In this article we will consider the story "Spring Waters" (summary). Turgenev, the author of this work, is known for his excellent ability to describe the relationship between people. The fame of the writer is due precisely to the fact that Ivan Sergeevich noticed those feelings and emotions that are characteristic of all people, regardless of whether they lived in the 19th century or in the 21st.

About the book

"Spring Waters" is a story written in 1872. This period is characterized by the writing of works based on memories of the past. For example, "Unhappy", "Knocks", "Strange Story", etc. Of all these stories, the work "Spring Waters" is considered the most successful. And the main character became a wonderful addition to the gallery of Turgenev's limp characters.

"Spring waters": a summary

Turgenev describes his hero: he is 52 years old, he lived his life as if he were floating on a smooth, imperturbable sea surface, but in its depths grief, poverty and madness lurked. And all his life he was afraid that one of these underwater monsters would one day turn over his boat, disturb the calm. His life, though rich, was completely empty and lonely.

Wanting to distract himself from these gloomy thoughts, he begins to sort out old papers. Among the documents, Dmitry Pavlovich Sanin finds a small box with a small cross inside. This object vividly brings back memories of the past.

Sick child

Now the story "Spring Waters" takes the reader to the summer of 1840. Summary, according to the research, Turgenev agrees with this idea, describes the chance that Sanin once missed, the chance to change his life.

During these years, Sanin was 22 years old, and he traveled around Europe, letting go of a small inheritance inherited from a distant relative. On the way back to his homeland, he stopped in Frankfurt. In the evening he was going to take a stagecoach to Berlin. He decided to spend the remaining time for a walk.

On a small street, he noticed the Italian Patisserie Giovanni Roselli and entered it. As soon as he entered, a girl ran up to him and asked for help. It turned out that the girl's younger brother, fourteen-year-old Emil, fainted. And in the house, except for the old servant Pantaleone, there was no one.

Sanin managed to return the boy to consciousness. Dmitry noticed the amazing beauty of the girl. Then the doctor entered the room, accompanied by a lady who turned out to be the mother of Emil and the girl. The mother was so glad to save her child that she invited Sanin to dinner.

Evening at Roselli's

The work "Spring Waters" tells about the first love. The story describes Dmitry's evening trip to visit, where he is greeted like a hero. Sanin learns the name of the mother of the family - Leonora Roselli. She, along with her husband Giovanni, left Italy 20 years ago and moved to Frankfurt to open a pastry shop here. Her daughter's name was Gemma. And Pantaleone, their old servant, was once an opera singer. Also, the guest learns about Gemma's engagement to the head of a large store, Karl Kluber.

However, Sanin was too carried away by communication, stayed too long at a party and was late for his stagecoach. He had little money left, and he sent a letter to a Berlin friend asking for a loan. Waiting for an answer, Dmitry stayed in Frankfurt for several days. The next day Emil and Karl Kluber came to Sanin. Gemma's fiance, a handsome and well-mannered young man, thanked Sanin for saving the boy and invited him to go with the Roselli family for a walk in Soden. At this Karl retired, and Emil stayed, soon making friends with Dmitry.

Sanin spent another day with new acquaintances, not taking his eyes off the beautiful Gemma.

Sanin

Turgenev's tale tells about Sanin's youth. In those years he was a tall, stately and slender young man. His features were a little blurry, he was a descendant of a noble family, and inherited golden hair from his ancestors. He was full of health and youthful freshness. However, he was distinguished by a very gentle character.

Walk in Soden

The next day, the Roselli family and Sanin went to the small town of Soden, which is half an hour from Frankfurt. The walk was organized by Herr Kluber with the pedantry inherent in all Germans. Turgenev's tale describes the life of middle-class Europeans. For dinner Roselli went to the best inn in Soden. But Gemma got bored with what was happening, and she wanted to dine on the common terrace, and not in a separate gazebo, which her fiance ordered.

A group of officers were dining on the terrace. They were all very drunk, and one of them approached Gemma. He raised his glass to her health and took the rose that lay next to the girl's plate.

It was an insult to Gemma. However, Kluber did not intercede for the bride, but quickly paid off and took the girl to the hotel. Dmitry boldly approached the officer, called him impudent, took the rose and challenged the offender to a duel. Kluber pretended not to notice what had happened, but Emil admired this act.

