A brief summary of NA Nekrasov’s poem “Railroad”
Late fall. Snow has already fallen out, but the leaves are not yet withered, and the lyrical hero is the narrator, he is traveling on the train. His fellow travelers are a general with his son Vanya. The child asks who built this railway. Father answers that the road was built by Count Kleinmichel. The narrator, referring to Vanya, says that the true builders of the way were ordinary people. Working conditions were unbearable, but the people went to these works, driven by a king named Golod:
He then drove here the masses of the people.
Many – in a terrible struggle,
By calling these empty barren lands, The
coffin found itself here.
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Straight road: the mounds are narrow,
bars, rails, bridges.
And on the sides, then all the bones are Russian…
Listening to the story, Vanya falls asleep and sees in a dream a crowd of dead people, builders of the railway, who sing a terrible song about suffering, adversity
Vanya wakes up from the deafening whistle of the locomotive. It turns out that the crowds of the dead only dreamed of him, and he frankly tells this to his father-general. The general just laughs back. He says that ordinary peasants are barbarians and hopeless drunkards, and asks to talk about the “bright side” of the people’s life.
By the end of the construction
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