Fathers and sons average content by chapter. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

From century to century, on the verge of generations

Fathers and children are embroiled in conflict.

The reason is the abyss of different dimensions.

This is what Turgenev says.

Conflict is born at the root of interests

Fathers and children, but not their fault,

Blame it all - a big leap in progress -

So it was, is and will always be!

"Fathers and Sons" is cult novel Russian classic Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. It was written in 1861. The writer was able to describe the problem of two generations - fathers and children, reveal the eternal conflict and the essence of its origin. This work was filmed several times, but the book cannot be replaced by anything, the paper original surpasses the video replicas by several dozen times.

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The novel is included in the high school curriculum, so it is required reading. It consists of 28 chapters (that's about 200 pages), written in a completely readable language, so you can study its contents in a short time.

But if for some reason you do not want to read this powerful work in full, our article will help you briefly get acquainted with the main idea of ​​​​the novel, you will find a summary of the book chapter by chapter.

After reviewing the summary of each chapter, you will have an idea about the novel and about everyone key points storyline development.

1. Main and secondary characters novel; brief description of each character.
2. Brief description of the plot of the 28 chapters of the book "Fathers and Sons".

The main characters of the novel

Other characters

Fenechka is the daughter of Kirsanov's maid, the mistress of Nikolai Petrovich, the mother of his child. At the end of the novel, he marries his father Arkady.

Viktor Sitnikov, an acquaintance of Evgeny Bazarov and Arkady Kirsanov, also holds nihilistic convictions.

Evdokia Kukshina - Victor's acquaintance, also an "ardent" nihilist.

Dunyasha is Fenechka's servant.

Peter is a servant of Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov.

Princess R. is the love of a lifetime for Pavel Petrovich.

Timofeich is the serf of Vasily Bazarov, a man of respectable age.

Matvey Kolyazin is an official.

Princess Avdotya Stepanovna - an evil old woman, Anna's aunt, lives with her niece until her death.

Sergey Nikolaevich Loktev - a swindler, the father of Anna and Katerina, lives in the village due to forced circumstances.

Fathers and sons: a summary of the chapters

Actions in the work take place on the eve of the peasant reform (the abolition of serfdom) at the end of May 1859.

Chapter 1

The landowner Nikolai Petrovich is looking forward to the arrival of his son Arkady. He is single, single, lives on a modest estate and manages 200 serfs. He wanted to become a military man, but a leg injury prevented him from fulfilling this desire. He has a higher education, lives in the village after the birth of his son and the death of his wife. He sends Arkady to St. Petersburg to study, travels with him for three years, but does not stand it and again returns to his village to his usual way of life.

Expecting a son with great excitement and trepidation. Moreover, Arkady is going to visit with a friend.

Chapter 2

Arrival of Arkady and acquaintance with Evgeny Bazarov. He gives the impression of an intelligent and rather self-confident young man. Arkady Kirsanov asks his father to treat the guest as simply and calmly as possible, especially without ceremony. Therefore, the son and father ride in a carriage, and Eugene in a tarantass (road cart).

Chapter 3

Nikolai Petrovich is very glad to meet his son and cannot curb your feelings, constantly hugging him. Arkady values ​​his friend's opinion very much, so he restrains his true emotions. The father admits that Fenechka lives with him on the estate, but she can leave the house if her son so wishes. Arkady does not resist her presence.

Nikolai Petrovich tells a detailed story about how he is angry with his peasants, because they do not pay dues, but only get drunk. There are no changes in Maryino, everything is dilapidated. Arkady ponders what can be done for the village and how to change everything for the better. The whole trio rides the rest of the way in silence.

Chapter 4

In the Kirsanovs' estate, only the old servant Peter meets the guest. The elder brother and, concurrently, uncle Arkady, Pyotr Petrovich, met with Yevgeny Bazarov. Kirsanov Sr. is very intelligent and good-looking, dressed to the nines, has refined manners and excellent taste. Arkady's new friend immediately aroused negative emotions in him, Pyotr Petrovich did not even shake hands with him, calling him "hairy." Young people leave, because you need to put yourself in order after long road and get a good night's sleep, while the Kirsanov brothers cannot fall asleep for a long time, thinking about their daily needs.

Chapter 5

In the morning, Bazarov leaves to collect frogs for experiments in the local swamp. . Arkady meets his father's new passion Fenechka and her son Mitya, who is also his half-brother. He rejoices that he has a brother, and reproaches his father for the fact that Nikolai Petrovich hid this fact.

A conversation took place between Pavel Petrovich and Arkady about Bazarov. The nephew tells his uncle about his friend's belief that he is a nihilist and doesn't take principles for granted. Bazarov returns with a full bucket of frogs and everyone starts their morning meal.

Chapter 6

At the table while breakfast is being taken, a fierce dispute between Pavel Petrovich and Evgeny Bazarov about the nihilism of the latter. There is animosity between them. At the end of the meal, Arkady tells his friend about his uncle's life so that Yevgeny will show at least a little sympathy.

Chapter 7

Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov - retired officer, was very popular with members of the opposite sex. The career promised to be successful, but, as luck would have it, at the age of 28, my uncle fell in love with a professional worker, Princess R. She was married. These feelings haunted him and for 4 years he unsuccessfully tried to win the favor of the unlucky beauty, finally abandoning his career. Pavel Petrovich never married, because he could not get rid of this unhealthy dependence on his princess. After the death of his beloved, he moved to his younger brother in the village to run a joint household.

Chapter 8

Pavel Petrovich goes to Fenechka's wing to look at the little six-month-old Mitya. Soon his younger brother Nikolai Petrovich joins him. He loves his illegitimate son very much.

Chapter 9

Arkady's friend gets acquainted with the passion of Nikolai Petrovich and offers his medical services, if necessary. Fenechka arouses sympathy in him, he is convinced that Arkady's father should marry her.

Bazarov frankly ridicules the creative abilities of Nikolai Petrovich, especially when the latter begins to play the cello. Arkady is uncomfortable with this behavior of a friend, but he does not say anything to Yevgeny.

Chapter 10

Everyone gradually gets used to Bazarov's behavior and his oddities, life goes on as usual. One evening a dispute breaks out between Pavel Petrovich and Evgeny. Again, nihilism becomes the reason. Arkady supports his friend.

Chapter 11

This chapter is devoted to the thoughts of the main characters of the novel about their past and future lives.

Arkady and Evgeny decide to visit a noble relative of the Kirsanovs and leave the village.

Chapter 12

The meeting of two friends with the official Matvey Ilyich Kolyazin takes place according to all the rules of high society. An offer was made to pay a visit to the governor. Arkady agreed. Friends received an invitation to the ball.

Bazarov meets his friend Viktor Sitnikov, who leads Arkady and Evgeny to his friend Kukshina .

Chapter 13

Acquaintance with the hostess Evdokia Kukshina did not cause pleasant emotions, since she was a very strange and untidy lady who did not know how to listen to her interlocutor. Soon the friends leave.

Chapter 14

At the ball, Arkady meets Anna Sergeevna Odintsova, who arouses sympathy and keen interest on the part of the young man. The woman invites Arkady and Evgeny to visit.

Chapter 15

Young people pay a visit to the hotel, where the young widow Odintsova lives. During Bazarov's conversation with Anna, Arkady notices that his friend was embarrassed, which was an atypical phenomenon for him.

Friends learn about the touching life story of Anna Sergeevna Odintsova, that her father Sergei Loktev was a well-known swindler and did not leave any inheritance to his daughters.

So Anna married the old man and lived with him for six years. The younger sister Katerina lived with them. After the death of her husband, Anna settled in the Nikolsky estate, where Bazarov and Kirsanov were invited.

Chapter 16

At Anna's estate, friends meet her younger sister. Feelings are born between Evgeny and Anna, Arkady is jealous of a woman for a friend and spends a lot of time with Katerina.

Chapter 17

15 days have passed since friends arrived in Nikolskoye. These two weeks radically changed Evgeny's worldview, because he fell in love with Anna. Ta also began to reciprocate, but they could not confess their feelings for each other.

The arrival of the serf Bazarov Timofeich became an occasion for Yevgeny to leave the estate and visit his parents. The young man wants to sort out his feelings for Anna.

Chapter 18

The next day, Anna still pulls a confession from Eugene, but the young man is refused. Odintsova says that the main thing in her life is calmness and does not want to change anything.

Chapter 19

Bazarov leaves the estate and goes with Arkady to visit his parents. Relations between friends are no longer as warm as they used to be.

Chapter 20

The meeting with Evgeny's parents, whom he has not seen for 3 years, is rather reserved, because the young man does not like to show excessive emotions.

Chapter 21

Eugene is bored in his parents' house, so after three days he decides to return to the village with Arkady. Friends quarrel over disagreements about their parents, because the old Bazarovs love their son very much, and he is so cold towards them.

Chapter 22

On the way home, Kirsanov decides to pay a visit to Nikolskoye, but they were not welcome there, so the friends were forced to leave the estate.

Arkady and Bazarov return to the Kirsanov estate, a warm welcome awaits them, the father is happy about the return of his son.

After 10 days, Arkady leaves for Odintsova in Nikolskoye, under the pretext of urgent business.

The final part of the book

Chapter 23

Bazarov guesses where Arkady has gone. Pays special attention to Fenechka, and everything ends with a kiss. Pavel Petrovich becomes a witness of their closeness.

Chapter 24

Kirsanov Sr. challenges Yevgeny to a duel, as he considers his behavior unacceptable, where he receives a slight wound in the thigh.

Bazarov leaves the village, and Pavel Petrovich convinces his brother to marry Fenechka.

Chapter 25

Kirsanov spends all his free time with Katerina, discovering true feelings for her, and not for her older sister. Bazarov arrives and they decide to remain friends with Odintsova. After Yevgeny's story about the duel, the relationship of friends finally deteriorates.

Chapter 26

Arkady decides to marry Katerina, so he leaves for the blessing of his father in the village. Friends see each other for the last time.

Chapter 27

Bazarov returns to his parents and practices medicine. Once, having accidentally cut himself during the autopsy of a typhoid corpse, he becomes infected deadly disease. Anticipating an imminent death, he calls Odintsova to him and reports the sad news. Soon Eugene dies ...

Chapter 28

it final chapter novel. The work ends with the following events:

• the double wedding of Nikolai Kirsanov with Fenechka and Arkady with Katerina.
• Pavel Petrovich leaves the village forever and goes abroad.
• Anna Sergeevna marries an influential person.

