M. Bulgakov, "The White Guard": a summary of the work

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In the work "The White Guard" the summary conveys the main essence of the work, concisely shows the characters and their main actions. Reading the novel in this form is recommended for those who wish to get acquainted with the plot superficially, but do not have time for the full version. This article will help in this regard, because here the main events in the story are presented as clearly as possible.

The first two chapters

The summary of the "White Guard" begins with the fact that grief happened in the Turbins' house. The mother died and before that she told her children to live together. The beginning of the cold winter of 1918 is outside. The elder brother Alexei is a doctor by profession, and after the funeral the guy goes to the priest. Father says that we need to be strong, because it will only get worse.

The second chapter begins with a description of the Turbins' apartment, in which the stove is a source of heat. The younger son Nikolka and Alexei sing, and sister Elena is waiting for her husband Sergei Talberg. She tells the disturbing news that the Germans are abandoning Kyiv, and Petliura and his army are already very close.

The doorbell soon rang, and on the thresholdAn old friend of the family, Lieutenant Viktor Myshlaevsky, appeared. He talks about the cordon around his unit and the long changing of the guard. A day in the cold ended in death for two fighters, and the same number lost their legs due to frostbite.

The family warms the man with their efforts, soon Thalberg comes. Elena's husband in the summary of the "White Guard" talks about the retreat from Kyiv, and that together with the troops he leaves his wife. He does not dare to take her with him in an unknown direction, the moment of farewell comes.

Continued

The work "White Guard" in brief further tells about the neighbor of the Turbins Vasily Lisovich. He also learned about the latest news and decided to dedicate the night to hiding all his treasures in hiding places. A man from the street watches his occupation through an inconspicuous gap, but the man did not see the unknown guy.

In the same period, the Turbins' apartment was replenished with new guests. Talberg left, after which comrades from the gymnasium came to Alexei. Leonid Shervinsky and Fedor Stepanov (nickname Karas) hold the positions of lieutenant and second lieutenant, respectively. They came with booze, and therefore soon all men begin to cloud their minds.

Viktor Myshlaevsky feels especially bad, and therefore they begin to give him various medicines to drink. Only with the advent of dawn did everyone decide to go to bed, but Elena did not support the initiative. A beautiful woman feels abandoned and cannot hold back her tears. The thought firmly settled in my head that Sergey would never see her again.will arrive.

That same winter, Alexey Turbin returned from the front, and Kyiv was flooded with officers. Some also returned from the battlefields, and many moved from Moscow, where the Bolsheviks had already begun to restore order.

In the summary of the "White Guard" chapter by chapter, the fourth section tells about the troubled life in Kyiv. People huddled in small apartments with several families. At the same time, this did not prevent them from throwing money in all directions. It was bad in the city, but near it the situation is even worse. Everyone hoped for the return of the Germans, but everything happened differently.

Circle of events

A summary of the chapters of the "White Guard" will tell readers about how various troubles began to happen in Kyiv. First, an ammunition depot exploded, and then the sudden murder of the commander of the German troops shocked all the inhabitants. At the same time, Symon Petliura is released from imprisonment in the walls of a Kyiv prison.

At night, Alexei Turbin has a dream about how Colonel Nai-Tours and the leaders of other detachments find themselves in paradise after a skirmish. After that, the hero hears the voice of God, which broadcasts about the equality of all fighters on both sides of the barricades. Then the Father said that after the death of the Reds at Perekop, he would send them to beautiful barracks with the appropriate symbols.

Aleksey spoke with the sergeant major Zhilin and even managed to convince the commander to take him into his squad. A summary of Mikhail Bulgakov's "White Guard" in the sixth chapter will tell about how the fate of everyone who was at the Turbins the previous night was determined. Nikolka went firstto sign up for a volunteer squad, Shervinsky left the house with him and went to the headquarters. The rest of the men went to the building of their former gymnasium, where a division of volunteers was formed to support artillery.

At headquarters, Colonel Malyshev sent all three under the command of Studzinsky. Aleksey is happy to put on his military uniform again, and Elena sewed other epaulettes on him. Colonel Malyshev that evening ordered to completely disband the squad, as every second volunteer did not know how to properly handle weapons.

The end of the first part and the beginning of the second

At the end of the first part, a brief summary of Bulgakov's "White Guard" tells about the events on Vladimirskaya Gorka. Kirpaty, together with a friend nicknamed Nemolyaka, cannot get into the lower part of the settlement due to German patrols. They see how in the palace they wrap a man with a face like a fox in bandages. The car takes the man away, and in the morning news arrives about the escaped hetman and his associates.

