Scenes from village life in four acts

Act one
The action takes place in the estate of a retired professor Serebryakov. Dr. Astrov tells Nanny Marina about the difficulties of his work: the mass of patients, epidemics, unsanitary conditions in peasant huts, the horror of death. Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya), the brother of the professor's first wife, complains that since Professor Serebryakov and his second wife Elena Andreevna arrived at the estate, all life in the house has "been off track." Uncle Vanya criticizes the professor for selfishness, for constant complaints, for the fact that he has been writing about art for twenty-five years without understanding anything about it. Astrov is rooting for the fate of the Russian forest, which is senselessly cut down. He himself finds time to save peasant forests from felling and plant young trees. This is a real mover. He is very nice to Sonya, the professor's daughter from her first marriage, who lives on the estate and runs the household with Uncle Vanya.

Voinitsky expresses his feelings to Elena Andreevna, she brushes him off.

Sonya tries not to be angry with her stepmother and tells Elena Andreevna about her love for Astrov.

Act Three
Sonya calls her stepmother a witch - she infected everyone with her idleness: everyone became lazy. Uncle Vanya follows her like a shadow; the doctor abandoned his woods and medicine. Sonya complains to Elena Andreevna that the doctor does not notice her feelings. The stepmother offers to talk to the doctor. Astrov shows Elena Andreevna his map, where he registers how the flora and fauna of the region are getting poorer. The destruction of the forest, the degeneration of the people, excites and annoys him.

The woman is occupied with completely different thoughts, she is trying to find out from the doctor about his feelings for Sonya. The doctor calls Elena a predator, because she cannot help but guess that Astrov does not go to the house for Sonya's sake. He hugs a woman, kisses her hair, makes an appointment with her in the forestry. Uncle Vanya sees this scene. He is confused and scared. Elena Andreevna wants to leave.

Serebryakov gathers everyone and announces his decision to sell the estate and invest the money in securities that will give him and his wife the means to live in the city. He did not think about where and how Sonya and Voinitsky would live. But the estate belongs to Sonya! She inherited it from her late mother. Uncle Vanya announces to Serebryakov that he ruined his life - he is forty-seven years old, but he did not live! Didn't live! Only worked for an ungrateful and self-satisfied man. A scandal erupts. Uncle Vanya with an absurd exclamation "Bam!" shoots at the professor with a revolver, but misses.

act four
Astrov and Uncle Vanya talk about the hopelessness of their lives. Serebryakov and his wife are going to leave for Kharkov. Everything remains the same. Sonya and Voinitsky check the running accounts. Sonya dreams of a better life: "We'll rest! We will hear the angels, we will see the whole sky in diamonds... We will rest!”

Chekhov first presented his work to the general public in 1889, where he reflected the whole life of Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky. The play was named after the protagonist.

Throughout the story, it is clear that Ivan Petrovich does not blame himself for his failures, but those around him and circumstances. The fact that life was in vain, he realizes only before death.

Uncle Vanya lives in the house of Professor Serebryakov's ex-wife. He is there because he does not have enough money to live in an apartment in the city. Despite occupying someone else's homestead, he is dissatisfied with the professor who has been hard at work there for a long time.

Astrov constantly complains to Uncle Vanya about his difficult work as a doctor, about the terrible maintenance of patients.

Voinitsky does not live in the house for free. Together with his daughter Serebryakov, Sonya, he runs the household. He was very nice to the girl.

Working for Sonechka's father, the hero notes to himself that Serebryakov is a mediocre and useless person who is still trying to prove himself.

She and Sonya notice that despite the fact that they perform their duties conscientiously, the professor does not show any respect for them.

Astrov regularly comes to the estate to treat Serebryakov. Sonechka falls in love with the doctor. The girl tells her stepmother about her experiences. But her feelings with the doctor are not mutual. The professor likes Elena Andreevna, whom he tries to court.

Sonya does not like her stepmother, with her appearance in the house, all the workers became lazy due to the fact that she constantly arranges holidays. Sonya's father decides to sell the estate. He tells his family about it. Serebryakov plans to live on the interest from the money received from the sale, putting them in the bank.

