev, gives them very valuable advice. If they accepted the offer to break the cherry orchard into summer cottages and rent out the land, they could save their estate and get out of a difficult financial situation. The characters have different attitudes towards Lopakhin. Ranevskaya considers him a good, interesting person, Gaev - a boor and a fist, Simeonov-Pishchik a man of great intelligence, and Petya Trofimov compares him with a predatory beast. This contradictory perception of Lopakhin also reflects Chekhov's attitude towards him. A fashionably dressed and successful businessman has no culture and education, and he himself often feels his inferiority. Business acumen corroded spirituality in him (Chekhov notes the predatory nature of capitalism). Contributing to the economic progress of the country, Lopakhins are unlikely to be able to eliminate poverty, injustice, lack of culture, because in the first place they have personal interest, profit and profit. The sound of an ax cutting down a cherry orchard symbolizes the transition from the past to the present. And the future looks great when the younger generation plant and grow their new garden.
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SECONDARY CHARACTERS
The characters of the second plan participate in the play along with the main ones. actors. They often repeat the thoughts of the main characters. In addition, the author put important thoughts for understanding the play into their mouths. Governess Charlotte Ivanovna turns everything serious into funny. With her tricks and ventriloquism, she emphasizes the comedy of what is happening. It is she who owns the phrase that any character could have said: “I don’t know where I come from and who I am ...” The servants Yash and Dunyasha are ridiculous in their desire to be like masters in everything. In fact, these are the images of Ranevskaya and Gaev brought to the grotesque. Dunyasha always powders herself, declares that she "has become tender, so delicate" and is very reminiscent of Ranevskaya. Cheeky Yasha, accusing everyone of ignorance, is a recognizable parody of Gaev. The old servant Firs personifies the "old life", the "old order". He rarely appears in the play, nevertheless he plays a significant role - he is entrusted with the final monologue. In the image of Firs, those features that his owners are deprived of are emphasized: solidity, thriftiness.
Chekhov dislikes Gaev, who has nothing left in his head but the rules of billiards. Lopakhin, a representative of the newly born Russian capitalism, arouses his curiosity. But the author does not accept pragmatic people, it is obvious to him that nothing will come of the self-satisfied Lopakhin. (Everything miraculously works out for non-pragmatic characters: for example, rare white clay was suddenly found on Simeonov-Pishchik’s estate, and he received money for its rent in advance). Yermolai Lopakhin is waving his arms all the time, Petya gives him advice: “Get out of this habit of waving. And also to build dachas, to expect that individual owners will come out of the dacha owners over time, to count in this way - this also means to wave ... ”Lopakhin has Napoleonic plans, but, according to the author, they are not destined to come true. This is a temporary character, other times will come and the Lopakhins, having done their job, will be transferred. Chekhov's sympathies are on the side of Petya and Anya. The eternal student Trofimov is ridiculous (miserable galoshes, falls down the stairs), but he gets Anya's love.
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PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF RUSSIA
The Cherry Orchard is often called a work about the past, present and future of Russia. The past is Ranevskaya and Gaev. They live in memories, they are not satisfied with the present, and they don’t even want to think about the future. These are educated, refined people, full of inactive love for others. When they are in danger, the heroes behave like children who close their eyes in fear. Therefore, they do not accept Lopakhin's proposals to save the cherry orchard and hope for a miracle, without even trying to change anything. Ranevskaya and Gaev are not capable of being masters of their land. Such people cannot influence the development of their country. The real one is Lopakhin. The self-satisfied Lopakhin is a bright representative of the emerging bourgeoisie in Russia. Society places great hopes on people like him. The hero feels himself the master of life. But Lopakhin remained a “man”, unable to understand that the cherry orchard is not only a symbol of beauty, but also a kind of thread connecting the past with the present. You can't cut your roots. And Yermolai recklessly destroys the old, not having built and not having plans to build something new. He cannot become the future of Russia, because he destroys beauty (the cherry orchard) for his own benefit. The future is Petya and Anya. It cannot be said that the future belongs to a 17-year-old girl, only full of strength and desire to do good. Or for the eternal student, the ridiculous “shabby gentleman” (his whole appearance is rather pitiful), who is trying to rebuild life on the basis of only vague ideas. Chekhov does not see a hero in Russian life who would become the real master of the cherry orchard. The question in the play remains open. Chekhov sees that there is no connection between times (a broken string is a symbol of the gap between generations). But Anya and Petya have to look for an answer, because so far there is no one else but them.
