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Turgenev's first love plan. Consequences of a long history, or Death of a beloved

Retelling plan

1. The owner of the house offers to tell a story about first love.
2. Young Vladimir falls in love with Zinaida, a neighbor in the country.
3. First conversation with Zinaida.
4. Evening party at the Zasekins’ house. Meeting Zinochka's other gentlemen.
5. Vladimir tells his father about the Zasekins’ visit.

6. Zinaida plays with the feelings of men.
7. Vladimir cannot decide who exactly Zinaida is in love with.
8. The young man becomes convinced that he is the lucky one.
9. Vladimir realizes that Zinaida is actually in love with his father.
10. The same guests are in Zinaida’s house. Game of forfeits with stories.
11. Vladimir suffers, not knowing for sure whether Zinaida loves him or not.
12. Quarrel between the young man’s parents.
13. Vladimir’s family moves to the city.
14. Vladimir secretly sees his father talking to Zina.
15. Vladimir’s father dies, and his son receives his unfinished letter.
16. Vladimir learns about the changes in Zinaida’s life. The heroine dies.

Retelling

After the guests had left, only the owner, Sergei Nikolaevich, “a round man with a plump blond face,” and Vladimir Petrovich, “a man of about forty, black hair, with gray hair,” remained in the house. The owner suggested telling everyone about his first love. Sergei Nikolaevich admitted that he did not have a first love, but he had a second and then all the others. Well, according to him, he only had a serious feeling for his nanny. The owner himself put his first love into a few sentences: “...with Anna Ivanovna everything went like clockwork: our fathers matched us, we very soon fell in love with each other and got married without hesitation.” Only Vladimir Petrovich’s first love turned out to be “not quite ordinary.” And since he “is not a master of storytelling,” he offered to write down everything he remembered. Two weeks later he fulfilled his promise.

When Vladimir Petrovich was sixteen years old (in the summer of 1833), he lived in Moscow with his parents at their dacha near the Kaluga outpost. Vladimir was preparing to enter university. His parents treated him “indifferently and kindly” and did not “constrain his freedom.” The weather was beautiful, Vladimir read poetry, walked, and rode a horse. In everything he thought about, “lurked a half-conscious, bashful premonition of something new, unspeakably sweet, feminine.” His family's dacha consisted of two outbuildings: one was a cheap wallpaper factory, the other was for rent. And one day the poor family of Princess Zasekina moved in.

Vladimir went into the garden every evening and was guarded by a raven with a gun. And then one evening he saw a strange sight: “A tall, slender girl... four young men crowded around her, and she took turns slapping them on the forehead with flowers.” And he was filled with such “surprise and pleasure” that he himself wanted her to hit him on the forehead. And then he dropped the gun and looked only at her. Suddenly a man shouted to him, and the girl noticed Vladimir. Laughing, she ran away. The image of this girl could not leave his head.

There was only one thought in Vladimir’s head: how to meet the girl’s family? And one day his mother received a letter from Princess Zasekina “on gray paper, sealed with brown sealing wax, which was used only on the corks of cheap wine.” She asked for protection and asked permission to come. The mother could not refuse the princess and asked her son to go to her. Vladimir rejoiced at the fleeting fulfillment of his desires.

Vladimir came to the neighboring outbuilding. It was quite poor and untidy there. Princess Zasekina turned out to be an unpleasant woman of about fifty. Then that girl from the garden appeared in the living room, her name was Zina. The young princess and Vladimir started talking. She was twenty-one years old and, pointing to this, she said that Vladimir, as the youngest, should always tell her the truth. Zinaida Alexandrovna, as she asked to be called, communicated with him very openly and uninhibitedly. This confused Vladimir a little. He had to admit that he liked her.

Vladimir looked at her throughout the conversation. “Her face seemed even more charming than the day before: everything about it was so subtle, smart and sweet...” She had fluffy golden hair, an innocent neck, sloping shoulders. Sitting next to her, he could hardly contain his delight. Then Belovzorov came, “a hussar with a ruddy face and bulging eyes,” he brought her the kitten that she wished for yesterday. And Vladimir had to leave already; a footman was sent for him, since he was very late.

Mother met with Princess Zasekina, and she did not like her. Mother called her vulgar and a slanderer. And Vladimir’s father remembered Prince Zasekin, “an excellently educated, but empty and absurd man,” who lost his entire fortune. Vladimir's parents seriously thought about how the princess would ask them for a loan. Later, Vladimir met Zinaida in the garden, but she did not pay attention to him. But when his father appeared and greeted her, the girl followed him with her eyes.

