The summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Thick and thin”

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1. Summary “Chekhov’s Thick and Thin” Once, two old friends met at the station in the crowd of passengers of the Nikolayevskaya railway. The fat passenger could see that he had just had a delicious dinner at the restaurant, and his lips were still glossy with oil. He also smelled of wine and the fresh fragrance of expensive spirits. The thin […]...
2. Summary “Thick and thin” The satirical story “Thick and thin” by Anton Chekhov wrote in 1883. In the work, the author ridicules the existing human vices in any society: hypocrisy and “riches”. For the first time Chekhov’s story “Thick and thin” was published in the humorous edition of “Shards”. Main characters Porphyry is a thin, collegiate assessor. Misha is […]...
3. Summary of the story by A. P. Chekhov “Horse name” The retired Major-General Buldeev’s teeth ached. No matter how many people treated the general with different folk remedies, all domesticated, nothing could stop the raging toothache. Even a doctor came, registered a queen, but that alone did not help. On the offer to snatch the tooth Buldeev refused. And then Ivan Evseich, the clerk of […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. 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 […]...
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 “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 […]...
8. The “Bishop” of Chekhov in brief summary Under Easter Sunday, at the beginning of April, the Most Reverend Peter serves the All-Night Vigil. The church is full of people, the monastic choir sings. The bishop is unwell for three days, he feels heaviness and fatigue. Precisely in a dream or delirium, it seems to him that his mother came to him in […]...
9. “There is no thin without good?” composition Yes, there is such a saying, “There is no evil without good,” which seems very wise and deep to many, although in reality it is simply lying. We will clarify, lie in the sense in which it is understood and repeated. In reality, situations where evil (that is, evil) without good, are encountered much more […]...
10. Summary Boys Anton Chekhov AP Chekhov Boys Volodya came with a friend home. Mother and aunt rushed to hug and kiss him. The whole family was overjoyed, even Milord, a huge black dog. Volodya introduced his friend Chechevitsyn. He said he brought him to stay. A little later, Volodya and his friend Chechevitsin, stunned by a noisy meeting, sat […]...
11. “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 […]...
12. Chekhov’s “Jumping” in a brief summary 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 costs of his wife – […]...
13. 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 […]...
14. Summary “Boys” by Chekhov Volodya came with a friend home. Mother and aunt rushed to hug and kiss him. The whole family was overjoyed, even Milord, a huge black dog. Volodya introduced his friend Chechevitsyn. He said he brought him to stay. A little later, Volodya and his friend Chechevitsin, stunned by a noisy meeting, sat at a table […]...
15. 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 […]...
16. A brief summary of Chekhov’s “Booty” 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 costs of his wife – […]...
17. An essay on Chekhov’s work Maxim Gorky said about the significance of Anton Chekhov’s creativity: “when Chekhov dies, one of Russia’s best friends, a clever, impartial, truthful friend, dies, a friend who loves her, compassion for her in everything, and Russia will tremble with grief and not for a long time will forget him for a long time, he will […]...
18. Summary “How I Met Chekhov for the Fishes” Chekhov was then Antosh Chekhonte, and the author-narrator was a little schoolboy. In the summer the boy with his friend Zhenya disappears in the Neskuchny garden. They built wigwams, played Indians. Then they moved to the Eskimos, engaged in fishing in the Meshchansky Garden in the ponds (at the Meshchansky School). Karasay was very much, […]...
19. “Cheerful soul” Chekhov in brief Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around are attracted by the good nature and naivete emanating from the quiet rosy-cheeked young lady. Many people call her just “darling”. Olga Semenovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next affection is Ivan Petrovich Kukin, an entrepreneur and […]...
20. Summary Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Anna on the neck A. P. Chekhov Anna on the neck “After the wedding, there was not even a light snack.” An 18-year-old girl, Anya, married a 52-year-old official Modest Alekseich. After the wedding they go to the monastery, on a pilgrimage. On the train, Modest Alexeyich, smiling, recalls one instance: “When Kosorotov received the Order of St. Anne […]...
21. 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 […]...
22. Summary Dushechka Anton Chekhov A. P. Chekhov The Soul The daughter of retired collegiate assessor Olenka Plemyannikova often finds her neighbor Kukina, the owner of the entertainment garden “Tivoli”, for complaints about life, the weather, and the uncomfortable taste of the audience. The misfortunes of Kukin are so touching her that Olenka falls in love with him, although Kukin […]...