Upon learning of this, Uncle Vanya wonders where he and his elderly mother will live. Serebryakov reassures him that this problem will be resolved in the near future. Sonya is surprised by this behavior of her father. Despite the honest work with Ivan Petrovich, Serebryakov makes them live like vagabonds. Voinitsky, enraged by such an act, makes an attempt to kill the professor. He doesn't get anything.

Such a fate forces Uncle Vanya to commit suicide, but Sonya does not let him die. He is terribly worried that Serebryakov's wife is in love with Astrov and does not reciprocate him.

Soon, Serebryakov changes his mind about selling the estate. Uncle Vanya continues to work for him together with Sonechka. Astrov leaves. Performing his routine work, Uncle Vanya begins to complain to the girl about his hard life and unfair fate. Sonya agrees to this.

Initially, the play in four acts was called "Leshy". Subsequently, she was given the more appropriate name "Uncle Vanya". The drama was first staged in 1890. And if for all this time you have not watched the production yet, and you perceive the text of the play with difficulty, then we offer you brief retelling works on actions, as well as where its meaning is explained.

Very briefly about what happens in the drama: Ivan and his niece have been working on the estate all their lives, trying to extract at least some profit and send it to the girl's father, the famous professor. They don't get much on their own. But then the saint of science arrives with a beautiful wife and declares that he is selling the estate inherited from Sonya's mother in order to buy a summer house in Finland. Ivan is outraged that no one appreciated his work and opinion, he is disappointed in the professor, even tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Elena, Serebryakov's wife, falls in love with both Ivan and Dr. Astakhov, whom Sonya, her stepdaughter, loves so much. As a result, she and her husband leave, and the life of Voinitsky, his niece and Astakhov returns to normal.

The doctor Mikhail Lvovich Astakhov comes to the estate to "Uncle Vanya", Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, to deal with the health of Professor Serebryakov. Astakhov and nanny Marina talk about the current routine life of a doctor and how good life used to be. Soon Voinitsky comes up to the guest and tells him about the scientist's stay in the house, his successes in the literary environment, when he himself does not think anything about it. Yes, and with women, the scientist came out great.

Voinitsky is not satisfied with his life due to ordinary laziness, while Astakhov simply worked hard and stopped feeling something inside himself. The landowner Telegin, abandoned by his wife, joins the conversation when the conversation turns to betrayal and infidelity of the spouse. Telegin complains about life, and Mikhail Lvovich is forced to leave, due to the improvement of Serebryakov's health. Ivan Petrovich argues with the professor's wife, with his mother-in-law and his daughter, showing dissatisfaction with his fate. Ivan Petrovich is also in love with Serebryakov's wife.

Action two

The professor complains about his age and his health, thinking that he is disgusting to absolutely everyone. Everyone in the house intends to take care of him, however, only the nanny Marina can do it.

Voinitsky, for the umpteenth time, is trying to talk about his feelings for the professor's wife, but the woman notices him in a state of intoxication and refuses to have a dialogue with him.

Soon the professor's daughter Sonya comes to the drunk Astakhov. The doctor talks about his feelings and experiences, and Sonya recently fell in love with Mikhail Lvovich. The doctor leaves, and then, at the buffet, the scientist's wife Elena notices Sonya. The girls drink and talk about men, also discussing the doctor who arrived earlier, who, in their opinion, is ideal. Elena wants to make music, but her husband forbids it.

Act Three

Sonya complains to Elena that she is ugly. The stepmother calms the girl, explaining to her that she is beautiful. Her stepdaughter wants to confess her love to the doctor, but is afraid of being rejected. Elena helps Sonya in this, modestly interrogating Astakhov. Mikhail Lvovich suspects the woman that she herself has sympathy for him. He has no feelings for Sonya, and the man intends to ask Elena out on a date. Since Uncle Vanya saw Mikhail's invitation, Elena asks Ivan that the entire professor's family urgently leave the estate. The scientist calls everyone to the family council.

