If you need to remind yourself of the main events from a long-read book, take a qualitative brief retelling of the chapters: it will allow you to put all the necessary details and details into your head, but it will not take much time. And for a complete immersion in the plot twists and turns of "Garnet Bracelet" use analysis of the work.
I chapter
Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina lives in her suburban home. All summer the weather is terrible - a severe wind, heavy rains and dense fog.
Sheina cannot leave the cottage, her town house is still undergoing renovations. But by September the weather improves, which, of course, pleases Vera.
II chapter
The birthday of Vera Nikolaevna is coming. She is relieved that the holiday falls on the "country" time - in the city would have to spend a lot more, and the Shein family is experiencing serious financial difficulties. The princess hopes to see only her closest friends.
In the morning, Vera discovers a gift from her husband - pear-shaped pearl earrings, this has a beneficial effect on the mood of the birthday girl. She hears the sound of a car from the road, it arrives Anna, the princess's younger sister, a short and mocking girl. Anna inherited the features of her father, which greatly affected her hot-tempered and ardent character. She is the exact opposite of Vera, a tall and fair-haired girl with aristocratic facial features that she received from her mother. She did not have a child, although she really wanted to have children. Anna at that moment had already raised two, a boy and a girl, but she absolutely did not love her husband.
The sisters warmly greet each other and go for a walk.
Chapter III
The sisters are talking, sitting at the cliff. Anna is delighted with the heights and the incredible sea, for Vera this is a routine in which it is difficult to see the beautiful.
Anna gives her older sister a present - this is a notebook with a stunning pattern on the cover. Vera admires the ancient thing that a relative found in an antique shop.
The princess is worried about the upcoming reception, she wants to give guests good food, but complains about the inability to get the right products. The sisters list all the visitors and prepare for their arrival.
Chapter IV
In the evening the first guests gather. Among them are Vera’s brother Nikolai, Prince Vasily Lvovich, his sister Lyudmila, the famous pianist Jenny Reiter and others.
The most remarkable of those gathered in the name day is General Anosov, a military and close friend of the Shein family. Once he was imbued with a sincere love for charming sisters, they affectionately call him their grandfather. Anosov participated in many military campaigns, he did not want to resign and became commandant of the fortress.
Chapter v
At the height of the holiday, the princess is distracted by the maid Dasha. She shows Vera Nikolaevna a parcel in which she finds a gift from an unknown person - a garnet bracelet. Inside the gems embedded in the bracelet, it’s like blood is burning.
In a letter attached to the parcel, a secret admirer congratulates the princess on her birthday. The message says that the sender’s great-grandmother wore the bracelet, that this elegant accessory would protect the one who wears it. The author of the message apologizes for all the correspondence that he sent seven years ago. At the end of the letter, only the initials - G. S. Zh.
Princess in doubt: show letter to husband or not. “And if you show - then when? "- Vera Nikolaevna thinks. Her eyes are drawn to a bracelet of incredible beauty.
Chapter VI
Guests entertain themselves with card games, and Prince Vasily Lvovich reads his ironic essays, illustrating this with drawings from his home album. He humorously describes the life of his sister, and then proceeds to another story called: "Princess Vera and the telegraph in love."
The prince informs the guests that this story has not yet reached its final. Faith carefully asks him not to tell her: “Better not need it,” she says. Vasily Lvovich, as if not hearing his wife’s words, begins his story in the usual manner.
Inside the story, Vasily Vera receives a letter of declaration of love in the mail. The signature at the end of the message - P.P. J. Prince, shows the gathered audience a portrait of the sender - the unfortunate telegraph operator who sneaks into the princess’s house under the guise of a chimney sweep and then gets a dishwasher to see his adore more often. The telegraph operator, not having endured the torment of cruel love, ends up in a psychiatric hospital, and after that he is sent to a monastery. Before his death, he sends Vera two telegraph buttons and a small bottle with his tears.
Chapter VII
Some guests leave the prince’s house. Anosov, surrounded by two sisters, slowly tells vivid stories of his past. In one of them, the general, arriving in Budapest, lost his mind, he believed that his name was not Nikolai, but Yakov. But he was given water, and the clouding seemed to have taken off with his hand. Another story says about the novel of a warrior with a young Bulgarian. Sisters ask Anosov about his military past: “Were you afraid during the battles? ", Anna asks.
