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Dream 1 (Northern Tavria, October 1920)
In the cell of the monastery church there is a conversation. The Budennovites have just arrived and checked the documents. Golubkov, a young Petersburg intellectual, wonders where the Reds come from when the area is in the hands of the Whites. Barabanchikova, pregnant, lying right there, explains that the general, who was sent a message that the Reds were in the rear, postponed the decryption. When asked where the headquarters of General Charnota is, Barabanchikov does not give a direct answer. Serafima Korzukhina, a young St. Petersburg lady who runs with Golubkov to the Crimea to meet her husband, offers to call a midwife, but Madame refuses. The clatter of hooves and the voice of the white commander de Brizard are heard. Recognizing him, Barabanchikova throws off her rags and appears in the form of General Charnota. He explains to de Brizard and his wife, Lyuska, who ran in, that his friend Barabanchikov in a hurry gave him not his own documents, but his pregnant wife's. Charnota proposes an escape plan. Here Seraphima gets a fever - it's typhoid. Golubkov takes Seraphima to a gig. Everyone is leaving.
Dream 2 (Crimea, early November 1920)
The station hall has been turned into a white headquarters. General Khludov is sitting where the buffet was. He is sick with something, twitches. Korzukhin, assistant minister of trade, husband of Seraphima, asks to push the wagons with valuable fur goods to Sevastopol. Khludov orders to burn these trains. Korzukhin asks about the situation at the front. Khludov hisses that the Reds will be here tomorrow. Korzukhin thanks and leaves. A convoy appears, followed by the white commander-in-chief and Archbishop African. Khludov informs the commander-in-chief that the Bolsheviks are in the Crimea. African prays, but Khludov believes that God has abandoned the whites. The commander-in-chief leaves. Seraphima runs in, followed by Golubkov and messenger Charnota Krapilin. Seraphima shouts that Khludov is not doing anything, but only hanging. The staff whisper that she is a communist. Golubkov says that she is delusional, she has typhoid. Khludov calls Korzukhin, but he, sensing the trap, renounces Seraphima. Seraphima and Golubkov are taken away, and Krapilin, in oblivion, calls Khludov a world beast and talks about a war that Khludov does not know. He objects that he went to Chongar and was wounded there twice. Krapilin, waking up, begs for mercy, but Khludov orders him to be hanged because "he started well, ended badly."
Dream 3 (Crimea, early November 1920)
The head of counterintelligence Tikhy, threatening with a deadly needle, forces Golubkov to show that Serafima Korzukhina is a member of the Communist Party and came with the purpose of propaganda. Forcing him to write a testimony, Quiet lets him go. Counterintelligence officer Skunsky estimates that Korzukhin will give $ 10,000 to buy off. Quiet shows that Skunsky's share is 2000. Seraphim is introduced, she is in the heat. Quiet gives her a read. Outside the window, the Czarnota cavalry is walking with music Seraphima, having read the paper, knocks out the window glass with her elbow and calls Charnota for help. He runs in and defends Seraphim with a revolver.
Dream 4 (Crimea, early November 1920)
The commander-in-chief says that for a year Khludov has been covering up his hatred for him. Khludov admits that he hates the commander-in-chief for being involved in this, that he cannot work, knowing that everything is in vain. The commander-in-chief leaves. Khludov alone speaks with the ghost, wants to crush him ... Golubkov enters, he has come to complain about the crime committed by Khludov. He turns around. Golubkov is in a panic. He came to tell the commander-in-chief about the arrest of Seraphima and wants to know her fate. Khludov asks the esaul to take her to the palace if she is not shot. Golubkov is horrified by these words. Khludov justifies himself before the ghost-messenger and asks him to leave his soul. When Khludov asked who Seraphim is to him, Golubkov replies that she is a random counter, but he loves her. Khludov says she was shot. Golubkov is furious, Khludov throws him a revolver and tells someone that his soul is double. The Esaul enters with a report that Seraphima is alive, but today Charnota fought her off with a weapon and took her to Constantinople. Khludov is expected on the ship. Golubkov asks to take him to Constantinople, Khludov is ill, speaks to the messenger, they leave. Darkness.
Dream 5 (Constantinople, summer 1921)
Street of Constantinople. There is an advertisement for a cockroach race. Charnota, drunk and gloomy, approaches the ticket office of the cockroach race and wants to put on credit, but Arthur, the "cockroach king", refuses him. Charnota yearns, remembers Russia. He sells silver gazyrs and a box of his toys for 2 lira 50 piastres, and puts all the money he receives on Janissary's favorite. The people are gathering. The cockroaches living in the box "under the supervision of the professor" run with paper riders. Shout: "Janissary is down!" It turns out that Arthur drank a cockroach. All those who bet on Janissary rush to Arthur, who calls the police. The beauty prostitute cheers on the Italians, who beat the British, who bet on another cockroach. Darkness.