23. Summary My Life AP Chekhov AP Chekhov My Life The story is from the first person. A narrator named Misail Poloznev, along with his father-architect and sister, Cleopatra, live in a provincial town. Their mother died. Father raised children in severity and, when they became adults, continues to demand complete submission. He succeeds in this with Cleopatra, but Misail came […]...
24. Summary of Chekhov’s Seagull The action takes place in the estate of Petr Nikolaevich Sorin. His sister, Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina, is an actress, she is on his estate with her son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, and Boris Alekseevich Trigorin, a novelist, quite famous, although he is not yet forty. They speak of him as a clever, simple man, somewhat melancholy […]...
25. Summary “House with a mezzanine” Chekhov The narrator (the narrative is a first-person narrator) remembers how six or seven years ago he lived in Belokurov’s estate in one of the counties of the T-g province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all complained to me that he did not find […]...
26. Summary House with a mezzanine AP Chekhov AP Chekhov House with a Mezzanine Narrator (the narration goes from the first person) recalls how six or seven years ago he lived in the estate of Belokurov in one of the counties of the T-g province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all […]...
27. Summary of the story of V. G. Rasputin “Lessons of the French” The narrative is conducted on behalf of an eleven-year-old boy who finds himself face to face with a harsh life. His mother had three children, and he was the eldest. After the end of the fifth grade, he is sent to the district center, to continue his studies. He lives with a friend of his […]...
28. Summary of the story by AP Platonov “Unknown Flower” This is a story about a small flower, which no one knew on earth, because he grew up alone in a vacant lot. Cows and goats did not go there, and children from the pioneer camp there never played. The grass did not grow on the vacant lot, but dead stones lay alone. The wind […]...
29. Summary of the Seagull Anton Chekhov AP Chekhov The Seagull The action takes place in the estate of Petr Nikolaevich Sorin. His sister, Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina, is an actress, she is on his estate with her son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, and Boris Alekseevich Trigorin, a novelist, quite famous, although he is not yet forty. They speak of him as a clever, […]...
30. Chekhov’s Seagull in short summary The action takes place in the estate of Petr Nikolaevich Sorin. His sister, Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina, is an actress, she is on his estate with her son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, and Boris Alekseevich Trigorin, a novelist, quite famous, although he is not yet forty. They speak of him as a clever, simple man, somewhat melancholy […]...
31. Summary of the story “Duel” AI Kuprin The author gives a description of the officers of the Nicholas period, singling out in the gallery portraits of second lieutenant Yury Romashov – a young, ambitious, slightly narcissistic and touchy. Full of daring dreams, he sees no point in the existing army system. The military orders suppress it, force it to roll down and […]...
32. Summary of Chekhov’s “At the Mill” Melnik Alexei Biryukov, a huge, middle-aged man with a clumsy figure and face, smoking a pipe at the threshold of his house. Despite the cold and damp weather, he was dressed easily – apparently, his thick-skinned, “stale as a corn” body did not feel cold. Small, swollen eyes on his red, fleshy face looked sullenly […]...
33. Biography of Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a great Russian writer, a talented playwright, an academician, a doctor by profession. The most important thing in his work is that many works have become classics of world literature, and his plays are staged in theaters around the world. Early years He was born on January 17, 1860 in Taganrog […]...
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. Summary of the story of MA Sholokhov “The Fate of Man” The action takes place the first postwar spring, at the end of March, on the Upper Don. The narrator goes with the comrade to the village of Bukanovskaya. On the way, he meets Andrei Sokolov, who leads a boy of five or six years by the hand. While the narrator is waiting for the boat, […]...
36. “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 […]...
37. 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 […]...
38. The summary of the story “Dry bread” An interesting story about a little boy Mitya 7 years old and his mother. Father Mitya died after the war, and grandfather even earlier, Mitya did not even really remember him. His mother worked on the field, harnessed oxen and plowed the land to collect a rich harvest of bread. But the summer turned out […]...
39. Summary of the story of AP Platonov “In this beautiful and furious world” The main hero of the story – Alexander Vasilyevich Maltsev – was considered the best locomotive driver in the depot. He was quite young – about thirty years – but already had the status of a first-class machinist. And no one was surprised when he was appointed to a brand-new and very powerful passenger locomotive […]...
40. Summary of the story “The Chorus and Kalinich” by IS Turgenev The author begins the narrative by comparing the Oryol and Kaluga peasants, but then he gives an example of how in one place absolutely different people can live, between whom a very friendly relationship has been established. In the Zhizdrinsky district of the Kaluga province, the narrator became acquainted with the small landowner Polutykin. They […]...