The next day, the princess and her daughter appeared half an hour before dinner. Zinochka looked important and cold, and the princess “was not embarrassed by anything, ate a lot and praised the food.” Zinaida did not pay any attention to Vladimir. But after dinner she invited him to visit; and her mother got ready immediately after she had eaten, saying that she hoped for the patronage of Maria Nikolaevna and Pyotr Vasilich.

At exactly eight o'clock Vladimir arrived at the party in a frock coat. Entering the outbuilding, he was surprised a large number men. They all crowded around the young princess, who was holding a hat. It was decided to play forfeits. Volodya, as a newcomer, was lucky; he got a ticket with a kiss. He had the honor of kissing the princess's hand. “My vision went blurry; I wanted to go down on one knee, fell on both - and so awkwardly touched Zinaida’s fingers with my lips that I slightly scratched the end of my nose with her nail.” The other men openly envied him. After some time, the evening grew into louder fun. Vladimir became intoxicated and “began to laugh and chat louder than others,” and the hostess of the holiday kept looking at him, “smiling mysteriously and slyly.”

Count Malevsky showed various card tricks, “Maidanov recited excerpts from his poem “The Murderer,” old Boniface was dressed in a cap, and the princess put on a man’s hat...” Only Belovzorov stood alone in the corner and was so angry, “that he’s about to will rush and scatter us all.” For Vladimir, this kind of fun was unnatural and a new “crazy” adventure. When everyone calmed down, the happy “Voldemar” wandered home. He made his way through the back porch to his room. He didn't sleep all night until the morning. “I got up, went to the window and stood there until the morning. The lightning did not stop for a moment; It was what people call a sparrow night.” The image of Zinaida haunted him all night.

The next morning, Volodya’s mother scolded him and forced him to prepare for his exams. Since the hero knew that worries about his studies would be limited only to this, he did not object and went with his father to the garden. The father respected the boy’s freedom and calmly asked him to tell him about what happened that evening in the Zasekins’ house. For Vladimir, his father was a model of masculinity, and he often regretted that his father did not devote more time to him. Once he said to his son: “Take what you can, but don’t let it get into your hands: to belong to yourself is the whole point of life.” The young man told his father everything in detail, and he “half-attentively, half-absently” listened to him. After this, the father went to Princess Zasekina and was there more than an hour, then left for the city. Vladimir himself decided to go to the Zasekins and saw in the room only the old princess, who asked to “copy one request for her”; he promised to fulfill. Then Zina came in, looked at him with “big cold eyes” and left.

Vladimir's passion and suffering began from that day: he fell in love. Zinaida immediately noticed this and “amused me with my passion, fooled me, spoiled me and tormented me.” All the men who visited her house were crazy about her. And she turned everyone around according to her whim, and they didn’t even resist: “She kept everyone at her feet, she needed each of her fans.” She called Belovzorov “my beast” or simply “mine”; he “would have thrown himself into the fire for her” and had already offered her his hand and heart, “Maidanov responded to the poetic strings of her soul,” Lushin, “mocking, cynical, knew her better than anyone” and loved her too.

Vladimir's mother did not like his hobby, his father took it calmly. He himself spoke to Zina “little, but somehow especially smart and significant.” The young man abandoned his studies and walks, “like a beetle tied by the leg, he constantly circled around his favorite outbuilding...” One day Vladimir met a girl in the garden, she sat quietly, without moving. Then she told him to sit next to her and asked if he loved her. He was silent, everything was clear. Then she burst into tears: “Everything disgusted me, I would go to the ends of the earth, I can’t stand it, I can’t cope...” Then they went to her home to listen to Maidanov’s poem. When he read it, the eyes of Zinaida and Vladimir met, and at that moment he realized: “My God, she fell in love!”

From that moment, Vladimir noticed that Zinaida had changed. She often walked alone or sat in her room. All the gentlemen who visited their house noticed that the young man was in love. One day Lushin interrogated him about why he was visiting the princess and whether his new feelings were good for the young man. Then the old princess entered the room where they were talking and forced Doctor Lushin to scold Zina for often drinking ice water. The doctor warned the girl that she could catch a cold and die. She replied that “that’s where she belongs, such a life is worth risking for a moment of pleasure.”

