Summary of the story by A. P. Chekhov “Horse name”

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1. Summary of the “Horse name” Chekhov One of the most famous works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in humorous form shows the depth of ignorance and the strength of prejudices of people who have power and position in society. An important person, a retired official and general, Alexei Buldeev, turns out to be no less superstitious and far from a rational solution […]...
2. Summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Surgery” In the zemstvo hospital for the absence of a doctor who went to get married, the reception of a paramedic Kuryatin is taking. He is a fat man of about forty, wearing a worn vest and worn trousers. He has an expression of duty and pleasure on his face, and a cigar in his hand […]...
3. Summary Horse-Humpbacked Horse Ershov P. P. Ershov Humpbacked Horse In one village there lives a peasant. He had three sons: the elder – Danilo – smart, average – Le Havre – “and so, and syak” younger – Ivan – fool. Brothers make a living by growing wheat, transporting it to the capital and selling it there. Suddenly a misfortune […]...
4. Summary of the story by VP Astafiev “A Horse with a Pink Mane” Grandmother sends the boy for strawberries. And if he tries hard and gains a lot of berries, then she will take her to the market and sell, and then she will certainly buy her grandson a carrot in the form of a horse. The boy enthusiastically remembers how great it is to have such a […]...
5. Summary of Chekhov’s Surgery In the Zemsky hospital there is a reception. The doctor left to marry, that’s why the patient receives a paramedic named Kuryatin. He is about forty years old, dressed simply and untidy. In the hand the paramedic is holding a foul-smelling cigar. Here came the sexton Vonmiglasov, brought the prosphora. The paramedic asked what had […]...
6. The summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Overpowered” Land surveyor Gleb Gavrilovich Smirnov came to the station Gnilushki. He was summoned to General Khokhotov’s estate for surveying. Smirnov was about thirty miles from the place of destination. At his request for postal horses, the station gendarme only spread his hands: “You can not find a track dog for a hundred miles, but not […]...
7. The summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Chameleon” The story begins with a description of the marketplace. Around silence. The open doors of shops and taverns look dejected, like hungry mouths, near them there are not even beggars. Across the square there is police inspector Ochumelov in a new overcoat and with a knot in his hand. Behind him – the policeman Eldyrin […]...
8. Ershov’s Humpbacked Horse in brief summary In one village there lives a peasant. He has three sons: the elder Danilo clever, the average Gavrilo “and so, and syak,” the youngest Ivan is a fool. Brothers make a living by growing wheat, transporting it to the capital and selling it there. Suddenly a misfortune happens: someone starts trampling crops at night. The […]...
9. The summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Thick and thin” Two school companions met at the station of the Nikolayevskaya Railway: one fat, one thin. Tolstoy gave the impression of a man who succeeded in life, Slim, on the contrary, looked much more modest. He had just got out of the car, carrying a lot of cartons in his hands, a thin woman was looking […]...
10. The summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Anna on the neck” After the wedding of eighteen-year-old Ani and fifty-two-year-old Modest Alekseevich, an official, the newlyweds, instead of a merry wedding ball and dinner, went to the monastery on a pilgrimage for two hundred versts. The spouse started this trip in order to let the young wife understand that in marriage he puts religion and morality in […]...
11. The composition “My favorite animal is a horse” Most animals are human best friends. This is especially true for pets, because there is also a large number of dangerous and poisonous representatives that do not bring people anything but discomfort. In my opinion, people should live in harmony with nature and other living beings. Most of all I admire the horse. These four-legged […]...
12. Summary “The horses of the horse” McCarthy America, Texas, 1946 The old man is dying the owner of the ranching ranch. His thirty-six-year-old daughter intends to sell the land – she does not bring income, and life in the outskirts definitely does not suit the heiress. Sixteen-year-old John Grady tries to persuade his mother not to sell the ranch on which the […]...
13. Akutagawa’s “horse feet” in brief The unremarkable employee of the Beijing branch of the Mitsubishi company Osino Khanzaburo suddenly died before he was thirty. According to the conclusion of Professor Yamai, director of the Tongren Hospital, Khandzaburo died of a stroke. But Khandzaburo himself did not think it was a blow. He did not even think he was dead. He […]...
