- Summary
- Vampilov
- Last summer in Chulimsk
The events take place in a remote taiga place in the summer early in the morning. The main character Valentina works in a tea shop in the regional center. At 18 years old, like all her peers, the girl is full of youth, enthusiasm and is optimistic about the future. She is slim, sweet and pretty.
As usual, he goes to the establishment in the morning. Caring, she straightens the boards removed from the fence. Someone tore down the gate again, heading straight through the front garden.
The heroine has tender feelings for investigator Shamanov. The city guy had prospects for the future, but, acting according to his conscience, he one day sues the son of a significant person in the city. Having failed in the process, he soon escapes to Chulimsk. Feeling depressed and having lost faith in his search for the truth, the only thing he dreams of is to retire as quickly as possible.
A girl secretly suffers for a 30-year-old man. His beloved Kashkina is offended by his secrecy, although she, like others, knows his unhappy past while investigating the case.
At first, Shamanov does not pay attention to Valentina, but for some time he begins to show sympathy for her. Attempts to explain her actions regarding repairing the gate in the front garden evoke in him memories of the past and his first love. Her sincere feelings inspire him, as, according to his own reasoning, “a person addicted to alcohol coming out of a binge.”
Nostalgic for childhood and the past, everything suddenly returns to Shamanov: the old evening, street, forest, trees, grass and smells. The girl’s confession does not evoke reciprocal feelings in him. He is still cold towards her. Having learned about the indifferent attitude towards her from the barmaid's son Pavel Khoroshikh, he demands that he not disturb her anymore. Pashka constantly quarrels with his stepfather, there is discord and continuous scandals in the family.
The conflict caused by love and jealousy is complicated by the inappropriate intervention of accountant Mechetkin. The goal of the skeptic and the bureaucrat is to quickly settle into a comfortable life with the inevitable marriage. Kashkina categorically rejects him. There are unambiguous hints about a relationship with Shamanov, which the whole district is gossiping about, causing offense to social foundations and collective morality. According to the teachings of Kashkina, who has a dislike for Shamanov, the accountant proposes to Valentina, receiving the consent of her father.
At first, the girl refuses to accompany Pavel at his request to the dance, but, showing sympathy because of the quarrel she overheard with her mother kicking him out of the house, she ultimately gives in. She talks to her father about spending time with Mechetkin, instructing Shamanov and Pavel not to bother her.
Shamanov leaves the village to speak at the trial. The play ends with a scene in a teahouse. The attention of visitors is drawn to Valentina. As usual, approaching the gate, with a proud posture she again begins to repair it, after which she and Eremeev set up the front garden. The work teaches readers in difficult conditions to maintain morality, purity of soul and a sincere attitude towards others.
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Last summer in Chulimsk
The action takes place in the taiga regional center on an early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, heads to the tea shop where she works, and on the way she inspects the front garden in front of the house: again the boards have been taken out of the fence, the gate has been torn down. She inserts the boards, straightens the crushed grass and begins to repair the gate. Throughout the entire action, she does this several times, because for some reason passers-by prefer to walk straight along the lawn, bypassing the gate.
Valentina is in love with local investigator Shamanov, who does not notice her feelings. Shamanov goes to the pharmacist Kashkina, who lives next to the teahouse, and therefore Valentina, like the entire village, knows about their connection. She suffers in silence. Shamanov is about thirty, but he feels like a very old and tired man. His favorite saying: “I want to retire.” His mistress Kashkina is offended that he doesn’t tell her anything about himself, although she already knows a lot about him from her city acquaintances. He used to work as an investigator in the city, he was predicted to have a great future, he had a beautiful wife, a car and all sorts of other benefits. However, he was one of those for whom truth is more important than position, and therefore, while investigating the case of the son of some dignitary who shot down a man, Shamanov, despite pressure from above, did not want to hush up the matter. As a result, however, there were people stronger than him. The trial was postponed and the investigation was given to someone else. Shamanov was offended, quit his job, separated from his wife, began to dress shabbily, and then moved here, to the taiga regional center, where he reluctantly, almost formally, fulfills his duties. Shamanov considers his life over. In two days, a trial is due to take place in the very case that he began to conduct and because of which he left, he is invited to take part as a witness, but he refuses. He's not interested. He is disappointed and no longer believes in the possibility of establishing justice. He doesn't want to fight anymore. However, in the regional center Shamanov still stands out sharply - both Kashkina and Valentina feel his originality and are drawn to him.
