Biography Children of Arbat

The summary of the novel is read in 9 minutes, the original is 18 hours the largest house on Arbat - between Nikolsky and money alleys. Four former classmates live in it. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the elevator Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova - made a cohesion group of activists at school. The daughter of a famous diplomat, a Bolshevik with pre -revolutionary experience, Lena Budyagin, also adjoined them.

The fourth is Yura Sharik, the son of a tailor. This crafty and cautious guy hates politics. In his family, the new masters of life are sarcastically called "comrades." Advertising School is over. Now Nina is a teacher, Lena is a translator. Maxim graduates from the infantry school, Sasha studies at a technical university, and Yura in the legal. Vadim Marazievich, the son of a famous doctor, is also adjacent to their company, he marks in literary and theatrical critics.

Schoolgirl Varya, sister Nina. Beauty Vika Marazievich, sister of Vadim. They sit at the table, meeting the new, G. They are young, do not imagine neither death nor old age - they are born for life and happiness. But Sasha has trouble. As a matter of fact, he was expelled from the institute and from the Komsomol. An unpleasant story, a trifle: by the anniversary of the revolution, a wall newspaper was released, and some of the faculty authorities regarded the epigrams placed in it as a hostile sortie.

Sasha visited the Central Control Commission, and he was restored both at the institute and in Komsomol. But here is a night call at two o’clock, the Red Army soldiers, witnessed arrest and Butyrskaya prison. Sasha is lost in conjecture. What do they want from him? He has no disagreement with the party, he is honest in front of her. Maybe the case is in Mark Ryazanov, the brother of his mother - he is influential, the first metallurgist of the country Advertising Mark, meanwhile, talked about Sasha with high -ranking people.

Budyagin clearly understands: “They” know whose Sasha his nephew. When a person is introduced into the Central Committee, they cannot but know that his nephew was arrested. Honest, ideological guy. Its business stretches much further and higher, going out through the deputy director of the Sashin Institute Krivoruchko at Lominadze, the deputy wire of the heavy industry and the People's Commissar of Ordzhonikidze.

But even Berezin, a member of the collegium of the NKVD, does not know and cannot, of course, know what he thinks of Ordzhonikidze, a man of his immediate environment, Stalin. And Stalin thinks here: they have been familiar for a long time, too long. Started in the party together. And the leader has no like -minded people, there are only associates. After the surrender of the opposition, Sergo did not want to destroy them.

Does it want to keep a counterweight to Stalin? And what, what political purposes are explained by the delicate friendship of Sergo and Kirov? Sofya Alexandrovna was ordered to come to Butyrka on a date with her son. Take warm things, money and products with you. So, Sasha’s sentence was sentenced. All this time, Varya Ivanova helped her: she went for groceries, carried the programs.

But that evening it did not go - the next day they escorted Maxim and another cadet to the Far East. Advertising at the station Varya saw Sasha: he dutifully walked between the two Red Army men with a suitcase in his hand and a shoulder bag, pale and with a beard. So, Sasha was sent. What remains of their company? Max in the Far East. And the ball - and this is wild for many - works in the prosecutor's office.

Yurka Sharik is the top of the fate, and the clean, convinced Sasha is the exile! Varya once met on Arbat a beauty Vika Marazevich with a frantic man. Vika invited to call and go, although Varya never called her and did not go to her. But then I went. And fell into a completely different world. There - stand in lines, live in communal services. Here - they drink coffee with liquors, admire foreign mods.

A new life has begun for Vary. The indigenous Muscovite, she had just heard these attractive names before. Only a lot of new acquaintances is poorly dressed. And among them - Kostya, the famous billiardist. He is from Kerch, and Varya was never at sea. Upon learning of this, he immediately offers to go. Kostya is an independent, powerful person, he will not submit to anyone, he will not drag his suitcase on the platform, Varya does not work under the escort.

Kostya does not even allow her to cook. It dresses in the best tailors, combines with the most fashionable hairdressers, they are constantly in theaters, and restaurants, Mom Sasha sent the first telegram from the village of Boguchan Kansky district. Comrade on the link, Boris Soloveikik, introduced him to the course of local life: in these places you can see anyone-the Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, anarchists, Trotskyists, National Concines.

Indeed, on the way to the place, Sasha gets acquainted with a variety of people, and not all of them are interested in politics or ideology. The place of links Sasha is determined by the village of Mozgov, twelve kilometers from Kezhma up the hangar. He pays money for an apartment with food, sometimes he brings sour cream - repaired a public separator. The separator was made at the end of the last century, the carving was demolished, and several times Sasha passes on to the chairman that it is necessary to cut a new one.

The separator breaks once again, the chairman accuses Sasha of deliberate damage, and they curses largely in public.He explains: the device failed, no one conveyed anything about the carving - but the women of the words “carving”, “nut”, “roller” simply do not know in general, they will give Sasha for at least ten years for wrecking. In addition, discrediting collective farm leadership.

Immediately after the arrest, Sasha hoped that everyone would soon be clarified and released - he was clean, and the party did not punish the innocent. Now he understands well that he is powerless, but does not want to give up. I decided to answer insulting an insult, spit with a spit. The conflict with the separator is somehow zama. How long? Sasha takes possession of longing: he grew up in the conviction that he will build a new world, now he has neither hope nor a goal.

The idea on which he grew up was taken by soulless careerists, they trample this idea and trample people devoted to it. The teacher of Nurzid, with whom he has a novel, offers him a variant of the future life: after the link they register, Sasha will take the name of his wife and receive a pure passport, without marks about a criminal record. Tarasani, cable life?

No, Sasha will never agree to such! He feels that he is changing, and his comrade on the link tells him that he should not sculpt a new one from fragments of the previous faith. You can either return to the previous beliefs, or leave them forever. This is confirmed by Berezin’s suspicion: some kind of action is being prepared in Leningrad. Stalin is dissatisfied with the position in the city, demands repressions against the so -called participants of the Zinoviev opposition from Kirov, wants to unleash terror in Leningrad.

For what? How is a detonator for terror throughout the country? The Cossack must organize something that Kirov will have to retreat before. But what? Sabotage, explosion - Kirov will not spend it on this. The murder of one of Kirov's associates? Calling, but not that. Berezin remembers well how there is no person in the city, and there is no problem. ” In the evening, Berezin first went to Budyagin and in a conversation briefly reported that Zaporozhets, under the strict secret, was picking up his people in St.

Petersburg.