Vasily Shukshin, story "I Believe!" - summary

A terrible melancholy rolls over Maksim Yarikov on Sundays - he doesn't want to live. The unkind, rude wife Luda does not understand and does not pity him. Once, in this state, Maxim goes to unwind at his neighbor, Ilya Lapshin, who has a relative, a priest.

Pop, a large man with huge hands, regales Maxim with alcohol and himself also drinks it in large glasses. While drinking, he reads to the contrite Yarikov a wise lesson that without evil in the world a person would not be aware of goodness, that without torment there would be no bliss. Life, according to the priest, must be accepted in all its manifestations (“Live, my son, cry and dance.”) Outwardly, the clownish speech of the priest includes deep meaning... Pouring new shots for himself and Maxim, the priest at the end invites him to pray. They both get up. Pop begins to dance squatting, singing ditties with the chorus "I believe, I believe!" After him, Maxim starts dancing. Shukshin's story ends with the scene of this "joy", where joy and pain, love with fury, despair with inspiration are combined.

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Vasily Shukshin, the story "Wolves" - a summary

Ivan Degtyarev and his tedious and cunning father-in-law Naum Krechetov go from the village to the forest for firewood. On the way, on the mountain, they suddenly meet five hungry wolves. The wolves rush to catch up with them. Nahum turns his horse around and shouts "Grab-ut!" runs away. Ivan's horse hesitates a little and lags behind. The wolves quickly approach Degtyarev and his horse. Ivan is facing certain death.

Both axes are in the sleigh at the father-in-law. With their help, you can fight off the wolves, but Nahum, not caring about his son-in-law, is in a hurry to save only his own life. Finally responding to Ivan's loud cries, Krechetov throws one ax to the side of the road. Ivan jumps out of the sleigh and grabs him. At this time, the wolves are catching up and tearing apart his horse, but the man with the ax, when he is full, does not touch him.

Leaving them on foot, Ivan meets his father-in-law, who threw him at the mercy of the wolves. In his hearts, he wants to beat this traitor, so that here, in the forest, he can shake off his rage and then not tell anyone about what happened. However, the father-in-law, whipping the horse, leaves for the village. Returning home, Ivan drinks a glass of vodka and goes to Naum to sort it out. His father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife are already waiting for him with a policeman, who, for Ivan's benefit, puts him in the village jail for the night so that he can be released in the morning when he calms down.

Vasily Shukshin, short story "Strong Man"

A new warehouse is being built on the Gigant collective farm, transporting barrel containers and cement from the old church of the seventeenth century, long closed by the Bolshevik fighters for atheism. The zealous collective farm foreman Kolya Shurygin, a strong, healthy drinker, decides to break the vacated church in order to put its bricks on the pigsty. Shurygin believes that in this way he will distinguish himself before the authorities and leave a long memory in the village.

When the "strong man" drives three tractors to the church, the whole village comes running with indignant exclamations. However, the screams of fellow countrymen only excite Shurygin not to yield. The temple is crumbling under the roar of tractor motors.

In the evening, the neighboring women curse the "devil" Shurygin. The saleswoman in the general store threatens to "give him a weight on a kumpol". Kolya is scolded by his mother. The wife, without having prepared dinner, leaves the house to stay with her neighbors. The narrow-minded foreman is already convinced himself: the church masonry made by the ancestors conscientiously cannot be broken for the pigsty. Its bricks are destined to grow with nettles. Dissatisfied Shurygin, having drunk a bottle of vodka in the evening, sits on a motorcycle and, singing a ditty, drives in the middle of the night to a neighboring village to continue drinking with the chairman of the collective farm.

Vasily Shukshin, story "The Master" - a summary

Syomka Lynx, an unsurpassed rural carpenter, is delighted with the beauty of an ancient church in the neighboring village of Talitsa. This church has long been closed and destroyed by the communists, but Syemka dreams of reviving it. The master, ready to work with his own hands, addresses the plan for the restoration of the church to the priest in the neighboring regional center, and then to the metropolitan. But under Soviet conditions, they cannot help him. Communists hostile to religions agree to rebuild churches only occasionally - and exclusively to promote their pseudo-liberalism.

