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Title page of the first edition of the Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin A.S. Pushkin. 1831

A.S. Pushkin a book was written called The stories of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, which essentially consisted of 5 independent stories:

1. Shot

They were united only by the author, the late nobleman Belkin, who died of a fever in the thirtieth year of his life. The young man had a weakness for literature and tried his hand at writing. But he launched his farm to the point of no possible. This is reported in a letter sent by an elderly friend and neighbor of Belkin. Surviving stories were attached to the letter. In this article, we will talk about the first Belkin's stories « Shot"

Shot: Summary

The narrator during his service met a mysterious young man of Russian appearance named Silvio. Silvio was 35 years old, he once served as a hussar and was distinguished by accuracy in shooting. He was respected for his experience and violent temper. Why this fearless young man retired no one knew. But Silvio's love for martial arts was further confirmed by the presence of books on this subject in his library and daily shooting exercises. Silvio led a rather mysterious lifestyle. He lived in a poor environment, but at the same time he had daily receptions for officers of the regiment, during which champagne flowed like water. What was his financial situation, no one could even imagine. Silvio never discussed or supported the talk of duels and fights. When asked if he had to take part in fights, he dryly replied that yes. This created the impression that Silvio had an innocent victim on his conscience of his excellent shooting skills. All the officers of the regiment felt that Silvio was keeping some secret.

One evening, as usual, everyone gathered at Silvio's house. There was also a young lieutenant who had recently entered the service in the regiment, who did not know the temper and habits of Silvio. Everyone, as usual, was drunk and decided to play cards. Silvio was persuaded to sweep the bank. As a rule, he followed the mistakes of the players in their records. Nobody ever argued with him. But this time everything turned out differently. The new officer decided that Silvio had mistakenly corrected the entry and said so. To which Silvio did not respond. Then the lieutenant repeated once more. But this time, too, Silvio pretended not to hear him. The lieutenant corrected the entry by erasing the chalk. Silvio, still silent, again corrected the note to his liking. Then the enraged officer threw a shandal at Silvio's head, but missed, because. the latter managed to escape. Silvio immediately asked the young officer to leave his house. Everyone believed that the fate of the lieutenant was predetermined and soon a new vacancy would appear in their regiment. But the duel did not follow either the next morning or a week later. Such an incident greatly damaged Silvio's reputation, but it seemed that he did not care at all.

After some time, the quarrel was forgotten and only one person, the narrator himself, in his soul could not come to terms with such incomprehensible behavior of Silvio. It should be noted that the narrator and Silvio were friendly. It happened that they often stayed and talked. But from the moment of the failed duel, the narrator began to avoid the previous relationship. On one of the mail days, a message for Silvio arrived in the regiment. After reading the message, Silvio was delighted and invited everyone to a farewell dinner. Nobody knew what was said in this letter. Like no one knew why Silvio decided so suddenly to leave this unsightly place where he had spent several years. That evening, Silvio was very cheerful, and when everyone began to go home, Silvio asked the narrator to linger. That's when the mystery of the mysterious man was revealed.

Silvio admitted to the narrator that he did not demand satisfaction from the officer who threw the shandal at him, because. was not completely sure of the outcome of this duel. He must not die until he is avenged. It turns out that during the years of service, Silvio was very popular among fellow soldiers and did well. But one day a young officer of great wealth and a noble family entered the regiment. He was a remarkably lucky fellow. He shook the significant position of Silvio, which caused him great envy. The young officer was respected in the regiment and he was popular with women. At first, the newcomer wanted to get close to Silvio, but was rejected. The young officer was not upset at all. Silvio began to look for quarrels. And such an opportunity presented itself during a ball at the Polish landowner.