Summary of “Last Summer in Chulimsk” by Alexander Vampilov
The events of the play “Last Summer in Chulimsk” by the author Alexander Vampilov unfold in a remote taiga village.
A young pretty girl, Valentina, heads to work in a tea shop early in the morning, and on the way looks into her front garden. It's in disarray: the gates are broken, the fence is down. She's trying to restore order. Throughout the play, Valentina constantly tends to her front garden because all the villagers walk through it.
The girl feels sympathy for the local investigator Shamanov, but he does not notice her. Shamanov looks in
Shamanov is a slightly sloppy and absent-minded person, always secretive and taciturn. Before arriving in the village, he worked in the city police department. They predicted a great future and a wonderful career for him; he was married, had an apartment and a car. But one day, when he was investigating a case of a hit-and-run pedestrian, he was asked to hush up the case. Shamanov, an honest policeman, refused. His case was taken away from him and as a result he was fired from his job. Shamanov was crippled by these events, he stopped taking care of himself, his wife left him.
The barmaid's son Pavel is in love with Valentina. He constantly shows her signs of attention, but Valentina is not ready for such pressure. Pashka threatens her to get even with her rival. Pavel has a pugnacious character. His mother asks him to leave the village because she loves one man, Dergachev, and her son is disturbing her. But Pavel does not listen to her, he dreams that Valentina will become his wife and they will live together in the village.
Dergachev is renovating the teahouse where Valentina works. He is irritated and takes his anger out on his wife Anna Vasilyevna, begging her for a bottle of vodka. Dergachev wants to celebrate the meeting with his old comrade Eremeev. Eremeev came from the taiga to apply for a pension, but encountered certain difficulties. All his youth he was engaged in hunting and fishing, and did not collect any documents.
Another character, accountant Mechetkin, wants to marry Kashkina, and constantly tells her that her affair with Shamanov denigrates her in the eyes of people. Zinaida knows that Valentina is not indifferent to Shamanov, so she asks Mechetkin to switch his attention to the girl. Mechetkin comes to Valentina's father to woo him. Fyodor Ignatievich approves of this marriage, but wants to get his daughter’s consent.
While Valentina was cleaning the front garden, Shamanov spoke to her. He suggested that she stop clearing the site because people would always trample the grass. Valentina does not agree with him and suddenly confesses her love to him. Shamanov was at first confused, but quickly realized that the girl was also becoming interesting to him.
Pashka comes with threats to Shamanov. During an argument, he almost shot a policeman. Impressed by the quarrel, Shamanov writes a note to Valentina, in which he invites her on a date. But she managed to intercept the note, burning with jealousy. Kashkina.
On the same day, Valentina becomes an unwitting witness to the scandal between Pashka and his mother. Out of pity, she invites him to go dancing. Having made some serious decision for herself, the girl walked along the grass of the front garden for the first time, as if conveying that she was tired of resisting the general opinion.
Summary Last summer in Chulimsk Vampilov
Last summer in Chulimsk
The action takes place in the taiga regional center on an early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, heads to the tea shop where she works, and on the way she inspects the front garden in front of the house: again the boards have been taken out of the fence, the gate has been torn down. She inserts the boards, straightens the crushed grass and begins to repair the gate.
Throughout the entire action, she does this several times, because for some reason passers-by prefer to walk straight along the lawn, bypassing the gate.
Valentina is in love with local investigator Shamanov, who does not notice her feelings. Shamanov goes to the pharmacist Kashkina, who lives next to the teahouse, and therefore Valentina, like the entire village, knows about their connection. She suffers in silence.
