Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around her are attracted by the good nature and naivety radiated by the quiet, rosy-cheeked young lady. Many people who know her call her nothing more than “darling.”

Olga Semyonovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next attachment is Ivan Petrovich Kukin, entrepreneur and owner of the Tivoli pleasure garden. Due to constant rains, the public does not attend the performances, and Kukin suffers continuous losses, which evokes compassion in Olenka, and then love for Ivan Petrovich, despite the fact that he is short, skinny and speaks in a liquid tenor.

After the wedding, Olenka gets a job with her husband in the theater. She tells her friends that this is the only place where you can become educated and humane, but the ignorant public needs a booth.

IN Lent Kukin leaves for Moscow to recruit a troupe, and soon Olenka receives a telegram with the following content: “Ivan Petrovich died suddenly today, we are waiting for orders for the funeral on Tuesday.”

Olga Semyonovna is very worried about his death and is in deep mourning. Three months later, having passionately fallen in love with Vasily Andreevich Pustovalov, Olenka gets married again. Pustovalov manages the timber warehouse of the merchant Babakaev, and Olenka works in his office, writing invoices and distributing goods. It seems to her that the forest is the most important and necessary thing in life, and that she has been selling timber for a long time. Olenka shares all her husband’s thoughts and sits at home with him on holidays. When her friends advise her to go to the theater or the circus, she sedately replies that people who work have no time for trifles, and there is nothing good in theaters.

Olga Semyonovna lives very well with her husband; Every time Pustovalov leaves for the Mogilev province for the forest, she gets bored and cries, finding solace in conversations with the veterinarian Smirnin, her lodger. Smirnin separated from his wife, convicting her of treason, and sends forty rubles every month to support his son. Olenka feels sorry for Smirnin; she advises the veterinarian to make peace with his wife for the sake of the boy. Six years later happy marriage Pustovalov dies, and Olenka is left alone again. She only goes to church or to her husband’s grave. The seclusion lasts six months, and then Olenka meets with a veterinarian. In the mornings they drink tea together in the garden and Smirnin reads the newspaper aloud. And Olenka, having met a lady she knows at the post office, talks about the lack of proper veterinary supervision in the city.

The happiness does not last long: the regiment in which the veterinarian serves is transferred almost to Siberia, and Olenka is left completely alone.

Years go by. Olenka is getting old; her friends lose interest in her. She doesn't think about anything and she no longer has any opinions. Among Olenka’s thoughts and heart there is the same emptiness as in the yard. She dreams of love that would capture her entire being and give her thoughts.

Suddenly, veterinarian Smirnin returns to Olenka. He made peace with his wife, retired and decided to stay in the city, especially since the time had come to send his son Sasha to the gymnasium.

With the arrival of Smirnin's family, Olenka comes to life again. The veterinarian’s wife soon leaves to visit her sister in Kharkov, Smirnin himself is constantly away, and Olenka takes Sasha to her outhouse. Motherly feelings awaken in her, and the boy becomes Olenka’s new affection. She tells everyone she knows about the advantages of classical education over real education and how difficult it has become to study at the gymnasium.

Olenka blossomed again and became younger; acquaintances, meeting her on the street, experience, as before, pleasure and call Olga Semyonovna darling.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Darling"

Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around her are attracted by the good nature and naivety radiated by the quiet, rosy-cheeked young lady. Many acquaintances call her nothing more than “darling.”

Olga Semyonovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next affection becomes Ivan Petrovich Kukin, entrepreneur and owner of the Tivoli pleasure garden. Due to constant rains, the public does not attend the performances, and Kukin suffers continuous losses, which evokes compassion in Olenka, and then love for Ivan Petrovich, despite the fact that he is short, skinny and speaks in a liquid tenor voice.

After the wedding, Olenka gets a job with her husband in the theater. She tells her friends that this is the only place where you can become educated and humane, but the ignorant public needs a booth.

During Lent, Kukin leaves for Moscow to recruit a troupe, and soon Olenka receives a telegram with the following content: “Ivan Petrovich died suddenly today, we are waiting for orders for the funeral on Tuesday.”