In the evening of the same day, all the same guests gathered at the Zasekins’ house. Vladimir was there too. The guests discussed Maidanov's poem, and the young princess sincerely praised it. But she herself suggested a different plot: young girls sing the anthem, they are dressed in white dresses, dark wreaths and gold. The Bacchantes call them to their place. One goes to them, and the bacchantes, surrounding her, carry the girl away. Maidanov promised to use this plot for a lyric poem. Then all the guests begin to play the “comparison” game that the princess came up with. She asked everyone what clouds looked like? And then she herself answered that these were “purple sails that were on Cleopatra’s golden ship when she was going to meet Anthony...” After thinking, she asked how old Anthony was. Everyone answered that he was very young, only Lushin exclaimed that he was forty. Vladimir went home soon after. “She fell in love,” his lips involuntarily whispered. - But who?

As the days passed, Zina became stranger and more incomprehensible. One day Vladimir found her crying in the room. She grabbed him by the hair and pulled out a lock, and then regretted it.

When the young man returned home, he heard his mother scolding his father for something. Vladimir could not hear anything. Only then did his mother tell him that Zinaida Alexandrovna was one of those women who would do anything. Once in a secluded place, on the ruins of a greenhouse, he sat on a high wall and thought about the young princess. Suddenly he saw her passing by. Seeing the young man, she asked him to jump down to her if he loved her so much. Vladimir, without hesitation, jumped off, fell and lost consciousness. When he began to come to his senses, the girl said, bending over him: “How could you do this, how could you obey, because I love you, get up.” And she began to cover his head with kisses, then, seeing that he had woken up, she called him a naughty man and left. And Vladimir remained sitting on the road. Everything hurt him, but “the feeling of bliss that I experienced then has never been repeated in my life. Exactly: I was still a child.”

All day Vladimir was cheerful and proud. With delight he recalled every word of the princess and her kisses. Then he went to her, feeling terrible embarrassment, but she accepted him very calmly. This greatly hurt the young man; he realized that she treated him like a child. Then Belovzorov came, he was looking for a horse for her to ride, but he couldn’t find anything suitable. Then she said that she would ask Pyotr Vasilich, the boy’s father. “She mentioned his name so easily and freely, as if she was sure of his readiness to serve her.” Belovzorov was jealous and said that he didn’t care what she would do and with whom. But she reassured him by promising to take him with her on a horseback ride.

The next morning, Vladimir took a long walk, intending to indulge in “dejection and sadness,” but the good weather and fresh air disturbed his memories of Zinaida’s kisses. He lay on the grass and thought about her. And when I was walking along the path back home, I saw my father and Zinaida galloping on horses. Pyotr Vasilich smiled at her. And a few seconds later Belovzorov rushed after them. Vladimir thought that Zina was very pale, and then hurried home for dinner.

All the next days, Zinaida “said she was ill,” and her men were gloomy and sad. And only Lushin once said: “And I, a fool, thought that she was a coquette! Apparently, sacrificing oneself is sweet for others.” Vladimir did not understand this expression. He was worried that Zina was avoiding him. Once he lay in wait for her near an elderberry bush, from where he liked to look at her window. And that evening she appeared in the window. The girl was dressed all in white and was white herself, and her gaze was motionless. Three days later, Vladimir met her in the garden, her face smiling, “as if through a haze.” Zina invited him to be friends, and the young man was offended by her, saying that before he could have been in a different role. Then she confessed to him that she loved him like “a child, sweet, good, smart,” and told him that from that day on Vladimir would be her page.

After dinner, the same guests gathered at Zinaida's. Everyone was having the same fun as before, only without the “gypsy element.” And now they played new game: it was necessary to tell “something definitely made up.” Hussar Belovzorov could not come up with anything, and Zinaida took the next forfeit. She introduced the young queen's ball. “Everywhere there is gold, marble, crystal, silk, lights, diamonds, flowers, smoking, all the whims of luxury. Everyone crowds around her, everyone lavishes the most flattering speeches on her. And there, near the fountain, the one I love, who owns me, is waiting for me.” Throughout the entire story, the guests were silent, and only Lushin sometimes spoke cynically about Zina’s invention. Then the girl anticipated events and put herself in the queen’s place. She said that Belovzorov would have challenged a stranger to a duel, Maidanov would have written a long iambic about him, Malevsky would have brought him poisoned candy. She omitted what “Voldemar” would have done. But Malevsky cynically revealed that Vladimir, as her personal page, “would hold her train when she ran into the garden.” The princess was indignant and asked him to leave. After such insolence, everyone supported her. Malevsky asked for forgiveness for a long time, and the princess allowed him to stay. The game of forfeits did not last long.
That night the young man could not fall asleep for a long time, he kept thinking whether there was any hint in the princess’s story. He dreamed of being that lucky person at the fountain. Then he decided to go to the garden. For a moment he thought he saw a girl there, but then everything around him froze. “I felt a strange excitement: as if I had gone on a date - and remained alone, passed by someone else’s happiness.”

