Six months later, Nikolai is giving a farewell dinner for Pavel. During the preceding week, Arkady married Katya and Nikolai married Fenichka. At the party, “Everyone served everyone else with comical attentiveness as if they had agreed to act out some kind of naive comedy.” Pavel thanks everyone, embraces his brother, and bids them all farewell in English. Katya suggests to Arkady that they offer a secret toast in memory of Bazarov.
Turgenev briefly informs the reader what each of the characters has done with his life. Odintsova enters into a marriage of convenience with a lawyer and lives in great harmony and “perhaps love” with him. At Marino, the affairs are straightened out as Arkady takes over the farm and Nikolai tends to settling the arguments between the liberated serfs.
Pavel establishes himself in the highest circles of society in Dresden where he is know as “der Herr Baron von Kirsanov.” Sitnikov roams around St. Petersburg and claims to be continuing the “work” of Bazarov. In a remote corner of Russia, there is a cemetery where one can sometimes observe two old people visiting the grave where young Bazarov is buried.
