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Matryona Timofeevna (part "Peasant Woman"), based on the poem "Who Lives Well in Russia"

"Peasant Woman" picks up and continues the theme of the impoverishment of the nobility. Wanderers find themselves in a ruined estate: "the landowner is abroad, and the steward is dying." A crowd of servants released into the wild, but completely unadapted to work, is slowly stealing away the master's property. Against the backdrop of blatant devastation, collapse and mismanagement, labor peasant Russia is perceived as a powerful creative and life-affirming element:

The strangers sighed lightly:

Im after the yard aching

seemed beautiful

Healthy, singing

A crowd of reapers and reapers...

In the center of this crowd, embodying the best qualities of the Russian female character, Matryona Timofeevna appears before the wanderers:

stubborn woman,

Wide and dense

Thirty-eight years old.

Beautiful; gray hair,

The eyes are large, stern,

Eyelashes are the richest

Stern and swarthy.

She has a white shirt on

Yes, the sundress is short,

Yes, a sickle over the shoulder.

The type of "dignified Slav woman", a peasant woman of the Central Russian strip, is recreated, endowed with restrained and strict beauty, full of self-esteem. This type of peasant woman was not ubiquitous. The life story of Matrena Timofeevna confirms that it was formed in the conditions of a seasonal fishery, in a region where most of the male population went to the cities. On the shoulders of the peasant woman lay not only the whole burden of peasant labor, but also the entire measure of responsibility for the fate of the family, for the upbringing of children. Harsh conditions honed a special female character, proud and independent, accustomed to relying on her own strength everywhere and in everything. Matryona Timofeevna's story about her life is built according to the laws of epic narration common to the folk epic. "The Peasant Woman," notes N. N. Skatov, "is the only part, all written in the first person. However, this story is by no means only about her private share. The voice of Matrena Timofeevna is the voice of the people themselves. That is why she sings more often than she talks, and sings songs not invented for her by Nekrasov. "Peasant Woman" is the most folklore part of the poem, it is almost entirely built on folk poetic images and motifs.

Already the first chapter of "Before Marriage" is not just a narrative, but, as it were, a traditional rite of peasant matchmaking taking place before our eyes. Wedding parables and lamentations "They equip themselves in the huts", "Thanks to the hot baenka", "My dear father ordered" and others are based on truly folk ones. Thus, talking about her marriage, Matrena Timofeevna talks about the marriage of any peasant woman, about all their great multitude.

The second chapter is directly titled "Songs". And the songs that are sung here are, again, folk songs. The personal fate of the Nekrasov heroine is constantly expanding to the limits of the all-Russian, without ceasing at the same time to be her own destiny. Her character, growing out of the general people, is not completely destroyed in it, her personality, closely connected with the masses, does not dissolve in it.

Matrena Timofeevna, having achieved the release of her husband, did not turn out to be a soldier, but her bitter thoughts on the night after the news of her husband's impending recruitment allowed Nekrasov "to add about the position of a soldier."

Indeed, the image of Matryona Timofeevna was created in such a way that she, as it were, experienced everything and went through all the states that a Russian woman could be in.

This is how Nekrasov achieves an enlargement of the epic character, striving for his all-Russian features to shine through the individual. In the epic, there are complex internal connections between individual parts and chapters: what is only outlined in one of them often unfolds in another. At the beginning of "Peasant Woman" the theme of noble impoverishment, declared in "The Landowner", is revealed. The story outlined in the priest's monologue about "at what cost the priesthood is bought" is picked up in the description of Grigory Dobrosklonov's childhood and youth in "A Feast for the Whole World."

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"Not everything between men

Find a happy

Let's feel the women! -

Our wanderers decided

And they began to question the women.

In the village of Nagotino

They said how they cut it off:

“We don’t have such

And there is in the village of Klin:

Holmogory cow,

Not a woman! wiser

And more ironically - there is no woman.

Ask Korchagina

Matrena Timofeevna,

She is the governor…”

We thought let's go.

The spikelets have already poured.

There are chiseled poles,

golden heads,

thoughtfully and kindly

Noise. It's a wonderful time!