Shamanov is about thirty, but he feels like a very old and tired man. His favorite saying: “I want to retire.” His mistress Kashkina is offended that he doesn’t tell her anything about himself, although she already knows a lot about him from her city acquaintances. He used to work as an investigator in the city, he was predicted to have a great future, he had
a beautiful wife, a car and all sorts of other benefits. However, he was one of those for whom truth is more important than position, and therefore, while investigating the case of the son of some dignitary who shot down a man, Shamanov, despite pressure from above, did not want to hush up the matter.
As a result, however, there were people stronger than him. The trial was postponed and the investigation was given to someone else. Shamanov was offended, quit his job, separated from his wife, began to dress shabbily, and then moved here, to the taiga regional center, where he reluctantly, almost formally, fulfills his duties. Shamanov considers his life over. In two days, a trial is due to take place on the very case that he began to conduct and because of which he left, he is invited to take part as a witness, but he refuses.
He's not interested. He is disappointed and no longer believes in the possibility of establishing justice. He doesn't want to fight anymore.
However, in the regional center, Shamanov still stands out sharply - both Kashkina and Valentina feel his originality and are drawn to him.
Pashka, the son of the barmaid Khoroshikh, and the stepson of the local worker Dergachev, is in love with Valentina. Having arrived from the city, Pashka constantly hangs around Valentina, asking her to dance. But Valentina firmly refuses him. Pashka hints that he knows his rival and, pretending to be tough, even threatens to deal with him.
Pashka is constantly at the center of family discord. His mother and Dergachev are attached to each other, one might say they love each other. However, Pashka is Dergachev’s wound that will not heal even with time, because he was born from another person when Dergachev was at the front. The mother asks her son to leave, but Pashka is not very inclined to listen to her.
He is also offended: why should he leave his own home when his plans are to marry Valentina and settle here.
Dergachev is renovating a tea shop, it is clear that he is irritated, and he takes this irritation out on his wife, from whom he demands a drink right in the morning on the occasion of a meeting with an old friend who came from the taiga, the old Evenk fisherman Eremeev. Left alone after the death of his wife, Eremeev came to ask for a pension. However, here he faces difficulties: he has neither a work book nor work certificates - all his life he hunted, worked in geological parties and did not think about old age.
Another participant in the action is accountant Mechetkin, a bore and bureaucrat. He wants to get married and at first has designs on Kashkina, hinting to her that her relationship with Shamanov causes gossip in the village and offends public morality. However, right there, as soon as Kashkina invites him to come to her and even offers him a drink, the overwhelmed Mechetkin admits his serious intentions. Kashkina knows that Valentina is in love with Shamanov, and therefore, fearing possible rivalry, advises Mechetkin to turn his attention to Valentina. She assures Mechetkin that he, a respected man in the village, can easily achieve success if he seriously turns to Valentina’s father.
Without delay, Mechetkin wooed Valentina. Her father does not object, but says that he cannot decide anything without Valentina.
Meanwhile, a conversation ensues between Shamanov, who is waiting for an official car in the teahouse, and Valentina, who is repairing the fence of the front garden. Shamanov says that Valentina is doing this in vain, because people will never stop avoiding him. Valentina stubbornly objects: someday they will definitely understand and will walk on the sidewalk. Unexpectedly, Shamanov gives Valentina a compliment: she is a beautiful girl, she looks like the girl Shamanov once loved. He asks her why she didn’t go to the city like many of her peers.
And suddenly she hears a confession that she is in love, and not with just anyone, but with him, Shamanov. Shamanov is confused, it’s hard for him to believe it, he advises Valentina to throw it out of her head. But then he suddenly begins to feel something special for the girl: she suddenly becomes for him “a ray of light from behind the clouds,” as he says to Kashkina, who accidentally overheard their conversation.
Shamanov advises Pashka, who comes with threats, to go cool his head, and a quarrel ensues between them. Shamanov clearly wants a scandal, he hands Pashka his pistol and deliberately teases him, telling him that he and Valentina have a date at ten o’clock and that she loves him, Shamanov, and she doesn’t need Pashka. Pashka, in a rage, pulls the trigger of the pistol. Misfire. Pashka fearfully drops his weapon.
But Shamanov is also not at ease. He writes a note to Valentina, really making an appointment with her for ten o’clock, and asks Eremeev to pass it on. However, the note is intercepted by cunning by the jealous Kashkina.
