The Cherry Orchard summary of actions. Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard"

Comedy in four acts

CHARACTERS:

Ranevska Lyubov Andreevna, landowner.

Anya, her daughter, 17 years old.

Varya, her named daughter, is 24 years old.

Gaev Leonid Andreevich, brother of Ranevskaya.

Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich, merchant.

Trofimov Petr Sergeevich, student.

Simeonov-Pishchik Boris Borisovich, landowner.

Charlotte Ivanovna, governess.

Epikhodov Semyon Panteleevich, clerk.

Dunyasha, maid.

Firs, footman, old 87 years old.

Yasha, a young footman.

Events take place on the estate of L.A. Ranevskaya.

Act one

May, bloom cherry trees. It's starting to get light. In the room, which is still called the nursery, Lopakhin and Dunyasha are waiting for Ranevskaya to arrive. Lyubov Andreevna was abroad for five years and is now returning home. Almost everyone in the household, not excluding old man Firs, went to meet him at the station. The train is two hours late, Lopakhin says about Ranevskaya: “He is a kind person. Lightweight, simple person" She remembers how she pitied him, the boy, when he suffered from his father. Epikhodov enters with a bouquet and immediately drops it. The clerk complains that some kind of trouble happens to him every day: he lost a bouquet, knocked over a chair, bought boots the day before yesterday, and they squeak. He says strangely, incomprehensibly: “You see, excuse me on this word, which circumstance, by the way... It’s just wonderful.” They called it “twenty-two disasters.” While everyone is waiting for Ranevskaya, Dunyasha confesses to Lopakhin that Epikhodov proposed to her.

Finally two carriages arrive. Ranevskaya, Gaev, Simeonov-Pishchik, Anya, Varya, Charlotte appear; in a hurry, Firs passes, leaning on a stick, in an old livery and a high cape. Lyubov Andreevna joyfully looks around the old nursery, says through tears: “The nursery, my dear... I slept here when I was little... And now I’m like a little girl...” Varya, on whom, to tell the truth, the whole monastery rests , makes orders around the house (“Dunyasha, hurry up for coffee... Mother asks for coffee”), kindly says to his sister: “You’re home again. My heart has arrived! The beauty has arrived! Anya tells her how tired she is from her trip to Paris, to see her mother: “We arrive in Paris, it’s cold there, there’s snow. I speak French terrible. Mom lives on the fifth floor... she has some French people, paggies, an old priest with a book, and it’s smoky, uncomfortable... She’s already sold her dacha to Mentoni, she has nothing, nothing. I also didn’t have a penny left, we barely got there. And mom doesn't understand! We sit down at the station for lunch, and she demands the most expensive thing and gives the footmen a ruble each as a tip. Charlotte too. Yasha also demands a portion for himself. After all, mom has a footman, Yasha.” “We saw the scoundrel,” says Varya. She tells her sister the sad news: she failed to pay the interest on the estate and it will be sold.

Lopakhin looks in the door, and Anya asks Varya if he confessed to her, because Lopakhin loves Varya, so why can’t they get along? Varya shakes her head negatively: “I believe that nothing will work out for us. He has a lot to do, he has no time for me... If only you could marry a rich husband, and I would find peace, I would go into emptiness... then to Kyiv... and so I would go to holy places.” Yasha comes into the room. He tries to seem like a “man from abroad”, looks like a rake, speaks delicately (“can I pass here, sir?”). He makes a strong impression on Dunyasha; she flirts with Yasha, he tries to hug her.

Lyubov Andreevna cannot come to her senses: she feels happy that she is back in her home, that Varya is “still the same,” that the old servant Firs is still alive. She laughs with joy, recognizing familiar things: “I want to jump, wave my arms... God knows, I love my homeland, I love dearly, I couldn’t look out of the window, I kept crying... I won’t survive this joy... Shafonko my dear...my table.”

Lopakhin breaks the idyll: he reminds that the estate is being sold for debts, an auction is scheduled for August 22. Lopakhin offers a way out: the estate is located near the city; There is a railway nearby, a cherry orchard and the land can be divided into plots and rented out to summer residents. Ranevskaya and Gaev do not understand his proposal. Lopakhin explains: the owners are already loaning money for this project, and in the fall there won’t be a single free piece left - the summer residents will take it all. To tell the truth, some buildings will have to be demolished and the old cherry orchard will have to be cut down. The owners cannot allow this. “If there is something extraordinary in the entire province, it is our cherry orchard,” says Ranevskaya. Gaev adds that in “ Encyclopedic Dictionary"he is mentioned. Lopakhin explains that there is no other way out: either his project, or selling the estate along with the garden for debts, besides, the cherry tree gives birth once every two years, and there is nowhere to put it - no one is buying it. He still hopes to implement his plan, he proves that the summer resident “will take care of farming on his one tithe, and then the cherry orchard will become... rich, luxurious...”

“What nonsense,” Gaev is indignant and makes a magnificent speech dedicated to the hundred-year-old “noble closet”: “I greet your existence, which for more than a hundred years has been directed towards the bright ideals of goodness and justice; your silent call to fruitful work has not weakened for a hundred years, maintaining vigor in generations of our family, faith in a better future and nurturing in us the ideals of goodness...”

Everyone feels awkward. There is a pause. Gaev, who feels a little overwhelmed, resorts to his favorite “billiard vocabulary: “From a bullet to the right into the corner! I’m cutting it medium!” Varya brings Lyubov Andreevna two telegrams from Paris; and tears them up without reading them.

Charlotte Ivanovna comes into the room, in a white dress, very thin, with a lorgnette on her belt. Lopakhin wants to kiss her hand; the governess coos: “If I allow you to kiss my hand, then you will then wish on the elbow, then on the shoulder...” Lopakhin succeeds by proposing to resolve the issue regarding the dachas after all. Taking advantage of the pause, Pischik tries to beg Ranevskaya for a loan of two hundred and forty rubles (he is completely in debt, and all his thoughts are aimed at getting money somewhere to pay interest on the deposit). Lyubov Andreevna says in confusion that she has no money. But Pischik never loses hope: somehow he thought that everything was lost, but here a railway was built through his land, and he was paid, and now, maybe his daughter will win two hundred thousand, because she owes a ticket.