The Metropolitan advises Syomka to try her luck and apply to the regional executive committee. The master is answered there that the Talitsky temple "as an architectural monument is of no value." Frustrated, Filmmaker never speaks to anyone else about his beloved church, and as he drives by, he tries not to look in its direction.

Vasily Shukshin, story "Microscope" - a summary

The poorly educated carpenter Andrey Erin, having a strong craving for science inside, dreams of buying himself a microscope. Andrei does not have free money for this, but he decides to deceive his wife and tells her that he accidentally lost the 120 rubles removed from the book. Having heroically endured a strong scandal with his wife and even her beatings with a frying pan, Erin buys a microscope a few days later and brings it home. He assures his wife that he was awarded this device for success at work.

Vasily Shukshin "Microscope". Video

Andrei, who has forgotten about everything in the world, spends everything under the microscope free time trying to discern microbes in water droplets. He is overwhelmed by the dream of finding a way to exterminate harmful microorganisms so that a person does not "stretch his legs" at 60-70 years old, but lives up to 150. Andrey tries to pierce microbes with a needle, destroy them with an electric current. But the original experiments are put to a sudden end by a visit to his home by a colleague, Sergei Kulikov, who blurts out to Erin's wife that they were not given any bonuses for their labor success. The wife guesses where the 120 “lost” rubles have gone, and takes the microscope to the consignment shop.

Vasily Shukshin, story "Mil pardon, madam" - a summary

The dreamer Bronka Pupkov, a lover of repeating the saying "Mil pardon, madam!" missed. With this story, Bron'ka surprises the townspeople who come to rest in his village, who are specially invited to be escorted during forest walks.

Bronka narrates her fiction with extraordinary artistry. During the story, he is transformed. His eyes burn, his voice breaks. When it comes to a tragic slip, Bronka's face is covered with tears.

Episode from the film "Strange People" based on the stories of Vasily Shukshin (1969). Bronka Pupkov's story about the assassination attempt on Hitler. People's Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Lebedev as Bronka

The villagers roll over him laughing. For lying Bronka several times were conscientious in the village council. But the inspirational upsurge that he sincerely experienced during the story of the “assassination attempt” is so vivid that he cannot refrain from repeating the same fictional story to new listeners.

Vasily Shukshin, the story "Letter" - a summary

The old woman Kandaurova (Kuzmovna) has a "terrible" dream: as if she is fervently praying to an empty corner without an icon. Waking up, she goes to the local dream interpreter, grandmother Ilyichikha. Learning that Kuzmovna keeps her icon not on the wall, but in the closet, so that the party son-in-law who comes to her with her daughter does not see her, Ilyichikha reprimands her. Having slightly quarreled with Ilyichikha, Kandaurova returns home thinking about her daughter and her unsociable, silent husband.

In the evening she sits down to write a letter to them. During this lesson, in the evening silence, to the sounds of a distant accordion, Kuzmovna recalls how, in his distant youth, Vaska Kandaurov invited her to marry him at a neighbor's back street. The whole difficult, but even such a unique life passes before Kuzmovna's eyes. “Just once all from the very beginning,” she thinks, crying a little.

Vasily Shukshin, the story "Boots" - a summary

Driver Sergei Dukhanin, during a trip to the city for spare parts, notices beautiful women's boots in the store. They are expensive - 65 rubles, but Sergei suddenly awakens a desire to make a gift to his wife Claudia. He does not know exactly what size of shoes she has, but the urge to show tenderness and kindness to a loved one overlaps everything. Dukhanin buys boots.

Arriving home in the evening, he shows a gift to his wife and daughters. While they are looking at him with sighs and oohs, Sergei's hands are shaking: the purchase price for his salary is very high. Claudia starts trying on boots - and they turn out to be too small for her. Despite this misfortune, the evening in the family is held in a special way: Sergei's act creates a special atmosphere of warmth.

Vasily Shukshin, the story "The Strong Move On" - a summary

The bachelor Mitka Ermakov, who lives in a village near Lake Baikal, is a typical village hokhmach and dreamer typical for Shukshin's stories, and is completely mired in his own fantasies. He wants to find a way to become respected, famous and loved by women - for example, to discover a cure for cancer.

One stormy autumn day, Mitka sees a crowd of city "bespectacled people" admiring the raging Baikal from the shore. The majestic view of the storm leads the townspeople to philosophical reflections, such as that in the "storm of life the strong go further", those who are further from the coast survive longer than others.