] on the *** highway, a gentleman of about forty, in a dusty coat and plaid trousers, with his servant, a young and cheeky fellow with whitish fluff on his chin and small dull eyes.
The servant, in whom everything: a turquoise earring in his ear, and pomaded multi-colored hair, and courteous gestures, in a word, everything revealed a man of the newest, improved generation, looked condescendingly along the road and answered: “No way, sir, I can’t see it.”
- Can't see? repeated the barin.
“Not to be seen,” the servant answered a second time.
The master sighed and sat down on a bench. Let's introduce the reader to him while he sits with his legs bent under him and looking around thoughtfully.
His name is Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov. Fifteen versts from the inn, he has a good estate of two hundred souls, or, as he puts it since he separated himself from the peasants and started a "farm," two thousand acres of land. His father, a combat general in 1812, a semi-literate, rude, but not evil Russian man, pulled the strap all his life, commanded first a brigade, then a division, and constantly lived in the provinces, where, by virtue of his rank, he played a rather significant role. Nikolai Petrovich was born in the south of Russia, like his older brother Pavel, about whom we are talking about below, and was brought up at home until the age of fourteen, surrounded by cheap tutors, cheeky but obsequious adjutants and other regimental and staff personalities. His parent, from the family of Kolyazins, in the girls Agathe, and in the generals Agathoklea Kuzminishna Kirsanova, belonged to the number of "mother commanders", wore puffy caps and noisy silk dresses, in church she was the first to approach the cross, spoke loudly and a lot, allowed children in the morning to the pen, blessed them for the night, - in a word, she lived for her own pleasure. As a general's son, Nikolai Petrovich - although not only not distinguished by his courage, but even earned the nickname of a coward - had, like his brother Pavel, to enter military service; but he broke his leg on the very day when the news of his determination had already arrived, and, after lying in bed for two months, he remained “crippled” for the rest of his life. His father waved his hand at him and let him go in civilian clothes. He took him to Petersburg as soon as he was eighteen years old and placed him at the university. By the way, his brother about that time went out as an officer in the guards regiment. Young people began to live together, in the same apartment, under the distant supervision of a cousin on the maternal side, Ilya Kolyazin, an important official. Their father returned to his division and to his wife, and only occasionally sent his sons large quarters of gray paper, spotted with a sweeping clerk's handwriting. At the end of these quarters were the words carefully surrounded by "frills": "Piotr Kirsanof, major general." In 1835, Nikolai Petrovich left the university as a candidate, and in the same year, General Kirsanov, dismissed for an unsuccessful review, came to St. Petersburg with his wife to live. He rented a house near the Tauride Garden and signed up for an English club, but died suddenly from a stroke. Agathoklea Kuzminishna soon followed him: she could not get used to the dull life of the capital; the melancholy of retired existence bit her. Meanwhile, Nikolai Petrovich managed, even during the life of his parents and to their considerable chagrin, to fall in love with the daughter of the official Prepolovensky, the former owner of his apartment, a pretty and, as they say, developed girl: she read serious articles in the magazines in the Science department. He married her as soon as the period of mourning had passed, and, leaving the Ministry of Appanages, where, under the patronage of his father, he enrolled him, he blissed with his Masha, first at a dacha near the Forest Institute, then in the city, in a small and pretty apartment, with a clean staircase and a chilly living room, finally - in the village, where he finally settled down and where his son Arkady was soon born. The couple lived very well and quietly: they almost never parted, read together, played four hands on the piano, sang duets; she planted flowers and watched the poultry yard, he occasionally went hunting and did housework, and Arkady grew and grew - also well and quietly. Ten years have passed like a dream. In 1947 Kirsanov's wife died. He barely took the blow, turned gray in a few weeks; I was about to go abroad in order to at least disperse a little ... but then the 48th year came. Involuntarily, he returned to the village and, after a rather long period of inactivity, took up economic transformations. In 1955 he took his son to the university; lived with him for three winters in St. Petersburg, almost never going anywhere and trying to make acquaintances with Arkady's young comrades. He could not come for the last winter - and here we see him in the month of May 1859, already completely gray-haired, plump and slightly hunched: he is waiting for his son, who, like himself once, received the title of candidate.
The servant, out of a sense of decency, and perhaps not wanting to remain under the master's eye, went under the gate and lit his pipe. Nikolai Petrovich drooped his head and began to look at the dilapidated steps of the porch: a large motley chicken paced sedately along them, thumping his big yellow legs; a dirty cat looked at him unfriendly, crouching coyly on the railing. The sun was hot; from the semi-dark vestibule of the inn yard carried the smell of warm rye bread. Our Nikolai Petrovich was daydreaming. "Son ... candidate ... Arkasha ..." - constantly revolved in his head; he tried to think of something else, and again the same thoughts came back. He remembered his deceased wife ... "I didn't wait!" he whispered dejectedly... A fat gray dove flew onto the road and hurriedly went to drink in a puddle near the well. Nikolai Petrovich began to look at him, and his ear was already catching the sound of approaching wheels...
“They’re not going, sir,” the servant reported, emerging from under the gate.
Nikolai Petrovich jumped up and fixed his eyes along the road. A tarantass harnessed by a trio of yam horses appeared; in the tarantass flashed the band of a student's cap, the familiar outline of a dear face...
- Arkasha! Arkasha! - Kirsanov shouted, and ran, and waved his arms ... A few moments later, his lips were already pressed to the beardless, dusty and tanned cheek of the young candidate.

“Let me shake myself off, papa,” Arkady said in a somewhat hoarse from the road, but ringing youthful voice, cheerfully responding to his father’s caresses, “I’ll get you all dirty.”
“Nothing, nothing,” Nikolai Petrovich repeated, smiling tenderly, and once or twice struck his hand on the collar of his son’s overcoat and on his own overcoat. “Show yourself, show yourself,” he added, moving away, and immediately went with hurried steps to the inn, saying: “Here, here, and the horses as soon as possible.”
Nikolai Petrovich seemed much more alarmed than his son; he seemed to be a little lost, as if timid. Arkady stopped him.
“Papa,” he said, “let me introduce you to my good friend, Bazarov, about whom I wrote to you so often. He is so kind that he agreed to stay with us.
Nikolai Petrovich quickly turned around and, going up to a tall man in a long robe with tassels, who had just climbed out of the tarantass, tightly squeezed his bare red hand, which he did not immediately give to him.
- Sincerely glad, - he began, - and grateful for the good intention to visit us; I hope ... let me know your name and patronymic?
“Yevgeny Vasiliev,” Bazarov answered the lazy, but manly voice and, turning down the collar of his robe, showed Nikolai Petrovich his whole face. Long and thin, with a broad forehead, a flat upward, downward pointed nose, large greenish eyes and drooping sand-coloured sideburns, it was enlivened by a calm smile and expressed self-confidence and intelligence.
“I hope, my dear Yevgeny Vasilyich, that you will not get bored with us,” continued Nikolai Petrovich.
Bazarov's thin lips moved a little; but he made no answer, and only raised his cap. His dark blond hair, long and thick, did not hide the large bulges of a spacious skull.
“So, Arkady,” Nikolai Petrovich spoke again, turning to his son, “now to pawn the horses, or what?” Or do you want to relax?
- Let's rest at home, dad; ordered to lay.
“Now, now,” said the father. Hey Peter, do you hear? Order, brother, live.
Peter, who, as a perfected servant, did not approach the barich's hand, but only bowed to him from a distance, again disappeared under the gate.
“I’m here with a carriage, but there is a troika for your tarantass,” Nikolai Petrovich was busily saying, while Arkady drank water from an iron ladle brought by the hostess of the inn, and Bazarov lit his pipe and went up to the driver, harnessing the horses, “only a carriage double, and now I don't know how your friend...
"He'll ride in a tarantass," interrupted Arkady in an undertone. - Please, don't mess with him. He's a wonderful fellow, so simple, you'll see.
Nikolai Petrovich's coachman led the horses out.
- Well, turn around, thick-bearded! Bazarov turned to the coachman.
“Listen, Mityukha,” another coachman, standing right there, picked up with his hands thrust into the back holes of his sheepskin coat, “how did the gentleman call you? Thick-bearded and there is.
Mityukha only shook his hat and dragged the reins with a sweaty root.
- Live, live, guys, help, - exclaimed Nikolai Petrovich, - there will be vodka!
In a few minutes the horses were laid; father and son fit in the carriage; Peter climbed on the goats; Bazarov jumped into the tarantass, buried his head in the leather pillow, and both carriages rolled off.