Silvio saw how the chosen one of fortune enjoyed great success with women, including the hostess of the ball, with whom Silvio was in touch. Then Silvio went up close to the hated lucky man and said some flat and rude joke in his ear. The young man "flashed" and gave Silvio a resounding slap in the face. The rivals grabbed their sabers, but they were separated. That same night they went to duel. Silvio was in great agitation. What could not be said about his opponent. He came with one second and calmly waited. Fearing that his faithful hand would tremble with excitement, Silvio offered the first shot to his opponent in the hope of appeasing his anger during this time. But he refused. Then it was decided to cast lots. It fell to the lucky young man to shoot first. The bullet pierced only Silvio's cap. Now it's Silvio's turn. A skilled shooter raised his pistol and saw how his rival was enjoying cherries, not at all worried for his life. Then Silvio was overtaken by a strong disappointment. The extinct life of the lucky man could not satisfy Silvio. Realizing this, he lowered his gun and refused to continue the duel. Silvio reserved the right to his shot. And now he received a message that his rival intends to marry a beauty. Therefore, he is happy and he has something to lose! Because Silvio decided to claim his right to his shot right now.

Several years have passed. The narrator settled in a remote village and was very bored. But then a rumor reached him that a countess and her husband had arrived at a neighboring estate. The narrator came to visit them. The hosts were friendly. The narrator was very embarrassed at first. Looking for a subject for conversation, he involuntarily looked at the walls on which the paintings hung. In painting, the narrator was not strong. But one of the paintings still struck him, as she " was shot with two bullets, planted one in the other ". The narrator was very happy with the topic close to him and declared that he knew one person who had the talent to shoot accurately. The Count immediately asked the man's name. Hearing the answer, the hosts wilted. And after a while, the narrator found out the continuation of the secret story of Silvio, because the bullet holes in the picture were left by him. Here's what the Count said. 5 years ago he married the beautiful Masha. They were very happy and spent their honeymoon in the countryside. One day, the count was informed that a man was waiting for him, who did not want to give his name. Seeing Silvio, the count did not immediately recognize him. Then Silvio reminded of himself, declaring that he had come to him to unload his pistol. The count asked Silvio to shoot as quickly as possible, before the arrival of his beloved wife. But Silvio was playing for time and suggested that the count cast lots to find out who to shoot first. The lot fell on the count and he shot through the picture. At that moment, the frightened wife ran in. Then the count tried to calm his wife, saying that Silvio was his old friend, with whom they were joking. But the Countess did not believe it and threw herself at Silvio's feet. Then the count asked Silvio to shoot as soon as possible. But his opponent said that he would not shoot, because. I saw fear and confusion on the count's face. Satisfied, Silvio was already leaving, but at the very door he stopped and fired. His bullet pierced exactly where the Count's bullet hit earlier.

From that moment on, neither the count nor the narrator saw Silvio, only rumors brought the news that he fought on the side of the rebellious Greeks under the leadership of Alexander Ypsilanti and died.

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The prose cycle "Belkin's Tale" was written by A. S. Pushkin in the famous "Boldino Autumn" of 1830 and then published anonymously. Upon his return from Boldin, Pushkin introduced Baratynsky to the Tales. “Baratynsky neighs and beats,” he jokingly wrote to Pletnev soon after.

This Pushkin cycle consists of a preface ("From the Publisher") and five stories: "Shot", "Snowstorm", "The Undertaker", "The Stationmaster" and "The Young Lady Peasant Woman".

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - From the publisher"

In the preface to the cycle, Pushkin says that the author of the stories was allegedly the late young man Ivan Petrovich Belkin, who was born in the village of Goryukhino. After the death of his parents, he left the service in the Jaeger regiment and returned to this patrimony of his. The fictional Belkin did not have economic abilities and soon ruined the estate. But he showed an extraordinary penchant for the female sex, as well as for listening and recording amusing life stories. According to Pushkin, Belkin died at the end of 1828 from "a catarrhal fever that turned into a fever." His stories are now offered to readers as "a monument to a noble way of thinking and touching friendship."

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Shot"

Colleagues in the regiment idolize the ringleader, the brawler and the skilled shooter Silvio. But he has a rival - a newly determined young earl from a rich family, who is more liked by women and spends more money on friends. The rivalry between them comes to a duel. The enemy pierces Silvio's cap with his bullet just an inch from the forehead, and then stands under his pistol, eating cherries with calm contempt.