Dawn. Outside the window is a blooming cherry orchard.
Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya returns to her estate from Paris with her daughter Anya. The day passes in conversations with family and guests. Everyone is excited by the meeting, they talk without listening to each other.
In a confidential conversation with Varya, Ranevskaya's adopted daughter, Anya learns that the merchant Lopakhin, who is considered Varya's fiancé, never made an offer, and this event is not expected. Anya, on the other hand, complains about the eternal lack of money in Paris and her mother’s misunderstanding of the situation that has arisen: she thoughtlessly scatters her last money, orders the most expensive in restaurants, and gives the lackeys a ruble for tea. In response, Varya reports that there is money here too.
no, moreover, the estate will be sold in August.
Petya Trofimov still lives in the estate. This is a student, a former tutor of the late son of Ranevskaya, Grisha, who drowned at the age of seven in the river. Anya, having learned about the presence of Petya, is afraid that the sight of the latter will evoke bitter memories in her mother.
The old footman Firs appears, puts on white gloves and starts setting the table.
Enter Lyubov Andreyevna, her brother Leonid Andreevich Gayev, and Lopakhin. The merchant had to leave at five o'clock, but he so wanted to look at Lyubov Andreevna, to talk to her, she is still just as magnificent.
His father was her father's serf, but she once did so much for him that he forgot everything and loves her more than his own. Ranevskaya is happy to return home. Gaev, telling her the news, from time to time takes out a box of candies from his pocket, sucks. Lopakhin says that the estate is being sold for debts, and offers to break this land into summer cottages and rent them out.
Then they will have an annual income of twenty-five thousand. True, the old buildings will have to be demolished and the garden cut down. Lyubov Andreevna categorically objects: the garden is the most wonderful place in the whole province.
According to Lopakhin, they have no other choice, the only thing remarkable in the garden is that it is very large, and the cherry is born every two years, and no one buys that either. But Firs remembers that in the old days, dried cherries were taken in cartloads to Moscow and Kharkov, and they made a lot of money. Varya gives her mother two telegrams from Paris, but the past is over, and Lyubov Andreevna tears them up. Gaev, changing the subject,
turns to a closet that is a hundred years old, and begins to make a sentimental high-flown speech, bringing himself to tears. The sister sums it up. that he is still the same, Gaev is embarrassed. Lopakhin reminds them that if they think about dachas, he will lend money, and leaves. Lyubov Andreevna and Leonid Andreevich admire the garden, remember their childhood.
Enter Petya Trofimov in a shabby student uniform. Lyubov Andreevna hugs him, cries. and, peering, asks why he is so old and ugly, and yet he was once a nice student. Petya says that in the carriage one woman called him a shabby gentleman and, probably, he will be an eternal student.
Gaev and Varya remain in the room. Gaev notices that his sister has not lost the habit of wasting money. he has a lot of plans to fix things: it would be nice to get an inheritance, it would be nice to marry Anya to a very rich man, it would be nice to go to Yaroslavl and ask the aunt countess for money. The aunt is very rich, but does not like them: firstly, Ranevskaya married a sworn trustee, not a nobleman, and secondly, she did not behave very virtuously.
Lyubov Andreevna is kind, glorious, but she is vicious. Then they notice that Anya is standing in the doorway. The uncle kisses her, the girl reproaches him for last words and asks to be silent, then he himself will be calmer. He agrees and excitedly changes his plans to save the estate: it will be possible to arrange a loan against bills to pay interest to the bank, Anya's mother will talk to Lopakhin, he will not refuse her, and Anya will rest and go to her grandmother in Yaroslavl. This is how everything will work out. He swears that he will not allow the estate to be sold. Anya
reassured As and, happy, hugs her uncle. Firs appears, reproaches G Aeva, that he has not yet gone to bed, and everyone disperses.
The action takes place in the estate of Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya.
Act one
Early May morning. Cherry trees are blooming.
The merchant Yermolai Alekseevich Lopakhin came to Ranevskaya's estate on purpose to meet the train on which she and her daughter were arriving from abroad, where she had lived for five years. Arrived - and fell asleep sitting. The train was two hours late. Lopakhin speaks of Ranevskaya with tenderness: “She is a good person. Easy, simple man. Lopakhin's father was a simple, rude peasant, but he says about himself that he was a peasant - and remains a peasant. Just got rich.
Epikhodov, a clerk, wanders around the house and complains: “Some kind of trouble happens to me every day ...”
