In the work āThe White Guardā a brief summary conveys the main essence of the work, concisely shows the characters and their main actions. Reading the novel in this form is recommended for those who want to familiarize themselves with the plot superficially, but have no time for the full version. This article will help in this regard, because here the main events in the story are described as accessible as possible.
First two chapters
The summary of the White Guard begins with the fact that grief happened in the Turbins' house. The mother died and before that she told her children to live together. In the courtyard is the beginning of the cold winter of 1918. The elder brother Alex is a doctor by profession, and after the funeral the guy goes to the priest. Father says that you need to fasten, because then it will only get worse.
The second chapter begins with a description of the Turbins' apartment, in which the stove is a source of heat. The youngest son of Nikolk and Alexei sing, and sister Elena is waiting for her husband Sergey Talberg. She tells the troubling news that the Germans are leaving Kiev, and Petlyura with her army is already very close.
The doorbell soon rang, and on the threshold appeared an old friend of the family, Lieutenant Viktor Myshlaevsky. He talks about the cordon around his unit and the long shift of the guard. A day in the cold ended for two fighters with death, and the same number lost their legs due to frostbite.
The man warms the family with his efforts, Talberg soon arrives. Elenaās husband, in a summary of the White Guard, speaks of a retreat from Kiev, and that he is leaving his wife with the troops. He does not dare to take her with him in an unknown direction, there comes a minute of farewell.
Continuation
The short work āThe White Guardā further tells about the Turbins' neighbor Vasily Lisovich. He also learned about the latest news and decided to devote the night to hiding all his treasures in hiding places. A man from the street is watching through his occupation through an imperceptible gap, but the man did not see the unknown guy.
In the same period, the Turbins' apartment was replenished with new guests. Talberg left, after which comrades from the gymnasium came to Alexei. Leonid Shervinsky and Fedor Stepanov (nickname Karas) hold the posts of lieutenant and second lieutenant, respectively. They came with a drink, and therefore soon all men begin to fog the mind.
Viktor Myshlaevsky feels particularly ill, and therefore they begin to drink him with different medicines. Only with the advent of dawn did everyone decide to go to sleep, but Elena did not support the initiative. A beautiful woman feels abandoned and cannot hold back her tears. The thought stuck in my head that Sergey would never come to her again.
That same winter, Alexei Turbin returned from the front, and officers inundated Kiev. Some also returned from the battlefields, and many moved from Moscow, where the Bolsheviks had already begun to restore their order.
A summary of the White Guard chapters outlines the fourth section of troubled life in Kiev. People huddled in small apartments by several families. At the same time, this did not stop them from scattering money in all directions. The city was bad, but the situation around it was even worse. Everyone hoped for the return of the Germans, but everything happened differently.
The cycle of events
A brief summary of the chapters of the White Guard will tell readers how various troubles began to occur in Kiev. First, an ammunition depot exploded, and then the sudden assassination of the German army commander shocked all the inhabitants. At the same time, Simon Petlyura was released from prison within the walls of a Kiev prison.
At night, Alexei Turbin has a dream about how Colonel Nai-Tours and the leaders of other troops find themselves in paradise after a skirmish. After that, the hero hears the voice of God, which broadcasts the equality of all fighters on both sides of the barricades. Then the Father said that after the death of the Reds on Perekop he would send them to beautiful barracks with the corresponding symbols.
Aleksey spoke with the commander Zhilin and even managed to convince the commander to take him into his squad. A summary of Mikhail Bulgakovās āWhite Guardā in the sixth chapter tells how the fate of all who were the previous night at the Turbins was determined. Nikolka went earlier than anyone else to sign up for a volunteer squad, together with him Shervinsky left the house and went to headquarters. The remaining men went to the building of their former gymnasium, where a division of volunteers was formed to support artillery.
At headquarters, Colonel Malyshev sent all three under the command of Studzinsky. Alexei is glad to put on his military uniform again, and Elena was sewn by other epaulets. Colonel Malyshev that evening ordered to completely disband the composition, since every second volunteer did not know how to behave properly with weapons.
The end of the first part and the beginning of the second
At the end of the first part, a brief summary of the "White Guard" Bulgakov talks about the events on Vladimir Hill. Kirpaty, along with a friend nicknamed Nemolyak, cannot get into the lower part of the village due to German patrols. They see a man wrapped up in a palace with a fox-like face in bandages. The car takes the man away, and the next morning news comes about the runaway hetman with his associates.