“So that’s how you finally came home as a candidate,” said Nikolai Petrovich, touching Arkady first on the shoulder, then on the knee. - Finally!
- What about uncle? healthy? asked Arkady, who, despite the sincere, almost childish joy that filled him, wanted to quickly turn the conversation from an excited mood to an ordinary one.
- Healthy. He wanted to go with me to meet you, but for some reason changed his mind.
- Have you been waiting for me for a long time? asked Arkady.
Yes, about five o'clock.
- Good papa!
Arkady turned briskly to his father and kissed him loudly on the cheek. Nikolai Petrovich laughed softly.
- What a glorious horse I have prepared for you! he began, you will see. And your room is covered with wallpaper.
- Is there a room for Bazarov?
- There is one for him.
- Please, papa, caress him. I cannot express to you how much I value his friendship.
Have you met him recently?
- Recently.
“I didn’t see him last winter. What is he doing?
His main subject is the natural sciences. Yes, he knows everything. He wants to keep a doctor next year.
- BUT! he is in the medical faculty,” Nikolai Petrovich remarked, and was silent for a while. “Pyotr,” he added, and held out his hand, “is it our peasants who are coming?”
Peter glanced in the direction the master was pointing. Several carts pulled by unbridled horses rolled rapidly along a narrow country road. In each cart sat one, many two men in sheepskin coats wide open.
“Just so, sir,” said Peter.
- Where are they going, to the city, or what?
- It must be assumed that in the city. To the tavern,” he added contemptuously, and leaned slightly towards the coachman, as if referring to him. But he did not even move: he was a man of the old school, who did not share the latest views.
“I have a lot of trouble with the peasants this year,” continued Nikolai Petrovich, turning to his son. - They don't pay dues. What will you do?
Are you satisfied with your employees?
“Yes,” Nikolai Petrovich said through gritted teeth. - They knock them out, that's the trouble; Well, there is still no real effort. They spoil the harness. Plowed, however, nothing. It will grind - there will be flour. Are you interested in farming now?
“You don’t have a shadow, that’s the trouble,” Arkady remarked, not answering the last question.
“I attached a large awning on the north side above the balcony,” Nikolai Petrovich said, “now you can dine outdoors.
- Something will painfully look like a summer cottage ... but, by the way, this is all nonsense. What is the air here! How nice it smells! Indeed, it seems to me that nowhere in the world smells so much as in these parts! And the sky is here...
Arkady suddenly stopped, cast an indirect glance behind him, and fell silent.
“Of course,” Nikolai Petrovich remarked, “you were born here, everything must seem to you something special here ...
- Well, dad, it's all the same, no matter where a person was born.
- However...
- No, it doesn't matter at all.
Nikolai Petrovich looked sideways at his son, and the carriage drove half a verst before the conversation resumed between them.
“I don’t remember if I wrote to you,” Nikolai Petrovich began, “your former nanny, Yegorovna, has died.
– Really? Poor old woman! Is Prokofich alive?
He is alive and hasn't changed at all. It's all bubbling just the same. In general, you will not find big changes in Maryino.
- Do you still have the same clerk?
- Except that I changed the clerk. I decided not to keep freedmen, former serfs, or at least not to entrust them with any positions where there is responsibility. (Arkady pointed with his eyes at Peter.) Il est libre, en effet, (He really is a freeman (French).) - Nikolai Petrovich remarked in an undertone, - but he is a valet. Now I have a clerk from the middle class: he seems to be an efficient fellow. I assigned him two hundred and fifty rubles a year. However,” Nikolai Petrovich added, rubbing his forehead and eyebrows with his hand, which always served as a sign of inner embarrassment in him, “I just told you that you will not find changes in Maryino ... This is not entirely fair. I consider it my duty to preface you, though...
He hesitated for a moment and continued in French.
- A strict moralist will find my frankness inappropriate, but, firstly, this cannot be hidden, and secondly, you know, I have always had special principles about the relationship of father to son. However, you will certainly have the right to condemn me. In my years... In a word, this... this girl, about whom you probably already heard...
- Fenechka? Arkady asked cheekily.
Nikolai Petrovich blushed.
- Please don't call her out loud... Well, yes... she lives with me now. I placed it in the house... there were two small rooms. However, all this can be changed.
"Sorry, papa, why?"
- Your friend will be visiting us ... awkward ...
- As for Bazarov, please don't worry. He is above all this.
“Well, you, finally,” said Nikolai Petrovich. - The outbuilding is bad - that's the trouble.
“Have mercy, papa,” Arkady picked up, “you seem to be apologizing; how shameless you are.
“Of course, I should be ashamed,” answered Nikolai Petrovich, blushing more and more.
“Come on, daddy, come on, do me a favor!” Arkady smiled kindly. "What an apology!" he thought to himself, and a feeling of condescending tenderness for his kind and gentle father, mingled with a feeling of some kind of secret superiority, filled his soul. “Stop, please,” he repeated again, involuntarily enjoying the consciousness of his own development and freedom.
Nikolai Petrovich looked at him from under the fingers of his hand, with which he continued to rub his forehead, and something struck him in the heart ... But he immediately blamed himself.
“This is how our fields have gone,” he said after a long silence.
- And this is ahead, it seems, our forest? asked Arkady.
Yes, ours. I just sold it. This year it will be brought together.
- Why did you sell it?
- Money was needed; moreover, this land goes to the peasants.
Who don't pay you dues?
“That’s their business, but they’ll pay someday.
"It's a pity for the forest," remarked Arkady, and began to look around.
The places they passed through could not be called picturesque. The fields, all the fields, stretched all the way to the sky, now slightly rising, now lowering again; in some places one could see small forests, and, dotted with sparse and low shrubs, ravines curled, reminding the eye of their own image on the ancient plans of Catherine's time. There were also rivers with open banks, and tiny ponds with thin dams, and villages with low huts under dark, often half-swept roofs, and crooked threshing sheds with walls woven from brushwood and yawning gates near the empty humens, and churches, sometimes brick with stucco that had fallen off in some places, then wooden ones with leaning crosses and devastated cemeteries. Arkady's heart sank little by little. As if on purpose, the peasants met all shabby, on bad nags; like beggars in tatters stood wayside willows with peeled bark and broken branches; emaciated, rough, as if gnawed, cows greedily plucked the grass in the ditches. It seemed that they had just escaped from someone's formidable, deadly claws - and, caused by the miserable sight of exhausted animals, in the midst of a red spring day, a white ghost of a bleak, endless winter arose with its snowstorms, frosts and snows ... "No," thought Arkady , - this poor region, it does not strike either contentment or hard work; it is impossible, it is impossible for it to remain like this, transformations are necessary ... but how to fulfill them, how to proceed? .. "
So thought Arkady ... and while he was thinking, spring took its toll. Everything around was golden green; everywhere the larks burst forth in endless ringing streams; the lapwings either screamed, hovering over the low-lying meadows, or silently ran across the hummocks; beautifully blackening in the delicate green of still low spring loaves, rooks walked; they disappeared in the rye, already slightly whitened, only occasionally their heads showed up in its smoky waves. Arkady looked and looked, and, gradually weakening, his thoughts disappeared ... He threw off his greatcoat and looked at his father so cheerfully, like such a young boy, that he again embraced him.
“Now it’s not far,” Nikolai Petrovich remarked, “it’s only worth climbing this hill, and the house will be visible. We will live happily with you, Arkasha; You will help me with the housework, unless it bores you. We need to get close to each other now, get to know each other well, don't we?
"Of course," said Arkady, "but what a wonderful day it is today!"
- For your arrival, my soul. Yes, spring is in full bloom. But by the way, I agree with Pushkin - remember, in Eugene Onegin:

How sad is your appearance to me,
Spring, spring, time for love!
Which...

- Arkady! - Bazarov's voice came from the tarantass, - send me a match, there is nothing to light a pipe with.
Nikolai Petrovich fell silent, and Arkady, who began to listen to him not without some amazement, but also not without sympathy, hastened to get a silver box of matches from his pocket and sent it to Bazarov and Pyotr.
- Do you want a cigar? shouted Bazarov again.
“Come on,” Arkady answered.
Pyotr returned to the carriage and handed him, along with the box, a thick black cigar, which Arkady immediately lit up, spreading around him such a strong and sour smell of seasoned tobacco that Nikolai Petrovich, who had never smoked, involuntarily, although imperceptibly, so as not to offend his son, turned his nose away. .
A quarter of an hour later, both carriages stopped in front of the porch of a new wooden house, painted with gray paint and covered with a red iron roof. This was Maryino, Novaya Slobidka, also, or, according to the peasant name, Bobily Khutor.

The crowd of courtyards did not pour out onto the porch to meet the gentlemen; only one girl of about twelve years old appeared, and after her a young lad, very much like Peter, dressed in a gray livery jacket with white coat of arms buttons, a servant of Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov, came out of the house. He silently opened the door of the carriage and unfastened the apron of the carriage. Nikolai Petrovich with his son and with Bazarov went through a dark and almost empty hall, through the door of which a young woman's face flashed, into the living room, already decorated in the latest taste.
“Here we are at home,” said Nikolai Petrovich, taking off his cap and shaking his hair. - The main thing is now to have dinner and rest.
“It’s really not bad to eat,” remarked Bazarov, stretching, and sank down on the sofa.
- Yes, yes, let's have dinner, have dinner as soon as possible. - Nikolai Petrovich stamped his feet for no apparent reason. - By the way, and Prokofich.
A man of about sixty entered, white-haired, thin and swarthy, in a brown tailcoat with copper buttons and a pink handkerchief around his neck. He grinned, went up to the handle to Arkady, and bowing to the guest, stepped back to the door and put his hands behind his back.
“Here he is, Prokofich,” began Nikolai Petrovich, “he has come to us at last... What? how do you find it?
- AT at its best-With' said the old man, and grinned again, but immediately frowned his thick brows. - Would you like to set the table? he spoke impressively.
– Yes, yes, please. But won't you go first to your room, Evgeny Vassilyitch?
- No, thank you, there is no need. Just order my suitcase to be dragged there and this clothes, ”he added, taking off his overalls.
- Very well. Prokofich, take their overcoat. (Prokofich, as if in bewilderment, took Bazarov's "clothes" with both hands and, raising it high above his head, retired on tiptoe.) And you, Arkady, will you go to your place for a minute?
“Yes, we need to clean ourselves,” Arkady answered, and was about to head for the door, but at that moment a man of medium height, dressed in a dark English suit, a fashionable low tie and patent leather half boots, Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov, entered the living room. He looked to be about forty-five years old: his short-cropped gray hair shone with a dark sheen, like new silver; his face, bilious, but without wrinkles, unusually regular and clean, as if drawn with a thin and light chisel, showed traces of remarkable beauty; the light, black, oblong eyes were especially good. The whole appearance of Arkadiev's uncle, elegant and thoroughbred, retained youthful harmony and that aspiration upward, away from the earth, which for the most part disappears after the twenties.
Pavel Petrovich took out of the pocket of his trousers his beautiful hand with long pink nails—a hand that seemed even more beautiful from the snowy whiteness of the sleeve fastened with a single large opal—and gave it to his nephew. Having made a preliminary European "shake hands" (handshake (English), he kissed him three times, in Russian, that is, he touched his cheeks with his fragrant mustache three times, and said: "Welcome."
Nikolai Petrovich introduced him to Bazarov: Pavel Petrovich bent his flexible waist slightly and smiled slightly, but he did not extend his hand and even put it back in his pocket.
“I already thought you weren’t coming today,” he said in a pleasant voice, swaying graciously, shrugging his shoulders and showing his fine white teeth. What happened on the road?
“Nothing happened,” Arkady answered, “so, they hesitated a little. But now we are hungry like wolves. Hurry up Prokofitch, papa, and I'll be right back.
"Wait a minute, I'll go with you," exclaimed Bazarov, suddenly tearing himself off the sofa. Both young men left.
- Who is this? asked Pavel Petrovich.
- A friend of Arkasha, a very, according to him, a smart person.
Will he visit us?
- Yes.
This hairy one?
- Well, yes.
Pavel Petrovich tapped his nails on the table.
- I find that Arkady s "est degourdi (has become more cheeky (French).)," he remarked. "I am glad for his return.
We didn't talk much over dinner. Especially Bazarov said almost nothing, but ate a lot. Nikolai Petrovich recounted various incidents from his, as he put it, farm life, talked about the forthcoming government measures, about committees, about deputies, about the need to start cars, and so on. Pavel Petrovich walked slowly up and down the dining-room (he never had supper), occasionally taking a sip from a glass filled with red wine, and even more rarely uttering some remark, or rather an exclamation, like "ah! ahe! hm!". Arkady reported some Petersburg news, but he felt a little awkward, that awkwardness that usually takes possession of a young man when he has just ceased to be a child and returned to a place where they are accustomed to seeing and considering him a child. He stretched out his speech unnecessarily, avoided the word "daddy" and even once replaced it with the word "father", uttered, it is true, through gritted teeth; with excessive carelessness, he poured into his glass much more wine than he himself wanted, and drank all the wine. Prokofich did not take his eyes off him and only chewed his lips. After dinner, everyone immediately dispersed.
“And your uncle is an eccentric,” said Bazarov to Arkady, sitting in a dressing gown near his bed and sucking on a short tube. - What panache in the village, just think! Nails, nails, at least send them to the exhibition!
“But you don’t know,” Arkady answered, “because he was a lion in his time.” I'll tell you his story someday. After all, he was handsome, he turned women's heads.
- Yes, that's it! According to the old, then, memory. To captivate something here, sorry, there is no one. I kept looking: he had such amazing collars, like stone ones, and his chin was so neatly shaved. Arkady Nikolaevich, isn't that funny?
- Perhaps; he's just a really good person.
- An archaic phenomenon! And your father is a nice guy. He reads poetry in vain and hardly understands the economy, but he is a good-natured man.
“My father is a golden man.
Have you noticed that he is shy?
Arkady shook his head, as if he himself were not shy.
“It’s amazing,” continued Bazarov, “these old romantics! Develop in yourself nervous system to irritation ... well, the balance is disturbed. But goodbye! There is an English washstand in my room, and the door does not lock. Still, this should be encouraged - English washstands, that is, progress!
Bazarov left, and a joyful feeling took possession of Arkady. It is sweet to fall asleep in your own home, on a familiar bed, under a blanket over which your beloved hands have worked, perhaps the hands of a nanny, those gentle, kind and tireless hands. Arkady remembered Yegorovna, and sighed, and wished her the kingdom of heaven... He did not pray for himself.
Both he and Bazarov soon fell asleep, but the other persons in the house did not sleep for a long time. The return of his son excited Nikolai Petrovich. He went to bed, but did not extinguish the candle, and, resting his head on his hand, thought long thoughts. His brother was sitting long after midnight in his study, on a wide armchair, in front of the fireplace, in which coal. Pavel Petrovich did not undress, only Chinese red shoes without heels replaced patent leather ankle boots on his feet. He held the last issue of Galignani in his hands, but he did not read; he stared intently into the fireplace, where, now dying, now flashing, a bluish flame quivered ... God knows where his thoughts wandered, but they wandered not only in the past: the expression of his face was concentrated and gloomy, which does not happen when one is busy with memories. And in the little back room, on a large chest, sat a young woman, Fenechka, in a blue shower jacket and with a white scarf thrown over her dark hair, and either listened, or dozed, or looked at the open door, through which one could see a crib and the even breathing of a sleeping child could be heard.