Olga Semyonovna is very worried about his death and is in deep mourning. Three months later, having passionately fallen in love with Vasily Andreevich Pustovalov, Olenka gets married again. Pustovalov manages the timber warehouse of the merchant Babakaev, and Olenka works in his office, writing invoices and distributing goods. It seems to her that the forest is the most important and necessary thing in life, and that she has been selling timber for a long time. Olenka shares all her husband’s thoughts and sits at home with him on holidays. When her friends advise her to go to the theater or the circus, she sedately replies that people who work have no time for trifles, and there is nothing good in theaters.

Olga Semyonovna lives very well with her husband; Every time Pustovalov leaves for the Mogilev province for the forest, she gets bored and cries, finding solace in conversations with the veterinarian Smirnin, her lodger. Smirnin separated from his wife, convicting her of treason, and every month he sends forty rubles to support his son. Olenka feels sorry for Smirnin, she advises the veterinarian to make peace with his wife for the sake of the boy. After six years of a happy marriage, Pustovalov dies, and Olenka is left alone again. She only goes to church or to her husband’s grave. The seclusion lasts six months, and then Olenka meets with a veterinarian. In the mornings they drink tea together in the garden and Smirnin reads the newspaper aloud. And Olenka, having met a lady she knows at the post office, talks about the lack of proper veterinary supervision in the city.

The happiness does not last long: the regiment in which the veterinarian serves is transferred almost to Siberia, and Olenka is left completely alone.

Years go by. Olenka is getting old; her friends lose interest in her. She doesn't think about anything and she no longer has any opinions. Among Olenka’s thoughts and heart there is the same emptiness as in the yard. She dreams of love that would capture her entire being and give her thoughts.

Suddenly, veterinarian Smirnin returns to Olenka. He made peace with his wife, retired and decided to stay in the city, especially since the time had come to send his son Sasha to the gymnasium.

With the arrival of Smirnin's family, Olenka comes to life again. The veterinarian’s wife soon leaves to visit her sister in Kharkov, Smirnin himself is constantly away, and Olenka takes Sasha to her outhouse. Motherly feelings awaken in her, and the boy becomes Olenka’s new affection. She tells everyone she knows about the advantages of classical education over real education and how difficult it has become to study at the gymnasium.

Olenka blossomed again and became younger; acquaintances, meeting her on the street, experience, as before, pleasure and call Olga Semyonovna darling.

Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova attracts others with her good nature and naivety. Friends call her “darling.” She always falls in love with someone. Her next passion is Ivan Kukin, the owner of the Tivoli amusement garden. He suffers losses due to small amount visitors, which evokes in Olga feelings of love and compassion for him. They get married, and Olga gets a job at the theater with Kukin.

Kukin goes to Moscow to gather the troupe. Soon Olga receives a telegram notifying him of his sudden death. She is very worried about the death of her husband and mourns, but three months later she falls in love with Vasily Andreevich Pustovalov and marries him. He takes her to work at a merchant's timber warehouse. Olenka issues invoices and releases goods. She completely shares her husband’s views on life, who believes that working people should relax at home on weekends. They don’t go to the theater or the circus and live very well. During Pustovalov’s trips to the forest, Olga misses him, finding solace in communicating with their lodger, veterinarian Smirnin. A veterinarian separated from his wife because of her infidelity. He sends her money every month to support her son. Olga feels sorry for Smirnin and advises him to make peace with his wife for the sake of the child.

After six years of marriage, Pustovalov dies. Olenka goes only to church and to her husband’s grave for six months, and then meets with the veterinarian. The veterinarian will soon be transferred to duty. Olga is left alone again.

Years pass. Olga is getting old and dreams of new love, capable of taking over her entire being. Her acquaintances are already losing interest in her, but suddenly Smirnin returns to her. He reconciled with his wife and remained to live in the city. His wife soon leaves for Kharkov to visit her sister, and Smirnin is constantly away. Olenka takes the veterinarian’s son into her outbuilding, and the boy becomes a new affection for her. Motherly feelings awaken in her. She blossoms again and becomes younger, and her friends again call her “darling.”

Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around her are attracted by the good nature and naivety radiated by the quiet, rosy-cheeked young lady. Many acquaintances call her nothing more than “darling.”

Olga Semyonovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next affection becomes Ivan Petrovich Kukin, entrepreneur and owner of the Tivoli pleasure garden. Due to constant rains, the public does not attend the performances, and Kukin suffers continuous losses, which evokes compassion in Olenka, and then love for Ivan Petrovich, despite the fact that he is short, skinny and speaks in a liquid tenor.

After the wedding, Olenka gets a job with her husband in the theater. She tells her friends that this is the only place where you can become educated and humane, but the ignorant public needs a booth.

During Lent, Kukin leaves for Moscow to recruit a troupe, and soon Olenka receives a telegram with the following content: “Ivan Petrovich died suddenly today, we are waiting for orders for the funeral on Tuesday.”

Olga Semyonovna is very worried about his death and is in deep mourning. Three months later, having passionately fallen in love with Vasily Andreevich Pustovalov, Olenka gets married again. Pustovalov manages the timber warehouse of the merchant Babakaev, and Olenka works in his office, writing invoices and distributing goods. It seems to her that the forest is the most important and necessary thing in life, and that she has been selling timber for a long time. Olenka shares all her husband’s thoughts and sits at home with him on holidays. When her friends advise her to go to the theater or the circus, she sedately replies that people who work have no time for trifles, and there is nothing good in theaters.

Olga Semyonovna lives very well with her husband; Every time Pustovalov leaves for the Mogilev province for the forest, she gets bored and cries, finding solace in conversations with the veterinarian Smirnin, her lodger. Smirnin separated from his wife, convicting her of treason, and sends forty rubles every month to support his son. Olenka feels sorry for Smirnin; she advises the veterinarian to make peace with his wife for the sake of the boy. After six years of a happy marriage, Pustovalov dies, and Olenka is left alone again. She only goes to church or to her husband’s grave. The seclusion lasts six months, and then Olenka meets with a veterinarian. In the mornings they drink tea together in the garden and Smirnin reads the newspaper aloud. And Olenka, having met a lady she knows at the post office, talks about the lack of proper veterinary supervision in the city.

The happiness does not last long: the regiment in which the veterinarian serves is transferred almost to Siberia, and Olenka is left completely alone.

Years go by. Olenka is getting old; her friends lose interest in her. She doesn't think about anything and she no longer has any opinions. Among Olenka’s thoughts and heart there is the same emptiness as in the yard. She dreams of love that would capture her entire being and give her thoughts.

Suddenly, veterinarian Smirnin returns to Olenka. He made peace with his wife, retired and decided to stay in the city, especially since the time had come to send his son Sasha to the gymnasium.

With the arrival of Smirnin's family, Olenka comes to life again. The veterinarian’s wife soon leaves to visit her sister in Kharkov, Smirnin himself is constantly away, and Olenka takes Sasha to her outhouse. Motherly feelings awaken in her, and the boy becomes Olenka’s new affection. She tells everyone she knows about the advantages of classical education over real education and how difficult it has become to study at the gymnasium.

Olenka blossomed again and became younger; acquaintances, meeting her on the street, experience, as before, pleasure and call Olga Semyonovna darling.

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Summary of Chekhov's story “Darling”

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Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around her are attracted by the good nature and naivety radiated by the quiet, rosy-cheeked young lady. Many people who know her call her nothing more than “darling.”

Olga Semyonovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next attachment is Ivan Petrovich Kukin, entrepreneur and owner of the Tivoli pleasure garden. Due to constant rains, the public does not attend the performances, and Kukin suffers continuous losses, which evokes compassion in Olenka, and then love for Ivan Petrovich, despite the fact that he is short, skinny and speaks in a liquid tenor.

After the wedding, Olenka gets a job with her husband in the theater. She tells her friends that this is the only place where you can become educated and humane, but the ignorant public needs a booth.

During Lent, Kukin leaves for Moscow to recruit a troupe, and soon Olenka receives a telegram with the following content: “Ivan Petrovich died suddenly today, we are waiting for orders for the funeral on Tuesday.”