Duel

The next day, without thinking about love, Sanin talks to the officer's second, von Dongoff. Dmitry himself did not even have acquaintances in Frankfurt, so he took Pantaleone's servant as his second. We decided to shoot with pistols from twenty steps.

Dmitry spent the rest of the day with Gemma. Before leaving, the girl gave him the very rose that he took from the officer. At that moment, Sanin realized that he had fallen in love.

The duel took place at 10 o'clock. Dongof fired into the air, thereby admitting that he was guilty. As a result, the duelists dispersed, shaking hands.

Gemma

The story of the love between Sanin and Gemma begins. Dmitry pays a visit to Frau Leone. It turns out that Gemma is going to break off the engagement, but only this marriage will help save the financial situation of her entire family. The girl's mother asks Sanin to change her mind. But the persuasion did not work. On the contrary, he realized that Gemma loved him too. After mutual confessions, Dmitry proposes to the girl.

Frau Leona came to terms with the new fiancé, making sure that he had a fortune. Sanin had an estate in the Tula province, which should have been sold and the money invested in a pastry shop. Suddenly, on the street, Sanin meets an old friend of Ippolit Polozov, who could buy his estate. But to the request, the friend replies that his wife is in charge of all financial matters, attractive, but

Mrs. Polozova

The work "Spring Waters" tells how Dmitry, having said goodbye to his bride, leaves for Wiesbaden, where Marya Nikolaevna Polozova is treated with waters. She turns out to be a very beautiful woman with lovely blond hair and slightly vulgar features. Sanin interested her at first sight. It turned out that Polozov gave his wife complete freedom and did not meddle in her affairs. He was more worried about the prosperity and good food.

The Polozovs even made a bet on Sanin. Hippolytus was sure that his friend loved his bride too much, so he would not succumb to the spell of his wife. However, he lost, although it cost his wife a lot of work. Dmitry cheated on Gemma three days after his arrival at the Polozovs.

Confession

There are no ideal figures in the work "Spring Waters". The heroes appear as ordinary people with their own weaknesses and vices. Sanin was no exception, but upon his return he immediately confessed everything to Gemma. Immediately after that, he went on a journey with Polozova. He became a slave to this woman, and accompanied her until he got bored. And then she just threw him out of her life. The only thing left in memory of Gemma is the very cross that he found in the box. Over the years, he still did not understand why he left the girl, because he did not love anyone as much and tenderly as her.

Trying to bring back the past

The work "Spring Waters" (summary) is coming to an end. Turgenev again returns to the aged Sanin. His hero, succumbing to the surging memories, rushes to Frankfurt. Dmitry Pavlovich wanders the streets in search of a pastry shop, but he cannot even remember the street on which it was. In the address book, he finds the name of Major von Dongoff. He said that Gemma got married and left for New York. He himself Sanin received the address of his beloved.

He writes a letter to her. Gemma sends a response and thanks Sanin for the termination of the engagement, as this allowed her to become happier. She has a wonderful family - a beloved husband and five children. She says that her mother and Pantaleone died, and her brother died in the war. In addition, she encloses a photograph of her daughter with her letter, which is very similar to Gemma in her youth.

Sanin sends a pomegranate cross as a gift to Gemma's daughter. And later he himself is going to America.

"Spring waters": analysis

It is best to start analyzing the work with the first lines of poetry taken by Turgenev from an old romance. It is in them that the main theme of the whole work is contained: "Happy years, happy days - they rushed like spring waters."

Turgenev tells about past dreams, lost opportunities and missed chances in his work. His hero, because of his softness, misses the only chance for happiness. And he is no longer able to correct his mistake, no matter how he strives.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"Spring waters"

He returned home in the second hour of the night, tired and full of disgust for life. He was 52 years old, and he perceived his life as an imperturbable, smooth sea, in the depths of which monsters lurked: "all everyday ailments, diseases, sorrows, madness, poverty, blindness." Every minute he waited for one of them to overturn his fragile boat. The life of this rich but very lonely man was empty, worthless and disgusting. To distract himself from these thoughts, he began sorting through old papers, yellowed love letters and found among them a small octagonal box in which a small pomegranate cross was kept. He reminded Dmitry Pavlovich Sanin of the past.

