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

Tale by I.S. Turgenev's “First Love” begins with a conversation between three no longer young men about their first love. Everyone had to tell their own story, and when it was Vladimir Petrovich’s turn, he admitted that his situation was truly extraordinary. The man, with the permission of his friends, put the whole story in writing. Two weeks later, when the company reconvened, he began to read the created recordings, immersing listeners and readers in the times of his youth. To understand all the intricacies of this book, pay attention to

The main character is sixteen years old, then just Volodya, who lived with his parents at the dacha they rented near the Kaluga outpost. The young man was preparing to enter the University, but worked little for this. The young man increasingly read aloud poems, which he knew quite a few by heart, and was in a sweet state of anticipation of the unknown.

His expectations were destined to come true, since soon the family of Princess Zasekina settled in the dilapidated outbuilding next door.

Chapter 2

One evening, Volodya, habitually walking with a gun through the garden and guarding the crows, accidentally wandered to the neighbor’s fence, where he saw her: a beautiful tall blond girl. She smacked the gray flowers on the foreheads of the men around her. She had so much affection and charm.

The hero, it seemed, would give everything in the world if only those thin feminine fingers would touch his forehead. Volodya could admire her endlessly, but he was prevented. He was spotted by one of the men. Not knowing where to go from shame, Volodya ran away to the ringing laughter of the blond beauty.

Chapter 3

Volodya is looking for ways to meet his beautiful neighbor, and fate itself helps him in this. Unexpectedly, the mother, who had previously received an illiterate letter from Princess Zasekina asking for a petition, instructs Volodya to go to the neighbors to invite them to visit.

The young man was incredibly happy about this chance. Unprecedented excitement gripped him, putting on a frock coat and tie, he headed to the treasured outbuilding.

Chapter 4

Having crossed the threshold of the neighbor's outbuilding, the young man immediately notices the wretchedness of the interior decoration. The princess's manners seemed too simple to him, but Princess Zinaida turned out to be amazingly charming (here is her). She jokingly calls Volodya “Valdemar.” She asks to help her untangle the wool - the young man unquestioningly agrees to everything.

The idyll is interrupted by the appearance of Hussar Belovzorov with a kitten, which he brought for the princess.

Volodya needed to go home, because his mother was waiting for him. Zinaida manages to invite Volodya to visit them more often. And for the first time the hero himself feels that he is jealous of the princess for the hussar.

Chapter 5

The princess's visit leaves an unpleasant impression on Volodya's mother. In a conversation with the young man’s father, she admitted that the princess seemed to her a very vulgar person.

On the same day, in the garden, Volodya and his father accidentally meet the princess walking around the territory with a book.

Chapter 6

The Zasekins’ lunchtime visit only worsened Volodya’s mother’s opinion of them. And the young man was surprised by the coldness of Zinaida, who did not pay attention to him all evening, but only talked with Pyotr Vasilyevich (Volodya’s father) in French.

However, before leaving, she manages to invite young man for your evening. He is happy.

Chapter 7

At the evening, Volodya meets Zinaida’s admirers: Belovzorov, retired captain Nirmatsky, Count Malevsky, poet Maidanov and Doctor Lushin. The company was having fun playing forfeits and Volodya joined them.

The young man gets a phantom kiss. Kneeling down, he kisses the princess’s hand, and his whole being is filled with happiness. Returning home, he could not sleep: the image of the girl did not leave his thoughts, and the emotions from the evening were overwhelming.

Chapter 8

In the morning, after drinking tea, the father invited Volodya to take a walk in the garden and there he persuaded his son to tell him everything that he had seen at the Zasekins.

Pyotr Vasilyevich was far from family life; he lived in accordance with his philosophy, which was to belong only to himself. Volodya decided to tell his father about Zinaida. After the conversation, Pyotr Vasilyevich went to the Zasekins. In the evening of the same day, Volodya discovered another change: the princess was pale and cold towards him.

Chapter 9

Thoughts about love completely absorb Volodya. The princess admits in conversation that she is only playing with her fans.

Volodya, seeing Zinaida’s strange mood, fulfills the princess’s request and reads poetry to her by heart. Then they go to the outbuilding to listen to Maidanov’s works, where Volodya realizes that the princess has fallen in love with someone.

Chapter 10

Volodya was at a loss, not understanding the reason for Zinaida’s strange behavior.

Doctor Lushin gives the young man advice to stop visiting the Zasekins, since, in his opinion, the atmosphere of this house may negatively affect the young man in the future.

Chapter 11

Everyone gathered again at the Zasekins’, including Volodya. They talked about Maidanov's poem, and then Zinaida suggested playing comparisons. Comparing the clouds with the purple sails on Cleopatra’s ship, on which she was hurrying to meet her beloved Anthony, Zinaida involuntarily reveals her feelings.

Volodya sadly understands that she fell in love, but the question is “WHO?”

