The fate of the Belarusian writer Mikhail Zaretsky is sad and tragic. While still alive, recognized as a classic, he was shot during the years of Stalinist repression. In the story “Pazhoukly Kvetka,” a brief summary of which we bring to your attention, the feelings and experiences of heroes, whose fates were scorched by the fire of the October Revolution, are revealed.
Flaming revolutionary
Events take place in the Belarusian town, where on duty the party functionary Alexander Bulanovich arrives. Making an inspection tour of educational institutions, he gets acquainted with the head of the orphanage Garnova. From the first meeting, Marina liked Alexander, he was struck by her soft femininity, love for children, the sad look of deep eyes. From a local party leader, Bulanovich learns that before, Marina headed the city department of the Cheka, was a fierce fighter against the counter-revolutionary movement, and kept the whole city in fear.
After some time, a romantic relationship is established between Garnova and Bulanovich. Both understand that they have fallen into the power of true love itself. The only thing that upsets Alexander is that his beloved is constantly sad, often starts talking about death.
Confession of Marina
In one of the meetings at her home, Marina shows Bulanovich a small piece of paper. It turned out that this message was written by the father of a woman in whom he curses his daughter. Alexander insists that Marina tell him about the details of her life, it seems to him that he can help her beloved break the deadlock, break the veil of thoughts that disturb her.
What is oppressing the heroine of the story “The Butterfly pie?” The summary of her heavy confession aroused a lot of conflicting feelings in Bulanovich’s soul. Alexander learns that the girl, being the daughter of a wealthy landowner, was fascinated by the ideas of communism from her youth, she left home early to join the abyss of revolutionary activity.
While working in the Extraordinary Commission, Marina signed with her own hand a death sentence to her own brother, a member of a secret counter-revolutionary organization. “A few days before the arrest, he came to me, begged to save, to help flee abroad,” says Marina. “If this were an outsider, I might have conceded, but for me at that moment there were no enemies more important than mine relatives ".
Bitter remorse
Further, we have to understand why the author gave the name “Pazhouklaya Kvetka” to the story of the fate of a strong woman who sacrificed the life of a loved one as a sacrifice to the ideas of the revolution. The summary of the story told by Marina ends with remorse for the perfect act.
Having received a note with a curse from her father, she experienced an unbearably painful feeling, which she managed to suppress, again plunging into the flame of revolutionary passions. But when life entered a peaceful course, a new quiet work appeared, the echoes of the past began to envelop the soul with a sticky web of fatigue, emotional pain, immeasurable anguish.
After listening to the confession of the beloved woman, Alexander did not find what to answer. Dual feelings embraced him, pity and tenderness mixed with bewilderment.
Flower wilted
It soon turns out that Garnova has a longtime admirer, a plain-looking quiet young man named Obsharsky. Burning with a lofty, unrequited passion, Obsharsky begs Bulanovich to marry Marina in order to save her from gloomy thoughts, to save her from the prolonged depression.
After some thought, Alexander nevertheless decides to make Marina a proposal for marriage, which he receives an immediate and firm refusal. The woman asks not to deprive her of the romance of the last days, again speaks of her desire to die. Not understanding her mood, Alexander is forced to reconcile.
A few days later, Marina fulfills her plan, throwing herself under the train. “Having lost his place in life, does he have the right to live?” - farewell words of the heroine. Obsharsky is the first to find a suicide note and gives Bulanovich to read its contents.
“The shrimp is paranoid. And so it flew away, fell away from the tree of life, giving way to a healthy, fresh one. And there were many such flowers that they reached for the light of the October Revolution, and shone a lively color in it. But deeply rooted in poisonous rotten soil, nourished with deadly juice. And they could not stand the ardent sun. Yellowed ... "
This is how the last lines of the story “Pazhoukly Kvetka” sound, the summary of which you just read.