Vasily Shukshin, story "I Believe!" - summary
A terrible melancholy rolls over Maksim Yarikov on Sundays - he doesn't want to live. The unkind, rude wife Luda does not understand and does not pity him. Once, in this state, Maxim goes to unwind with his neighbor, Ilya Lapshin, who has a relative, a priest.
Pop, a large man with huge hands, regales Maxim with alcohol and himself also drinks it in large glasses. Over a drink, he reads to the contrite Yarikov a wise lesson that without evil in the world a person would not be aware of goodness, that without torment there would be no bliss. Life, according to the priest, must be accepted in all its manifestations (“Live, my son, cry and dance.”) Outwardly, the priest's clownish speech contains a deep meaning. Pouring new shots for himself and Maxim, the priest at the end invites him to pray. They both get up. Pop begins to dance squatting, singing ditties with the chorus "I believe, I believe!" After him, Maxim starts dancing. Shukshin's story ends with the scene of this "joy", where joy and pain, love with fury, despair with inspiration are combined.
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Vasily Shukshin, the story "Wolves" - a summary
Ivan Degtyarev and his tedious and cunning father-in-law Naum Krechetov go from the village to the forest for firewood. On the way, on the mountain, they suddenly meet five hungry wolves. The wolves rush to catch up with them. Nahum turns his horse around and shouts "Grab-ut!" runs away. Ivan's horse hesitates a little and lags behind. The wolves quickly approach Degtyarev and his horse. Ivan is facing certain death.
Both axes are in the sleigh at the father-in-law. With their help, you can fight off the wolves, but Nahum, not caring about his son-in-law, is in a hurry to save only his own life. Finally responding to Ivan's loud cries, Krechetov throws one ax to the side of the road. Ivan jumps out of the sleigh and grabs him. At this time, the wolves catch up and tear apart his horse, but the man with the ax, when he is full, does not touch him.
Leaving them on foot, Ivan meets his father-in-law, who threw him at the mercy of the wolves. In his hearts, he wants to beat this traitor, so that here, in the forest, he can shake off his rage and then not tell anyone about what happened. However, the father-in-law, whipping the horse, leaves for the village. Returning home, Ivan drinks a glass of vodka and goes to Naum to sort it out. His father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife are already waiting for him with a policeman, who, for Ivan's benefit, puts him in the village jail for the night so that he can be released in the morning when he calms down.
Vasily Shukshin, short story "The Strong Man"
A new warehouse is being built on the Gigant collective farm, transporting barrel containers and cement from the old church of the seventeenth century, long closed by the Bolshevik fighters for atheism. The zealous collective farm foreman Kolya Shurygin, a strong, healthy drinker, decides to break the vacated church in order to put its bricks on the pigsty. Shurygin believes that in this way he will distinguish himself before his superiors and leave a long memory in the village.
When the "strong man" drives three tractors to the church, the whole village comes running with indignant exclamations. However, the screams of fellow countrymen only excite Shurygin not to yield. The temple is crumbling under the roar of tractor motors.
In the evening, the neighboring women curse the "devil" Shurygin. The saleswoman in the general store threatens to "give him a weight on a kumpol". Kolya is scolded by his mother. The wife, without having prepared dinner, leaves the house to stay with her neighbors. The narrow-minded foreman is already convinced himself: the church masonry made by the ancestors to their conscience cannot be broken for the pigsty. Its bricks are destined to grow with nettles. Dissatisfied Shurygin, having drunk a bottle of vodka in the evening, gets on a motorcycle and, singing a ditty, goes to a neighboring village in the middle of the night to continue drinking with the chairman of the collective farm.
Vasily Shukshin, story "Master" - a summary
Syomka Lynx, an unsurpassed rural master carpenter, is fascinated by the beauty of an ancient church in the neighboring village of Talitsa. This church has long been closed and destroyed by the communists, but Syemka dreams of reviving it. The master, ready to work with his own hands, addresses the plan for the restoration of the church to the priest in the neighboring regional center, and then to the metropolitan. But under Soviet conditions, they cannot help him. Communists hostile to religions agree to rebuild churches only occasionally - and exclusively to promote their pseudo-liberalism.