Chapter 12

Zinaida becomes even stranger. One day Volodya finds the princess in tears, she calls him to her, then suddenly grabbing the young man by the hair, asks: “It hurts! Doesn’t it hurt me?” Having pulled out a clump of hair, she comes to her senses and, in order to somehow make amends for her guilt, promises to keep this strand in her locket.

Some time later, Zinaida asks Volodya to jump from a high wall as a sign of his love, he, without hesitation, jumps and loses consciousness for a moment, meanwhile she kisses him.

Chapter 13

All the young man’s thoughts were again occupied by Zinaida, he was sweetly occupied by the memories of kisses, but the princess’s behavior made it clear to him that in her eyes he was only a child.

Zinaida asks Belovzorov to definitely find a quiet riding horse for her.

Chapter 14

In the morning Volodya went to the outpost. He wandered for a long time and indulged in dreams of how heroically he saved the princess.

On the way to the city, the young man unexpectedly meets Zinaida and his father on horseback, with a flushed Belovzorov racing behind.

Chapter 15

For the next week, Zinaida was reputed to be ill and avoided Volodya’s company.

However, later the princess herself volunteered to talk with the young man. She asked for forgiveness for her behavior and offered Volodya friendship, and also announced that from that day on he was her faithful page.

Chapter 16

At the next reception, Zinaida invited the guests to take turns telling fictional stories.

When the forfeit fell to the princess, she told the following story: the beautiful young queen is giving a ball, surrounded by a crowd of worthy fans who are ready to do anything for her, and a sea of ​​flattering speeches, but she strives to the garden, to the fountain, where her lover is waiting. Volodya, like everyone present, realizes that this story is a metaphorical reflection real life princesses.

Chapter 17

Volodya one day accidentally meets Count Malevsky on the street, who hints at the young man, as Zinaida’s page, to keep track of what his mistress is doing at night.

He longs to find out the truth, and, armed with an English knife in order to be able to punish an unknown “rival,” he goes to the garden at night, where he meets his father. The man, wrapped in a cloak, was in a hurry to leave the neighbor's outbuilding.

Chapter 18

The next morning, Zinaida entrusts her cadet brother Volodya, hoping that the boys will become friends. Volodya spends the whole day in secret thoughts, and by the evening he is already sobbing in Zinaida’s arms, accusing her of playing with him. The princess admits her guilt, but assures that she loves the young man in her own way.

A quarter of an hour later, the cadet, Volodya and Zinaida, having forgotten about everything, ran into each other. Here Volodya realizes that he is completely in the power of the princess, and even this he is incredibly happy about.

Chapter 19

Volodya tried not to draw any conclusions regarding what he saw at night. He “burned” in the presence of Zinaida and it was a joy for him to burn for her.

Ignorance could not last forever. Volodya learns from the bartender Philip that his mother reproached his father for treason, and then everything becomes clear to the young man.

Chapter 20

After his mother’s announcement about moving to the city, Volodya decides to meet Zinaida for the last time.

At the meeting, Volodya confesses to the princess that he will always love her, regardless of her actions. The girl gives the boy a farewell kiss. Volodya and his family move to the city.

Chapter 21

One day Volodya persuaded his father to take him horseback riding. Towards the end of the walk, Pyotr Vasilyevich told his son to wait for him, and he himself left. A lot of time has passed, and he still hasn’t arrived. Volodya decided to go in search of his father. The young man found him standing near the window of the house in which Zinaida could be seen.

The girl extended her hand, and the father suddenly hit her with a whip. The princess kissed the place of the blow, and Pyotr Vasilyevich, throwing the whip, ran into the house. Then it dawned on Volodya that this was true love.

Soon the father died from a blow, but before his death he left a letter in which he asks his son to beware of the love of women.

Chapter 22

Several years pass, Volodya accidentally meets the already married Maidanov, who informs him about the marriage of Zinaida, now Mrs. Dolskaya.

Volodya is going to visit her, but due to the abundance of important matters, he constantly had to postpone the visit. When he finally arrives at the indicated address, it turns out that Mrs. Dolskaya died four days ago during childbirth.

One day in one company there was a conversation about love, or, to be more precise, about first love. Most of those present had nothing to tell; all the cases were uninteresting. But then the speech came to Vladimir Petrovich. He was embarrassed at first, but then agreed. But not to tell, but to describe on paper your story of first love.

So what did he say?

When Vladimir Petrovich was a young man, 16 years old, he was visiting his parents in Moscow, they rented a dacha near the Kaluga outpost opposite Neskuchny Garden. The parents had a tense relationship. Mother was constantly jealous of father for every skirt, but there were reasons for that. Volodya's father was handsome, charismatic and very attractive to women.

All summer Volodya planned to prepare for entering the university. But it was not there. Love covered the young man from head to toe when the young princess Zinaida Zasekina settled in the outbuilding, not far from their dacha. She was much older than Vladimir and had a son, a 12-year-old cadet, who was studying in St. Petersburg at that time.

