On the morning of July, a shabby chaise leaves the district town of the N province, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichyov, rector of the N church, Fr. Christopher the Syrian ("little long-haired old man") and Kuzmichyov's nephew, a nine-year-old boy Yegorushka, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of the collegiate secretary and Kuzmichyov's own sister, to enter the gymnasium at big city... Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher is going to sell wool, Yegorushka was captured on the way. He is sad to leave his native place and part with his mother. He is crying, but oh. Christopher consoles him, saying the usual words that teaching is light and ignorance is darkness.
Himself about. Christopher was educated: "I was not yet fifteen years old, but I already spoke and composed poems in Latin just the same as in Russian." He could have made a good church career, but his parents did not bless him for further studies. Kuzmichyov is against unnecessary education and considers sending Yegorushka to the city a whim of his sister. He could have put Yegorushka on the job without teaching.
Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher are trying to catch up with the wagon train and a certain Varlamov, a famous merchant in the district, who is richer than many landowners. They arrive at an inn, the owner of which, the Jew Moses Moiseich, fawns on the guests and even the boy (he gives him a gingerbread intended for the sick son of Naum). He " small man"for whom Kuzmichyov and the priest are real" gentlemen. "In addition to his wife and children, his brother Solomon lives in his house, a proud and offended man for the whole world. him suffering and under ...
On the morning of July, a shabby chaise leaves the district town of the N province, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichyov, rector of the N church, Fr. Christopher the Syrian ("little long-haired old man") and Kuzmichyov's nephew, a nine-year-old boy Yegorushka, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of a collegiate secretary and Kuzmichyov's sister, to enter a gymnasium in a big city. Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher is going to sell wool, Yegorushka was captured on the way. He is sad to leave his native place and part with his mother. He is crying, but oh. Christopher consoles him, saying the usual words that teaching is light and ignorance is darkness. Himself about. Christopher was educated: "I was not yet fifteen years old, but I already spoke and composed poems in Latin just the same as in Russian." He could have made a good church career, but his parents did not bless him for further studies. Kuzmichyov is against unnecessary education and considers sending Yegorushka to the city a whim of his sister. He could have put Yegorushka on the job without teaching.
Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher are trying to catch up with the wagon train and a certain Varlamov, a famous merchant in the district, who is richer than many landowners. They arrive at an inn, the owner of which, the Jew Moses Moiseich, fawns on the guests and even the boy (he gives him a gingerbread intended for the sick son of Naum). He is a “little man” for whom Kuzmichyov and the priest are real “gentlemen”. In addition to his wife and children, his brother Solomon lives in his house, a proud and offended man for the whole world. He burned his inherited money, and now he is the host of his brother, which causes him suffering and a semblance of masochistic pleasure. Moisey Moiseich scolds him, Fr. Christopher regrets, but Kuzmichyov despises.
While the guests are drinking tea and counting the money, Countess Dranitskaya, a very beautiful, noble, rich woman, who, as Kuzmichyov says, is “robbed” by some Pole Kazimir Mikhailich, comes to the inn: “... young but stupid. The wind goes on in my head. "
We caught up with the train. Kuzmichyov leaves the boy with the trainers and departs from Fr. Kuzmichev leaves the boy with the trainers and sets off from Fr. Christopher on business. Gradually, Yegorushka gets to know people new to him: Pantelei, an Old Believer and a very sedate person who eats separately from everyone with a cypress spoon with a cross on the handle and drinks water from an icon lamp; Emelyan, an old and harmless person; Dymov, a young unmarried guy, whom his father sends with a train so that he does not spoil himself at home; Vasya, a former singer who caught a cold in his throat and suffered from the inability to sing anymore; Kiryukhoy, nothing particularly remarkable man ... From their conversations at the halts, the boy understands that they all lived better before and went to work in the train because of need.
