Brief description: "Walking through the agony", AN Tolstoy. Theme of the work, the main characters

"Walking through the agony" - a trilogy of the famous Russian and Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy. It is so called because it consists of three books: The Sisters (1921-1922), The Eighteenth Year (1927-1928) and The Gloomy Morning (1940-1941). They show the fate of the Russian intelligentsia, which had to endure very difficult tests during the 1917 revolution. Tolstoy wrote, "Walking by Flour" for twenty years, and during this time he was able to re-examine and rethink his views and his life. In this question, oh, how hard it was for him, distrust of one or the other always tormented his soul.

"Walking in pain": a book of life and rethinking

When the Russian empire collapsed, which the writer loved so much, he emigrated abroad, then returned again. Tolstoy was not sure that the new government could change the life of the country for the better. "Walking through agony" is a book that depicts all the throwing and doubts that he experienced for several decades, and yet in the end came to the conclusion that the Russian people still made the right choice, supporting the once-hated Bolsheviks.

The book "Walking by Flour" to the author brought the Stalin Prize in 1943. The size of it was then 100 thousand rubles. It was a very large fee, which Tolstoy, without hesitation, immediately sent to the Defense Fund, and they built the tank "Terrible".

Summary: "Walking through agony"

The first book is called "Sisters", and it tells about how a young and straightforward girl Bulavina Darya Dmitrievna in early 1914 comes to Petersburg from Samara to learn in legal courses. Her sister Ekaterina Dmitrievna and her husband, the famous lawyer Nikolai Ivanovich Smokovnikov, also live in this city. Their family leads a bohemian way of life, and therefore in their house there are often guests, among whom there are progressive talks about the dying art and the democratic revolution. Among them was the poet Alexei Bessonov . In his poems he writes that Russia is carrion, and those who compose verses will burn in hell. In general, this naive madman falls in love with the naive and pure Daria Dmitrievna. It never occurred to her that her adored sister Katya had already changed her sweet and good-natured husband with him.

Treason

The novel "The Walking Through the Flours" continued with the fact that Nikolai Ivanovich began to guess about the betrayal of his wife and even told Dasha about it, but Katya very quickly convinced them that it was complete nonsense. But Dasha nevertheless digs through the truth through Bessonova and then, with her characteristic fervor and spontaneity, makes Katya confess to her husband and ask him for forgiveness. As a result, the spouses are leaving, Nikolai Ivanovich - to the Crimea, Katya - to France.

At the same time, Ivan Ilyich Telegin, a decent and kind engineer on the Vasilievsky Island, gives up some of his apartment to some strange young people who often organize "futuristic" parties at home. And one of these evenings, thanks to his acquaintance, comes Dasha. Everything that happens there, she does not understand, but she liked the young engineer Telegin.

Love

The author continues the fact that Dasha goes to Samara to visit his father, Bulavin Dmitry Stepanovich, in the summer, and quite unexpectedly on the boat he meets the same engineer, Ivan Ilyich, who was already fired from the factory because of the workers' strikes. They cute talk and strongly sympathize with each other.

Dasha, having seen his father, on his instructions goes to the Crimea to talk with Katya's husband and persuade him to reconcile with his wife. In the Crimea, she also saw Bessonova, completely lost in her own thoughts, but most importantly, Telegin came to her to say goodbye, he was going to go to the front, after the First World War began, and he decided now to confess to Daria Dmitrievna in love.

After some time at the front, Bessonov accidentally dies, this will end his poetic walking through the agony. The trilogy goes on to say that when Katya came from France to Moscow, Smokovnikov reconciled with her.

Roshchin

Now that there was a war, the sisters began to work in a military hospital. One day Nikolai Petrovich leads Roshchin, a whiteguard captain of Vadim Petrovich, to the house sent to the capital for equipment. He almost immediately falls in love with Ekaterina Dmitrievna and is soon explained to her in love, but does not get reciprocity.

Tolstoy's "Walking through the agony" goes on to say that one day the sisters will recognize their newspapers that Ensign Telegin was missing. Dasha fell into despair, she did not yet realize that he was taken prisoner and then several times escaped from the concentration camp, he was almost never shot. But a miracle saved him, and he safely gets to Moscow.

The long-awaited meeting with Dasha was short-lived, and Ivan Ilyich rushed to the Baltic factory in Petrograd. On the way, he becomes an occasional witness of how the conspirators throw the body of the murdered Grishka Rasputin into the Neva.

Thus, in the eyes of Telegin, the February Revolution began . Telegin goes to Moscow for Dasha and brings her to Petrograd.

Riots

Katya's husband takes the post of the Commissar of the Provisional Government and with great enthusiasm goes to Moscow, where he is killed by rebellious soldiers.

Vadim Roshchin comes to the widow to comfort her. He already does not know what to do: neither the Russian army, nor the front anymore. He speaks of Russia as manure to arable land, and that now everything must be created anew, and the state, the army, and after the other, the soul is squeezed into people.

In the summer evening of 1917, Vadim and Katya went out for a stroll along the avenue in Petrograd. And here he decides to confess Katya in love. At this time, they passed by the mansion of the former famous ballerina, where the headquarters of the Bolsheviks were located, who were preparing to seize power. Thus ends the first part of the novel.

Revolution

The summary ("Walking through the agony") continues in the second book, entitled "The Eighteenth Year". It describes how terrible, hungry and cold became for a short time Petersburg, life in it turns into a real circulation of pain. Dasha, pregnant with her first child, is attacked by robbers, this stress causes premature birth, she has a boy who dies on the third day. Dasha can not recover from his misfortune, Ivan Ilyich understands that there is no more strength or desire at home, so he goes to serve in the Red Army.

