On a stormy autumn day, along a rutted dirt road to a long hut, in one half of which there was a postal station, and in the other a clean room where one could rest, eat and even spend the night, a mud-covered carriage with a half-raised top drove up. On the box of the tarantass sat a strong, serious man in a tightly belted overcoat, and in the tarantass - “a slender old military man in a large cap and a Nikolaev gray overcoat with a beaver stand-up collar, still black-browed, but with a white mustache that connected with the same
Sideburns; his chin was shaved and his whole appearance bore that resemblance to Alexander II, which was so common among the military during his reign; the look was also questioning, stern and at the same time tired.”
When the horses stopped, he got out of the tarantass, ran up to the porch of the hut and turned left, as the coachman told him. The room was warm, dry and tidy, with a sweet smell of cabbage soup coming from behind the stove damper. The newcomer threw his overcoat onto the bench, took off his gloves and cap, and tiredly ran his hand through his slightly curly hair. There was no one in the upper room, he opened the door and called: “Hey, who’s there!” “The dark-haired one came in,
Also black-browed and also still beautiful beyond her age... with dark fluff on her upper lip and along her cheeks, light on her feet, but plump, with large breasts under a red blouse, with a triangular belly, like a goose’s, under a black woolen skirt.” She greeted politely.
The visitor glanced at her rounded shoulders and light legs and asked for a samovar. It turned out that this woman was the owner of the inn. The visitor praised her for her cleanliness. The woman, looking at him inquisitively, said: “I love cleanliness. After all, Nikolai Alekseevich, Nikolai Alekseevich, grew up under the gentlemen, but he didn’t know how to behave decently.” "Hope! You? - he said hastily. - My God, my God! Who would have thought! How many years have we not seen each other? About thirty-five?” - “Thirty, Nikolai Alekseevich.” He is excited and asks her how she lived all these years. How did you live? The gentlemen gave me freedom. She was not married. Why? Yes, because she loved him very much. “Everything passes, my friend,” he muttered. – Love, youth – everything, everything. The story is vulgar, ordinary. Over the years everything goes away.”
For others, maybe, but not for her. She lived it all her life. She knew that his former self had been gone for a long time, that it was as if nothing had happened to him, but she still loved him. It’s too late to reproach her now, but how heartlessly he abandoned her then... How many times did she want to kill herself! “And they deigned to read all the poems to me about all sorts of “dark alleys,” she added with an unkind smile.” Nikolai Alekseevich remembers how beautiful Nadezhda was. He was good too. “And it was I who gave you my beauty, my passion. How can you forget this?” - "A! Everything passes. Everything is forgotten.” - “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten.” “Go away,” he said, turning away and going to the window. “Go away, please.” Pressing the handkerchief to his eyes, he added: “If only God would forgive me. And you, apparently, have forgiven.” No, she did not forgive him and could never forgive him. She can't forgive him.
He ordered the horses to be brought, moving away from the window with dry eyes. He, too, had never been happy in his life. He married for great love, and she abandoned him even more insultingly than he abandoned Nadezhda. He placed so many hopes on his son, but he grew up to be a scoundrel, an insolent man, without honor, without conscience. She came up and kissed his hand, and he kissed hers. Already on the road, he remembered this with shame, and he felt ashamed of this shame. The coachman says that she watched them from the window. She is a woman with a mind. Gives money in interest, but is fair.
“Yes, of course, the best moments... Truly magical! “The scarlet rose hips were blooming all around, there were dark linden alleys…” What if I had not abandoned her? What nonsense! This same Nadezhda is not the innkeeper, but my wife, the mistress of my St. Petersburg house, the mother of my children?” And, closing his eyes, he shook his head.
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One cloudy autumn day, along a muddy road to a large house, a dirty carriage with a raised top drove up. In front sat the driver in a belted overcoat, and in the carriage itself was a stern military man, wearing a large hat and a St. Nicholas overcoat with a stand-up collar. He was not old yet, but already had a whitened mustache that smoothly turned into sideburns. His chin was clean-shaven, like all military men during the reign of Alexander II. The man was strict, but at the same time tired.
When the carriage stopped, the man got out and ran into the hut. Here he took off his overcoat, took off his cold gloves and ran a tired hand through his curly hair. There was no one in the hallway, but there was the smell of fresh cabbage soup. A woman came out to meet him. Not quite young, but black-browed and beautiful for her age. She had round shapes and large breasts. Seeing the guest, she politely greeted him.