Enraged, Silvio refuses to shoot right now and negotiates with his opponent the right to shoot at a moment that he himself chooses later. For several years he burns with gloomy revenge, waiting for the moment when the count does not want to die. Finally, Silvio finds out: his rival has just married a beautiful girl. He goes to the count in the village and demands to complete the unfinished duel. In order to further humiliate the enemy, Silvio allows him to shoot again.

The Count misses again, hitting a painting hanging on the wall of the room. His young wife runs into the noise and falls at Silvio's feet, begging him not to kill her husband. Having enjoyed the confusion and timidity of his opponent, Silvio refuses to shoot him. Leaving, he makes a shot at the picture on the wall - and aptly hits the mark left by the count's bullet.

Pushkin. Shot. audiobook

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Snowstorm"

Young nobles, neighbors on estates, Masha and Vladimir, love each other. But their marriage is hindered by the Machine's parents. At the suggestion of Vladimir, Masha decides to run away from home at night in order to move in with her betrothed in a nearby church, get married there, and then confront her father and mother with a fait accompli.

The flight takes place in winter, in a terrible snowstorm. Masha and the witnesses chosen by Vladimir reach the church, but he himself loses his way in the thick snow and ends up in a completely different direction. At the church, where the bride, already almost unconscious, is waiting for the groom, stops on the way to the army of hussars. Confusing him with Vladimir, the witnesses drag the hussar to the priest. Only at the end of the ceremony, Masha, who has regained consciousness, realizes: she married the wrong one. The hussar, realizing that he got into an unpleasant story, hurries to leave.

But the ritual has already been completed. Vladimir can no longer marry Masha. With grief, he goes to the war of 1812 with Napoleon and dies there. Married to a stranger, Masha has been alienating all applicants for her hand for several years, until her attention is attracted by the cavalryman Burmin who has returned from a campaign in Europe. Burmin really likes Masha, but for a long time he does not dare to start a decisive explanation with her. Finally, in a burst of candor, he tells her the reason for this. Burmin is married - he was the same hussar who had previously married Masha of the Church. Now he doesn't recognize her. Masha reveals the truth to Burmin, and he falls at her feet.

Film based on the story of A. S. Pushkin "Snowstorm", 1984

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - The Undertaker"

Moscow German shoemaker Gottlieb Schulze invites his neighbor, undertaker Adrian Prokhorov, to his silver wedding. Local artisans gather for the celebration. During a drinking bout, one of them offers to drink "to the health of our customers." All the guests immediately begin to laugh at Adrian, saying that he should also drink to the health of his dead.

Adrian used to intend to invite the neighbors to his housewarming party, but now he decides not to do it out of resentment. Returning home drunk and going to bed, the undertaker tells the maid that he would better call those for whom he works: the Orthodox dead.

Adrian spends the whole next day at the funeral of the merchant Tryukhina. When returning home in the evening, he sees several strangers entering his gate. Entering the room, the undertaker discovers: it is full of the dead, who were previously buried in his coffins. All of them joyfully greet Prokhorov, and one skeleton even tries to hug him. From fear, the undertaker begins to scream - and wakes up. It turns out that not only the scene with the dead, but also the funeral of Tryukhina dreamed of him in a drunken dream after a drinking bout with a German.

The stationmaster Samson Vyrin has a daughter Dunya from his late wife, a girl of extraordinary beauty. The wealthy hussar Minsky, who once stopped at the station, falls in love with her. Pretending to be sick, the hussar stays with the caretaker for several days. During this time, he closely converges with Dunya and, leaving, invites her to ride together to the church on the outskirts of the village.

Having driven off with a hussar, Dunya does not return. Her inconsolable father learns from the roadside that Minsky was going to St. Petersburg. The stationmaster goes to the capital, finds Minsky and demands the return of his daughter. But Minsky assures that Dunya has already weaned from her former poor state and will be happy with him. He drives Vyrin away. The caretaker begins to follow the hussar, recognizes the house where he lives on the money of Minsky Dun, and makes his way into her room. Dunya, seeing his father, falls unconscious, and Minsky again throws him out into the street.