The Metropolitan advises Syomka to try her luck and apply to the regional executive committee. The master is answered there that the Talitsky temple "as an architectural monument is of no value." Frustrated, Filmmaker never speaks to anyone else about his beloved church, and as he drives by, he tries not to look in its direction.
Vasily Shukshin, story "Microscope" - a summary
The poorly educated carpenter Andrey Erin, having a strong craving for science inside, dreams of buying himself a microscope. Andrei does not have free money for this, but he decides to deceive his wife and tells her that he accidentally lost the 120 rubles taken from the book. Having heroically endured a strong scandal with his wife and even her beating with a frying pan, Erin buys a microscope a few days later and brings it home. He assures his wife that he was awarded this device for success at work.
Vasily Shukshin "Microscope". Video
Andrei, who has forgotten about everything in the world, spends everything under the microscope free time trying to discern microbes in water droplets. He is overwhelmed by the dream of finding a way to exterminate harmful microorganisms so that a person does not "stretch his legs" at 60-70 years old, but lives up to 150. Andrei tries to pierce microbes with a needle, destroy them with an electric current. But the original experiments are put to a sudden end by a visit to his home by a colleague, Sergei Kulikov, who blurts out to Erin's wife that they were not given any bonuses for their labor success. The wife guesses where the 120 "lost" rubles have gone, and takes the microscope to the consignment shop.
Vasily Shukshin, story "Mil pardon, madam" - a summary
The dreamer Bronka Pupkov, a lover of repeating the saying "Mil pardon, madam!" missed. With this story, Bron'ka surprises the townspeople who come to rest in his village, who are specially invited to be escorted during forest walks.
Bronka narrates her fiction with extraordinary artistry. During the story, he is transformed. His eyes burn, his voice breaks. When it comes to a tragic slip, Bronka's face is covered with tears.
Episode from the film based on the stories of Vasily Shukshin " Weird people"(1969). Bronka Pupkov's story about the assassination attempt on Hitler. People's Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Lebedev as Bronka
The villagers roll over him laughing. For lying Bronka several times were conscientious in the village council. But the inspirational upsurge that he sincerely experienced during the story of the “assassination attempt” is so vivid that he cannot refrain from repeating the same fictional story to new listeners.
Vasily Shukshin, the story "Letter" - a summary
The old woman Kandaurova (Kuzmovna) has a "terrible" dream: as if she is diligently praying to an empty corner without an icon. Waking up, she goes to the local dream interpreter, grandmother Ilyichikha. Learning that Kuzmovna keeps her icon not on the wall, but in the closet so that the party son-in-law who comes to her with her daughter does not see her, Ilyichikha reprimands her. Having slightly quarreled with Ilyichikha, Kandaurova returns home thinking about her daughter and her unsociable, silent husband.
In the evening she sits down to write a letter to them. During this lesson, in the evening silence, to the sounds of a distant accordion, Kuzmovna recalls how, in his distant youth, Vaska Kandaurov invited her to marry him at a neighbor's back street. The whole difficult, but even such a unique life passes before Kuzmovna's eyes. “Just once all from the very beginning,” she thinks, crying a little.
Vasily Shukshin, the story "Boots" - a summary
Driver Sergei Dukhanin, during a trip to the city for spare parts, notices beautiful women's boots in the store. They are expensive - 65 rubles, but Sergei suddenly awakens a desire to make a gift to his wife Claudia. He does not know exactly what size of shoes she has, but the desire to show tenderness and kindness to a loved one overlaps everything. Dukhanin buys boots.
Arriving home in the evening, he shows a gift to his wife and daughters. While they are looking at him with sighs and oohs, Sergei's hands are shaking: the purchase price for his salary is very high. Claudia begins to try on boots - and they turn out to be small for her. Despite this misfortune, the evening in the family is held in a special way: Sergei's act creates a special atmosphere of warmth.
Vasily Shukshin, the story "The Strong Move On" - a summary
The bachelor Mitka Ermakov, who lives in a village near Lake Baikal, is a typical village joker and dreamer typical for Shukshin's stories, and is completely mired in his own fantasies. He wants to find a way to become respected, famous and loved by women - for example, to discover a cure for cancer.
