Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Three sisters"

The action proceeds in the provincial city, in the progenic house.

Irina, the youngest of the three sesters prozorovy, is twenty years old. "The courtyard is sunny, fun," and the table is covered in the hall, guests are waiting for guests - officers quartered in the city of artillery battery and its new commander of Lieutenant Colonel Vershinin. All are full of joyful expectations and hopes. Irina: "I don't know why I have so light on my soul ... I'm fine on the sail, I need to be wide blue sky And there are large white birds. " On the autumn, the transverse move to Moscow is scheduled. The sisters do not doubt that the brother of their Andrei will go to the university and with time will definitely become a professor. Kouligin comprehension, teacher of the gymnasium, a husband of one of the sisters, Masha. Chebutykin's overall joyful mood of Chebutykin, a military doctor, who once madly loved the deceased mother of prozorovy. "My White Bird," he kisses irietly Irina. Lieutenant Baron Tourenbach with inspiration talks about the future: "It's time<…> A healthy, strong storm is preparing, which<…> Flow from our society laziness, indifference, prejudice to work, rotting boredom. " The peak is also optimistic. With his appearance, Masha passes her "Merlehundia". The atmosphere of relatively cheerfulness does not violate the appearance of Natasha, although she herself is terribly confused by a large society. Andrei makes her an offer: "On youth, wonderful, beautiful youth!<…> I feel so good, the soul is full of love, delight ... my dear, good, clean, be my wife! "

But in the second action, major notes are replaced by minor. Does not find a place from boredom Andrei. His who dreamed of a professorsure in Moscow, not at all imparks the post of Secretary of the Zemstvo administration, and in the city he feels "strangers and lonely". Masha is finally disappointed in the husband, who once seemed to her "terribly scientists, smart and important," and among his comrades, she just suffers. Not satisfied with his work on the telegraph Irina: "What I wanted so much, about what I dreamed of, there is no one in it. Labor without poetry, without thoughts ... "We were tired, with a headache returns from Olga gymnasium. Not in the spirit of the peak. He still continues to assure that "everything on Earth should change little," but immediately adds: "And no matter how I wanted to prove to you that happiness is not, it should not be and will not be for us ... We should only work and Work ... "In the Kalabura Chebutykina, which he sweats others, breaks through the hidden pain:" How neither philosophy, and the loneliness is a terrible thing ... "

Natasha, gradually climbing the whole house to his hands, removes guests who were waiting for oh. "Meshchanka!" - Masha Irina says in the hearts.

Three years have passed. If the first action was played at noon, and in the yard it was "sunny, fun", then the remarks to the third action "warn" at all about others - gloomy, sad - events: "Beyond the scene in Nabath on the occasion of a fire that has started for a long time. IN open door Seen window, red from glow. " Problem house full of people saving from fire.

Irina shifts: "Where? Where did everything go?<…> And life goes and never return, never, we will never go to Moscow ... I'm in despair, I'm in despair! " Masha thinks in the alarm: "Somehow we will live our life, what of us will be?" Andrei cries: "When I got married, I thought we would be happy ... Everyone was happy ... but my God ..." More, perhaps, more disappointed Toustenbach: "What I was then (three years ago - V. B.) I have experienced happy a life! Where's she?" Chebutykin: "The head is empty, it's cold on the soul. Maybe I am not a person, but I just pretend that I have hands and legs ... and head; Maybe I am not exist at all, but only it seems to me that I go, eat, sleep. (Crying.) " And the more stubborn Kouligin: "I am satisfied, I am satisfied, I am satisfied," the more obvious it becomes how everyone is broken, unhappy.

Finally, the last action. Autumn is approaching. Masha, passing along the alley, looks up: "And the flight birds are already flying ..." Artillery Brigade leaves the city: it is transferred to another place, or in Poland, or in Chita. Officers come to say goodbye to the processes. Fedotik, making a photo of the memory, notes: "... Silence and calm will come in the city." Tubenbach adds: "And the scary bored". Andrei expressed more categorical: "Empties the city. Exactly his cap will cover. "

Masha parted with the verthin, which she so passionately loved: "Unsuccessful life ... I don't need anything now ..." Olga, becoming the head of the gymnasium, understands: "In Moscow, it means not to be." Irina decided - "If I am not destined to be in Moscow, then so be" - to accept the suggestion of Tuzenbach, who retired: "We are crowned tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow we are leaving for a brick, and the day after tomorrow I'm already at school begins new life. <…> And I suddenly exactly the wings grew up on the soul, I was having fun, it became much easy and again wanted to work, work ... "Chebutkin in the subsidiary:" Fly, my lovely, fly with God! "

