Summary
Chapter 1.
Pushkin’s novel “Dubrovsky” begins with a description of the landowner Troekurov, who has crushed the entire local nobility under himself. He lives without recognizing laws, does not listen to anyone, does as he pleases. His neighbor on the estate was Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky, with whom they had been friends since their youth, served together in military service and did not lose touch with each other. Somehow they became widowers at the same time. Dubrovsky had a son, Vladimir, and Troekurov raised his daughter Masha.
At a dinner party, friends have an argument. Seeing Troekurov’s kennel, Andrei Gavrilovich accuses him of living much better with his dogs than with ordinary people. In response to such a remark, Troekurov’s servant makes insulting remarks about Dubrovsky, and he leaves.
In Kistinevka, he learns that the Troekurov serfs are stealing his forest. He orders the men to be flogged and their horses taken away. An angry Troekurov begins to make plans for revenge and plans to take away the estate from his former friend.
Chapter 2.
During court proceedings, Andrei Gavrilovich cannot prove his right to own Kisteneevka, since his documents burned long ago. The hired witness Anton Spitsyn confirms in court the illegality of possession, and the court decides to give Kistenevka to Troyekurov. When signing the document, Dubrovsky becomes ill and is sent home.
Chapter 3.
Having received a letter from the old nanny, Dubrovsky Jr. goes to his father. He is met by Anton, his father's coachman, who convinces the young cornet of the loyalty of all the men and their unwillingness to obey Troekurov.
Chapter 4.
The father cannot explain what is happening clearly to his son due to illness. The appeal period established by the court passes and the estate ceases to be the property of the Dubrovskys. But Troekurov is no longer happy with what he did. His conscience torments him, and he goes to a friend with the intention of fixing everything. Seeing Kiril Petrovich arrive, Dubrovsky’s father begins to get very nervous and becomes paralyzed. The son is furious and kicks out his father's former friend. The doctor did nothing to help and the master died.
Chapter 5.
As soon as the funeral of Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky took place, representatives of the judicial commission appeared in Kistenevka, under the leadership of assessor Shabashkin. They are going to prepare papers that will give Troekurov the right to the estate. Local peasants refuse to comply with the will of the court. A riot is brewing. Vladimir persuades those gathered to disperse, and allows those who arrived to spend the night at his parents’ house.
Chapter 6.
At night, the house catches fire and everyone inside dies. The blacksmith specially seals all the exits, but no one tries to help them.
Chapter 7.
The investigation begins. Kirila Petrovich is conducting active proceedings. Investigators find out that the house was burned down by a local blacksmith. Vladimir comes under suspicion, but no evidence was found. A gang of bandits appears in the area who rob only the rich. Many people think that these are escaped peasants from Dubrovsky’s estate under the leadership of their young master.
Chapter 8.
The plot of the story “Dubrovsky” continues with the appearance of Masha. The author tells the reader about her lonely childhood, among books and dreams. She grew up with her half-brother Sasha, who was the son of Troekurov and a governess. It cannot be said that they were friends, but the boy treated his sister with love and tenderness.
Troekurov strives to give Sasha a decent education, for which he hires the Frenchman Deforge. The teacher teaches Masha music and wins her heart. Kirila Petrovich himself is pleased with the teacher. An important role in this was played by the incident: when Troekurov decided to laugh at the Frenchman and pushed him towards the bear, he was not afraid and killed the animal with a pistol.
Chapter 9.
A temple festival is taking place at the Troekurov estate. A large number of guests gather. They discuss robbers and have conversations on this topic. Some believe that Vladimir does not rob everyone, others condemn him and demand his capture. The police officer notes that Dubrovsky will definitely be caught, since his signs are already known. Reading them, Troekurov notices that they are suitable for almost everyone. Telling those gathered about the courage of the teacher, he notes that with such a defender he is not afraid of robbers.
Chapter 10.
One of the guests, Spitsyn, continues to be afraid and asks the brave teacher to spend the night with him. Deforge agrees. When everyone has fallen asleep, the teacher robs Spitsyn and threatens him with violence if he reveals who the Frenchman really is.
Chapter 11.
A short digression, a brief summary of which tells the reader how Dubrovsky’s transformation into Deforge took place. Vladimir met the Frenchman on the way to the estate, at the station, and offered him a large sum for all the documents. The teacher agreed immediately. Thus, Dubrovsky ended up with Troekurov, where he immediately won the love of everyone at home.