The maid Dunyasha (dressed and combed like a young lady) casually informs the merchant that Epikhodov proposed to her. “He is a meek person, but only sometimes he starts talking - you won’t understand anything ... He is an unhappy person ... They tease him like that: unlucky - they tease him: “twenty-two misfortunes,” Dunyasha sighs.
Ranevskaya and her seventeen-year-old daughter Anya arrive from the station with their governess Charlotte Ivanovna. Those who met them enter with them: the brother of Lyubov Andreevna Gaev, her adopted daughter Varya, twenty-four years old, and the neighbor-landowner Simeonov-Pishchik.
From the conversation between Anya and Varya, it turns out that Anya did not live with her mother in Paris for all five years. Varya sent her, accompanied by Charlotte (you can't go alone at seventeen!) to her mother in Paris.
Anya: Mom lives on the fifth floor, I come to her, she has some French, ladies, an old priest with a book, and it's smoky, uncomfortable. I suddenly felt so sorry for my mother, so sorry, I hugged her head, squeezed it with my hands and couldn’t let it go. Mom then caressed everything, cried ...
She had long ago sold her dacha near Menton, she had nothing left.
Ranevskaya does not want to understand that she is not a rich woman, that she needs to save. In station restaurants, he orders the most expensive, throws a ruble each for tea to the lackeys. Yasha, her insolent lackey, also demands a portion for himself.
Varia is doing badly, Ranevskaya failed to pay interest on a huge debt - and in August they will sell the estate.
Anya hopes that Lopakhin will propose to Varya, but her hopes are in vain. Varya is busy all day with housework and still dreams of marrying her sister to a rich man, while she herself wants to go to a monastery.
It is noticeable that the sisters love each other very much.
Student Petya Trofimov, a former tutor of the son of Ranevskaya Grisha, who drowned at the age of seven, spends the night in the bathhouse.
The decrepit lackey Firs takes care of the coffee for the hostess. Ranevskaya is touched: “I want to jump, wave my arms. And suddenly I'm sleeping! God knows, I love my homeland, I love dearly, I couldn’t look out of the carriage, I kept crying ... My closet ... (Kisses the closet.) My table ... "
Gaev. And without you here the nanny died.
LYUBOV ANDREYEVNA (sits down and drinks coffee). Yes, the kingdom of heaven. They wrote to me.
Lopakhin says that Ranevskaya did him a lot of good, he loves her, “like his own, more than his own,” and he wants to do something good for her.
He puts forward his project of saving the estate from debts: it is necessary to divide the garden into summer cottages and rent it out. This will provide Ranevskaya with at least twenty-five thousand annual income. True, we will have to demolish the old buildings, including the dilapidated house itself, and cut down the cherry orchard.
Lyubov Andreevna objected with fervor. Against and her brother: and in the "Encyclopedic Dictionary" this garden is mentioned.
Lopakhin says that the garden has degenerated, that summer residents can do agriculture, "and then your cherry orchard will be happy, rich, luxurious ..."
But neither Ranevskaya nor her brother (he constantly and senselessly sprinkles his speech with billiard terms: "From the ball to the right into the corner! Yellow into the middle!") do not want to listen to the reasonable speeches of the merchant.
Gaev delivers a speech dedicated to the centenary of the bookcase in the room:
“Dear, respected closet! I salute your existence, which for more than a hundred years has been directed towards the bright ideals of goodness and justice; your silent call to fruitful work has not weakened for a hundred years ...
Ranevskaya looks out the window at the garden:
“Oh my childhood, my purity! In this nursery I slept, looked from here at the garden, happiness woke up with me ... O my garden! After dark rainy autumn And cold winter again you are young, full of happiness, the angels of heaven have not abandoned you ... If only a heavy stone could be removed from my chest and shoulders, if I could forget my past!
She is about to go to sleep from the road, but Petya Trofimov enters - as he says, only to say hello.
As Varya foresaw, asking Petya to wait until tomorrow, the mother, at the sight of the student, remembers her drowned son and weeps softly. After that, she reproaches Petya: “Why are you so ugly? Why are you old?"
Trofimov. “One woman in the carriage called me like this: a shabby gentleman.”
Varya tells the lackey Yasha that his mother, who has come from the village, has been sitting in the servants' room for two days. Wants to see his son. Yasha waves it off: “It is very necessary! I could come back tomorrow...