Simon Petliura will soon be in the city, the troops break their guns and hide cartridges. The gymnasium damaged an electric shield as a sabotage. In the novel "The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov, a brief summary at the beginning of the second part tells about the maneuver of Colonel Kozyr-Leshko. The commander of the Petliurites changes the deployment of the army so that the defenders of Kiev think about the main attack from Kurenevka. Only now the central breakthrough will be made near Svyatoshino.
Meanwhile, the last people from the Hetmanās headquarters are fleeing, including Colonel Shchetkin. Bolbotun is standing on the outskirts of the city, and he decides that he should not wait for orders from the headquarters. A man begins an offensive, which served as the beginning of hostilities. Hundred Galanba on Millionnaya street collides with Jacob Feldman. He is looking for a midwife for his wife, because she will give birth any minute. Galanba requires a certificate, but instead Feldman gives a certificate of supply to the armor-piercing battalion. Such a mistake ended in death for the failed father.
Street fighting
A brief summary of the chapters of the White Guard details the onset of Bolbotun. The colonel is advancing towards the center of Kiev, but suffers losses due to the resistance of the junkers. An armored car blocks the road on Moskovskaya Street. Previously, there were four cars in the engine squad of the hetman, but the command of Mikhail Shpolyansky over the second vehicle was changed for the worse. Armored cars were out of order, drivers and fighters constantly began to disappear.
That night, the former writer Shpolyansky went into intelligence with the driver Schur and did not return. Soon the commander of the entire Shlepko division disappears. Further, in a brief summary of the White Guard novel, the chapters describe what kind of person Colonel Nai-Tours is. The man made a powerful impression and always achieved his goal. For the sake of boots for his detachment, he threatened the intendant with the Mauser, but he got his own.
His group of fighters collides near the Polytechnic Highway with Colonel Kozyr-Leshko. Cossacks are stopped by machine guns, but there are huge losses in the Nai-Tours squad. He orders a retreat and discovers that there is no support around. Several wounded fighters are sent flying to the headquarters.
Around this time, Nikolka Turbin with the rank of corporal became the commander of a detachment of 28 cadets. The guy receives an order from the headquarters and takes his guys to the position. Alexei Turbin arrives at the gymnasium building at two in the afternoon, as Colonel Malyshev said. He finds him in the headquarters building and gets advice to take off his uniform and leave through the back door. The commander himself, meanwhile, is burning important papers. Understanding what is happening to the eldest of the Turbin family comes only at night, then he gets rid of the form.
Continuation of hostilities in Kiev
A brief summary of parts of the "White Guard" Bulgakov demonstrates the events on the streets of the city. Nikolka Turbin took a place at the crossroads, where he found running junkers from the nearest alley. From there, Colonel Nai-Tours flies out, who orders everyone to flee faster. The young corporal is trying to resist, for which he gets a butt in the face. At this time, the commander is loading a machine gun, and Cossacks jump out of the same lane.
Nikolka begins to feed the ribbons to the weapon, and they fight off, but from the next street they open fire, and Nai-Tours falls. His last words were an order to step back and not try to be a hero. Nikolka hides with the colonelās pistol and runs home through the yards.
Alexey never returned, and the girls are all in tears. The guns began to rattle, but the Cossacks were already operating on batteries. The defenders fled, and whoever decided to stay is already dead. Nikolka fell asleep dressed, and when he woke up, he saw a relative of Larion Surzhansky from Zhytomyr. He came to the family to heal the wounds of his wife's infidelity. At this time, Alexei, wounded in the arm, returns. The doctor sews it up, but parts of the overcoat remain inside.
Larion turned out to be a kind and sincere person, albeit too clumsy. Turbines forgive him everything, because he is a good man, and he is also rich. Aleksey raves because of an injury and is given a morphine injection. Nikolka tries to cover all traces in the house, which testify to their belonging to the service and officer ranks. Typhoid fever is attributed to the elder brother in order to hide participation in hostilities.
Adventures of Alexey
A brief summary of Bulgakovās novel āThe White Guardā in chapter twelve describes the wound of Alexei Turbin. He ran out of the Paris fashion store, where there was the headquarters of the cunk division at the gymnasium. The exit turned out to be a dead end, and therefore had to climb over the wall. In a neighboring courtyard, an open gate brought him outside.
The man did not go straight home. He was interested in the events in the center, and he went there on foot. Already on Vladimirskaya Street he was met by Petlyura fighters. Aleksey takes off his epaulets on the fly, but forgets about the cockade. Cossacks recognize the officer and open fire to defeat. They fall into his shoulder, and an unknown woman saves him from a quick death. In the courtyard, she takes him and leads through a long series of streets and gates.