The next day Volodya met Malevsky, who warned the “page” that he must “stay awake at night and watch, watch with all your might. Remember - in the garden, at night, near the fountain - this is where you need to keep watch. You will thank me." The young man returned to his room, took a small knife and chose in advance a place to keep watch. The night was quiet, no one was visible. Vladimir thought that Malevsky was playing a joke on him. Then he heard the door creak and rustling and saw his father. And “jealous, ready to kill, Othello suddenly turned into a schoolboy.” Vladimir threw away the knife and went to his bench by Zina’s window. “The small curved glass of the window glowed dimly in the weak light: behind them - I saw it - a whitish curtain was carefully and quietly lowered...” Volodya didn’t know what to think.

In the morning, Vladimir got up with a headache and “it seemed like something was dying in him.” She came to Zinaida younger brother, also Volodya. She asked the young man to treat him with love, to walk with him, in general, to take him under her protection. When Vladimir invited the cadet to take a walk in the garden, Zina was very happy, and he thought that he had never seen “such lovely colors” on her face.

In the evening, “young Othello” cried, and when the princess kissed him on his wet cheek, he whispered through his sobs: “I know everything; Why did you play with me, what did you need my love for?” The girl admitted to him that she was guilty and very sinful, but she just didn’t understand that he knew? The boy was silent, and soon he and the younger Volodya were already running and playing.

The following weeks were hectic. Volodya did not want to know whether Zinaida loved him, and did not want to admit to himself that she loved someone else. Returning home one day for lunch, he noticed that something unusual had happened. From the barman Philip, he learned that his mother and father had a big quarrel, and everyone in the house heard. She accused Pyotr Vasilyich of infidelity in connection with a neighboring young lady, to which her father hinted at Maria Nikolaevna’s age, and she burst into tears. Now my mother is not well, and my father has gone somewhere. This news was “beyond the power” of Vladimir, “this sudden discovery crushed him.” “It was all over. All my flowers were torn out at once and lay scattered and trampled around me.”

Mother wanted to go to the city alone at first, but her father talked to her and she calmed down. Then they began getting ready to go home, “everything was done quietly and slowly.” Vladimir wandered around like crazy, thinking how Zina could decide to do such an act: “... this is love, this is passion...”, and he went to say goodbye to the princess. Seeing her, he told her: “Believe me, Zinaida Alexandrovna, no matter what you do, no matter how you torture me, I will love and respect you until the end of my days.” And she kissed him. “Who knows who this long, farewell kiss was looking for, but I greedily tasted its sweetness. I knew it would never happen again.” Vladimir's family moved to the city. The worries slowly subsided, and the boy had nothing against his father. But Vladimir was destined to see Zinaida again.

One day Vladimir and his father were riding horseback. “We drove along all the boulevards, visited the Maiden Field, jumped over several fences, crossed the Moscow River twice...” Then my father noticed that the horses were tired. And he left them to Vladimir, and he himself went somewhere. Volodya walked with the horses along the shore, walking in the direction where his father had retired. And suddenly he was dumbfounded because he saw him with Zinaida. His father almost noticed him, but it was clear that he was too busy talking. A strange strong feeling forced Vladimir to remain in place.

Pyotr Vasilich insisted on something, but Zina did not agree. Then he hit her hand with his whip, and she just kissed the red scar on it. The father threw away his whip. Vladimir could hardly resist intervening. He returned to the place where his father left him. Soon the father came up. The young man asked where he put the whip, his father replied that he threw it away. And Vladimir saw how much tenderness and regret his stern features could express.

Two months passed, Vladimir entered the university. Volodya’s feelings aged him, and he already regarded his experiences as something childish. One day he had a dream that Belovzorov, covered in blood, was threatening his father, and Zinaida was sitting in the corner with a red stripe on her forehead.