Pishchik asks Ranevskaya for a loan, she tells her brother to give money to the one who asks.
Gaev. My sister has not lost the habit of wasting money yet ... It would be nice ... to try her luck with the aunt-countess. My aunt is very, very rich... she doesn't like us. My sister, first of all, married ... not a nobleman and behaved, one might say, very virtuous. She is good, kind, nice, I love her very much, but no matter how you think of mitigating circumstances, nevertheless, I must admit, she is vicious. It is felt in her slightest movement.
Anya, accidentally hearing these words, asks her uncle to keep quiet.
Embarrassed, Gaev promises to find all means to ensure that the estate is not sold: to borrow money against bills, to go to Yaroslavl to the grandmother-countess ... "I swear with all my being!"
Anya believes her uncle, peace returns to her.
Action two
field near the house. Evening. The sun is setting. Charlotte, Yasha and Dunyasha are sitting on a bench. Epikhodov is standing, playing the guitar.
Charlotte. I don't have a real passport, I don't know how old I am, and I keep feeling like I'm young. When I was a little girl, my father and mother went to fairs and gave performances, very good ones. And I jumped somersaults and various things ... I grew up, then went to the governess. And where I am and who I am - I do not know. Who are my parents, maybe they didn't get married... I don't know. (He takes a cucumber out of his pocket and eats it). I so want to talk, but not with anyone ... I have no one.
Epikhodov also complains that he doesn't know whether "to live or shoot himself," and even shows a revolver. Anguish gnaws at him - Dunyasha did not agree to his proposal. She, by her own admission, "passionately fell in love" with the footman Yasha.
He yawns: “In my opinion, this is how: if a girl loves someone, then she, therefore, is immoral ...”
To replace the previous group are Ranevskaya with her brother and Lopakhin. Lyubov Andreyevna looks into her purse. He is surprised that there is so little money left - and where they have gone is not clear. Immediately scatters the remaining gold...
Lopakhin again inspires her that the garden must be leased out urgently; Otherwise, the estate will be auctioned for debts! No Yaroslavl aunt can save Ranevskaya - as much money as needed, she still won't give.
Ranevskaya languidly objects that "dachas and summer residents - it's so vulgar."
Lopakhin. “I have never met such frivolous people, such unbusinesslike, strange people. They tell you ... but you definitely do not understand ... "
Lyubov Andreevna is not ready to take action, she prefers to sort out her sins:
I've always been throwing money around like crazy, and I married a man who only ran into debt. My husband died of champagne - he drank terribly, and, unfortunately, I fell in love with another ...
Grisha's son drowned, and Ranevskaya went abroad, leaving her daughter "to never see this river."
Lyubov Andreevna bought a dacha in France, her lover came there and fell ill. She looked after him for three years, the patient was rude and capricious, completely exhausted her - "my soul dried up."
The dacha was sold for debts, I had to move to Paris in a poor apartment. Lover Ranevskaya left, went to another, she tried to poison herself ...
And then she returned to Russia, to her girl ...
Now I have received a telegram from Paris: he asks for forgiveness, begs to return.
Just then Varya, Anya and Trofimov come up to the bench. Lopakhin makes fun of Trofimov: "He is fifty years old soon, but he is still a student."
In fact, Trofimov is about thirty. He philosophizes about a proud person, about the need to work, about the purpose of the intelligentsia, which only calls itself that way ... But in fact, the "intellectuals" do not read anything serious, they say "you" to the peasants, "they only talk about the sciences, they understand little in art ...".
Lopakhin opposes the lamentations of the eternal student with his own view - the merchant gets up at five o'clock in the morning, works until evening. He sees how many dishonorable people are around, especially if it smells like money. He thinks: "Lord, you have given us vast forests, vast fields, the deepest horizons, and living here, we ourselves should really be giants..."
Caring Firs brings Gaev's coat - it becomes cool.
Everyone leaves except Trofimov and Anya.
The student chuckles at Varya - the older sister is “afraid, what if we fall in love with each other ... She, with her narrow head, cannot understand that we are above love ... We go irresistibly towards that bright star that burns there in the distance! Forward! Keep up, friends!"
Trofimov says that the nobility, in order to atone for the sins of the past serfdom, must work hard. Do not philosophize, do not drink vodka, but work!
He persuades Anya to leave the house and leave to be free as the wind!
A naive young girl is delighted with these calls.
Anya! Anya!