Serebryakov informs that the auditor is coming to them, and they urgently need to somehow dispose of housing. The professor offers to sell the estate and buy a dacha in Finland, but not everyone accepts this proposal positively. Uncle Vanya quarrels with his boss, a professor, because he absolutely does not agree with him and reproaches him that it was he who ruined Ivan's life, Telegin is worried, and his mother-in-law, Maria Vasilievna, takes the side of her son-in-law. Sonya persuades her father to talk to Ivan, but Uncle Vanya, holding a revolver in his hands, intends to kill Serebryakov. Family in panic...

act four

Serebryakov and his wife are preparing to leave. There is a dialogue between Astakhov and Voinitsky. Uncle Vanya reproaches himself for having missed and not shot the professor. Mikhail Lvovich wants to get what Ivan Petrovich once took from him - a jar of morphine.

Sonya persuades Voinitsky to give the morphine. Ivan gives the jar to the doctor.

Astakhov tries to persuade Elena to stay, but the woman finally decided to leave the estate. Uncle Vanya reconciled with Serebryakov, after which everyone says goodbye to the professor and his wife. Soon Astakhov himself leaves while Sonya works with her uncle. Sonya, hugging her uncle, thinks about what will happen after death.

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Scenes from village life in four acts

Characters

Serebryakov Alexander Vladimirovich, retired professor. Elena Andreevna, his wife, 27 years old. Sofia Alexandrovna (Sonya), his daughter from his first marriage. Voynitskaya Maria Vasilievna, widow Privy Councilor, mother of the professor's first wife. Voynitsky Ivan Petrovich, her son. Astrov Mikhail Lvovich, doctor. Telegin Ilya Ilyich, an impoverished landowner. Marina, old nanny. Employee .

The action takes place in the estate of Serebryakov.

Act one

Garden. Part of the house with a terrace is visible. In the alley, under an old poplar tree, a table set for tea, benches, chairs; there is a guitar on one of the benches. There is a swing near the table. — The third hour of the day. Mainly cloudy.

Marina (a damp, sedentary old woman, sitting by the samovar, lowering her stocking) and Astrov (walking around).

Marina (pouring a glass). Eat, dad. Astrov (reluctantly takes a glass). Something you don't want. Marina. Maybe drink some vodka? Astrov. No. I don't drink vodka every day. Plus, it's stuffy.

Nanny, how long has it been since we know each other?

Marina (thinking). How much? God bless your memory... You came here, to these parts... when?... Vera Petrovna, Sonechka's mother, was still alive. You visited us for two winters with her ... Well, that means eleven years have passed. (Thinking.) Or maybe more ... Astrov. How much have I changed since then? Marina. Strongly. Then you were young, beautiful, and now you are old. And the beauty is not the same. Also say - and drink vodka. Astrov. Yes... At the age of ten he became a different person. And what is the reason? Got it, nanny. From morning to night, everyone is on their feet, I don’t know peace, but at night you lie under the covers and are afraid that they will drag you to the patient. For all the time that we have known each other, I have not had a single free day. How not to get old? Yes, and life itself is boring, stupid, dirty... This life is addictive. There are only eccentrics around you, all eccentrics; and you live with them for two or three years, and little by little, unnoticed by yourself, you become an eccentric. inevitable fate. (Twisting his long mustache.) Look, a huge mustache has grown ... Stupid mustache. I have become an eccentric, nanny ... I have not yet become stupid, God is merciful, my brains are in their place, but my feelings have somehow dulled. I don't want anything, I don't need anything, I don't love anyone... I only love you. (Kisses her on the head.) I had a nanny like that when I was a kid. Marina. Maybe you want to eat? Astrov. No. In Lent, in the third week, I went to Malitskoe for an epidemic... Typhus... In the huts, people side by side... Dirt, stench, smoke, calves on the floor, together with the sick... Piglets right there... Fumbling I didn’t sit down all day, there was no poppy dew in my mouth, but I came home, they didn’t let me rest - they brought me railway switchman; I put him on the table to perform an operation on him, and he, take it and die with me under chloroform. And when it was not necessary, feelings woke up in me, and my conscience pinched, as if I had deliberately killed him ... I sat down, closed my eyes - like this, and I think: those who will live a hundred or two hundred years after us and for which we are now paving the way, will we be remembered kind word? Nyanka, they won't remember! Marina. People will not remember, but God will remember. Astrov. Well, thank you. Well you said.