Mitka listens to the intellectual "idle talk" with slight contempt. However, among the townspeople, he notices a beautiful woman and decides to show her how those "strong" ones look with their own eyes. Throwing off his clothes right in the autumn cold, Mitka throws himself into the icy Baikal water and swims beautifully among the high waves. But one of them covers him with his head. When trying to swim, Mitka shamefully loses his panties in the water and begins to sink.

Two "bespectacled men" jump into the water and save him. Mitka is barely pumped out on the shore with artificial respiration. Coming to his senses and realizing that he was lying without panties in front of the very woman, he instantly jumps up and runs away. The townspeople laugh, and the incorrigible Mitka is now beginning to dream of inventing a typewriter for printing money and continues to break off new jokes.

Vladimir Vysotsky. In memory of Vasily Shukshin

Vasily Shukshin, the story "Cut" - briefly

Two pilots left the village of Novaya, one colonel, a correspondent, a doctor ... In Novaya they are proud of eminent compatriots, but they also feel some jealousy of their merits. During the arrivals of noble people to their homeland, fellow villagers often try to knock them off their arrogance, to make it clear that those who remained in the village are also not bastard!

The villager Gleb Kapustin, who loves to read newspapers and watch TV, has a special talent for cleverly “prying off” and “cutting off” prominent urban compatriots in table conversations. Vasily Shukshin describes the "scholarly" conversation between Kapustin and Ph.D. Konstantin Ivanovich, who came to visit his mother. Gleb successfully contrasts urban education with village ingenuity. Having started the conversation with “the primacy of spirit and matter”, he then translates it to “the problem of shamanism in certain regions of Siberia” and to a way to establish contact with intelligent beings that may be on the Moon. With skillful questions, Kapustin confuses the visiting candidate, much to the delight of the peasants who have gathered to listen to the "dispute". Then, for a long time, stories circulate around the village about how the "dumb" Gleb "cut off" a noble citizen. The dialogue between Kapustin and Konstantin Ivanovich in Shukshin's story is distinguished by an unforgettable wit.

Vasily Shukshin, the story "The owner of the bath and vegetable garden" - a summary

Shukshin's sketch of village customs. Conversation of two men on a village rubble. One came to wash at another in the bathhouse, because he is repairing his own. The owner of the bath begins to imagine how his wife and neighbors will bury him when he dies. The conversation gradually turns to the characters and life of fellow villagers, then to money - and ends in a scandal. The owner of the bath claims that the son of the interlocutor is stealing carrots from his garden. The second man in response calls him "curkul" and refuses to wash in his bath.

Vasily Shukshin "Cherednichenko and the circus" - briefly

Cherednichenko, a 40-year-old Soviet employee, has a good salary, a larch house and graduates from an agricultural institute in absentia, which promises further career growth. Cherednichenko feels himself the master of life in everything, except for one thing: he still does not have a wife.

Arriving to rest at a southern resort, he notices the brave acrobat Eva there in the circus. Cherednichenko takes a glass of wine for courage and goes to propose to her. He describes in detail to Eve his hard financial situation, tempting career prospects, advises the acrobat to abandon the corrupted artistic bohemia and start with him "a morally and physically healthy life." Eve, at first bewildered, but then smiling, promises to give him an answer the next day in a note given to the circus minister.

Cherednichenko takes pride in how dashing he handles the ladies. But upon returning home, doubts begin to overwhelm him. Is Eve a worthy party? After all, it is possible that before she went with familiar circus performers all the depths of the fall of female morality, and he, not finding out anything about it, flew to woo! With mixed feelings Cherednichenko goes the next day for Eva's note - and unexpectedly reads there a piece of advice “to be smarter at forty”. Slightly wounded by the mockery of the circus performer, but also relieved from yesterday's heavy hesitation, Cherednichenko drinks a glass of wine in a stall and sits down to whistle the Amur Waves waltz on the bench.

