"Running", Bulgakov: a brief summary, the history of creation, the main characters

"Running" - a play written by M. Bulgakov in 1926-1927. This play created a lot of performances, which, unfortunately, were put already after the author's death, because Stalin banned all rehearsals.

The first performance took place in 1957 at the Stalingrad Theater. But in 1970 the magnificent film "Running" of directors A. Alov and V. Naumov was shot . The plot affects the time of the Civil War after the October Revolution, where the remaining troops of the White Army are fighting desperately and are fighting the Reds on the Crimean Isthmus.

"Running" is a play that, according to the author's idea, consists of four acts and eight dreams. Why sleep? Because the dream is a dramaturgical convention, representing something unreal and implausible, which is very hard to believe. Thus, the author himself expressed his attitude to what is happening then with Russia: everything is like a terrible dream.

The fate of the Russian intelligentsia

Based on the memoirs of his second wife, LE Belozerskaya on emigration, and wrote his "Running" Bulgakov. An analysis of the biography of this woman shows that she then fled with her first husband to Constantinople, and then lived in Paris, Marseilles and Berlin. The writer also used the memories of the white general YA Slashchev.

Mikhail Bulgakov "Running" devoted to the fate of the Russian intelligentsia, which he considered the best layer of Russia. She was forced to leave the country and live in exile. The writer tried to tell that most of the emigrants wanted to live in Russia, but they had to find a consensus with the Bolsheviks and even refuse to fight them, but without giving up moral principles. The classic even wrote a letter about this to Stalin himself. He wanted to show that he was taller than white and red, but in the end he was considered an enemy-whiteguard. Therefore, the publication of the "White Guard" did not happen during the life of the writer, as he did not see the scene and "Running." Bulgakov performance "Days of the Turbins" was able to deliver only after a two-year ban, when he received a personal order from Stalin.

"Run". Bulgakov. Summary

So, October 1920. North Tavria. There is a battle between red and white. Young St. Petersburg intellectual Golubkov is hiding from stray bullets and grenades in the porch of the monastery with Seraphim Korzukhina, a lady from St. Petersburg. Together with him, she fled to the Crimea to meet her husband there. Golubkov wondered why the reds were in this area, because it was all in the hands of whites.

Here a detachment of cavalrymen Budyonny drove into the monastery to check documents from people. Priests and monks prayed before the images, there were many other people in the church, among them the pregnant Baranbanchikov, who suddenly started contractions. When the monastery left the Reds, they were followed by soldiers, led by White Commander De Brisar and Lyuska, General Charnota's marching wife. As it turned out later, in the image of the pregnant lady, Gen. Charnot himself was hiding himself, who, hearing his voices, could not express his words with joy. He embraced them all and began to tell how, in lieu of forged documents, his friend Barabanchikov in a hurry all mixed up and slipped him the documents of his pregnant wife.

Now they all begin to discuss the plan of escape, proposed by Charnota. But soon it is discovered that typhoid begins in Seraphim, and Golubkov does not depart from it. Everyone is leaving.

Khludov

November 1920, the Crimea. The headquarters of the station is the headquarters of the White Guards. The buffet became the command post of General Khludov. He is constantly twitching and is clearly ill. Then the husband of Seraphim, Korzukhin, the Comrade of the Minister of Trade appears, and asks Khludov to help send the convoys with the smuggled goods to Sevastopol. But he orders everything to be burned. Appears Seraphima, Golubkov and Krapilin, the news of Charnota. Serafima attacks Khludov, that he would only hang people, but she is immediately mistaken for a Communist. Seeing his husband, Serafima rushes to him, but he pretends that he does not know it, being afraid of the reaction of the general.

In this episode, another tragedy is filled by his "Running" Bulgakov. The summary continues that the guard Krapilin, being in a wild trance from everything that is happening around him, also accuses Khludov of atrocities, and then comes to himself, kneels before him, but the general orders him to hang.

Arrest

Golubkov gets to be interrogated in the counterintelligence of the head of the Pacific, which forces him to sign a document stating that Serafima is a Communist. Quiet with a partner want to make money by blackmailing her husband Korzukhin.

Serafima, on interrogation, sees Golubkov's testimony, knocks out the window of the cabinet and calls for help. Under the windows at this time was Charnota's cavalry, who appeared with a revolver and freed Seraphim.