One stormy autumn day, Mitka sees a crowd of city "bespectacled people" admire the raging Baikal from the shore. The majestic view of the storm leads the townspeople to philosophical reflections, such as the fact that in the "storm of life the strong go further", those who are further away from the coast survive longer than others.
Mitka listens to the intellectual "idle talk" with slight contempt. However, among the townspeople, he notices a beautiful woman and decides to show her how those "strong" ones look with their own eyes. Throwing off his clothes right in the autumn cold, Mitka throws himself into the icy Baikal water and swims beautifully among the high waves. But one of them covers him with his head. When trying to swim, Mitka shamefully loses his panties in the water and begins to sink.
Two "bespectacled men" jump into the water and save him. Mitka is barely pumped out on the shore with artificial respiration. Coming to his senses and realizing that he was lying without panties in front of the very woman, he instantly jumps up and runs away. The townspeople laugh, and the incorrigible Mitka is now beginning to dream of inventing a typewriter for printing money and keeps chipping off new jokes.
Vladimir Vysotsky. In memory of Vasily Shukshin
Vasily Shukshin, the story "Cut" - briefly
Two pilots left the village of Novaya, one colonel, a correspondent, a doctor ... In Novaya they are proud of eminent compatriots, but they also feel some jealousy of their merits. During the arrivals of noble people to their homeland, fellow villagers often try to knock them off their arrogance, to make it clear that those who remained in the village are also not bastard!
The villager Gleb Kapustin, who loves to read newspapers and watch TV, has a special talent for cleverly “prying off” and “cutting off” prominent urban countrymen in table conversations. Vasily Shukshin describes the "scholarly" conversation between Kapustin and Ph.D. Konstantin Ivanovich, who came to visit his mother. Gleb successfully contrasts urban education with village ingenuity. Having started the conversation with “the primacy of spirit and matter”, he then translates it to “the problem of shamanism in certain regions of Siberia” and to a way to establish contact with intelligent beings that may exist on the Moon. With skillful questions, Kapustin puts the visiting candidate at a complete dead end - much to the delight of the peasants who have gathered to listen to the "dispute". Then, for a long time, stories circulate in the village about how the "dumb" Gleb "cut off" a noble citizen. The dialogue between Kapustin and Konstantin Ivanovich in Shukshin's story is distinguished by an unforgettable wit.
Vasily Shukshin, the story "The owner of the bath and vegetable garden" - a summary
Shukshin's sketch of village customs. Conversation of two men on a village rubble. One came to wash at another in the bathhouse, because he is repairing his own. The owner of the bath begins to imagine how his wife and neighbors will bury him when he dies. The conversation gradually turns to the characters and life of fellow villagers, then to money - and ends in a scandal. The owner of the bath claims that the son of the interlocutor is stealing carrots from his garden. The second man calls him “curkul” in response and refuses to wash in his bath.
Vasily Shukshin "Cherednichenko and the circus" - briefly
Cherednichenko, a 40-year-old Soviet employee, has a good salary, a larch house and graduates from an agricultural institute in absentia, which promises further career growth. Cherednichenko feels himself the master of life in everything, except for one thing: he still does not have a wife.
Arriving to rest at a southern resort, he notices the brave acrobat Eve there in the circus. Cherednichenko takes a glass of wine for courage and goes to propose to her. He describes in detail to Eve his firm financial position, tempting career prospects, advises the acrobat to abandon the corrupted artistic bohemia and start with him "a morally and physically healthy life." Eve, at first bewildered, but then smiling, promises to give him an answer the next day in a note given to the circus minister.
Cherednichenko feels pride in how dashing he handles the ladies. But upon returning home, doubts begin to overwhelm him. Is Eva a worthy party? After all, it is possible that before she went with familiar circus performers all the depths of the fall of female morality, and he, not finding out anything about it, flew to woo! With mixed feelings Cherednichenko goes the next day for Eva's note - and unexpectedly reads there a piece of advice “to be smarter at forty”. Slightly wounded by the mockery of the circus performer, but also relieved from yesterday's heavy hesitation, Cherednichenko drinks a glass of wine in a stall and sits down to whistle the waltz "Amur Waves" on the bench.