Guests gathered in the princess’s house every evening, and many looked after her. And she loved her suitors, or rather, she loved their attention to her. She was beautiful, and several men were in love with her at the same time.

One day, while walking in the garden, the princess noticed Volodya, they met, and from the look she realized that the young man was not indifferent to her. She liked him too, and Zinaida began to invite him to her house along with other suitors.

Volodya was happy; he had never received signs of attention from women before. He lost sleep and peace, thought only about the princess, constantly looking for a meeting with her. He forgot about preparing to enter the university, he was in love.

The princess also sympathized with the young man, singled him out from other men, flirted with him and smiled mysteriously.

She either brought him closer to her or moved away, was friendly to him, then cold. The young man’s heart was either torn with melancholy from her disdainful attitude, or pounded furiously from her affectionate gaze. The young man lost his head from passion.

Soon the princess became sad and cold. She stopped noticing her suitors. She suffered. And she apparently suffered from love. Volodya was tormented by the question of who this person was, whom Zinaida fell in love with. Isn't it him? But the young man was afraid to ask, he suspected everyone and was tormented by jealousy.

He began to follow the princess in the evenings, guarding her near the outbuilding. Jealousy clouded his mind. He was ready to rush and kill his imaginary opponent.

So, one day, he saw his father, wrapped in a cloak, in the garden, not far from Zinaida’s house, and was stunned. He couldn't believe his eyes. Volodya did not hate his father, but all his feelings were shattered. He realized that the princess loved his father.

There is no point further in describing the sufferings of the young man. Soon his parents finally quarreled and Volodya left with his mother. Before leaving, he went to say goodbye to the princess. Zinaida asked the young man for forgiveness for giving the guy hope, flirting and playing with him. To which Volodya replied that no matter what, he loved her with all his heart and would always love her. With that we said goodbye.

But after a while, Volodya still had a chance to see the princess. It was like that. He and his father went horseback riding, and during the walk the father jumped off the horse, gave the reins to his son, told him to wait, and he turned into an alley.

Volodya waited for some time, but soon it began to rain. A traveler passed by and asked the young man for tobacco. He treated him and asked him to hold his horses, and he followed his father. He approached a small house and through the window he saw his father and princess. His heart began to beat wildly. He tried to distinguish the words, to understand the essence of the conversation. It seemed to him that Zinaida was asking her father to leave his wife. At this, the father grabbed the whip and furiously hit the princess’s fingers. She raised her cut hand to her lips, and her father ran out in a rage.

Volodya realized that between his father and the princess there was not just love, but a love-passion that devoured both. Somewhere inside he even admired these feelings. After 2 months, the young man entered the university, and soon after that his father died.

Four years have passed. Volodya completed his studies and quite by chance met Maidanov, one of the princess’s former suitors, at the theater. He said that Zinaida was now in the city, that she had married a wealthy man. The young man immediately became obsessed with the idea of ​​seeing his first love. But he didn't have time. He delayed the meeting and the princess died from childbirth 4 days later.

The young man had to endure such bitter feelings. His first love turned out to be unhappy.

A detailed retelling of the story “First Love”

At a party, the host invites guests Sergei Nikolaevich and Vladimir Petrovich to tell about their first love. For everyone except Vladimir Petrovich, this feeling turned out to be quite ordinary. He says the following.

The events took place in the summer of 1833 in Moscow, when Vladimir was sixteen years old. The parents rented a dacha near the Kaluga outpost opposite the Neskuchny Garden, and the young man was preparing to enter the university. No one restricted his freedom, and therefore he walked a lot. Poor Princess Zasekina and her daughter rented a dacha next door to her family.

One day, when the hero is walking in the garden, a strange sight appears to his eyes. Four young men crowd around a tall, slender girl in a striped dress, and she takes turns slapping flowers on their foreheads. The young man involuntarily admires her. When the girl notices Vladimir, he gets embarrassed and runs away, but the hero really wants to meet the cheerful young lady.

A neighbor sends Vladimir’s mother a letter in which she asks for patronage and permission to come to them. Mother tells her son to go to the princess and invite her. Vladimir puts on a new tie and frock coat and goes to the neighbors. Princess Zasekina introduces him to her daughter Zinaida: he recognizes her as yesterday’s girl from the garden. Zinaida immediately asks to help her untangle the wool. She is older than Vladimir: she is twenty-one years old. She says that she is strange and wants to hear only the truth.

Zinaida flirts with Vladimir; The princess shouts that the hussar Belovzorov has brought a kitten. Zinaida throws a ball of wool to Vladimir and runs away. Belovzorov is one of four young men whom Zinaida clapped with flowers. He fulfilled her wish - she wanted a tabby kitten - and asked her to kiss her hand.