Varya opens the window into the garden. Ranevskaya looks into the garden, laughs with joy: “Oh my garden! After a dark, stormy autumn and cold winter again you feel young, full of happiness, the heavenly angels have not abandoned you...” The brother reminds her that this beautiful garden, “strangely enough,” will be sold for debts. But Ranevskaya doesn’t seem to hear his words: “Look, the deceased mother is walking through the garden... in a white dress... No, there is no one, it seemed to me... What an amazing garden, white masses of flowers... blue sky... »

Petya Trofimov enters, former teacher Grisha, Ranevskaya's son, who drowned six years ago, at the age of seven. Lyubov Andreevna hardly recognizes him, he has become so haggard and aged during this time. Petya, who is not yet thirty, is called “the shabby gentleman” by everyone. “You were such a little boy then, a sweet student, but now you have sparse hair and glasses. Are you still a student? - “Perhaps I will be an eternal student.”

Varya tells Yasha that his mother has arrived from the village and is already there. The second day is a date with my son. Yasha dismissively says: “It’s very necessary. I could come tomorrow.”

Gaev, left alone with Varya, “wracks his brains” about where he can get money in order to avoid selling the estate. It would be good, he reasons, to receive an inheritance from someone, it would be good to give Anya to a rich man, it would be good to go to Yaroslavl and try his luck with the aunt-countess. He knows that his aunt has a lot of money, but, alas, she does not like her nephews. Lyubov Andreevna married as a lawyer, not a nobleman, and she behaved in a manner that cannot be said to be very respectable.” Gaev advises Ani. go to his Yaroslavl grandmother, and she will not be refused. An angry Firs appears; he still follows the gentleman like a little boy: he reproaches him for “wearing the wrong trousers” and for not going to bed on time. And now the old man appeared to remind Leonid Andreevich that it was time to go to bed. Gaev calms the old servant: “You go, Firse. So be it, I’ll unwind myself... I’m going, I’m going... From both sides to the middle! I’m putting a clean one...” He goes, Firs trots after him.

Act two

A crooked, long-abandoned chapel. You can see the road to the house. Far, far away on the horizon, a city is vaguely visible. The sun will set soon. On old bench Charlotte, Yasha and Dunyasha are sitting, lost in thought. Epikhodov plays the guitar. Charlotte talks about herself: she doesn’t know how old she is, because she doesn’t have a real passport, her parents are circus performers, and she herself knows how to “do different things,” after the death of her parents, a German family took her in and trained her to be a governess . “I really want to talk, but not with anyone... I don’t have anyone,” Charlotte sighs.

Epikhodov hums Dunyasha’s romance: “It would warm the heart with heat mutual love...”, but also tries to please Yasha, telling him what a blessing it must be to visit abroad. Yasha replies importantly: “I can’t disagree with you,” and lights a cigar. Dunyasha, under some pretext, sends away Epikhodov and, left alone with Yasha, admits that she has lost the habit of a simple life, “she has become tender, so delicate,” and if Yasha, whom she passionately loved, deceives her, Dunyasha does not know, what will happen to her. To this, Yasha, yawning, thoughtfully remarks: “In my opinion, it’s like this: if a girl loves someone, then it turns out that she is immoral...”

Ranevskaya and Gaev appear with Lopakhin, who is trying to get an answer from them to the question: do they agree to give up the lands or not? The brother and sister pretend not to hear him. Lyubov Andreevna does not understand where the money is spent (“Yesterday there was a lot of money, but today there is very little”), she is offended that she spends it somehow absurdly, while Varya, saving, feeds everyone milk soup. Lopakhin again returns to the old topic, reports that the rich Deriganov will come to the auction. Gaev waves it off: the Yaroslavl aunt promised to send money, though not more than fifteen thousand. Lopakhin begins to lose patience. “I have never met such frivolous people like you, gentlemen,” he tells them. “I have never met such unbusinesslike, strange people. They tell you in Russian that your estate is for sale, but you don’t seem to understand.” Lyubov Andreevna agrees that something needs to be done, but “dachas and summer residents are so vulgar!” Lopakhin: “I’ll either burst into tears, or scream, or lose consciousness... You tortured me!”

Ranevskaya begins to feel anxious and talks about her “sins,” for which she apparently received punishment. She always spent money without counting it. Her husband died from champagne. Lyubov Andreevna fell in love with another, became friends with him, and it was at that time that her son drowned in the river; Lyubov Andreevna went abroad never to return. The man she loved followed her. She bought a dacha near Mentoni, treated him for three years, spent all her money, in the end they sold the dacha for debts, and this man left her and got along with someone else; Lyubov Andreevna wanted to poison herself... .

Firs arrives: he brought a coat for Gaev - because the air is humid. Firs recalls ancient times; then everything was clear: the men were with the popes, the gentlemen with the men, but “now everything is scattered.” Gaev talks about his next project - they promised to introduce him to a general who lends money. Even his sister no longer believes him: “He’s delusional. There are no generals."

Trofimov appears. He resumes the conversation he started the day before with Gaivim and Ranevskaya. “We need to stop admiring ourselves,” he says. “We just need to work... Humanity moves forward, improving its strength. Everything that is unattainable for him now will someday become close and understandable, but he just has to work... Here in Russia, very few people work yet. The vast majority of the intelligentsia that I know are not looking for anything, are not doing anything and are not yet capable of work... Everyone is serious, everyone has carved faces, everyone talks about important things, philosophizes, and yet in front of everyone the workers eat disgustingly ... everywhere there is stench, dampness, moral impurity... all the beautiful conversations we have are only to avert the eyes of ourselves and others... There is only dirt, vulgarity, Asian stuff... I'm afraid of serious conversations... It's better to keep silent ! Lopakhin, agreeing with the “eternal student” that there are few honest people, believes, however, that Petya’s words do not concern him: he, Lopakhin, works from morning to night.

Gaev, as if reciting, is trying to deliver a touching speech: “O naturally strange one, you shine with eternal radiance...” and further in the same spirit. Trofimov ironically remarks to him: “You are better than a yellow doublet in the middle.” Everyone falls silent. You can only hear Firs quietly muttering. Suddenly a distant sad sound is heard, which fades away, like the sound of a jet bursting. Lyubov Andreevna shudders. Firs says that before the “misfortune” (that is, before the peasants received their freedom) there was: the owl was screaming, and the samovar was humming...” A drunk passer-by appears and asks for “thirty kopecks”; Lyubov Andreevna, taken aback, gives him a gold one. To Varya’s reproaches (“People have nothing to eat at home, but you are golden to him”), Rapevska answers in confusion: “What should I do with me, stupid!” - and invites everyone to dinner.