Vasily Shukshin, story "Chudik" - briefly
The strange, frivolous village projectionist Vasily, for his special gift to constantly get involved in unpleasant stories, is called Chudik by his fellow villagers and his wife. Having decided to go from Siberia to his brother in the Urals, Vasily first loses a large sum in the store (50 rubles), then almost dies in an airplane accident and tries to send his wife a playful, love telegram from the airport. Brother Chudik's wife, a city barmaid, is not happy with the arrival of a village relative. To appease her, Vasily paints a baby carriage in his brother's apartment with cranes and cockerels. But the squeamish daughter-in-law does not understand "folk art" and drives the Chudik out of the house. Not too upset, he goes back many hundreds of kilometers and barefoot with a funny song runs home from the bus.
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Vasily Shukshin, the story "A wider step, maestro" - a summary
The young doctor Nikolai Solodovnikov, recently assigned from the institute to the rural outback, is full of young hopes for the future. creative work, fast career growth, important scientific discoveries... The coming spring also lifts Solodovnikov's mood. He looks with light irony at how his boss, the good-natured head physician Anna Afanasyevna, is no longer busy medical activities, and procurement for the hospital of medicines, sheet iron and heating radiators. Having fulfilled his broad plans, Solodovnikov is sure that his work in the countryside is only the first step in a much more brilliant professional biography. With all his soul rushing to her, he mentally encourages himself: "Wider step, maestro!"
However, rural life takes its toll, returns from lofty dreams to everyday prose. Shukshin describes in his story one working day of the doctor Solodovnikov. On this day, he has to ride a horse to a neighboring village for sheet metal, have a little quarrel with one peasant over an armful of hay, talk to the director of the state farm about the difficulties of entering the medical institute, reprimand the storekeeper who is extorting for a drink, and who are very tired to return to the hospital. Shukshin shows that from these seemingly petty concerns, that working existence is formed, which gives life no less vivid meaning than academic degrees, departments, professors and scientific honor.
A resident of a village in the Altai Territory, grandma Malanye, receives a letter from her son Pavel from Moscow. She is invited to stay in the capital and promise to send money for the trip. Pavel asks his mother to send a telegram in advance. He advises to fly by plane: it will be much faster this way.
Her grandson Shurka, a sixth grade student, lives with Malanya. His mother sent him to his grandmother in the village, so as not to interfere with the establishment of his personal life. Upon learning of his uncle's proposal, Shurka begins to dream of a trip to Moscow. He had long wanted to visit a distant capital. Malanya, too, had never been to Moscow, and saw Pavel's children only in a photograph.
After a little reflection, the woman decides to take Shurka with her - it will not be so "scared" together. You just have to wait for school holidays. After consulting with the neighbors, Malanya finally decides to go. She dictates a telegram to her grandson to Moscow. In it, the woman says that she will come with Shurka after the New Year holidays. Malanya's telegram is like a letter full of emotions and lengthy reasoning. At the remark of her grandson that such a message would cost twenty rubles, she only dismisses it.
Malanya has never flown by plane and therefore invites the school caretaker Yegor Lizunov, an experienced traveler. She seats the guest at the table and treats him to a beer of her own making. Lizunov, praising the drink, says that there is no direct flight to Moscow, you can fly to the capital from Novosibirsk. He warns that grandmother and grandson do not confuse cash registers, or even fly to Vladivostok.
Drinking glass after glass, Yegor shares his own experience of flights, explaining the dangers in every detail. He begins to compose all sorts of fables. Lizunov says that aircraft engines often catch fire. He himself witnessed such an incident: during the flight, the engine flashed. Also, passengers are not given parachutes. Therefore, when the plane crashes, everyone is killed. Only 300 grams are left from a person along with clothes.
Baba Malanya, listening to these stories, is horrified. Shurka first looks at Lizunov with great interest, and then begins to suspect lies in the words of the manager. At parting, drunk Yegor advises Malanya to fly to the rear of the cabin, since it is safer there.
Grandma, seriously scared by Yegor's stories, decides to go by train. But Shurka notices that the one-way road will take all the winter holidays, so they will not have time to go to the capital and back before the start of their studies. Malanya then postpones the trip until summer vacation.
