What is the story of Kuprin's “Lilac bush” about? Of course, about love ... As you know, the theme of love is the main one in the work of Alexander Kuprin. Once again, the author invites the reader to join in thinking about this amazing and infinitely multifaceted feeling. This time in the story “Lilac Bush” (Kuprin, read the summary below) love is a glass filled to the brim with pure water. It is transparent, quiet, crystal tender, without impurities and precipitation. You admire her and want to drink to the bottom. "Does this happen?" - you ask. It happens. So, "Lilac Bush" (Kuprin), a brief summary ...
The lectures at the military academy are over, and the young bankrupt officer Almazov returns home. So begins the story “Lilac Bush” (Kuprin), a summary of which you are now reading. Browed eyes, frowning face, nervously bitten lower lip ... My wife realized from the first second that a misfortune had occurred, but did not immediately disturb him with questions. Perhaps, “only God and Almazov’s wife” knew the other side of the young officer’s studies: difficult exams, admission failures and even the utopian nature of the thought to enter the Academy. But only she firmly believed in him, supported him in cheerfulness, instilled hope in him and said that the impossible does not exist. Only she saved and denied herself the essentials in order to surround him with the necessary comfort and coziness. And only she was his personal secretary, reader, draftsman and scribe ...
Five minutes passed. He was silent and nervously breaking burnt matches from an ashtray into small pieces. Vera sat on the back of the chair, gently hugged him and gently started a deliberately unpleasant conversation ... It turns out that the night before he was finalizing his drawing - an instrumental survey of the area - and accidentally planted a bright green spot. How to proceed? After all, it is impossible to hand over the plan in this form, and he decided to draw bushes at this place. The spot turned out excellently and almost not noticeably.
However, the professor was a terrible pedant and also a German. He drew attention to the bushes and expressed his confidence that they actually did not exist. He has known this area for more than twenty years and is one hundred percent sure that he is right. Almazov was ashamed to admit sloppiness, and he argued with the professor that the bushes were “present” in that place. Tomorrow they ride there together ...
The story "Lilac bush" (Kuprin), a brief summary of it continues the thoughts of the protagonist. What to do? Shame, shame and unprecedented humiliation. Vera quickly got up, ran to the table, then to the dresser. She began to open boxes, some boxes. She pulled out her simple "inheritance" - earrings, a ring and a bracelet, put it in a reticule and said resolutely: "We’ll go ... if there aren’t such stupid bushes there, then they should be planted right now"
They handed over pawnshops to the pawnshop and bought lilac bushes with the proceeds and hired workers. At night, all the bushes were planted ...
The next day, Vera felt anxious and restless in her soul. She broke down and went outside. Seeing from afar the lively, bouncing gait of her beloved husband, she realized that in this story they won. Probably, now the lilac will forever remain a favorite flower - she thought, when they both walked along the street, holding hands and laughing non-stop, as if there was nobody around, except for them ...
Once again, I want to recall what this story is called, which was written by A. Kuprin, “Lilac bush”. The content set out briefly cannot convey the entire subtlety and depth of feelings of the main characters, so reading the original is simply necessary.