An important place in the story is occupied by the description of the steppe, reaching an artistic apotheosis in the scene of a thunderstorm, and the conversations of the observers. Panteley tells at night by the fire scary stories , allegedly from his life in the northern part of Russia, where he worked as a coachman for various merchants and always got on adventures with them in inns. There certainly lived robbers and cut merchants with long knives. Even the boy understands that all these stories are half-invented and, perhaps, not even by Pantelei himself, but for some reason he prefers to tell them, and not real events from his obviously difficult life. In general, as the convoy moves towards the city, the boy seems to get to know the Russian people again, and a lot seems strange to him. For example, Vasya has such keen eyesight that he can see animals and how they behave far from people; he eats a live "bean" (a type of small fish such as a gudgeon), while his face takes on an affectionate expression. There is something bestial and "out of this world" in him at the same time. Dymov suffers from an excess of physical strength. He is “bored,” and out of boredom he does a lot of evil: for some reason he kills a snake, although this, according to Panteley, is a great sin, for some reason it offends Yemelyan, but then asks for forgiveness, etc. Yegorushka does not love him and is afraid how he is slightly afraid of all these strangers for him men, except for Panteley. Yegorushka does not love him and is afraid, as he is slightly afraid of all these peasants who are strangers to him, except for Pantelei. Approaching the city, they finally meet “that very” Varlamov, about whom so much was mentioned before and who by the end of the story acquired a certain mythological connotation. In fact, he is an elderly merchant, businesslike and domineering. He knows how to deal with both peasants and landlords; very confident in himself and his money. Against his background, Uncle Ivan Ivanovich seems to Yegorushka "a little man", as Moisey Moiseich seemed against the background of Kuzmichyov himself. On the way, during a thunderstorm, Yegorushka caught a cold and fell ill. Fr. Christopher treats him in the city, and his uncle is very unhappy that all the troubles are added to the care of his nephew's arrangement. They are with about. Christopher profitably sold wool to the merchant Cherepakhin, and now Kuzmichyov regrets that he sold part of the wool at home at a lower price. He thinks only about money and this is very different from Fr. Christopher, who knows how to combine the necessary practicality with thoughts about God and the soul, love for life, knowledge, almost paternal tenderness for a boy, etc. Of all the characters in the story, he is the most harmonious. Yegorushka is attached to an old friend of his mother's, Nastasya Petrovna Toskunova, who has assigned a private house to her son-in-law and lives with her little granddaughter Katya in an apartment with "many images and flowers." Kuzmichev will pay her ten rubles a month for the maintenance of the boy. He has already applied to the gymnasium, entrance exams are due soon. After giving Yegorushka a dime, Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher leave. The boy somehow feels that Fr. He would never see Christopher again. “Yegorushka felt that with these people everything that had been experienced so far disappeared for him forever, like smoke; He sank down exhausted on the bench and with bitter tears greeted a new, unknown life, which was now beginning for him ... What will this life be like? "
On the morning of July, a shabby chaise leaves the district town of the N province, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichyov, rector of the N church, Fr. Christopher Syriysky ("little long-haired old man") and Kuzmichyov's nephew, a nine-year-old boy Yegorushka, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of a collegiate secretary and Kuzmichyov's sister, to enter a gymnasium in a big city. Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher is going to sell wool, Yegorushka was captured on the way. He is sad to leave his native place and part with his mother. He is crying, but oh. Christopher consoles him, saying the usual words that teaching is light and ignorance is darkness. Himself about. Christopher was educated: "I was not yet fifteen years old, but I already spoke and composed poems in Latin just the same as in Russian." He could have made a good church career, but his parents did not bless him for further studies. Kuzmichyov is against unnecessary education and considers sending Yegorushka to the city a whim of his sister. He could have put Yegorushka on the job without teaching.
Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher are trying to catch up with the wagon train and a certain Varlamov, a famous merchant in the district, who is richer than many landowners. They arrive at an inn, the owner of which, the Jew Moses Moiseich, fawns on the guests and even the boy (he gives him a gingerbread intended for the sick son of Naum). He is a “little man” for whom Kuzmichyov and the priest are real “gentlemen”. In addition to his wife and children, his brother Solomon lives in his house, a proud and offended man for the whole world. He burned his inherited money, and now he is the host of his brother, which causes him suffering and a semblance of masochistic pleasure. Moisey Moiseich scolds him, Fr. Christopher regrets, but Kuzmichyov despises.
While the guests are drinking tea and counting the money, Countess Dranitskaya, a very beautiful, noble, rich woman, who, as Kuzmichyov says, is “robbed” by some Pole Kazimir Mikhailich, comes to the inn: “... young but stupid. The wind goes on in my head. "
We caught up with the train. Kuzmichev leaves the boy with the trainers and sets off from Fr. Christopher on business. Gradually, Yegorushka gets to know people new to him: Pantelei, an Old Believer and a very sedate person who eats separately from everyone with a cypress spoon with a cross on the handle and drinks water from an icon lamp; Emelyan, an old and harmless person; Dymov, a young unmarried guy, whom his father sends with a train so that he does not spoil himself at home; Vasya, a former singer who caught a cold in his throat and suffered from the inability to sing anymore; Kiryukhoy, nothing particularly remarkable man ... From their conversations at the halts, the boy understands that they all lived better before and went to work in the train because of need.