On the same day, the grandmother dictates a letter to her grandson. In it, she informs Pavel that she will not arrive in Moscow until summer. Malanya wants to take her grandson, and in winter his vacation is too short. Shurka ascribes lines from himself to the letter, in which he explains that grandmother is frightened by Yegor Lizunov's stupid stories. He advises Paul to shame Malanya. Son - pilot, Hero Soviet Union and his mother is afraid of some kind of civilian plane.
Shura asks his uncle to persuade his grandmother to fly in the winter, because in the summer there is a lot of chores around the house. They are villagers and will not be able to escape in the midst of seasonal work, so the summer voyage will most likely not take place.
Malanya seals and signs the envelope herself. At night, the grandmother and grandson cannot sleep for a long time, they are thinking about a possible trip.
- "Villagers", analysis of Shukshin's story
- "Chudik", analysis of Shukshin's story
- "Microscope", analysis of Shukshin's story
- "Kalina krasnaya", analysis of Shukshin's story
Vasily Shukshin
Stories
Cherednichenko and the circus
A circus has arrived in the southern resort town.
The planner Cherednichenko was resting in that town, settled down nicely, felt at ease, even slightly insolent - he reprimanded the saleswomen for warm beer. On Saturday night Cherednichenko was at the circus.
The next day, Sunday, there were three performances in the circus, and Cherednichenko went to all three.
He laughed heartily when a dark-skinned long-haired clown with a non-Russian surname threw out various tricks, worried when a young boy in a red shirt chased seven terrible lions around the arena, fenced off from the audience by a high cage, lashed them with a whip ... But not for the sake of the clown and not for the scary ones Cherednichenko smacked six rubles away from the lions, no, not for the sake of the lions. He was deeply moved by the girl who opened the program. She climbed the rope high up and there, to the music, she spun, twirled, tumbled ...
Never before in his life was Cherednichenko so worried as he worried watching a flexible, daring circus girl. He loved her. Cherednichenko was single, even though he was already in his fifties. That is, he was once married, but something like this happened to him and his wife - they parted. That was a long time ago, but since then Cherednichenko has become - not like despising women - has become calm and even somewhat mocked with them. He was a proud and ambitious man, he knew that by the age of fifty he would become the deputy director of a small furniture factory, where he now worked as a planner. Or, at worst, the director of a state farm. He graduated from the Agricultural Institute in absentia and waited patiently. He had a great reputation ... Time worked for him. "I will be the deputy director, everything will be there - including my wife."
On the night from Saturday to Sunday, Cherednichenko could not fall asleep for a long time, smoked, tossed and turned ... Forgotten half asleep, and God knows what - some kind of masks, the brass music of a circus orchestra sounded, lions roared ... Cherednichenko woke up, remembering the circus, and his heart ached, ached, as if the circus was already his wife and cheated on him with a fidgety clown.
On Sunday, the circus performer finished off the planner. He found out from the circus attendant, who did not allow strangers to visit the artists and lions, that that circus girl was from Moldova, her name was Eva, she was getting one hundred and ten rubles, twenty-six years old, not married.
From the last performance Cherednichenko left, drank two glasses of red wine in a stall and went to Eve's. He gave the minister two rubles, he told how to find Eve. For a long time Cherednichenko got confused under a canvas roof in some kind of ropes, belts, cables ... I stopped a woman, she said that Eva had gone home, but she did not know where she lived. I only knew that somewhere in a private apartment, not in a hotel. Cherednichenko gave the minister another ruble and asked him to ask the administrator for Eve's address. The attendant found out the address. Cherednichenko drank another glass of wine and went to Eve's apartment. "Adam went to Eve," Cherednichenko joked to himself. He was not a very decisive person, he knew this and deliberately urged himself somewhere uphill, uphill, on Zhdanov Street - so, he was told, he had to go. Eve was tired that day, getting ready for bed.
- Hello! - Cherednichenko greeted her, putting a bottle of "Kokura" on the table. He twisted his tail for the road - a brave and resolute showed up. - Nikolai Petrovich Cherednichenko. Planner. And your name is Eve. Right?
