This image has long become a household name - shackled by the invincible laziness of the landowner Oblomov. The summary of Goncharov’s novel introduces us to him, still a young man of 32-33 years. This surprisingly solid, psychologically accurate, complete image was created by the writer over the course of ten years. A man with a “pigeon soul,” Oblomov went through life as he rolled — completely passive, inactive. Consider a summary of Oblomov in parts.
Part I. Acquaintance with Oblomov - a bachelor
Once the house on Gorokhovaya Street, once visible in the district, is dilapidated, and the servant Zakhar, who, in principle, loves the owner, is also lazy to extremes. Oblomov owns 350 souls in the village of Oblomovka, but does not engage in farming at all, and the clerk robs him shamelessly. At the beginning of the book Oblomov is a fairly young man. After short attempts to get a job, he decided that Petersburg was indifferent to his talents and spiritual qualities. The life around him seems meaningless, vain. The entire summary of Goncharov's Oblomov is the hover of the main character in the clouds of his own fantasies.
Friends of youth - Volkov, Sudbinsky, Penkin are trying to stir up the lounger, interest in secular entertainment, but in vain. The sneak and businessman Mikhey Andreevich Tarantyev offers Ilya Ilyich a deal, taking up Oblomovka’s economy, but also cannot overcome his passivity.
Part II Lost hope - cast off the shackles of laziness
But still, one person manages to "explain" the idler. A friend of youth Andrei Shtolts comes to him. By origin, he is the son of a German clerk and a Russian educated woman. By nature - active and active. He is creative and sought after by society.
Stolz decides to interest his friend, going with him to visit various houses. In the Ilyinsky house, hearing Olga singing, love feels Oblomov in his heart. The summary of the novel further tells us about the bankrupt, gradually dying away attempts of Ilya Ilyich to get closer to the woman she liked.
Even the servant of Zakhar reaches this impulse of internal energy coming from Stolz. The servant equips his life by marrying the good and economic Anisya.
Stolz is triumphant, but he understands that to arouse a friend's interest in life is not enough. It should further push him to conscious professional activity.
An active German is trying to convince a friend to leave his country house in St. Petersburg, the business heart of the Russian Empire, to start a new life. However, Oblomov is unable to make a decision, to change his life. Olga is disappointed, Stolz’s intentions fail.
Part III. The bird got into the cage
After a failed attempt to properly arrange life, for which one needs to be active, he naturally falls into the “friendly” arms of fraudsters who welcome his lack of initiative. Mikhey Andreevich says convincingly: "To settle matters on serfs, it is simply necessary that Oblomov himself be present there." A brief summary of the novel further tells a trivial story of how Tarantyev, together with Ivan Matveevich Mukhoyarov, are winding up an unlucky loafer, introducing Mukhoyarov’s sister Agafya Pshenitsyna. She is a simple, simple peasant woman, a wonderful mistress. Suddenly, Agafia herself feels that she has fallen in love with Oblomov. Her dinners appease the Goncharovsky landowner, who no longer needs more in life! Olga Ilyinskaya, having come to Ilya Ilyich, is disappointed - everything in his soul went out. She is leaving forever.
The landowner will marry Agafya Pshenitsyna. They have a son, Andryusha.
Part IV The death of Oblomov. Helping a friend's family with the deceased
And life goes on. Olga Ilyinskaya is gradually imbued with sympathy for Andrei Stolz. He is also an educated and dynamic woman. They get married and live happily ever after.
Oblomov finally becomes “unbearable”, living in Oblomovka, which was imperceptibly for Ivan Matveevich Mukhoyarov. Loving Agafya Matveevna takes care of him. His life resembles a fairy tale. But Ilya Ilyich is seriously ill. When Andrei Shtolts comes to him, he is already near death. Oblomov expressed his last desire to take care of his son Andryusha. The summary of the novel tells us that indeed the son of the deceased is taken away for the upbringing of the wife of Stolz. Agafya, impractical and somewhat similar to Ilya Ilyich with her good soul, becomes out of work in her husband’s former home. Here, the wife of Mukhoyarov, Irina Panteleevna, is in charge of the order. The widow is immensely grateful to the Stoltsians for raising her son, she longs for her late husband, considering him the insight of her whole life: as if the heart was first inserted into the chest, and then taken out. But best of all, Oblomov was told by his friend Andrei Shtolts, once explaining to Olga why she loved the landowner - for a kind golden heart, which is more expensive than reason.