Vladimir doesn’t know how to behave, but then the footman Fyodor comes: the young man has been absent from home for more than an hour, and his parents are worried. The girl laughingly calls the hero Voldemar and asks him to come see them. Vladimir begins to be jealous of Zina’s hussar.

The hero's mother does not like Princess Zasekina, but she invites her and her daughter to dinner the next day. In the garden, a young man and his father see Zinaida reading a book. She politely bows to her father, but doesn’t even notice Vladimir. At dinner, Zasekina complains to her neighbors about poverty and bills, and her daughter, on the contrary, behaves proudly and with dignity. When the guests leave, Zina in a whisper invites Vladimir to visit at eight o’clock.

In the evening, the hero, coming to the neighbors, sees a girl surrounded by five men. These are Count Malevsky, poet Maidanov, Doctor Lushin, retired captain Nirmatsky and hussar Belovzorov. Together with everyone the hero plays, sings, dances. Then at home, Vladimir feels tired and happy, constantly remembering Zina.

Mother is unhappy that Vladimir goes to the neighbors instead of studying for exams. The young man tells his father about his evening visit. He listens to him half-absently, half attentively, sometimes chuckling.

Vladimir languishes in the absence of Zinaida, everything falls out of his hands, he is jealous of the girl. The wayward young lady knows about the hero’s love and makes fun of him. All the men who visit the Zasekins’ house are in love with the girl, but she seems to be playing with them - she is either flirtatious or cold as ice. One day Vladimir finds his beloved alone in the garden. The girl says that she is sick of everything and asks to read poetry. Lushin advises the hero not to go to the Zasekins’ house: such an atmosphere is harmful to him.

The young man feels that Zina loves someone, and is tormented by guesses: the girl is becoming more and more strange and incomprehensible. Vladimir's parents are quarreling, but the reason for the disagreement is unknown to him. Zinaida asks Belovzorov to urgently get her a quiet horse and invites the hero for a horse ride, but he refuses.

During another walk, the young man sees Zinaida with her father on horseback. The father, smiling, says something to the girl, and she listens to him in silence. After this, the girl says she is sick and avoids Vladimir. Everyone notices that she has changed a lot. The girl feels better, and during a walk she tells Vladimir that for her he is only a child and a good friend. The young man's love flares up with renewed vigor.

Zinaida still plays forfeits with the guests, but without the former tomfoolery and noise. During a late walk, Vladimir thinks that the figure of his beloved flashed somewhere nearby. The next midnight, the hero again watches the girl in the garden by the fountain and, to his great surprise, sees his own father. He walks, wrapped in a dark cloak and with a hat pulled down over his face.

While the hero is reflecting on what he saw, a whitish curtain falls outside the girl’s windows, and Vladimir begins to be tormented by vague guesses. Zina’s brother, cadet Volodya, comes to the Zasekins from St. Petersburg, and the girl asks the hero to take his brother under his protection. The guys are walking together. The hero's mother is sent an anonymous letter. Vladimir learns that there was a terrible quarrel between the parents, during which the mother reproached the father for adultery.

The father held back at first, and then said something harsh about his wife’s age (the mother was ten years older than the father). The young man is very upset: “What I found out was beyond my power: this sudden revelation crushed me... It was all over. All my flowers were torn out at once and lay around me, scattered and trampled.”

The next day, mother announces that she is moving to the city. Vladimir witnesses a conversation between Count Malevsky and his father: the latter accuses his interlocutor of writing an anonymous letter and asks him not to appear in their house again. Before leaving, the hero comes to Zinaida to say goodbye.

After the move, the young man’s heart wound begins to heal, and he respects his father even more and does not feel any bad feelings towards him. During a horse ride, the father asks his son to hold the horses and disappears somewhere.

The young man follows him and sees Zinaida in the window of a small house. The father argues with the girl about something, hits her on the arm with a whip, and then runs away. Upon returning, the young man’s father remembers that he forgot the whip, but does not return for it.

Two months later, Vladimir enters the university, and six months later his father dies. A few days before his death, he received a letter from Moscow, which greatly excited him. After his death, his mother sends a rather large sum of money to Moscow.

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The story takes place in 1833 in Moscow. The main character, Volodya, is sixteen years old, he lives with his parents in the country and is preparing to enter university. Soon the family of Princess Zasekina moves into the poor outbuilding next door. Volodya accidentally sees the princess and really wants to meet her. The next day, his mother receives an illiterate letter from Princess Zasekina asking for her protection. Mother sends Volodya to Princess Volodya with a verbal invitation to come to her house. There Volodya meets the princess, Zinaida Alexandrovna, who is five years older than him. The princess immediately calls him to her room to untangle the wool, flirts with him, but quickly loses interest in him. On the same day, Princess Zasekina pays a visit to his mother and makes an extremely unfavorable impression on her. However, despite this, the mother invites her and her daughter to dinner. During lunch, the princess noisily sniffs tobacco, fidgets in her chair, spins around, complains about poverty and talks about her endless bills, but the princess, on the contrary, is dignified - she talks to Volodin’s father in French throughout the entire dinner, but looks at him with hostility. She does not pay attention to Volodya, however, when leaving, she whispers to him to come to them in the evening.