The newcomer looked at her with a light glance and asked for tea. The woman was the owner of this inn. He praised her for her cleanliness, and when the woman replied that she really loved a clean house, he suddenly came to his senses and recognized her as his friend. They had not seen each other for almost thirty-five years. He began asking about her life, husband and children. Hearing in response that she could not get married because she loved him, the man said that everything goes away over the years.
But he didn’t know that love had been with her all her life. She knew that he could forget her, but she still loved her. The woman remembered how he abandoned her. She began to say that she tried to commit suicide several times, and that you can’t forget everything. The man came to the window and asked her to leave. He said that he asks God for forgiveness because he sees that she has forgiven him. But he was wrong, standing at the window and wiping away a tear.
He asked for a carriage and walked away from the window with already dry eyes. He recalled that he had never been happy in his life. The woman he loved and married abandoned him even worse than he abandoned Nadezhda. All the plans he had for his only son collapsed. And suddenly, she came up and kissed his hand. And he, unable to resist, kissed her. Leaving the inn, he remembered this, and became very ashamed of his past. The driver said that Nadezhda watched them leave through the window. He said that she is a smart woman. He is engaged in lending money, but fairly.
And he realized that with her there were the best moments of his life. He remembered the poems he read to her. And then I thought about it. What would have happened if at that time, he had not abandoned her. Probably, now Nadezhda would be the mistress of his St. Petersburg estate, and the mother of his children. And closing his eyes, he shook his head.
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Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
"Dark alleys"
On a stormy autumn day, along a rutted dirt road to a long hut, in one half of which there was a postal station, and in the other a clean room where one could rest, eat and even spend the night, a mud-covered carriage with a half-raised top drove up. On the box of the tarantass sat a strong, serious man in a tightly belted overcoat, and in the tarantass - “a slender old military man in a large cap and in a Nikolaev gray overcoat with a beaver stand-up collar, still black-browed, but with a white mustache that was connected to the same sideburns; his chin was shaved and his whole appearance bore that resemblance to Alexander II, which was so common among the military during his reign; the look was also questioning, stern and at the same time tired.”
When the horses stopped, he got out of the tarantass, ran up to the porch of the hut and turned left, as the coachman told him. The room was warm, dry and tidy, with a sweet smell of cabbage soup coming from behind the stove damper. The newcomer threw his overcoat onto the bench, took off his gloves and cap, and tiredly ran his hand through his slightly curly hair. There was no one in the upper room, he opened the door and called: “Hey, who’s there!” A dark-haired woman, also black-browed and also still beautiful beyond her age, entered... with dark fluff on her upper lip and along her cheeks, light as she walked, but plump, with large breasts under a red blouse, with a triangular belly, like a goose’s, under a black woolen blouse. skirt." She greeted politely.
The visitor glanced at her rounded shoulders and light legs and asked for a samovar. It turned out that this woman was the owner of the inn. The visitor praised her for her cleanliness. The woman, looking at him inquisitively, said: “I love cleanliness. After all, Nikolai Alekseevich, Nikolai Alekseevich, grew up under the gentlemen, but he didn’t know how to behave decently.” "Hope! You? - he said hastily. - My God, my God!.. Who would have thought! How many years have we not seen each other? About thirty-five?” - “Thirty, Nikolai Alekseevich.” He is excited and asks her how she lived all these years. How did you live? The gentlemen gave me freedom. She was not married. Why? Yes, because she loved him very much. “Everything passes, my friend,” he muttered. - Love, youth - everything, everything. The story is vulgar, ordinary. Over the years everything goes away.”
For others, maybe, but not for her. She lived it all her life. She knew that his former self had been gone for a long time, that it was as if nothing had happened to him, but she still loved him. It’s too late to reproach her now, but how heartlessly he abandoned her then... How many times did she want to kill herself! “And they deigned to read all the poems to me about all sorts of ‘dark alleys,’” she added with an unkind smile.” Nikolai Alekseevich remembers how beautiful Nadezhda was. He was good too. “And it was I who gave you my beauty, my passion. How can you forget this?” - "A! Everything passes. Everything is forgotten." - “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten.” “Go away,” he said, turning away and going to the window. “Please go away.” Pressing the handkerchief to his eyes, he added: “If only God would forgive me. And you, apparently, have forgiven.” No, she did not forgive him and could never forgive him. She can't forgive him.