A year and a half later, my father died of a stroke in St. Petersburg, but shortly before that he had been asking his mother for something for a long time and crying. Then Vladimir received an unfinished letter from Pyotr Vasilyevich: “My son, fear a woman’s love, fear this happiness, this poison...” After his father’s death, mother sent a significant amount to Moscow. XXII

Four years later, Vladimir graduated from the university and one day met Maidanov at the theater. He told him that Zinaida Zasekina became Mrs. Dolskaya, despite the “consequences,” but with “her mind everything is possible,” and gave her address at the hotel. Vladimir took a long time to get ready, and when he arrived at the hotel, he was told that Mrs. Dolskaya had died from childbirth. This bitter thought “stabbed into his heart with all the force of an irresistible reproach,” and meanwhile:

From indifferent lips I heard the news of death,

And I listened to her indifferently...
He wanted to pray for Zinaida, for his father and for himself.

When all the guests left, only the owner, Sergei Nikolaevich, and his guest Vladimir Petrovich remained in the house. The owner suggested telling everyone about his first love. Vladimir Petrovich, a man of about forty, declares that his first feeling was not entirely ordinary, so he will not talk about it, but will write everything down in a notebook and read it. Two weeks later, the friends met again, and Vladimir Petrovich began his story.

He was then sixteen years old. The action took place in the summer of 1833. His parents rented a dacha near the Kaluga outpost, not far from Neskuchny. He was preparing to enter university. The dacha consisted of a wooden manor house and two outbuildings. Princess Zasekina moved into one of the outbuildings when she arrived on vacation.

One day, while wandering around the garden, Vladimir saw a girl surrounded by young people whom he really liked. He dreamed of meeting her. A little later, his mother received a letter from Zasekina asking for her protection, after which the families met. The neighbors took turns visiting each other. Zinaida, that was the name of the subject of Vladimir’s dreams, was Zasekina’s daughter. She was older than Vladimir: she was already twenty-one years old. They begin to communicate, the young man often visits her and gradually realizes that he is in love. Zinaida, guessing about his passion, “fooled, spoiled and tormented him.”

One day, while walking, he met his beloved girl with his father, they were galloping past him on horseback. Vladimir decides to keep an eye on them, and in the evening he again witnesses their secret meeting. He sees that Zinaida is sincerely in love with his father. Soon, Vladimir’s mother becomes aware of her husband’s affair with a neighboring princess, after which a scandal occurs between them, and they leave back to Moscow. However, Vladimir was destined to meet Zinaida again.

My father went horseback riding every day, and once he took Vladimir with him. Stopping at one of the alleys, he gave his son the reins of his horse, asking him to wait here, and he left. Since he did not appear for a long time, Vladimir went after him. Suddenly he saw his father standing at the open window of a wooden house and talking with a woman, who turned out to be Zinaida. Unexpectedly, in the midst of the conversation, the father raised the whip and hit it on the hand of the girl, who silently raised her hand to her lips and kissed the scarlet scar that appeared.

Two months later, Vladimir entered the university, and six months later his father died of a stroke. The young man received an unfinished letter from his father, which excited him greatly. In it, the father wrote: “My son, fear a woman’s love, fear this happiness, this poison...”

Four years later, the young man graduated from university. One day at the theater he met an old acquaintance of Maidanov, who informed him about Mrs. Dolskaya’s arrival in St. Petersburg. She turned out to be Zinaida Zasekina, who is now married. Maidanov gave him the address ex-lover, but he couldn’t visit her right away due to being busy. Only two weeks later he went to her hotel, where he learned that Mrs. Dolskaya had died four days ago from childbirth.

Year: 1860 Genre: story

Main characters: Volodya, Princess Zinaida

Princess Zasekina moves into the outbuilding next to the family of sixteen-year-old Vladimir. Volodya falls in love with the princess's daughter, Zinaida. One day he meets his beloved with his own father. Having followed them, Vladimir realizes that Zina is not indifferent to his father. After the scandal with Zasekina, the neighbors return to Moscow. Some time later, the young man entered the university, and six months later his father died of shock. Four years later, Vova returns to St. Petersburg and visits Zinaida Zasekina, where he learns that she died 4 days ago during the birth of her child.

the main idea. The story tells about unrequited first love, about how tragic relationships in a family can be if they are not based in any way on love.

