The Cherry Orchard is the shortest content. A.P

Comedy in four acts

CHARACTERS:

Ranevska Lyubov Andreevna, landowner.

Anya, her daughter, 17 years old.

Varya, her named daughter, 24 years old.

Gaev Leonid Andreevich, brother of Ranevskaya.

Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich, merchant.

Trofimov Petr Sergeevich, student.

Simeonov-Pishchik Boris Borisovich, landowner.

Charlotte Ivanovna, governess.

Epikhodov Semyon Panteleevich, clerk.

Dunyasha, maid.

Firs, footman, 87 years old.

Yasha, a young footman.

Events unfold in the estate of L. A. Ranevskaya.

Act one

May, cherry trees are in bloom. It starts to light up. In the room, which is still called the nursery, Lopakhin and Dunyasha are waiting for the arrival of Ranevskaya. Lyubov Andreevna spent five years abroad and is now returning home. Almost everyone in the household, not excluding old Firs, went to meet him at the station. The train is two hours late, Lopakhin says about Ranevskaya: “He is a kind person. Easy, simple person. He remembers how she felt sorry for him, the boy, when he fell from his father. Epikhodov enters with a bouquet and immediately drops it. The clerk complains that some kind of trouble happens to him every day: he missed the bouquet, knocked over a chair, bought boots the day before yesterday, but they creak. He says strangely, incomprehensibly: “You see, forgive me on this word, which is a circumstance, by the way ... It’s just wonderful.” That's what they called him: "twenty-two disasters." While everyone is waiting for Ranevskaya, Dunyasha confesses to Lopakhin that Epikhodov proposed to her.

Finally, two carriages arrive. Ranevskaya, Gaev, Simeonov-Pishchik, Anya, Varya, Charlotte appear; hastily, Firs, leaning on a stick, passes in an old livery and high capelyukhov. Lyubov Andreevna joyfully examines the old nursery, says through her tears: “Children’s, my dear ... I slept here when I was little ... And now I’m like a little ...” Varya, on which, to tell the truth, the whole monastery rests , makes arrangements for the housework (“Dunyasha, rather coffee ... Mother asks for coffee”), kindly says to her sister: “Again you are at home. My heart has arrived! Beauty has arrived! Anya tells her how tired she is from her trip to Paris, to her mother: “We are coming to Paris, it's cold there, it's snowing. I speak terrible French. Mama lives on the fifth floor ... she has some kind of French, paggi, an old father with a book, and it's smoky, uncomfortable ... She has already sold her dacha Mentoni, she has nothing, nothing. I didn't even have a penny left, we barely got there. And my mom doesn't understand! We sit down at the station to dine, and she demands the most expensive thing and gives the lackeys a ruble for tea. Charlotte too. Yasha also demands a portion. After all, my mother has a footman Yasha. “We saw a scoundrel,” Varya says. She tells her sister the sad news: they failed to pay interest on the estate and it will be sold.

Lopakhin looks in the door, and Anya asks Varya, he confessed to her, because Lopakhin loves Varya, so why can't they get along. Varya shakes her head negatively: “I think that nothing will work out for us. He has a lot to do, he is not up to me ... If you would marry a rich husband, and I would find peace, I would go into the void ... then to Kyiv ... so I would go to holy places. Yasha enters the room. He tries to appear "a person from abroad", looks like a rake, speaks delicately ("can I go through here, sir?"). He makes a strong impression on Dunyasha; she flirts with Yasha, he tries to hug her.

Lyubov Andreevna cannot come to her senses in any way: she feels happy that she is back in her home, that Varya is “still the same,” that the old servant Firs is still alive. She laughs with joy, recognizing familiar things: “I want to jump, wave my arms ... God knows, I love my homeland, I love dearly, I couldn’t look out the window, I kept crying ... I won’t survive this joy ... Shafonko my dear ... My table.

The idyll is broken by Lopakhin: he recalls that the estate is being sold for debts on August 22, an auction is scheduled. Lopakhin offers a way out: the estate is located near the city; there is a railway nearby, a cherry orchard and the land can be divided into plots and rented out to summer residents. Ranevskaya and Gaev do not understand his proposal. Lopakhin explains: for this project, the owners are already lending money, and in the fall there will not be a single free piece left - the summer residents will sort everything out. To tell the truth, some buildings will have to be demolished, the old cherry orchard will have to be cut down. The owners cannot afford this. “If there is anything extraordinary in the whole province, it is our cherry orchard,” says Ranevskaya. Gaev adds that he is also mentioned in the Encyclopedic Dictionary. Lopakhin explains that there is no other way out: either his project, or the sale of the estate along with the garden for debts, besides, the cherry will give birth every two years, and there is nowhere to put it - no one buys. He still hopes to carry out his plan, he proves that the summer resident "on his one tithe will take care of the household, and then the cherry orchard will become ... rich, luxurious ..."

“What nonsense,” Gaev is indignant and delivers a magnificent speech dedicated to the century-old “noble wardrobe”: “I welcome your existence, which for more than a hundred years has been directed towards the bright ideals of goodness and justice; your silent call to fruitful work has not weakened for a hundred years, maintaining vigor in the generations of our family, faith in a better future and educating us in the ideals of goodness ... "

Everyone feels awkward. There is a pause. Gaev, who feels a little shy, resorts to his favorite “billiard vocabulary: “From the bullet to the right into the corner! I cut in the middle! Varya brings Lyubov Andreyevna two telegrams from Paris; and tears them up without reading them.