The girl, whose name was Julia, threw out the bloody clothes, made a dressing and left the man at her place. The next day, she brought him home. A brief summary of the chapters of the "White Guard" Bulgakov further describes the illness of Alexei. Stories about typhoid have become true, and in order to support the eldest of the Turbin brothers, all old acquaintances come to the house. The men spend the night playing cards, and the next morning a telegram arrives warning about the arrival of a relative from Zhytomyr.
Soon, the doors were actively knocked, Myshlaevsky set off to open. A neighbor from below Lisovich, who was in a state of great fright, rushed into his arms right from the door. Men do not understand anything, but they help him and listen to his story.
Events in the house of Lisovich
A summary of the White Guard will tell you in detail in chapter sixteen what happened in the apartment of Lisovichās neighbor. In the evening, when the classmates of Alexei and Myshlaevsky gathered in the Turbins for playing cards, a doorbell rang. The engineer heard a threat from the men at the door that they would open fire if Basil did not open them.
A man admits three unknown people who present a slurred document. They claim that they act on the orders of the headquarters and must conduct a search of the house. The robbers in front of the frightened head of the family completely rummage around the house and find a cache. They take all the good from there and on the spot change their ragged rags to more attractive robes. At the end of the robbery, they force Vasily to make a receipt on the voluntary transfer of property to Kirpatom and Nemolyaka. After several threats, men disappear in the night darkness. Lisovich immediately rushes to the neighbors and tells this story.
Myshlaevsky descends to the crime scene, where he examines all the details. The lieutenant says that itās better not to tell anyone about this, because it is a miracle that they were left alive. Nikolka realizes that the robbers took the weapons from the place outside the window where he hid his pistols. A hole in the fence was found in the courtyard. The robbers managed to remove the nails and crawl into the building. The next day, the hole is boarded up with boards.
The plot twists and turns
A summary of the White Guard novel in chapter sixteen tells how prayers took place in St. Sophia Cathedral, after which the parade began. Soon, an agitator of the Bolsheviks crawled out onto a high fountain, who spoke of a revolution. The Petliurites wanted to understand and arrest the culprit of the unrest, but Shpolyansky intervened with Schur. They deftly accused the Ukrainian activist of stealing, and the crowd immediately rushed at him.
At this time, the man of the Bolsheviks quietly disappears from sight. Shervinsky and Stepanov saw everything from the side and were delighted with the actions of the Reds. A brief summary of the āWhite Guardā by M. Bulgakov further describes the campaign of Nikolka to the relatives of Colonel Nai-Turs. For a long time he could not decide to pay some terrible news, but he was able to pack up and go to the indicated address. In the house of the former commander, Turbin sees his mother and sister. By the appearance of the unknown guest, they understand that Nai-Tours is no longer alive.
Together with a sister named Irina Nikolka, she goes to the building of the anatomical theater, where a morgue was equipped. He identifies the body, and relatives bury the colonel with all the honors, after which they thank the younger Turbine.
By the end of December, Alexey had already ceased to regain consciousness, and his condition was only worsening. Doctors conclude that the case is hopeless, and they can do nothing. Elena spends a long time in prayers to the Virgin. She asks not to take her brother away, because the mother has already left them, and the husband will not return to her either. Soon Alexey managed to return to consciousness, which was considered a miracle.
Last chapters
A brief summary of the White Guard units at the end tells how Petliuraās troops were retreating from Kiev in February. Alexei is recovering and even returning to medicine. Patient Rusakov comes to him with syphilis, who is obsessed with religion, and constantly blames Shpolyansky for something. Turbin prescribes treatment for him, and also advises him to focus less on his ideas.
After that, he visits Julia, whom he gives as a sign of gratitude for the salvation of a valuable motherās bracelet. On the street, he runs into his younger brother, who again went to Nai-Tours's sister. The same evening, Vasily brings a telegram, which surprised everyone because of the inoperability of the mail. In it, familiar people from Warsaw are surprised at Elenaās divorce from her husband, because Talberg got married again.
The beginning of February was marked by the departure of Petlyuraās troops from Kiev. Alexei and Vasily are tormented by terrible dreams about past events. The last chapter shows the dreams of different people about future events. Only Rusakov does not sleep, who has turned to the Red Army, and spends reading the Bible at night.
Elena sees in a dream Lieutenant Shervinsky, who catches a big red star on an armored train. This picture is replaced by the bloodied neck of Nikolkaās younger brother. The five-year-old Petka Scheglov also has a dream, but it is many times better than other people. The boy ran around the meadow, where a diamond ball appeared. He ran up and grabbed the object, which began to spew spray. From this picture, the boy began to laugh through his dreams.