Retelling

Sixteen-year-old Vova lives with his father and mother at the dacha and is preparing to enter university. Princess Zasekina moves into the neighboring outbuilding for a period of rest. Main character He accidentally meets his neighbor's daughter and dreams of meeting her. Volodya's mother sends him to a neighbor with an offer to pay a visit. This is how the young man first meets his neighbor’s daughter, Zinaida Zasekina, who is a little older than him, she is 21 years old.

During the visit, Zasekina creates a not very good image of herself, but Zinaida behaves impeccably, but spends almost the entire evening talking only to Vladimir’s father. She showed no interest in the young man during the conversation, but before leaving he asks to pay her a visit. The young man increasingly comes to Zinaida in the evenings, and eventually realizes that he is in love with her.
One night, Vladimir becomes an unwitting witness to his beloved’s meeting with his father. Volodya realizes that she is not indifferent to his father. The young man does not stop communicating with the princess’s daughter, pretending that nothing is happening. A week later, his mother was sent a letter accusing her husband of having an affair with a neighbor’s daughter. After a scandal in the house, the Zasekins leave for Moscow. Before leaving, the young man in love decides to say goodbye to Zina and promises to love her forever.

A few days later, Volodya again involuntarily watches the scene of the meeting of his beloved girl and his father, he tries to convince her of something, she does not give consent and extends her hand to him. The father swings and hits her hand with the whip, she shudders and raises her hand to her mouth, touching the red mark of the blow with her lips. Vladimir runs away.

After some time, the young man’s family moved to St. Petersburg. Vova goes to college, but six months later his dad died of shock. After graduating from university, Volodya finds Zina’s friend in the theater to pay a visit to his beloved only a couple of weeks later. Arriving at the address, he learns that Zinaida Dolskaya died four days ago during the birth of her child.

Detailed summary of the work First Love

The story “First Love” is one of the most popular and famous. This is a story about the first love of a young man who has just left childhood and striving for new feelings and sensations. The basis of the plot is the memory of an already adult man about his first experience of communicating with a girl, about youth, and the desire for the unknown.

The main thread of the story is the idea that first love is the awakening of all the best in a person. First love is like the first thunderstorm or a fast flow of water, something spontaneous and not subject to reason.

A young man named Vladimir, who had just completed a home-schooling course, came to Vacation home with own parents. Here he must prepare to enter university and take a break from the bustle of the city. And, as it turned out, another family, consisting of two ladies, settled next door. One was quite young and very beautiful, of course, in the young man’s opinion.

Summer, languid evenings, black nights and early dawns did their job; they awakened unknown feelings in the young man. Vladimir fell in love with Zinaida, that was the name of the young neighbor, who also turned out to be sociable.

The girl was young, although older than Volodya, smart, open to communication, sometimes flighty, sometimes mysterious. no longer allowed to come young man with visits. And, as a result, the young man became more and more immersed in love. Naturally, all other matters were abandoned, as well as preparation for studies. I felt the need to take long walks through the garden and find a reason to see my beautiful neighbor.

However, although Zina was constantly surrounded by fans, not one of them crossed the line to become closer to the girl. Although Volodya really wanted to see the whole situation. In fact, Zina was in love with the young man’s father, and she also experienced her love, but it was forbidden and not right. The girl secretly, at night, met with an adult man and at the same time suffered no less than her young neighbor. Zina's relationship with Volodya's father continued for quite a long time, even after the family returned to Moscow.

Only once seeing his father with Zina, Volodya realized that the girl was truly in love. And this became a loss for the young man; he learned and defined for himself what unrequited love is.

The story ends tragically. Although Volodya becomes a student and grows up, his father dies an absurd death and this is a huge grief for the family. And one day the young man has the opportunity to see Zinaida, but even here evil fate prevents him. Zinaida dies two days before the meeting.

More than a century has passed since the publication of the story “First Love,” but the description of the feelings of young people, the description of youth, the effervescence of life has not lost any of its authenticity.

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Meet the main character

Where does the summary of Turgenev's story begin? Events unfold in Moscow. The main character Vladimir turned sixteen years old. Together with his parents, he comes to the dacha to relax and prepare for exams. After some time, the family of Princess Zasekina settled in the neighborhood. The boy, seeing the princess, dreams of meeting her.

When Volodya's mother receives a letter from them asking for protection, she sends her son to the princess's house. He should invite this family to visit. There the teenager meets Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna.