Olga Semyonovna is very worried about his death and is in deep mourning. Three months later, having passionately fallen in love with Vasily Andreevich Pustovalov, Olenka gets married again. Pustovalov manages the timber warehouse of the merchant Babakaev, and Olenka works in his office, writing invoices and distributing goods. It seems to her that the forest is the most important and necessary thing in life, and that she has been selling timber for a long time. Olenka shares all her husband’s thoughts and sits at home with him on holidays. When her friends advise her to go to the theater or the circus, she sedately replies that people who work have no time for trifles, and there is nothing good in theaters.

Olga Semyonovna lives very well with her husband; Every time Pustovalov leaves for the Mogilev province for the forest, she gets bored and cries, finding solace in conversations with the veterinarian Smirnin, her lodger. Smirnin separated from his wife, convicting her of treason, and sends forty rubles every month to support his son. Olenka feels sorry for Smirnin; she advises the veterinarian to make peace with his wife for the sake of the boy. After six years of a happy marriage, Pustovalov dies, and Olenka is left alone again. She only goes to church or to her husband’s grave. The seclusion lasts six months, and then Olenka meets with a veterinarian. In the mornings they drink tea together in the garden and Smirnin reads the newspaper aloud. And Olenka, having met a lady she knows at the post office, talks about the lack of proper veterinary supervision in the city.

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Olenka blossomed again and became younger; acquaintances, meeting her on the street, experience, as before, pleasure and call Olga Semyonovna darling.

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In ancient Greece, in Jupiter’s time, when the “powerful tribe” multiplied so much that every city had its own special king, one monarch still stands out from the rest by his wealth, good appearance and kindness, and most of all by the fact that he has three beautiful daughters. But youngest daughter her appearance still overshadows the beauty of the others. The Greeks call this beauty Psyche, which means “soul”; Russian narrators call her Darling.

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This answer plunges everyone into grief. It is a pity to give the girl to some monster, and all the relatives declare that it is better to endure persecution and misfortune than to take Darling to be sacrificed, especially since it is not even known where. But the princess, out of generosity (or because she wants to have a husband, no matter what) herself says to her father: “I must save you with my misfortune.” And where to go, Darling decides simply: the horses harnessed to the carriage must be driven without a coachman, and let fate itself lead it.

After a few weeks, the horses themselves stop at some mountain and do not want to go further. Then Darling is led to a height without a road, past abysses and caves, where some evil creatures roar. And at the top, the king and his entire court, having said goodbye to the girl, leave her alone and, heartbroken, leave.

However, Darling does not stay there for long. The invisible Zephyr picks her up and lifts her to the “unknown village of heaven.” The princess finds herself in magnificent palaces, where nymphs, cupids and zephyrs fulfill all her desires. At night, her husband comes to Dushenka, but since he appears in the dark, the girl does not know who he is. The husband himself answers her questions that for the time being she cannot see him. In the morning he disappears, leaving Darling perplexed... and in love.

The princess needs several days to explore the luxurious chambers and the adjacent forests, gardens and groves, which show her many wonders and wonders. And one day, going deeper into the forest, she finds a grotto leading to a dark cave, and having gone there, she finds her husband. Since then, Darling comes to this grotto every day, and every night her husband visits her in her bedchamber.

Three years pass like this. Darling is happy, but she is haunted by the desire to know what her husband looks like. However, in response to all her requests, he only begs that she should not strive to see him, be obedient to him and not listen to any advice in this matter, even from her closest relatives.

One day, Dushenka learns that her sisters have come to look for her at that terrible mountain where the princess was once abandoned. Darling immediately tells Zephyr to take them to her paradise, greets them kindly and tries to “amuse them in every possible way.” When asked where her husband is, she first answers: “Not at home,” but then, unable to bear it, she admits to all the oddities of her marriage. She does not know that her sisters, jealous of her, only dream of depriving Darling of her happiness. Therefore, they say that they allegedly saw a terrible snake crawling into the grotto, and that this is Dushenka’s husband. She, horrified, decides to commit suicide, but the evil sisters object to her that first she, as an honest woman, must kill the monster. They even get and bring her a lamp and a sword for this purpose, after which they return home.

