Pomegranate bracelet biography

In mid -August, the weather on the northern coast of the Black Sea was greatly deteriorated, and the inhabitants of the resorts began to hastily move to the city. But in early September, summer unexpectedly returned. Princess Vera Sheina had not yet managed to leave the cottage: her Moscow house was repaired. Now she enjoyed warm days, silence and solitude. Chapter 2.

The husband of Vera, Prince Vasily Shein, barely made ends meet, and Vera was glad that “the name day coincided with the country time” and they would not have to spend money on a ceremonial lunch in the city. Princess Vera, whose former passionate love for her husband has long passed into the feeling of a strong, faithful, true friendship, tried her best to help the prince to resist complete ruin.

Advertising on the name day should have fought only the closest friends. The younger sister of Vera arrived, Anna - the wife of a rich and stupid person. Sisters, very attached to each other, were outwardly different. Vera looked like a mother-English mother, Anna went to her father-the Tatar prince. Vera had no children, and she adored pretty nephews. Anna was wasteful, loved flirting, gambling and despised her husband, although he adored her.

At the same time, she was good, deeply religious and never changed her unloved husband. Chapter 3. The sister gave Vera a notebook converted from an old prayer book. Anna found a cover from a prayer book in an antique shop, covered with a rubberized blue velvet with a gold pattern in the form of a cross, and instead of paper she ordered to sew thin plates of ivory in it.

Vera advertising was delighted with the gift. She said that only Anna could have occurred to a crazy thought to turn a prayer book into a ladies' notebook. Chapter 4. The general was a courageous man, fought a lot, and now he served the commandant of the fortress. Throughout his military career, he never hit the soldier. The current position of Anosov was symbolic: through and through the sick old man was appointed commandant for military merits.

In the city, he was famous for his eccentricities and a good attitude to officers sitting on guardhouse. Anosov was lonely: his wife escaped with the actor, there were no children. Having moved to K. Chapter 5. He knew how to invent funny stories based on real events, and tell them with a very serious look. The album with funny drawings and poetic comments on them served as an addition to stories.

Advertising at that moment the maid handed over to Vera a package brought during lunch. It contained a note and a case with a bracelet made of low -grade blowing gold, decorated with grenades and a strange green stone. The gift was sent by the long -standing admirer of the princess, whom she had never seen, only his initials knew - G. in the note attached to the gift said that all the grenades were taken from the bracelet belonging to the grandmother of the admirer, and the green stone - a very rare green grenade - endowed women with the gift of foresight, and guarded men from a forced death.

With unexpected anxiety, Vera thought that grenades in the bracelet were similar to drops of blood. Chapter 6. Today, the princess did not like the jokes of her husband. Chapter 7. Then he remembered a short novel “With a Prejoy Bulgarochka” that happened to him in Bucharest. Chapter 8. In the evening, escorting the guests, Vera whispered to her husband so that he looked into the case and read the note.

Leading Anosov to his crew, the sisters spoke with him about love. The general believed that people have forgotten how to love, and marry only for the sake of benefit. Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life amenities, calculations and compromises should touch it. The general did not meet the advertisement of true love, but told the sisters two interesting cases.

The first story was about the wife of a regimental commander, an experienced lecher who seduced a young warrant officer. Very quickly, the boy was tired of her, she left him, and the ensign suffered terribly and jealous. Once she asked, a warrant officer could rush under a train out of love for her. He rushed, but they prevented him from committing suicide. The ensign lost both brushes, became a beggar and frozen "somewhere on the pier in St.

Petersburg." The second story is about a young and beautiful woman, whom her husband loved so much that he endured her lover, a coward and a loan. In fact, the three of them lived. When the regiment was sent to the war, the husband took care of and took his wife’s lover, afraid that she would leave him. Everyone sympathized with this brave man and rejoiced when the lover died of typhoid.

Anosov also met the loving women and was sure that "that almost every woman is capable of love for the highest heroism." These men are to blame that love from the meaning of life has turned into a small entertainment. The advertisement then Anosov asked Vera what kind of story with a “telegraph player in love”. She talked about the madman with the initials of G. after that he wrote to her only for Easter, the New Year and her name day.

Princess Vera also told about today's package. According to the general, this person was either a maniac or the life path of his Verochka "crossed just such love that women are dreamed of and which men are no longer capable of." Chapter 9.He decided to find an admirer and stop his courtship. Nikolai, who worked in court, wanted to attract gendarmes to this case, but Prince Vasily asked not to interfere with strangers in this case.

The head of Nikolai and Prince Vasily returned him a grenade bracelet and demanded to leave faith alone, threatening to turn to the authorities. At the first moment, Zheltkov was confused and embarrassed, but relaxed when he heard a threat. Advertising not paying attention to Nikolai, he told Prince Vasily that he hopelessly loved faith for seven years and would love her, even if he was spent from the city or put him in prison.

The only way for him to abandon this love is to die. Then he asked Prince Vasily permission to talk with faith on the phone and went out. Zheltkov returned with eyes full of tears. Forgetting about secular decency, he said that Shein would not hear about him anymore: he was wasting official money and is now forced to hide. Vera asked him to stop this story, and he promised. The last request of Zheltkov was to write a farewell letter to the princess.

Prince Vasily allowed this out of pity. In the morning, Vera read in the newspaper that G. Zheltkov committed suicide “because of the embezzlement of official money”, and his last letter came with the evening mail. It so happened that nothing interests me in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor caring for the future of people - for me all life lies only in you.

Zheltkov wrote about his love - the only one that interested him in this life, wished the faith of happiness and asked him to play Beethoven's second sonata for piano in memory of him. The tearful Vera showed a letter to her husband, asked for permission to go to the city and look at Zheltkov. She said that in eight years, Zheltkov became her almost son.

She did not know anything about embezzlement, otherwise she would not regret her savings to cover the debt. The grenade bracelet Zheltkov gave her and asked to hang him on the icon. Advertising Vera looked at Zheltkov for a long time, who died with a serene smile on her lips, and understood “that the love that every woman dreams of was passed by her.” Then she put a large red rose in the coffin and kissed his cold, wet forehead.

She had no doubt that she would choose the second sonata Beethoven. Music seemed to tell the princess about the great but unfulfilled love of a small, simple person. Vera cried, listening to the sonata, and then felt that G. was retold Julia Peskova. The retelling of the story was taken from the 5th volume of the collected works of Kuprin in 9 volumes Moscow: True, portraits of characters-from the film "Grenade Bracelet" dir.

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