Dream 6 (Constantinople, summer 1921)
Charnota quarrels with Lucy, lies to her that the box and gazyrs were stolen, she realizes that Charnota lost money and confesses that she is a prostitute. She reproaches him that he, the general, defeated counterintelligence and was forced to flee the army, and now he is begging. Charnota objects: he saved Seraphim from death. Lucy reproaches Seraphim for inaction and goes into the house. Golubkov enters the courtyard, plays the barrel organ. Charnota assures him that Seraphima is alive and explains that she went to the panel. Seraphima arrives with a Greek hung with purchases. Golubkov and Charnota rush at him, he runs away. Golubkov tells Seraphima about love, but she leaves with the words that she will die alone. Lusya, who has come out, wants to open the package of the Greek, but Charnot won't let him. Lucy takes her hat and announces that she is leaving for Paris. Khludov enters in civilian clothes - he has been demoted from the army. Golubkov explains that he found her, she left, and he will go to Paris to Korzukhin - he is obliged to help her. They will help him to cross the border. He asks Khludov to take care of her, not to let her go to the panel, Khludov promises and gives 2 lyres and a medallion. Charnota goes with Golubkov to Paris. They are going away. Darkness.
Dream 7 (Paris, autumn 1921)
Golubkov asks Korzukhin for a loan of $ 1,000 for Seraphima. Korzukhin does not give, says that he was not married and wants to marry his Russian secretary. Golubkov calls him a terrible soulless man and wants to leave, but Charnota comes, who says that he would have signed up to the Bolsheviks to shoot him, and if he shot him, he would be discharged. Seeing the cards, he offers Korzukhin to play and sells him a Khludov medallion for $ 10. As a result, Charnota wins $ 20,000 and buys a medallion for $ 300. Korzukhin wants to return the money, Lucy comes running to his cry. Charnota is amazed, but does not betray her. Lucy despises Korzukhin. She assures him that he himself lost the money and cannot be returned. Everyone disperses. Lyusya quietly shouts through the window that Golubkov should take Seraphim's shore, and Charnota buy himself pants. Darkness.
Dream 8 (Constantinople, autumn 1921)
Khludov is alone talking with the ghost of the messenger. He is tormented. Seraphima enters, tells him that he is sick, and is executed that she released Golubkov. She is going to return to Peter. Khludov says that he will also return, and under his own name. Seraphim is terrified, it seems to her that he will be shot. Khludov is glad of this. They are interrupted by a knock on the door. This is Charnota and Golubkov. Khludov and Charnota leave, Serafima and Golubkov confess their love to each other. Khludov and Charnota return. Charnota says that he will stay here, Khludov wants to return. Everyone discourages him. He calls Charnota with him, but he refuses: he has no hatred for the Bolsheviks. He's leaving. Golubkov wants to return the medallion to Khludov, but he gives it to the couple, and they leave. Khludov alone writes something, is glad that the ghost has disappeared. He goes to the window and shoots himself in the head. Dark.
"Running" was written in 1928 for the Moscow Art Theater, but was censored. During the life of the author, it was published and was not staged.
The material for the work was the memoirs of Belozerskaya, the second wife of the writer, about how she and her first husband fled through Constantinople to Europe. Bulgakov also uses the memoirs of General Slashchev, who became the prototype of Roman Khludov, and other historical sources about the civil war in the Crimea in 1920. Work on the play began in 1926. The original titles are "Knight of the Seraphim", "Outcasts".
The play was supposed to be staged at the Moscow Art Theater, but was forbidden to be staged by Stalin, who believed that "Running" "represents an anti-Soviet phenomenon" because it evokes sympathy and pity for "some layers of anti-Soviet emigre." Gorky stood up for the production, pointing out that Charnota was a comic role, Khludov was a sick person, and the play itself was "an excellent comedy ... with a deep, skillfully hidden satirical content."
Many heroes of the play have prototypes (African, Roman Khludov, Lyuska, Grigory Charnota, commander-in-chief). Khludov's prototype really suffered from severe neurasthenia, and in 1929 he was shot dead in his apartment by a relative of one of the victims.
The premiere of "The Run" took place in 1957 at the Stalingrad Theater.
A small excerpt from the play (The Seventh Dream) was published in 1932 in Krasnaya Gazeta on October 1. The play was published in 1962.
Literary direction and genre
Whether Bulgakov's works belong to the realistic or modernist direction is a controversial issue in Bulgakov's studies. The play, which has so many prototypes and is based on real events, seems to belong to a realistic direction in literature, although Bulgakov emphasizes the unreality and even impossibility of the events taking place (like Charnota's story that he lies and gives birth).
No less difficult is the question of the genre of the play. Already Bulgakov's contemporaries found it difficult to determine which genre the play is closer to, to satirical tragedy or comedy. V.Kaverin believed that the play “destroys the conventional boundaries of the genre,” combines the features of psychological drama and phantasmagoria. It contains both grotesque and tragedy.
According to Gorky, this is a comedy in which "at times it is funny, and even very funny." The tragedy is that the impossible actually happens.
Bulgakov himself defined the genre in the subtitle - "Eight Dreams". The dream genre made it possible to depict a displaced, inflamed, insane world, the actions of people without motives and reasons explained by reality. The play contains the technique used by Calderon. “I dream of my life,” says Golubkov.
Problematic
The problem lying on the surface is the collapse of the white movement and the fate of the Russian emigration, as mentioned by Bulgakov himself. But, creating heroes far from ideal, Bulgakov pursued a different goal. He tried to objectively evaluate all sides civil war, both reds and whites, "become dispassionate" over them.