In the summer of 1840, when Sanin was 22, he traveled across Europe, squandering a small inheritance from a distant relative. Returning home, he stopped in Frankfurt. The coach left for Berlin late, and Sanin decided to take a walk around the city. Finding himself on a small street, Dmitry went to the "Italian confectionery Giovanni Roselli" to drink a glass of lemonade. Before he had time to enter the hall, a girl ran out of the next room and began to beg Sanin for help. It turned out that the girl's younger brother, a boy of about fourteen named Emil, had lost consciousness. Only the old servant Pantaleone was at home, and the girl was in a panic.

Sanin rubbed the boy with brushes, and he, to the joy of his sister, came to his senses. Saving Emil, Dmitry looked at the girl, marveling at her amazing classical beauty. At this time, a lady entered the room, accompanied by a doctor, for whom a servant was sent. The lady was the mother of Emilio and the girl. She was so happy to save her son that she invited Sanin to dinner.

In the evening Dmitry was greeted as a hero and savior. He learned that the mother of the family was called Leonora Roselli. Twenty years ago, she and her husband, Giovanni Battista Roselli, left Italy to open a pastry shop in Frankfurt. The beauty was called Gemma. And their faithful servant Pantaleone, a funny little old man, was an opera tenor in the past. Another full member of the family was the poodle Tartaglia. To his disappointment, Sanin learned that Gemma had been engaged to Mr. Karl Kluber, head of department in one of the large stores.

Sanin stayed up late with them and was late for the stagecoach. He had little money left, and he asked for a loan from his Berlin friend. Waiting for a reply letter, Dmitry was forced to stay in the city for several days. In the morning, Emil visited Sanin, accompanied by Karl Kluber. This prominent and tall young man, impeccable, handsome and pleasant in all respects, thanked Dmitry on behalf of his bride, invited him for a pleasure walk to Soden, and left. Emil asked permission to stay and soon became friends with Sanin.

Dmitry spent the whole day at Roselli's, admiring the beauty of Gemma, and even managed to work as a salesman in a pastry shop. Sanin went to the hotel late in the evening, taking with him "the image of a young girl, now laughing, now pensive, now calm and even indifferent, but constantly attractive."

A few words should also be said about Sanin. He was a stately and slender young man with slightly blurry features, blue eyes and golden hair, the offspring of a dignified noble family. In Dmitry, freshness, health and an infinitely gentle character were combined.

In the morning, we took a walk to Soden, a small picturesque town half an hour's drive from Frankfurt, organized by Herr Kluber with truly German pedantry. We dined at the best inn in Soden. Gemma was bored with the walk. To unwind, she wanted to dine not in a secluded gazebo, which her pedantic groom had already ordered, but on a common terrace. A company of officers from the Mainz garrison was dining at a nearby table. One of them, being heavily drunk, approached Gemma, “slapped a glass” to her health and cheekily grabbed a rose lying near her plate.

This act offended the girl. Instead of interceding for the bride, Herr Kluber hastily paid and, loudly indignant, took her to the hotel. Sanin went up to the officer, called him impudent, took the rose and asked for a duel. Emil was delighted with Dmitry's act, and Kluber pretended not to notice anything. All the way back, Gemma listened to the self-confident rantings of the groom and in the end began to be ashamed of him.

The next morning, Sanin was visited by the second of Baron von Dongoff. Dmitry had no acquaintances in Frankfurt, and he had to invite Pantaleone as a second. He took up his duties with extraordinary zeal and completely destroyed all attempts to reconcile. It was decided to shoot with pistols from twenty steps.

Sanin spent the rest of the day with Gemma. Late in the evening, when Dmitry was leaving the pastry shop, Gemma called him to the window and presented the same, already withered, rose. She bent awkwardly and leaned on Sanin's shoulders. At that moment, a hot whirlwind swept along the street, "like a flock of huge birds," and the young man realized that he was in love.

The duel took place at ten o'clock in the morning. Baron von Dongoff fired deliberately aside, admitting his guilt. The duelists shook hands and parted, and Sanin was ashamed for a long time - everything turned out very childishly. At the hotel, it turned out that Pantaleone had blabbed about the duel to Gemma.