14. Summary “A horse with a pink mane” Astafyev My grandmother sent me to the dump for strawberries, along with the neighboring children. She promised: if I dial full tuesok, she will sell my berries together with her own and buy me a “stick carrot”. Gingerbread in the form of a horse with a mane, tail and hoofs, covered with pink glaze, provided honor […]...
15. Summary of the story “Garnet Bracelet” by AI Kuprin The main heroine of the story – Vera Nikolayevna Sheina, the wife of the nobility leader – had a pleasant time with Anna’s sister’s company at her seaside dacha, waiting for the imminent holiday. On the name day, not many guests gathered, all good friends and relatives. One event knocked Shane out of the rut: […]...
16. “Villa” White Horse “Christy in brief summary Mark Easterbrook, a scholarly man of rather conservative views, once observes in one of the Chelsea bars the scene that struck him: two girls dressed sloppy and too warm, having quarreled because of the gentleman, clung to each other’s hair, so much so that one of them, red, parted with whole bunches. The girls are […]...
17. Summary of Chekhov’s “Ionich” In the provincial town of S. lives the educated and talented, according to local residents, the Turkin family. The head of the family, Ivan Petrovich Turkin, “a full, handsome brunette with beacons, arranged amateur theatricals for a charitable purpose, played the old generals himself and at the same time he coughed very funny.” He knew […]...
18. Summary of the story “Olesya” AI Kuprina The narrator, Ivan Timofeevich, tells how, while relaxing on vacation in the village, he heard of a local witch. Intrigued, he finds in the forest the dwelling of an old witch and gets to know her granddaughter Olesya. Ivan finds Olesya interesting in communication with a girl and begins to meet with her. He is […]...
19. “Chamber № 6” Chekhov in the summary In the county town in a small hospital wing there is a room number 6 for the mentally ill. It “smells of sour cabbage, wick fumes, bugs and ammonia, and this stench makes you feel at first like you are entering a menagerie.” There are five people in the ward. The first is “a thin […]...
20. Short description Villa “White Horse” Agatha Christie Villa The White Horse Mark Easterbrook, a man of scientific stature and rather conservative views, once watches in one of the Chelsea bars the scene that struck him: two girls dressed sloppy and too warm (thick sweaters, thick woolen stockings), quarreling over cavalier, clung to each other’s hair, so much so that one […]...
21. The summary of the work of Anton Chekhov “Ionich” In the provincial town of S. lives the educated and talented, according to local residents, the Turkin family. The head of the family, Ivan Petrovich Turkin, “a full, handsome brunette with beacons, arranged amateur theatricals for a charitable purpose, played the old generals himself and at the same time he coughed very funny.” He knew […]...
22. Summary Chamber № 6 Anton Chekhov A. P. Chekhov Chamber No. 6 In the county town in a small hospital wing there is a room number 6 for the mentally ill. It “smells of sour cabbage, wick fumes, bugs and ammonia, and this stench makes you feel at first like you are entering a menagerie.” There are five people in the […]...
23. Summary “Teacher of Literature” Chekhov The teacher of Russian language and literature in a small provincial town Sergey Vasilievich Nikitin is in love with the daughter of a local landowner Masha Shelestova, eighteen years old, who “has not yet been considered to be small in the family” and therefore calls her Maney and Manyusey, and when the circus she visited […]...
24. Summary of the “Malice” Chekhov Before the court investigator was a very skinny peasant. In his eyes, a sullen severity could be seen from behind thick brows. His hair was tangled and uncombed, which gave him a spider’s harshness. “Denis Grigoriev, come here and answer my questions,” the investigator tells him. – On the 7th of July this year the […]...
25. Summary “Student” Chekhov At the beginning of the story, nature is described. Good weather by the evening is significantly deteriorating. From the cold forest freezes and is emptied. The main character – a student of the theological academy and the son of the deacon Ivan Ivanovich Wielkopolska, was on the eve of changes in his worldview. He lived […]...
26. Summary Gooseberries Anton Chekhov AP Chekhov Gooseberries Ivan Ivanovich Chimsh-Himalayan and Burkin enter the estate of the poor landowner Alyokhin, who himself works in his fields, despite the brilliant education he received. Ivan Ivanovich tells Burkin and Alekhine about his younger brother Nicolae. They spent their childhood in the village and loved life in nature forever. Nikolai had worked […]...