Unable to get the truth, the caretaker returns to his station, becomes an inveterate drunkard and dies. A few years later, the neighbors see how a richly dressed lady with three small children comes to his grave and lies on the cemetery mound for a long time.

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Young lady-peasant"

Enemies-neighbors, the landowners Berestov and Muromsky, do not visit each other. After graduating from Moscow University, the handsome son Alexei returns to the Berestov estate. All the neighboring young ladies gossip about the ardent young man. The desire to see Alexei also burns the daughter of Murom Liza, but she does not have the opportunity to do this because of the enmity of their fathers.

Playful Lisa still finds a way to fulfill her dream. She dresses up in the clothes of a peasant woman and goes at dawn to a grove on the border with the Berestov estate. There she is met by hunting Alexei. Young people really like each other. They begin to meet frequently. The young lady Liza, out of modesty, does not reveal her real name to Alexei, calling herself a peasant of the Muromskys, Akulina.

Meanwhile, Berestov Sr. once sees Muromsky, who has fallen from his horse and is bruised, in the forest. Out of noble courtesy, he helps him get home. After that, the long-standing enmity of the two landowners is quickly replaced by friendship. Muromsky invites Berestov and his son to his home. Not wanting Aleksey to recognize her during this visit, the young lady Liza utterly makes up her face with antimony and whitewash, dresses up in an old, wonderful dress, speaks only in French and in a singsong voice. Alexei remains unaware of who she is, and continues to meet with "peasant woman Akulina" with pleasure.

Berestov and Muromsky, meanwhile, decide to marry their children. Passionately in love with Akulina, Alexei flatly refuses to marry Lisa. His father threateningly insists on this. In terrible excitement, Alexei goes to Muromsky without warning - to explain the impossibility of marrying his daughter. But when he enters the house, he suddenly sees his “Akulina” there, dressed not like a peasant, but in a young lady’s dress ...

The cycle consists of a preface ("From the Publisher") and five stories: "Shot", "Snowstorm", "The Undertaker", "The Stationmaster" and "The Young Lady Peasant Woman".

In the preface to the cycle, Pushkin says that the author of the stories was allegedly the late young man Ivan Petrovich Belkin, who was born in the village of Goryukhino. After the death of his parents, he left the service in the Jaeger regiment and returned to this patrimony of his. The fictional Belkin did not have economic abilities and soon ruined the estate. But he showed an extraordinary penchant for the female sex, as well as for listening and recording amusing life stories. According to Pushkin, Belkin died at the end of 1828 from "a catarrhal fever that turned into a fever." His stories are now offered to readers as "a monument to a noble way of thinking and touching friendship."

SHOT

The author describes his life among army officers, and then talks about Silvio, the only person in their society who was not a military man. He was about 35 years old. This man's life is shrouded in mystery. He is sullen, angry with his tongue and has a strong disposition, but he is sympathetic to the author of the story. Once Silvio served as a hussar, but for some unknown reason he retired and settled in a poor place, living modestly. However, he constantly arranged dinners with officers. Shooting was his favorite pastime. All the walls in his room were covered in bullet holes.

Once, while playing cards away, Silvio had a conflict between him and one of the guests, and according to all the rules of that time, he had to challenge the offender to a duel. But he didn't. This incident briefly damaged his reputation with young officers, although it cost Silvio nothing to shoot his offender in a duel. Silvio tried for a long time to explain himself to the main character, but to no avail. Once he said that he had to leave immediately and invited the officers to the last dinner. After that, he asked the protagonist to stay and told him the following story.