Petya and Anya are left alone. Petya assures the girl that they are above love, that the goal of their life is to bypass those small and deceptive things that prevent them from being free and happy, calls on her to continuously go “to the bright star that burns there in the distance”: “All of Russia is our garden. The earth is great and beautiful... Think, Anya: your grandfather, great-grandfather and all your ancestors were. kriposniks who owned living souls. And don’t human beings look at you from every cherry tree in the garden, from every leaf, from every trunk, don’t you really hear voices... Owning living souls - after all, this has reborn all of you who lived before and are living now. So your mother, you, and uncle no longer notice that you are living on credit, at other people’s expense, at the expense of those people whom you do not allow further than the hallway... We are at least two hundred years behind. We have nothing at all, no definite relationship to the past, we only philosophize, complain about melancholy or drink vodka. It’s so clear: in order to begin to live in modern times, we must first redeem our past, put an end to it, and we can redeem it only through suffering, only through unusual, continuous labor.” He calls on Anya to believe him, “throw the keys to the farm into the well” and be “free like the wind.”

Epikhodov can be heard playing a sad song on the guitar. The moon is rising. Somewhere nearby, Varya is calling Anya... Petya Trofimov talks about happiness: “...I can already hear his steps. And if we don’t see him, don’t recognize him, then what kind of trouble is it? Others will see him!”

Act three

There is a ball in the living room of Ranevskaya's house. The chandelier is burning brightly, the orchestra is playing, couples are dancing. Firs in a tailcoat carries seltzer water on a tray. Varya sighs bitterly: they hired musicians, but there is nothing to pay. Pishchik, as always, is looking for someone to borrow money from: “I’m now in such a situation that at least make counterfeit pieces of paper...” Charlotte shows Petya and Pishchik card tricks and demonstrates how to draw cards.

Today the auction was supposed to take place in the city, and Ranevskaya is looking forward to her brother, who went there with Lopakhin. The Yaroslavl aunt sent Gaev an order for him to buy the estate in her name, Ani. But this meager fifteen thousand, unfortunately, would not even be enough to pay the interest on the debts. Trofimov teases Varya, calling her “Madame Lopakhina.” Lyubov Andreevna picks up this topic: why shouldn’t Varya really marry Ermolai Alekseevich, he’s kind, interesting person. Varya, almost crying, replies that it is not for her to confess to him: “For two years now everyone has been telling me about him, everyone is talking, but he is either silent or joking...” Petya complains to Ranevskaya about Varya: and all summer she didn’t give him and Anya peace because she was afraid that “a romance wouldn’t work out” between them, but she and Anya were “higher than love.” Lyubov Andreevna hardly hears him; her thoughts are only occupied with the fact that the estate has been sold. She tells Petya that he is young, has not had time to suffer” and therefore cannot understand her: she was born here, her ancestors lived here, she cannot imagine her life without the cherry orchard... “I would willingly give Anya for you, I swear to you , only, my dear, you have to study, you have to finish the course. You do nothing, only fate throws you from place to place...”

Lyubov Andreevna takes out her handkerchief, and a telegram falls to the floor. She admits to Petya that he “ bad person“He’s sick again, calls her to Paris, bombards her with telegrams. What can you do, she loves him. She understands that this is a “stone on her neck,” but she goes to the bottom with it and cannot live without this stone. Petya, through tears, reminds Ranevskaya that that man is a petty scoundrel, he ripped her off, but she does not want to hear this, closes her ears and angrily tells Trofimov that at his age you should already have a mistress, that he is just a “clean”, incompetent. Petya, horrified by what he heard, walks away.

In the hall, a figure in a gray top hat and checkered trousers is waving his arms and jumping - this is entertaining the guests, Charlotte Ivanovna. Epikhodov talks with Dunyasha. “You, Avdotya Feodorovna, don’t want to see me... as if I’m some kind of insect,” he sighs. “Of course, maybe you’re right... But if you look from your point of view, then you, let me put it this way, forgive me for my frankness, they completely brought me into a state of mind...” Dunyasha, playing with a fan: “I beg you, we’ll talk later, but now give me peace. Now I'm dreaming..."

Finally Gaev and Lopakhin arrive. Lyubov Andreevna, worried, rushes to them: “Well? Was there any bidding? Gaev, without answering anything, waves his hands; he's almost crying. When asked by Ranevskaya who bought the cherry orchard, Lopakhin briefly answers: “I bought it.” There is a pause. Lyubov Andreevna is shocked and almost falls; Varya takes the keys from her belt, throws them on the floor and leaves.

Lopakhin laughs with joy: “My God, Lord, my cherry orchard!.. If only my father and grandfather had risen from their graves and looked at everything that had happened, how their Ermolai, beaten, illiterate Ermolai bought an estate, the most beautiful of which there is nothing in the world.” light. I bought an estate where my father and grandfather were slaves, where they were not even allowed into the kitchen. I’m dreaming, I’m only imagining this, it’s only seeming... We’ll set up dachas, and our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will see here new life...Musician, play!”

Lyubov Andreevna is crying bitterly. Music plays quietly. Anya approaches her mother and kneels in front of her: “My dear, kind, good mother!.. The cherry orchard is sold, it’s no longer there... but don’t cry, mom, you still have a life ahead of you, your kind one remains, a pure soul... We will plant new garden, who will be more luxurious for this, you will see him, you will understand, and joy, quiet, deep joy will descend on your soul, like the sun in the evening, and you will smile, mom!..”

Act four

There are no curtains or paintings in the “children’s room”; the furniture that remains is pushed into a corner. It feels empty. Suitcases are stacked at the door. When leaving they pack their things. To hear Gaev’s voice: “Thank you, brothers, thank you,” the men came to say goodbye. Lyubov Andreevna, saying goodbye, gives them her wallet. "I could not! I could not!" - she says to her brother making excuses.