27. Summary “Death of an Official” by Chekhov One fine evening, the equally fine executor, Ivan Dmitrievitch Chervyakov, sat in the second row of armchairs and looked through binoculars at the “Corneville Bells.” He looked and felt at the top of bliss. But suddenly. In stories, this is often “but suddenly.” The authors are right: life is so full of surprises! But suddenly […]...
28. Summary of the story of FA Abramov “What the horses are crying about” Whenever the narrator descended from the village eel to the meadow, he seemed to fall into the world of his distant childhood – in the world of grasses, dragonflies, butterflies and, of course, horses. He often took bread with him and fed up the horses, and if there was no bread with him, he still […]...
29. Summary of the story “The Night Before Christmas” by N. V. Gogol The last day before Christmas passed, and a clear starry night came. Through the trumpet of one house a witch on a broom rose and began to collect stars. And the devil at this time stole a month. He did it because he knew that today Chub was invited by a deacon on the kutu, […]...
30. Summary “Chamber 6” by Chekhov A provincial town, a local hospital, an outbuilding for the mentally ill… The condition of this building, and of the hospital itself, is extremely miserable-everything old, half ruined, in the courtyard and in the rooms there is an unbearable stench. In such conditions, there are five residents of Chamber No. 6, the only one in […]...
31. Summary of the story of IA Bunin “Lapti” On the fifth day, I stormed. In white from snow and a cold big house there was a twilight and there was a grief: the child was seriously ill. In the heat, delirium, he often cried and asked him to give him some red bast shoes. Mother, who did not leave the bed, also cried […]...
32. Summary of Chekhov’s “Tosca” In January 1886, the work “Tosca” (Chekhov) was published in the “Petersburg newspaper”. The summary of the story is given in this article. Connoisseurs of literary works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov “Tosca” is recognized as his best work in the initial period of the writer’s work. By this time the author already knew the general […]...
33. Summary of “Lady with a Dog” by Chekhov Dmitry Gurov – a young employee of the bank (under 40), who has a philological education, is on vacation in Yalta. At home, there is a wife in Moscow who he does not like and often changes to, a twelve-year-old daughter and 2 sons studying at the gymnasium. Appearance and character of Dmitry were endowed […]...
34. The brief content of the Booty Anton Chekhov A. P. Chekhov The Boots Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the sick, then goes to open the corpses. But his income is barely enough to cover the […]...
35. “Chekhov’s Man in a Chest” in brief summary The end of XIX century. Countryside in Russia. Mironositskoe village. The veterinarian Ivan Ivanovich Chimsh-Himalayan and the teacher of the grammar school of Burkin, after having spent the whole day, are staying for the night in the barn of the village elder. Burkin tells Ivan Ivanych the story of the teacher of the Greek language […]...
36. Chekhov’s “Ionich” in a brief summary Zemsky doctor Dmitry Iontovich Startsev comes to work in the provincial city of S., where he soon gets acquainted with the Turks. All members of this hospitable family are famous for their talents: witty Ivan Petrovich Turkin puts amateur performances, his wife Vera Iosifovna writes stories and novels, and her daughter plays on the piano […]...
37. Summary Man in a Case AP Chekhov A. P. Chekhov The Man in a Case Late 19th Century Countryside in Russia. Mironositskoe village. The veterinarian Ivan Ivanovich Chimsh-Himalayan and the teacher of the grammar school of Burkin, after having spent the whole day, are staying for the night in the barn of the village elder. Burkin tells Ivan Ivanych the story of […]...
38. A short story about how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich NV Gogol A Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich A fine man Ivan Ivanovich! What a glorious beak he has! When it gets hot, Ivan Ivanovich will throw off the bekesh, rest in one shirt and look at what is happening in the yard and on the street. Melons are his favorite […]...
39. Summary “The Man in a Case” by Chekhov The end of XIX century. Countryside in Russia. Mironositskoe village. Veterinarian Ivan Ivanych Chimsh-Himalayan and teacher of the grammar school Burkin, having spent the whole day, are staying for the night in the barn of the village elder. Burkin tells Ivan Ivanych the story of the teacher of the Greek language Belikov, whom they taught […]...
40. “Gooseberries” Chekhov in brief Ivan Ivanych and Burkin go around the field. In the distance one can see the village of Mironositskoe. It starts to rain, and they decide to go to the landowner Pavel Konstantinych Alekhin, whose estate is located nearby in the village of Sofiyino. Alyokhin, “a man of about forty, tall, full with long hair, looking […]...