Arriving at the Zasekins, Volodya meets the princess’s admirers: Doctor Lushin, the poet Maidanov, Count Malevsky, retired captain Nirmatsky and hussar Belovzorov. The evening is stormy and fun. Volodya feels happy: he gets the lot to kiss Zinaida’s hand, all evening Zinaida does not let him go and gives him preference over others. The next day, his father asks him about the Zasekins, then he goes to them. After lunch, Volodya goes to visit Zinaida, but she does not come out to see him. From this day Volodin’s torment begins.

In the absence of Zinaida, he languishes, but even in her presence he does not feel any better, he is jealous, offended, but cannot live without her. Zinaida easily guesses that he is in love with her. Zinaida rarely goes to Volodya’s parents’ house: her mother doesn’t like her, her father doesn’t speak to her much, but somehow in a particularly intelligent and significant way.

Unexpectedly, Zinaida changes a lot. She goes for a walk alone and walks for a long time, sometimes she doesn’t show herself to guests at all: she sits in her room for hours. Volodya guesses that she is in love, but does not understand with whom.

One day Volodya is sitting on the wall of a dilapidated greenhouse. Zinaida appears on the road below. Seeing him, she orders him to jump down onto the road if he really loves her. Volodya immediately jumps and faints for a moment. Alarmed Zinaida fusses around him and suddenly begins to kiss him, however, realizing that he has come to his senses, she gets up and, forbidding him to follow her, leaves. Volodya is happy, but the next day, when he meets with Zinaida, she behaves very simply, as if nothing had happened.

One day they meet in the garden: Volodya wants to pass by, but Zinaida herself stops him. She is sweet, quiet and kind to him, invites him to be her friend and grants him the title of her page. A conversation takes place between Volodya and Count Malevsky, in which Malevsky says that pages should know everything about their queens and follow them relentlessly, day and night. It is not known whether Malevsky attached special significance to what he said, but Volodya decides to go into the garden at night to keep watch, taking a small English knife with him. He sees his father in the garden, gets very scared, loses his knife and immediately returns home. The next day, Volodya tries to talk about everything with Zinaida, but her twelve-year-old cadet brother comes to her, and Zinaida instructs Volodya to entertain him. In the evening of the same day, Zinaida, having found Volodya in the garden, carelessly asks him why he is so sad. Volodya cries and reproaches her for playing with them. Zinaida asks for forgiveness, consoles him, and a quarter of an hour later he is already running around with Zinaida and the cadet and laughing.

For a week, Volodya continues to communicate with Zinaida, driving away all thoughts and memories. Finally, returning one day to dinner, he learns that a scene had taken place between father and mother, that the mother had reproached his father for his affair with Zinaida, and that she had learned about this from an anonymous letter. The next day, mother announces that she is moving to the city. Before leaving, Volodya decides to say goodbye to Zinaida and tells her that he will love and adore her until the end of his days.

Volodya once again accidentally sees Zinaida. He and his father are going for a horse ride, and suddenly his father, having dismounted and given him the reins of his horse, disappears into an alley. After some time, Volodya follows him and sees that he is talking to Zinaida through the window. The father insists on something, Zinaida does not agree, finally she extends her hand to him, and then the father raises the whip and sharply hits her on her bare arm. Zinaida shudders and, silently raising her hand to her lips, kisses the scar. Volodya runs away.

Some time later, Volodya and his parents moved to St. Petersburg, entered the university, and six months later his father died of a stroke, a few days before his death he received a letter from Moscow, which excited him extremely. After his death, his wife sent a fairly significant amount of money to Moscow.

Four years later, Volodya meets Maidanov at the theater, who tells him that Zinaida is now in St. Petersburg, she is happily married and is going abroad. Although, Maidanov adds, after that story it was not easy for her to form a party for herself; there were consequences... but with her mind anything is possible. Maidanov gives Volodya Zinaida’s address, but he goes to see her only a few weeks later and learns that she suddenly died from childbirth four days ago.

Retold

The story takes place in 1833 in Moscow. The main character, Volodya, is sixteen years old, he lives with his parents in the country and is preparing to enter university. Soon the family of Princess Zasekina moves into the poor outbuilding next door. Volodya accidentally sees the princess and really wants to meet her. The next day, his mother receives an illiterate letter from Princess Zasekina asking for her protection. Mother sends Volodya to Princess Volodya with a verbal invitation to come to her house. There Volodya meets princess Zinaida Alexandrovna, who is five years older than him. The princess immediately calls him to her room to untangle the wool, flirts with him, but quickly loses interest in him. On the same day, Princess Zasekina pays a visit to his mother and makes an extremely unfavorable impression on her. However, despite this, the mother invites her and her daughter to dinner. During lunch, the princess noisily sniffs tobacco, fidgets in her chair, spins around, complains about poverty and talks about her endless bills, but the princess, on the contrary, is dignified - she talks to Volodin’s father in French throughout the entire dinner, but looks at him with hostility. She does not pay attention to Volodya, however, when leaving, she whispers to him to come to them in the evening.