Charlotte Ivanovna enters the room, in a white dress, very thin, with a lorgnette on her belt. Lopakhin wants to kiss her hand; the governess coaxes: “If you let me kiss your hand, then you will later wish on the elbow, then on the shoulder ...” Lopakhin succeeds by offering to resolve the issue of dachas after all. Taking advantage of the pause, Pishchik tries to beg Ranevskaya for a loan of two hundred and forty rubles (he is all in debt, and all his thoughts are aimed at getting money somewhere to pay interest on bail). Lyubov Andreevna says in confusion that she has no money. But Pishchik never loses hope: somehow he thought that everything was already gone, but here a railroad was laid through his land, and he was paid, and now, maybe his daughter will win two hundred thousand, because the ticket is due.

Varya opens the window to the garden. Ranevskaya looks into the garden, laughs with joy: “Oh my garden! After a dark, bad weather in autumn and a cold winter, you again feel young, full of happiness, the angels of heaven have not abandoned you ... ”The brother reminds her that this beautiful garden,“ strangely enough ”, will be sold for debts. But Ranevskaya does not seem to hear his words: “Look, the dead mother is walking in the garden ... in a white dress ... No, there is no one, it seemed to me ... What an amazing garden, white masses of flowers ... blue sky ... »

Enter Petya Trofimov, former teacher of Grisha, Ranevskaya's son, who drowned six years ago, at the age of seven. Lyubov Andreevna hardly recognizes him, he has become so haggard and aged during this time. Petya, who is not even thirty yet, is called by everyone "a shabby gentleman." “You were then such a blue boy, a sweet student, and now your hair is sparse, glasses. Are you still a student? - "Perhaps I will be an eternal student."

Varya informs Yasha that his mother has arrived from the village and already. The second day is waiting for a date with my son. Yasha dismissively throws: “It is very necessary. I could come back tomorrow."

Gaev, left alone with Varya, "strains his brains" where he could get money in order to avoid selling the estate. It would be nice, he argues, to receive an inheritance from someone, it would be nice to give Anya for a rich man, it would be nice to go to Yaroslavl and try his luck with his aunt, the countess. He knows that the aunt has a lot of money, but, alas, she does not like her nephews. Lyubov Andreevna married a barrister, not a nobleman, and behaved, one cannot say, very respectably. Gaev advises Ani. to go to his Yaroslavl grandmother, and she will not be refused. An angry Firs appears; he still follows the master like a little one: he reproaches that he “put on the wrong trousers”, that he did not go to bed on time. And now the old man appeared to remind Leonid Andreevich that it was time to go to bed. Gaev reassures the old servant: “You go, Firse. I'm going to get loose myself... I'm going, I'm going... From the two sides to the middle! I'm putting in a clean one..." He walks, Firs trotting after him.

Action two

A crooked, long abandoned chapel. You can see the way to the house. Far, far away, a city is vaguely visible on the horizon. The sun will set soon. Charlotte, Yasha and Dunyasha are sitting on the old bench, thinking. Epikhodov plays the guitar. Charlotte talks about herself: she doesn’t know how old she is, because she doesn’t have a real passport, her parents are circus performers, and she herself knows how to “do different things”, after the death of her parents, a German family took her in, taught her to be a governess . “So I want to talk, but not with anyone ... I don’t have anyone,” Charlotte sighs.

Epikhodov sings Dunyasha's romance: “It would be warmed by the heat of mutual love ...”, but he also tries to please Yasha, tells him what happiness it must be to go abroad. Yasha replies importantly: "I can't help but agree with you," and lights up a cigar. Dunyasha, under some pretext, sends Yopikhodov away and, left alone with Yasha, admits that she has lost the habit of a simple life, “she has become tender, so delicate,” and if Yasha, whom she passionately loved, will deceive her, Dunyasha does not know what will happen to her. To this, Yasha, yawning, thoughtfully remarks: “In my opinion, this is how: if a girl loves someone, then she, it turns out, is immoral ...”

Ranevskaya and Gaev appear with Lopakhin, who is trying to get an answer from them to the question: do they agree to give up the land to be given or not? Brother and sister pretend not to hear him. Lyubov Andreevna does not understand where the money is spent (“Yesterday there was a lot of money, but today there is very little”), she is offended that she spends it somehow ridiculously, while Varya, saving, feeds everyone with milk soup. Lopakhin again returns to the old topic, reports that the rich Deriganov will come to the auction. Gaev dismisses it: the Yaroslavl aunt promised to send money, however, no more than fifteen thousand. Lopakhin begins to lose patience. “Such frivolous people as you, gentlemen,” he tells them, “I have never met such unbusinesslike, strange people. They tell you in Russian that your estate is for sale, but you don’t seem to understand.” Lyubov Andreevna agrees that something needs to be done, but "dachas and summer residents - it's so vulgar!" Lopakhin: “I will either cry, or scream, or lose consciousness ... You tortured me!”

Ranevskaya begins to worry, talks about her "sins", for which, apparently, she received punishment. She always spent money without counting it. Her husband died from "champagne". Lyubov Andreevna fell in love with another, got along with him, it was at this time that her son drowned in the river; Lyubov Andreevna went abroad never to return. The man she loved followed her. She bought a dacha near Mentoni, treated him for three years, spent all her money, as a result, the dacha was sold for debts, and this man left her, got together with another; Lyubov Andreevna wanted to poison herself....

