Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) - Nobel Prize winner in the field of literature - is rightfully considered the last classic of Russian realism, the first neorealist. One of the main events in the writer's work is the series of stories “Dark Alleys”, in which the author represents love in all its terrible beauty. One of the brightest creations can rightly be considered the novel "The Caucasus", and here is a very short summary for the reader's diary. And to create a review, we suggest you read our analysis this wonderful book.
(300 words) Arriving in Moscow, the hero stops at a small and inconspicuous hotel near Arbat, where he agreed to meet his mistress. A woman visited her lover three times, each with great concern. Her husband, being an officer, treasures his marital and professional honor, as a result of which he closely monitors every step of his wife.
The lovers had a plan to leave for the Caucasus and relax together alone somewhere in a quiet place off the coast.
After some time, the hero arrives at the station at the appointed time and takes the pre-designated train. Waiting for his beloved, he begins to get very nervous, because soon the train should start: “... she was late or he [husband] did not suddenly let her go at the last minute,” flashed through my head. But here he sees her accompanied by her husband - the owner of a tall figure, with an officer cap, a narrow overcoat and a hand in a suede glove - who is seating her on the same train. When the composition started, the lovers were already reunited in one compartment. After the meeting, the heroine told how much she was nervous and that she did not leave an exact address for her husband in the south.
Arriving, the couple found a wild and secluded place where they can enjoy each other's company without fear of being opened. On the way, the wife sent her husband a postcard from Gelendzhik and Gagra, saying that she did not know where to stay.
All the time that the lovers were in the Caucasus, they lived happily, soul to soul. The nature that surrounded them - the endless sea, fan palm trees, majestic mountain ridges and unusually bright stars - all this gave their love romanticism and tranquility; the girl even cried with happiness, looking at this majestic and extraordinary beauty. And although the lovers were scared by the thoughts of the impending return home, they tried to drive them away from themselves.
The ending of the story is unexpectedly tragic: the heroine’s husband, sensing something was amiss, went after her and, not finding his wife, made a final decision. Stopping in Sochi, he took a swim, shaved, put on his dress uniform, drank coffee and, returning to his room, had a smoke and then shot himself in the head with two revolvers.