Lopakhin reminds them that it’s time to get ready for the station. He himself is also leaving for the winter in Kharkov: “I kept hanging around with you, I’m tired of doing nothing... I can’t do it without difficulty, I don’t know what to do with my hands...” Petya Trofimov is going back to Moscow, to the university, and Lopakhin offers him money for travel, but he refuses: “Give me at least two hundred thousand, I won’t take it. I am a free person... I can do without you, I can pass by you, I am strong and proud. Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness that is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront,” Lopakhin: “Will you get there?” Trofimov: “I’ll get there or I’ll show others how to get there.” You can hear an ax knocking on a tree in the distance. Lopakhin, saying goodbye to Petya, reports that Gaev has received a position at the bank, with a salary of six thousand a year, “but he can’t sit still because he’s very lazy...”

Dunyasha is constantly busy with things; Left alone with Yasha, she, crying, throws herself on his neck: “You are going... leaving me...” Yasha, drinking a glass of champagne for the road that Lopakhin bought, says importantly: “This is not for me, not I can live.... Nothing can be done... I've seen enough of ignorance - I've had enough. Why cry? Behave decently, then you won’t cry.” Lyubov Andreevna, Gaev, Anya and Charlotte Ivanovna enter, Ranevskaya is worried, they sent the sick Firs to the hospital, Anya assures her: “Yasha said that the old man was taken away in the morning.” Lyubov Andreevna says goodbye to her daughter: “My girl, we’ll see you soon... I’m going to Paris, I’ll live there with the money that your Yaroslavl grandmother sent to buy the estate - long live grandma! “And this money won’t last long.” Apya, kissing her mother’s hand, reassures her: she will pass the exam at the gymnasium, will work and help her mother: “We will read in the autumn evenings, we read a lot of books, and a new, wonderful world will open up before us,” Anya dreams. “Mom, come.” .."

Charlotte, cradling a bundle that looks like a baby's swaddling clothes and quietly humming a song, complains that she now has nowhere to live. Lopakhin promises to find a place for her too. Suddenly, short of breath Simeonov-Pishchik appears and begins to repay everyone’s debts. It turns out that “the most unusual event” happened: the British found white clay on his land, he gave them the plot for twenty-four years and now has money.

“Well, now we can go,” Lyubov Andreevna concludes. True, she still has one more “sadness” left - Varya’s unsettled situation. Ranevskaya begins a conversation with Lopakhin on this topic: “She loves you, you like her, and I don’t know, I don’t know why you seem to be kissing each other.” Lopakhin replies that he is “at least ready now.” Lyubov Andreevna arranges a face-to-face meeting for Lopakhina and Varya. Some strange and awkward conversation takes place between them: Varya is looking for something among the things, says that she has gone to the Ragulins as housekeepers; Lopakhin says something about the weather, reports that he is going to Kharkov. There is a pause. At this time, someone calls Lopakhin, and he, supposedly waiting for this call, leaves without making an offer. Varya, sitting on the floor, quietly sobs, resting her head on a bundle of clothes.

Lyubov Andreevna enters, already prepared for the journey, followed by all the household and servants. Epikhodov is busy with a circle of things. Gaev, afraid to cry, excitedly mutters: “Train... station... Croise in the middle, white doublet in the corner...” Left alone, Ranevskaya and Gaev, supposedly waiting, rush to each other and restrainedly, quietly sob. “My sister, my sister...” - “Oh my dear, my tender, beautiful garden! My life. My. youth, my happiness, goodbye!.. Farewell!..” From afar, the excited voices of Anya and Petya Trokhimov sound, they are calling... The door to the house is locked with a key... You can hear the carriages driving away. There is silence.

A sick Firs appears, whom everyone had forgotten in the house. He sighs worriedly: “...Leonid Andreevich, apparently, didn’t put on a fur coat, he went in a coat... Life passed, as if he had never lived...” he mutters. “To hear a distant sound, as if from the sky, the sound of a string that has broken, sad, it freezes. There is silence, and you can only hear how far away. garden they knock on a tree with an ax.”

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The cherry orchard on the estate of Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya had to be sold due to debts. Ranevskaya and her daughter Anya, about seventeen years old, had been living abroad for several years. The house was looked after by Lyubov’s brother Leonid Gaev and Varya, a girl of twenty-four years old who was once adopted by Ranevskaya. Lyubov had almost no money left, life was not going well: her husband died, her son Grisha died, the man she loved fell ill, and then he robbed her and abandoned her.

The brother and daughter met the arrival of Lyubov and Anna, and the governess was already waiting at home

Dunyasha and the merchant Ermolai Lopakhin, as he put it, became rich, but remained the same man. Epikhodov, an employee who has a tendency to constantly find trouble for himself, also came.

The carriages arrived, the house was filled with people, each of whom enthusiastically talked about something different. Having started talking about selling the estate, Ermolai Alekseevich offered to rent out plots of land. But Lyubov does not want to hear about the cutting down of her beloved garden. Lopakhin, loving Ranevskaya, wants to stay, but is forced to leave. Arrived Pyotr Trofimov, once former Grishin teacher, changed beyond recognition.

Everyone has left, leaving Varya and Gaev, who begins to blame his sister for not finding a nobleman’s husband. Anya, who heard the conversation, is dissatisfied with the words. Gaev begins to plan how he will get the money, claiming that he will not allow the garden to be sold.

After breakfast in the city, Lopakhin with Lyubov and Leonid stop at the chapel where Epikhodov recently confessed his love to Dunyasha, who, however, gave her preference to the footman Yasha. Lopakhin never convinces them to agree to the lease.

Anya, Varya and Petya arrive. The conversation comes about pride, Trofimov does not see the point in it, he is dissatisfied with the way noble people communicate with the working class. First Lopakhin tries to express his opinion, then Ranevskaya, but none of them listens to the others, so at some point there is silence.

Anya and Trofimov are left alone, rejoicing in the absence of Vika. Trofimov convinces Anya that the value of freedom surpasses love, and happiness in the present can only be achieved by redeeming the past with labor.

It's time for the auction. On the same day, out of luck, a ball is held at the estate. An excited Ranevskaya is waiting for Leonid, but the money sent by her aunt was not enough to buy out the estate.

Trofimov calms the crying Ranevskaya, who considers the garden the meaning of her life. Love begins to think about the possibility of returning to the man who deceived her. Petya judges Ranevskaya's love for a thief. Angry, Love, in revenge, calls him a funny eccentric and similar words, asserts the need to fall in love. But then she asks for his forgiveness and dances with him.