Firs arrives: he brought a coat for Gaev - because the air is humid. Firs remembers old times; then everything was clear: the peasants were with the popes, the gentlemen were with the peasants, but "now everything is scattered." Gaev talks about his next project - they promised to introduce him to the general who lends money. Even his sister no longer believes him: “He is delirious. There are no generals."

Trofimov appears. He resumes the conversation begun the day before with Gaevim and Ranevskaya. “We must stop admiring ourselves,” he says. “We should only work ... Humanity is moving forward, improving its strength. Everything that is unattainable for him now will someday become close, understandable, only now you have to work ... We, in Russia, still have very few people working. The vast majority of the intelligentsia that I know are looking for nothing, doing nothing, and are not yet capable of work ... Everyone is serious, everyone has carved faces, everyone talks about important things, philosophizes, and meanwhile, before everyone’s eyes, the workers eat disgustingly ... everywhere there is a stench, dampness, moral impurity ... all the beautiful conversations we have only in order to avert the eyes of ourselves and others ... There is only dirt, vulgarity, Asianism ... I am afraid of serious conversations ... Better keep quiet !" Lopakhin, agreeing with the "eternal student" that there are few honest people, however, considers that Petya's words do not concern him: he, Lopakhin, works from morning to night.

Gaev, as if reciting, is trying to make a touching speech: “Oh, naturally strange, you shine with eternal radiance ...” and further in the same vein. Trofimov ironically remarks to him: "You are better than yellow in the middle with a doublet." Everyone is silent. All you can hear is Firs mumbling softly. Suddenly there is a distant sad sound, which fades, like the sound of a stream that has burst. Lyubov Andreevna shudders. Firs says that before the "misfortune" (that is, before the peasants got their freedom) it was: and the owl screamed, and the samovar hummed ... ". A drunken passer-by appears, he asks for "thirty kopecks"; Lyubov Andreevna, taken aback, gives him a golden one. To Varya’s reproaches (“People have nothing to eat at home, and you are golden to him”), Rapevska perplexedly replies: “What should I do with me, stupid!” - and invites everyone to dinner.

Petya and Anya are left alone. Petya assures the girl that they are above love, that the goal of their life is to get around that petty and deceptive thing that prevents them from being free and happy, urges her to constantly go “to the bright star that burns there in the distance”: “All Russia is our garden. The Earth is great and beautiful... Think, Anya: your grandfather, great-grandfather and all your ancestors were. krіposnikami, who owned living souls. And do not human beings look at you from every cherry in the garden, from every leaf, from every trunk, do you really not hear voices ... To own living souls - after all, this has reborn all of you who lived before and live now. So your mother, you, uncle no longer notice that you live on credit, at someone else's expense, at the expense of those people whom you do not let further than the hallway ... We are at least two hundred years behind. We have nothing at all, we have no definite relationship to the past, we only philosophize, complain about longing or drink vodka. After all, it is so clear: in order to begin to live in modernity, we must first redeem our past, put an end to it, and it can only be redeemed by suffering, only by unusual, uninterrupted labor. He urges Anya to believe him, "throw the keys into the well" and be "free as the wind."

One can hear Yepikhodov playing a sad song on the guitar. The moon is rising. Somewhere nearby, Varya calls Anya... Petya Trofimov speaks of happiness: “... I can already hear his footsteps. And if we don't see him, don't recognize him, then what's the trouble? Others will see it!"

Act Three

In the living room of Ranevskaya's house - a ball. The chandelier burns brightly, the orchestra plays, couples dance. Firs in evening dress carries seltzer water on a tray. Varya sighs bitterly: they hired musicians, but there is nothing to pay. Pishchik, as always, is looking for someone to borrow money from: “I am now in such a position that at least make fake papers ...” Charlotte shows Petya and Pishchik card tricks and demonstrates the tricks.

Today, the auction was to take place in the city, and Ranevskaya is looking forward to her brother, who went there with Lopakhin. The Yaroslavl aunt sent Gaev an order to buy the estate in her name, Ani. But the tiny fifteen thousand, unfortunately, would not be enough even to pay the interest on the debts. Trofimov teases Varya, calling her "Madame Lopakhina". Lyubov Andreevna picks up this topic: why shouldn't Varya really marry Yermolai Alekseevich, he is a kind, interesting person. Varya, almost crying, replies that it’s not for her to confess to him herself: “For the past two years everyone has been talking to me about him, everyone has been talking, but he is either silent or joking ...” Petya complains to Ranevskaya about Varia: and all summer she didn’t give them rest with Anya, because she was afraid that “no romance would work out” between them, but she and Anya were “higher than love”. Lyubov Andreevna hardly hears him; her thoughts are occupied only by the sale of the estate. She tells Petya that he is young, did not have time to suffer, "and therefore cannot understand her: she was born here, her ancestors lived here, she cannot imagine her life without a cherry orchard ... "I would gladly give Anya for you, I swear to you , only, dear, you have to study, you need to finish the course. You do nothing, only fate throws you from place to place ... "

Lyubov Andreyevna takes out her handkerchief, and a telegram falls to the floor. She confesses to Petya that that "bad man" is sick again, calls her to Paris, bombards her with telegrams. What can you do, she loves him. She understands that this is a "stone around her neck", but she goes to the bottom with it and cannot live without this stone. Through tears, Petya reminds Ranevskaya that that man is a petty scoundrel, he skinned her, but she does not want to hear this, closes her ears and angrily tells Trofimov that at his age you already need to have a mistress, that he is just a "clean", clumsy. Petya, horrified by what he heard, walks away.