Roshchin at this time in Moscow, he is concussed after the October fights with the revolutionaries. With Katya, they decide to go to her father in Samara, to wait there for the revolution. They were sure that the power of the Bolsheviks would not last until spring. Then Roshchin and Katya leave for Rostov, where a volunteer white army is being formed, but they do not manage to get there (the squad received a new task and was forced to leave the city).

Makhnovtsy

Fish, thrown ashore, at this time feels and Roshchin. "Walking on the agony" goes on to say that on the ideological ground between Vadim and Katya there is a quarrel. He leaves to catch up with the volunteers, but before that he enters the Red Guard part to get to the line of battle with him and change to his own, which he will eventually do. The brave officer still remains unhappy with himself, he begins to suffer greatly because of the break with Katya.

Ekaterina Dmitrievna, living in Rostov, soon gets a false news about Vadim's death and now has to go to Ekaterinoslav. But on the way to the train the Makhnovists are attacking. In captivity among the Makhnovists she meets the former subordinate Roshchina - Krasilnikova Alexei, who begins to patronize her.

Vadim, as soon as he got a vacation, urgently goes to Rostov for Katya, but there he does not find her. At the station he accidentally meets with Telegin, who was secreted into a whiteguard officer. Vadim Petrovich does not betray him, for which he silently thanks him and instantly disappears.

Dasha

At the same time, Darya Dmitrievna lives in Petrograd, where the Reds and Lenin are building a new workers 'and peasants' state. Once to her is their old acquaintance Kulichek - a Denikin officer who brings her a letter from her sister. From it, she learns that Roshchin is dead.

Kulichok draws Dasha into an underground work against Bolshevik power, and she moves to Moscow. So the girl works under the leadership of Boris Savinkov, for cover-up he spends time with the anarchists of Mamont Dalsky. On the orders of its underground, she begins to attend various meetings, where Lenin speaks, to whom their group is preparing an attempt. His performances make strong impressions on her. And then Daria Dmitrievna breaks all ties with the conspirators and leaves for her father in Samara. Telegin also gets there in the form of a white officer.

Telegin comes to Bulavin and wants to get at least some news about Dasha. Dmitry Stepanovich immediately guessed that before him was a "red snake", he was distracting Telegin with an old letter from Dasha, and he was calling counterintelligence. And then there is an unexpected meeting of Telegin with Dasha, at this time she was in her room. They manage to explain themselves, and Ivan Ilyich runs away.

Literally after a while Telegin, already commanding the regiment, returns for Dasha to Bulavin's apartment, but it is empty, the glasses are knocked out, and Dasha is not.

Defense of Tsaritsyna

The summary ("Walking through the agony") in the third part of "Gloomy Morning" tells that the train of Daria Dmitrievna was attacked by white Cossacks, and now she and her casual companion are baking potatoes somewhere in the steppe. They need to go to Tsaritsyno, but they are in the reds, who immediately suspected them of espionage, especially since Dashin's father was the minister of the White Samara government. However, it later turned out that the regiment commander Mel'shin knew Dasha's husband in the German war and the Red Army.

Telegin at that time is transporting ammunition and cannons along the Volga to the warring Tsaritsyn. With his defense, he was badly injured and wound up in a hospital. A few days later unconscious, coming to himself, he sees a nurse next to him, who turned out to be his beloved Dasha.

Roshchin and Katya

Roshchin's troubles are continuing at this time, he is absolutely disappointed in his whole life, in Ekaterinoslav suddenly finds out that the train in which Katya was traveling was captured by the Makhnovists. Leaving the suitcase in the hotel and tearing off the shoulder straps of the white officer, he went to look for her in Gulyaypole to Makhno's headquarters. There he falls into the hands of Leva Zadov, the head of Makhnov's counterintelligence. He exposes the Roshcha to torture. But then Makhno takes him back to him so that the Bolsheviks think that he is flirting with the whites, concludes a profitable alliance with the Bolsheviks and together with them is going to take Ekaterinoslav, who was under the Petlyuraites. Roshchin manages to visit the farm where Katya and Alexei Krasilnikov lived, but they have already left, it's not known where.

Vadim Petrovich bravely participates in battles, but Petlyura's people do not surrender the city. Roshchin gets wounded, and the Reds deliver him to the Kharkov hospital.

Passion is heated to the limit in the novel "Walking by the throes". Katya, barely free from Krasilnikov, who forcibly forced her to marry him, becomes a teacher of one of the rural schools.

From the hospital Vadim Petrovich sent to Kiev to the commissioner Chugai. With him, he participates in the defeat of the gang of Green and kills Krasilnikov. He does not find Katya.

Happiness

Walking through the torments is the theme, the main thing in the work, to the heroes of the novel, it is very close, everyone will get their own, because the times were really so terrible that it's even hard for them to imagine.

So, Ivan Ilyich becomes a brigade commander, and one day he is presented to the chief of staff, in which he learns Roshchin. He wanted to arrest him, but everything clears up quickly.

Katya returns to Moscow to her old apartment in Arbat, where she buried her husband and explained with Vadim. Then she gets a job as a teacher, and at one of the meetings for the people's front-line soldiers she learns Vadim Petrovich and immediately faints. Telegin and Dasha come to Katya.

Now, finally, all are reunited and are in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. There is a report by Krzhizhanovsky on the electrification of Russia. Roshchin points to Lenin and Stalin and tells Katya that they defeated Denikin that the blood spilled and all his efforts were not in vain for the sake of such a great cause, when the world began to rebuild for good, and that in this hall everyone is ready to give his life for this. This is a new Russia. Ivan Ilyich, also inspired by these performances of the people's leaders, says to Dasha that he is already very eager to work. On this you can finish the summary. "Walking through agony" is a work worthy of reading.