The philosophical problem of the play is how each individual person can stop the senseless running with which his life is saturated, all the more if external circumstances push him to run, like the characters in the play. None of the options considered in the play turns out to be ideal: neither murder, nor illness, nor suicide, nor movement in space. Perhaps the author himself chooses the only effective way - to move away from events in time, to try to comprehend them objectively.
One of the social problems of the play is the objectivity of comprehension historical events, the question of truth, which was relevant to Bulgakov throughout his entire work.
For the first time in the work of Bulgakov, the problem of understanding the victims accompanying the struggle for any idea (in this case, victims of the civil war), the price of their blood and their lives is raised.
The most important problem of the play is the problem of crime and punishment. According to Bulgakov, any crime expiates repentance, readiness to bear the punishment it deserves. This idea is embodied in the image of Khludov, to whom, after repentance, the ghost of Krapilin, who was hanged by him, ceases to appear.
Conflict
For most heroes, the external conflict that makes them flee (the victory of the Bolsheviks) is superimposed on the internal one. For Khludov, an internal conflict with his conscience leads to the emergence of a silent ghost condemning him.
Plot and composition
The play has a subtitle "Eight Dreams", which immediately sets the reader up to the fact that something phantasmagoric is happening, which in fact cannot be.
The epigraph from Zhukovsky's poem "A Singer in the Camp of Russian Warriors" testifies that Bulgakov perceived the era of revolution and civil war as already experienced, tried to show past events from another time, although, undoubtedly, Bulgakov's sympathies were on the side of the white movement.
All dreams are dull, as if there is not enough light. With the end of the dream, the heroes fall into darkness.
Bulgakov wrote several finals. The most powerful in the artistic sense is the one where Khludov, tormented by remorse, returns to his homeland, agreeing to any possible punishment. In other versions, Khludov shoots himself, first shooting the cockroach races. The fate of Seraphima and Golubkov is also ambiguous. In some versions they leave for France and become outcasts, in others they return to their homeland.
Khludov calls any society as a whole a filthy foul kingdom, cockroach races in the finale.
Heroes
Bulgakov describes Khludov's appearance and clothing in the course of the play, not in stage directions. In appearance, old eyes and a young face contrast, a grin replaces a smile. Bulgakov emphasizes that Khludov is ill. Krapilin-vestovoy calls Khludov a jackal, a world beast and a vulture, for which he is immediately hanged on a lantern.
Khludov's ideas are in themselves correct and true as abstract ideas: "Without love, nothing can be done in a war." But their incarnation is bloody.
Khludov is the predecessor of Bulgakov's Pontius Pilate, who is morally punished for the execution of the innocent for the sake of an idea. In this play, this is a white idea, but in the context of Bulgakov's work, the idea can be any, a crime can be committed even in the name of faith, but still moral punishment will follow.
Khludov is not an unambiguous villain. He changes from the moment a soldier begins to appear to him. Khludov feels that his soul is split in two, the words, the surrounding reality reach him dimly. It is like a sinking lead.
In the play, Khludov repents of his crimes and is ready to be punished in his homeland, “to go under the lanterns,” that is, even to be hanged from the lantern.
Khludov's suicide in the finale is poorly motivated, it seems artificial.
Golubkov is an almost exact anagram of the Bulgakov surname. This hero embodies the author's hidden thoughts. Bulgakov tried on the life of an emigrant for a long time, abandoning it only in the early 30s.
Golubkov easily signs testimony against Seraphima, but this does not characterize him as a scoundrel, but simply as a weak person.
Seraphima is the wife of a millionaire. She is somewhat reminiscent of Belozerskaya during her emigration.
Privat-docent Sergei Golubkov is endowed with the features of the philosopher and theologian Sergei Bulgakov, who was also in the Crimea during the civil war and was exiled to Constantinople. Through Golubkov, Bulgakov comprehends the problem of the intelligentsia and the revolution. Unlike Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Golubkov compromises his conscience, returning to his homeland and resigning himself to Bolshevism.
Korzukhin is the assistant minister of trade. Korzukhin in the play is a symbol of a money-grubber. One of the prototypes is the businessman and writer Krymov, familiar to Belozerskaya, who left Russia "as soon as the smell of revolution began." Krymov was not at all a disgusting and soulless person, as Golubkov characterizes in Korzukhin's play.
General Charnota is a pretty character. Unlike Khludov, he did not stain himself with crimes. Such a person should find happiness, so Charnota naturally wins 20 thousand over Korzukhin at cards. He tells Khludov about his position in life, that he did not run from death, but he would not go to the Bolsheviks for death either. In the finale, General Charnota associates himself with the Eternal Jew, the Dutchman, who are forced to wander forever, finding no rest, to be in a state of eternal run.
Charnota's image is comical. His entrepreneurial activity in Constantinople is senseless, the “descendant of the Cossacks” looks comical in a woman's dress, without pants. But through ridicule, the hero is reborn into a new life. The image of a gallant general, a brave fighter overlaps comic episodes and turns Charnota into an epic hero.
Stylistic features
The soundtrack plays an important role in the play. The monastery and cavalry detachments, Russia and Constantinople sound. With the help of sounds, Bulgakov expands the artistic world to epic proportions, the problem of Russian emigrants becomes worldwide.