In the hall, a figure in a gray top hat and checkered trousers is waving his arms and jumping - this is Charlotte Ivanovna's entertainment for the guests. Epikhodov is talking to Dunyasha. “You, Avdotia Fyodorovna, don’t want to see me ... as if I were some kind of insect,” he sighs. sorry for my frankness, they completely put me in a state of mind ... "Dunyasha, playing with a fan:" I beg you, we'll talk later, but now give me peace. Now I'm dreaming..."

Finally, Gaev and Lopakhin arrive. Lyubov Andreevna, excited, rushes to them: “Well, what? Were there auctions? Gaev, not answering anything, waves his hands; he almost cries. To the question of Ranevskaya, who nevertheless bought the cherry orchard, Lopakhin briefly answers: “I bought it.” There is a pause. Lyubov Andreevna is shocked, she almost falls; Varya takes the keys from her belt, throws them on the floor and goes out.

Lopakhin laughs with joy: “My God, Lord, my cherry orchard! .. If my father and grandfather had risen from the coffins and looked at everything that had happened, how their Yermolai, beaten, illiterate Yermolai bought an estate, more beautiful than which there is nothing on light. I bought an estate where my father and grandfather were slaves, where they were not even allowed into the kitchen. I’m sleeping, it only seems to me, it just seems ... We’ll set up dachas, and our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will see a new life here ... Musician, play!”

Lyubov Andreevna weeps bitterly. Music plays softly. Anya approaches her mother and kneels in front of her: “My dear, kind, good mother! .. The cherry orchard is sold, it is no longer there ... but don’t cry, mother, you have a life ahead of you, your kind, pure soul remains ... We will plant a new garden, which will be more luxurious for this, you will see it, then you will understand, and joy, quiet, deep joy will descend on your soul, like the sun in the evening, and you will smile, mother! .. "

act four

There are no curtains or paintings in the "nursery", the furniture that remains has been pushed into a corner. Feels empty. At the door stacked suitcases. As they leave, they collect things. To hear the voice of Gaev: “Thank you, brothers, thank you,” these are the men who came to say goodbye. Lyubov Andreevna, saying goodbye, gives them her purse. "I could not! I could not!" - she says to her brother justifying herself.

Lopakhin reminds them that it's time to get ready for the station. He himself is also leaving for the winter in Kharkov: “I kept hanging around with you, I was exhausted with nothing to do ... I can’t work without difficulty, I don’t know what to do with my hands ...” Petya Trofimov is going back to Moscow, to the university, and Lopakhin offers him money for travel, but he refuses: “Give me at least two hundred thousand, I won’t take it. I am a free man... I can do without you, I can pass you by, I am strong and proud. Mankind is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness, which is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront”, Lopakhin: “Will you get there?” Trofimov: "I will reach or I will show the way to others how to reach." You can hear an ax thumping on wood in the distance. Lopakhin, saying goodbye to Petya, reports that Gaev got a job in a bank, with a salary of six thousand a year, “just won’t sit, because he’s very lazy ...”

Dunyasha is constantly busy with a circle of things; left alone with Yasha, she, crying, throws herself on his neck: “You are going ... you are leaving me ...” Yasha, drinking a glass of champagne that Lopakhin bought on the way, says importantly: “This is not for me, not I can live .... There's nothing to be done ... I've seen enough of ignorance - that's enough for me. Why cry? Behave decently, then you won't cry." Lyubov Andreevna, Gaev, Anya and Charlotta Ivanovna enter, Ranevskaya is worried, they sent the sick Firs to the hospital, Anya assures her: "Yasha said that the old man was taken away in the morning." Lyubov Andreevna says goodbye to her daughter: “My girl, we will see each other soon ... I am going to Paris, I will live there with the money that your Yaroslavl grandmother sent to buy an estate - long live grandmother! “And that money won’t last long.” Apya, kissing her mother’s hand, reassures her: she will pass the exam at the gymnasium, will work and help her mother: “We will read in the autumn evenings, we read a lot of books, and a new, wonderful world will open before us,” Anya dreams. “Mom, come. .."

Charlotte, cradling a bundle that looks like a child's swaddling clothes, and quietly singing a song, complains that she now has nowhere to live. Lopakhin promises to find a place for her too. Suddenly, breathless Simeonov-Pishchik appears and begins to repay everyone's debts. It turns out that “the most unusual event” happened: the British found white clay on his land, he gave them the plot for twenty-four years and now has money.

“Well, now you can go,” Lyubov Andreevna concludes. True, she still had one more “sadness” - Varya's disorder. Ranevskaya starts a conversation with Lopakhin on this topic: “She loves you, you like her, and I don’t know, I don’t know why you seem to be afraid of each other.” Lopakhin replies that he is "at least now ready." Lyubov Andreevna arranges a face-to-face meeting with Lopakhin and Varya. Some kind of strange and awkward conversation takes place between them: Varya is looking for something among things, says that she has gone to the Ragulins as housekeepers; Lopakhin says something about the weather, says that he is going to Kharkov. There is a pause. At this time, someone calls Lopakhin, and he, allegedly waiting for this call, leaves without making an offer. Varya, sitting on the floor, sobs quietly, resting her head on a bundle of clothes.