When Silvio served as a hussar, he liked to excel in everything. Once a young and noble man got into their regiment, who made an impression on young ladies and colleagues. This wounded Silvio's vanity, and he began to treat him with malice and coldness. Once a young man gave him a slap in the face in response to his barb, and it came to a duel. It fell to Silvio's opponent to shoot first, and he shot through his cap. When Silvio began to shoot, he saw that the enemy was absolutely calm and carefree. This pissed him off and he decided he would put off his shot until a better opportunity presented itself. After that, Silvio retired. Recently, the news came to him that his old enemy was getting married, and he finally decided to meet and take revenge on him, for which he was going to leave for Moscow.

Several years have passed. The author of the story retired and settled in a poor village. He was bored there and had no one to visit. But one day he learned that a countess and her husband had come to live in a rich estate four versts from him. The hero goes to visit them. Looking around the house, he notices a shot through the picture, and the conversation turns to shooting. The hero remembers Silvio, the best shooter he knew. The Count was very surprised that he knew this man and confessed that it was he who was Silvio's sworn enemy. The shot through picture is a memory of his last visit to this house.

The count tells how five years ago he got married and settled in this estate. One evening, after a ride, he sees a guest in his room and recognizes him as Silvio. He announces that he has come to carry out his shot. Saying that he did not want to shoot at an unarmed man, Silvio cast lots, and it fell to the count to shoot first again. The count missed and hit the picture. He was nervous thinking about his wife. When it was Silvio's turn, the count's wife entered the room. She was very frightened and threw herself at the feet of Silvio, asking him not to shoot her husband. He took pity because he got his: he saw the confusion of his enemy, who did not want to die at that moment. Leaving, Silvio fired at the painting without aiming.

BLIZZARD

At the end of 1811, the landowner Gavrila Gavrilovich R ** lived in the village of Nenaradovo. He had a daughter Masha. Her lover is the poor ensign Vladimir. Parents, of course, would not agree to marry their daughter to him, so young people met and corresponded secretly. In the end, they dared to arrange an escape at night and secretly get married.

On the night before the escape, the girl said she was ill and closed herself in her room. However, she really felt bad, because she was nervous and worried about her parents.

Her lover, Vladimir, with difficulty persuading the local priest and finding witnesses, sent his servant to Nenaradovo to bring the bride to church. In the evening he went on a sleigh to the village of Zhadrino, to the chapel where the wedding was to take place.

A strong snowstorm arose, Vladimir lost his way, and he was escorted to Zhadrino when morning came. The church was closed. Bad news awaited him.

The next morning, Masha, as if nothing had happened, went out to her parents. The day went well, but by evening the girl was seriously ill. In delirium, she said something about Vladimir, and her parents decided that they still needed to give in to her and marry her to a loved one. They wrote to Vladimir, but received a half-crazy letter from him that he would never be in this house again. Parents did not dare to tell Masha about this. Meanwhile, the girl was recovering. In 1812 Vladimir left for the army and was wounded near Borodino.

Masha's father died, and the girl moved to another estate with her mother. There were many suitors around Masha, but she did not look at anyone. Vladimir died, but she kept all his things. Everyone marveled at her faithfulness.

The war is over. One day, a wounded hussar colonel Burmin appeared at Masha's estate. He was 26 years old. Masha began to distinguish him from the rest. They fell in love with each other. Once Burmin confessed his feelings to her, but said that he was married and did not even know his wife. He told her the story of how, at the beginning of 1812, he had to go to Vilna, where their regiment was stationed. There was a heavy snowstorm at night, but it was as if something was pushing him to go. On the way, he lost his way and came across a village. It had a church. The young man was called there. The priest and all the others mistook him for a belated bridegroom, led him to some girl and married her. The girl saw that it was not her fiancé and fainted. Burmin left the church and left.

Masha realized that this was the man with whom she was then married instead of Vladimir, and Burmin threw himself at her feet.

UNDERTAKER

Undertaker Adrian Prokhorov moved to a new house with Basmanna on Nikitskaya. He was not yet accustomed to the new house and was immersed in sad thoughts about his losses and the fact that his clients would not go to another contractor who lived closer.

There was a knock on his door, and his new neighbor, a German shoemaker, Gottlieb Schulz, entered. They began to talk. The German invited him to visit him.