Voinitsky enters.

Voynitsky (leaves the house; he has had a good sleep after breakfast and looks rumpled; sits down on a bench, adjusting his smart tie). Yes... Astrov. Did you get enough sleep? Voinitsky. Yes very. (Yawns.) Ever since the professor and his wife have been living here, life has gotten out of whack... I sleep at the wrong time, eat different kabuls at breakfast and dinner, drink wine... all this is not healthy! Previously, there was no free moment, Sonya and I worked - my respect, but now only Sonya works, and I sleep, eat, drink ... Not good! Marina (shaking his head). Orders! The professor gets up at 12 o'clock, and the samovar boils in the morning, everything is waiting for him. Without them, they always dined at the first hour, as everywhere with people, but with them at the seventh. At night, the professor reads and writes, and suddenly at two o'clock the bell rings... What is it, fathers? Tea! Wake up the people for him, put on a samovar ... Orders! Astrov. And how long will they stay here? Voinitsky (whistles). A hundred years. The professor decided to settle here. Marina. Here and now. The samovar has been on the table for two hours, and they went for a walk. Voinitsky. They're coming, they're coming... Don't worry. Serebryakov. Wonderful, wonderful... Wonderful views. Telegin. Excellent, Your Excellency. Sonya. We'll go to the forestry tomorrow, dad. Want? Voinitsky. Gentlemen, drink tea! Serebryakov. My friends, send me tea in the office, please! I have one more thing to do today. Sonya. And in the forestry you will certainly like ...

Elena Andreevna, Serebryakov and Sonya go into the house; Telegin goes to the table and sits down next to Marina.

Voinitsky. It's hot, stuffy, and our great scientist is in a coat, in galoshes, with an umbrella and gloves. Astrov. So, he takes care of himself. Voinitsky. And how good she is! How good! I have never seen a more beautiful woman in my entire life. Telegin. Whether I'm driving across the field, Marina Timofeevna, whether I'm walking in a shady garden, or looking at this table, I feel inexplicable bliss! The weather is charming, the birds are singing, we all live in peace and harmony—what else do we need? (Taking a glass.) Thank you very much! Voinitsky (dreamy). Eyes... Wonderful woman! Astrov. Tell me something, Ivan Petrovich. Voinitsky (weakly). What can I tell you? Astrov. Is there anything new? Voinitsky. Nothing. Everything is old. I am the same as I was, perhaps, I have become worse, because I have become lazy, I do nothing and only grumble like an old horseradish. My old jackdaw, maman, is still babbling about women's emancipation; with one eye he looks into the grave, and with the other he searches in his smart books for the dawn of a new life. Astrov. And the professor? Voinitsky. And the professor, as before, from morning until late at night, sits in his office and writes. “Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, we write all the odes, we write, and we don’t hear praises for ourselves or for them anywhere.” Poor paper! He would have written his autobiography. What an excellent storyline! A retired professor, you know, an old cracker, a learned roach... Gout, rheumatism, migraine, a swollen liver from jealousy and envy... This roach lives on the estate of his first wife, lives involuntarily, because he cannot afford to live in the city . He always complains about his misfortunes, although, in fact, he himself is unusually happy. (Nervously.) Just think, what happiness! The son of a simple deacon, a student, achieved academic degrees and a chair, became his excellency, son-in-law of a senator, and so on and so forth. All this is unimportant, however. But take this. A person has been reading and writing about art for exactly twenty-five years, understanding absolutely nothing about art. For twenty-five years he has been chewing on other people's thoughts about realism, naturalism, and all sorts of other nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what smart people have long known, but for stupid people it is not interesting - that means that twenty-five years has been pouring from empty to empty. And at the same time what self-conceit! What claims! He is retired and not a single living soul knows him, he is completely unknown; it means that for twenty-five years he occupied someone else's place. And look: he walks like a demigod! Astrov. Well, you seem to be jealous. Voinitsky. Yes, I'm jealous! And what a success for women! No Don Juan has known such complete success! His first wife, my sister, is a beautiful, meek creature, as pure as this. blue sky, noble, generous, who had more admirers than he had disciples, she loved him as only pure angels, as pure and beautiful as themselves, can love. My mother, his mother-in-law, still adores him, and still he inspires her with sacred horror. His second wife, a beautiful, clever woman - you just saw her - married him when he was already old, gave him youth, beauty, freedom, her brilliance. For what? Why? Astrov. Is she loyal to the professor? Voinitsky. Unfortunately yes. Astrov. Why, unfortunately? Voinitsky. Because this loyalty is false from beginning to end. It has a lot of rhetoric, but no logic. To cheat on an old husband whom you cannot stand is immoral; to try to stifle poor youth and living feeling in oneself is not immoral. Telegin (in a crying voice). Vanya, I don't like it when you say that. Well, that's right ... Whoever cheats on his wife or husband, that means he is an unfaithful person, he can also cheat on the fatherland! Voinitsky (with annoyance). Shut the fountain, Waffle! Telegin. Allow me, Vanya. My wife ran away from me the day after her wedding with her beloved because of my unattractive appearance. After that, I did not violate my duty. I still love her and am faithful to her, I help in any way I can, and I gave my property for the upbringing of the children, whom she adopted with her beloved. I lost my happiness, but my pride remained. And she? Youth has already passed, beauty has faded under the influence of the laws of nature, a loved one has died ... What did she have left?