Lyubov Andreevna, already assembled on the road, enters, followed by all the household members, servants. The circle of things is busy with Epikhodov. Gaev, afraid to cry, mutters excitedly: “The train ... the station ... Croiset in the middle, the white doublet in the corner ...” Left alone, Ranevskaya and Gaev allegedly waited, rushed to each other and sobbed restrainedly, quietly. “My sister, my sister ...” - “Oh my dear, my gentle beautiful garden! My life. My. youth, my happiness, farewell! .. Farewell! .. ”The excited voices of Anya and Petya Trokhimov sound from afar, they call ... The door to the house is locked with a key ... The carriages are heard driving off. There is silence.

A sick Firs appears, whom everyone has forgotten in the house. He sighs with concern: “...Leonid Andreevich, apparently, did not put on a fur coat, he went in a coat ... Life passed, as if he had not lived ...” - he mutters. “To hear a distant sound, as if from heaven, the sound of a string that burst, sad, it freezes. There is silence, and you can only hear how far away in. garden knock with an ax on wood.

The dramaturgy of Anton Chekhov is a special niche in Russian fiction and the pinnacle of his work - this work, the storyline of which can be told by a summary of the play "The Cherry Orchard" for the reader's diary, and only a complete reading can tell about the richness of the images of the characters and the non-standard lyrical atmosphere.

Plot

Ranevsky Lyubov and her daughter Anya return to their native estate from Paris after a 5-year absence. The family is on the verge of poverty, after the second husband of Ranevskaya robbed her and fled. Now the Ranevsky family estate is under the threat of being sold for debts. The women are met by the brother of the eldest Ranevskaya and her adopted daughter, who have been living on the estate all this time.

The estate, along with the cherry orchard, wants to be acquired by Lopakhin, who comes from peasants, but who has become decently rich. He intends to cut down the garden, and sell the land and rent it out for summer cottages. Love is horrified at such a prospect. She has always lived and lives in illusions, distributes money and does not believe that they are about to run out.

The garden and house are up for auction. They are bought by Lopakhin, who dreams, but decides to propose to his adopted daughter Ranevskaya. Love cries, her daughter soothes her. The women are going to return to Paris. At the end, the sound of an ax is heard - the cherry orchard goes under the log house.

Conclusion (my opinion)

In an age when benefits and personal enrichment have increased many times over, there is no place for languid memories. Pragmatists cannot comprehend romantics.

The Cherry Orchard is the last play by A.P. Chekhov. He wrote it a year before his death. Behind the story of a noble family that lost its garden, the writer hid the history of his homeland, which, according to the author, would have the same miserable existence in the future as the nobility without a manor. We wrote more about his idea in, and now you can find out the plot and main events of the book by reading a brief retelling of the actions from Literaguru.

Lived in France for five years. The youngest daughter Anya spent several months with her. In May, both of them had to return to their homeland. The footman Firs, Ranevskaya's brother Gaev and the eldest daughter Varya are sent to the station (here are them). And at home they are expected by the merchant Lopakhin and the maid Dunyasha. They are sitting in a room that is still called the "nursery" out of old habit. talks about how life can turn around, that he, the son of a serf, is now a free and prosperous merchant.

Crews arrive from the station. Ranevskaya and Anya are happy to return. The estate has not changed since their departure. Soon it becomes obvious to the reader that Lyubov Andreevna was in a difficult financial situation. She had to sell all her foreign property and return to Russia. Lopakhin reminds her that the estate with the garden will have to be sold by auction in August if he and his brother do not urgently come up with a solution. The merchant immediately offers them an option that seems to him very successful. Cut down the garden, divide the land into plots and rent to summer residents. But Lyubov Andreevna and Gaev only brush aside, saying that the garden is the most valuable thing on the territory of the entire province. They hope for the help of a rich aunt from Yaroslavl, although relations with her are strained.

Action 2

Several weeks have passed since Ranevskaya's arrival. But neither she nor Gaev are in a hurry to solve their problems. Moreover, they continue to overspend. Returning from the city, where they went to have breakfast in the company of Lopakhin, they stop at the old church. Shortly before their appearance, on this bench, the clerk Epikhodov declared his love to Dunyasha. But the frivolous girl preferred the footman Yasha to him.

Lopakhin again recalls the auction. He once again offers them to cut down the garden. But the brother and sister only brush aside his words, saying that the aunt will definitely send money. And yes, there is still plenty of time. The merchant does not understand them, calls them strange and frivolous.

The daughters of Ranevskaya and Petya Trofimov approach the shop (here are them). Ranevskaya starts talking about a proud person. But the conversation does not come out, and soon everyone leaves the bench by the church one by one. Anya and Petya are left alone. Trofimov, in love, tries to charm the girl with his speeches. He says that it is necessary, rejecting everything material, strives for the ideal. Anya, who, like her mother, easily succumbs to beautiful words, is fond of Petya, not noticing his worthlessness.

Action 3

August is coming. Ranevskaya, it seems, does not think at all about the fate of the estate. On the day of the auction, she throws a lavish party. Lyubov Andreevna even invites the orchestra. Everyone dances, communicates and rejoices. However, there is a sense of fun. The thoughts of everyone in the room are turned to Gaev and Lopakhin, who went to the auction.

During the conversation, Petya begins to criticize Ranevskaya and her affair with a swindler from France who robbed her. He laughs at her reluctance to admit the obvious truth. But she immediately accuses him of duplicity. After all, he is an “eternal student”, who cannot even finish the course, preaches hard work and striving for the ideal to everyone. Petya runs out of the room in hysterics.