An important place in the story is occupied by the description of the steppe, reaching an artistic apotheosis in the scene of a thunderstorm, and the conversations of the observers. Panteley at night by the fire tells scary stories, allegedly from his life in the northern part of Russia, where he worked as a coachman for various merchants and always got on adventures with them in inns. There certainly lived robbers and cut merchants with long knives. Even the boy understands that all these stories are half-invented and, perhaps, not even by Pantelei himself, but for some reason he prefers to tell them, and not real events from his obviously difficult life. In general, as the convoy moves towards the city, the boy seems to get to know the Russian people again, and a lot seems strange to him. For example, Vasya has such keen eyesight that he can see animals and how they behave far from people; he eats a live "bean" (a variety of small fish such as a gudgeon), while his face takes on an affectionate expression. There is something bestial and "out of this world" in him at the same time. Dymov suffers from an excess of physical strength. He is “bored,” and out of boredom he does a lot of evil: for some reason he kills a snake, although this, according to Panteley, is a great sin, for some reason it offends Yemelyan, but then asks for forgiveness, etc. Yegorushka does not love him and is afraid how he is slightly afraid of all these strangers for him men, except for Panteley.
Approaching the city, they finally meet “that very” Varlamov, about whom so much was mentioned before and who by the end of the story acquired a certain mythological connotation. In fact, he is an elderly merchant, businesslike and domineering. He knows how to deal with both peasants and landlords; very confident in himself and his money. Against his background, Uncle Ivan Ivanovich seems to Yegorushka "a little man", as Moisey Moiseich seemed against the background of Kuzmichyov himself.
On the way, during a thunderstorm, Yegorushka caught a cold and fell ill. Fr. Christopher treats him in the city, and his uncle is very unhappy that all the troubles are added to the care of his nephew's arrangement. They are with about. Christopher profitably sold wool to the merchant Cherepakhin, and now Kuzmichyov regrets that he sold part of the wool at home at a lower price. He thinks only about money and this is very different from Fr. Christopher, who knows how to combine the necessary practicality with thoughts about God and the soul, love for life, knowledge, almost paternal tenderness for a boy, etc. Of all the characters in the story, he is the most harmonious.
Yegorushka is attached to his mother's old friend Nastasya Petrovna Toskunova, who has assigned a private house to her son-in-law and lives with her little granddaughter Katya in an apartment with "many images and flowers." Kuzmichev will pay her ten rubles a month for the maintenance of the boy. He has already applied to the gymnasium, entrance exams are due soon. After giving Yegorushka a dime, Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher leave. The boy somehow feels that Fr. He would never see Christopher again. “Yegorushka felt that with these people everything that had been experienced so far disappeared for him forever, like smoke; He sank down exhausted on the bench and with bitter tears greeted a new, unknown life that was now beginning for him ... What will this life be like? "
© P.V. Basinsky
On the morning of July, a shabby chaise leaves the district town of the N province, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichev, rector of the N church, Fr. Christopher the Syrian ("little long-haired old man") and Kuzmichev's nephew, a nine-year-old boy Yegorushka, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of the collegiate secretary and Kuzmichev's own sister, to enter a gymnasium in a big city. Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher is going to sell wool, Yegorushka was captured on the way. He is sad to leave his native place and part with his mother. He is crying, but oh. Christopher consoles him, saying the usual words that teaching is light and ignorance is darkness. Himself about. Christopher was educated: "I was not yet fifteen years old, but I already spoke and composed poems in Latin just the same as in Russian." He could have made a good church career, but his parents did not bless him for further studies. Kuzmichev is against unnecessary education and considers sending Yegorushka to the city a whim of his sister. He could have put Yegorushka on the job without teaching.
Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher are trying to catch up with the wagon train and a certain Varlamov, a famous merchant in the district, who is richer than many landowners. They arrive at an inn, the owner of which, the Jew Moses Moiseich, fawns on the guests and even the boy (he gives him a gingerbread intended for the sick son of Naum). He is a “little man” for whom Kuzmichev and the priest are real “gentlemen”. In addition to his wife and children, his brother Solomon lives in his house, a proud and offended man for the whole world. He burned his inherited money, and now turned out to be the host of his brother, which causes him suffering and a semblance of masochistic pleasure. Moisey Moiseich scolds him, Fr. Christopher regrets, but Kuzmichev despises.