Sonya and Elena Andreevna enter; enters after a while Maria Vasilievna with a book; she sits down and reads; they give her tea, and she drinks without looking.

Sonya (hastily, nanny). There, nanny, the men came. Go and talk to them, and I myself will tea... (Pours tea.)

The nanny leaves, Elena Andreevna takes her cup and drinks, sitting on a swing.

Astrov (Elena Andreevna). I'm with your husband. You wrote that he was very ill, with rheumatism and something else, but it turns out he is healthy. Elena Andreevna. Last night he was moping, complaining of pain in his legs, but today nothing ... Astrov. And I rode headlong for thirty miles. Well, nothing, not the first time. On the other hand, I will stay with you until tomorrow and at least get some quantum satis sleep. Sonya. And great. It is such a rarity that you spend the night with us. You didn't have lunch, did you? Astrov. No, I didn't have lunch. Sonya. So, by the way, you will have lunch. We now have dinner at seven o'clock. (Drinks.) Cold tea! Telegin. The temperature in the samovar has already dropped significantly. Elena Andreevna. Nothing, Ivan Ivanovich, we'll have a cold drink. Telegin. Guilty, sir... Not Ivan Ivanovich, but Ilya Ilyich, sir... Ilya Ilyich Telegin, or, as some people call me because of my pockmarked face, Waffle. I once baptized Sonechka, and His Excellency, your husband, knows me very well. I now live with you, sir, in this estate, sir ... If you deign to notice, I dine with you every day. Sonya. Ilya Ilyich is our assistant, right hand. (Gently.) Come on, godmother, I'll pour you some more. Maria Vasilievna. Oh! Sonya. What's wrong with you, grandma? Maria Vasilievna. I forgot to tell Alexander ... I lost my memory ... today I received a letter from Kharkov from Pavel Alekseevich ... I sent my new brochure ... Astrov. Interesting? Maria Vasilievna. Interesting, but somehow strange. He refutes what he himself defended seven years ago. It's horrible! Voinitsky. There is nothing terrible. Drink, maman, tea. Maria Vasilievna. But I want to talk! Voinitsky. But we have been talking and talking and reading pamphlets for fifty years now. It's time to finish. Maria Vasilievna. For some reason you don't like listening to me when I'm talking. I'm sorry Jean, but Last year you have changed so much that I don’t recognize you at all ... You were a person of certain convictions, a bright personality ... Voinitsky. Oh yeah! I was a bright personality, from which no one was light ...