Vasily Shukshin, story "Chudik" - briefly

The strange, frivolous village projectionist Vasily, for his special gift to constantly get involved in unpleasant stories, is called Chudik by his fellow villagers and his wife. Having decided to go from Siberia to his brother in the Urals, Vasily first loses a large sum in the store (50 rubles), then almost dies in an airplane accident and tries to send his wife a playful, love telegram from the airport. Brother Chudik's wife, a city barmaid, is not happy with the arrival of a village relative. To appease her, Vasily paints a baby carriage in his brother's apartment with cranes and cockerels. But the squeamish daughter-in-law does not understand "folk art" and drives the Chudik out of the house. Not too upset, he goes back many hundreds of kilometers and barefoot with a funny song runs home from the bus.

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Vasily Shukshin, the story "A wider step, maestro" - a summary

The young doctor Nikolai Solodovnikov, recently assigned from the institute to the rural outback, is full of young hopes for future creative work, rapid career growth, important scientific discoveries... The coming spring also lifts Solodovnikov's mood. He looks with light irony at how his boss, the good-natured head physician Anna Afanasyevna, is no longer busy medical activities, and procurement for the hospital of medicines, sheet iron and heating radiators. Having fulfilled his broad plans, Solodovnikov is sure that his work in the countryside is only the first step in a much more brilliant professional biography. With all his soul rushing to her, he mentally encourages himself: "Wider step, maestro!"

However, rural life takes its toll, returns from lofty dreams to everyday prose. Shukshin describes in his story one working day of the doctor Solodovnikov. On this day, he has to go on horseback to a neighboring village for sheet metal, have a little quarrel with one peasant over an armful of hay, talk to the director of the state farm about the difficulties of entering the medical institute, reprimand the storekeeper who is extorting for a drink, and who are very tired to return to the hospital. Shukshin shows that from these seemingly petty concerns, that working existence is formed, which gives life no less vivid meaning than academic degrees, departments, professors and scientific honor.

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin is known to the whole world not only as a wonderful actor, film director and screenwriter, but above all as a talented writer who, in his small works, showed the life of ordinary people. The story "Chudik", according to Wikipedia, was written by him in 1967 and immediately published in the magazine "New World".

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Genre and style features

Vasily Shukshin in his story "Chudik", which can be read online at any time, shows a small episode of his hero's life, which reflects his entire fate. From this small passage, his whole life becomes clear and understandable: both what the protagonist had in the past, and what awaits him in the future.

If you compare this story by Vasily Shukshin with the rest of his works presented in print and online, you will notice that there are very few dialogues in it. But on the other hand, in the monologue of the protagonist, which he constantly pronounces inside himself, you can see his idea of ​​the world, find out what he lives with, what emotions overwhelm him. Shukshin's ingenuous hero "Chudik", the summary that is in this article appears to the reader in such a way that somewhere he wants to sympathize, and somewhere else he can be condemned.

The problematic of the story

In the story "Chudik" Vasily Shukshin raises a problem that can be traced in many of his works. The relationship between the inhabitants of the city and the village has always been and remains urgent problem... The main character notices that the people in the village are simple, hard-working. They want to change their life for another. ... Among them there are heroes that the village can be proud of..

Another important problem is raised in the story "Chudik" - family relationships which should be built on love, trust and understanding. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.

Heroes of the story

Despite the fact that in Shukshin's story there is only one the main character, but there are many minor persons. This allows you to understand the content of the story. Among all actors the following can be distinguished:

Plot and composition

The plot of the work - this is Chudik's journey from his native village to the city where his brother lives. With Dmitry, who misses the village life, the main character has not seen for 12 years. On the road with Chudik, something constantly happens: either he loses money, then the plane is forced to land on a potato field.

Shukshin's story is divided into three parts:

1. Chudik's thoughts about going to visit his brother.
2. Travel.
3. Homecoming.

The wife of the protagonist called differently. Most often weird, but sometimes affectionate. It was known that the main character had one peculiarity: something constantly happened to him, and from this he suffered greatly.

Once, having received leave, he decided to go to visit his brother, who lived in the Urals and with whom they had not seen for a long time. He took a long time to pack his bags... And in the early morning he was already walking with a suitcase through the village, answering everyone's questions about where he was going.

Arriving in the city and taking a ticket, Chudik decided to go shopping to buy gifts for his daughter-in-law and nephews. When he had already bought gingerbread and a chocolate bar, he walked away and suddenly noticed that 50 rubles remained on the floor near the counter. He spoke to the people in line, but the owner of the money was not found. The money was put on the counter in the hope that soon the one who had lost himself would come for it.