The next morning Bazarov woke up before everyone else and left the house. “Hey!” he thought, looking around, “the place is unsightly.” When Nikolai Petrovich separated himself from his peasants, he had to set aside four completely flat and bare fields for a new estate. He built a house, services and a farm, planted a garden, dug a pond and two wells; but the young trees were badly received, very little water was accumulated in the pond, and the wells turned out to be of a salty taste. Only one gazebo of lilacs and acacias has grown quite a bit; they sometimes drank tea and dined there. In a few minutes Bazarov ran around all the paths in the garden, went into the barnyard, the stable, found two yard boys, with whom he immediately made acquaintance, and went with them to a small swamp, a verst from the estate, for frogs.
- What do you need frogs, sir? one of the boys asked him.
“And here’s what,” answered Bazarov, who possessed a special ability to arouse confidence in himself in lower people, although he never indulged them and treated them carelessly, “I’ll flatten the frog and see what’s going on inside it; and since you and I are the same frogs, we just walk on our feet, I will know what is going on inside us too.
- Yes, what do you need it for?
- And in order not to make a mistake, if you get sick and I have to treat you.
- Are you a doctor?
- Yes.
- Vaska, listen, the master says that you and I are the same frogs. Wonderful!
“I’m afraid of them, frogs,” remarked Vaska, a boy of about seven, with a head as white as flax, in a gray Cossack coat with a standing collar and barefoot.
- What to be afraid of? do they bite?
“Well, get into the water, philosophers,” said Bazarov.
Meanwhile, Nikolai Petrovich also woke up and went to Arkady, whom he found dressed. Father and son went out onto the terrace, under the canopy of the awning; near the railing, on the table, between large bouquets of lilacs, the samovar was already boiling. A girl appeared, the same one who had first met the visitors on the porch the day before, and thin voice said:
- Fedosya Nikolaevna is not quite healthy, they cannot come; they ordered you to ask if you would like to pour tea yourself or send Dunyasha?
“I’ll pour it myself, myself,” Nikolai Petrovich hastily picked up. - You, Arkady, what do you drink tea with, with cream or with lemon?
"With cream," answered Arkady, and after a pause, he said inquiringly: "Papa?"
Nikolai Petrovich looked at his son with confusion.
- What? he said.
Arkady lowered his eyes.
“Forgive me, papa, if my question seems inappropriate to you,” he began, “but you yourself, with your frankness yesterday, challenge me to frankness ... won’t you be angry? ..
- Speak.
“You give me the courage to ask you… Is it because Fen… is it because she doesn’t come here to pour tea that I’m here?”
Nikolai Petrovich turned slightly away.
“Perhaps,” he said at last, “she assumes...she is ashamed...”
Arkady quickly looked up at his father.
“She really should be ashamed. Firstly, you know my way of thinking (Arkady was very pleased to utter these words), and secondly, would I even want to embarrass your life, your habits, even by a hair? Besides, I'm sure you couldn't have made a bad choice; if you allowed her to live with you under the same roof, then she deserves it: in any case, the son of the father is not a judge, and especially I, and especially to such a father who, like you, never embarrassed my freedom.
Arkady's voice trembled at first: he felt magnanimous, but at the same time he realized that he was reading something like an admonition to his father; but the sound of his own speeches has a strong effect on a person, and Arkady uttered last words firmly, even with effect.
“Thank you, Arkasha,” Nikolai Petrovich spoke dully, and his fingers again went over his eyebrows and forehead. Your assumptions are indeed correct. Of course, if this girl were not worth it... This is not a frivolous whim. I'm embarrassed to talk to you about this; but you understand that it was difficult for her to come here in your presence, especially on the first day of your arrival.
“In that case, I’ll go to her myself,” Arkady exclaimed with a new surge of generous feelings and jumped up from his chair. “I’ll explain to her that she has nothing to be ashamed of me.
Nikolai Petrovich also got up.
"Arkady," he began, "do me a favor... how can you... there... I didn't forestall you..."
But Arkady no longer listened to him and ran away from the terrace. Nikolai Petrovich looked after him and sank into a chair in embarrassment. His heart began to beat ... Did he imagine at that moment the inevitable strangeness of the future relationship between him and his son, did he realize that Arkady would have shown him almost more respect if he had not touched this matter at all, did he reproach himself in weakness - it's hard to say; all these feelings were in him, but in the form of sensations - and then unclear; but the color did not leave the face, and the heart was beating.
Hasty footsteps were heard, and Arkady entered the terrace.
- We met, father! he exclaimed, with an expression of some tender and kind triumph on his face. - Fedosya Nikolaevna is definitely not quite healthy today and will come later. But why didn't you tell me that I have a brother? I should have kissed him last night, as I kissed him just now.
Nikolai Petrovich wanted to say something, wanted to get up and open his arms... Arkady threw himself on his neck.
- What is it? are you hugging again? came the voice of Pavel Petrovich from behind them.
Father and son alike rejoiced at his appearance at that moment; there are situations that are touching, from which you still want to get out as soon as possible.
- Why are you surprised? said Nikolai Petrovich cheerfully. - For once, I waited for Arkasha ... I haven’t had time to see enough of him since yesterday.
“I’m not at all surprised,” remarked Pavel Petrovich, “I don’t even mind embracing him myself.”
Arkady went up to his uncle and again felt the touch of his fragrant mustache on his cheeks. Pavel Petrovich sat down at the table. He was wearing an elegant morning suit, in the English style; on his head was a small fez. This fez and the carelessly tied tie alluded to the freedom of country life; but the tight collars of the shirt, though not white, but mottled, as it should be for morning dress, rested with the usual inexorability on the shaved chin.
Where is your new friend? he asked Arkady.
– He is not at home; he usually gets up early and goes somewhere. The main thing is not to pay attention to him: he does not like ceremonies.
– Yes, it is noticeable. - Pavel Petrovich began, slowly, to spread butter on bread. How long will he stay with us?
- As needed. He stopped by here on his way to his father.
- Where does his father live?
“In our own province, eighty versts from here. He has a small estate there. He was formerly a regimental doctor.
- Te-te-te-te ... That's why I kept asking myself: where did I hear this last name: Bazarov? .. Nikolai, I remember, was the doctor Bazarov in the father's division?
- It seems to have been.
- Exactly, exactly. So this doctor is his father. Hm! Pavel Petrovich twitched his mustache. - Well, and Mr. Bazarov himself, in fact, what is it? he asked with a flourish.
- What is Bazarov? Arkady chuckled. - Do you want, uncle, I'll tell you what he actually is?
Do me a favor, nephew.
- He's a nihilist.
- How? - asked Nikolai Petrovich, and Pavel Petrovich raised the knife with a piece of butter at the end of the blade into the air and remained motionless.
"He's a nihilist," repeated Arkady.
“Nihilist,” said Nikolai Petrovich. - This is from the Latin nihil, nothing, as far as I can tell; therefore, this word means a person who ... who does not recognize anything?
“Say: one who respects nothing,” Pavel Petrovich picked it up and again set to work on the butter.
“Who treats everything from a critical point of view,” remarked Arkady.
- Isn't that all the same? asked Pavel Petrovich.
- No, it doesn't matter. A nihilist is a person who does not bow to any authority, who does not take a single principle on faith, no matter how respected this principle may be.
"Well, is that good?" interrupted Pavel Petrovich.
- It depends on who, uncle. This is good for some, and very bad for others.
- Here's how. Well, this, I see, is not in our line. We, people of the old age, we believe that without principles (Pavel Petrovich pronounced this word softly, in the French manner, Arkady, on the contrary, pronounced "principe", leaning on the first syllable), without principles, accepted, as you say, on faith , take a step, you can’t breathe. Vous avez change tout cela (You changed it all (French).), God bless you and the rank of general, and we will only admire you, gentlemen ... what do you mean?
"Nihilists," Arkady said distinctly.
- Yes. Before there were Hegelists, and now there are Nihilists. Let's see how you will exist in emptiness, in airless space; and now call, please, brother, Nikolai Petrovich, it's time for me to drink my cocoa.
Nikolai Petrovich called and shouted: "Dunyasha!" But instead of Dunyasha, Fenechka herself came out onto the terrace. She was a young woman of about twenty-three, all white and soft, with dark hair and eyes, with red, childishly plump lips and delicate hands. She was wearing a neat cotton dress; her new blue kerchief lay lightly on her round shoulders. She was carrying a large cup of cocoa, and placing it in front of Pavel Petrovich, she felt ashamed: hot blood spilled out in a crimson wave under the thin skin of her pretty face. She lowered her eyes and stood at the table, leaning lightly on the very tips of her fingers. She seemed ashamed that she had come, and at the same time she seemed to feel that she had the right to come.
Pavel Petrovich frowned severely, while Nikolai Petrovich became embarrassed.
“Hello, Fenechka,” he said through gritted teeth.
"Hello, sir," she answered in a low but resonant voice, and, glancing askance at Arkady, who smiled amiably at her, quietly went out. She walked a little waddling, but even that stuck to her.
Silence reigned on the terrace for a few moments. Pavel Petrovich was sipping his cocoa and suddenly raised his head.
“Here, the nihilist gentleman favors us,” he said in an undertone.
Indeed, Bazarov walked through the garden, striding through the flower beds. His linen coat and trousers were stained with mud; a tenacious marsh plant twisted the crown of his old round hat; in right hand he was holding a small bag; something alive was moving in the bag. He quickly approached the terrace and, shaking his head, said:
- Hello, gentlemen; I'm sorry I was late for tea, I'll be right back; it is necessary to attach these captives to the place.
- What do you have, leeches? asked Pavel Petrovich.
- No, frogs.
Do you eat or breed them?
"For experiments," Bazarov said indifferently, and went into the house.
“He’s going to cut them up,” Pavel Petrovich remarked, “he doesn’t believe in principles, but he does believe in frogs.”
Arkady looked at his uncle with regret, and Nikolai Petrovich furtively shrugged his shoulder. Pavel Petrovich himself felt that he had made a bad joke, and began talking about the farm and about the new manager, who had come to him the day before to complain that Foma's worker was "shirking" and got out of hand. "He's such an Aesop," he said among other things, "everywhere he protested that he was a bad person; he would live and go away with stupidity."

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Fathers and Sons. Chapter 21

The next morning, Arkady sees Bazarov's father planting turnips. Father asks Arkady about Yevgeny. He honestly answers that Yevgeny Bazarov is one of the most remarkable people of his time. Father is very happy to hear such words.