The next day, the undertaker went to a neighbor. Many guests gathered at the shoemaker's - German artisans with their wives and apprentices. Everyone began to drink, making various toasts. Someone offered to drink to the health of the customers. They laughed at Adrian - it's funny to drink to the health of the dead. The undertaker came home drunk and angry and went to bed with the words that he would invite not these Germans to the housewarming, but his own dead.

He was awakened when it was still dark. That night the merchant Tryukhina died. Adrian was instructed to make all the funeral accessories. All day the undertaker was engaged in the execution of the order, and in the evening he went home on foot. Then he saw someone vaguely familiar enter his house. Arriving home, the undertaker found that his house was full of the dead.

He was horrified to recognize them as his clients. The dead said they rose to his invitation. A skeleton approached him, said that he was his very first client, and hugged Adrian, but he screamed in horror. The dead were indignant and began to threaten the undertaker. He fell unconscious in fear.
He woke up in his bed. Sun was shining. It turned out that Tryukhina's death and the dead had appeared to him in a dream. The worker said that the German shoemaker again invited him to visit.

STATION OFFICER

The author tells a story from the life of one well-known stationmaster. He met him in 1816, when he was passing through the *** province, along the highway, now destroyed. On the way, he got soaked in the pouring rain and demanded tea. The caretaker asked his pretty 14-year-old daughter Dunya to put on a samovar. The main character really liked the girl, and in parting he kissed her. He remembered this for a long time.

A few years later, circumstances again brought him to the same places. The hero decided to visit the caretaker and his daughter.

A glass of rum dispelled the old man's gloom, and he told the hero the following story. Three years ago, a hussar stopped at their place and immediately demanded horses. Dunya came out and offered him something to eat. Her appearance calmed the young man, and he agreed to wait. He settled down with them and began to talk cheerfully with the caretaker and his daughter. Then he fell ill and stayed with the caretaker for three days. Having recovered, the hussar got ready to leave and offered to take Dunya to the church, since it was Sunday. The father, not suspecting anything, let the girl go, but when she did not return home, he realized that she had been stolen, and the hussar's illness was feigned in order to stay longer with the caretaker.

The caretaker starts looking for his daughter. He arrives in St. Petersburg and pays a visit to Captain Minsky, the man who took away his daughter. The caretaker asks Minsky to return Dunya, but he refuses him, because she loves Minsky and has lost the habit of her former life.

The caretaker makes another attempt to see his daughter and tricks him into her room. There he sees her with Minsky, beautifully dressed and happy. Noticing his father, Dunya faints, and Minsky throws him away in a rage.

The caretaker returned to his station and began to live alone, wondering about the fate of Dunya.

A little more time passed. The author again passes through the same place and learns that the station was removed, and the caretaker died a year ago, drinking himself. Other people began to live in his house. A boy from the house of the new owners took him to the caretaker's grave and told him that a beautiful lady with children came here in the summer and was at the grave for a long time, gave money to the priest and the boy and left. The author realized that it was Dunya.

YOUNG PEASANT WOMAN

In one of the remote provinces, there lived two neighbors who did not get along with each other, because they had completely different characters. Ivan Petrovich Berestov retired from the guard and lived in his village without leaving anywhere. He skillfully managed the household and was not very approving of innovations. His neighbor, Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, on the contrary, squandered most of his estate in Moscow, and began to live in the countryside in the English manner, which further aggravated his losses.

Berestov's son, Alexei, came to his father's estate. He dreamed of becoming a military man, but his father did not agree, and therefore Alexei decided to live as a gentleman for a while.

The "Angloman" also had a daughter, Liza. She immediately became interested in the young man and asked her maid Nastya to find out about him and tell her. When Nastya told about his beauty and cheerful character, Lisa really wanted to see him, but there was enmity between their fathers, and they might have thought that she was chasing a young man if she herself was looking for a meeting. Liza came up with a plan: dress up as a peasant woman and go out for a walk in the grove, where Alexei usually goes.
Early in the morning the girl went to the grove and met Alexei there. They got to know each other right away. Lisa called herself Akulina, the blacksmith's daughter, and promised to come here the next day.