Chapter 12.
Vladimir understands that he must disappear and asks Masha for a meeting, at which he tells her the whole truth, talks about his love for her, and announces his departure, since he can no longer be around. On the same day, towards evening, the police officer arrives at the estate and demands to hand over the teacher, since there is information that he is Vladimir Dubrovsky. Troekurov orders to find the teacher, but he is nowhere to be found.
Chapter 13.
Troekurov's neighbor was an elderly prince named Vereisky. All summer he maintains a friendship with Kiril Petrovich, pays attention to Masha and begins courtship, considering the girl a suitable candidate for the role of his wife.
Chapter 14.
Several weeks of courtship passed. Vereisky asks for Masha's hand and is going to get married. Troekurov is satisfied with such a marriage, and he gives his consent to his daughter’s marriage, ordering her to prepare for the wedding. At the same moment, Masha learns about Dubrovsky’s desire to meet with her.
Chapter 15.
When they meet, she tells Dubrovsky about her situation. He already knows this and offers Masha his help. In response, she offers to wait a little longer, thinking that she can convince her father not to give her in marriage to the old prince. Vladimir hands her a ring, which in case of danger she must put in a hollow tree.
Chapter 16.
Masha writes a letter to the prince in which he asks not to take her as his wife. But Vereisky shows this letter to Troekurov and he decides to hold the wedding faster and lock Masha herself up until that time.
Chapter 17.
Masha is in complete despair. She gives little Sasha the ring, asking him to put it in the hollow. The boy carries out the assignment, but when he sees the red-haired boy who takes the message, he starts a fight with him. He thinks that he is a thief and is trying to steal his sister's ring. There's a fuss and everything becomes clear.
Chapter 18.
Masha gets married to Vereisky. On the way from the church, the carriage is attacked by robbers. The prince shoots, hitting Dubrovsky. Vladimir offers Masha release, but she refuses. After all, they were already married, and she swore an oath to be a faithful wife.
Dubrovsky Chapter II
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CHAPTER II
Arriving in the city, Andrei Gavrilovich stayed with a merchant he knew, spent the night with him, and the next morning appeared before the district court. Nobody paid any attention to him. Kiril Petrovich arrived after him. The clerks stood up and put feathers behind their ears. The members greeted him with expressions of deep servility, pulled out chairs for him out of respect for his rank, age and stature; he sat down with the doors open. Andrei Gavrilovich stood leaning against the wall. There was deep silence, and the secretary began to read the court ruling in a ringing voice. We put it completely, believing that everyone will be pleased to see one of the ways in which in Rus' we can lose property, the ownership of which we have an indisputable right to.
18... October 27 days ** the district court considered the case of the improper possession of the guard by Lieutenant Andrei Gavrilov's son Dubrovsky estate, belonging to General-in-Chief Kiril Petrov son TroekurovN consisting ** of the province in the village of Kistenevka, male ** souls, and land with meadows and land ** dessiatines. From which case it is clear: the said general-in-chief Troekurov of the past 18... year of June 9 days entered this court with a petition that his late father, collegiate assessor and cavalier Peter Efimov son of Troekurov in 17... year of August 14 days, who served at that time time in ** viceroyal rule as a provincial secretary, bought from the nobles from the clerk Fadey Yegorov's son Spitsyn an estate consisting of ** districts in the aforementioned village of Kistenevka (which village was then called Kistenevsky settlements according to ** revision), all listed according to the 4th revision of the male gender ** souls with all their peasant property, the estate, with arable and uncultivated land, forests, hay fields, fishing along the river called Kistenevka, and with all the lands belonging to this estate and the master's wooden house, and in a word everything without a trace, that after his father, from the nobles, the constable Yegor Terentyev's son Spitsyn inherited and was in his possession, not leaving a single soul from the people, and not a single quadrangle from the land, at a price of 2500 rubles, for which the bill of sale was issued on the same day in the ** chamber of the trial and reprisal was carried out, and his father was taken into possession on the same August, on the 26th day ** by the zemstvo court and a refusal was carried out for him. - And finally, on the 17th... of the 6th day of September, his father died by the will of God , and meanwhile he, the petitioner General-in-Chief Troekurov, from the age of 17... almost from an early age was in military service and for the most part was on campaigns abroad, which is why he could not have information about both the death of his father and the rest after his estate. Now, after completely retiring from that service and upon returning to his father’s estates, consisting of ** and ** provinces **, ** and ** districts, in different villages, in total up to 3000 souls, he finds that from among those the estates of the above-mentioned ** souls (of which, according to the current ** audit, there are only ** souls listed in that village), with the land and all the land, is owned without any fortifications by the above-mentioned guard lieutenant Andrei Dubrovsky, why, when presenting at this petition that genuine bill of sale given to his father the seller Spitsyn, asks, having taken away the said estate from Dubrovsky’s illegal possession, to give Troekurov’s complete disposal according to its ownership. And for the unjust misappropriation from which he enjoyed the income received, after conducting a proper inquiry about it, impose on Dubrovsky the following penalty according to the laws and satisfy him, Troekurov, with it.