In the afternoon, during the rest, Bazarov talks with Kirsanov. It's about life, about hate. Bazarov says to Arkady: “ You are a gentle soul, a weakling, where can you hate!» Arkady wants to know how high Bazarov thinks of himself. He replies: " When I meet a person who would not give in to me ... then I will change my mind about myself e". Bazarov reminds Kirsanov how he once, passing by the house of headman Philip, said:

“Russia will then reach perfection when the last peasant has the same premises, and each of us must contribute to this ...”

And Bazarov " hated this last man, Philip or Sidor, for whom ... he must climb out of his skin and who won’t even say thanks». « Well, he will live in a white hut, and burdock will grow out of me", - says Eugene.

Bazarov believes that all people act by virtue of sensation. He says:

“I am pleased to deny, my brain is so arranged - and that's it! Why do I like chemistry? Why do you love apples? - also by feeling. People will never go deeper than that.”

Bazarov, a very cynical person, asks Arkady not to speak nicely; believes that it is not necessary to follow in the footsteps of Pavel Petrovich, whom he calls an idiot. Arkady is outraged by such a characteristic. Soon Vasily Ivanovich, Evgeny's father, arrives. He informs that a priest will be present at the dinner.

Bazarov is bored, he is about to leave. The parents are very upset.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 22

On the way, the friends again stopped by Odintsova. However, she received them very coldly. A few hours later, the young people left. In parting, Odintsova assured that she was waiting for them to visit again.

The friends went to the Kirsanovs' estate. They were welcomed there. Things on the farm with Nikolai Petrovich are not going well. in the best way. Arkady is going to pretend that he is ready to help his father. Bazarov again conducts experiments on frogs.

Arkady learned from his father that the late mother of Anna Sergeevna Odintsova wrote to Arkady's mother. Arkady asked his father to give him these letters. He needs them as an excuse for a new trip to the Odintsov estate. Arkady went alone, saw Katya in the garden. The girl was very happy with him.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 23

Meanwhile, Nikolai Petrovich often communicates with Bazarov. He is interested in experiments conducted by a young naturalist. Bazarov often talks with Fenechka. One day, he asks if she is willing to pay for the fact that he cured the child. Bazarov says that he does not need money, but one of the roses that Fenechka collected for the morning bouquet. Fenechka gave Bazarov a rose. Eugene kissed the young woman on the lips. At that moment, Pavel Petrovich was nearby.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 24

Two hours later, Pavel Petrovich asked Bazarov his opinion about the duel, challenged him. Bazarov offered to choose Peter, Nikolai Petrovich's valet, as his second. Bazarov thought about real reason duel came to the conclusion that Pavel Petrovich himself loves Fenechka.

The duel was scheduled for the next morning. Pavel Petrovich fired first. Then Bazarov fired, he wounded the enemy in the leg. Nikolai Petrovich was told that the cause of the duel was a dispute over politics. The wounded Pavel Petrovich had a fever. When his brother visited him, Pavel Petrovich said: “ Isn’t it true, Nikolai, that Fenechka has something in common with Nellie?”(Nellie was the same Princess R whom Pavel Petrovich loved in his youth).

Bazarov looked after Pavel Petrovich as a doctor. After some time, the doctor arrived, Bazarov was about to leave. Pavel Petrovich says goodbye to him with dignity, shakes hands. He also asks Fenechka to come to him and sit with him. Pavel Petrovich asks if Fenechka loves his brother.

Then he passionately asks her to always love Nikolai Petrovich, not to cheat on him. Pavel Petrovich knows that it is very hard to love and not be loved. At this moment, Nikolai Petrovich comes, and Fenechka runs away.

Pavel Petrovich asks his brother to promise him to marry Fenechka. And he himself wants to go abroad after the wedding and stay there until his death.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 25

Arkady meanwhile communicates with Katya. She noticed that Yevgeny's influence on Arkady was weakening. Katya thinks it's very good. She does not like Bazarov, she believes that he is a stranger to everyone.

Arkady realizes that he has become attached to the girl. He tells her how much she is dear to him. Eugene came to the estate to Odintsova. He thought that Arkady was interested in Anna Sergeevna.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 26

Arkady proposes to Katya. When Bazarov finds out about this, he praises him. He treats Katya well:

“Some young lady only because of this is reputed to be smart, that she sighs smartly; but yours will stand up for itself, so stand up that it will take you into its hands.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 27

Bazarov went to his parents. They are glad, because they thought that their son would not return. Bazarov's father tries not to interfere with his son. But he, despite all the efforts of his parents, is very bored. Bazarov finds something to do - he helps his father treat the peasants. One day, he asks his father for a "hell stone" to cauterize the wound. On this day, Bazarov opened the corpse and injured his finger. Bazarov knows that if cadaveric poison has entered the body, no one and nothing will help him.

After some time, Bazarov became very ill. He asks to inform Anna Sergeevna that he is dying.

Odintsova arrived with a German doctor. He said that there was no hope of recovery. Bazarov tells Odintsova that he loved her and asks her to kiss him goodbye. Anna Sergeevna kisses her on the forehead, gives her water. She does not take off her gloves. Bazarov is dead.

Fathers and Sons. Chapter 28

Six months later, two weddings took place in Maryino. Arkady married Katya, and his father married Fenechka.

Pavel Petrovich gathered first in Moscow, then abroad. After some time, Odintsova also got married - “ not out of love, but out of conviction"- for a smart person.

Nikolai Petrovich became a mediator; Arkady turned out to be a good owner, his estate began to generate income. Soon they had a son with Katya.

Pavel Petrovich settled in Dresden. Kukshina also went abroad, to Heidelberg, where she began to study architecture. Sitnikov believes that he continues the work of Bazarov.

Bazarov's parents often come to their son's grave, which is located in a small rural cemetery. They cry and pray for a long time. They live only in memories of Eugene.

“Are their prayers, their tears fruitless? Isn't love, holy, devoted love, all-powerful? Oh no! No matter how passionate, sinful, rebellious the heart is hidden in the grave, the flowers growing on it serenely look at us with their innocent eyes: they tell us not only about eternal calmness, about that great calmness of indifferent nature; they also speak of eternal reconciliation and endless life…”

On May 20, 1859, Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov is waiting for his son Arkady at the inn. The fate of Nikolai Petrovich was not always easy. His father is a military general, so a military career was a priority in the family. The older brother, Pavel, had a predisposition for this type of activity, but the younger one, Nikolai, was far from military service and a little cowardly for this. A leg injury chained him to the bed for 2 months (later, he remained lame) and saved him from "military service". At 18, he entered the university. The father died suddenly from a stroke, and the mother did not live long after that - soon the brothers were left orphans. As soon as the days of mourning passed, Nikolai married the daughter of the official Prepolovensky. For ten years, the couple lived in perfect harmony, then Kirsanov's wife died. Having hardly survived the loss, Nikolai Petrovich returned to the village - he found solace in his son. When Arkady grew up, his father took him to the university. For three winters he lived with him in the city, on the fourth he returned to his estate.

Chapter II

Arkady meets with his father. Nikolai Petrovich is very excited. The son introduces him to his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, about whom he "often wrote." Bazarov will stay at the Kirsanovs' house for an indefinite period. Arkady sits down with his father in the carriage. Eugene continues to ride on the tarantass.

Chapter III

Emotions overwhelm Nikolai Petrovich - he is glad for the arrival of his son - he is constantly trying to hug him. On the way, he asks Arkady about his affairs, a new friend. Bazarov is a future doctor. In general, he is a curious and versatile person. The father informs his son about the death of the nanny and that the girl Fenya lives in the house. Nikolai Petrovich had to sell the forest - he needed money. This news upsets the son. "It's a pity for the forest," he says.
Yevgeny asks Arkady for matches. Bazarov lights up, Kirsanov-son keeps him company. Nikolai Petrovich never smokes, so the pungent smell of tobacco is unpleasant to him, but he tries not to show it so as not to offend his son.

Chapter IV

No one came out to meet the visitors. Nikolai Petrovich leads Arkady and Yevgeny into the house. There he orders the servant to prepare dinner. Towards comes well-built, neat dressed man. This is Arkady's uncle, Pavel Petrovich, who decided to greet his nephew who had arrived.

Acquaintance with Bazarov did not bring positive emotions to his uncle, he did not like Eugene. At dinner everyone was laconic, especially Bazarov. After that, everyone went about their business. Arkady and Yevgeny went into the rooms. Bazar shares with Arkady his impressions of his relatives. He speaks of his uncle with mockery: “What panache in the village, just think! Nails, nails, at least send them to the exhibition! Arkady gently stands up for his uncle, explaining that Yevgeny simply knows little about Pavel Petrovich, which is why he seems eccentric to him. The friends went to their rooms. Arkady falls asleep with a happy smile on his face. Eugene was also awake for a short time. Nikolai Petrovich, impressed by the arrival of his son, could not sleep for a long time. His brother sat long after midnight - he had a magazine in his hands, but he did not read it, but looked at the lights in the fireplace. Fenechka slept restlessly; from time to time she glanced at her little son.

Chapter V

Eugene woke up before everyone else and went for a walk. He quickly ran around the whole yard and found it not in the best condition - only the gazebo was in good condition. Bazarov met local boys, they all go together to catch frogs for experiments.

Nikolai Petrovich comes to his son's room and finds him already dressed. They go down to the veranda for tea. Arkady suspects that Fenya did not fall ill by chance. His guess is confirmed by his father: "she is ashamed." Therefore, Arkady goes to her room, where he meets his brother. Returning, the young man reproaches his father for not telling him about his brother. Seeing the joy of his son, Nikolai Petrovich was moved. Pavel Petrovich comes to the veranda, he joins the huggers. Father and uncle learn that Bazarov is a nihilist (a person who denies any principles and authorities). For the older generation, this trend looks strange. Bazarov returns with the frogs.

Chapter VI

Eugene joins everyone. The conversation over tea drinking is not going well. Pavel Petrovich and Bazarov begin to argue desperately. “A decent chemist is twenty times more useful than any poet,” says Eugene. Pavel Petrovich is trying to defend his opinion, but Evgeny's monosyllabic answers have a depressing effect on him. Nikolai Petrovich does not give a final quarrel. He tries to translate the conversation by asking Bazarov for help in matters of agronomy. He agrees, but critically remarks: “First, you need to learn the alphabet and then take up the book, but we haven’t seen the basics yet.” “Well, you, I see, are like a nihilist,” thought Nikolai Petrovich. However, he did not express his opinion on this matter.

Left alone with Arkady, Eugene expresses bewilderment at the behavior of his uncle. Arkady tries to stand up for Pavel Petrovich. “You have already dealt with him too harshly,” Arkady claims, but this fact does not bother Bazarov, he is sure of the correctness of his act.

Chapter VII

To change the friend's attitude towards his uncle, Arkady tells the story of his life. Pavel Petrovich, like his brother, elementary education received at home, then his training continued on military service. “From childhood he was distinguished by remarkable beauty; besides, he was self-confident, a little mocking and somehow amusingly bilious - he could not help but like. Soon Kirsanov became popular, they wanted to see him as a guest in many decent houses.