He ordered the horses to be brought, moving away from the window with dry eyes. He, too, had never been happy in his life. He married for great love, and she abandoned him even more insultingly than he abandoned Nadezhda. He placed so many hopes on his son, but he grew up to be a scoundrel, an insolent man, without honor, without conscience. She came up and kissed his hand, and he kissed hers. Already on the road, he remembered this with shame, and he felt ashamed of this shame. The coachman says that she watched them from the window. She is a woman - a smart woman. Gives money in interest, but is fair.
“Yes, of course, the best moments... Truly magical! “The scarlet rose hips were blooming all around, there were dark linden alleys…” What if I hadn’t abandoned her? What nonsense! This same Nadezhda is not the innkeeper, but my wife, the mistress of my St. Petersburg house, the mother of my children?” And, closing his eyes, he shook his head.
One cloudy autumn day, along a muddy road to a large house, a dirty carriage with a raised top drove up. In front sat the driver in a belted overcoat, and in the carriage itself was a stern military man, wearing a large hat and a St. Nicholas overcoat with a stand-up collar. He was not old yet, but already had a whitened mustache that smoothly turned into sideburns. His chin was clean-shaven, like all military men during the reign of Alexander II. The man was strict, but at the same time tired.
When the carriage stopped, the man got out and ran into the hut. Here he took off his overcoat, took off his cold gloves and ran a tired hand through his curly hair. There was no one in the hallway, but there was the smell of fresh cabbage soup. A woman came out to meet him. Not quite young, but black-browed and beautiful for her age. She had round shapes and large breasts. Seeing the guest, she politely greeted him.
The visitor looked at her with a light glance and asked for tea. The woman was the owner of this inn. He praised her for her cleanliness, and when the woman replied that she really loved a clean house, he suddenly came to his senses and recognized her as his friend. They had not seen each other for almost thirty-five years. He began to ask about her life, husband and children. Hearing in response that she could not get married because she loved him, the man said that everything goes away over the years.
But he didn’t know that love had been with her all her life. She knew that he could forget her, but she still loved her. The woman remembered how he abandoned her. She began to say that she tried to commit suicide several times, and that it was impossible to forget everything. The man came to the window and asked her to leave. He said that he asks God for forgiveness because he sees that she has forgiven him. But he was wrong, standing at the window and wiping away a tear.
He asked for a carriage and walked away from the window with already dry eyes. He recalled that he had never been happy in his life. The woman he loved and married abandoned him even worse than he abandoned Nadezhda. All the plans he had for his only son collapsed. And suddenly, she came up and kissed his hand. And he, unable to resist, kissed her. Leaving the inn, he remembered this, and became very ashamed of his past. The driver said that Nadezhda watched them leave through the window. He said that she is a smart woman. He is engaged in lending money, but fairly.
And he realized that with her there were the best moments of his life. He remembered the poems he read to her. And then I thought about it. What would have happened if at that time, he did not leave her. Probably, now Nadezhda would be the mistress of his St. Petersburg estate, and the mother of his children. And closing his eyes, he shook his head.
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Popularity and recognition come to the writer. He meets M. Gorky, A. P. Chekhov, L. N. Tolstoy.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Ivan Alekseevich created the stories “Zakhar Vorobyov”, “Pines”, “Antonov Apples” and others, which depict the tragedy of the disadvantaged, impoverished people, as well as the ruin of the estates of the nobles.
and emigration
Bunin perceived the October Revolution negatively, as a social drama. He emigrated in 1920 to France. Here he wrote, among other works, a cycle of short stories called “Dark Alleys” (we will analyze the story of the same name from this collection below). The main theme of the cycle is love. Ivan Alekseevich reveals to us not only its bright sides, but also its dark ones, as the name itself suggests.
Bunin's fate was both tragic and happy. He reached unsurpassed heights in his art and was the first Russian writer to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize. But he was forced to live for thirty years in a foreign land, with longing for his homeland and spiritual closeness with her.
Collection "Dark Alleys"
These experiences served as the impetus for the creation of the “Dark Alleys” cycle, which we will analyze. This collection, in a truncated form, first appeared in New York in 1943. In 1946, the next edition was published in Paris, which included 38 stories. The collection differed sharply in its content from how the topic of love was usually covered in Soviet literature.