Simon Petliura will soon be in the city, the troops are breaking guns and hiding cartridges. In the gymnasium, the electrical panel was damaged as a sabotage. In the novel The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov, a summary at the beginning of the second part tells about the maneuver of Colonel Kozyr-Leshko. The commander of the Petliurites changes the disposition of the army so that the defenders of Kyiv think about the main offensive from Kurenevka. Only now the central breakthrough will be made near Svyatoshino.

Meanwhile, the last people from the hetman's headquarters are fleeing toincluding Colonel Shchetkin. Bolbotun is standing on the outskirts of the city, and he decides that it is not worth waiting for orders from the headquarters. The man starts the offensive, which was the beginning of hostilities. Hundred Galanba on Millionnaya Street collides with Yakov Feldman. He is looking for a midwife for his wife, because she will give birth any minute. Galanba demands a certificate, but instead Feldman gives a certificate of supply for an armor-piercing battalion. Such a mistake ended in death for the failed father.

Fighting in the streets

The summary of the chapters of the "White Guard" tells in detail about the offensive of Bolbotun. The colonel advances towards the center of Kyiv, but suffers losses due to the resistance of the junkers. An armored car blocks their way on Moskovskaya Street. Previously, there were four vehicles in the hetman's machine detachment, but the command of Mikhail Shpolyansky over the second vehicle in a row changed everything for the worse. Armored cars broke down, drivers and fighters constantly began to disappear.

That night, the former writer Shpolyansky went on reconnaissance with the driver Shchur and did not return. Soon the commander of the entire division, Shlepko, disappears. Further, in the summary of the novel "The White Guard", chapter by chapter, it is told about what kind of person Colonel Nai-Tours is. The man made a powerful impression and always achieved his goal. For the sake of boots for his detachment, he threatened the quartermaster with a Mauser, but he got his way.

His group of fighters collides with Colonel Kozyr-Leshko near Polytechnic Highway. The Cossacks are stopped by machine guns, but there are also huge losses in the Nai-Turs detachment. He orders a retreat and finds that there is no support on the sides. Several wounded fighters are sent to the headquarters by cabs.

Around this time, Nikolka Turbin, with the rank of corporal, became the commander of a detachment of 28 cadets. The guy receives an order from headquarters and takes his guys to positions. Aleksey Turbin arrives at the gymnasium at two o'clock in the afternoon, just as Colonel Malyshev said. He finds him in the headquarters building and is advised to take off his uniform and leave through the back door. The commander himself, meanwhile, burns important papers. The understanding of what is happening to the eldest of the Turbin family comes only at night, then he gets rid of the form.

Continuation of hostilities in Kyiv

In a brief summary of Bulgakov's "White Guard" events are shown on the streets of the city. Nikolka Turbin took his place at the crossroads, where he found the junkers running from the nearest alley. From there, Colonel Nai-Tours flies out, who gives the order to everyone to run faster. The young corporal tries to resist, for which he receives a butt in the face. At this time, the commander loads a machine gun, and the Cossacks jump out of the same alley.

Nikolka starts to feed ribbons to the weapon, and they fight back, but they open fire on them from the next street, and Nai-Tours falls. His last words were the order to retreat and not try to be a hero. Nikolka hides with the colonel's pistol and runs home through the yards.

Aleksey never returned, butthe girls are all in tears. The cannons began to rattle, but the Cossacks were already operating on the batteries. The defenders fled, and whoever decided to stay is already dead. Nikolka fell asleep dressed, and when he woke up, he saw a relative of Larion Surzhansky from Zhytomyr. He came to the family to heal the wounds from the betrayal of his wife. At this time, Alexei, wounded in the arm, returns. The doctor sews it up, but there are parts of the greatcoat left inside.

Larion turned out to be a kind and sincere person, though too clumsy. Turbines forgive him everything, because he is a good man, and he is also rich. Alexey is delirious because of the injury and he is given an injection of morphine. Nikolka is trying to cover up all the traces in the house that indicate their belonging to the service and officer ranks. Typhus is attributed to the elder brother in order to hide his participation in hostilities.

Alexey's adventures

In the summary of Bulgakov's novel "The White Guard" in the twelfth chapter tells about the injury of Alexei Turbin. He ran out of the Parisian fashion store, where the headquarters of the Junker division at the gymnasium was. The exit turned out to be a dead end, and therefore had to climb over the wall. In a nearby courtyard, an open gate led him outside.

The man didn't go straight home. He was interested in the events in the center, and he went there on foot. Already on Vladimirskaya Street, Petliura's fighters met him. Alexei takes off his shoulder straps on the go, but forgets about the cockade. The Cossacks recognize the officer and open fire to kill. He gets hit in the shoulder, and an unknown woman saves him from a quick death. In the yardshe picks him up and leads him through a long series of streets and gates.