In the afternoon, Sanina visited Frau Leone. Gemma wanted to break off the engagement, although the Roselli family was practically ruined, and only this marriage could save her. Frau Leone asked Dmitry to influence Gemma and persuade her not to refuse the groom. Sanin agreed, and even tried to talk to the girl, but the persuasion backfired - Dmitry finally fell in love and realized that Gemma also loved him. After a secret meeting in the city garden and mutual confessions, he had no choice but to propose to her.

Frau Leone greeted this news with tears, but after asking the newly-appeared groom about his financial situation, she calmed down and resigned herself. Sanin owned a small estate in the Tula province, which he urgently needed to sell in order to invest in a confectionery. Dmitry was about to go to Russia, when he suddenly met his former classmate on the street. This fat person named Ippolit Sidorych Polozov was married to a very beautiful and wealthy woman from the merchant class. Sanin asked him to buy the estate. Polozov replied that all financial issues are solved by his wife, and offered to take Sanin to her.

Saying goodbye to the bride, Dmitry went to Wiesbaden, where Mrs. Polozova was treated with waters. Marya Nikolaevna really turned out to be a beauty with heavy blond hair and somewhat vulgar facial features. She immediately began courting Sanin. It turned out that Polozov was a "convenient husband" who did not meddle in his wife's affairs and gave her complete freedom. They did not have children, and all Polozov's interests converged on delicious, plentiful food and luxurious life.

The couple made a bet. Ippolit Sidorych was sure that this time his spouse would not achieve his - Sanin was very much in love. Unfortunately, Polozov lost, although his wife had to work hard. During the numerous dinners, walks and theater visits that Mrs. Polozova arranged for Sanin, he met von Dongoff, the hostess's previous lover. Dmitry cheated on his fiancée three days after arriving in Wiesbaden on a horse ride arranged by Marya Nikolaevna.

Sanin had the conscience to confess to Gemma of treason. After that, he completely submitted to Polozova, became her slave and followed her until she drank it dry and threw it away like an old rag. In memory of Gemma, Sanin only had a cross. He still did not understand why he left the girl, "so tenderly and passionately loved by him, for a woman whom he did not love at all."

After an evening of reminiscences, Sanin got ready and in the middle of winter set off for Frankfurt. He wanted to find Gemma and ask for forgiveness, but he did not even find the street on which there was a pastry shop thirty years ago. In the Frankfurt address book, he came across the name of Major von Dongoff. He told Sanin that Gemma was married and gave her address in New York. Dmitry sent her letter and received an answer. Gemma wrote that she was very happy in marriage and grateful to Sanin for upsetting her first engagement. She gave birth to five children. Pantaleone and Frau Leone died, while Emilio died fighting for Garibaldi. The letter contained a photograph of Gemma's daughter, who looked very much like her mother. The girl was engaged. Sanin sent her a "pomegranate cross, dressed in a magnificent pearl necklace" as a gift, and then he himself went to America. Retold Yulia Peskovaya

Dmitry Pavlovich Sanin, went through his old papers and found a small box with a pomegranate cross inside. Memories woke up. In 1840, Sanin traveled to Europe and stopped in Frankfurt. Entering a small pastry shop, he came across a girl praying to help her unconscious brother. When it was over, their mother invited the savior to dinner. Leonora Roselli fled Italy with her husband to open her own pastry shop. Her daughter was called Gemma, and the little old servant was called Pantaleone, formerly an opera tenor.

Gemma was going to marry Karl Kruber. The next day Dmitry went with Karl and Gemma to Soden. There, one of the officers offended Gemma, and Sanin asked for a duel. Pantaleone confessed to Gemma about the duel, and the girl was determined to break up with her fiancé. The mother visited Sanin and asked him to influence her daughter, because their family was on the verge of collapse and high hopes were pinned on this marriage. Dmitry agreed, but the conversation turned in a different direction and Sanin decided to propose to her. At first, my mother was against it, but then she agreed. Dmitry owned a small estate, which Sanin intended to sell. A chance meeting with a classmate brought many changes to Sanin's life.