I was a bright person ... You can't joke more venomously! Now I am forty-seven years old. Until last year, just like you, I deliberately tried to cloud my eyes with this scholasticism of yours so as not to see real life—and I thought that I was doing well. And now, if you knew! I don’t sleep at night out of vexation, out of anger that I so stupidly missed the time when I could have everything that my old age now denies me!

Sonya. Uncle Vanya, boring! Maria Vasilievna(son). You definitely blame your former beliefs for something ... But they are not to blame, but you yourself. You forgot that beliefs in themselves are nothing, a dead letter... It was necessary to do the deed. Voinitsky. Case? Not everyone is capable of being a perpetuum mobile writer like your Herr Professor. Maria Vasilievna. What do you mean by this? Sonya (pleasantly). Grandmother! Uncle Ivan! I beg you! Voinitsky. I am silent. I shut up and apologize. Elena Andreevna. And the weather is good today ... Not hot ... Voinitsky. It's good to hang yourself in this weather...

Telegin tunes the guitar. Marina walks around the house and calls chickens.

Marina. Chick, chick, chick... Sonya. Nanny, why did the men come? .. Marina. All the same, again all about the wasteland. Chick, chick, chick... Sonya. Who are you? Marina. Pestrushka left with the chickens ... The crows would not have dragged ... (Leaves.)

Telegin plays the polka; everyone listens in silence; worker enters.

Employee . Is the Doctor here? (To Astrov.) Please, Mikhail Lvovich, they have come for you. Astrov. Where? Employee . From the factory. ASTROV (with annoyance). Thank you very much. Well, gotta go... (Searching for a cap.) It's annoying as hell... Sonya. How unpleasant it is, really... Come from the factory for dinner. Astrov. No, it will be too late. Where can I... Where can I be... (To the worker.) Here, bring me, my dear, a glass of vodka, really.

The worker leaves.

Where... where... (I found my cap.) Ostrovsky in some play has a man with a big mustache and little ability... So it's me. Well, I have the honor, gentlemen... (Elena Andreevna.) If you ever come to see me, together with Sofya Alexandrovna, I will be sincerely glad. I have a small estate, only thirty acres, but, if you are interested, an exemplary garden and nursery, which you will not find for a thousand miles steep. Next to me is the state forestry ... The forester there is old, always sick, so, in essence, I am in charge of all affairs.

Elena Andreevna. I have already been told that you are very fond of forests. Of course, you can be of great benefit, but doesn’t this interfere with your true calling? After all, you are a doctor. Astrov. God only knows what our real calling is. Elena Andreevna. And interesting? Astrov. Yes, it's interesting. Voinitsky (with irony). Highly! Elena Andreevna (to Astrov). You are still a young man, you look ... well, thirty-six or thirty-seven years old ... and must not be as interesting as you say. All forest and forest. I think it's the same. Sonya. No, this is extremely interesting. Mikhail Lvovich plants new forests every year, and they have already sent him a bronze medal and a diploma. He takes care not to exterminate the old ones. If you listen to him, you will agree with him completely. He says that forests adorn the earth, that they teach a person to understand the beautiful and inspire him with a majestic mood. Forests soften the harsh climate. In countries where the climate is mild, less energy is spent on fighting nature, and therefore a person is softer and more tender there; there people are beautiful, flexible, easily excitable, their speech is elegant, their movements are graceful. The sciences and arts flourish among them, their philosophy is not gloomy, their attitude towards women is full of elegant nobility ... Voinitsky (laughing). Bravo, bravo! .. All this is nice, but not convincing, so (Astrov) let me, my friend, continue to heat stoves with wood and build barns out of wood. Astrov. You can heat stoves with peat and build sheds with stone. Well, I admit, cut down forests out of necessity, but why destroy them? Russian forests are cracking under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the dwellings of animals and birds are being devastated, rivers are shallowing and drying up, wonderful landscapes disappear irrevocably, and all because a lazy person does not have enough reason to bend down and pick up fuel from the ground. (Elena Andreevna.) Isn't it true, ma'am? You have to be a reckless barbarian to burn this beauty in your stove, to destroy what we cannot create. Man is endowed with reason and creative power to multiply what is given to him, but so far he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, the rivers are drying up, the game has died out, the climate is spoiled, and every day the land becomes poorer and uglier. (To Voinitsky.) Here you look at me with irony, and everything I say seems not serious to you and ... and, perhaps, this is really an eccentricity, but when I pass by the peasant forests that I saved from chopping, or when I hear my young forest rustling, planted by my hands, I realize that the climate is a little in my power, and that if in a thousand years a person is happy, then I will be a little to blame for this. When I plant a birch and then see how it turns green and sways from the wind, my soul is filled with pride, and I ... (Seeing a worker who brought a glass of vodka on a tray.) However... (drinks) I have to go. All this is probably eccentricity, after all. I have the honor to bow! (Goes to the house.) Sonya (takes his arm and walks together). When will you come to us? Astrov. Don't know... Sonya. Again in a month?