He blesses in his own way and Andrei: "You know, put on the hat, take a stick and go away ... Go away and go, go without regard. And the further you wish, the better. "

But it is not destined to come true even the most modest hopes of the heroes of the play. Salted, loved in Irina, provokes a quarrel with a baron and kills him on a duel. Dung Andrei lacks forces to follow the advice of Chebutyukin and take into the hands of "Staff": "Why, we, barely began to live, become boring, sulfur, uninteresting, lazy, indifferent, are useless, unhappy ..."

Battery leaves the city. Military march sounds. Olga: "The music plays so fun, cheerfully, and I want to live!<…> And, it seems, a little more, and we will know why we live, why are we suffering ... if you knew! (Music plays all quieter and quieter.) If you knew if you knew! " (Curtain.)

The heroes of the play are not free pilots, they are concluded in a solid social "cage", and the personal fate of all, in her who came, subject to the laws, as the whole country is living, experiencing universal disadvantage. Not "who", but "what?" dominant over man. This main culprit of misfortunes and failures in the play several names - "vulgarity", "lowness", "sinful life" ... The face of this "vulgarity" looks especially visible and unsightly looks like: "Our city has existed for two hundred years; Thousands of residents, and not one who would not look like others ...<…> Just eat, drink, sleep, then die ... others rush, and also eat, drink, sleep and not to bother from boredom, diverse their disadvantage of gossip, vodka, cards, southemistry ... "

Part 1

In the House of Problem, they are preparing for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Irina, the youngest of three sisters. Officers from the artillery battery and their commander Lieutenant Colonel Vershin must arrive at visitors. All, except for the sister Masha, a good mood.

In the fall, the processes are going to move to Moscow, where Andrei, brother of girls, must enter the university. He is prophesied in the future the position of professor.

Satisfied Kouligin, Masha husband, teacher of gymnasium. Chebutykin rejoices, a military doctor who earlier loved the deceased mother of the projection. Lieutenant Baron Tubenbach argues about the bright future. It supports the peak. Masha with the advent of Lieutenant Colonel passes her "Merlellund".

Natasha appears. The girl is confused by a big society. Andrei offers her to become his wife.

Part 2

Andrei from boredom does not find a place. He dreamed of a professorsure, but forced to work the secretary of the Zemstvo administration. He does not like in the city, he feels lonely and stranger.

Masha is disappointed in her husband, she suffers from communicating with his comrades teachers. Also does not rejoice in his position on the telegraph Irina, because she dreamed not at all about such a thoughtless work. Olga returns from the gymnasium tired and with a headache.

The vertex is not in the spirit, but still continues to assure that soon everything on Earth should change. True, now adds that happiness does not exist, and the main task of people is to work.

Chebutykin is trying to dry around with various kalamboras, but they break through pain caused by loneliness.

Natasha, becoming his wife Andrew, gradually picks up the whole house to his hands. The sisters of the processes consider it a mesh.

Part 3.

3 years passed. In the city of fire. People saved from him gathered in the House of Project.

Irina shoves in despair that her life goes for nothing, and she will never go to Moscow. Masha's alarm is also thinking about his life and about the future. Andrei is disappointed with his own marriage, says that when he married, I thought they would be happy, but it turned out wrong.

It is even stronger than the Tuessenbach, because 3 years ago he had a very happy life, but everything was left only by dreams.

Chebutykin goes in stuff. He reflects on solitude, about human essence, crying.

Only Kulygin persistently says that everyone is satisfied. Against this background, everything is increasingly becoming, how everyone is unhappy and donned.

Part 4.

Autumn is approaching. The artillery brigade leaves the city - it is transferred to another place. Officers come to say goodbye to the transos. Taking a picture of the memory, everyone argue, now it will be quietly, calm and boring.

Masha says goodbye to the verthin, which is passionately in love. She considers his life unsuccessful and says that she no longer needs anything. Olga becomes the boss of the gymnasium and understands that he will never get to Moscow.