Bunin's view of love
Bunin had his own view of this feeling, different from others. Its ending was one - death or separation, no matter how much the characters loved each other. Ivan Alekseevich thought that it looked like a flash, but that’s what was wonderful. Over time, love is replaced by affection, which gradually turns into everyday life. Bunin's heroes lack this. They experience only a flash and part, having enjoyed it.
Let's consider the analysis of the story that opens the cycle of the same name, starting with a brief description of the plot.
The plot of the story "Dark Alleys"
Its plot is simple. General Nikolai Alekseevich, already an old man, arrives at the postal station and meets here his beloved, whom he has not seen for about 35 years. He will not recognize hope right away. Now she is the mistress of where their first meeting once took place. The hero finds out that all this time she loved only him.
The story "Dark Alleys" continues. Nikolai Alekseevich is trying to justify himself to the woman for not visiting her for so many years. “Everything passes,” he says. But these explanations are very insincere and clumsy. Nadezhda wisely answers the general, saying that youth passes for everyone, but love does not. A woman reproaches her lover for leaving her heartlessly, so she wanted to commit suicide many times, but she realizes that it is now too late to reproach.
Let's take a closer look at the story "Dark Alleys". shows that Nikolai Alekseevich does not seem to feel remorse, but Nadezhda is right when she says that not everything is forgotten. The general also could not forget this woman, his first love. In vain he asks her: “Please go away.” And he says that if only God would forgive him, and Nadezhda, apparently, has already forgiven him. But it turns out that no. The woman admits that she could not do this. Therefore, the general is forced to make excuses, apologize to his former lover, saying that he was never happy, but he loved his wife deeply, and she left Nikolai Alekseevich and cheated on him. He adored his son, had high hopes, but he turned out to be an insolent man, a spendthrift, without honor, heart, or conscience.
Is the old love still there?
Let's analyze the work "Dark Alleys". Analysis of the story shows that the feelings of the main characters have not faded away. It becomes clear to us that the old love has been preserved, the heroes of this work love each other as before. Leaving, the general admits to himself that this woman gave him the best moments of his life. Fate takes revenge on the hero for betraying his first love. Nikolai Alekseevich ("Dark Alleys") does not find happiness in his family life. An analysis of his experiences proves this. He realizes that he missed the chance once given by fate. When the coachman tells the general that this landlady gives money at interest and is very “cool”, although she is fair: he didn’t return it on time - that means you have yourself to blame, Nikolai Alekseevich projects these words onto his life, reflects on what would have happened , if he had not left this woman.
What prevented the happiness of the main characters?
At one time, class prejudices prevented the future general from uniting his fate with a commoner. But love did not leave the protagonist’s heart and prevented him from becoming happy with another woman and raising his son with dignity, as our analysis shows. "Dark Alleys" (Bunin) is a work that has a tragic connotation.
Nadezhda also carried love throughout her life and in the end she also found herself alone. She could not forgive the hero for the suffering he caused, since he remained the most dear person in her life. Nikolai Alekseevich was unable to break the rules established in society and did not risk acting against them. After all, if the general had married Nadezhda, he would have met with contempt and misunderstanding from those around him. And the poor girl had no choice but to submit to fate. In those days, bright alleys of love between a peasant woman and a gentleman were impossible. This problem is already public, not personal.
The dramatic destinies of the main characters
In his work, Bunin wanted to show the dramatic destinies of the main characters, who were forced to part, being in love with each other. In this world, love turned out to be doomed and especially fragile. But she illuminated their whole life and forever remained in their memory as the best moments. This story is romantically beautiful, although dramatic.
In Bunin's work "Dark Alleys" (we are now analyzing this story), the theme of love is a cross-cutting motif. It permeates all creativity, thereby connecting the emigrant and Russian periods. It is this that allows the writer to correlate spiritual experiences with the phenomena of external life, and also to get closer to the secret of the human soul, based on the influence of objective reality on him.
This concludes the analysis of “Dark Alleys”. Everyone understands love in their own way. This amazing feeling has not yet been solved. The theme of love will always be relevant, since it is the driving force of many human actions, the meaning of our lives. In particular, our analysis leads to this conclusion. “Dark Alleys” by Bunin is a story that even in its title reflects the idea that this feeling cannot be fully understood, it is “dark”, but at the same time beautiful.