The “cockroach” motive is important in the play. Khludov speaks of the scattering white army as cockroaches rustling in the twilight. Charnota calls Arthur, the owner of the cockroach race, the cockroach king. All the characters in the play are like cockroaches running in a circle, and they also place bets on them. As Khludov says, they all follow one another.
Constantinople is of particular importance, according to Golubkov, a terrible, intolerable, stuffy city. This is a symbol of the hated foreign land.
Dream 1. Northern Tavria, October 1920
In the cell of the monastery church there is a conversation. The Budennovites have just arrived and checked the documents. Golubkov, a young Petersburg intellectual, wonders where the Reds come from when the area is in the hands of the Whites. Barabanchikova, pregnant, lying right there, explains that the general, who was sent a message that the Reds were in the rear, postponed the decryption. When asked where the headquarters of General Charnota is, Barabanchikov does not give a direct answer. Serafima Korzukhina, a young Petersburg lady who runs with Golubkov to the Crimea to meet her husband, offers to call a midwife, but Madame refuses. The clatter of hooves and the voice of the white commander de Brizard are heard. Recognizing him, Barabanchikova throws off her rags and appears in the form of General Charnota. He explains to de Brizard and his wife Lyuska, who ran in, that his friend Barabanchikov in a hurry gave him not his documents, but his pregnant wife's. Charnota proposes an escape plan. Here Seraphima gets a fever - it's typhoid. Golubkov takes Seraphima to a gig. Everyone is leaving.
Dream 2. Crimea, early November 1920
The station hall has been turned into a white headquarters. General Khludov is sitting where the buffet was. He is sick with something, twitches. Korzukhin, assistant minister of trade, husband of Seraphima, asks to push the wagons with valuable fur goods to Sevastopol. Khludov orders to burn these trains. Korzukhin asks about the situation at the front. Khludov hisses that the Reds will be here tomorrow. Korzukhin promises to report everything to the commander-in-chief. A convoy appears, followed by the white commander-in-chief and Archbishop African. Khludov informs the commander-in-chief that the Bolsheviks are in the Crimea. African prays, but Khludov believes that God has abandoned the whites. The commander-in-chief leaves. Seraphima runs in, followed by Golubkov and messenger Charnota Krapilin. Seraphima shouts that Khludov is not doing anything, but only hanging. The staff whisper that she is a communist. Golubkov says that she is delusional, she has typhoid. Khludov calls Korzukhin, but he, sensing the trap, renounces Seraphima. Seraphima and Golubkov are taken away, and Krapilin, in oblivion, calls Khludov a world beast and talks about a war that Khludov does not know. He objects that he went to Chongar and was wounded there twice. Krapilin, waking up, begs for mercy, but Khludov orders him to be hanged because “he started well, ended badly”.
Dream 3. Crimea, early November 1920
The head of counterintelligence Tikhy, threatening with a deadly needle, forces Golubkov to show that Serafima Korzukhina is a member of the Communist Party and came with the purpose of propaganda. Forcing him to write a testimony, Quiet lets him go. Counterintelligence officer Skunsky estimates that Korzukhin will give $ 10,000 to buy off. Quiet shows that Skunsky's share is 2000. Seraphim is introduced, she is in the heat. Quiet gives her a read. Outside the window, the Czarnota cavalry is walking with music Seraphima, having read the paper, knocks out the window glass with her elbow and calls Charnota for help. He runs in and defends Seraphim with a revolver.
Dream 4. Crimea, early November 1920
The commander-in-chief says that for a year Khludov has been covering up his hatred for him. Khludov admits that he hates the commander-in-chief for being involved in this, that he cannot work, knowing that everything is in vain. The commander-in-chief leaves. Khludov alone speaks with the ghost, wants to crush him ... Golubkov enters, he has come to complain about the crime committed by Khludov. He turns around. Golubkov is in a panic. He came to tell the commander-in-chief about Seraphima's arrest and wants to know her fate. Khludov asks the esaul to take her to the palace if she is not shot. Golubkov is horrified by these words. Khludov justifies himself before the ghost-messenger and asks him to leave his soul. When Khludov asked who Seraphim was to him, Golubkov replies that she is a random counter, but he loves her. Khludov says she was shot. Golubkov is furious, Khludov throws him a revolver and tells someone that his soul is double. The Esaul enters with a report that Seraphima is alive, but today Charnota fought her off with weapons and took her to Constantinople. Khludov is expected on the ship. Golubkov asks to take him to Constantinople, Khludov is ill, speaks to the messenger, they leave. Darkness.
Dream 5. Constantinople, summer 1921
Street of Constantinople. There is an advertisement for a cockroach race. Charnota, drunk and gloomy, approaches the cashier of the cockroach race and wants to put on credit, but Arthur, the “cockroach king,” refuses him. Charnota yearns, remembers Russia. He sells silver gazyrs and a box of his toys for 2 lira 50 piastres, and puts all the money he receives on Janissary's favorite. The people are gathering. The cockroaches living in the box “under the supervision of the professor” run with paper riders. Shout: "Janissary is down!" It turns out that Arthur drank a cockroach. All those who bet on Janissary rush to Arthur, who calls the police. The beauty prostitute cheers on the Italians, who beat the British, who bet on another cockroach. Darkness.
