NV Gogol
Nevsky Prospekt
Here you will find everything you want. In the morning it is for employees; from 12 – for tutors and children; from 2 pm – for parents and society. Nevsky Prospect is an exhibition of people. At 3 o’clock here dinner officials, and with 4 empty, but in the evening walkers seek happiness – young secretaries.
So walked the artist Piskarev and Lieutenant Pirogov. They saw the ladies, and each went his own way. Piskarev followed the brunette. She brought him home, invited. He entered and saw a corrupt society. He ran to his house. And he sees a dream: she is a noble lady, sends for him, he is taken to a house where she shines. She looks at everyone proudly, only at him with longing. Dance, the movement of the eyes. He’s wearing a frock coat, stained with paint. She: “You seemed strange to our meeting, I want to tell you a secret,” but the elderly man leads her away. He pushes everyone, tries to catch up
with her, but wakes up. He longs for the continuation of sleep, and from that moment on, life in a dream becomes more precious to him than life in real life. In reality he seems to be sleeping, but he comes to life in a dream. He learns about opium, takes it, promises to write a picture for it. Comes home, uses opium and falls asleep. She sees her at the window of the village house. She wakes up and thinks: “It would be better if you were not at all…”. He takes opium regularly. Sleep, where she is his wife, they have children. He decides to marry her, and thereby save her from the “bottom”. Found that house, and made her an offer: “I will work, you are needlework.” She tells him that she can not work, that she wants luxury. He runs away and at home razor cuts his throat (but on the face it is clear that he was suffering from an incorrect cut).
Pirogov – ensign, only elevated to this rank, and therefore proud of him. He ran after the German woman, the stupid wife of Schiller, the tin works of the master. Hoffmann, his friend, is drunk. Hoffmann wants to cut off Schiller’s
nose due to tobacco (how much money it takes for him). The next day Pirogov ordered Schiller spurs, the rim to the dagger and himself comes to learn about the work. Gets to a German, and learns from her that on Sunday afternoon her husband is not at home. On Sunday, she comes to a German woman when her husband does not, pestered her, kissed her, and there was a drunken husband and Hoffmann, and they threw Pirogov by the legs and by the hands from the stairs. Pirogov is going to avenge this, but, after eating cakes, calms down. Schiller followed him, and in the morning waiting for the police…