Walking away from the store, Chudik suddenly remembered that he also had a 50-ruble note. He put his hand into his pocket where it was lying, but there was no money there. He did not dare to return and take the money, thinking that he would be accused of deception. The hero then had to return home to withdraw money from the savings bank and listen to his wife's speech about how insignificant he is.

Already sitting on the train, Knyazev began to calm down a little. In the carriage, I decided to tell some intelligent comrade a story about a drunken guy from a neighboring village. But his interlocutor decided that Chudik himself invented this story. Therefore, the hero fell silent before transferring to the plane. The hero was scared to fly, and his neighbor was taciturn and read the newspaper all the time.

When they began to land, the pilot "missed" and instead of the landing strip, they ended up in a potato field. The neighbor, who had decided not to buckle up when boarding, was now looking for his artificial jaw. Knyazev decided to help him and immediately found her... But instead of gratitude, the bald reader began to scold him for grabbing his jaw with dirty hands.

When he decided to send a telegram to his wife, the telegraph operator scolded him and demanded that he rewrite the text, because he is an adult, and the content of his message was as in kindergarten... And the girl did not even want to hear that he always wrote letters to his wife like that.

The daughter-in-law immediately disliked Vasily. She ruined his whole vacation. On the first night when he and his brother drank, and Chudik decided to sing, she immediately demanded that Vasily stop yelling. But further the daughter-in-law did not allow them to sit quietly, remembering their childhood years. The brothers went out into the street and began to talk about how wonderful and heroic people left the village.

Dmitry complained about his wife, how she tortured him, demanding responsibility. Wanting to forget that she too grew up in the country, she tortured the piano, figure skating and children. In the morning Vasily looked around the apartment and, wanting to do something pleasant to his daughter-in-law, decided to paint the baby carriage. He spent over an hour on art, but it turned out very nicely. Vasily went shopping, buying gifts for his nephews. And when he returned home again, he heard his daughter-in-law swearing with his brother.

Vasily hid in a shed in the yard. Late in the evening, Dmitry came there, saying that there was no need to paint the stroller. The eccentric, realizing that his daughter-in-law had taken a strong dislike to him, decided to leave home. Dmitry did not contradict him.

Arriving home, he walked along the familiar street, while it was raining. Suddenly, the man took off his shoes and ran on the wet ground, which was still warm. He, holding his boots and a suitcase, still jumped up and down and sang loudly as he walked. The rain gradually stopped, and the sun began to peep through.

In one place Vasily Yegorovich slipped and nearly fell. His name was Vasily Yegorych Knyazev. He was 39 years old. Chudik worked as a village projectionist. In childhood, he dreamed of becoming a spy. Therefore, his hobby all these years have been dogs and detectives..

"The student is a tall guy with a simple good face" is late for the exam in Russian literature. The professor is angry, but pulls himself back: the guy was late because he was fulfilling an urgent order at work. The student takes a ticket, prepares, begins to answer the question on "The Word about Igor's Campaign." The professor very quickly realizes that the student has not read the work, but is familiar, at best, with the “stupid preface”. The professor calls such situations "the berries of distance learning."

The student admits that he only looked through the "Word ..." because there was a lot of urgent work. The professor begins to shame and scold the student for negligence, for the fact that he, a Russian, did not read "the greatest national work." The student embarrassedly asks to ask him more questions, explains that he was "preparing", the Professor asks several leading questions, gets annoyed, inquires in a mocking tone how the prince was taken prisoner. The student in a sharp, decisive tone declares that the professor should give him a bad mark and let him go. He himself fought and was in captivity for three months, and then escaped from the stage. The professor persistently tries to force the student to talk about this episode coherently, but he answers in monosyllables. He did not think about anything in captivity, did not talk about anything with anyone.

The professor begins to tell the student that in Kiev, above the Podol (Kiev region), the thought constantly occurred to him that he had already been there, in a past life, perhaps during the time of Prince Igor. There, above Podol, the professor "somehow comprehended everything that relates to the war." For example, there he came up with the idea that the sentries should be “removed” silently, having frightened them, crawling up unnoticed and very quietly asking about something neutral. According to the professor, this feeling over Podol comes to him because “our country is at war a lot. It is difficult to fight. It is almost always people's war and the people's grief. And even those who do not take a direct part in the war still live with the same feelings and concerns as the people live. "

The professor asks if the student considers him an old eccentric. He replies that, on the contrary, he is very interested, and he tries to understand the professor. The professor gives the student a copy of "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" with a dedication, insists that he must read the book.