One day he met Princess R. There were not the most decent rumors about her. And to be honest, she led strange life. "She had a well-bred and decent, but stupid husband and had no children." Kirsanov fell madly in love with her. Unfortunately, the feeling was not mutual. Pavel Nikolaevich was jealous of the princess, he went after her all the time and soon got tired of her. After parting, Kirsanov's life went downhill. He left the service and traveled for four years behind his beloved abroad, but he never achieved reciprocity. Pavel Petrovich returned home in the hope of living his former life. The news of the death of Princess R. finally unsettled him - he came to live with his brother in the village.

Chapter VIII

Pavel Petrovich does not know how to have fun. Out of boredom, he goes to Fenya to look at Mitya's little nephew: "What a booty." Suddenly, Nikolai Petrovich enters Fenechka's room.
Arkady's father met Fenya three years ago. He had to stop at a restaurant.

The cleanliness and order that reigned everywhere pleasantly surprised him, so he offers a job to Feni's mother, Arina, on his estate. Things were not going well in their tavern, so she agrees. After some time, Arina dies, and Kirsanov falls head over heels in love with a young girl.

Chapter IX

Bazarov meets Fenya. He liked the girl. He, with her permission, takes Mitya in his arms. The boy sits calmly in Yevgeny's arms, which surprises Fenya and Dunya. Arkady also decides to take his brother, but the kid throws a tantrum. Bazarov tells Fene that in which case she can safely turn to him for help. After that, he and Arkady leave. From the house came the sound of a cello. This is Nikolai Petrovich playing in his spare time. Such an occupation for a 44-year-old old man causes an attack of ridicule from Bazarov, “but Arkady, no matter how much he revered his teacher, did not even smile this time.”

Chapter X

Two weeks have passed since the arrival of Arkady and Evgeny. To Bazarov, those around him had a twofold impression. The courtyards loved him, Fenya liked him too. Once the girl had to wake up a young doctor - Mitya "had convulsions." Bazarov successfully provided assistance, helped Fenya to sit with the child.

Pavel Petrovich hated the guest, and his brother was afraid of Yevgeny and his influence on Arkady.

Nikolai Petrovich becomes an accidental witness to the conversation between Arkady and Evgeny. The latter calls him a retired man. Kirsanov Sr. is offended. He shares his impressions with his brother. Arkady, on the advice of a friend, brings his father to read Buechner's pamphlet, but the reading does not cause positive impressions.

At dinner, Bazarov was laconic. A carelessly spoken phrase about the usefulness of aristocracy (he called one of the representatives of the aristocrats "rubbish aristocrat") was immediately picked up by Pavel Petrovich. There was a scandal. Bazarov accused the aristocrats of living life senselessly, and Pavel Petrovich reproached Bazarov for belonging to nihilism that people like Bazarov aggravate the situation in Russia.

After the departure of Yevgeny and Arkady, Nikolai Petrovich recalls a desperate quarrel with his mother, who did not understand the newfangled tendencies of the hourly development. Now such a conflict of generations arose between him and Arkady. “The pill is bitter - and you need to swallow it. Now our turn has come, and our heirs can tell us: they say, you are not of our generation, swallow the pill, ”concludes Kirsanov.

Chapter XI

Nikolai Petrovich goes to his favorite gazebo - he recalls his young years and his first wife Maria. "He wanted to keep that blissful time with something stronger than memory." Fenya's voice take him out of the world of dreams. Some time later, Kirsanov returns to the house. Along the way, he meets his brother, who notes that Nikolai is very pale.

Yevgeny convinces Arkady to go to the city. There are two reasons for this. The first is an invitation sent to Nikolai Petrovich from Kolyazin Matvey Ilyich. The second is an occasion to see an old friend of Eugene. Friends decide to go.

Chapter XII

Comrades are coming to town. Pay a visit to Matvey Ilyich. The absence of Pavel and Nikolai Kirsanov first surprises Kolyazin, then he notes: "Your dad was always an eccentric."
Arkady and Evgeniev visit the governor and receive an invitation to the ball. Suddenly, on the street, friends meet an acquaintance of Bazarov - Sitnikov. The young man leads them to visit Kukshina.

Chapter XIII

Avdotya Nikitishna Kukshina is an eccentric person. Arkady didn’t like her: she looked untidy, she didn’t know how to conduct a conversation at all - she asked a lot of questions and did not give an opportunity to answer them, she constantly changed the subject, even her gait and plasticity irritated Arkady. It seemed to him that the girl looked like an elephant in a china shop, meanwhile, the young man thought, the girl herself, perhaps, thinks this is quite nice. Evgeny and Victor (Sitnikov) behaved very cheekily, in fact indecently, but this did not embarrass the hostess, but it did embarrass Arkady.

Chapter XIV

The action takes place at a ball given in honor of Matvey Ilyich. Since Arkady dances badly, and Yevgeny cannot dance at all, there is nothing left to do but watch the audience. Sitnikov joins friends. Victor scathingly criticizes everyone present - this process brings him pleasure. Everything changes after the arrival of Anna Sergeevna Odintsova. Sitnikov introduces Bazarov and Kirsanov to the woman. Arkady spends about an hour talking with her and falls in love. Bazarov Odintsov is also of interest. He recommends that his friend take advantage of Anna Sergeevna's invitation and pay the woman a visit to the hotel.

Chapter XV

The meeting with Anna Sergeevna made an impression on both friends. Arkady noticed with surprise that Yevgeny was embarrassed. Eugene himself was also amazed by his reaction: “Here you go! the women were scared!" he thought.

From a lyrical digression, the reader learns about the vicissitudes of Anna Sergeevna's fate. Her father lost a lot of cards and soon died. The girls were left orphans - their mother died earlier, at a time when the family's well-being was good. Anna, at the time of her father's death, was 20, and her sister Katya was 12 years old. The girls had no experience in housekeeping, so Anna resorts to the help of her aunt. Anna marries for convenience and after six years of married life remains a widow. She leads a measured life and avoids the bustle of the city.

Bazarov behaved very strangely during the visit: he did not resort to his favorite criticism and nihilism, but talked all the time about medicine and botany, which caused Anna an unprecedented interest in his person. Odintsova treated Arkady kindly, it seemed that she took him for a "younger brother" and nothing more. Anna invites young people to her estate.

Chapter XVI

Friends do not miss the opportunity and go to Nikolskoye to Odintsova. Here they meet her younger sister Katya and her aunt. Anna devotes more time to Bazarov. She willingly supports the conversation on the topic of biology and geology. Eugene is flattered by such attention, he behaves differently than usual. Arkady experiences mixed feelings: resentment and jealousy. He has no choice but to spend time with Katya. She is a sweet and modest girl, she plays the piano well. Music becomes the link that allows them to keep up the conversation.

Chapter XVII

The time spent at Odintsova's estate flies by unnoticed. Friends feel at ease here, despite the fact that they have to adjust to the existing schedule of the day. Eugene notes that it is rather boring to live according to the regime, meanwhile, Anna claims that this is the only way you can not die of boredom in the village.

Eugene has changed dramatically, the reason for this was his love for Anna. He began to avoid communication with Arkady, there was a feeling that Bazarov was ashamed and felt embarrassed. Eugene's love is mutual, but Anna is in no hurry to admit it and tries to maintain at least a minimum distance in relation to Eugene.

Arkady is sad, he is offended by the fact that preference was given not to him, but to a friend. Over time, Kirsanov finds pleasure in spending time with Katya: he can discuss with her what Bazarov does not encourage - music and nature.

Bazarov's father's manager meets Yevgeny and informs him that the parents are concerned about the absence of their son and are looking forward to his arrival. Eugene decides to go.

Chapter XVIII

Anna invites Bazarov to continue yesterday's conversation about the goals of life. He agrees. During the conversation, Eugene confesses his love, but does not receive a reciprocal move. Anna decided that “calmness is still the best thing in the world” and therefore reduced the whole situation to the fact that Bazarov misunderstood her, and she was Bazarova.

Chapter XIX

Odintsova hardly restrains her emotions. The situation is saved by the arrival of Porifiy Platonovich, a neighbor who loved to play cards. The visitor jokes a lot, tells all sorts of stories, which defuses the situation that has arisen after Evgeny and Anna's explanations.

In the future, the unpleasant conversation of lovers reinforces the depressing impression - Eugene secretly wants Anna to offer him to stay and not leave, but Anna pretends not to understand. “After all, excuse my insolence, you don’t love me and you will never love me,” as a result, Bazarov tells her.

Sitnikov arrives and this somewhat saves the situation that has heated up again. In a private conversation, Evgeny tells Arkady that he is leaving. Kirsanov decided to keep him company. Arkady expresses bewilderment at Victor's arrival. “We need the Sitnikovs. Me, you understand this, I need such boobies. It’s not for the gods, in fact, to burn the pots! Eugene answers him.

We bring to your attention the story of I. Turgenev, which refers to difficult relationship girls Asya and the narrator.

After this phrase, Kirsanov has a feeling of bewilderment: “So we are gods with you? that is, you are a god, but am I not an idiot?” “Yes,” repeated Bazarov sullenly, “you are still stupid.”
On the way to Bazarov's parents, Arkady notices that his friend has changed a lot. "Nothing! We'll get better, ”says Eugene.

Chapter XX

Friends are coming. Bazarov's father and mother meet them. The mother was very touched - she constantly tries to hug and kiss her son.

“Well, full, full, Arisha! Stop it, ”her husband calms down. Parents received visitors well. Despite the fact that today they did not expect guests, the mother managed to cover nice table. After dinner, Evgeny's father (Vasily Ivanovich) wanted to talk to his son, but he, citing fatigue, refused. Eugene himself could not fall asleep until the morning - bitter memories of Anna haunted him.

Chapter XXI

Arkady woke up and saw that Vasily Ivanovich was digging up the beds. Kirsanov went out into the street. He talks with Eugene's father about his son: he expresses his admiration for him and prophesies that he will become famous in the future. Bazarov's parents produced the most that is on Arkady best impression.

In a conversation with a friend, Kirsanov tries to convey the idea that Yevgeny's life is absurd. Bazarov allows himself to speak extremely rudely towards his friend, and exalt himself. “You are a tender soul, a weakling, where can you hate! .. You are shy, you have little hope for yourself,” he says.

Eugene reproaches his friend for his ability to speak beautifully, compares him to Pavel Petrovich, and at the end calls his uncle an idiot. Such an appeal offends Kirsanov, Evgeny tries to expose the current situation in the light of kindred feelings, convincing Arkady that he stubbornly refuses to accept obvious things.

The ensuing dispute turned into a quarrel. The unexpected appearance of Vasily Ivanovich prevents further development conflict.

Eugene and Arkady leave. Parents are upset that their son left, but they are not able to change the situation: "the son is a cut piece."

Chapter XXII

On the way, friends stop by Nikolskoye. Anna Sergeevna is extremely dissatisfied with their arrival and does not seek to hide it. The unwelcoming reception intensified the state of despondency and melancholy.

In Maryino (the estate of the Kirsanovs), a warm welcome awaited the visitors - they had time to miss them and were looking forward to their return. After inquiring about the trip, life returned to its usual course: Eugene again took up experiments with frogs and ciliates, Nikolai Pavlovich was busy dealing with hired workers, Arkady tried, if not to help his parent, then at least create such an appearance. In one of the conversations with his father, Arkady learns that they have letters of correspondence from Arkady's mother and Anna and Katerina Odintsov's mother. He decides to take the letters to Nikolskoye because he is bored, and the letters have become an excellent reason for the trip. On the way, the young man is afraid that he will be an unwanted guest. But everything turned out differently. Surprisingly, Anna spoke to him "in an affectionate voice and went to meet him, smiling and squinting from the sun and wind."