Irina also says goodbye to dreams of the capital and decides to become a wife of Tourenebach. The girl is preparing for the beginning of a new life, and Chebutkin is very happy for her. In addition, the old man advises at least somewhere Andrei to leave the city: "Go without regardless. And the further you wish, the better. "

The play begins optimistic: and the weather itself, and the heroes are joyful. The sisters of the processes are young, full of hope, every happy in his own way, but their dream of moving to Moscow is not destined to be fulfilled in the light of revolutionary events. Each loses faith in his ideal: the youngest Irina is disappointed from gymnasic studies and work on the telegraph "Without dreams and thoughts", the average Masha - in a teacher's husband, who previously considered important and smart, Senior Olga - in everything.

Brother Natasha's wife is not a wonderful fairy, but by the vulgar mesh, which the whole house is painting to his hands, and Andrei himself, to universal disappointment, instead of a professorship occupies a secretary. Around martialctions, everything collapses, burns, everyone suffers, even the eternal joker understands that he just tries to close from reality with its jokes. Three years later, he cut the hope of work and marriage, but even she was not destined to be fulfilled, the sisters remained face to face with vulgarity of life.

This play about disappointment, about the broken dreams of young sisters, which is not destined to even move to Moscow. And yet they do not part with life, as often in the final, Chekhov's heroes do, but continue to live.

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The play begins a sunny day, sisters are waiting for guests. Everything on the emotional lift, everyone believes in a bright future, hope for the best. In addition, the family is going to move to Moscow, and there are new bright prospects. But their familiar life seems to not let them. Already by the middle of the play, the mood of heroes is changing, and even the situation itself, reflecting them emotional condition. Bad weather, evening, fire, people around in horror ... Heroes themselves suffer. Everyone is unhappy with their position.

The discontent is enhanced by the fact that their beautiful dreams are too contrast with a terrible reality. The work of Irina turns out to be mechanical and uninteresting, it is impossible to find another, a head is constantly hurting from studying. Family life Mary becomes unbearable, her husband, his friends cause disgust in it. The sisters have a feeling that their life has gone somewhere, they have a way out, like many people, see in moving. Change of place of residence, new acquaintances and opportunities ... And of course, they still seek to the capital. Even their brother (man) flies, mourning his hopes, they say, three years ago he married and thought that he would be happy, but was mistaken.

Further comes autumn, everything becomes even more sad. In addition, the artillery brigade, which, at least a little shershed the life of sisters with his society, translate somewhere abroad. Heroes have to fight more and terrible boredom - with longing. Mary has to part with his beloved, which should leave with a brigade. In desperation, Masha calls his whole life "unsuccessful." The eldest Olga heads the gymnasium and understands that the dream of Moscow needs to be said apart.

Using these moods, Irina accepts the proposal of an elderly baron, is preparing to become his wife. But this thread breaks up, because Baron her fan kills for duels. Brother Andrei, who wanted to escape from an adult wife, can not do this ... due to spiritual weakness. Not the life of heroes, but they themselves become gray, without passing the tests of fate.

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"Three sisters" - Piese B. four actions A. P. Chekhov, written in 1900.

"Three sisters" Chekhov summary in action

Action 1.

Three sisters - Olga, Masha and Irina - and their brother Andrei, intelligent, perfectly educated people, live in the provincial city, where, as the Andrei will say later, people only "eat, drink, sleep and not to walitate from boredom His naughty gossip, vodka, cards, southemistry. " Senior of sisters, Olga, - teacher women's gymnasiumBut the work does not bring her joy: "For these four years, while I serve in the gymnasium, I feel like from me every day drops and strength, and youth." Masha at the age of 18 was issued married to the teacher of the gymnasium Kulygin and, although her husband devotedly loves her, unhappy in his family life. The youngest, twenty-year-old Irina, dreams of life filled, but does not find an application, as does not and the person who could love. Eleven years ago, their father, General, having received a appointment, led daughters to this city from Moscow; But a year ago, General died - with his death for the processes, a secured and carefree life ended. The action of the play begins on the end of the end of mourning for Father, which coincided with the name of Irina: It is time to think about life, and, with the confusion and vulgarity of provincial life, the processes dream of returning to Moscow.

In the name of Irina in the House of Prozovy, guests gather, among them loved in Irina salty officers and Tourenes; Following them, their new battery commander comes - Lieutenant Colonel Vershinin. He, too, Muscovite and once had long been in the Moscow House of Prozorov. Between him and Masha from the first meeting there are mutual attraction; Like Masha, the peak is unhappy in marriage, but he has two juvenile daughters.

Andrey's beloved comes - Natasha; Provincial young lady shocking Olga with his tasteless toilets while she feels uncomfortable in this society ...

Action 2.

