Summary of “Dream of Makar” Korolenko
Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile (the winter of 1883), the story was inspired by the real impressions of the young writer (he lived with peasant Zakhar Tsykunov, who became the prototype of Makar). But, calling in the original sketches of the hero Zakhar, Korolenko, obviously, it was not by chance that he changed his name to Makar – on him, according to the Russian saying, “all the bumps lie”; on the other hand, Korolenkovsky Makar lives exactly where the other folkloric Makar “calves did not drive.” Makar is a descendant of Russian peasants, a resident of the “remote village of Chalgan,” lost in the distant Yakut taiga. Separating himself from the “filthy Yakuts”, he in Russian says “little and rather bad”; “he worked terribly, lived poorly,
On Christmas Eve, after drinking and going to inspect his traps
From the story of Makar, old Toyon, “the old priest Ivan”, “the young God’s workers”, cried, and the scales, where the sins of Makar were, “went up higher and higher!” This story Korolenko was extremely popular with his contemporaries, and his allegorical background allowed him to give various interpretations – both revolutionary character and purely Christian ones. The story also allows for a less dramatic interpretation: circumstances suggest that Makar did not freeze in the taiga, but sees a dream, resting after drinking (compare the first sentence of the story and the beginning of Chapter IV).
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