While the guests are drinking tea and counting their money, Countess Dranitskaya, a very beautiful, noble, rich woman, who, as Kuzmichev says, is “robbed” by some Pole Kazimir Mikhailich, comes to the inn: “... young but stupid. The wind goes on in my head. "
We caught up with the train. Kuzmichev leaves the boy with the trainers and departs from Fr. Christopher on business. Gradually Yegorushka gets to know people new to him: Pantelei, an Old Believer and a very sedate person who eats separately from everyone with a cypress spoon with a cross on the handle and drinks water from an icon lamp; Emelyan, an old and harmless person; Dymov, a young unmarried guy, whom his father sends with a train so that he does not spoil himself at home; Vasya, a former singer who caught a cold in his throat and suffered from the inability to sing anymore; Kiryukha, nothing particularly remarkable man ... From their conversations at the halts, the boy understands that they all used to live better and went to work in the train because of need.
An important place in the story is occupied by the description of the steppe, reaching an artistic apotheosis in the scene of a thunderstorm, and the conversations of the observers. Panteley at night by the fire tells scary stories, allegedly from his life in the northern part of Russia, where he worked as a coachman for various merchants and always got on adventures with them in inns. There certainly lived robbers and cut merchants with long knives. Even the boy understands that all these stories are half-invented and, perhaps, not even by Pantelei himself, but for some reason he prefers to tell them, and not real events from his obviously difficult life. In general, as the convoy moves towards the city, the boy seems to get to know the Russian people again, and a lot seems strange to him. For example, Vasya has such keen eyesight that he can see animals and how they behave far from people; he eats a live "bean" (a variety of small fish such as a gudgeon), while his face takes on an affectionate expression. There is something bestial and "out of this world" in him at the same time. Dymov suffers from an excess of physical strength. He is “bored,” and out of boredom he does a lot of evil: for some reason he kills a snake, although this, according to Panteley, is a great sin, for some reason it offends Yemelyan, but then asks for forgiveness, etc. Yegorushka does not love him and is afraid how he is slightly afraid of all these strangers for him men, except for Panteley.
Approaching the city, they finally meet "the very" Varlamov, about whom so much was mentioned before and who by the end of the story acquired a certain mythological connotation. In fact, he is an elderly merchant, businesslike and domineering. He knows how to deal with both peasants and landlords; very confident in himself and his money. Against his background, Uncle Ivan Ivanovich seems to Yegorushka "a little man", as Moisey Moiseich seemed against the background of Kuzmichev himself.
On the way, during a thunderstorm, Yegorushka caught a cold and fell ill. Fr. Christopher is treating him in the city, and his uncle is very dissatisfied that to all the troubles he also takes care of the arrangement of his nephew. They are with about. Christopher profitably sold wool to the merchant Cherepakhin, and now Kuzmichev regrets that he sold part of the wool at home at a lower price. He thinks only about money and this is very different from Fr. Christopher, who knows how to combine the necessary practicality with thoughts about God and the soul, love for life, knowledge, almost paternal tenderness for a boy, etc. Of all the characters in the story, he is the most harmonious.
Yegorushka is attached to an old friend of his mother's, Nastasya Petrovna Toskunova, who has assigned a private house to her son-in-law and lives with her little granddaughter Katya in an apartment with "many images and flowers." Kuzmichev will pay her ten rubles a month for the maintenance of the boy. He has already applied to the gymnasium, entrance exams are due soon. After giving Yegorushka a dime, Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher leave. The boy somehow feels that Fr. He would never see Christopher again. “Yegorushka felt that with these people everything that had been experienced so far disappeared for him forever, like smoke; He sank down exhausted on the bench and with bitter tears greeted a new, unknown life that was now beginning for him ... What will this life be like? "
Summary Chekhov's story "The Steppe"
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On the morning of July, a shabby chaise leaves the district town of the N province, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichyov, rector of the N church, Fr. Christopher the Syrian ("little long-haired old man") and Kuzmichyov's nephew, a nine-year-old boy Yegorushka, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of a collegiate secretary and Kuzmichyov's own sister, to enter a gymnasium in a big city. Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher is going to sell wool, Yegorushka was captured on the way. He is sad to leave his native place and part with his mother. He is crying, but oh. Christopher consoles him, saying the usual words that teaching is light and ignorance is darkness. Himself about. Christopher was educated: "I was not yet fifteen years old, but I already spoke and composed poems in Latin just the same as in Russian." He could have made a good church career, but his parents did not bless him for further studies. Kuzmichyov is against unnecessary education and considers sending Yegorushka to the city a whim of his sister. He could have put Yegorushka on the job without teaching.
Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher are trying to catch up with the wagon train and a certain Varlamov, a famous merchant in the district, who is richer than many landowners. They arrive at an inn, the owner of which, the Jew Moses Moiseich, fawns on the guests and even the boy (he gives him a gingerbread intended for the sick son of Naum). He is a "little man" for whom Kuzmichyov and the priest are real "gentlemen". In addition to his wife and children, his brother Solomon lives in his house, a proud and offended man for the whole world. He burned his inherited money, and now he is the host of his brother, which causes him suffering and a semblance of masochistic pleasure. Moisey Moiseich scolds him, Fr. Christopher regrets, but Kuzmichyov despises.
While the guests are drinking tea and counting their money, Countess Dranitskaya, a very beautiful, noble, rich woman, who, as Kuzmichyov says, is “robbed” by some Pole Kazimir Mikhailich, comes to the inn: “... young and stupid. and walks. "
We caught up with the train. Kuzmichev leaves the boy with the trainers and sets off from Fr. Christopher on business. Gradually, Yegorushka gets to know people new to him: Pantelei, an Old Believer and a very sedate person who eats separately from everyone with a cypress spoon with a cross on the handle and drinks water from an icon lamp; Emelyan, an old and harmless person; Dymov, a young unmarried guy, whom his father sends with a train so that he does not spoil himself at home; Vasya, a former singer who caught a cold in his throat and suffered from the inability to sing anymore; Kiryukhoy, nothing particularly remarkable man ... From their conversations at the halts, the boy understands that they all lived better before and went to work in the train because of need.
An important place in the story is occupied by the description of the steppe, reaching an artistic apotheosis in the scene of a thunderstorm, and the conversations of the observers. Panteley at night by the fire tells scary stories, allegedly from his life in the northern part of Russia, where he worked as a coachman for various merchants and always got on adventures with them in inns. There certainly lived robbers and cut merchants with long knives. Even the boy understands that all these stories are half-invented and, perhaps, not even by Pantelei himself, but for some reason he prefers to tell them, and not real events from his obviously difficult life. In general, as the convoy moves towards the city, the boy seems to get to know the Russian people again, and a lot seems strange to him. For example, Vasya has such keen eyesight that he can see animals and how they behave far from people; he eats a live "bean" (a variety of small fish such as gudgeon), while his face takes on an affectionate expression. In him there is something bestial and "out of this world" at the same time. Dymov suffers from an excess of physical strength. He is “bored,” and out of boredom he does a lot of evil: for some reason he kills the snake, although this, according to Panteley, is a great sin, for some reason it offends Yemelyan, but then he asks for forgiveness, etc. Yegorushka does not love him and is afraid how he is a little afraid of all these strangers for him men, except for Panteley.
Approaching the city, they finally meet “that very” Varlamov, about whom so much was mentioned before and who by the end of the story acquired a certain mythological connotation. In fact, he is an elderly merchant, businesslike and domineering. He knows how to deal with both peasants and landlords; very confident in himself and his money. Against his background, Uncle Ivan Ivanovich seems to Yegorushka a "little man", as Moisey Moiseich seemed against the background of Kuzmichev himself.
On the way, during a thunderstorm, Yegorushka caught a cold and fell ill. Fr. Christopher treats him in the city, and his uncle is very unhappy that all the troubles are added to the care of his nephew's arrangement. They are with about. Christopher profitably sold wool to the merchant Cherepakhin, and now Kuzmichyov regrets that he sold part of the wool at home at a lower price. He thinks only about money and this is very different from Fr. Christopher, who knows how to combine the necessary practicality with thoughts about God and the soul, love for life, knowledge, almost paternal tenderness for a boy, etc. Of all the characters in the story, he is the most harmonious.
Yegorushka is attached to an old friend of his mother's, Nastasya Petrovna Toskunova, who has assigned a private house to her son-in-law and lives with her little granddaughter Katya in an apartment with "many images and flowers." Kuzmichev will pay her ten rubles a month for the maintenance of the boy. He has already applied to the gymnasium, entrance exams are due soon. After giving Yegorushka a dime, Kuzmichev and Fr. Christopher leave. The boy somehow feels that Fr. He would never see Christopher again. "Yegorushka felt that with these people everything that had been experienced so far disappeared forever for him, like smoke; he sank down exhausted on the bench and with bitter tears greeted a new, unknown life that was now beginning for him ... what will this life be? "