After reading the summary of “Quiet Flows the Don”, you will definitely want to familiarize yourself with the entire novel.
From the very beginning, the author begins to describe the yard of Melekhov, which is located on the very edge of the farm. The reader is told the story of this family, the main member of which is Gregory.
Even in his youth, his grandfather married a plain-looking woman, whom he brought with him from a campaign. Because of this, grandfather Gregory and his father broke out a conflict of a lifetime, because his father was against his marriage to a foreigner.
Choosing a foreigner as his wife, he had to become a hermit and settle on the outskirts, soon they had a child, whom they called Pantelei. He looked very much like a mother, just as dark and black-eyed. When the boy grew up, he began to help his father with the housework, and soon he married a Cossack himself. In a happy marriage, children began to appear. Pantelei had 4 children: two sons Petro and Gregory, and 2 daughters Dunyashka and Daria.
In the early morning, Pantelei invites his youngest son to go fishing, during which he asks to forget about Axinho, who was already the wife of their neighbor Stepan. But Gregory does not respond to the request of his father and continues to run after Aksinya. This girl suffered a lot in life, as a child she was brutally raped by her father, and after marriage her husband began to beat her with the same cruelty. Therefore, when she felt the sympathy of Gregory, he fell in love with him to unconsciousness. Soon everyone in the district found out about their romance. Summary “Quiet Don” will not be able to fully embrace all the passions described in the novel. Upon learning of
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betrayal , Stepan begins to beat Aksinya even harder, and Gregory quickly marries Natalya. But still they cannot cope with their feelings and forget about each other. Gregory confesses to his wife that he could not fall in love with her, for which she decides to take her own life. This does not bother him much, since Aksinya confesses to him that they will have a baby soon.
And just at that time, Gregory was being called up for a war that lasted 4 years. The description of the war begins, a brief summary of “Quiet Don” will not give you a complete account of all the spectacular battles in which Gregory took part. In the second battle, he was wounded in the head, and the news of his death will come to his native village. After some time, this information will be refuted, and Natalya will go to Aksinya to ask her to leave her husband alone. At the same time, the daughter of Gregory dies, and Aksinya begins to take courtship from Listintsky. After another wound, Gregory is sent home, rumors about the infidelity of his beloved reach him immediately, and he decides to return to his wife.
Summary “Quiet Don” will not convey to you all the storm of emotions that you can get when reading the full work.
The main character is disappointed in the war and in the homeland. They want to arrest Gregory because he fought for the whites in order to save his life, he has to flee from his native land. He returns home only after the news of the Cossack uprising. His brother serves for the Reds, but he is deceived and captured. The death of his brother and the war adversely affect the state of Gregory, he begins to abuse alcohol.
Having decided to make a breakthrough to the Danube, Melekhov takes Axinho with him and leaves with her. But he soon receives news from home that his wife Natalya, having made an abortion, is tragically killed. Having never seen her beloved spouse, she dies.
A true masterpiece of fiction is the work “The Quiet Don”. A very brief summary of this article does not allow us to describe all the interesting subjects of the novel.
In the end, the main character loses almost everything, his father dies from an illness, his beloved Aksinya dies in a field from a bullet wound. Unhappy Gregory realizes that he has nothing left in his life except the children, and he returns to them.
The life of an ordinary Cossack was described in his novel by Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”. A brief summary of this work by almost all readers suggests that you read it in its entirety.