A joyful Lopakhin and a depressed Gaev arrive, who immediately leaves. The buyer of the estate turns out to be Ermolai, who is happy and wants to cut down the cherry orchard.

Ranevskaya and Gaev became somewhat more cheerful after the sale of the garden was so exciting to them. Lyubov intends to live in Paris with money that was not useful for trading. Anya is happy at the thought of starting a new life. Simeonov-Pishchik appears and, surprising everyone, begins to distribute debts.

Time has passed. Gaev began working in a bank. Lopakhin hires Charlotte and Epikhodov, Varya and Lopakhin like each other, but Ermolai does not dare to make a move. The house is empty; the old servant Firs remains in it, whom they wanted to send to the hospital, but forgot. Sighing, upset at Gaev’s departure in his coat, he remains motionless. In the ensuing calm, the crackling sound of trees being felled with an ax is heard.

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Main characters

Ranevskaya Lyubov Andreevna- a landowner who left her estate after the tragic death of her son. A lonely middle-aged woman, prone to rash and frivolous actions, living in an ideal world, unwilling to accept a reality that could hurt her.

Anya- seventeen-year-old daughter of Ranevskaya. A young, sensible girl who understands that reality has changed, and she must adapt to a new life, which cannot be started to build without breaking with the past.

Gaev Leonid Andreevich- brother of Ranevskaya. Loves to talk about everything in the world. Very often he speaks out of place, which is why he is perceived as a buffoon and asked to remain silent. Outlook on life is the same as that of my sister.

Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich- a merchant, a very wealthy man, a typical representative of bourgeois Russia. The son of a village shopkeeper with the business acumen and flair with which he made his fortune. At the same time, he cannot boast of education.

Varya- Ranevskaya’s adopted daughter, who dreams of making a pilgrimage to holy places. During her mother's absence, she acted as the mistress of the house.

Trofimov Petr Sergeevich- student, former teacher of Grisha (Ranevskaya’s son), who died in childhood. An eternal student who loves to think about the fate of Russia, about what is right and wrong. Very progressive thoughts, but does not take any action to implement them.

Other characters

Simeonov-Pishchik Boris Borisovich- a landowner, Ranevskaya’s neighbor, like her, completely in debt.

Charlotte Ivanovna– governess, spent her childhood in the circus where her parents worked. He knows a lot of tricks and tricks, loves to demonstrate them, does not understand why he lives and constantly complains about the lack of a soul mate.

Epikhodov Semyon Panteleevich- a clerk, very clumsy, “22 misfortunes”, as those around him call him, in love with Dunyasha.

Dunyasha- housemaid. A young girl, thirsty for love, tries to behave like a young lady, “a gentle creature accustomed to gallant treatment.”

Firs- a footman, an old man of 87 years old, who served the family of Ranevskaya and Gaev all his life, who refused to create his own hearth and acquire freedom.

Yasha- a young footman who imagines himself to be a very important person after a trip abroad. An arrogant, dissolute young man.

The play consists of 4 acts that take place on the L.A. estate. Ranevskaya.

Action 1

The first action of The Cherry Orchard takes place in “a room that is still called the nursery.”

Early May dawn. It’s still cold, but the cherry orchard has already blossomed, filling everything around with aroma. Lopakhin (who slept through the trip to the railway station) and Dunyasha are waiting for the arrival of Ranevskaya, who has spent the last 5 years abroad with her daughter Anya, the governess, and the footman Yasha. Lopakhin remembers Lyubov Andreevna as an easy-going and simple person. He immediately tells about his fate, saying that his father was a simple man, and he was “in a white vest and yellow shoes.” Without hesitation, he mentions that, despite his wealth, he did not receive an education. But at the same time he reproaches Dunyasha for dressing like a young lady and behaving inappropriately for a maid. Dunyasha is very excited about the arrival of her owners. Epikhodov suddenly comes in with a bouquet. Dunyasha tells Lopakhin that Epikhodov had previously proposed to her.

Finally the crews arrive. In addition to those who arrived, other characters from the play “The Cherry Orchard” appear on stage, who met them at the station - Gaev, Varya, Semeonov-Pishchik and Firs.

Anya and Lyubov Andreevna are glad to be back. We are glad that nothing has changed around, the situation is so unchanged that it feels like they never left. A lively bustle begins in the house. Dunyasha happily tries to tell Anya what happened in their absence, but Anya shows no interest in the maid's chatter. The only thing that interested her was the news that Petya Trofimov was visiting them.

From the conversations in the first act, it becomes clear that Ranevskaya is now in extreme distress. She has already been forced to sell her overseas property, and in August her estate with a cherry orchard will be sold for debts. Anya and Varya discuss this and understand how deplorable their situation is, while Lyubov Andreevna, not used to saving, just sighs and listens to Firs’ memories of how they used to sell cherries and what they cooked from them. Lopakhin proposes to cut down the cherry orchard, and divide the territory into plots and rent them out as dachas to city residents. Lopakhin promises “at least twenty-five thousand a year in income.” However, Lyubov Andreevna and her brother are categorically against such a decision; they value their garden: “If there is anything interesting, even wonderful, in the entire province, it is only our cherry orchard.” And yet Lopakhin invites them to think and leaves. Gaev hopes that it will be possible to borrow money to pay off debts, and during this time he will be able to establish relations with the rich aunt countess and, with her help, finally resolve financial problems.

In the same action, Petya Trofimov appears, passionately in love with Anya.

Act 2

The second action of “The Cherry Orchard” takes place in nature, near an old church, from where there is a view of the cherry orchard and the city visible on the horizon. A lot of time has passed since Ranevskaya’s arrival; only a few days remain before the auction for the sale of the garden. During this time, Dunyasha’s heart was conquered by Yasha, who is in no hurry to advertise the relationship and is even shy about it.

Epikhodov, Charlotte Ivanovna, Dunyasha and Yasha are walking. Charlotte talks about her loneliness, that there is no person with whom she could have a heart-to-heart talk. Epikhodov feels that Dunyasha gives preference to Yasha and is very upset by this. It hints that he is ready to commit suicide. Dunyasha is passionately in love with Yasha, but his behavior shows that for him this is just a passing hobby.