There is no more fun, more elegant,

There is no richer time!

“Oh, a field of many grains!

Now you don't think

How many people of God

Beat over you

While you are dressed

Heavy, even spike

And stood in front of the plowman,

Like an army before a king!

Not so much dew is warm,

Like sweat from a peasant's face

Moisturize you!..”

Happy are our wanderers,

Either rye or wheat

Then they go with barley.

Wheat does not please them:

You are in front of the peasant,

Wheat, guilty

What do you choose to feed?

But they don't fall in love

On the rye that feeds everyone.

Ripe peas! pounced

Like locusts on the strip:

Peas, that the girl is red,

Whoever passes - pinches!

Now everyone has peas -

The old one, the small one

crumbled peas

For seventy roads!

All garden vegetables

Ripe; children run around

Some with turnips, some with carrots,

sunflower peeling,

And the women are pulling beets,

Such a good beet!

Just like red boots

Lies on the strip.

Whether they walked for a long time, whether it was short,

Were they close, were they far,

Finally, Klin.

The village is unenviable:

Whatever the hut - with a backup,

Like a beggar with a crutch

And from the roofs the straw is fed

Scott. They stand like skeletons

Wretched houses.

Rainy, late autumn

This is how the nests of the jackdaw look,

When the jackdaws fly out

And the roadside wind

Birches will expose ...

The people in the fields are working.

Noticing the village

Manor on a hillside

Let's go for a look.

Huge house, wide yard,

A pond lined with willows

In the middle of the yard.

Tower rises above the house

Surrounded by a balcony

The spire sticks out above the tower.

Met them at the gate

Footman, some kind of cloak

Covered: “Who do you want?

landowner abroad,

And the steward is dying! .. "-

And he showed his back.

Our peasants jumped:

All over the backyard

A lion was drawn.

"Well, thing!" We argued for a long time

What an outlandish outfit

While Pahom is quick-witted

Didn't solve the riddle.

"The lackey is cunning: he will steal the carpet,

Poke a hole in the carpet

Putting your head in a hole

Yes, and walks like that! .. "

Like the Prussians Prusak is a red cockroach. The peasants "froze out" cockroaches - they did not heat the room for several days. loitering

Through the unheated mountain,

When to Freeze Them

The man thinks.

In the estate of that loitered

Hungry courtyards,

Abandoned by the master

By chance.

All old, all sick

And like in a gypsy camp

Dressed up. By the pond

Five people were dragging the bullshit.

"God help! How to catch? .. "

- Only one crucian!

And there were them to the abyss,

Yes, we hit hard

Now - fist in a fist!

- If only the heels were taken out! -

The pale one spoke

Pregnant woman,

diligently inflated

Bonfire on the coast.

"Turned columns

From the balcony, or what, smart girl? -

The men asked.

- From the balcony!

“Something dried up!

And don't blow! They will burn

Rather than carp

They'll catch you by the ear!"

- Can not wait. exhausted

On stale bread Mitenka,

Oh, grief is not life! -

And then she stroked

half-naked boy

(Sat in a rusty basin

Snub-nosed little boy).

"And what? him, tea, cold, -

Provushka said sternly, -

In an iron basin?

And take the baby in your arms

Wanted. The child cried.

And the mother screams: - Don't touch him!

Can't you see? He rides!

Oh well! go! stroller

After all, he has it!

What a step then bumped

Peasants to curiosity:

special and strange

Work went on everywhere.

One yard was tormented

At the door: copper handles

unscrewed; another

Carry some tiles.

“Did you pick it up, Yegorushka?” -

They called from the pond.

In the garden the guys have an apple tree

They rocked. - Little, uncle!

Now they are left

Only at the top

And there were plenty of them!

“Yes, what is the use of them? green!"

- We are happy to be like that!

They wandered around the garden for a long time:

“Hurry up! mountains, abyss!

And the pond again ... Tea, swans

Were you walking in the pond?

Arbor ... wait! with an inscription!.."

Demyan, a literate peasant,

Reads in warehouses.

"Hey, you're lying!" Strangers are crying...