The conscience began to torment the girl, but she could not help but come to the meeting, so that Alexei would not look for her among the peasants and would not discover deceit. At the next meeting, she tells the young man not to look for her. Gradually they fall in love with each other.

Relations between their fathers meanwhile changed dramatically. Once, during a horse ride, Muromsky met Berestov when he was hunting. Muromsky's horse was frightened and suffered from the cry of the hunters, and he fell from it and hurt his leg. Berestov came to his aid and invited him to his place. The neighbors got into a friendly conversation, and the next day Muromsky invited Berestov and his son to visit him.

Upon learning of this, Lisa was dumbfounded. At first she told her father that she would not come out to them, and then a plan ripened in her head: she demanded from her father that he not show his surprise at her appearance, and the next day she put on a wig, whitened her face, dressed in an extravagant dress. Alexei did not recognize the real Lisa in this guise, and he did not like Muromsky's daughter terribly.

The acquaintance between Muromsky and Berestov grew stronger, and Berestov set out to marry his son to Lisa. However, Alex categorically refused. Deciding that he would marry a peasant woman and would live by his own labors, he wrote a letter to Akulina about this and went to Muromsky to beg him to refuse to marry. There he saw Lisa without makeup and in an ordinary dress, reading his letter, and rushed to her. At this time, Muromsky entered and saw that everything was fine with the young people even without the participation of their parents.

The narrator is an army officer who tells about the life of his regiment, which stopped in the place ***. Every day the officers of the regiment also visited Silvio's house. He was a military man, about thirty-five years old, "he seemed Russian, but bore a foreign name."

His main occupation was pistol shooting. One day about ten people from the regiment gathered at Silvio's to play cards for money. Among the players there was a new one - officer r ***, who began to argue with Silvio. Imperceptibly, the argument turned into a skirmish, at the end of which Silvio got up, turning pale with anger, and asked the officer to leave. Some time passed, and no one remembered this incident.

One day Silvio received a letter and, after reading it, invited everyone to dinner on the occasion of his sudden departure. When everyone left, Silvio stayed with the narrator and told him about the incident with R ***. Six years ago, Silvio served in the hussars, had a violent temper and participated in all duels. A young man of "a rich and noble family" appeared in the regiment. Silvio immediately hated him and began to look for a reason to quarrel. At a ball with a Polish landowner, Silvio was rude to him. He gave him a slap in the face, and that very night they went to fight. Silvio arrived earlier and was already waiting for the enemy at the appointed place. Then he appeared, accompanied by a second. The lot fell to him to shoot first. He took aim and shot through Silvio's cap. Finally, the turn came to Silvio, and now the life of the young officer was in his hands.

“What good is it for me to deprive him of his life when he does not value it at all,” thought Silvio. He lowered the gun, saying that the last shot was his.

And now Silvio was going to go to Moscow to take revenge on him right at his wedding. “Let's see,” said Silvio, “whether he will accept death with such indifference before his wedding.”

Several years passed, and the narrator met a rich count who lived next door to him in the same village. The narrator decided to visit him.

After examining the house, he drew attention to one of the paintings, which was shot through with two bullets, and asked about the history of this painting. It turned out that the count is the young officer whom Silvio was going to take revenge on.

Once the count, entering the room, saw a man in the darkness and recognized him as Silvio. "Shot for me," said Silvio, "I've come to unload my pistol." Silvio decided to cast lots, and again it fell to the count to shoot first. He fired and hit the painting. Now Silvio took aim, but then he said: “I will not shoot, I am satisfied: I saw your confusion, your timidity; I made you shoot me, I've had enough. You will remember me. I commit you to your conscience."

On leaving, Silvio stopped at the door, looked around and fired at the picture.

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The narration is conducted on behalf of the narrator - an army officer. Their regiment lodged in the town of ***, and life was not very diverse. In the morning, teaching, then lunch with the regimental commander, and in the evening - punch and playing cards. The officers gathered at each other's, but one non-military one stood out among them. At 35, he looked too gloomy and seemed like an old man.