Ranevskaya, Gaev, Lopakhin appear near the church. Gaev discusses the advantages railway, which allowed them to easily get into town and have breakfast. Lopakhin asks Lyubov Andreevna to give an answer about renting the estate’s lands, but she doesn’t seem to hear him, talking about the lack of money and scolding herself for spending it unreasonably. At the same time, a little later, after these considerations, he gives a gold ruble to a random passerby.

Ranevskaya and Gaev are waiting for a money transfer from Aunt Countess, but the amount is not enough to pay off their debts, and renting out the land to summer residents is not acceptable for them, it’s even vulgar. Lopakhin is surprised at the frivolity and short-sightedness of their behavior, it even angers him, because the estate is for sale, and if you start leasing it, then this will be the best guarantee for any bank. But the landowners do not hear and do not understand what Lopakhin is trying to convey to them. Lyubov Andreevna reproaches the merchant for his lack of education and down-to-earth judgment. And then he tries to marry Varya to him. Gaev, as always at the wrong time, reports that he was offered a job at a bank, but his sister besieges him, saying that he has nothing to do there. Old Firs comes, remembers his youth and how good life was under serfdom, everything was clear and understandable: who is the master and who is the servant.

Then Varya, Anya and Petya join the walkers. And yesterday’s conversation continues about pride, about intellectuals who, despite their outward education, are essentially small and uninteresting creatures. It becomes clear how different people gathered together.

When everyone went home, Anya and Petya were left alone, and then Anya admitted that the cherry orchard was not that important to her, and that she was ready for a new life.

Act 3

The third act of The Cherry Orchard takes place in the living room in the evening.

An orchestra is playing in the house, couples are dancing around. All characters here, except for Lopakhin and Gaev. August 22 is the day on which the auction for the sale of the estate was scheduled.

Pishchik and Trofimov are talking, they are interrupted by Lyubov Andreevna, she is extremely excited, waiting for her brother to return from the auction, he is delayed. Ranevskaya wonders whether the auction took place and what its result was.

Was the money sent by the aunt enough to buy out the estate, although she understands that 15 thousand is not enough, which will not even be enough to pay off the interest on the debts. Charlotte Ivanovna entertains those present with her tricks. Yasha asks to go to Paris with his hostess, as he is burdened by the surrounding rudeness and lack of education. The atmosphere in the room is nervous. Ranevskaya, anticipating her imminent departure to France and meeting her lover, is trying to sort out the lives of her daughters. She also prophesies Lopakhin to Varya, and would not mind marrying Anya off to Petya, but she is afraid of his incomprehensible position as an “eternal student.”

At this moment, a dispute arises that you can lose your head for the sake of love. Lyubov Andreevna reproaches Petya for being “above love,” and Petya reminds her that she is striving for an unworthy person who has already robbed and abandoned her once. Although there is no exact news yet about the sale of the house and garden, it is felt that everyone present has decided what they will do if the garden is sold.

Epikhodov is trying to talk to Dunyasha, who has completely lost interest in him; Varya, who is just as excited as her adoptive mother, drives him away, reproaching him for being too free for a servant. Firs is fussing around, serving treats to the guests, everyone notices that he is not feeling well.

Lopakhin enters, barely hiding his joy. He arrived with Gaev, who was supposed to bring news from the auction. Leonid Andreevich is crying. The news of the sale is reported by Ermolai Alekseevich. He's the new owner! And after that he gives vent to his feelings. He is delighted that the most beautiful estate, in which his grandfather and father were slaves, now belongs to him, and he can allow himself to do whatever he wants in it, the owner of not only the estate, but also life: “I can pay for everything.” ! He can’t wait to start cutting down the garden in order to build dachas in its place, and this is the new life that he sees.

Varya throws away the keys and leaves, Lyubov Andreevna sobs, Anya tries to console her, saying that there is still a lot of good things ahead, and life goes on.

Act 4

Act four begins in the nursery, but it is empty, except for luggage and things prepared for removal in the corner. The sound of trees being cut down can be heard from the street. Lopakhin and Yasha are waiting for them to appear former owners, to whom their former peasants came to say goodbye. Lopakhin sees off the Ranevskaya family with champagne, but no one has the desire to drink it. All characters have different moods. Lyubov Andreevna and Gaev are sad, Anya and Petya are looking forward to the beginning of a new stage of life, Yasha is glad that he is leaving his homeland and mother, which is boring to him, Lopakhin can’t wait to close the house as soon as possible and start the project that he has in mind. The former owner holds back her tears, but when Anya says that after the sale of the estate it only became easier for everyone, since they were all able to understand where to move next, everyone agrees with her. Now everyone is going to Kharkov together, and there the heroes’ paths will diverge. Raevskaya and Yasha are leaving for Paris, Anya is going to study, Petya is going to Moscow, Gaev has agreed to serve in a bank, Varya has found a job as a housekeeper in a nearby town. Only Charlotte Ivanovna is not settled, but Lopakhin promises to help her get settled. He took Epikhodov to his place to help resolve issues with the estate. Of the former inhabitants of this house, the only one who is not fussing is the sick Firs, who was supposed to be taken to the hospital in the morning, but because of the commotion they cannot figure out whether he was taken there or not.

Pischik runs in for a minute, to the surprise of everyone, he repays his debt to Lopakhin and Ranevskaya, and says that he leased his land to the British for the extraction of rare white clay. And he admits that handing over the estate’s lands was like jumping off a roof for him, but after handing over, nothing terrible happened.

Lyubov Andreevna makes one last attempt to arrange the marriage of Lopakhin and Varya, but left alone, Lopakhin never proposes, and Varya is very upset. The crews arrived and the loading of things began. Everyone comes out, only the brother and sister are left to say goodbye to the house in which they spent their childhood and youth, they sob, hugging each other, saying goodbye to the past, dreams and memories, to each other, realizing that their lives have changed irrevocably.

The house is closed. And then Firs appears, who was simply forgotten in this turmoil. He sees that the house is closed and he has been forgotten, but he has no anger at the owners. He simply lies down on the sofa and soon dies.
The sound of a string breaking and an ax hitting wood. A curtain.

Conclusion

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The great Russian writer was not only a magnificent prose writer, but also an outstanding playwright. Chekhov's plays are still part of the classical repertoire of Russian and foreign drama theaters today.