The general decides to meet his crew, the sisters leave without hesitation with him. Before leaving, Vera asks her husband to look into the box, there is a letter from G. “Read it,” the princess says.
Chapter VIII
On the way to the crew, a conversation about love enters between the sisters and Anosov. The general claims that true love is possible, although at times it takes on unusual and bizarre forms.
He tells the story of a soldier who fell in love with a depraved woman, who quickly rejected the feelings of a military man. He threw himself under the train, but in the last seconds they tried to save him, and only the hands cut off the victim. Over time, he became a beggar and died on the street from the cold. The general also told about the officer whose wife was cheating and did not respect her husband at all, but he still loved her with all his heart.
The princess decides to tell a story about her admirer, who for a long time sends her letters. Anosov tells Vera that perhaps the very real passion leaked into her everyday life.
IX chapter
Vera returns to her country house and hears a noise: Prince Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich, the princess’s brother, are arguing loudly. Nikolai is outraged that the Sheins are so indifferent to the stranger's premises - after all, this may negatively affect the reputation of Vera Nikolaevna.
Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai decide to end this story. They conclude that it is impossible to solve the problem through the gendarmes, because this will attract unnecessary attention. Therefore, Nikolai intends to use his contacts to track down the stranger and pay him a visit: return his trinket and forbid him from sending letters.
X chapter
The unknown sender of the letters is a kind of Zheltkov. It is to him that Nikolai and Vasily come to the apartment. Mr. Zheltkov is a thin young man with long blond hair.
Zheltkov invites those who enter to sit down, but Nikolai and the prince refuse. The princess’s brother goes straight to the point - he returns the bracelet and bluntly declares that the telegraph operator must stop bothering the Sheins. The embarrassed man turns to Vasily, he assures him that he is ready to fulfill the request, although he really loves Vera Nikolaevna. He makes an admission that he cannot control his feelings. The prince sees that Zheltkov leads his confession from a pure heart and softens in relation to him. The young man asks permission to finally call and write a letter to Vera. Nikolai is indignant, but the prince allows Zheltkov to do this, and the master leaves the room.
Zheltkov returns and promises his guests that from now on he will no longer bother the princess. Returning home, the husband retells what happened to his wife. Faith is horrified: she realizes that her admirer can lay hands on herself.
Xi chapter
Vera Nikolaevna in a fresh issue of the newspaper discovers a note about a certain Zheltkov who shot himself in his own house. The princess is horrified, because she foresaw such an outcome of events.
The heroine receives the last letter. In it, Zheltkov apologizes for the inconvenience, he describes his genuine feelings for the princess, but gives a vow that he will soon leave the city, and Vera will no longer hear about him. Zheltkov only asks the princess to play the sonata of Ludwig van Beethoven - D-dur, No. 2, op. 2.
The woman is experiencing emotional shock, she approaches Vasily with tearful eyes: “Something terrible has intervened in our life,” says the princess. He confesses to his wife: in a personal meeting with Zheltkov, he realized that he was never a mentally ill person. The prince tells Vera that the young man really loved her. The princess begs permission from her husband to see the deceased, and Vasily agrees.
Xii chapter
Vera arrives at the apartment that Zheltok rented during his lifetime. The mistress leads the princess to the room where the body of the deceased lies on the table. Vera recalls the words of General Anosov about love, she peers into the pale face of Zheltkov and kisses him on a cold forehead.
The woman is about to leave, but her mistress stops her. She passes Vera a note that the deceased bequeathed to hand to a certain lady, if she suddenly appears. Familiar Faith handwriting was written: "L. van Beethoven. Son. No 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato. " The princess cannot restrain her feelings and cries.
Xiii chapter
The heroine returns to her estate and finds Jenny Reuters. Vera unobtrusively asks the pianist to play some composition on the piano, the princess is sure that Reuters will play that particular Beethoven sonata. This is what happens. Vera clings to acacia and cries again. She feels that the late Zheltkov communicates with her through this music, as if he calms her.
Vera Sheina is fully aware that the person who sent all these letters over the years truly and wholeheartedly loved her. With tears in her eyes, she kisses Jenny excitedly: “He has forgiven me now. Everything is fine, ”the heroine says quietly.