Leaving the classroom, the student opens the classroom. He would be satisfied with "satisfactory" in today's subject, and it would be embarrassing if the professor gave him "good" or "excellent." Ho in the record book is "bad". Laughing, the student goes out into the street. And the professor stands at the window for a long time, thinking.

There are people in the world with whom something constantly happens. This was Chudik in the village. This is what his wife called him, when she was affectionate, when in her hearts. Chudik suffered from his adventures. Every now and then he got into some small annoying stories. Here is one story that happened to him during a trip to his brother, whom he had not seen for 12 years.

My brother lived in the Urals. My wife and I got together for a long time, until midnight. Early in the morning he was already striding with a suitcase through the village. The villagers asked him where he was going. The eccentric replied with dignity that he was going to his brother, to the Urals, and his whole face expressed absolute contempt for the long journey.

But he still had to go and go to the Urals, but for now he only reached the regional center safely. There he had to take a ticket and get on the train. There was still enough time. Chudik decided to buy gifts for his nephews - sweets, gingerbread.

I went to the grocery store, got in line. In front of him stood two — a man in a hat and a woman with painted lips. They talked about the insensitivity of the new leadership. The eccentric respected the townspeople, but not everyone. For example, he did not respect hooligans and sellers because he was afraid.

It was his turn. He bought candy, gingerbread, 3 chocolate bars, and went to the side to put everything in a suitcase. He opened the suitcase on the floor and began to fold it. Something is lying on the floor at the counter ... I looked closely - a 50-ruble piece of paper! She lies to herself, she is so green. Nobody sees her. The eccentric was already shaking with joy, his eyes lit up. I wanted something more fun this glaring fact announce this, in line. "You live well, citizens!" he said loudly and cheerfully. The line looked back at him. "In our village, for example, they don't throw such pieces of paper." The line became agitated. "After all, not 3 rubles. For fifty dollars you have to work for half a month."

The freak thought that the one in the hat had dropped the denyuzhka. We decided to put the piece of paper in a conspicuous place on the counter. "Someone will come running now," the saleswoman said.

Chudik left the store in a pleasant mood. How easy and fun he did it! Suddenly he was bathed in heat. He received exactly the same piece of paper in the savings bank and another 25 rubles. He has now changed 25, 50 should be in his pocket. I put it in my pocket - no money! "Mine was a piece of paper, your mother!"

Heart rang with grief. The first impulse was to go and say that the piece was his. But he imagined how everyone would be surprised, they would think what he had invented, because there was no owner of money. They will not believe him, they may not give it back. My heart was completely bitter. "Why am I such and such? What to do now?" - Chudik thought bitterly. I had to go home. He wanted to at least look at his little green piece of paper. I went to the store, but returned. It is forbidden. The heart can not stand it.

All the way to the house on the bus Chudik scolded himself, gained courage. An unpleasant conversation with his wife was ahead. At home, my wife explained again all the insignificance of Chudik, but she took the money off the book.

The eccentric was on the train. The unpleasant sediment in my soul gradually passed. In and out different people, copses, villages flashed outside the window ... They told different stories. Chudik also told an intelligent comrade when they stood in the vestibule and smoked, but his story did not find a response in the soul of a neighbor. He turned to the window and did not speak to Chudik again.

It was still necessary to fly to my brother by plane for about 2 hours. The eccentric was getting on the plane with caution. He flew only once and for a very long time. But everything was fine. The neighbor on the chair was reading the newspaper, and Chudik wanted to talk. He sat and wondered: "Is the newspaper better communication with a living person? "And he also wanted to know one thing. He heard that they were fed on planes. It’s interesting to try their food. But they didn’t bring food, and Chudik decided that it was just healed.

He began to look out the window. He could not understand: the mountains of clouds below - is it beautiful or not? But everyone admired. He felt the stupidest desire to fall into them, like into cotton wool. Most of all he was amazed at himself: there are 5 kilometers under him, but he is not surprised. Mentally marked these 5 km in order to be surprised, and not surprised.