Dream 6. Constantinople, summer 1921
Charnota quarrels with Lucy, lies to her that the box and the gazyrs were stolen, she realizes that Charnota has lost money and confesses that she is a prostitute. She reproaches him that he, the general, defeated counterintelligence and was forced to flee the army, and now he is begging. Charnota objects: he saved Seraphim from death. Lucy reproaches Seraphim for inaction and goes into the house. Golubkov enters the courtyard, plays the barrel organ. Charnota assures him that Seraphima is alive and explains that she went to the panel. Seraphima arrives with a Greek hung with purchases. Golubkov and Charnota rush at him, he runs away. Golubkov tells Seraphima about love, but she leaves with the words that she will die alone. Lusya, who has come out, wants to open the package of the Greek, but Charnot won't let him. Lucy takes her hat and announces that she is leaving for Paris. Khludov enters in civilian clothes - he has been demoted from the army. Golubkov explains that he found her, she left, and he will go to Paris to Korzukhin - he is obliged to help her. They will help him to cross the border. He asks Khludov to take care of her, not to let her go to the panel, Khludov promises and gives 2 lyres and a medallion. Charnota goes with Golubkov to Paris. They are going away. Darkness.
Dream 7. Paris, autumn 1921
Golubkov asks Korzukhin for a loan of $ 1,000 for Seraphima. Korzukhin does not give, says that he was not married and wants to marry his Russian secretary. Golubkov calls him a terrible soulless person and wants to leave, but Charnota comes, who says that he would have signed up to the Bolsheviks to shoot him, and if he shot him, he would be discharged. Seeing the cards, he offers Korzukhin to play and sells him a Khludov medallion for $ 10. As a result, Charnota wins $ 20,000 and buys a medallion for $ 300. Korzukhin wants to return the money, Lucy comes running to his cry. Charnota is amazed, but does not betray her. Lucy despises Korzukhin. She assures him that he himself lost the money and cannot be returned. Everyone disperses. Lyusya quietly shouts through the window that Golubkov should take Seraphim's shore, and Charnota should buy himself pants. Darkness.
Dream 8. Constantinople, autumn 1921
Khludov is alone talking with the ghost of the messenger. He is tormented. Seraphima enters, tells him that he is ill, is executed, that she released Golubkov. She is going to return to Peter. Khludov says that he will also return, and under his own name. Seraphima is terrified, it seems to her that he will be shot. Khludov is glad of this. They are interrupted by a knock on the door. This is Charnota and Golubkov. Khludov and Charnota leave, Serafima and Golubkov confess their love to each other. Khludov and Charnota return. Charnota says that he will stay here, Khludov wants to return. Everyone discourages him. He calls Charnota with him, but he refuses: he has no hatred for the Bolsheviks. He's leaving. Golubkov wants to return the medallion to Khludov, but he gives it to the couple, and they leave. Khludov alone writes something, he is glad that the ghost has disappeared. He goes to the window and shoots himself in the head. Dark.
Option 2
The Budenovites come to check the monastery church where the St. Petersburg young privat-docent Golubkov and Serafima Korzukhina are hiding. A pregnant Barabanchikova is hiding with them. Golubkov intends to flee to the Crimea, together with Korzukhina, who wants to meet her husband there. The white commander de Brizard appears, at the sight of whom Baranchikova throws off rags and appears in the form of General Charnota. The Trinity leaves the monastery and goes to the Crimea.
Meanwhile, the Crimean station was turned into the headquarters of the White forces. Seraphima's husband, Korzukhin, serves as the minister of trade there. He asks General Khludov to push through a wagon with fur goods, but the general orders to burn the cargo. Later, Golubkov, Seraphim and General Charnota's messenger, Krapilin, appear. Serafima accuses Khludov of cruelty, for which the white staff accuses her of supporting the communists. Korzukhin denies his wife, messenger Krapilin is hanged for unflattering remarks about the activities of General Khludov.
The counterintelligence officer Tikhiy is forcing the assistant professor Golubkov to report Seraphima as a member of the Communist Party with threats. The staff believe that the communist wife will disgrace Korzukhin and he will pay off her with thousands of dollars. During interrogation, Seraphim knocks out a window pane and asks General Charnota for help. The one with the weapon recaptures Korzukhina from the White Guards.
Later Golubkov comes to Khludov with a complaint about the arrest of Serafima. The private assistant professor sees the general talking to the ghost of the messenger Krapilin. Khludov asks the subordinate staff officer to deliver Korzukhina to the headquarters, if she has not yet been shot. The staff officer returns with the news that Charnota recaptured Seraphim and took her to Constantinople. Khludov decides to pursue the fugitives, Golubkov asks to take him with him.
In Constantinople, a drunken Charnota tries to win a bet on the cockroach race. He sells his belongings and bets all the money on the favorite among the cockroaches. However, the poisoned cockroach loses the runs, Charnota loses his savings. The general returns home, where Golubkov is waiting for him. He assures the Petersburg intellectual that Seraphima is alive, but works as a courtesan. At this time, Seraphima is just returning, Golubkov confesses his love to her, but she rejects him. General Khludov comes and reports that he has been demoted from the army. Charnota and Golubkov leave for Paris in search of Korzukhin.