Act Three
Evening in the living room of Ranevskaya. The Jewish orchestra is playing. They dance. Charlotte does tricks. Date: twenty-second of August - trading day.
They are waiting for Gaev with the news. Yaroslavl grandmother sent fifteen thousand to buy the estate in her name, but this money is not enough even to pay interest. However, Ranevskaya hopes for some kind of miracle.
In nervous anticipation, she starts a conversation with Petya Trofimov. Petya now declares to her that he is "above love." He notices that Ranevskaya is again thinking about a trip to Paris, to that terrible person who robbed her. Ranevskaya is offended and angry:
You have to be a man, at your age you need to understand those who love! And you have to love yourself... You have to fall in love! And you have no cleanliness, and you are just a neat, funny eccentric, freak ... You are a klutz! At your age, do not have a mistress!
Petya declares: "It's all over between us!" Runs away, falls down the stairs.
Ranevskaya.
What an eccentric this Petya ...
She asks for forgiveness: "Well, pure soul ... Let's go dancing!"
And Trofimov and Ranevskaya are dancing.
Firs complains to Yasha about being unwell, Yasha indifferently replies:
You're tired, grandfather. If only you would die sooner.
Yasha asks Lyubov Andreevna, if she goes to Paris again, to take him with her. It’s impossible for him to stay here: “the people are uneducated” and the food is bad in the kitchen, “and then there’s this Firs walking around, muttering various inappropriate words ...”
Gaev appears with tears: "The estate is sold!" Who bought?
I bought. The cherry orchard is now mine! My!
He is overwhelmed with joy: he, Yermolai, who ran barefoot through the snow as a boy, bought an estate where his father and grandfather were not even allowed into the kitchen ... Music, play!
Recollecting himself, the merchant expresses his sympathy for Ranevskaya, wishes that her “awkward, unhappy life” would somehow change. Anya tries to comfort her crying mother:
The cherry orchard has been sold, it’s gone, it’s true, it’s true, but don’t cry, mother, you still have your good pure soul ... We will plant a new garden, more luxurious than this, you will see it, understand it, and joy, quiet, deep joy will descend on your soul, like the sun in the evening hour, and you will smile, mother!
act four
The setting is the same as in the first act. Only the curtains have been removed, there are no paintings. At the back of the stage, suitcases and travel knots are stacked. Yasha holds a tray with glasses filled with champagne.
The men come to say goodbye. Lyubov Andreevna gives them her purse. Gaev’s reproaches are heard: “It’s impossible, Lyuba! You can not do it this way!"
Lopakhin offers to drink champagne. Arises awkward pause. Only Yasha drinks.
It's time for the station.
Lopakhin is going to Kharkov - with the Ranevskaya family, he "was exhausted without work." Trofimov goes to Moscow, as always being late for the beginning of classes. Lopakhin first jokes, according to his old habit, over the "eternal student", and then offers him money for the journey. The student proudly refuses:
Give me at least two hundred thousand, I won't take it. I free man. And everything that you all, rich and poor, value so highly and dearly, has not the slightest power over me ... Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness that is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront!
Lopakhin. Will you get there?
Trofimov. I will. I will reach or show the way to others how to reach.
You can hear the sound of an ax banging on wood in the distance.
Ranevskaya asks that until she leaves, they do not cut down the garden.
It was decided to send Firs to the hospital. Anya asks Yasha if it's done. Yasha waves it off - it must be done. The arrogant lackey refuses to say goodbye to his mother and recommends the crying one. Dunyasha behave decently - then she won't have to cry. Yasha's thoughts are already all in Paris - he has seen enough of ignorance, that's enough!
Ranevskaya is going to live in France with the money that the Yaroslavl grandmother sent. Of course, the money won't last long. Anya is going to pass the exam at the gymnasium, start working and help her mother. Charlotte is left destitute. However, Lopakhin promises to find a place for her. Lyubov Andreevna tries for the last time to marry Varya to Lopakhin, but nothing comes of their conversation. Varya hired herself as a housekeeper on a rich estate. She is used to working.
Lyubov Andreevna. Oh my dear, my tender, beautiful garden! My life, my youth, my happiness, goodbye! Goodbye!..
You can hear all the doors being locked. The crews leave.
In the locked house, the decrepit, sick Firs, forgotten by everyone, remains - no one sent him to the hospital. Out of habit, he is worried that the owner did not put on a fur coat - he went in a coat. The exhausted old man lies down and lies motionless.
You can hear the knocking of an ax on wood.