Chapter XXIII

The true purpose of Arkady's trip to Nikolskoye was not hidden from Bazarov. After the departure of Kirsanov, Evgeny fell into research and solitude. He stops arguing with the tenants, but still has a dislike for them. The only person he treats favorably is Fenya. Gradually, he becomes close to a woman and falls in love with her. Fenya also feels sympathy for Bazarov. She feels at ease with him.

Once in the gazebo, Eugene, under the pretext of sniffing a rose that has plucked, contrives to kiss Fenya. Pavel Petrovich becomes a witness to this scene. Eugene and Fenya leave the arbor.

Chapter XXIV

Pavel Petrovich comes to Bazarov's room and challenges him to a duel. The real reason was a kiss in the gazebo, however, another version was put forward for others: hostility caused by disagreements.

In a duel, Eugene wounds his opponent in the leg. Pavel Petrovich loses consciousness. Bazarov helps him.

By evening, the patient's condition worsened, although neither Bazarov nor the visiting doctor find the injury dangerous.

Pavel Petrovich is talking to Fenya. He tells her that he saw a kiss in the gazebo, asks her never to leave her brother: “What could be worse than to love and not be loved!”
Pavel Petrovich asks his brother to fulfill his request - to marry Fenya.

Chapter XXV

Katya and Arkady became very close. Bazarov suddenly arrives. He decided to personally tell Arkady about what had happened in Maryino. Yevgeny thinks that Kirsanov has come to explain himself to Anna Sergeevna, and this makes him angry. Arkady tries to convince his friend that Anna is not the object of his adoration, but Eugene does not believe. Bazarov tells about Arkady's love for Anna to Anna herself and, seeing her amazement, realizes that Arkady did not lie to him.

Chapter XXVI

Kirsanov talks about his feelings to Katya and learns about their reciprocity. He intends to marry the girl. Bazarov leaves for his parents.

They say goodbye to Arkady, with no hope of ever meeting again.

Chapter XXVII

The Bazarovs are very happy about the return of their son, which cannot be said about Evgeny. He is bored in his parents' house and does not know what to do with himself. Gradually begins to help his father in the treatment of patients. “Bazarov once even pulled out a tooth from a visiting peddler,” which became a subject of pride for Vasily Ivanovich.

An accidental cut caused Yevgeny to become infected with typhus.

He realizes that he does not have long to live and asks through his father to convey Odintsova's request. Eugene wants to see her. Anna Sergeevna arrives. Eugene is already in a serious condition, he tells the woman about his real feelings for her and falls asleep. “Bazarov was no longer destined to wake up. By evening, he fell into complete unconsciousness, and the next day he died.

Chapter XXVIII

Six months have passed. Nikolai Petrovich and Fenya, Arkady and Katya got married on the same day. Pavel Petrovich recovered and went abroad. Arkady became interested in the affairs of the estate and not without success - soon things went smoothly. Anna Sergeevna, over time, also got married, but, however, not for love. For all future life went well, except for the two old men who came to the grave and sobbed long and inconsolably. There, under the silent stone, their son Eugene was buried.

“Fathers and Sons” - a summary of the work of I. S. Turgenev

Fathers and Sons. Feature film based on the novel by I. S. Turgenev. 1958

ChapterI. In May 1859, a forty-something landowner-widower Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, a representative of the previous generation of "fathers", a soft, dreamy romantic, is waiting at an inn not far from his estate for the arrival of his son Arkady, who had just graduated from the university.

Chapter II. Arkady arrives with his university friend, medical student Yevgeny Bazarov. The long and thin face of this man with sideburns expresses self-confidence and will. Arkady, his father and Bazarov go to the Kirsanovs' estate, Maryino.

Bazarov. Illustration by artist P. Pinkisevich for Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons"

Chapter III. From meeting with his son, Nikolai Petrovich comes into a joyful, almost enthusiastic mood. In a lively road conversation with Arkady, he even begins to quote lines from Eugene Onegin about spring. However, it is noticeable that the young Arkady holds a more sober and prosaic outlook on life. Along the way, he and Bazarov begin to smoke such strong tobacco that Nikolai Petrovich can hardly stand its smell.

Chapter IV. In Maryino, they are met by the brother of Nikolai Petrovich, Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov, a man of about 45, thoroughbred, impeccably cleanly dressed, full of strictness and correctness in the English manner. This is another bright type of the idealistic era of the “fathers”, not sentimental, like Nikolai Petrovich, but “nobly chivalrous”.

Pavel Petrovich immediately does not like the unceremonious Bazarov, but he, for his part, treats both Kirsanov brothers with skeptical mockery. Arkady's father seems to him an impractical rookie, and Pavel Petrovich strikes with a strange "panache" for the village. Eugene directly tells Arkady about this in an evening private conversation.

Chapter V Bazarov leaves in the morning to catch frogs for his medical experiments. Arkady, whose mother died a long time ago, learns along the way that his father lives on an estate with a young girl, Fenechka. Now Arkady also becomes aware that Fenechka gave birth to a son from Nikolai Petrovich. According to the free-thinking of the new generation and out of a desire to seem magnanimous to himself, Arkady does not condemn his father's behavior.

Over morning tea, Arkady tells Pavel Petrovich and his father that Bazarov is a "nihilist", a person who does not bow to any authorities and traditions. Pavel Petrovich, who believes that firmly established principles should determine all human life, dislike for Bazarov is still growing.

Chapter VI. Bazarov, who has come from the pond, joins the breakfast of the Kirsanov family. Pavel Petrovich irritably starts an argument with him. He does not like that Bazarov is unpatriotic: he recognizes the superiority of German science over Russian, and even without hesitation claims that a decent chemist is 20 times more useful than any poet, even a great one. The conversation almost ends in a fight.

Pavel Petrovich and Nikolai Petrovich leave, and Arkady, in order to soften Bazarov, tells the romantic story of his uncle's life.

Chapter VII. In his youth, very handsome and self-confident, Pavel Petrovich was a darling of St. Petersburg society. He was given a brilliant military career However, everything was destroyed by his unhappy love for Princess R., a woman of a mysterious and eccentric character, who now and then rushed from violent passions and risky hobbies with men to despair and repentance. At one time, the princess entered into a relationship with Pavel Petrovich, but then left him and went abroad. Having abandoned the service, he traveled for the princess all over Europe for four years, but finally realizing the futility of his efforts, he returned to his homeland and began to lead the life of an idle and disappointed person in the capital's salons. Ten years later, Pavel Petrovich found out that his beloved had died. He then went to live in the village with his brother, but even here he did not lose his memories of the past and retained his former aristocratic manners.

Bazarov's story of Arkady is not at all impressive: a man who allowed his life to break from tragic love, seems to him a pompous comedian or a weakling.

Chapter VIII. After a conversation with Bazarov, Pavel Petrovich thoughtfully walks around the house and, after a little hesitation, enters Fenechka's room. He asks to show him the baby, his nephew. After looking at the child for a bit, he just as absent-mindedly goes out, returns to his office, sits down on the sofa and thinks deeply with a sad and even desperate expression on his face.

Turgenev further tells the reader the story of Fenechka's acquaintance with Nikolai Petrovich. Her mother Feni served as Nikolai Petrovich's housekeeper. At first, he did not pay attention to the young girl, but once he took a closer look at her, little by little he fell in love, and after the death of her mother from cholera, he settled in his house. Despite the difference in age, she became close to the kind and modest gentleman not by calculation, but by inclination of the heart.

Chapter IX. Bazarov is now also getting to know Fenechka. Together with Arkady, he once enters the gazebo, where she sits with her baby son Mitya and the maid Dunyasha. Bazarov, like a doctor, checks to see if Mitya's teeth are being cut. The boy confidently walks towards him.

As they continue their walk, Arkady and Bazarov hear Nikolai Petrovich playing the Schubert cello in his room. Refined music in the middle of a remote village causes a new mockery in Bazarov - especially in view of the fact that the economy on the estate is clearly inept.

Chapter X The relationship between "fathers" and "children" is becoming increasingly complex. Nikolai Petrovich accidentally overhears a conversation between Arkady and Bazarov. “Your father is a kind fellow,” says Bazarov, “but he is a retired man, his song is sung. Reads nonsense like Pushkin. You better give him Stoff and Kraft Buechner". Arkady soon really brings his father Stoff and Kraft- an exposition of the materialistic system.

Nikolai Petrovich tells his brother about all this. Over evening tea, Pavel Petrovich clashes even more violently with Bazarov. “You deign to find my habits, my toilet, ridiculous, but this all stems from a sense of self-respect, from a sense of duty.” “You respect yourself,” Bazarov answers, “and sit back; What is the benefit to society from this? “You are rejecting everything now. What would you like to build instead? “It’s none of our business anymore… We need to clear the place first.” - "Do you despise the entire Russian people?" “Well, if he deserves contempt! Our so-called progressive people talk a lot about art, parliamentarism, the legal profession, when it comes to daily bread when freedom is hardly good for us, because our peasant is happy to rob himself just to get drunk in a tavern. “Yes, there are only four and a half of you, and there are millions of those who will not allow you to trample under your feet your most sacred beliefs.” - "Let's see. From a penny candle, you know, Moscow burned down. And your Raphael is not worth a penny of copper, along with all the institutions that you so revere: the community, the family, and so on.

Arkady and Bazarov leave. Nikolai Petrovich believes that, perhaps, it’s true that the time has come for the “fathers” to give way to a new generation. But Pavel Petrovich is sure that he is right and is not going to give up.

Chapter XI. Bazarov and Arkady decide to go to a neighboring provincial town, to visit a relative of the Kirsanovs, Kolyazin, who occupies a major official post there.

Chapter XII. In the city of Kolyazin, Arkady receives good-naturedly. He invites him to a ball given by the governor the day after tomorrow.

On the street of Bazarov and Arkady, a young man of an empty and narrow-minded look suddenly calls out. This is an acquaintance of Bazarov, Sitnikov. He honors Bazarov as his teacher in freethinking, to whom he "owes rebirth." Sitnikov invites to go to the local emancipe Kukshina. Disdainful of Sitnikov, Bazarov initially refuses, but agrees when he finds out that Kukshina will have champagne.

Chapter XIII. Untidy noblewoman Kukshina meets guests in a poorly cleaned room. Her mannerisms are extremely unnatural. She tries in vain to surprise new acquaintances with her knowledge of the natural sciences, incessantly pouring out the names of scientists and writers.

Bazarov and Evgeny almost do not take part in a stupid conversation, they only drink champagne. Towards the end, Kukshina begins to play the piano and sing in a hoarse voice, while Sitnikov ties his head with a scarf and portrays a lover dying with delight. Bazarov, yawning, leaves without even saying goodbye to the hostess. Sitnikov obsequiously catches up with him and Arkady.

Chapter XIV. At the ball at the governor's, Arkady suddenly notices a beauty of about 28 years old, calm, stately, who has entered. This is Anna Sergeevna Odintsova.

He sits down next to her. Odintsova speaks kindly to Arkady, but also with an air of some superiority. She has obviously seen a lot in her life, has a wealth of experience.