The wife of a classmate Polozov, was an insidious woman and seduced Dmitry. Sanin told Gemma about everything, after which he devoted himself completely to Polozova, who made him her slave and used him to the last. Only a cross remained in memory. After these memories, Dmitry decides to go to Frankfurt, to ask Gemma for forgiveness. But there was not even a street where the pastry shop used to be. Having accidentally found von Dongoff, now a major, Sanin meets with him. He gave the address of Gemma, who lived in New York. Sanin wrote, in response a letter came with gratitude from Gemma that he upset her first marriage. She sent a photo of her daughter who was about to get married. Sanin sent her a pomegranate cross, enclosed in a pearl necklace, and soon he himself was going to New York.

The story is preceded by a quatrain from an old Russian romance:

Happy years
Happy Days -
Like spring waters
They rushed

Apparently, it will be about love, youth. Maybe in the form of memories? Yes indeed. "At about two o'clock in the morning, he returned to his office. He sent a servant who lit candles, and, throwing himself into an armchair near the fireplace, covered his face with both hands."

Well, to all appearances, "he" (from our point of view) lives well, whoever he is: the servant lights candles, lit a fireplace for him. As it turns out later, he spent the evening with pleasant ladies and educated men. In addition: some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by their intelligence and talents. He himself flashed in the conversation. Why is he now suffocated by "disgust for life"?

And what is he (Dmitry Pavlovich Sanin) thinking about in the quiet of a cozy warm office? "About vanity, uselessness, vulgar falsehood of everything human." That's it, no more, no less!

He is 52 years old, he remembers all ages and does not see a gap. "Everywhere, the same eternal pouring from empty to empty, the same pounding of water, the same half-conscientious, half-conscious self-delusion ... - and then suddenly, as if it were snowing on your head, old age will come - and with it ... the fear of death ... and thump into the abyss! " And before the end of weakness, suffering ...

To distract himself from unpleasant thoughts, he sat down at his desk, began rummaging through his papers, in old women's letters, intending to burn this unnecessary trash. Suddenly he cried out weakly: in one of the boxes there was a box in which there was a small pomegranate cross.

He sat down again in an armchair by the fireplace - and again covered his face with his hands. "... And he remembered a lot, long past ... This is what he remembered ..."

In the summer of 1840 he was in Frankfurt, returning from Italy to Russia. After the death of a distant relative, he had several thousand rubles; he decided to live them abroad, and then do not enter the service.

At that time, tourists drove around in stagecoaches: there were still few railways. Sanin was to leave for Berlin that day.

Walking around the city, at six o'clock in the evening he went to the "Italian Confectionery" to drink a glass of lemonade. There was no one in the first room, then a girl of about 19 rushed in from the next room "with dark curls scattered over her bare shoulders, with outstretched arms outstretched." Seeing Sanin, the stranger grabbed his hand and led him along. "Hurry, hurry, here, save!" she said in a "choking voice." He had never seen such a beauty in his life.

In the next room, her brother was lying on the sofa, a boy of 14 years old, pale, with blue lips. It was a sudden faint. A tiny shaggy old man with crooked legs hobbled into the room, said that he had sent for a doctor ...

"- But Emil will die for now!" - exclaimed the girl and stretched out her hands to Sanin, begging for help. He took off the boy's coat, unbuttoned his shirt and, taking a brush, began to rub his chest and arms. At the same time, he glanced sideways at the extraordinary beautiful Italian woman. The nose is a little too big, but "beautiful, aquiline fret", dark gray eyes, long dark curls ...

Finally, the boy woke up, and soon a lady appeared with silver-gray hair and a swarthy face, as it turns out, the mother of Emil and his sisters. At the same time the servant came with the doctor.

Fearing that he was now superfluous, Sanin went out, but the girl caught up with him and begged him to return in an hour "for a cup of chocolate." "- We owe you so much - you may have saved your brother - we want to thank you - mom wants to. You must tell us who you are, you must rejoice with us ..."

An hour and a half later he appeared. All the inhabitants of the pastry shop seemed incredibly happy. On a round table covered with a clean tablecloth was a huge porcelain coffee pot filled with scented chocolate; around the cup, decanters with syrup, biscuits, rolls. Candles were burning in old silver shandals.