One of the striking examples of this facet of the talent of a classic of Russian literature is the play “The Cherry Orchard,” a brief summary of which can be summarized in a few minutes, although it lasts about three hours on stage. “The Cherry Orchard” is quite interesting to read, but it is much more interesting to see the actors play in the theater.

The play “The Cherry Orchard” is the last.

This is interesting! Chekhov wrote “The Cherry Orchard” in 1903 in Yalta, where, suffering from tuberculosis in the last stage, he lived out his days. And “The Cherry Orchard” was staged for the first time on the stage of the Moscow Art Academic Theater (MKhAT) at next year, which became the year of Anton Pavlovich’s death.

The author himself classified the work as a comedy, although essentially there is nothing funny in it. Plot " Cherry Orchard"is rather dramatic. Moreover, tragic notes can be found in the content of the play, since we are talking about the ruin of an old noble family.

The time of action in the play “The Cherry Orchard” is the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, when a change in socio-economic formations took place in Russia. Feudalism, which ended with the abolition of serfdom, was replaced by the capitalist system, and during the period described, capitalism had already fully come into its own.

The rich bourgeoisie - merchants and people from the peasantry - on all fronts pressed the nobility, many of whose representatives turned out to be completely unadapted to the new conditions and did not understand the meaning and reasons for their emergence. The severity of the situation described in the play, with the ruling noble class gradually losing its economic and political influence, reached its peak in the first decade of the new century.

The characters in The Cherry Orchard are members of a noble family, once very rich, but now mired in debt and forced to sell their estate, as well as their servants. There is also a representative of the opposite side – the bourgeoisie.

Characters

The list of main characters of The Cherry Orchard includes:

1. Ranevskaya Lyubov Andreevna is the owner of the estate, a widow, an impressionable, exalted lady, accustomed to the luxury of former years and not realizing the tragedy of her new situation.
2. Anya is Ranevskaya’s own seventeen-year-old daughter. Despite her young age, the girl thinks much more soberly than her mother, realizing that life will never be the same.
3. Varya is the adopted twenty-four-year-old daughter of Ranevskaya. She tries to support the declining economy, voluntarily performing the duties of a housekeeper.
4. Leonid Andreevich Gaev is Ranevskaya’s brother, a playmaker with no specific activities, whose favorite pastime is playing billiards. Constantly inserts billiard words into his speech out of place. Prone to empty speeches and irresponsible promises. Outlooks on life are similar to those of my sister.
5. Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich, whose father was once a serf to Ranevskaya’s parents, is a man of modern times, a merchant. Lopakhin's business acumen helped him earn a fortune. He tries to tell Ranevskaya how to save herself from ruin, offering ideas for making a profit from a collapsing estate, but does not forget about her own benefit. He is considered Varya's fiancé, but is in no hurry to propose.
6. Trofimov Pyotr is an eternal student, who was once the teacher of Ranevskaya’s deceased son Grisha.

There are several minor characters; they can be presented in a brief description.

The first group consists of:

• Ranevskaya’s neighbor on the estate, Simeonov-Pishchik, who, like her, is in debt;
• clerk Epikhodov is an unlucky man nicknamed “22 misfortunes”;
• Ranevskaya's companion Charlotte Ivanovna is a former circus performer and governess, a woman “without family or tribe.”

The second consists of servants: the maid Dunyasha and two lackeys - old Firs, who still remembers serfdom, and young Yasha, who imagines himself an important person because he had the opportunity to visit abroad with Ranevskaya.

Summary

Important! Plan of the play " The Cherry Orchard"includes four actions. Its summary of actions can be read online.

Action 1

The arrival of the mistress from Paris is expected at the estate after a five-year absence. Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya left for France after her husband died from drinking, and then her little son died.

Finally everyone is home. A commotion begins: masters and servants walk through the rooms, carrying travel items. It seems to Ranevskaya that everything in her life has remained the same, but she is mistaken. The financial situation of the landowner has deteriorated greatly; there is a question of selling the family estate at auction along with the cherry orchard for debts.

Anya complains to Varya that her mother does not realize the seriousness of her financial problems and continues to spend money without thinking. For example, he agrees to lend money to Pishchik, who has nothing to pay the interest on the mortgage.

Petya Trofimov enters, this reminds Ranevskaya of her deceased son. Lyubov Andreevna is crying, everyone is trying to calm her down. The landowner notices that Trofimov has changed a lot over the past 5 years - he has aged and grown ugly.

To avoid financial ruin, Lopakhin advises building dachas on the site of a huge garden around the estate and renting them out. However, such a business proposal horrifies Lyubov Andreevna. Ermolai Alekseevich leaves. Everyone, one by one, goes to their rooms to go to bed.

Act 2

Time has passed since the owner’s return, and the sale of the estate is approaching, but no decisions have been made. Charlotte, the maid and footman Yasha are sitting on the bench. Epikhodov stands playing the guitar. Charlotte talks about her lonely life, then leaves the company. Epikhodov asks Dunyasha for a private conversation. Citing the coolness, the girl sends him to the house for a cape, and she confesses her love to Yasha, who is clearly not inclined to reciprocate. Noticing that the gentlemen are coming, Dunyasha leaves.

Ranevskaya, Gaev and Lopakhin approach. Ermolai Alekseevich again talks about the cherry orchard, but Gaev pretends not to understand. Lopakhin gets angry and wants to leave, Lyubov Andreevna holds him back, talking about her unhappy love. Then she says that Lopakhin needs to get married and proposes Varya as his bride, but he gets off with general words.

Trofimov, Anya and Varya approach. Lopakhin teases Trofimov, saying that he will soon be 50, but he is still a student and goes out with young ladies. Petya is sure that people who consider themselves intelligent are actually rude, vulgar and uneducated. Lopakhin agrees: there are very few honest and decent people in Russia.

Everyone except Anya and Petya leaves. Petya says that Russia, with its serfdom, was 200 years behind other countries. Trofimov reminds Anya that not so long ago her ancestors owned living people, and this sin can only be atone for by work. At this time, Varya’s voice is heard calling Anya, who, together with Petya, goes to the river.

Act 3

On the day of the auction, when the estate was to be sold, the hostess throws a ball. Charlotte Ivanovna entertains guests with magic tricks. Pischik, who came to the estate for the ball, still talks about money. Lyubov Andreevna is waiting for her brother to return from the auction, is worried that he has been gone for a long time, and says that the ball was started at the wrong time. Aunt Countess sent 15 thousand, but it won’t be enough.