Arriving at the Zasekins, Volodya meets the princess’s admirers: Doctor Lushin, the poet Maidanov, Count Malevsky, retired captain Nirmatsky and hussar Belovzorov. The evening is stormy and fun. Volodya feels happy: he gets the lot to kiss Zinaida’s hand, all evening Zinaida does not let him go and gives him preference over others. The next day, his father asks him about the Zasekins, then he goes to see them. After lunch, Volodya goes to visit Zinaida, but she does not come out to see him. From this day Volodin’s torment begins.

In the absence of Zinaida, he languishes, but even in her presence it does not make him feel better, he is jealous, offended, but cannot live without her. Zinaida easily guesses that he is in love with her. Zinaida rarely goes to Volodya’s parents’ house: her mother doesn’t like her, her father doesn’t speak to her much, but somehow in a particularly intelligent and significant way.

Unexpectedly, Zinaida changes a lot. She goes for a walk alone and walks for a long time, sometimes she doesn’t show herself to guests at all: she sits in her room for hours. Volodya guesses that she is in love, but does not understand with whom.

One day Volodya is sitting on the wall of a dilapidated greenhouse. Zinaida appears on the road below. Seeing him, she orders him to jump down onto the road if he truly loves her. Volodya immediately jumps and faints for a moment. Alarmed, Zinaida fusses around him and suddenly begins to kiss him, however, guessing that he has come to his senses, she gets up and, forbidding him to follow her, leaves. Volodya is happy, but the next day, when he meets with Zinaida, she behaves very simply, as if nothing had happened.

One day they meet in the garden: Volodya wants to pass by, but Zinaida herself stops him. She is sweet, quiet and kind to him, invites him to be her friend and grants him the title of her page. A conversation takes place between Volodya and Count Malevsky, in which Malevsky says that pages should know everything about their queens and follow them relentlessly, day and night. It is not known whether Malevsky attached special significance to what he said, but Volodya decides to go into the garden at night to keep watch, taking a small English knife with him. He sees his father in the garden, gets very scared, loses his knife and immediately returns home. The next day, Volodya tries to talk about everything with Zinaida, but her twelve-year-old cadet brother comes to her, and Zinaida instructs Volodya to entertain him. In the evening of the same day, Zinaida, having found Volodya in the garden, carelessly asks him why he is so sad. Volodya cries and reproaches her for playing with them. Zinaida asks for forgiveness, consoles him, and a quarter of an hour later he is already running around with Zinaida and the cadet and laughing.

For a week, Volodya continues to communicate with Zinaida, driving away all thoughts and memories. Finally, returning one day to dinner, he learns that a scene had taken place between father and mother, that the mother had reproached his father for his affair with Zinaida, and that she had learned about this from an anonymous letter. The next day, mother announces that she is moving to the city. Before leaving, Volodya decides to say goodbye to Zinaida and tells her that he will love and adore her until the end of his days.

Volodya once again accidentally sees Zinaida. He and his father are going for a horse ride, and suddenly his father, having dismounted and given him the reins of his horse, disappears into an alley. After some time, Volodya follows him and sees that he is talking to Zinaida through the window. The father insists on something, Zinaida does not agree, finally she extends her hand to him, and then the father raises the whip and sharply hits her on her bare arm. Zinaida shudders and, silently raising her hand to her lips, kisses the scar. Volodya runs away.

Some time later, Volodya and his parents moved to St. Petersburg, entered the university, and six months later his father died of a stroke, a few days before his death he received a letter from Moscow, which excited him extremely. After his death, his wife sent a fairly significant amount of money to Moscow.

Four years later, Volodya meets Maidanov at the theater, who tells him that Zinaida is now in St. Petersburg, she is happily married and is going abroad. Although, Maidanov adds, after that story it was not easy for her to form a party for herself; there were consequences... but with her mind anything is possible. Maidanov gives Volodya Zinaida’s address, but he goes to see her only a few weeks later and learns that she suddenly died from childbirth four days ago.

Option 2

The events take place in Moscow in 1833, when Volodya was sixteen years old. He lived with his parents at the dacha and was preparing to enter university. One day, the family of Princess Zasekina moved into a poor house next door. Volodya saw the princess’s young daughter and wanted to meet her.

One evening, he came to their house and met the suitors of a young girl. The evening was fun and stormy. Zina showed Volodya more attention than others, and he found himself in love with the girl. The next day he went to the Zasekins again, but Zina refused to come out.

