Summary of “China Town”
Netov, learning about this, goes mad with joy, and Maria Orestovna… “Not the desired birth of a healthy child presented itself to her, and his own death…”
Two months later, on Christmas week, the action is transferred to a one-story house on Spiridonovka, where, under the guidance of Katerina Petrovna, eighty, the vast noble family of the Dolgushins lives in poverty. At the daughter of Katerina Petrovna were taken away after a dissolute youth of a leg; the son-in-law, having resigned as a general, has squandered, starting up in more and more new scams, not only his own means, but also his mother-in-law; grandchildren Peter and Nick did not ask… One hope for the twenty-two-year-old granddaughter Tashi, dreaming of a theatrical scene, but, unfortunately, does not have the money even to study. With the humiliation of lending seven hundred rubles to his brother Niki, once again tore a good jackpot in the cards, Tasia asked for advice and support first
Paltusov himself continues to travel around the “circles” of post-reform Moscow, with particular sadness visiting the “catacombs”, as he calls the old-fashioned Povarskaya, Prechistenka, Sivtsev Vrazhek, where the ruined and degenerate noble live out their time. Having met with the forty-year-old Princess Kuratova, he ardently proves to her that the nobility has already left the historical scene and the future belongs to businessmen whose fathers baptized their forehead with two fingers, but whose children are in Paris with crown princes, they start
Feeling himself a “pioneer” in the world of capital, Paltusov eagerly meets with a variety of people – for example, the elderly landowner and a fan of Schopenhauer Kulomzov, who, almost alone in the nobility, preserved his fortune, but also thanks to usury. Especially nice and nice Andrew Dmitriyevich “Epicurean” Pirozhkov. On January, 12th, in Tatyana’s day, they together go on a celebration to university, have dinner in “Hermitage”, have supper in “Strelna”, and finish evening on Grachevka, famous for its brothels.
After deciding that Paltusov would at least one day fulfill the promise to reduce it to the actress Grusheva, Tasia Dolgushina comes to the furnished rooms of Madame Guzho, where Pirozhkov lives, and addresses him with the same request. Ivan Alekseevich and I would be happy to be an ex-boy, but he does not want, as he says, to take sin on his soul, introducing a noble girl into a society that does not fit her. Angry Tasia independently learns the address of Grusheva and is to her without any recommendations. Wishing to test the future student, Grusheva tells her to play the scene from “Jokers” A. Ostrovsky before the artist Rogachev and the playwright Smetankin. The spark of God in Tasse seems to have been discovered, and the girl is left to listen to the new comedy that Smetankin composed. Tasia is happy.
And Pirozhkov at this time trying to help already Madame Guzhau – the homeowner “from the merchants” Gordei Paramonovich decided to set this esteemed French woman away from the post of the manager of the furnished rooms, and sell the house.
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