In Paris, Golubkov finds Korzukhin and asks him to borrow money for Seraphima, but he refuses, arguing that he has never been married. In a rage, Golubkov calls Korzukhin a rotten man. General Charnota comes and offers Korzukhin to gamble, in the end he wins 20 thousand dollars from him. Golubkov and Charnota return to Constantinople to the house of Khludov. Here Seraphima and Golubkov explain their feelings. Charnota decides to stay in Constantinople, as he no longer wants to fight the Bolsheviks. Khludov is left alone, he wants to return to Russia and continue the struggle. The ghost of the messenger Krapilin returns, they talk, after which the ghost disappears. The joyful Khludov comes up to the window and shoots himself in the temple.
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First dream, Northern Tavria, October 1920
There are several people in the monastery church, dimly lit by candles. Golubkov, the son of a professor from St. Petersburg, is taking Serafim Korzukhina to the Crimea to her husband, the assistant minister of trade. A pregnant woman Drummers is lying on a bench, wrapped up in a blanket with her head. And the chemist Makhrov sits by the window. Barabanchikova often groans, but she categorically refuses Golubkov's offer to run to the village for a midwife. Suddenly the red ones appear, they check the monastery and the documents of everyone who is there.
After they leave, Barabanchikov begins to swear. She says that General Krapchikov received a dispatch that the Reds were in the rear, but instead of decoding, he sat down to play vint. Hearing the voice of the commander of the whites, de Brizard, Barabanchikov throws off his blanket and turns into General Charnota. He tells de Brizard and his traveling wife Lyuska that the entire headquarters was shot by the Reds, and he barely escaped. In the village, the teacher Barabanchikov gave him his documents by mistake, and his pregnant wife.
Makhrov also turns out not to be who he pretended to be, but African, Archbishop of Simferopol. The monks are very happy about his appearance, but when Charnot informs African that the white army is leaving for the Crimea, because Budyonny is about to catch up with them, his Eminence leaves the monks without hesitation and runs with Charnota. Golubkov persuades the whites to take them with him, but Seraphima tries to refuse. The fever does not begin, Lyuska says that it is typhoid. By force Seraphim is taken to a gig.
Second dream, Crimea, early November 1920
Large station, hall filled with white officers. Everywhere field telephones, and headquarters maps with flags. The front headquarters is here for the third day. General Roman Valerianovich Khludov, an emaciated sick man, is quite tough trying to solve the problem that an armored train cannot pass. Khludov is not interested in details, he simply gives the order to arrest the commandant and hang the station chief if the problem is not resolved in 15 minutes.
When Charnota arrives, Khludov orders him to go to Karpov's beam, he dully leaves, the faithful Lyuska follows him. Seraphima's husband, Korzukhin, appears. He wants to know about the fate of the workers arrested by Khludov in Simferopol. Esaul Golovan shows Korzukhin where the workers are hanged. The shocked Korzukhin asks to let the wagons with the export of furs go to Sevastopol. The general orders these trains to be driven into a dead end and set on fire. Korzukhin harassedly threatens to report everything to the commander-in-chief.
The Commander-in-Chief arrives, accompanied by Archbishop Africa. Khludov informs him that the Bolsheviks are in the Crimea. The African prays in fear, but Khludov rudely interrupts him and declares that God has long ago abandoned them. After the Commander-in-Chief leaves, Khludov opens the envelope given to him and orders him to curtail the rate and move to Sevastopol. The headquarters quickly empties, but then Seraphima appears, Golubkov and the messenger Krapilin are trying to hold her. Seraphima shouts to Khludov that he is a beast, and only does what hangs people, and cannot stop the Reds. Golubkov begs Khludov not to listen to the poor woman, since she is sick. Khludov finds out what her name is and summons Korzukhin, but he immediately sensed a trap and renounced it. Seraphim is arrested with Golubkov, and Krapilin continues to accuse Khludov, calls him a jackal and a coward, and suddenly shudders, waking up. He says that he was in oblivion, and begs to spare him, but Khludov orders to hang the vest.
Tretiyson, Crimea, early November 1920
Tikhiy, the head of counterintelligence, forced Golubkov with threats to reveal that Serafima Korzukhin was a communist, that she had come to Sevastopol for propaganda and communication with the underground. Releasing Golubkov, Tikhiy summons Seraphim. She is very ill, but Quiet needs her confession in order to blackmail her husband. He sends his employee Skunsky to Korzukhin, hoping to get ten thousand dollars from him, and promising Skunsky two thousand. Serafima, when she read Golubkov's testimony, rushed to the window, knocked out the glass with her elbow and began to shout and call for help Charnot, whose cavalry was just passing past. Black with a revolver in his hands freed Seraphim.
The fourth dream, Crimea, early November 1920
In the palace office, the Commander-in-Chief reprimands Korzukhina for an article published in his newspaper. In it, in a mocking form, it is written about the Commander-in-Chief, and even comparing him with Alexander the Great looks insulting. An angry Korzukhin decides to leave for Paris, and quickly leaves. Khludov appears and again begins to disparagingly talk with the commander-in-chief, and after the threat of arrest, he declares that a convoy is waiting for him in the lobby, and threatened with a scandal. The chief commander understood that Khludov had long been hiding hatred for him. Khludov did not deny, he hates the commander-in-chief for the fact that it was he who involved everyone in this vain struggle.