Gaev and Lopakhin are returning from the auction. The merchant triumphs, although he tries to hide it in the first minutes. And Gaev next to him did not even try to hide his tears and disappointment. They say that both the estate and the garden have been sold. Now the merchant is the owner of the very estate where his father was a serf. The orchestra subsides, Ranevskaya, sitting heavily on a chair, sobs. Anya, whose brain is befuddled by Petya's words, reassures her mother that now they are starting a new life, not burdened by anything material.

Action 4

The last action takes place in October. Lopakhin, without waiting for the departure of the former owners, begins to cut down the garden. The aunt from Yaroslavl nevertheless gave money to Gaev and Ranevskaya. But Lyubov Andreevna took them from her brother and returned to France to her lover. Varya, her daughter, had to go to work as a housekeeper in a neighboring estate, because the new owner of the garden did not propose to her, still feeling inferior to the masters. Anya is preparing to take the gymnasium exam and is looking for a part-time job. Petya leaves for Moscow to continue his studies. His only concern is a pair of lost galoshes. Gaev is offered a job at a bank. However, the whole family is sure that because of his laziness, he will not stay there for a long time. Lopakhin, unable to confess his feelings to Varya, leaves for work in Kharkov. Everyone says goodbye, the estate is locked with a key.

Firs appears on the stage, which even the owners have forgotten about. He walks around the estate, muttering under his breath about a bygone life. When he reaches the sofa, the old man sits down on it and finally calms down. The silence is broken only by the sound of axes.

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The estate of the landowner Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya. spring, bloom cherry trees. But the beautiful garden is soon to be sold for debts. For the past five years, Ranevskaya and her seventeen-year-old daughter Anya have lived abroad. Ranevskaya's brother Leonid Andreevich Gaev and her adopted daughter, twenty-four-year-old Varya, remained on the estate. Ranevskaya's affairs are bad, there are almost no funds left. Lyubov Andreevna always littered with money. Six years ago, her husband died of alcoholism. Ranevskaya fell in love with another person, got along with him. But soon her little son Grisha died tragically by drowning in the river. Lyubov Andreevna, unable to bear her grief, fled abroad. The lover followed her. When he fell ill, Ranevskaya had to settle him in her dacha near Menton and take care of him for three years. And then, when he had to sell the dacha for debts and move to Paris, he robbed and abandoned Ranevskaya.

Gaev and Varya meet Lyubov Andreevna and Anya at the station. At home, the maid Dunyasha and the familiar merchant Yermolai Alekseevich Lopakhin are waiting for them. Lopakhin's father was a serf of the Ranevskys, he himself became rich, but he says about himself that he remained "a man a man." The clerk Epikhodov arrives, a man with whom something constantly happens and who is called "twenty-two misfortunes."

Finally, the carriages arrive. The house is filled with people, all in a pleasant excitement. Everyone speaks about his own. Lyubov Andreevna looks around the rooms and through tears of joy recalls the past. Maid Dunyasha can't wait to tell the young lady that Epikhodov proposed to her. Anya herself advises Varya to marry Lopakhin, and Varya dreams of marrying Anya to a rich man. The governess Charlotte Ivanovna, a strange and eccentric person, boasts of her amazing dog, the neighbor landowner Simeonov-Pishchik asks for a loan. He hears almost nothing and all the time mutters something old faithful servant Firs.

Lopakhin reminds Ranevskaya that the estate should soon be sold at auction, the only way out is to break the land into plots and lease them to summer residents. Lopakhin's proposal surprises Ranevskaya: how can you cut down her favorite wonderful cherry orchard! Lopakhin wants to stay longer with Ranevskaya, whom he loves "more than his own," but it's time for him to leave. Gaev delivers a welcoming speech to the hundred-year-old "respected" closet, but then, embarrassed, again begins to senselessly pronounce his favorite billiard words.

Ranevskaya did not immediately recognize Petya Trofimov: so he changed, became uglier, the “dear student” turned into an “eternal student”. Lyubov Andreevna cries, remembering her little drowned son Grisha, whose teacher was Trofimov.

Gaev, left alone with Varya, tries to talk about business. There is a rich aunt in Yaroslavl, who, however, does not like them: after all, Lyubov Andreevna did not marry a nobleman, and she did not behave "very virtuously." Gaev loves his sister, but still calls her "vicious", which causes Ani's displeasure. Gaev continues to build projects: his sister will ask Lopakhin for money, Anya will go to Yaroslavl - in a word, they will not allow the estate to be sold, Gaev even swears about it. The grouchy Firs finally takes the master, like a child, to sleep. Anya is calm and happy: her uncle will arrange everything.

Lopakhin does not cease to persuade Ranevskaya and Gaev to accept his plan. The three of them had lunch in the city and, returning, stopped in a field near the chapel. Just here, on the same bench, Epikhodov tried to explain himself to Dunyasha, but she had already preferred the young cynical footman Yasha to him. Ranevskaya and Gaev do not seem to hear Lopakhin and talk about completely different things. So without convincing “frivolous, unbusinesslike, strange” people of anything, Lopakhin wants to leave. Ranevskaya asks him to stay: with him "it's still more fun."

Anya, Varya and Petya Trofimov arrive. Ranevskaya starts talking about a "proud man." According to Trofimov, there is no point in pride: a rude, unhappy person should not admire himself, but work. Petya condemns the intelligentsia, who are incapable of work, those people who philosophize importantly, and treat peasants like animals. Lopakhin enters the conversation: he just works “from morning to evening”, dealing with big capital, but he is becoming more and more convinced of how few decent people are around. Lopakhin does not finish, Ranevskaya interrupts him. In general, everyone here does not want and does not know how to listen to each other. There is silence, in which the distant, sad sound of a broken string is heard.