After that, they saw each other several more times, but Volodya saw the changes that had occurred in Zinaida. He realized that the girl had fallen in love, but did not know with whom.

One fine day, Volodya was sitting on the wall of a dilapidated building. Zina, passing by, told him to jump off if he loved her. He jumped and lost consciousness for a few moments. Zina began to kiss him, but when he woke up, the girl pulled away. The next day she acted as if nothing had happened.

After some time, they met in the garden. Zina offers to become his page. Volodya talks with his father, Count Milevsky, who says that pages must protect their queens and know everything about them. The guy takes a knife and goes into the garden at night. There he saw his father and quickly ran home.

Then he meets with Zina and says that she is just playing with him. The guy starts crying, and the girl calms him down. After that, they run together again, the three of them playing catch-up with Zinaida’s younger brother.

Volodya continues to communicate with Zina, but at home he overheard a conversation between his mother and father, who suspected him of having an affair with Zina. After this, the guy sees Zina talking through the window with his father.

After some time, mother and father decide to move to St. Petersburg. Volodya entered the university, a few months later his father died of a stroke. Before this, he read some letter from Moscow.

Four years later, Volodya sees Maidanov, Zinaida’s friend, in the theater, who says that Zina got married successfully, although she was already pregnant. And a few weeks later, Volodya learns that Zina died during childbirth.

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In 1860, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev wrote the story “First Love.” It is interesting that the author treated this work with particular trepidation, because many of the moments described in the story were taken from the biography of Ivan Sergeevich and his own father. What is it about?

Here he describes his impressions of his first deep feeling and reveals the details of the family drama. How was his own first love reflected in the story? summary, heroes and the main idea- the topic of our article.

The images of the main characters of the work “First Love” are copied from real people:

• Volodya. This hero is the embodiment of the author himself in his youth. The experiences and feelings of Vladimir Petrovich can tell us what Ivan Sergeevich himself once experienced.
• Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna. This heroine also had a real prototype. This is Ekaterina Shakhovskaya, a poetess with whom the writer was in love.
• Pyotr Vasilyevich is the father of the main character. The prototype is the father of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Sergei Nikolaevich, who did not love his wife, entered into marriage because of the promise of material gain.
  His wife, Varvara Petrovna, was much older. During his lifetime, Sergei Nikolaevich had success with women, and a stormy romance with Shakhovskaya continued for a long time.

Interesting! The story was filmed four times, not only by Russian directors, but also by foreign ones. For example, a French film adaptation of the book was released in 2013.

Turgenev said that it was important for him to describe everything reliably. There was no resentment left against either the former beloved or the father. The author tried to understand their actions.

The beginning of the story

The action of Turgenev's story "First Love" takes place in 1833. The main character of the book, Vladimir Petrovich, is 16 years old.

The young man lives with his father and mother at a dacha in Moscow, preparing to become a university student.

Unexpectedly, an event occurs in the life of the main character that has a profound impact on him and the life of his entire family.

Next to the dacha of Volodya and his parents there was a poor outbuilding in which Princess Zasekina and her daughter settled.

Volodya accidentally encounters the young princess Zinaida, and he likes the girl. He dreams of getting to know her better.

This was helped by chance. The princess's mother wrote a letter to Volodya's mother. The message was not very literate and contained a request for help. Zasekina asked for patronage.

The young man’s mother was not indifferent to other people’s troubles and ordered the young man to go to the Zasekins’ house and invite him to dinner.

During this visit, Volodya met Princess Zinaida. It turned out that she was twenty-one years old. The princess initially flirts with the hero of the story, but soon stops doing so.

During dinner, it becomes clear that Princess Zasekina is not very strong in manners: she sniffs tobacco loudly, cannot sit quietly in a chair, and constantly complains about her difficult financial situation.

The daughter seems to be the complete opposite - she behaves with restraint, proudly. Zinaida Aleksandrovna communicates in French with Volodin’s father and at the same time looks at him incredulously. She shows no interest in Vladimir himself at dinner. And, nevertheless, before leaving, in a whisper she invites him to visit him in the evening.

The birth of first love

Arriving at the princess, the young man discovers that the girl has many admirers:

• poet by the name of Maidanov,
• Dr. Lushin,
• retired captain Nirmatsky,
• hussar named Belovzorov.

In this company the evening was very fun and noisy. The young man even manages to kiss Zasekina’s hand. The girl does not let Vladimir Petrovich leave her side even one step. The young man decides that he is also not indifferent to her.

The next day, Volodin’s father asks about the princess and family, and then he himself went to the Zasekins’ wing.

After dinner, the young man also goes to visit the princess, but she doesn’t even come out. From that moment on, the girl seems to ignore him, and because of this, the hero suffers.

When Zinaida reappears, she feels happy.

So the young man becomes dependent on the presence of his beloved and experiences a feeling of jealousy towards the girl’s admirers. She soon guesses about the hero’s feelings.