Left alone, Khludov talks to himself. Golubkov appears, he comes to the Commander-in-Chief in the hope of achieving justice. Seeing Khludov, Golubkov was confused. Khludov recognized the visitor, called the esaul and ordered that Seraphim be brought to the palace if she had not yet been shot. Golubkov flew into a rage at these words and promised to kill Khludov, if so. Seeing the general talking to some unknown person, Golubkov said that he was crazy. Khludov threw him a revolver, but Golubkov refused to shoot. Golovani enters and reports that Seraphima is alive, but Charnota took her to Constantinople. Golubkov tells Khludov that he is sailing with him to Constantinople.
Fifth Dream, Constantinople, Summer 1921
Hot stuffy street of Constantinople. The drunken Charnotte trades rubber jumping toys, the trade goes badly. Charnot goes to the cashier, where they make bets on cockroach races, and asks the cashier to put on credit. She sends Charnot to Arthur, the owner, who refuses the loan. Charnota sells Arthur cheap silver gazyrs and a box of toys, and puts everything on Janissary's cockroach. The races began, the people gathered. And then someone shouted: "Janissary is down!" As it turned out, Arthur was drinking a cockroach. Angry people rush to Arthur, he tries to escape and calls the police. A fight breaks out between the Italians and the British, knives are used, and the charnot grabs his head. The dream is falling apart.
Sixth Dream, Constantinople, Summer 1921
At home, Charnot tells Lucy that the goods were stolen from him, but she realizes that Charnot has lost the money. There was nothing to eat in the house, Lucy got angry and began to shout that now she had to go to the panel again to feed Chernota and Seraphima. She hears these words, promises to get money and leaves. Golubkov enters the courtyard, playing the barrel organ. He saw Charnota, was glad to have found them at last. But when he found out where Seraphima had gone, Golubkov fell into a rage. The Greek who came with her was hit in the ear. Seraphima is very ashamed that she is a beggar, that Golubkov saw all this, and she runs away. Lyusya also leaves Charnota, declaring that she is leaving for Paris. Khludov appears in civilian clothes, it is he who sheltered Golubkov in Constantinople. Golubkov asks Khludov to find Seraphima and take care of her while he goes to Paris to Korzukhin and makes him help his wife.
Seventh Dream, Paris, Autumn 1921
Golubkov tells Korzukhin about the plight of Seraphima, but he declares that he does not know her and has never been married. Then Golubkov will ask for a thousand dollars on loan. Korzukhin gives a lecture about how hard it is to get money in order to give it to strangers. Golubkov had already decided to leave, but then Charnota appeared in only underpants. He offers to play Korzukhinui and places Khludov's medallion at an extremely low price: $ 10. The game ends with Charnotot winning a sum of twenty thousand dollars. He buys the medallion for $ 300 and is about to leave. Korzukhin starts shouting and demanding money back, and then Lucy appears. Charnota does not betray his surprise. Lucy reassured Korzukhin, said that once you lost, you won’t change anything. At parting, Lucy told Golubkov through the window to keep Seraphim, and Charnothe wished to buy herself pants.
Eighth Son, Constantinople, autumn 1921
In his room Khludov talks to the ghost of the messenger, tells him that he will fulfill his obligation to the living, then ... Seraphima enters, tries to find out with whom he is talking. The woman tells Khludov that he is sick, but everything is in the past, he no longer needs to be executed for what he did. Serafimara said that she was thinking about Golubkov all the time, regretted that she had let him go to Paris. And then there was a knock at the door, it was Charnota and Golubkov who had returned. Serafima is very happy, she and Golubkov decide to return to Russia. Charnota decides that he will stay in Constantinople. And Khludov says that he would also like to return. Everyone tries to dissuade him, they say that he will inevitably be shot. Charnot leaves, and the lovers follow him. Khludov is left alone, writes a note, shows it to the ghost, and is glad that the messenger has disappeared. He goes to the window, shoots several times, fires the last bullet in his head. Dark.
Please note that this is only a summary of the literary work "Running". In this summary many important points and quotes are missing.
Michael Bulgakov
Eight dreams
A play in four acts
Immortality is a quiet, bright coast;
Our path is striving for it.
Rest, who has finished his run! ..
Zhukovsky
Characters
SERAFIMA VLADIMIROVNAKorzukhina is a young Petersburg lady.
Sergei Pavlovich Golubkov is the son of an idealist professor from St. Petersburg.
Af r and kan - Archbishop of Simferopol and Karasu-Bazar, archpastor of the eminent army, he is also a chemist Makhrov.
P ais and d is a monk.
Dryakhly and gum e n.
Baev - regiment commander in the Cavalry of Budyonny.
Budenovets.
G r and o r and l Lukiyanovich CHARNOTA - Cossack by origin, cavalry, major general in the white army.
B arabanchikova is a lady who exists exclusively in the imagination of General Charnota.
Lyu with k and - the field wife of General Charnota.
K rapp and lin - messenger Charnota, a man who died because of his eloquence.
D e Briza r - the commander of the hussar regiment among the whites.
ROMAN VALERYANOVICH Khludov.
Golovan - Esaul, Khludov's adjutant.
Co m e n d a n t s t a n ts and.
N and h and l n and k s t and c and and.
Nikolayevna - the wife of the station master.