Eve was surprised. Usually, her fans did not spoil her. From their entire troupe, the fans besieged three or four: a dark-skinned clown, a rider and - less often - the Helikanov sisters, power acrobats.
- I didn’t interfere?
- Actually, I'm getting ready to sleep ... I'm tired today. And what? I don't understand a little ...
- Yes, today is your day ... Tell me, but this orchestra is yours, does it bother you?
- I still would have somewhat reduced it: it gets on the nerves. Very loud, where to fools ...
- We have nothing ... We got used to it.
Cherednichenko noted that she was not so beautiful near the circus, and this gave him courage. He seriously thought of taking the circus performer to his home and getting married.
That she was a circus performer, they will hide, no one will know.
“Will you allow me to offer you? ..” Cherednichenko took up the bottle.
“No, no,” Eve said firmly. “I don’t drink.
- At all?
- At all.
- Not at all?
- Not at all.
Cherednichenko left the bottle alone.
“A test of the pen,” he said to something. “I myself drink very moderately. I have a neighbor, a design engineer ... He drinks himself to the point that there is no ruble to get drunk in the morning. It is barely light in some slippers, knocking on the gate. I have a separate house of four rooms, well, the gate, of course, I lock the gate at night, "Nikolai Petrovich, give me a ruble." It's hard to watch - a person with a higher education, a talented engineer, they say ... What will you bring yourself to! "
- But you give a ruble?
- Where are you going to go? He, in fact, always gives. But really, it’s not a pity for this money, I earn enough, I have a salary of one hundred and sixty rubles and bonuses ... in general, we find ways. Naturally, the ruble is not the issue. It's just hard to look at a person. In what there is, in that and in the store ... People are watching ... I myself will soon higher education will be - it should somehow oblige, as I understand it. Do you have higher education?
- School.
- Mgm. - Cherednichenko did not understand whether this is higher or not higher. However, he did not care. As he presented information about himself, he became more and more convinced that there was no need to shake his curls for a long time - he had to get down to business. Do you have parents?
- There is. Why do you need all this?
- Maybe you will take a sip after all? With a thimble? .. Mm? Otherwise, I'm embarrassed to be alone.
- Pour - from a thimble.
We drank. Cherednichenko drank half a glass. “I wouldn’t go too far,” I thought.
- Do you see what's the matter, Eve ... Eve? ..
- Ignatievna.
- Eva Ignatievna. - Cherednichenko got up and began to walk around the tiny room - one step to the window, two steps to the door and back. - How much do you get?
- I have enough,
- Let's say. But one fine ... sorry, just the opposite - some tragic day you will fall out of there and crash ...
- Listen, you ...
- No, listen to you, my dear, I saw all this perfectly and I know how it will all end - these applause, flowers ... - Cherednichenko really liked to walk around the room like this and calmly, convincingly prove: no, dear, you don't know yet life. And we, mother, studied her somehow - from all sides. This is what he lacked in life - this is Eve - Who will need you later? Nobody.
- Why did you come? And who gave you the address?
- Eva Ignatievna, I will be straightforward with you - such a character. I am a lonely person, I have a good position in society, the salary, as I have already told you, is up to two hundred in total. You, too, are lonely ... I have been watching you for the second day - you have to leave the circus. Do you know how much you will receive for disability? I can estimate ...