Soon everyone disperses. Left alone, Anya and Trofimov are happy to have the opportunity to talk together, without Varya. Trofimov convinces Anya that one must be “above love”, that the main thing is freedom: “all of Russia is our garden”, but in order to live in the present, one must first redeem the past with suffering and labor. Happiness is near: if not they, then others will definitely see it.

Comes the twenty-second of August, the day of trading. It is on this evening, quite inopportunely, that a ball is being held in the estate, a Jewish orchestra is invited. Once, generals and barons danced here, and now, as Firs complains, both the postal official and the head of the station "do not go willingly." Charlotte Ivanovna entertains guests with her tricks. Ranevskaya anxiously awaits the return of her brother. The Yaroslavl aunt nevertheless sent fifteen thousand, but they are not enough to buy the estate.

Petya Trofimov “reassures” Ranevskaya: it’s not about the garden, it’s been over for a long time, we need to face the truth. Lyubov Andreevna asks not to condemn her, to feel sorry for her: after all, without a cherry orchard, her life loses its meaning. Every day Ranevskaya receives telegrams from Paris. At first she tore them up right away, then - after reading them first, now she doesn't vomit anymore. "That wild man", whom she still loves, begs her to come. Petya condemns Ranevskaya for her love for "a petty scoundrel, a nonentity." Angry Ranevskaya, unable to restrain herself, takes revenge on Trofimov, calling him a “funny eccentric”, “freak”, “clean”: “You must love yourself ... you must fall in love!” Petya tries to leave in horror, but then stays, dancing with Ranevskaya, who asked for his forgiveness.

Finally, the embarrassed, joyful Lopakhin and the tired Gaev appear, who, without saying anything, immediately goes to his room. The Cherry Orchard was sold and Lopakhin bought it. The "new landowner" is happy: he managed to beat the rich Deriganov at the auction, giving ninety thousand in excess of the debt. Lopakhin picks up the keys thrown on the floor by the proud Varya. Let the music play, let everyone see how Yermolai Lopakhin “suffices the cherry orchard with an ax”!

Anya comforts her crying mother: the garden has been sold, but there is a whole life ahead. There will be a new garden, more luxurious than this, “quiet deep joy” awaits them ...

The house is empty. Its inhabitants, having said goodbye to each other, disperse. Lopakhin is going to Kharkov for the winter, Trofimov returns to Moscow, to the university. Lopakhin and Petya exchange barbs. Although Trofimov calls Lopakhin a "predatory beast", necessary "in the sense of metabolism", he still loves in him "a tender, subtle soul." Lopakhin offers Trofimov money for the journey. He refuses: over the "free man", "in the forefront going" to the "higher happiness", no one should have power.

Ranevskaya and Gaev even cheered up after the sale of the cherry orchard. Previously, they were worried, suffering, but now they have calmed down. Ranevskaya is going to live in Paris for the time being on the money sent by her aunt. Anya is inspired: a new life begins - she will finish the gymnasium, she will work, read books, "a new wonderful world" will open before her. Simeonov-Pishchik suddenly appears out of breath and, instead of asking for money, on the contrary, distributes debts. It turned out that the British found white clay on his land.

Everyone settled down differently. Gaev says that now he is a bank servant. Lopakhin promises to find a new place for Charlotte, Varya got a job as a housekeeper to the Ragulins, Epikhodov, hired by Lopakhin, remains on the estate, Firs must be sent to the hospital. But still, Gaev sadly says: “Everyone is leaving us ... we suddenly became unnecessary.”

Between Varya and Lopakhin, an explanation must finally occur. For a long time, Varya has been teased by "Madame Lopakhina." Varya likes Yermolai Alekseevich, but she herself cannot propose. Lopakhin, who also speaks well of Vara, agrees to "put an end immediately" to this matter. But when Ranevskaya arranges their meeting, Lopakhin, without deciding, leaves Varia, using the very first pretext.

“Time to go! On the road! - with these words, they leave the house, locking all the doors. All that remains is old Firs, whom everyone seemed to take care of, but whom they forgot to send to the hospital. Firs, sighing that Leonid Andreevich went in a coat, and not in a fur coat, lies down to rest and lies motionless. The same sound of a broken string is heard. "There is silence, and only one can hear how far in the garden they knock on wood with an ax."

