"Pomegranate bracelet" - a short summary of a difficult story

A. Kuprin's play The Pomegranate Bracelet, which is summarized in our article, is a small literary work. According to the plot, the case takes place in the autumn, at a resort located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. At the dacha there are two sisters - Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina and Anna Nikolaevna. Faith lovingly treats her husband without having children from him. Anna married a girl and a boy in marriage, but she is indifferent to them, and to her life companion - a rich and stupid camera-cadet. Women admire the beautiful views of the surrounding area. After which they go to a dinner party about the name-day of the Faith, which attracts distinguished guests.

During the meal the princess gets a package with a messenger. It contains a note and a pomegranate bracelet. The summary of the message to the princess is reduced to the fact that she is congratulated by a secret admirer and presents a family ornament with a rare grade of semiprecious stones that belonged to several generations of women in his family. Vera Nikolaevna does not know whether to tell guests about the gift or not. During the dinner conversation at the dinner, the princess's husband begins to show guests a humorous home album in which they are ridiculed by previous episodes of written appeals by an unknown fan to Vera. The prince believes that his wife is writing a telegrammate in love. Discussion of letters does not like the Countess. After dinner, the guests diverge and the household will find out about the gift.

A brief summary of the "Pomegranate Bracelet" can be continued by an episode when the Princess's brother and her husband are indignant at the sent present-such offerings were not accepted at that time in respect of married noble ladies. In addition, men suggest that an unknown fan could commit some embezzlement to buy jewelry. And if such actions are discovered, the name of the princess may be publicized. They decide to find it on the initials indicated in the note and seriously talk. The next day they find a certain Zheltkov - an official of low rank.

The work "Pomegranate Bracelet", the brief content of which can only give a general impression about the essence of events, as an extension includes an unpleasant conversation between the princess and her husband and Zheltkov. During the conversation, the men convince him not to write to Vera Nikolayevna any more.

Zheltkov said that he was in love with the princess from the time when she was not married, and asked permission to write her the last letter. Prince Shein gives him this opportunity. In a letter to Vera Nikolaevna, a fan reports that he does not imagine life without his beloved woman, but promises that she will not be bothered anymore. The next day the Shein family learns from the newspapers about the suicide of an official. Vera receives the last letter by mail.

Worried by the message, she asks her husband permission to go and say good-bye to Zheltkov, and the prince gives her permission. The Princess brings her dead fan a rose and the last kiss. The woman who gave Zheltkova apartment, she finds out where now is the decoration, which tried to present her a fan. It turns out that he bequeathed to hang the garnet bracelet rejected by his beloved next to the icon.

The brief content of the story can be reduced to the fact that in the life of each person there can be sincere, selfless love, and to understand its value can only be when a person experiencing such feelings is passing away.

Kuprin's work should be read completely. Since the play "The Pomegranate Bracelet" set forth in the summary can not contain all the wealth of the Russian language, which shows the story. In the original there are excellent descriptions, dialogues, additional lines of the plot and nuances that can not be transmitted in a condensed form.