The night is coming. Having waited for her husband to fall asleep, Darling illuminates him with a lamp... and discovers that it is Cupid himself. Admiring him in admiration, she accidentally spills oil from the lamp on her husband’s thigh. Waking up from pain, he sees a naked sword and thinks that his wife has planned evil against him. “And then Darling fell and died.” She comes to her senses on the same mountain where she said goodbye to her family a long time ago. The poor thing understands that she herself is to blame for this misfortune; she sobs loudly, cries out, asks for forgiveness. Cupid, furtively watching her, was about to throw himself at the feet of his beloved, but, having come to his senses, he descends to her, as befits God, in all the splendor of his greatness and announces that Darling, who has broken the law, is now in disgrace with the gods, and therefore he is no longer can be with her, but leaves her to fate. And, without listening to her excuses, she disappears.

The only option left for the unfortunate princess is suicide. She throws herself into the abyss, but one of the zephyrs picks her up and carefully carries her to the lawn. Deciding to kill herself, Darling looks for a sharp stone, but all the stones in her hands turn into pieces of bread. The branches of the tree from which she wants to hang herself lower her unharmed to the ground. Naiad fish prevent her from drowning in the river. Noticing a fire in the wood on the shore, the princess tries to burn herself, but an unknown force extinguishes the flame in front of her.

“Fate ordained that Darling should live / And suffer in life.” The princess tells the old fisherman who has returned to his firewood about her misfortunes and learns from him - alas! - that new troubles await her: Venus has already sent letters everywhere, in which she demands that Darling be found and brought to her, and that they do not dare to hide her under pain of her anger. Realizing that it is impossible to hide all the time, poor Dushenka asks the most senior goddesses for help, but Juno, Ceres and Minerva for one reason or another refuse her. Then the princess goes to Venus herself. But, appearing in the temple of the goddess of love, the beauty attracts all eyes; the people take her for Venus, kneel... and just at that moment the goddess herself enters.

In order to take proper revenge on Darling, Venus makes her her slave and gives her such assignments that she must die or at least turn ugly. On the very first day she orders the princess to bring him alive and dead water. Having learned about this, Cupid orders his servants to help Darling. Faithful Zephyr immediately takes his former owner to the place where such waters flow, explains that the snake Gorynich Miracle-Yuda, who guards the waters, must be treated to a drink, and hands her a large flask with swill for the snake. So Dushenka fulfills the first order.

Venus gives the princess a new task - to go to the Garden of the Hesperides and bring golden apples from there. And that garden is guarded by Kashchei, who asks riddles to everyone who comes, and eats the one who cannot guess them. But Zephyr tells Dushenka the answers to the riddles in advance, and she honorably fulfills the second assignment.

Then the goddess of love sends the princess to hell to Proserpina, ordering her to take a certain pot there and, without looking into it, bring it to her. Thanks to Zephyr's advice, Dushenka manages to safely go to hell and return back. But, unable to contain her curiosity, she opens the pot. Thick smoke flies out from there, and the princess’s face is immediately covered with blackness, which cannot be erased or washed away. Ashamed of her appearance, the unfortunate woman hides in a cave with the intention of never leaving.

Although Cupid, trying to please Venus, pretended that he did not think about Darling, he did not forget either her or her sisters. He informs the sisters that he intends to take both of them as his spouses, and let them just ascend to high mountain and rush down - Zephyr will immediately pick them up and bring them to him. The overjoyed sisters rush to jump into the abyss, but Zephyr only blows at their backs, and they crash. After this, Cupid, having described to his mother how Dushenka had turned ugly, seeks from the satisfied goddess permission to reunite with his wife - after all, he loves her not for her transitory appearance, but beautiful soul. He finds Darling, talks to her, and they forgive each other.

And when their marriage is recognized by all the gods, Venus, judging that it is not profitable for her to keep an ugly woman in her family, returns her daughter-in-law to her former beauty. Since then, Cupid and Darling have lived happily.