After the zemstvo court carried out investigations on this request, it was discovered that the said current owner of the disputed estate of the guard, Lieutenant Dubrovsky, gave an explanation to the noble assessor on the spot that the estate he now owns, consisting of the said village of Kistenevka, ** souls with land and lands, went to he inherited after the death of his father, artillery second lieutenant Gavril Evgrafov's son Dubrovsky, and he inherited from the father of this petitioner, formerly the former provincial secretary, and then the collegiate assessor Troekurov, by power of attorney given from him in the 17th... year of August 30 days, certified in the ** district court, to the titular councilor Grigory Vasiliev's son Sobolev, according to which there should be a deed of sale from him for this estate to his father, because it specifically says that he, Troekurov, received all the estate that he received under the deed from the clerk Spitsyn, * * soul with land, sold to his father, Dubrovsky, and the following money under the agreement, 3200 rubles, received everything in full from his father without return and asked his trusted Sobolev to give his father the designated fortress. Meanwhile, his father, in the same power of attorney, on the occasion of payment of the entire amount, shall own the estate purchased from him and dispose of it from now on until the completion of this fortress, as the real owner, and he, the seller Troekurov, will no longer enter into that estate with anyone. But when exactly and in what public place such a bill of sale was given to his father from Sobolev’s attorney, he, Andrei Dubrovsky, does not know, because at that time he was very young, and after the death of his father he could not find such a fortress, but believes that Didn’t it burn with other papers and property during the fire in their house in 17..., which was known to the residents of that village. And what about this estate from the date of sale by Troyekurov or the issuance of a power of attorney to Sobolev, that is, from the year 17..., and after the death of his father from the age of 17.... years and to this day, they, the Dubrovskys, undoubtedly owned it, as evidenced by the roundabout residents, who, in total 52 people, testified under oath to a survey that indeed, as they can remember, the said disputed estate began to be owned by the mentioned townspeople. The Dubrovskys ago this year, from 70 years ago, without any dispute from anyone, but for what specific act or fortress, they do not know. - The former buyer of this estate mentioned in this case, the former provincial secretary Pyotr Troekurov, whether he owned this estate, they will not remember . The house of the city About 30 years ago, the Dubrovskys burned down due to a fire that happened in their village at night, and outsiders assumed that the said disputed estate could bring in income, believing from that time on, in complexity, annually no less than 2000 rubles.
On the contrary, General-in-Chief Kiril Petrov, son of Troekurov, on the 3rd of January of this year, entered this court with a petition that although the aforementioned guard lieutenant Andrei Dubrovsky presented during the investigation into this case the power of attorney issued by his late father Gavril Dubrovsky to the titular adviser Sobolev for the sold to him the estate, but according to this, not only the original bill of sale, but even the execution of it ever, did not provide any clear evidence according to the force of the general regulations of Chapter 19 and the decree of 1752 on November 29. Consequently, the power of attorney itself is now, after the death of the giver of it, his father, according to the decree of May... day 1818, completely destroyed. - And beyond this -
it was ordered that disputed estates be given into possession - serfs by fortress, and non-serfs by search.