This work was written in 1938. The work was named after two lines of N. Ogarev’s poem “...The scarlet rose hips were blooming all around / There was an alley of dark linden trees...” At that time, the writer lived in exile in the city of Grasse (France) and yearned for Russia. He was horrified by the war going on in the world and he hid from it by creating a book about beauty and love. The first story in the collection was the story “Dark Alley,” which was created under the influence of nostalgia, bright memories of youth and love. This story was first published in 1943 in the magazine “Novaya Zemlya” in the USA.Main characters
- Nikolai Alekseevich- a 60-year-old military man, slender, tall with a beard, impressive. He has a wife and son, and in his youth he abandoned the main character.
- Hope- owner of an inn, 48 years old. A strong and economical woman who created her own business and is getting rich. But she is unhappy, because in her entire life she could not stop loving the main character.
Summary of the story “Dark Alleys”
Late autumn, on a cold night, a tarantass was driving along one of the roads near Tula. The coachman and Nikolai Alekseevich were sitting in it. The coachman looked like a bandit, and his passenger looked like Emperor Alexander II, as was fashionable at that time. He stopped at a hut in which there was an inn. The man came in to refresh himself and gain strength.
Dark Alleys is a story by Ivan Bunin, written in 1938.
It was a stormy autumn day when the carriage drove into the yard. In the courtyard there was a hut in which there was a postal station and an inn. An elderly man got out of the tarantass. It was clear from his cap and gray overcoat that in the past he was a military man and served under Nikolai Pavlovich.
Facial features, eyes and sideburns made the guest look like Alexander II. In the upper room of the inn, where the old man went, there was an appetizing smell of cabbage soup. The hostess met the guest. She was no longer young, but despite her age, she was still quite beautiful. She called the guest by name, Nikolai Alekseevich, after which the old man recognized the woman.
Nikolai Alekseevich was once passionately in love with Nadezhda, that was the woman’s name, but about thirty-five years had passed since their last meeting. Seeing Nadezhda, Nikolai Alekseevich became incredibly excited and began hastily asking about her life all this time. It turned out that the gentlemen gave Nadezhda freedom. She never got married, because all her life she loved only Nikolai Alekseevich.
Having learned about this, the old man was embarrassed and began to make excuses that over the years a lot of water had passed under the bridge and that time smoothed everything out. Nadezhda is outraged by Nikolai Alekseevich’s excuses. It may happen with others, but not with her. All her life her heart belonged only to him, although she understood that Nikolai Alekseevich behaved as if there was no connection between them.
Nadezhda’s life was often in the balance, because she more than once thought about committing suicide out of despair as a result of a break with her loved one. The hostess, smiling unkindly, remembers Nikolai Alekseevich, who read her poems about “dark alleys.” The old man remembers all the charm and beauty of Nadezhda, bursting with youth. But he was also very handsome in his time, because it was not without reason that she gave him all her youth.
Nikolai Alekseevich was sad and restless from the unexpected meeting with Nadezhda, so he urgently asks to leave him. The old man decided that she had forgiven him and hoped for God's forgiveness. Nikolai Alekseevich was wrong - Nadezhda would never be able to forgive him... Nikolai Alekseevich was overcome by anxiety, and stingy tears fell from his eyes. He decided to leave this place immediately.
The old man, remembering his whole life, realized that he had never experienced happiness. He married a woman whom he also loved very much, but she treated him even more heartlessly than he did with Nadezhda. Nikolai Alekseevich still hoped that his son would become a worthy and noble person, but his expectations were not met. Saying goodbye, Nadezhda and Nikolai Alekseevich kiss each other’s hands.
After Nikolai Alekseevich’s departure, pangs of conscience begin to overcome him, and he is embarrassed by his shame for what he had done. Meanwhile, the coachman said a few words about Nadezhda - she watched them for a long time from the window. The coachman believes that Nadezhda is an intelligent and fair woman, although rather tight-fisted. At this moment, Nikolai Alekseevich comes to the realization that his relationship with Nadezhda is the best time in his life.
His imagination paints an amazing picture - Nadezhda is no longer the owner of a small inn, but his loving wife. The couple live in the St. Petersburg house of Nikolai Alekseevich, Nadezhda is raising children. The old man closed his eyes and shook his head, regretting the missed opportunities.
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