Time passed, Andrei married Natasha, they had a son. Andrei, who once submitted high hopes, who saw himself, who had seen a professor of Moscow University, abandoned Science; Now he is the Secretary of the Zemstvo Government, and at most, to which he can hope is to become a member of the Zemstvo Government. In longing, he was addicted to the maps and loses large sums.

Irina serves as a telegraph, but the work that she once dreamed of, does not bring her satisfaction; She still seeks Moscow. Natasha was completely mastered in the house of the prozorovy and subjugated Andrei. For his child, she "for a while" looked after the room of Irina, who, according to Natasha, can live in the same room with Olga ...

The headquarten of Salted Irina seems to be the only person who is able to understand it; He is explained by the girl in love; But with its rude manners Irina salty inspires only fear and dislike. A rejected officer declares that he shouldn't have happy rivals: "I swear to all the saints, I will kill my opponent ..."

Action 3.

Olga and Irina live in the same room. Natasha is mastered in the role of the hostess; Now she survives from the house to the old nanny of the proof - Anfisu, which in his 82 years can no longer work: "Such in the house should not be." Olga in his sympathy to Nian cannot finish up to Natalia. Mired in debt Andrei without the knowledge of the sister laid them in the bank common Home, All the money assigned Natalia.

Masha and the Vershin love each other and secretly meet, "Masha's husband, Kulygin, tries to pretend to notice anything. Tourenbach, meanwhile left military service; He wants a new life in another city, on a brick factory, and calling Irina.

Irina, which was already twenty-fourth year, serves in the city council and, on his own confession, hates, despises everything that only give her to do. "I have been working for a long time," she complains Olga, - and the brain is trying, it lost weight, drove, aged, and nothing, nothing, no satisfaction, and time goes, and everything seems to be leaving the real beautiful life, go further and further, In some kind of abyss. " Olga advises the sister to marry Tusenbach and leave him.

Action 4.

Five years have passed since the transverse names of Irina celebrated the end of mourning. Olga became the head of the gymnasium and rarely happens at home - he lives in the gymnasium. Natalia gave birth to Andrey Daughter and wants to settle it precisely in the room that Irina occupies. "It has ... something burnt it to a small, blind, such a sharpening animal. In any case, she is not a man, "says Andrei's wife, without having it, however, no resistance.

Irina eventually accepted the proposal of Tyusenbach; She is deeply sympathetic Baron, but there is no love, "and nevertheless, she" didn't grow up the wings in the soul ": she passed the exams on the teacher, tomorrow they will marry the baron and leave this city, this became a stranger, a new, meaningful life will begin. . Moreover, Natalia: With the departure of Irina, she will remain in the house "one" and will be able to realize their plans - what to cut out and what to plant in the garden of the transorp, she has long decided.

Rejected salty provokes a quarrel and causes Tuzenbach to a duel. The old friend of the family of transverse, to the whole indifferent doctor Chebutykin, on the one hand, sorry Barona, he good manBut on the other, "one Baron is more, one less - isn't it equal?".

The brigade in which the vertex and salty are served in Poland. Shelves battery behind the battery leaves the city; The peak is leaving, it's hard with Masha, it is preparing for departure and salty, but before he should punish a happy opponent. "I didn't drink coffee today. You will say to be welded to me "- with these words addressed to Irina, Tubenbach goes to a duel.

Dr. Chebutykin informs the sistems that the Baron is killed on a duel. Under the brix military marches regiment leaves the city - the sisters remain alone. The play ends with Olga's words: "The music plays so fun, so joyful, and it seems to be a little more, and we will know why we live, why are we suffering ... if you knew if you knew!"

"Three sisters" the main characters

• Prozorov Andrei Sergeevich
• Natalia Ivanovna, his bride, then wife
• his sisters: Olga, Masha, Irina
• Kulagin Fedor Ilyich, gymnasium teacher, Masha husband
• Verchinin Alexander Ignatievich, lieutenant Colonel, Battery Commander
• Tuessenbach Nikolai Lvovich, baron, Lieuchor.
• Salid Vasily Vasilyevich, staff Captain
• Chebutykin Ivan Romanovich, military doctor
• Fedotik Alexey Petrovich, podoruk
• Rode Vladimir Karpovich, podoruk
• Ferapont, watchman from the Zemskaya Government, Old Man
• Anfisa, nannik, old woman 80 years

Three sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina, the daughter of the recently deceased General Szorov, live together with Brother Andrei in one of the northern provincial cities of Russia. They are young: senior, Olga, in the first action of the play 28 years, and younger, Irina - 20. Married of them one Masha. [Cm. Full text "Three sisters" on our site.]