Petya says that, regardless of whether the estate is sold today or not, nothing will change - the fate of the cherry orchard is decided. The former owner understands that he is right, but does not want to agree. She received a telegram from Paris from her lover, who fell ill again and asked her to return. Ranevskaya says that she still loves him.

In response to Petya’s surprise at how she can love a man who robbed and deceived her, she gets angry and says that Petya knows nothing about love, because at his age he doesn’t even have a mistress. Offended, Petya leaves, but then returns. The mistress of the estate asks for his forgiveness and goes to dance with him.

Anya enters and says that the auction has taken place and the estate has been sold. At this time, Gaev and Lopakhin return, who reports that he bought the estate. The landowner cries, Lopakhin tries to console her, then leaves with Pishchik. Anya reassures her mother, because life does not end with the sale of the estate, there is still a lot of good things ahead.

Act 4

Having sold the estate, the former owners are relieved - the painful issue has finally been resolved. The inhabitants of the sold estate leave it. Lopakhin is going to go to Kharkov, Petya decides to return to the university and continue his studies.

He refuses the money offered by Lopakhin, since a free person should not depend on anyone. Anya is also going to finish high school, start working and live a new life.

Her mother is going to return to France to live off her aunt's money. Yasha goes with her, Dunyasha says goodbye to him with tears. Gaev still takes the job - he will be a bank employee. Pischik arrives with unexpected news: a deposit of white clay was found on his land, he is now rich and can pay off his debts.

Lopakhin promises to help Charlotte find a new place, Varya also finds a job - she gets a job as a housekeeper on a neighboring estate. Epikhodov remains a clerk for the new owner of the estate. Ranevskaya tries to arrange an explanation between Lopakhin and Varya, but he avoids the conversation.

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Everyone leaves the house and forgets about Firs. The old servant lies down on the sofa to die and hears the sound of an ax - it’s the cherry orchard being cut down. This is how the play “The Cherry Orchard,” ironically called a comedy by the author, ends sadly.

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The play begins in May. We see a beautiful cherry orchard all in bloom. The owner of the estate and garden, Ranevskaya, and her seventeen-year-old daughter Anya last years was absent - living abroad. Friends, neighbors and servants prepare for Madame's long-awaited return. She fled the estate five years ago, after tragic death husband and little son. Now she is returning from France, where she was robbed and then abandoned by her lover, leaving her practically without a livelihood.

Leonid Andreevich Gaev, Ranevskaya’s brother, and his adopted daughter Varya remained on the estate all these years. They meet Lyubov Andreevna and her daughter Anya at the station.

Lopakhin and Epikhodov are waiting for them at home. Lopakhin talks about his own successes: he was born a serf, but managed to make a fortune for himself. Epikhodov is a clerk to whom something always happens and therefore he has the nickname “twenty-two misfortunes.”

Finally the carriages arrive at the house. Ranevskaya's friends and family rejoice at meeting Madame. Everyone is excited and everyone is trying to talk about something different. Lyubov Andreevna is also happy and looks around the familiar rooms with tears of emotion.

There is a lot in the novel storylines: romance between the former mentor of Ranevskaya’s son Trofimov and Anya; another romance is between Varya and Lopakhin; a love triangle between the maid Dunyasha, Yasha, and Epikhidov.

The main intrigue is Madame's debt. Neither she nor her brother have the money to pay the mortgage on the cherry orchard, and if they find a solution, the orchard will be auctioned off in August.
Lopakhin offers to rent out the plots to summer residents, but Madame is against it, she doesn’t want to cut down the garden. Spring turns to summer, and debts only grow, and there are no solutions to this problem.

Lopakhin continues to persuade Madame and Gaev to act according to his plan. They went to the city and on the way back stopped near the chapel. Before this, here on the bench, Epikhodov unsuccessfully explained himself to Dunyasha: she preferred Yasha, a young and cynical lackey. Neither Ranevskaya nor Gaev listen to Lopakhin; for them he is just entertainment. When Petya Trofimva, the former teacher of Ranevskaya’s drowned son, Anya and Varya arrive, the conversation turns to pride and the concept of “proud man.” Trofimov believes that a poor person has no point in being proud, he must work. Lopakhin interrupts him and says that there are very few decent people around. Following this, Ranevskaya interrupts him - no one wants to listen to each other, everyone speaks out about his own.

On August 22, on the day of the auction, a ball is thrown at the estate, which seems to be completely inappropriate. Lyubov Andreevna is anxiously awaiting her brother's return, she has 15 thousand rubles sent by Yaroslavl's aunt, but this is not enough to pay off her debts, but she still hopes for a miracle and believes that the cherry orchard will not be sold. At the ball, Charlotte Ivanovna entertains the guests. She teaches guests and servants to dance. Petya Trofimov reassures Ranevskaya, he understands that the sale of the garden cannot be avoided, but he condemns her for her love for a petty scoundrel, a lover who begs her to come to Paris again.

Finally Gaev and Lopakhin return. Lopakhin is cheerful and proud - he bought a cherry orchard. Furious, she proudly throws the keys on the floor and Lopakhin picks them up. Madame Ranevskaya is devastated; she cannot imagine life without a garden. Lopakhin cannot hide his happiness: he bought the estate where his family lived as serfs. Ironically, he encourages the participants to continue the celebration, even though the hosts are not in the mood. Anya consoles her mother, saying that despite the fact that the garden has been sold, there is still a whole life ahead, and there will be another garden.

All the inhabitants of the house are gradually leaving. Ranevskaya and Gaev even seemed to calm down after selling the garden. Lyubov Andreevna is going to Paris again, where she will live with her aunt’s money. Anya hopes for a new life after graduating from high school. Lopakhin is going to Kharkov, and Trofimov is going to Moscow for university. Simeonov-Pishchik, always asking to borrow money, suddenly pays off his debts, since the British found white clay in his land. Gaev becomes a bank employee. Varya gets a job as a housekeeper. She likes Lopakhin, but he, who also speaks wonderfully of Varya, still cannot explain himself to her, and Varya cannot propose to him first. Epikhodov remains to work on Lopakhin’s estate.