They ordered me to fasten my seat belts, because we went to land. The neighbor did not fasten his seatbelt. The odd fellow told him that he was ordered to fasten the seat belts. “Nothing,” the neighbor replied and leaned back in his chair. Then he remembered something and added that children are the flowers of life, but they must be planted with their heads down. The freak wondered how it was. The neighbor said nothing.

Finally, we landed, but somehow strange. Began to throw and throw so that the unfastened neighbor flew out of the chair, butted Chudik with his bald head, lost his denture. They began to look for her. The eccentric found it, picked it up and handed it to a neighbor. How he screamed! "Why did the Chudik take the jaw with his hands?" Interestingly, and what it was necessary to take? Now it needs to be boiled, but where? Chudik offered to go to his brother and boil. Bald looked at Chudik in surprise and stopped shouting.

At the airport Chudik wrote a telegram to his wife: "We landed a branch of lilac fell on the chest, dear Pear, don't forget Vasyatka." But the telegraph operator refused to send it and ordered to rewrite it. The rewritten version did not suit her again. She wrote on the letterhead: "We flew. Vasily." Ugh! No romance.

The eccentric knew that he had a brother and three nephews. He somehow forgot about his daughter-in-law. I have never seen, and it was she who ruined the whole vacation. For some reason, I disliked him from the first minutes. In the evening my brother and I drank. We recalled our childhood. Then Chudik began to sing. Daughter-in-law Sofya Ivanovna looked out of the other room and asked angrily: "Can't you shout? You're not at the station, right?" And she slammed the door. My brother felt embarrassed. He began to justify his wife, saying that she was good, the kids were just sleeping there. We drank some more. I remembered my youth and childhood again. "Will you stop yelling? Who needs to listen to these conversations of yours?" Sofya Ivanovna asked angrily again.

Chudik offered to go outside. We went out and sat on the porch. And then something happened to my brother ... He burst into tears, began pounding his knee with his fist. "How much anger is in a person!" The eccentric began to persuade his brother: "They are not evil. They are ... crazy. And he has the same." The brother reasoned: "Well, why did you dislike it?" Only then the Chudik realized that his daughter-in-law had disliked him. I tried to understand why, and did not understand. My brother knew the reason - he was not one of the chiefs. The wife loves bosses, responsible workers. Where did she get it? The very same village. And her husband does not love his own, he just hates sometimes, because he is also a village, an ordinary hard worker. Why then did you marry him? I saw it. Who is it? Barmaid.

The eccentric stood up for the villagers. There are even a lot of heroes. We talked, sympathized with each other. Chudik said that he blocked the roof, built a veranda. He invited his brother to come with the kids. We went to sleep.

In the morning Chudik cleaned the bed, washed and began to think about how to please his daughter-in-law. I saw a baby carriage and decided to arrange a holiday for the carriage - to paint it for the joy of my daughter-in-law. I found children's paints and brushes and set to work. He put a flock of cranes on the top, different flowers below, grass-ant, cockerels, chickens. Not a stroller turned out - feast for the eyes! I imagined how the daughter-in-law would be amazed. He smiled. He wanted peace with his daughter-in-law.

All day Chudik walked around the city. I looked at the windows, bought a boat for my nephew. I returned home at 6 o'clock. I went up the porch and heard that my brother was arguing with his wife. His wife screamed for his brother to go to hell, otherwise she would throw out his suitcase herself. Dmitry tried to calm his wife, reasoned, but the woman bit the bit. The eccentric cautiously descended the porch. It is not known what to do next ... It began to hurt in my soul. When he was hated, the soul suffered and it was scary. Why live if they hate him so? I always wanted to get away from the people who hated him. "But why am I such and such? I should have guessed that she will not understand folk art. She is wicked," the Romantic Chudik thought bitterly. He sat in the shed until dark, and his heart ached.

Then my brother came. He was not surprised to see Chudik in the shed, as if he knew that he had nowhere else to go. Dmitry hesitantly said that his wife was scolding him again. Dispersed because of the stroller. There was no need to paint the stroller. But Chudik thought that the daughter-in-law would like it. They were silent. Chudik decided to leave tomorrow back to his village. Brother Dmitry sighed and said nothing.