She is five years older than Vladimir. At first she begins to flirt with the teenager, but her interest quickly fades. This is how love begins." Turgenev (the summary will continue to get acquainted with the characters) describes the Zasekin family in an extremely unflattering way.

Unpleasant experience, or return visit

When the princess and her daughter came to dinner at Volodya’s parents’ house, they made a not very pleasant impression on his mother. The eldest Zasekina constantly complained about her poverty, while constantly sniffing tobacco and fidgeting around the table. And throughout lunch the young princess talked with Vladimir’s father on French and behaved very proudly.

Despite the fact that during the meal she did not pay any attention to the teenager, when she left, she whispered to him to come to their house. Volodya, who came to visit, was simply happy. Although young Zasekina introduced him to several of her admirers, she nevertheless did not leave his side for a minute.

She showed her affection in every possible way and even allowed me to kiss his hand. But this is only the beginning of the story "First Love". Turgenev (the summary continues to follow his narrative) describes further events in a slightly different light.

First disappointments, or Relationship with Zinaida

The father asks the boy about his visit to the house of the princely family and goes to visit them himself. And when Volodya came the next time, Zinaida didn’t even come out to him. The teenager begins to suffer from the feelings that have taken hold of him. He is constantly jealous of her. When a girl is not around, he feels bad, but in her company Vladimir does not feel any better. Of course, the princess guessed about Volodya’s love.

She does not come to him, knowing full well that his mother did not like her. And the boy’s father is reluctant to communicate with her. Suddenly the girl completely changed. I stopped communicating with people, preferring loneliness. She walked for a long time and rarely went out to see guests. Volodya realized that Zinaida had fallen in love. But who?

"First Love": content (retelling)

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev continues to acquaint us with how the relationships of the heroes develop. Some more time passes, and Volodya sees a girl sitting on the wall of the greenhouse. He jumped towards her and, having hit himself, lost consciousness. Zinaida got scared and began to try to bring him to his senses. The girl begins to kiss Vladimir, and when she realizes that he has already woken up, she quickly leaves. Of course, the teenager is happy.

The young princess does not stop communicating with Volodya, who is in love with her. He appoints him as his page, who must follow his lady of his heart everywhere. And one day the teenager decided to go into the garden at night to protect the girl, but saw his father there. Frightened, he ran away. What will the summary tell you next? First love (Turgenev I.S. describes in detail the emotions of the teenager) unfortunately did not bring Volodya any reciprocal feelings from the chosen one.

Family troubles, or the connection between a father and a young princess

Some more time passes, and Vladimir learns that there was a scandal between the parents, during which the mother accused her husband of treason. The culprit of the father's infidelity turned out to be the boy's beloved, Zinaida. The parents are going to return to St. Petersburg, and Volodya, before leaving country house, says goodbye to the princess, making a promise to love her for the rest of his life.

But this was not their last meeting. When he and his father go for a walk, he witnesses some kind of conversation between him and Zinaida. The father tried to prove something to the girl, but she did not agree, and the man hit her hand with a whip. Frightened Volodya ran away.

The reader, of course, guessed what the author was talking about in the story “First Love”. Turgenev (the summary of his work is coming to an end) does not reveal all the details of the connections of his characters, apparently leaving the reader the opportunity to draw his own conclusions.

The last events of the work, or the Fate of the young princess

Volodya and his family return to St. Petersburg. He successfully passes his exams and enters the university. But six months pass, and his dad dies from a stroke. This happened almost immediately after my father received a letter. After reading it, he suddenly became excited. When my father was buried, Volodya’s mother sent a very large sum of money to Moscow. The teenager did not know any more details.

Four years pass. One day, going to a theatrical performance, the now matured Vladimir meets Maidanov, who once also courted Zinaida Alexandrovna. He tells Volodya that the princess has already married and will soon be leaving abroad.

Consequences of a long history, or Death of a beloved

Maidanov also added that it was very difficult for Zinaida to find her husband after those events that had some negative consequences. But the girl turned out to be smart enough and still achieved her goal. The young man also said the address where Zinaida Alexandrovna now lived.

But several weeks passed before Volodya decided to pay her a visit. And when he arrived, he found out that the young woman had died in childbirth. This is how I.S. ends his first love (a brief chapter-by-chapter summary demonstrates the development of the feelings of the maturing Volodya) brought the young man nothing but bitter memories.