“In the ravine” Chekhov in brief
The village of Ukleevo is famous for the fact that “at the funeral at the factory owner Kostyukov, the old deacon saw among the appetizers a granular caviar and began to eat it greedily, he was pushed and pulled by his sleeve, but he seemed to be numb with pleasure: he did not feel anything and only ate. , and the bank had a pound four. ” Since then, people have been talking about the village: “This is the very thing where the deacon at the funeral ate all the caviar.” In the village there are four factories – three cotton and one tanning, employing about four hundred workers. Tannery infested the river and meadow, the peasant cattle suffered from diseases, and the factory was ordered to close, but it works secretly, and the police officer and the county doctor get bribes for this.
There are two “decent houses” in the village; in one lives Grigory Petrovich Tsybukin, a petty bourgeois. For a kind of holding a grocery store, and earns on
Tsybukin widows, “but a year after the wedding his son could not stand and married himself.” With a bride named Varvara Nikolaevna, he was lucky. She is a prominent, beautiful and very religious woman. Helps the poor, pilgrims. Once Stepan noticed that she took two tea bags in a shop without a demand, and reported to her father. The old man did not get angry and at all told Varvara that she could take whatever
Anisim is at home rarely, but often sends gifts and letters with such, for example, phrases: “Dear papa and mother, I send you a pound of flower tea to meet your physical need.” In his character, ignorance, rudeness, cynicism and sentimentality unite, the desire to appear educated. Tsybukin adores the elder, he is proud that he “went on the academic side.” Varvara does not like that Anisim is unmarried, although he went to the twenty-eighth year. She sees this as a disorder, a violation of the correct course, as she understands it, of the course of things. Anisim decide to marry. He agrees calmly and without enthusiasm; however, it seems, is pleased with the fact that he was also found a beautiful bride. He himself is unattractive, but he says: “Well, I’m not a crook, either.” Our family Tsibukiny, I must say, is all beautiful. ” The bride’s name is Lipa.
She is terribly afraid and looks at her looks like she was, “as if she wanted to say:” Do with me what you want: I believe you. “Her mother Praskovia is becoming more timid and she answers:” What are you, satisfied with the “.
Anisim comes three days before the wedding and brings to the gift of silver rubles and fifty kopecks, the main charm of which is that all the coins, as for selection, are brand new. On the way he obviously drank and with an air of importance he tells how he ate wine at grapevines and ate a sauce, and cost two or three pounds a person. “Which guys are our fellow countrymen – and for them, too, two and a half.” They did not eat anything, but the peasant understands the sauce! ” Old Tsybukin does not believe that dinner can be so expensive, and adoringly looks at his son with adoration.
A detailed description of the wedding. Many people eat and drink bad wine and ugly English bitter, made “unknown from what”. Anisim quickly gets drunk and brags a city friend named Samorodov, calling him “a special person.” He boasts that in appearance he can recognize any thief. In the yard a woman screams: “We sucked our blood, Herods, there is no death on you!” The noise, the commotion. Drunk Anisim is pushed into the room where Lipu is undressed, and they lock the door. Five days later, Anisim leaves for the city. He speaks with Varvara, and she complains that they do not live in a divine way, that everything is built on deception. Anisim replies: “Who is to what is put, Mother of God, after all, there is still no mother, what is there to disassemble!” He says that everyone steals and does not believe in God: the foreman, the scribe, and the sexton. “
It turns out that Anisim’s coins are fake. He did them with Samorodov and now goes to court. It shakes the old man. He mixed fake coins with real ones, can not discern them. And although he himself has been a lifelong devil, but making false money does not fit into his mind and gradually drives him crazy. Son condemned to hard labor, despite the efforts of the old man. In the house, Aksinya begins to run everything. She hates Lipu and the child she was born with, realizing that in the future the main inheritance will be given to them. In front of Lipa, she scours the baby with boiling water, and the one who suffers a short time dies. Lipa flees from home and on the way meets wanderers; one of them in consolation says: “Life is long, it will be good and bad, everything will happen.” Mother Russia is great! ” When Lipa comes home, the old man says to her: “Ah, Lipa… you did not save your granddaughter…” “She is guilty, not Aksinya, who is afraid of the old man.” Lipa leaves for her mother, Aksinya finally becomes the main one in the house, although the old man is formally the owner. “She enters into a share with the merchant brothers Khrymins – together they open a tavern at the station, they walk, they have fun, Stepan is given a gold watch, old Tsybukin descends so much that he does not remember food, he does not eat for whole days when he is forgotten to feed him, in the evenings he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and once, , Sun he talks to Lipa and Praskovya, they bow to him, but he is silent, his eyes are shaking with tears, and he sees that he has not eaten anything for a long time. “Lipa gives him a pie with porridge.” He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and were long baptized ” . Lipa leaves for her mother. Aksinya finally becomes the main in the house, although the old man is formally the master. She enters into a share with the brothers-merchants Hrymins – together they open a tavern at the station, turn off the machinations, walk, have fun. Stepan is given a gold watch. Old Tsybukin descends so much that he does not remember food, does not eat anything for days, when they forget to feed him. In the evenings, he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after getting in touch with them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.” Lipa leaves for her mother. Aksinya finally becomes the main in the house, although the old man is formally the master. She enters into a share with the brothers-merchants Hrymins – together they open a tavern at the station, turn off the machinations, walk, have fun. Stepan is given a gold watch. Old Tsybukin descends so much that he does not remember food, does not eat anything for days, when they forget to feed him. In the evenings, he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after getting in touch with them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.” She enters into a share with the brothers-merchants Hrymins – together they open a tavern at the station, turn off the machinations, walk, have fun. Stepan is given a gold watch. Old Tsybukin descends so much that he does not remember food, does not eat anything for days, when he is forgotten to feed. In the evenings, he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after getting in touch with them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.” She enters into a share with the brothers-merchants Hrymins – together they open a tavern at the station, turn off the machinations, walk, have fun. Stepan is given a gold watch. Old Tsybukin descends so much that he does not remember food, does not eat anything for days, when he is forgotten to feed. In the evenings, he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after getting in touch with them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.” In the evenings, he stands on the street with peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after getting in touch with them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.” In the evenings, he stands on the street with the peasants, listens to their conversations – and one day, after bothering them, he meets Lipu and Praskovya. They bow to him, but he is silent, tears in his eyes. It is evident that he had not eaten anything for a long time. Lipa gives him a pie with porridge. “He took and began to eat Lipa and Praskovya went on and long afterwards were baptized.”
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