That same evening, Valentina, having witnessed another discord between her stepfather and Pashka, who is insulted and driven away by his own mother, out of pity agrees to go to the dance with him. It is felt that Valentina has decided on something serious, because she also walks straight through the front garden, as if having lost faith that she can overcome the general resistance. They are going away. Soon Shamanov appears and, having met Kashkina, enthusiastically admits to her that something suddenly happened to him today: he seems to be regaining peace.
This is connected with Valentina, about whom he asks Kashkina. She honestly tells him that she has Shamanov’s note and that Valentina, not knowing about the appointment, left with Pashka. Shamanov rushes to find her. Late at night, Valentina and Pashka return.
It is clear that they were close, although this did not change their relationship at all: Pashka was and remains a stranger to her. Feeling remorse, Kashkina tells Valentina that Shamanov was looking for her, that he loves her. Soon Shamanov himself appears, he admits to Valentina that thanks to her, a miracle happened to him. Valentina is crying.
She tells her father who appears, ready to stand up for her honor, that she was at the dance not with Pashka and not with Shamanov, but with Mechetkin.
The next morning, Shamanov leaves for the city to speak at the trial. The play ends with the glances of those in the teahouse turning to Valentina, who has left the house. She proudly approaches, as usual, the gate and begins to fix it, and then, together with Eremeev, straightens the front garden.
Option 2
Events take place in the distant taiga center. The girl Valentina goes to work in the morning, and along the way straightens the boards that passers-by take out so as not to walk through the gate.
Valya loves the local policeman Shamanov, who is dating the pharmacist Kashkina. She lives next to the tea shop where Valentina works. Therefore, Valya sees how the investigator goes to the pharmacist and silently suffers.
Previously, Shamanov was an investigator in the city. He had a beautiful wife, a car and other benefits. However, he was transferred from the city because of a high-profile case that Shamanov did not want to hush up, at the request of the top. He decided that life was over.
However, in the taiga center, he is an extraordinary figure. And women are drawn to him, despite his condition. Valentina is loved by Pasha, who was the son of the barmaid Khoroshikh.
He knows about Valya’s secret love for Shamanov and tries to present himself as a hero, saying that he will deal with the investigator. Pashka's life is spent in an environment of family discord. He can't come to terms with his stepfather.
The mother wants her son to leave, but he does not listen to her. He makes plans for the future, in which he sees Valentina as his wife. Accountant Mechetkin has plans for Kashkina. He hints to her that meetings with Shamanov offend public morality. Kashkina invites him to her home and here Mechetkin confesses his feelings to her.
She does not want to be with Mechetkin, and invites him to pay attention to Valentina, in whom she sees her rival. Mechetkin makes up his mind and comes to Valentina’s house to get married. The father is not against it, but he cannot decide anything without Valya herself.
Meanwhile, Shamanov and Valentin meet at the fence, which she is once again trying to restore. He tells her that it is a thankless task. But the girl believes that people will one day understand and start walking on the sidewalk. Shamanov starts a conversation about Valentina’s beauty. He asks her why she didn't go to the city.
Suddenly Valya confesses her love. Shamanov is confused, but begins to experience similar feelings. It becomes a ray of light for the investigator on a cloudy day.
On the same day, Shamanov met with Pashka. He came home to Shamanov and began to sort things out about Valya. Shamanov gave him a pistol and said that he and Valentina had a date planned in the evening.
Pashka tried to shoot Shamanov, but the gun misfired.
In the evening, Valentina, having witnessed another quarrel between Pashka and her mother, agrees to go for a walk with him. Late at night, they returned. It is clear that they were close, but this did not change the relationship between them. Soon, Kashkina, out of remorse, comes to Valentina and says that Shamanov loves Valya.
She sits down on the sofa and begins to sob. Shamanov appeared, he also confessed his love for Valentina.
And the next morning Shamanov leaves for the city to act as a witness at the trial in the case from which he was removed and transferred to the taiga center. The play ends with the fact that in the morning everyone turns their attention to Valentina, who, with her head held high, goes to the fence to straighten it once again.
