Summary is the basis of the reader's diary. It is it that is designed to remind the student of the most basic events in a read book. Therefore, the Literaguru team willingly prepares these textbooks to help young readers. In addition to the retelling, we recommend that you read the analysis of Bunin's "Dark Alleys" to make an original review.
(242 words) Once, a wagon drove up to a house in which there was a private room, where you could stay for the night and eat. An elderly military man emerged from it, whose appearance resembled Alexander II, as was fashionable among employees during the reign of this emperor. The man was still handsome, despite his age.
The traveler entered the house, shouted to the owners, and soon met a dark-haired and black-browed woman of an age who was also attractive beyond her years. Outwardly, she looked like an elderly gypsy. The lady invited him to the table. The man asked if she was a widow, since she alone managed the household. The interlocutor said that she was never married and loves to conduct business and keep clean, because she lived in the manor house since childhood. She called the traveler Nikolai Alekseevich. He looked at her in surprise and blushed, recognizing Nadezhda, the lover of his youth, who had last seen about thirty years ago. It turned out that she still had feelings for him, she suffered because he had left her, and recalled how the young man read her poems about dark alleys. Nikolai himself was not happy: he loved his wife and hoped for a wonderful future for his son, but his wife left him for another, and a villain grew out of the child.
An old acquaintance said that she could not forgive Nikolai, because he was very dear to her. They decided not to recall the past, kissed each other's hands, and the man left. He thought about the beauty of his longtime lover, about what would have happened if he had married her, and shook his head.