Action 1

The room, which is still called the nursery. Lopakhin and Dunyasha are waiting for Ranevskaya and everyone who went to meet her to arrive from the station. Lopakhin recalls how Ranevskaya felt sorry for him in childhood (Lopakhin is the son of the serf Ranevskaya). Lopakhin reproaches Dunyasha for behaving like a young lady. Epikhodov appears. Entering, he drops the bouquet. Epikhodov complains to Lopakhin that some kind of misfortune happens to him every day. Epikhodov leaves. Dunyasha reports that Epikhodov proposed to her. Two carriages drive up to the house. Ranevskaya, Anya, Charlotte, Varya, Gaev, Simeonov-Pishchik appear. Ranevskaya admires the nursery, says that she feels like a child here. Left alone with Varya, Anya tells her about her trip to Paris: Anya asks if Lopakhin proposed to Varya. She shakes her head negatively, says that nothing will work out for them, tells her sister that in August they will sell the estate, and she herself would like to go to holy places. Dunyasha flirts with Yasha, he tries to seem like a foreign dandy. Ranevskaya, Gaev and Simeonov-Pishchik appear. Gaev makes movements with his arms and torso, as if playing billiards (,). Ranevskaya rejoices that Firs is still alive, recognizes the situation:. Before leaving, Lopakhin reminds the owners that their estate is being sold for debts, and suggests a way out: break the land into summer cottages and lease them out. However, for this it will be necessary to cut down the old cherry orchard Gaev and Ranevskaya do not understand the meaning of Lopakhin's project, they refuse to follow his reasonable advice under the pretext that their garden is mentioned in. Varya brings Ranevskaya two telegrams from Paris, she tears them up without reading Gaev utters a pompous speech addressed to the closet: . There is an awkward pause. Pishchik takes a handful of pills intended by Ranevskaya. He either tries to borrow 240 rubles from the owners, then falls asleep, then wakes up, then mutters that his daughter Dashenka will win 200 thousand on a ticket. Petya Trofimov appears - the former teacher of Grisha, the son of Ranevskaya, who drowned a few years ago. It is called i. Varya asks Yasha to see his mother, who has been waiting for him in the servants' room since yesterday. Yasha: . Gaev states that there are many ways to get money to pay off debts. . The aunt is very rich, but she does not like her nephews: Ranevskaya did not marry a nobleman and did not behave virtuously. Gaev says about himself that he is a man of the eighties, he got it for his convictions in life, but he knows the peasants and they love him. Varya shares her problems with her sister: she manages all the household, diligently maintains order and saves on everything. Tired from the road, Anya falls asleep.
Action 2

A field, an old chapel, an old bench. Charlotte tells about herself: she does not have a passport, she does not know her age, her parents were circus performers, after the death of her parents, a German woman taught her to be a governess. Epikhodov sings songs to the guitar, poses in front of Dunyasha. She tries to please Yasha. Enter Ranevskaya, Gaev and Lopakhin, who still convinces Ranevskaya to give the land for dachas. Neither Ranevskaya nor Gaev hear his words. Ranevskaya regrets that she spends a lot and senselessly: she goes to have breakfast in a crappy restaurant, eats and drinks a lot, gives a lot for tea. Yasha declares that he cannot hear Gaev's voices without laughter. Lopakhin is trying to shout to Ranevskaya, recalling the auction. However, the brother and sister claim that. Ranevskaya herself feels uncomfortable (). Ranevskaya's husband died. She got together with another, went abroad with him, took care of the object of her passion for three years when he fell ill. In the end, he left her, robbed her and got together with another. Ranevskaya returned to Russia to her daughter. In response to Lopakhin's reasonable proposals, she tries to persuade him to talk about marrying Vara. Firs appears with Gaev's coat. Firs considers the liberation of the peasants a misfortune (). Trofimov enters, who resumes yesterday's conversation with Gaev and Ranevskaya about:. Lopakhin objects to him that he himself works from morning to evening. He agrees that there are few honest, decent people in the world (). Gaev pompously recites - a monologue addressed to mother nature. He is asked to be quiet. All those gathered constantly utter fragmentary phrases that are in no way connected with each other. A passer-by asks for alms, and Ranevskaya gives him gold. Varya desperately tries to leave. Ranevskaya wants to keep her, saying that she has betrothed her to Lopakhin. Anya is left alone with Trofimov. He happily assures her that they are above love, calls the girl forward. . Petya encourages Anya to throw the keys to the household into the well and be free as the wind.
Action 3
Ball in the house of Ranevskaya. Charlotte performs card tricks. Pishchik is looking for someone to borrow money from. Ranevskaya says that the ball was started inopportunely. Gaev went to the auction to buy the estate by proxy of his aunt in her name. Ranevskaya insistently demands that Varya marry Lopakhin. Varya replies that she cannot propose to him herself, but he is either silent or joking, and keeps getting richer. Yasha cheerfully reports that Epikhodov broke the billiard cue. Ranevskaya urges Trofimov to finish his studies, shares with him her doubts about leaving for Paris: her lover bombards her with telegrams. She has already forgotten that he robbed her, and does not want to be reminded of this. In response to Trofimov's accusations of inconsistency, she advises him to take a mistress. Varya kicks Epikhodov out. Gaev returns, cries, complains that he has not eaten anything all day and suffered greatly. It turns out that the estate has been sold and Lopakhin bought it. Lopakhin is proud that he bought the estate, Anya consoles the weeping Ranevskaya, convinces her that a whole life lies ahead:.
Action 4

Departing people collect things. Saying goodbye to the peasants, Ranevskaya gives them her wallet. Lopakhin is going to Kharkov (). Lopakhin is trying to give Trofimov a loan, he refuses: Lopakhin reports that Gaev has accepted the position of an employee in a bank, but doubts that he will stay long in a new place. Ranevskaya worries about whether the sick Firs has been sent to the hospital, and arranges for Varya and Lopakhin to explain in private. Varya informs Lopakhin that she has hired herself as a housekeeper. Lopakhin never makes an offer. Saying goodbye to Anya, Ranevskaya says that she is leaving for Paris, where she will live on money sent by her Yaroslavl aunt. Anya plans to pass the exam at the gymnasium, then work, help her mother and read books with her. Charlotte asks Lopakhin to find her a new place. Gaev: . Pishchik suddenly appears, distributing debts to those present. The British discovered white clay on his land, and he leased the land to the pits. Left alone, Gaev and Ranevskaya say goodbye to the house and garden. From afar, their names are Anya and Trofimov. The owners leave, lock the doors with a key. Firs appears, who has been forgotten in the house. He is sick.