Meanwhile, there is a conversation between Khludov and the commander-in-chief, whom he hates because he has drawn him into a meaningless affair. After all the clarifications they part. Khludov has a mental disorder, he constantly sees the ghost of Krapilin, who was hanged by him. But here comes Golubkov, who is in panic because of the arrest of Seraphim and wants the general to help free her. Khludov orders his adjutant, captain Golovan, to bring Serafim to him and immediately adds that it may have already been shot. He after a while comes back and reports that she is at Charnota, who took her to Constantinople. Khludov is also waiting on the ship. The ghost of the newsgoer comes to him from time to time. Golubkov begs him to take with him to find Seraphim.

Emigration

Summer of 1921, Constantinople. Bulgakov does not finish the play "Running" on this. The brief content below tells how, on one of the streets of Constantinople, a drunken and impecunious Charnota wants to make a bet on credit in cockroach races. Arthur Arturovich named the Cockroaches king refuses him. Charnot yearns for Russia, he trades in the street with toys and silver gazirs. As a result, he puts everything on the main favorite, the cockroach Janischar. In the midst of the contest, it turns out that Arthur had oppressed Janischar. A fight broke out.

Lusia and Charnot

Charnot comes home and quarrels with Lucy, because he's lying to her that a box of toys and gazes has been stolen from him. She realizes that on the run he lost the last. With them lives and Serafima. Lyuska confesses to him that he is forced to engage in prostitution because they already have nothing to eat and nothing to pay for the room. She reproaches him for having smashed the counterintelligence headquarters, then fled the army and now they live in poverty far from Russia. Charnot always objected and was justified by saving Seraphim. And then suddenly Lusia declares that he is leaving with one familiar Frenchman to Paris. Seraphim, having heard all this conversation, decided not to sit at anyone's neck, and also to go to earn a panel.

On the same day, Charnot meets Golubkov on the street playing a hurdy-gurdy. He is looking for Seraphim, who has already found herself a Greek client and goes with him to the room. Behind them Charnot and Golubkov run in and drive the Greek away. Golubkov admits Seraphim's love, but she refuses him, because she does not want to spoil his life.

Here appears Khludov. He was demoted from the army, and now he is instructed to look after Seraphim. He gives Golubkov a medallion and two lira, because he goes to Paris to ask for money from Korzukhin, who has a sick wife. Charnota decides to go with him.

Korzukhin

Autumn of 1921, Paris. Golubkov appears on the threshold of Korzukhin's apartment and asks him to give him a thousand dollars in debt. But he assures that he has no wife, and refuses to give money. In addition, he declares that he wants to marry his secretary. Golubkov accuses him of callousness. However, Charnot encounters the case and, seeing Korzukhin on the table on the table, invites him to play and puts Khludov's medallion. As a result, he wins Korsukhin 20 thousand dollars and for $ 300 he buys back his medallion.

Korzukhin is drunk and beside himself with rage, he screams and demands the police. There comes the culmination moment. From the room a scream runs out of the secretary (she turned out to be Lyuska). She, having realized what was happening and seeing Charnot, tells Korzukhina that they can not return money, since they are lost. At parting she asks Golubkov to protect Seraphim.

It should be noted that "Running" (a work of Bulgakov) with extraordinary touching and understanding tells about each hero.

Seraphim

In Constantinople, Khludov is still in a mental disorder and often communicates with the ghost of the newsman. Serafima enters and admits to him that he is ready to accept Khludov's offer and return with him to St. Petersburg. Khludov says that he will return to Russia even under his own name. Here appear the long-awaited and already wealthy Golubkov and Charnot. The latter realizes that he does not want to fight the Bolsheviks anymore, and he does not hate them, so he stays and runs to the Cockroach King Arthur.

Decoupling

Serafima and Khludov returned to their homeland. Khludov remains alone in the room and, walking to the window, shoots himself.

That's how Bulgakov finished his tragic play "Running". The summary of it is just a small part of all the events, so it's better to still read the play in the original. And for a better presentation of all the events experienced by the Russian intelligentsia and the Russian people in general, it is desirable to watch this play, because it is better to watch plays than to read. However, if there is no such possibility, the best film "Running" (1970) will best describe everything.