The girl, whose name was Julia, threw away the bloody clothes, made a dressing and left the man with her. She brought him home the next day. In a summary of the chapters of Bulgakov's "White Guard", it is further told about Alexei's illness. The stories about typhus have become true, and in order to support the eldest of the Turbin brothers, all old acquaintances come to the house. The men spend the night playing cards, and in the morning a telegram arrives with a warning about the arrival of a relative from Zhytomyr.

Soon there was an active knock on the door, Myshlaevsky went to open it. Lisovich, a downstairs neighbor who was in a state of great fright, rushed into his arms right from the door. Men do not understand anything, but they help him and listen to his story.

Events in Lisovich's house

Summary of the "White Guard" will tell in detail in the sixteenth chapter about what happened in the apartment of Lisovich's neighbor. In the evening, when Alexei and Myshlaevsky's classmates gathered at the Turbins to play cards, the doorbell rang from below. The engineer heard a threat from the men behind the doors that they would open fire if Vasily did not open them.

A man lets in three unknown people who present an indistinct document. They claim that they are acting on the orders of the headquarters and must conduct a search in the house. The robbers, in front of the frightened head of the family, completely ransack the house and find a hiding place. They take all the goods from there and exchange their tattered rags for more attractive robes on the spot. At the end of the robbery theyVasily is forced to make a receipt for the voluntary transfer of property to Kirpaty and Nemolyaka. After several threats, the men disappear into the darkness of the night. Lisovich immediately rushes to the neighbors and tells this story.

Myshlaevsky descends to the crime scene, where he inspects all the details. The lieutenant says that it is better not to tell anyone about this, because it is a miracle that they were left alive. Nikolka realizes that the robbers have taken weapons from the place outside the window where he hid the pistols. There was a hole in the fence in the yard. The robbers managed to take out the nails and so climb into the territory of the building. The next day, the hole is boarded up.

Plot twists and turns

Summary of the novel "White Guard" in the sixteenth chapter tells how prayers were held in St. Sophia Cathedral, after which the parade began. Soon, a Bolshevik agitator climbed out onto a tall fountain, talking about the revolution. The Petliurists wanted to investigate and arrest the culprit of the unrest, but Shpolyansky and Shchur intervened. They deftly accused a Ukrainian activist of stealing, and the crowd immediately rushed at him.

At this time, the Bolshevik man is quietly out of sight. Shervinsky and Stepanov saw everything from the side and were delighted with the actions of the Reds. In the summary of the "White Guard" by M. Bulgakov, it is further told about Nikolka's campaign to the relatives of Colonel Nai-Turs. For a long time he could not decide to pay a visit with terrible news, but he managed to get together and go to the indicated address. In the house of the former commander of Turbinsees his mother and sister. By the appearance of the unknown guest, they understand that Nai-Turs is no longer alive.

Together with her sister named Irina Nikolka goes to the building of the anatomical theater, where the morgue was equipped. He identifies the body, and the relatives bury the colonel with full honors, after which they thank the younger Turbin.

By the end of December, Alexey had already stopped regaining consciousness, and his condition was only getting worse. The doctors conclude that the case is hopeless and there is nothing they can do. Elena spends a long time in prayers to the Mother of God. She asks not to take away her brother, because her mother has already left them, and her husband will not return to her either. Soon Alexei managed to regain consciousness, which was considered a miracle.

Last chapters

Summary of parts of the "White Guard" at the end tells how Petlyura's troops retreat from Kyiv in February. Alexei is recovering and even returning to medicine. The patient Rusakov comes to him with syphilis, who is obsessed with religion, and constantly reproaches Shpolyansky for something. Turbin prescribes treatment for him, and also advises him to be less obsessed with his ideas.

After that, he visits Yulia, whom he gives as a token of gratitude for saving her mother's valuable bracelet. On the street, he runs into his younger brother, who again went to Nai-Tursa's sister. That same evening, Vasily brings a telegram, which surprised everyone due to the inoperability of the mail. In it, acquaintances from Warsaw are surprised at Elena's divorce from her husband, because Thalberg got married again.

The beginning of February was marked by the departure of Petliura's troops from Kyiv. Alexei and Vasily are tormented by terrible dreams about past events. The last chapter shows the dreams of various people about future events. Only Rusakov, who joined the Red Army, does not sleep, and spends the night reading the Bible.

Elena sees Lieutenant Shervinsky in a dream, who attaches a big red star to an armored train. This picture is replaced by the bloodied neck of Nikolka's younger brother. Five-year-old Petka Shcheglov also sees a dream, but it is many times better than that of other people. The boy ran across the meadow, where a diamond ball appeared. He ran up and grabbed the item, which began to spit. From this picture, the boy began to laugh through his dreams.