Arkady tells her about Bazarov. Odintsova looks attentively at Yevgeny standing at a distance. She invites Arkady to her estate, asks to bring Bazarov too: “It is very curious to see a person who has the courage not to believe in anything.”

Arkady tells Bazarov about his acquaintance with Odintsova. He speaks of her rather cynically: one gentleman told him that this lady is “oh-oh-oh”.

Chapter XV. History of Odintsova. Her father, a well-known swindler and gambler, eventually lost his game and was forced to leave St. Petersburg for the countryside. Soon he and his wife died, and 20-year-old Anna was left almost penniless with her 12-year-old sister Katya. Soon, by sober calculation, she married the 46-year-old rich man Odintsov. Six years later, he died, leaving her all his wealth and the country estate Nikolskoye.

Visit of Bazarov and Arkady to Odintsova in the city hotel. Arkady notices with surprise that Evgeny, who was never embarrassed by anything, in the presence of the beautiful Anna Sergeevna, behaves embarrassed. She obviously notices it too.

On the street, Bazarov speaks of Odintsova: “She looks like a possessive person. But she was in the redistribution, she ate our bread. Such a rich body! At least now in the anatomical theater.

Three days later they go to Odintsova in Nikolskoye.

Chapter XVI. The estate of Anna Sergeevna is magnificent. She introduces Arkady and Bazarov to her sweet, shy sister Katya.

Arkady already manages to fall in love with Odintsova. But in a conversation, she clearly prefers not him, but Bazarov, who she likes with her independence of judgment, although she does not agree with him on everything. Anna Sergeevna sends Arkady to listen to Katya's piano playing. Arkady is slightly offended by this, but, however, notices that Katya, with her timid appearance, is very pretty.

Odintsova is a woman without prejudice, but not prone to violent passions. She can sometimes get carried away, but immediately cools down, returning to her inherent poise and calmness. Now Bazarov is very interesting to her, but it cannot be said that her blood is especially boiling.

Chapter XVII. Bazarov feels that he is carried away by Odintsova. Formerly, he liked to say: “If you like a woman, try to get the point; but you can’t - well, don’t, turn away. ” But with Odintsova there is no “use” yet, and at the same time he does not want to leave her.

In order to overcome himself, Bazarov decides to leave Nikolsky for his parents' village, which is not far from here. Anna Sergeevna, learning about this, tries to keep him. She decides on something like an explanation with Bazarov. “I am very unhappy. I have no will to live. There are many memories behind me, and ahead is a long, long road, but there is no goal ... I don’t even want to go. “You want to fall in love,” Bazarov answers, “but you cannot fall in love. However, whoever this thing happens to is to be pitied.”

Eugene leaves, not allowing her to speak to the end. But the words of Odintsova greatly excite him.

Meanwhile, the "third extra" - Arkady - involuntarily draws closer to Katya.

Chapter XVIII. The next day, Odintsova calls Bazarov to continue yesterday's conversation. “You are not an ordinary person. And I went through a lot of tests. Perhaps I could understand you. But you are too reserved in my presence. What is the reason?". “The reason is that I love you, stupidly, madly ...” Bazarov suddenly answers.

She holds out her hands to him. But he does not take them with trepidation, but, full of greedy, hungry passion, draws her to his chest. The animal instinct burning in his eyes frightens Anna Sergeevna. She breaks free and retreats to a corner, saying in fright that he did not understand her. Eugene comes out, biting his lips.

Chapter XIX. After dinner, Bazarov comes up to apologize to Odintsova. She invites him to remain friends. The general tension is relieved by the unexpected arrival of the stupid Sitnikov. Bazarov decides to go to his parents tomorrow. Arkady also leaves with him. Sitnikov also ties in, but falls behind along the way.

Bazarov looks sick on the way. “It is better to break stones on the pavement than to let a woman take possession of even the tip of her finger,” he says to Arkady. “A man shouldn’t be doing such trifles.”

Chapter XX. The two of them come to the village of Bazarov's parents. Evgeny's father, Vasily Ivanovich, is an army doctor, a small landed nobleman. Mother, Arina Vlasyevna, is a simple Russian woman by nature. There is little landlordism in both of them. The father is easy to handle, but very businesslike. It is obvious that he is knowledgeable. Vasily Ivanovich pours foreign words, quotes from ancient authors, allusions to mythology.

Parents are very happy about the arrival of their son, whom they have not seen for three years, but Bazarov treats them rather arrogantly and dismissively. The case with Odintsova still does not get out of his head.

Chapter XXI. Early in the morning, in a conversation with Bazarov's father, Arkady expresses a high opinion of his son. The old man almost weeps with delight.

In the afternoon, Bazarov and Arkady rest in a haystack. Arkady slightly reproaches his friend for being callous to his parents. “My mother and father,” replies Bazarov, have become accustomed to their insignificant life in such a way that they do not even notice the insignificance. Real man one to be obeyed or hated. But you are a tender soul, a weakling, where can you hate! .. "

Arkady is unpleasantly struck by Bazarov's arrogance. "Don't you think too highly of yourself?" “When I meet a person who would not give in to me, then I will change my opinion of myself.” Friends almost enter into a sharp quarrel, but it is prevented by the sudden appearance of Vasily Ivanovich, who calls the young people for dinner.

Still not showing filial feelings for his parents, the next day Bazarov persuades Arkady to return to him, to Maryino. Eugene's mother and father are amazed that their son stayed with them for only three days, but their genuine grief does not make any impression on Bazarov.

Chapter XXII. Having reached the turn to Nikolskoye, Bazarov and Arkady stop there for a short time, and then arrive in Maryino. Nikolai Petrovich is very happy with their arrival.

Arkady soon accidentally learns that his mother was a friend of Odintsova's mother and his father has remnants of their former correspondence. Under the pretext of delivering these letters to Anna Sergeevna, he travels alone, without Bazarov, to Nikolskoye. The love for Odintsova never fades away in him. Anna Sergeevna and Katya greet Arkady cordially.

Chapter XXIII. Bazarov, meanwhile, is trying to forget from unhappy love in scientific experiments. Pavel Petrovich is still very hostile to him. But Fenechka is very friendly with Eugene. Noticing this, Pavel Petrovich gradually begins to follow her.

One morning Bazarov accidentally sees Fenechka in the arbor. He comes up to talk to her, smells one of the beautiful roses in her hands and suddenly kisses her on the lips.

Just at that moment, Pavel Petrovich coughed nearby. The stunned Fenichka hurried to leave.

Chapter XXIV. A couple of hours later, Pavel Petrovich knocks on the door of Bazarov and challenges him to a duel. Bazarov agrees. Thinking about the reasons for the call, he comes to the conclusion that Pavel Petrovich could not stand the kiss scene, since, apparently, he himself has tender feelings for Fenechka.

The duel is scheduled in a nearby grove. The next morning Bazarov comes there. The role of the second is played by the servant Peter. Before the duel, Pavel Petrovich warns that he intends to "fight seriously", without giving mercy.

Opponents converge. The enemy's bullet buzzes right at Bazarov's ear, but does not injure him. He shoots himself - and hits Pavel Petrovich in the thigh.

The wound appears to be harmless. Pyotr rushes to the estate, and from there soon Nikolai Petrovich arrives in a droshky. Pavel Petrovich is being transported to the estate. He does not tell his brother about the reason for the duel, but in the heat of the night he suddenly asks him: “Have you ever noticed that Fenechka is very similar to Princess R.?”

The next day Bazarov leaves Maryin. Fenechka, courting Pavel Petrovich, swears to him that the incident in the arbor was an accident, and she loves only Nikolai Petrovich. Pavel Petrovich, in a rush of feeling, asks that she never leave his brother. “Think what could be worse than to love and not be loved!” He persuades Nikolai Petrovich to seal his relationship with Fenechka by legal marriage, and he happily agrees. Pavel Petrovich himself, convinced that his life was in vain, decides to leave Russia and live last years in Europe.

Chapter XXV. Meanwhile, Arkady in Nikolskoye is surprised to notice that Katya has become closer to Anna Sergeevna for him. He is struck by Katya’s review of Bazarov: “He is predatory, and we are tame. He is a stranger to us ... ”Katya, observant, notices that Arkady, apparently, is in love with her.

Bazarov comes to Nikolskoye from Maryin. Arkady learns from him about the duel with Pavel Petrovich and that his uncle's wound is light. Bazarov explains that he is heading home, and turned to Odintsova "... the devil knows why." Both Arkady and Bazarov feel that their separation is nearing forever. Arkady is very excited about this, but Bazarov does not at all regret the imminent separation.

Anna Sergeevna sighs with relief when Bazarov assures her that he "has come to his senses and forgotten the previous stupidities." She feels that now she is more attracted to Arkady, full of youthful ardor.

Chapter XXVI. Sitting in the garden, Katya and Arkady hear a conversation between Anna Sergeevna and Bazarov passing by. She again convinces Eugene to forget what happened between them before. “At first we were interested in each other, but ... you and I are too similar. The homogeneous should not be drawn to the homogeneous. But Arkady is not like me. I fit him as an aunt, but there is some charm in his young and fresh feeling ... "

Katya droops at these words of her sister. However, when Anna Sergeevna and Bazarov leave, Arkady turns to her: “Katerina Sergeevna, I love you, and I love no one but you. Everything else has long since disappeared without a trace. Tell me yes! - "Yes!" Katya answers.

The next day, Anna Sergeevna finds out that Arkady is asking for Katya's hand in marriage. She tells Bazarov about this and seems to want to resume the love game with him. However, he proudly refuses: "I am a poor man, but I still have not accepted alms."

Bazarov says goodbye to the Odintsovs and Arkady, calling him before parting "a soft, liberal barich" who was not created for "our bitter, tart, bean life." Anna Sergeevna, having mourned a little, quickly calms down.

Chapter XXVII. Arriving to his father and mother, Bazarov again treats them rudely and callously. He fails to forget his love for Odintsova in the fever of work. Soon, Eugene falls into a dreary boredom.

In a neighboring village, a peasant dies with typhus. Opening his body, Bazarov is accidentally cut with a scalpel, and disinfection is not at hand. Soon Yevgeny shows signs of a terrible infection.

Turgenev picturesquely describes how courageously and calmly the nihilist accepts the terrible inevitability of his imminent death. Bazarov is in no hurry to take communion, but asks his father to send a messenger to Odintsova with the news that he is close to death.

Anna Sergeevna comes to the patient, bringing with her a German doctor. However, he is convinced that there is no hope for Bazarov. Odintsova says goodbye to Evgeny, kissing him on the forehead. The next day he dies. (See Death of Bazarov)

Death of Bazarov. Illustration by artist P. Pinkisevich for Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons"

Chapter XXVIII. Six months later, two weddings are played in Maryino: Arkady with Katya and Nikolai Petrovich with Fenechka. Pavel Petrovich immediately after that leaves for Dresden and lives there for a century, like a noble European gentleman. Arkady forgets his former nihilistic hobbies and plunges with his father into the cares of the estate. He and Katya have a son, Kolya.

... And over the grave of Bazarov in a cemetery in an abandoned village, his decrepit parents often come to cry. Flowers on the grave hill, looking serenely with their innocent eyes, seem to tell them about eternal reconciliation and endless life...