Sanin was seated in an easy chair, forced to tell about himself; in turn, the ladies dedicated him to the details of their lives. They are all Italians. The mother, a lady with silver-gray hair and a dark complexion, "became almost completely Germanized" because her late husband, an experienced pastry chef, settled in Germany 25 years ago; daughter Gemma and son Emil "very good and obedient children"; a little old man named Pantaleone, it turns out, was once an opera singer for a long time, but now "was in the Roselli family, something in between a friend of the house and a servant."

The mother of the family, Frau Lenore, imagined Russia this way: "eternal snow, everyone is in fur coats and all the military - but the hospitality is extraordinary! Sanin tried to give her and her daughter more accurate information." He even sang "Sarafan" and "On the street pavement", and then Pushkin's "I remember a wonderful moment" to the music of Glinka, somehow accompanying himself on the piano. The ladies admired the lightness and sonority of the Russian language, then sang several Italian duets. Former singer Pantaleone also tried to perform something, some kind of "extraordinary grace", but failed. And then Emil suggested that his sister read to the guest "one of Maltz's comedies, which she reads so well."

Gemma read "quite like an actor", "using her facial expressions." Sanin admired her so much that he did not notice how the evening passed and completely forgot that his coach was leaving at half-past ten. When the clock struck 10 in the evening, he jumped up as if stung. Late!

"- Did you pay all the money, or did you just give a deposit? - asked Frau Lenore.

Everything! cried Sanin with a sad grimace. "

"- Now you have to stay in Frankfurt for a few days," Gemma told him, "where are you in a hurry ?!"

He knew that he would have to stay "due to the emptiness of his wallet" and ask a Berlin friend to send money.

"- Stay, stay, - said Frau Lenore. - We will introduce you to Gemma's fiancé, Herr Karl Kluber."

Sanin was slightly taken aback by this news.

And the next day, guests came to his hotel: Emil and with him a tall young man "with a fine face" - Gemma's fiancé.

The groom said that "he wanted to express his respect and his gratitude to the foreigner who rendered such an important service to the future relative, the brother of his bride."

Herr Kluber was in a hurry to his store - "business comes first!"

Sanin was invited to his new friends for breakfast and stayed until the evening. Everything around Gemma seemed pleasant and sweet. "In the monotonously quiet and smooth flow of life, great charms are hidden" ... With the onset of night, when he went home, the "image" of Gemma did not leave him. And the next day, in the morning, Emil came to him and announced that Herr Kluber, (on the eve of everyone who had invited everyone for a pleasure ride), would now come with a carriage. A quarter of an hour later, Kluber, Sanin and Emil drove up to the porch of the pastry shop. Frau Lenore stayed at home due to a headache, but sent Gemma with them.

We went to Soden, a small town near Frankfurt. Sanin furtively watched Gemma and her fiancé. She behaved calmly and simply, but nevertheless somewhat more serious than usual, and the groom "looked like an indulgent mentor"; he also treated nature "with the same condescension through which the usual primordial severity occasionally broke through."

Then lunch, coffee; nothing remarkable. But at one of the neighboring tables sat quite drunk officers and suddenly one of them approached Gemma. He had already visited Frankfurt and, apparently, knew her. "I drink to the health of the most beautiful coffee shop in the whole of Frankfurt, in the whole world (he" slammed "the glass at once) - and in retaliation I take this flower plucked by her divine fingers!" As he did so, he took the rose that lay in front of her. At first she was scared, then anger flashed in her eyes! Her look embarrassed the drunk, who muttered something, "went back to his own."

Herr Kluber, putting on his hat, said: "This is unheard of! Unheard of insolence!" and demanded immediate settlement from the waiter. He also ordered to lay the carriage, because "decent people cannot go here, because they are subject to insults!"

"Stand up, Maine Fraulein," Mr. Kluber said all with the same severity, "it is indecent for you to stay here. We will settle down there, in the tavern!"

Arm in arm with Gemma, he marched majestically to the inn. Emil followed them.

In the meantime, Sanin, as befits a nobleman, went up to the table where the officers were sitting and said in French to the offender: "You are a badly brought up impudent man." The latter jumped up, and another older officer stopped him and asked Sanin, also in French, who he was to that girl.