Sasha Ermolaev was offended. On Saturday morning he collected empty milk bottles and said to his little daughter: "Masha, will you come with me?" - "Where? Gagazinchik? " - the girl was delighted. “And buy fish,” his wife ordered. Sasha and her daughter went to the store. We bought milk, butter, went to look at the fish, and there was a gloomy aunt behind the counter. And for some reason the saleswoman thought that it was the same guy who was standing in front of her that yesterday the drunken brawl in the store arranged. “Well, how - nothing? she asked venomously. - Do you remember about yesterday? Sashka was surprised, and she continued: "What are you looking at? .. Looks like Isusik ..." For some reason Sashka was especially offended for this "Isusik". "Listen, you probably have a hangover yourself? .. What happened yesterday?" The saleswoman laughed, "I forgot." - “Forgot what? I was at work yesterday! " - "Yes? And how much money for such work? Sasha was shaking. Maybe that's why he felt so acutely offended that lately his life had improved, he even forgot when he drank ... And because he held his daughter's little hand in his hand. "Where is your director?" And Sasha rushed into the office. There was another woman sitting there, the head of the department: "What's the matter?" - "You see," Sashka began, "it's worth ... and starts out of the blue ... For what?" - “You are calmer, calmer. Let's go find out. " Sashka and the head of the department went to the fish department. "What's the matter here?" - asked the head of the department from the seller. "I got drunk yesterday, made a scandal, and today I reminded him that he still looks outraged." Sasha began to shake: “Yes, I was not in the store yesterday! Was not! You understand?" Meanwhile, a queue had already formed in the back. And voices began to be heard: "Enough for you: was, was not!" “But how can it be,” Sashka said to the queue. “I wasn’t even in the store yesterday, but I’m attributed to some kind of scandal.” - "Since they say that he was," replied an elderly man in a raincoat, "then he was." - "What do you mean?" - Sasha tried to say something else, but realized that it was useless. You can't break this wall of people. "What uncles are bad," said Masha. "Yes, uncles ... aunts ..." - muttered Sashka.
He decided to wait for this in a raincoat and ask why he is pleasing to the seller, because this is how we breed boors. And then this old man came out, in a raincoat. “Listen,” Sashka turned to him, “I want to talk to you. Why did you stand up for the seller? I really wasn’t at the store yesterday. ” - “Go sleep it off first! He will still stop ... You will talk to me in another place ”, - the man in the raincoat spoke and immediately rushed to the store. He went to call the police, Sashka realized, and even calmed down a little, went home with Masha. He thought about that man in the raincoat: after all, a man. He lived for a long time. And what's left: a cowardly sycophant. Or maybe he doesn’t know that it’s not good to please. Sashka had seen this man before, he was from the house opposite. Having learned the name of this man - Chukalov - and the apartment number from the boys in the courtyard, Sashka decided to go and explain himself.
Chukalov, opening the door, immediately called his son: "Igor, this man cheated me in the store." “Yes, it was me who was cheated in the store,” Sashka tried to explain. "I wanted to ask why are you ... toadying?" Igor grabbed him by the chest - once or twice he hit his head on the door, dragged him to the stairs and pulled him down. Sasha miraculously stayed on his feet - grabbed the railing. Everything happened very soon, my head began to work clearly: “I was outraged. Now calm your soul! " Sasha decided to run home for a hammer and deal with Igor. But as soon as he jumped out of the entrance, he saw his wife flying around the yard. Sasha's legs gave way: something happened to the children. “What are you? she asked in awe. - Start a fight again? Don't pretend, I know you. You don't have your face on. " Sashka was silent. Now, perhaps, nothing will come of it, "Spit, don't get started," my wife begged. - Think about us. Isn't it a pity? " Tears welled up in Sasha's. He frowned, coughed angrily. With trembling fingers he pulled out a cigarette and lit it. And obediently went home.
Title of the piece: Cut
Year of writing: 1970
Genre of the work: story
Main characters: Konstantin Ivanovich- PhD, Valya- his wife, Gleb Kapustin- man
Plot
The old woman was visited by her son Konstantin and his wife - candidates of science and a schoolgirl granddaughter. They had a lot of luggage with them. From the village there were many famous people... All of them, according to tradition, were examined or cut off by Gleb Kapustin. The village peasants went to see the candidate. The latter accepted them amiably, but soon the conversation went in a different direction. Gleb raised questions about strategic philosophy, natural philosophy, the problem of shamanism and even the cosmic theme. The conversation seems absurd to Konstantin Ivanovich. As a result, under pressure, the candidate of sciences looked confused. Then Gleb advised him to be more modest. He delighted the men with the breadth of knowledge and the ability to "cut" the opponent. But they, nevertheless, felt sorry for the visiting guests.
Conclusion (my opinion)
The lesson of the story is that nothing can be achieved by cruelty and verbal battles. People can respect such a person, but not love. When a person is driven by envy, relationships are destroyed. It is important to rejoice at the success of others, to praise the achievements. Then peace and love will flourish. At the same time, an intelligent person should not stoop to a lower level, offending idle talkers. You need to prove rightness by actions, not words.