Astrov and Sonya go into the house; Maria Vasilievna and Telegin remain near the table; Elena Andreevna and Voinitsky go to the terrace.

Elena Andreevna. And you, Ivan Petrovich, behaved impossible again. You should have irritated Maria Vasilievna, talked about perpetuum mobile! And today at breakfast you again argued with Alexander. How petty! Voinitsky. But if I hate him! Elena Andreevna. There is nothing to hate Alexander for, he is the same as everyone else. No worse than you. Voinitsky. If you could see your face, your movements... How lazy you are to live! Ah, what laziness! Elena Andreevna. Oh, and laziness, and boring! Everyone scolds my husband, everyone looks at me with regret: unhappy, she has an old husband! This participation is for me - oh, how I understand it! This is what Astrov said just now: you are all recklessly destroying forests, and soon there will be nothing left on earth. In the same way, you recklessly destroy a person, and soon, thanks to you, there will be no loyalty, no purity, no ability to sacrifice yourself on earth. Why can't you see a woman with indifference if she is not yours? Because - this doctor is right - the demon of destruction sits in all of you. You have no pity for the forests, or the birds, or the women, or each other... Voinitsky. I don't like this philosophy! Elena Andreevna. This doctor has a tired, nervous face. Interesting face. Sonya obviously likes him, she is in love with him, and I understand her. He has been here three times already in my presence, but I am shy and have never spoken to him properly, have not been kind to him. He thought I was evil. Probably, Ivan Petrovich, that's why you and I are such friends, because we are both boring, boring people! Boring! Ile look at me like that, I don't like it. Voinitsky. Can I look at you differently if I love you? You are my happiness, life, my youth! I know my chances for reciprocity are negligible, equal to zero, but I don’t need anything, let me just look at you, hear your voice ... Elena Andreevna. Hush, you can be heard!

The elderly professor Serebryakov, who recently married the 27-year-old beauty Elena Andreevna, lives on income from the estate of his first, late wife. The estate is managed by his daughter from his first marriage, Sonya, and the brother of his first wife, Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky - "Uncle Vanya". [Cm. full text of the play on our website.]

Uncle Vanya is already 47 years old. All his life, without leaving the village, content with a small salary, he worked like an ox to support his son-in-law, a professor, whom he considered a prominent and useful scientific figure. However, recently Ivan Petrovich's eyes have been opened: he realized that his son-in-law had only chewed other people's thoughts about realism and naturalism in his articles and lectures for 25 years. Serebryakov is a pompous zero with a huge conceit, who also enjoys great success with women thanks to his inflated scientist halo.