Despite his youth, sisters already feel dissatisfied with life. Olga teaches in the gymnasium and does not like this his work that annoys and tires it. Masha is not too happy with his dry, inconsolable husband Fedor Kulagin. Irina has no job yet, and it is inhibited useless, aimless existence, devoid of tension and labor. Sisters love to remember their joyful childhood spent in Moscow. Their family left Moscow 11 years ago, but so far Olga, Masha and Irina, it seems that returning to this city would change all their fate, looking at her new, bright meaning. Departure to Moscow becomes a cherished dream for them, which - alas! - For various reasons, it is difficult to implement.

The first action of the Chekhov play occurs during the birthday of Irina. His familiar sisters are going to him - in most officers who serve in the battery, which first commanded their father. This is a mental, but scattered and prone to the drunkenness of the elderly military doctor Chebutykin; kind, ardent, but ugly Lieutenant Baron Tubenbach; A strange headquarters-captain salty, in society always sought and from this evil and aggressive; Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vershinin, who, being deeply unhappy from the permanent missed trading of his wife, seeks consolation in dreams of what beautiful life will be the life of future generations. Andrei's bride, Natasha, stupid, blossoming, but the tricky and tied maiden comes for his birthday.

"Three sisters". Performance of the Small Theater by Plays A. P. Chekhov

Chekhov "Three Sisters", Action 2 - Brief

The second action "Three sisters" occurs in a year or two after the first, on days new Year holidays. Olga's life, Mashi and Irina during this time does not get better. Olga continues to work in an unloved gymnasium. Masha begins to make a love relationship with the verthin, but he can't quit his own family for the sake of it, where two little daughters grow. Irina, who had previously dreaming about useful work, comes to work on Telegraph, but at his office not inspiration, but Rutin and boredom. In love with it at the same time, romantic, but externally unattractive Tyusenbach and the angry jacket salty.

Andrei is already married to the inell and greedy Natasha, has a small son from her - "Bobika". Family concerns completely roasted former plans Andrei about scientific career. Instead, he has to be considered an insignificant position of the Secretary of the Zemstvo administration. Pretty Natasha reduces an increasingly familiarity with the head of the council, Protopopov. With the grief, Andrei begins to drink, enjoys gambling, loses large sums.

Sharing validity increasingly makes three sisters dream of "departure to Moscow." But this departure has already been postponed so many times that the hopes remains less and less. Natasha's sistems embraced in the house behaves more and more economic. Referring to the unhealthy of the child, she survives Irina from a separate room, it requires something to take guests, not to invite the holidays on the winter holidays, and herself goes to the open top three with the Protopopov.

Chekhov "Three Sisters", Action 3 - Brief

A few more couple of years. The third action of the Chekhov play is happening during a large fire that destroys the whole quarter in the city. Olga distributes her old things from the house, but Natasha, who completely picks up Andrew in the hands of Andrei, such a generosity is very unhappy. Natasha commands in the house, roughly shouts at the servant and is going to drive out for the threshold without a piece of bread Nyanka Anfisu, who has kept all three sisters in childhood, but now in old age has become unable to work. Natasha gave birth to a second child, apparently, from Protopopov. Andrei fell in a brownishness, he played in the fluff and dust, a house unimpressed in the bank, which belongs to him not alone, and with the sisters. All the money acquired on the security took Natasha.

Masha has a hot novel with a lieutenant colonel verthinin. But this dreamer is an idealist, a preacher of the future ideal life, can not throw his daughters to connect with her. Irina switched to work from the telegraph to Zemskoye Governance, but also found one vulgarity and ordinar. She makes the suggestion of Tubenbach. Not love Baron, but not finding the best party, Irina agrees to go out for him. Tourenbach throws military service and finds himself a position on a brick factory. He and Irina are going to go there together and there, perhaps, find the meaning of life. Rapprochement of Irina with a baron is strongly annoyed by her old unfortunate fan - a vengeful salty.

It takes a rumor that the artillery brigade and all of its officers will soon be translated from the city somewhere far away. Sisters will have to lose many vintage friends, and Masha - Vershinina.