For which estate, belonging to his father, a serfdom deed has already been presented from him as proof, according to which it follows, on the basis of the aforesaid legislation, from the wrongful possession of the said Dubrovsky, having been taken away, given to him by right of inheritance. And as the said landowners, having in the possession of an estate that did not belong to them and without any fortification, and used it incorrectly and income that did not belong to them, then, according to the calculation, how much of such will be due according to the force ... to recover from the landowner Dubrovsky and him, Troekurov, to satisfy them .— Upon consideration of the case and the extract made from it and from the laws in the ** district court, it was determined:
It is clear from this case that General-in-Chief Kirila Petrov son Troekurov on the said disputed estate, now in the possession of the guard of Lieutenant Andrei Gavrilov son Dubrovsky, located in the village of Kistenevka, according to the current ... audit of all male sex ** souls, with land and lands, presented a genuine bill of sale for the sale of it to his late father, the provincial secretary, who later was a collegiate assessor, in 17... from the nobles, the clerk Fadey Spitsyn, and that besides this, this buyer, Troekurov, as can be seen from the inscription on that bill of sale, was in the same year ** the zemstvo court took possession of the estate, which the estate had already been refused for him, and although on the contrary, from the side of the guard, Lieutenant Andrei Dubrovsky presented the power of attorney given by that deceased buyer Troekurov to the titular councilor Sobolev for the execution of a deed of sale in the name of his father, Dubrovsky, but in such transactions not only to approve serf immovable estates, but even to temporarily own by decree... is prohibited, and the power of attorney itself is completely destroyed by the death of the giver. But in order for, in addition to this, a deed of sale was actually executed under this power of attorney where and when for the said disputed estate, Dubrovsky has not presented any clear evidence to the case since the beginning of the proceedings, that is, from 18..., and to this day. And therefore this court decides: to approve the said estate, ** souls, with land and lands, in whatever position it now finds itself, according to the bill of sale presented for it for Chief General Troekurov; about the removal from the order of the guard of Lieutenant Dubrovsky and about the proper entry into possession for him, Mr. Troekurov, and about the refusal for him, as he inherited it, to order ** the zemstvo court. And although, in addition to this, Chief General Troekurov asks for the recovery of Lieutenant Dubrovsky from the guard for the illegal possession of his hereditary estate for those who took advantage of the income from it. But what kind of estate did the city have, according to the testimony of old-timers? The Dubrovskys have been in undisputed possession for several years, and from this case it is not clear that on the part of Mr. Troekurov there have been any petitions until now about such improper possession by the Dubrovskys of this estate, according to the code
It is ordered that if someone sows someone else's land or fences off an estate, and they begin to beat him with a brow for improper possession, and this is found out directly, then that land should be given to the rightful one with the sown grain, and the city and the building,
and therefore, General-Chief Troyekurov will refuse the claim brought against the guard by Lieutenant Dubrovsky, because the estate belonging to him returns to his possession, without taking anything from it. And that when entering from him, everything may turn out to be without a trace, while providing General-Chief Troekurov, if he has any clear and legal evidence about such a claim, he can ask where it should be specially. What decision will be first announced to both the plaintiff and the defendant, on a legal basis, by appeal, and summon them to this court to hear this decision and sign pleasure or displeasure through the police.
Which decision was signed by all those present in that court.
The secretary fell silent, the assessor stood up and with a low bow turned to Troekurov, inviting him to sign the proposed paper, and the triumphant Troekurov, taking the pen from him, signed the decision
The trial is your absolute pleasure.
The line was behind Dubrovsky. The secretary brought him the paper. But Dubrovsky became motionless, lowering his head.
The secretary repeated his invitation to him to sign his complete and complete pleasure or obvious displeasure, if, more than aspirations, he feels in his conscience that his cause is right, and intends to appeal to the appropriate place at the time prescribed by the laws. Dubrovsky was silent... Suddenly he raised his head, his eyes sparkled, he stamped his foot, pushed the secretary with such force that he fell, and, grabbing an inkwell, threw it at the assessor. Everyone was horrified. "How! do not honor the church of God! away, you boorish tribe!” Then, turning to Kiril Petrovich: “We’ve heard of it, your Excellency,” he continued, “hunters are bringing dogs into God’s church! dogs are running around the church. I’ll teach you a lesson already...” The watchmen came running at the noise and forcibly took possession of him. They took him out and put him in a sleigh. Troekurov followed him out, accompanied by the entire court. Dubrovsky's sudden madness had a strong effect on his imagination and poisoned his triumph.
The judges, who hoped for his gratitude, did not receive a single friendly word from him. On the same day he went to Pokrovskoye. Meanwhile, Dubrovsky was lying in bed; The district doctor, fortunately not a complete ignoramus, managed to bleed him and apply leeches and Spanish flies. By evening he felt better, the patient came to his senses. The next day they took him to Kistenevka, which almost no longer belonged to him.
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