Some mystery surrounded his fate: being Russian, he bore the foreign name Silvio. Once he was a hussar, but retired. His table was open to local officers, he gave everyone his books to read - military and novels. But his main occupation was shooting: all the walls of the room were riddled with bullets. When it came to whether he had to fight a duel, he answered dryly that he had to. Everyone thought that this gloom was connected with the past: there was some kind of sacrifice on his conscience.

One day at dinner, while playing cards, Silvio, who rarely played, sat down to throw, but remained silent. Everyone knew this feature of his, but among the officers there was a novice: he made a mistake in the entry, Silvio silently erased and corrected, but the officer did not let up and began to prove his case. Silvio did not react, then the young man threw a copper shandal at him, and he barely managed to dodge the blow. Everyone was sure that Silvio would challenge the young man to a duel and that it would be bad luck. However, the call was not followed, which greatly surprised the officers, and they considered him a coward.

One day Silvio received a package, impatiently tore the seal off it, his eyes sparkling as he read it. After he told everyone present that he would have to leave at night, so he invites everyone to a farewell dinner. Almost the entire regiment assembled at the appointed time. The owner himself seemed cheerful, champagne flowed like water, colleagues wished him every blessing. When late in the evening everyone began to disperse, Silvio asked the narrator to linger.

They lit a cigarette, and the owner explained that he did not want to leave the narrator with a painful memory of himself. And he told the story of six years ago, when he received a slap in the face, but his enemy is still alive. Then Silvio was a young hussar, used to being the first in everything, and he succeeded in this until a young man of a rich and noble family appeared in their regiment. He was truly a lucky man: smart, handsome, young, had a big name and money that was not transferred.

Silvio hated him for his successes in the regiment and in the society of women, so he began to look for quarrels, but his happy rival answered epigrams with sharper epigrams, his jokes were funnier, which caused more anger in the hero’s soul. Once at a ball, seeing how successful his opponent was with women, Silvio said some kind of flat rudeness, for which he received a slap in the face, and that same night they went to fight.

When the opponents met, the offender appeared with a cap full of cherries. By lot, the opponent was the first to shoot, he took aim and shot through his cap. When Silvio was about to shoot, his opponent at gunpoint calmly chose ripe cherries and spat in the pits. Such indifference infuriated Silvio, and he said that he was leaving the shot behind him. He retired and was waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. And so he received a message that his offender should soon marry a beautiful girl. Silvio was sure that now he would not meet death calmly.

A few years later, the narrator ended up in another county. After a noisy and carefree life, it was hard for him, he did not know what to do, and almost became a bitter drunkard. Four miles away was a rich estate, the owners of which were going to come for the summer. When the hero arrived at the count's estate, he saw a handsome man with an open and friendly look, and the countess turned out to be a beauty.

The guest began to examine the paintings and saw one, shot twice in one place. The conversation turned to shooting, and the narrator remembered Silvio. And the count admitted that he was the very offender, and then told Silvio about revenge. During a ride on horseback, he learned from a servant about the arrival of his old enemy. The wife went on foot, and the count hurried home. Seeing Silvio, he asked to shoot faster, until the countess appeared. But he offered to hold a duel and cast lots. The count took out the first number. He fired and hit the painting. At that moment, Masha ran in and threw herself on her husband's neck. The count tried to explain that this was a joke, but Silvio said that he had been joking with him all his life.

Masha threw herself at his feet, the count was furious, and Silvio said that he was satisfied and so: he saw confusion in the eyes of his offender and now betrays his conscience. Leaving, he looked back and, almost without aiming, fired at the shot through the picture, then disappeared. It was said that Silvio, during the rebellion of Alexander Ypsilanti, was the leader of the Eterist detachment and was killed in the battle of Skulyan.

• "Shot", analysis of the story by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
• "The Captain's Daughter", a summary of the chapters of Pushkin's story