Uncle Vanya is shocked and disappointed. He realizes that he ruined his own destiny for the sake of an empty chimera - he did not even arrange personal life. Now, freed from illusions, he dreams of spending the rest of his life in a new way - happily. The soul of Ivan Petrovich yearns for love. He really likes the smart and young Elena Andreevna, who just arrived at their estate with Serebryakov. But Elena rejects Uncle Vanya's passionate outpourings, saying that she will not cheat on her husband. Ivan Petrovich convinces her not to keep false, rhetorical fidelity to a false idol and not to suppress a living feeling in herself.

"Uncle Ivan". Performance based on the play by A.P. Chekhov. Actions 1-2. Maly Theater

Chekhov "Uncle Vanya", act 2 - briefly

Arriving on vacation at the estate, selfish Professor Serebryakov only burdens all its inhabitants with his late daily routine and incessant complaints of gout. Uncle Vanya continues to confess his love to Elena Andreevna, advising with bitter sarcasm that she, like himself, should not waste her life on trifles. However, Elena remains adamant.

A friend, Dr. Astrov, often visits Uncle Vanya and Sonya - an inspired, enthusiastic person. An ascetic of medical practice, in addition to it, he also gives a lot of strength to forest plantations. Kind, generous, but ugly Sonya is fond of Astrov, but he pays little attention to her. Sonya is embarrassed to talk to the doctor about love herself. Elena Andreevna undertakes to help her in this.

Chekhov "Uncle Vanya", act 3 - briefly

Elena Andreevna feels with trepidation that Uncle Vanya's convictions still had an effect on her. Once she married old Serebryakov out of admiration for his scholarship, but then she became very disappointed in a capricious, pretentious wife. Elena is unhappy in marriage, she wants true love. However, she is not attracted to Uncle Vanya, but to the bright, selfless Astrov.

Elena anxiously takes it upon herself to talk to Astrov about Sonya's feelings. An experienced female instinct tells her: the doctor is in love not with Sonya, but with her - that's why he frequented the estate recent times. During the conversation, Elena's assumptions are confirmed. Astrov says that Sonya is not attracted to him, but in a fit of passion he tries to hug and kiss Elena. In this position, Uncle Vanya accidentally enters them. In great embarrassment, in fear of falling morally, Elena tells Astrov that today she and her husband will leave the estate.

"Uncle Ivan". Performance based on the play by A.P. Chekhov. Steps 3-4. Maly Theater

Meanwhile, the mercenary, callous Serebryakov makes a plan for the future for himself. Immediately after the events described above, he gathers all the relatives in the living room and sets out this project of his to them. The income from the estate seems to Serebryakov insufficient. He wants to sell the estate, take the money he received, place some of it in bank papers and live on interest. The stunned uncle Vanya asks where to go after the sale of the estate to him and his old mother? The professor replies that this "will be discussed in due course." Sonya is also shocked: Uncle Vanya and she have been working without rest for many years, and now their father wants to throw them out into the street! Ivan Petrovich, in a fit of just rage, grabs a revolver, shoots Serebryakov twice, but misses.

Chekhov "Uncle Vanya", act 4 - briefly

Overwhelmed by longing from Elena's dislike and meanness of Serebryakov, Uncle Vanya decides to commit suicide. He steals a jar of morphine from Astrov's first aid kit. The doctor notices the loss and persuades Ivan Petrovich to give morphine. Uncle Vanya returns him only under Sonya's persistent begging.

Astrov makes one last attempt to convince Elena to stay with him, but she refuses, not daring to violate the book's moral prescriptions. All the main characters of the play - Uncle Vanya, Sonya, Astrov, Elena Andreevna - due to tragic inconsistencies and false prejudices, hopes for a better life are crumbling. new life. They all experience severe mental anguish.

Elena warmly says goodbye to the doctor and uncle Vanya. Ivan Petrovich outwardly reconciles with Serebryakov. The professor leaves the plan to sell the estate, and Uncle Vanya promises to continue to send him the same amounts as before.

Serebryakov and Elena Andreevna leave the estate for the city. Astrov is also leaving for his small estate until next summer. Suppressed Sonya, wiping her eyes, urges Uncle Vanya to do something: otherwise neither he nor she will forget. The two of them sit down to their usual boring chores - they make up accounts for vegetable oil and buckwheat.