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Chekhov "Three Sisters", Action 4 - Brief

Artillery brigade leaves the city. Irina and Tourenes of the next day should be marred and riding a brick factory. Irina, who surrendered the exam for a teacher, hopes that this new profession will breathe in its existence completeness. But right on the eve of the departure of the brigade, the evil salty satisfies on the boulevard a quarrel with Tuzenbach and causes him a duel.

Sisters sadly say goodbye to familiar officers. Masha with pain in the heart parted with the vertex. Olga appointed the head of the gymnasium, and she now lives on a separate apartment, which took and nurse Anfisu. Natasha, to which Protopopov is already going home without constraining, it rejoices that Irina will leave the house.

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Heroes

Prozorov Andrei Sergeevich

Natalia Ivanovna (Bride Prozorov, then his wife)

Olga, Masha, Irina (sisters prozorov)

Kulagin Fedor Ilyich (teacher of the gymnasium, Masha husband)

Verchinin Alexander Ignatievich (Lieutenant Colonel, Battery Commander)

Tuessenbach Nikolai Lvovich (Baron and Lieutenant)

Salted Vasily Vasilyevich (headquarters-captain)

Chebutykin Ivan Romanovich (Military Doctor)

FEDOTIK ALEKSY PETROVICH (PREDOR)

Rode Vladimir Karpovich (pursuit)

Ferapont (watchman from the Zemskaya Government, Old Man)

Anfisa (nanny, old woman eighty years old)

The action takes place in the prose's house.

First action

Irina is the youngest of the sisters and she turned twenty years old. The sun was shining on the street and had fun. And the house was covered in the house and waited for guests. The guests were officers located in the city of the battery of artillery players and her new veshinine commander. All have many expectations and hopes. In the fall, the transverse family was going to move to Moscow. The sisters had no doubt that their brother would become a university student, and in the future he would receive the title of professor. Complained Kouligin, Masha husband. He infected with the general joyful mood of Chebutykin, at one time to the madness who loved the mother of the proorpene, now the deceased. He kissed Irina. Tubenbach inspired about the future. He believed that in the future society lazy, rotten boredom, indifference and prejudice to work. Polon optimism and peak. When he appeared, Masha was "Merlellund". The relaxed atmosphere has not changed the appearance of Natalia. However, the girl himself was embarrassed by a big society. Andrei made her an offer.

Second action

Andrey missed. He dreamed of becoming a professor in Moscow. Therefore, he did not care about the secretary in the Zemstvo Management. In the city, he felt lonely and stranger. Masha was absolutely disappointed in the spouse. Previously, he seemed to be a very educated, important and smart. Masha suffered in the society of her husband's friends who were teachers. Irina did not satisfy her work on the telegraph. From the gymnasium challenged Olga returned. Vershinina has no mood. He spoke about changes in the future, then claimed that happiness would not be for his generation. Calambura Chebutyukin is filled with a hidden pain. He called loneliness a terrible thing.

Natasha slowly climbed the house to his hands. Then she spent the guests who were waiting for oh. Masha called Irina Meshchanka.

Third action

The action begins three years later. Bil Nabat, reporting a fire that began a long time ago. In the house of the transverse many people who saved the fire.

Irina sobbed and argued that they would never move to Moscow. Masha thought about the life and the future of his family. Andrei cried. His hopes for happiness were not justified. Strong disappointment pursued Tyusenbach. He waited and did not wait happy life. Chebutykin went in the cock. He did not see the meaning of his own life. And he wondered if he was alive, or he only seems so. Kouligin stubbornly told that he was pleased.

Fourth

Soon the fall will come. Masha passed along the alley and looked up, seeing migratory birds. Brigade of artillerymen left the city. She was transferred or to Poland or in Chita. The officers came to say goodbye to the transverse. Fedotik, photographing a memory, noticed that in the city it became quiet and calm. Tubenbach added that it became very boring. Andrey was still sharper. He said that the city will be empty, as if under the hood will be located.

Masha broke up with the verthin, which once loved with a great passion. Olga became the director of the gymnasium and realized that in Moscow she would not be. Irina accepted the proposal of his hand from Tourenebach, who retired. She decided that she began her new life. She had fun and wanted to work.

Chebutykin blessed them. He also stated Andrey to leave away without looking around. And the further, the better.

But even the most modest hopes of the heroes of this play did not come true. Salted was in love with Irina and provoked a quarrel with a baron. Salted killed Baron during a duel. Andrei was broken, and he lass his strength to fulfill Chebutykina Council.

The battalion went out of the city. Played military march. Olga said that such music wanted to live. And you can find out what life needs.