Zinaida Aleksandrovna appears very rarely in the house of Volodin’s parents. The young man's mother does not like the princess, and the father sometimes communicates with the girl - little and restrainedly, in some language that the two of them understand.

Important! Wikipedia, in its article on the story, provides users with not only a summary, but also a lot interesting facts about the creation of a work.

The Mystery of Zinaida

Suddenly the princess changes dramatically - from a coquette she turns into a thoughtful girl. He walks alone for a long time and often refuses to go out when guests come.

Vladimir suddenly understands that the princess is seriously in love. But at the same time, the hero has no idea who kindled this feeling in the princess.

One day the young man was sitting in the garden, on the wall of a dilapidated greenhouse, and suddenly saw Zinaida.

The girl also noticed Vladimir and ordered him to immediately jump onto the road to prove her feelings. The young man complied with this request, but fell to the ground and lost consciousness for a moment.

Because of what happened, the girl is very scared and, in a fit of emotion, even kisses the young man, but when he comes to his senses, he leaves and does not allow him to go with her. The young man feels inspired. True, the next day, when they meet, the princess acts distantly.

Later, Volodya and Zinaida meet again in the garden. The young man wants to leave, but the princess does not allow him to do so. The girl behaves kindly and sweetly, says that she is ready to be a friend and jokes that Vladimir can become her page.

This joke is picked up by Count Malevsky, who says that the young man is now obliged to know every little thing about his “queen” and be constantly nearby.

Vladimir attaches great importance to these words and goes to the garden at night to guard the girl, taking with him an English knife.

Suddenly he meets his father, gets scared, drops his weapon on the ground and runs away.

The next day the young man wants to discuss with his beloved what happened. But Zinaida cannot communicate face to face. Her twelve-year-old brother from the cadet school comes to visit the girl, and she asks the young man to entertain the boy.

In the evening, the princess finds Volodya in the garden and asks what happened and why he is so sad. He replies that he is dissatisfied with the fact that his beloved does not take him seriously. The girl asks for forgiveness. Volodya cannot hold a grudge against his beloved, so after a quarter of an hour he is already running around the garden with all his might with the girl and her brother and enjoying life.

Resolution of the story

The hero tries to communicate with his beloved as if nothing had happened, tries not to keep bad thoughts in his head and not to suspect the girl of anything. But a week later, returning home, he witnesses a scandal between his parents.

The mother says that her husband has a relationship with Princess Zasekina: an anonymous letter has arrived with information about this. The young man cannot believe it.

The next day, the mother announces that she is moving to another city and taking her son with her.

Volodya wants to say goodbye to his beloved before leaving, confesses his love to Zinaida, and says that he cannot love anyone else.

After some time, the young man meets Zinaida again by chance. Vladimir goes horseback riding with his father. Suddenly, his father gives him the reins and disappears.

The young man goes after him and discovers that he is communicating with the princess through the window, persistently says something to the girl, and Zinaida suddenly extends her hand. The father suddenly raises his whip and strikes. The girl is scared, but silently brings her bruised hand to her lips. Volodya is very alarmed by what he sees and runs away in fright.

Some more time passes. The hero of the story moves to St. Petersburg with his parents and becomes a university student.

Six months later, his father suddenly passes away unexpectedly: he receives a letter from Moscow and then dies of a heart attack. Afterwards, Volodya’s mother sends a substantial sum of money to Moscow.

Four years pass. Suddenly, Vladimir runs into an old acquaintance, Maidanov, in the theater.

He told him that Zinaida now also lives in the northern capital. She is married and wants to move abroad.

After the loud story with Volodya’s father, it was difficult for Zinaida to find a good groom. But since the girl was smart, she was able to do it.

Maidanov even tells the young man where exactly Zinaida lives. Volodya comes to the princess some time later and receives sad news on the spot. His beloved died in childbirth four days ago.

Important! Like Turgenev’s other works, this story can be read online for free on many resources.

What is the story about?

The story “First Love” almost completely reflects difficult situation which happened in the life of the author. It describes the details of a family drama. The work is written in an easy way, in simple language, and thanks to this, the reader can feel the experiences of the characters and better understand the essence of the work.

It is impossible not to believe in the sincerity of Vladimir Petrovich’s feelings and to experience with him the stages of his growing up - from passionate and enthusiastic first love to sympathy.

The work clearly shows how the relationship between Volodya and Zinaida changes, as well as how his attitude towards his own father changes.

The story also well reveals the image of Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna. We see how she transforms from a frivolous flirtatious young lady into a devoted and loving woman. In addition, here Turgenev reflects the deep feeling of Volodya's father.

He didn't love his wife, he married her for money. And he sincerely fell in love with Zinaida, but he had to suppress this feeling within himself.

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Let's sum it up

Despite what the main character had to endure, he did not hate either Zinaida or his father. On the contrary, he fell in love with his father even more.

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