Odd came home when it was raining steamy. He took off his new shoes and barefoot, smiling happily, ran through the puddles.

Shukshin's short story "Cut", written in 1970, raises serious social and moral issues, among which the most prominent are the decline in morals and ignorance of the villagers.

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main characters

Konstantin Ivanovich Zhuravlev- a candidate, an intelligent, educated, well-mannered man.

Gleb Kapustin- a shallow, malicious, envious man of other people's successes.

Other characters

Valentina Zhuravleva- wife of Konstantin Ivanovich, also a candidate.

Agafia- mother of Konstantin Zhuravlev.

Men- fellow villagers of Zhuravlev, illiterate villagers.

Candidate of Sciences Konstantin Zhuravlev comes to a small village called Novaya with his wife and daughter - his mother "to have some fun, to have a rest." Already a completely city dweller, he decides to spend time with his family in his native village, far from the hustle and bustle of the big city.

By evening, all the residents of Novaya knew that a "rich, learned" son had come to the old woman Agafya Zhuravleva by taxi and brought gifts: "an electric samovar, a colorful dressing gown and wooden spoons."

In the evening of the same day, after work, the villagers gather at the porch of the house of Gleb Kapustin, a well-read and malicious man of forty. It so happened that a lot of "noble people came out of this village: one colonel, two pilots, a doctor, a correspondent."

According to established customs, when such a person came to small homeland, people gathered in his house to listen to the stories of a successful fellow countryman. Kapustin was famous for his ability to "cut off" a distinguished guest - that is, to put him in an awkward, sometimes even humiliating position in front of the villagers.

This time, Kapustin, in the company of his comrades, makes his way to the house of the old woman Zhuravleva. On the way, he learns that not only Konstantin Ivanovich is a candidate, but also his wife Valya, but “in which area the candidates are” is unknown.

Konstantin Ivanovich happily greets the guests, asks his mother to set the table. He begins to remember his childhood, school years with his old friends. Meanwhile, Gleb, who "was from a neighboring village," does not support this conversation, and is clearly preparing for an attack.

Learning that Zhuravlev is working at the philological faculty, Gleb comes to life, and begins to ask questions about philosophy - about the "primacy of spirit and matter", "the concept of weightlessness." These tricky words were read by Kapustin from magazines and newspapers, and he does not understand their meaning at all, but he keeps a stamp in front of his fellow villagers.

Kapustin makes the spouses laugh sincerely with his question about their attitude "to the problem of shamanism in certain regions of the North", as well as to the fact that "the moon is also the work of reason." The Zhuravlevs are lost, and do not know how to properly react to this stream of obvious absurdity, but being good educated people, do not convict the guest of illiteracy.

Konstantin Ivanovich tries to keep a friendly tone with the guest, but Kapustin is very determined - he must at all costs prove to his fellow villagers his superiority over candidates who know nothing about "serious" issues.

Noticing how Zhuravlev was giving his wife a meaningful glance at one of the nonsense he said, Kapustin “soared upward” to deliver a crushing blow. He begins to accuse the spouses that they do not read the newspapers, and "that the candidacy is not the suit that he bought - and once and for all." Finally, he asks the Zhuravlev couple to descend to the ground more often - "it will not hurt so much to fall."

To Valentina's natural question, what, in fact, is their immodesty, Kapustin, according to his custom, avoids a direct answer and invites them to think about it at their leisure.

Gleb confesses that he loves to "click on the nose - do not bully above the waterline." He leaves the house of the Zhuravlevs alone, and the peasants, who always watch his attacks on noble people with great pleasure, are happy - and this time Gleb managed to deftly cut them off. Kapustin admires and invariably surprises his fellow villagers, but does not enjoy love because of his evil, cruel character, because "no one, never, anywhere, has loved cruelty."

The next day Kapustin, having come to work, as if casually asks the peasants: "Well, how is the candidate?" ... He definitely needs to learn about the unconditional humiliation of the urban "upstart" and hear confirmation of his own importance.

Conclusion

In his book, Shukshin ridicules ignorant people who are not able to accept someone else's success and out of a feeling of strong envy who want to humiliate and stab a real intelligent and educated person as painfully as possible.

A brief retelling of "Cut" is useful for reader's diary, as well as in preparation for a literature lesson.

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