Olka - daughter of the station master, 4 years old.
P a r a mon I l l and h K o r z u h and n - the husband of Seraphim.
T and x and d - chief of counterintelligence.
Skunsky, Gurin - employees in counterintelligence.
WHITE GLAVNO COMMANDUCHI.
L and h and k o v k a s e.
Art u r A r t u r about in and h - the cockroach king.
F and g u r a v to t e lk e and v in t e n d n t s to i x about g about n a x
T u r ch and n k a, lo b y m a t.
P r about s t and t u t to a – to r a s and v and ts.
GREK-DONJUAN.
Antuan Grishchenko is Korzukhin's lackey.
M o n and, white staff o f c ers, con v o n c a c a c and white g o l but in n about com and in b rk a x, a n gl and e, f r and n zuz and e and ital yansk and e and e, turets and e, etc. a l'yansk and e policeysk and e, little ch and shk and turk and and grek and, armyansk and f and g rhechesk and e head in o n a x, tolp and in konstantin about field.
The first dream takes place in Northern Tavria in October 1920. The second, third and fourth dreams - in early November 1920 in the Crimea.
The fifth and sixth were in Constantinople in the summer of 1921.
The seventh was in Paris in the fall of 1921.
Eighth - in the fall of 1921 in Constantinople.
Action one
First dream
I dreamed of a monastery ...
The chorus of monks in the underground can be heard dully singing: "To St. Father Nicholas, pray to God for us ..."
Darkness, and then the interior of the monastery church, sparingly illuminated by candles stuck to the icons, appears. An unfaithful flame rips out of the darkness the desk in which candles are sold, a wide bench near it, a window covered with bars, the chocolate face of a saint, faded wings of seraphim, golden crowns. Outside the window is a bleak October evening with rain and snow. On a bench, covered with a blanket over his head, lies B arabanchikova. Chemist Makhrov, in a sheepskin coat of lamb, is perched at the window and everyone is trying to make out something in it ... In the high abbot's chair is Serafima, in a black fur coat.
Judging by the face, Seraphima is not well.
At the feet of Seraphima, on a bench, next to the suitcase, is Golubkov, a young Petersburg-looking young man in a black coat and gloves.
G o l u b k o v (listening to the singing). Do you hear, Serafima Vladimirovna? I realized they had a dungeon downstairs ... In fact, how strange it all is! You know, at times it starts to seem to me that I am dreaming, honestly! For a month now, Serafima Vladimirovna, we have been running through the villages and towns, and the further, the more incomprehensible it becomes ... You see, we’ve already got to church! And you know, when all this mess happened today, I got bored of Petersburg, by God! Suddenly I remembered so clearly the green lamp in the study ...
Seraf and ma. These sentiments are dangerous, Sergei Pavlovich. Beware of yearning while wandering. Wouldn't it be better for you to stay?
G about l u b k about in. Oh no, no, this is irrevocable, and let it be! And then, after all, you already know what brightens up my hard path ... Since we accidentally met in the heating house under that lamp, remember ... after all, in fact, a little time has passed, and meanwhile it seems to me that I I've known you for a long, long time! The thought of you makes this flight easier in the autumn mist, and I will be proud and happy when I bring you to Crimea and hand you over to your husband. And although I will be bored without you, I will rejoice in your joy.
Seraphima silently puts her hand on Golubkov's shoulder.
(Stroking her hand.) Excuse me, do you have a fever?
Seraf and ma. No, it's nothing.
G about l u b k about in. That is, how trivial? Heat, by God, heat!
Seraf and ma. Nonsense, Sergei Pavlovich, will pass ...
A soft cannon strike. Barabanchikova stirred and groaned.
Look madame, you can't be without help. One of us will make our way to the village, there is probably a midwife.
G about l u b k about in. I'm running away.
Barabanchikova silently grabs him by the floor of his coat.
Seraf and ma. Why don't you want to, my dear?
B a r a b a n ch and k o v a (moody). Do not.
Seraphima and Golubkov are at a loss.
M a x r o v (quietly, to Golubkov). A mysterious and very mysterious person!
G o l u b k o v (in a whisper). Do you think that...
M akh r about in. I do not think anything, and so ... hard times, sir, you never know anyone on your way! There is some strange lady in the church ...
Singing underground ceases.
P a and s and d (appears silently, black, frightened). Prepare documents, documents, honest gentlemen! (Blows out all the candles except one.)
Serafima, Golubkov and Makhrov get documents. Barabanchikova puts out her hand and puts her passport on the blanket.
B a e c (enters, in a short sheepskin coat, splashed with mud, agitated. Behind Baev - Budenovets with a lantern). And let the devil crush them, these monks! Ooh, the nest! You, holy father, where is the spiral staircase to the bell tower?
P a and s and d. Here, here, here ...
B a e c (Budenovts). Take a look.
A Budenovite with a lantern disappears through the iron door.
(To Paisius.) Was there a fire on the bell tower?
P a and s and d. What are you, what are you! What fire?
B a e c. The fire flickered! Well, if I find anything on the bell tower, I will put you all to one and with your gray-haired shaitan against the wall! You were waving white lanterns!
P a and s and d. Lord! What do you?
B a e c. And who are these? You said that there is not a single outsider soul in the monastery!