Again - the same

Demyan reads to them.

(Forcibly guessed

That the inscription has been redirected:

Two or three letters are worn out.

From the noble word

It came out like crap!)

Noticing curiosity

Peasants, gray-haired yard

He approached them with a book.

– Buy! - No matter how hard I tried,

tricky title

Demyan did not overcome:

"Sit down, you landowner

Under the linden on the bench

Yes, read it yourself!

- And also literate

Consider! - with annoyance

The yard hissed. -

What do you need smart books for?

Drinking signboards for you

Yes, the word "forbidden"

What is found on the pillars

"The paths are so dirty,

What a shame! At the girls of stone

Broken noses!

Missing fruits and berries

Lost swan geese

Have a lackey in the goiter!

What are churches without a priest,

Please without a peasant,

That garden without a landowner! -

The men decided. -

The landowner was firmly built,

I imagined such a distance

But ... ”(Six laugh,

The seventh hung his nose.)

Suddenly from above somewhere

How the song will sound! heads

The men got pissed off:

Balcony around the tower

Wandered around in a cassock

A man

And sang... In the evening air,

Like a silver bell

Thunderous bass boomed...

Buzzed - and right behind the heart

He grabbed our wanderers:

Not Russian words

And the grief in them is the same,

As in a Russian song, it was heard

No shore, no bottom.

These sounds are smooth.

Sobbing ... "Clever,

What man is there? -

Roman asked the woman

Already feeding Mitenka

Hot ear.

- Singer of Novo-Arkhangelsk,

Him from Little Russia

Messed up gentlemen.

Take him to Italy

Promised, but left ...

And he would be glad-radechonek -

What is Italy? -

Back to Konotop

There is nothing for him to do here...

The dogs left the house

(The woman got angry)

Who cares here?

Yes, he has no front

- Don't hear that yet

How will you stay until the morning:

Three miles from here

So they started

Say hello in your own way

At dawn.

How to climb the tower

Let ours bark: “Is it healthy

Live, o-father I-pat?

So the glass will crack!

And that one to him, from there:

- Hello, our so-lo-woo-shko!

I'm looking forward to drinking water! - "I-du! .."

"I'm going" - it's in the air

The hour is responding...

Such stallions!

The cattle is chasing home

The road got dusty

It smelled like milk.

Mityukhin's mother sighed:

- At least one cow

Entered the bar yard! -

“Chu! village song,

Farewell, poor grief!

We're going to meet people."

The strangers sighed lightly:

Im after the yard aching

seemed beautiful

Healthy, singing

A crowd of reapers and reapers, -

The whole thing was painted by the girls

(Crowd without red girls,

What is rye without cornflowers).

"Good way! And which

Matrena Timofeevna?

- What do you need, well done? -

Matrena Timofeevna

stubborn woman,

Wide and dense

Thirty-eight years old.

Beautiful; gray hair,

The eyes are large, stern,

Eyelashes are the richest

Stern and swarthy.

She has a white shirt on

Yes, the sundress is short,

Yes, a sickle over the shoulder.

- What do you guys need?

The strangers were silent,

For now, other women

Don't go ahead

Then they bowed:

"We are strangers,

We have a concern

Is it such a concern

Which of the houses has risen,

With work unfriended us,

Got off food.

We are gentle men

Of the temporary

tightened province,

County Terpigorev,

empty parish,

From adjacent villages:

Nesytova, Neelova,

Zaplatova, Dyryavina,

Burners, Golodukhina -

Crop failure too.

Walking the path,

We got together casually

We agreed - and argued:

Who lives happily

Feel free in Russia?

Roman said: to the landowner,

Demyan said: to the official,

Luke said: ass,

Kupchin fat-bellied, -

Gubin brothers said

Ivan and Mitrodor.

Pahom said: to the brightest,

noble boyar,

Minister of the State,

And Prov said: to the king ...

Man what a bull: vtemyashitsya

In the head what a whim -

Stake her from there

You won't beat it! No matter how they argued

We did not agree!

Argued, quarreled,

Having quarreled, they fought.