Sanin, throwing his visiting card on the table, declared that he was a stranger to the girl, but could not indifferently see such insolence. He grabbed the rose taken from Gemma and left, having received assurances that "tomorrow morning one of the officers of their regiment will have the honor to appear at his apartment."

The groom pretended not to notice Sanin's act. Gemma didn't say anything either. And Emil was ready to throw himself on the hero's neck or go with him to fight the offenders.

Kluber talked all the way: about the fact that they did not obey him in vain when he offered to dine in a closed gazebo, about morality and immorality, about decency and dignity ... Gradually, Gemma was clearly embarrassed for her fiancé. And Sanin secretly rejoiced at everything that happened, and at the end of the trip handed her that very rose. She flushed and squeezed his hand.

This is how this love began.

In the morning a second appeared and said that his friend, Baron von Dongoff, "would be content with a slight apology."

In the morning we had a walk to Soden, a small picturesque town half an hour's drive from Frankfurt, organized by Herr Kluber with true German pedantry. We dined at the best inn in Soden. Gemma was bored with the walk. To unwind, she wanted to dine not in a secluded gazebo, which her pedantic groom had already ordered, but on a common terrace. A company of officers from the Mainz garrison was dining at a nearby table. One of them, being heavily drunk, approached Gemma, “slapped a glass” to her health and cheekily grabbed a rose lying near her plate.

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(513 words) Turgenev in his work tells about the landowner. His name was Dmitry Pavlovich Sanin, he was 52 years old. Returning home, he angrily began to talk about vanity, uselessness, about the vulgar falseness of everything human. The man was very rich, but lonely, which made his life empty and useless. In order not to think about it, Dmitry Pavlovich began digging through his old papers, among them he found love letters and a pomegranate cross. Memories of the past flooded over him.

He turned 22 when he went on a trip to Europe. He traveled with the money of a distant relative, who left him a small inheritance. Sanin stayed in Frankfurt and decided to walk around the city. Dmitry dropped into an Italian pastry shop to get himself a glass of lemonade. From the doorway, a young lady ran up to him with pleas for help, her brother fainted. Dmitry helped the young man (Emil) to come to his senses. In gratitude, his mother invited Sanin to dinner. Her name was Leonora Roselli, about twenty years ago she and her husband moved from Italy. Their beautiful daughter was called Gemma. Another member of their family was their devoted servant Pantaleone. The main character was disappointed that Gemma was betrothed to Karl Kluber (head of department in the store).

Dmitry did not have time for his stagecoach, and his financial situation left much to be desired. He borrowed money from his friend. Soon Sanin became friends with Emil and met Gemma's fiancé.

One day Kluber organized a trip to Soden. Gemma got tired of the walk and decided to eat on an ordinary terrace. A drunken officer approached the girl and took a flower that lay next to her plate. She was offended. But her fiancé, instead of defending the honor of his beloved, quickly paid the bill and escorted Gemma to the hotel. Dmitry took the rose from the officer. A duel was appointed. Pantaleone was called in a second.

Dmitry spent the rest of the day with Gemma. She gave him the already dried rose, which was then lying next to her plate. He realized that he was in love.

The duel officer deliberately missed, because he realized he was wrong. Gemma learned about the fight from Pantaleone and wanted to break off the engagement. But their family was on the verge of ruin, and only the marriage of their daughter could save them. Dmitry, at the request of Gemma's mother, tried to dissuade her from this act, but they realized that they were in love with each other, and he asked for her hand in marriage.

He only had to sell his estate in the Tula province in order to improve his financial situation. Dmitry ran into his classmate Ippolit Polozov. He was married to a wealthy lady. The main character offered Ippolit to buy his estate, but he disowned that his wife, Marya Nikolaevna, was in charge of all business.

Dmitry agreed to meet with Polozov's wife. She was not ugly. Marya Nikolaevna made a bet with her husband, she had to seduce Sanin. He succumbed to her spell.

Now, after so many years, he could not understand why he left his beloved. Dmitry even tried to find Gemma, but in Germany she disappeared. The landowner found out that his beloved was married and moved to New York. He found her address and sent a letter. In a response message, Gemma told him that her life had developed very well, that she was extremely happy with her husband. She became the mother of five children.

Dmitry Sanin sent his beloved a pomegranate cross as a gift. They said that he sold all his estates and was going to America.

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