Podravshis, thought

Don't go apart

Do not toss and turn in the houses,

Don't see your wives

Not with the little guys

Not with old old people,

As long as our dispute

We won't find a solution

Until we get it

Whatever it is - for sure:

Who wants to live happily

Freely in Russia? ..

We already told the priest

They brought the landlord

Yes, we are right there for you!

How can we look for an official,

Merchant, minister of the tsar,

King (will he still allow

Us, peasants, the king?) -

Release us, save us!

Rumor goes all over the world,

That you are at ease, happily

You live ... Say in a divine way

What is your happiness?

Not that surprised

Matrena Timofeevna,

And somehow twisted

She thought...

- You did not start a business!

Now it's time for work

Leisure whether to interpret?..

“We measured half the kingdom,

Nobody refused us!” -

The men asked.

- Our ears are already shedding,

Not enough hands, dear ...

“And what are we, godfather?

Come on sickles! All seven

How will we become tomorrow - by evening

We will burn all your rye!

Timofeevna realized,

What is the right thing to do.

“I agree,” he says.

You are so brave

Click, don't notice

Sheaves of ten.

"And you lay out your soul to us!"

- I won't hide anything!

As long as Timofeevna

Managed the economy

Peasants a noble place

Chosen for the hut:

Here is Riga, hemp plants,

Two stacks are healthy,

Rich garden.

And the oak grew here - beauty of oaks.

Wanderers sat down under him:

"Hey, self-assembled tablecloth,

Treat the men."

And the tablecloth unrolled

Where did they come from

Two strong hands

A bucket of wine was placed

Bread was piled on a mountain

And hid again...

Gubina brothers cackle:

They grabbed such a radish

In the garden - passion!

The stars have already set

Through the dark blue sky

The month has become high.

When the hostess came

And became our wanderers

"Open your heart..."

Chapter I. Before Marriage

- I was lucky in the girls:

We had a good

Non-drinking family.

For father, for mother,

Like Christ in the bosom,

I lived, well done.

Father, rising to the light,

I woke up my daughter with affection,

And the brother with a cheerful song;

While getting dressed

Sings: “Get up, sister!

They dress up in huts,

They are saved in chapels -

It's time to get up, it's time!

Shepherd with cattle

Got away; for raspberries

The girlfriends went to the forest,

Plowmen work in the fields

An ax is knocking in the forest!

Deal with pots

Wash everything, scrape everything,

Planting bread in the oven

Mother is coming

Does not wake up - more wraps up:

"Sleep, dear, killer whale,

Sleep, save power!

In a strange family - short sleep!

Get to bed late!

They'll come to wake up to the sun

Lukoshko will be saved,

They will throw a crust on the bottom:

Swallow it - yes complete

Pick up a lukoshko! .. "

Yes, not in the forest was born,

I didn't pray for singing

I didn't sleep much.

On the day of Simeon, father

He put me on a stick

And brought out of infancy Custom.

By the fifth year

And on the seventh for a burushka

I myself ran into the herd,

I wore my father for breakfast,

Grazed the ducklings.

Then mushrooms and berries,

Then: "Take a rake

Yes, hay!

So I got used to it...

And a good worker

And sing and dance the huntress

I was young.

You will work in the field for a day,

You return home dirty

And what's the bath for?

Thanks to the hot baenka,

birch broom,

Cold key -

Again white, fresh,

For spinning with girlfriends

Eat until midnight!

I didn't hang out on guys.

I interrupted Nayanov,

And a quiet whisper:

"I'm pissed off,

And mother is smart

Don't touch! go away! .. "- go away ...

Yes, no matter how I ran them,

And he turned out to be narrowed,

On the mountain - a stranger!

Philip Korchagin - Petersburger,

A baker by skill.

The mother was crying

"Like a fish in a blue sea

You yelp! like a nightingale

Flutter from the nest!

Someone else's side

Not sprinkled with sugar

Not watered with honey!

It's cold, it's hungry.

There is a well-groomed daughter

Violent winds will blow,

Black crows will rob,

Shaggy dogs bark

And people will laugh! .. "

And the father with the matchmakers

Tipsy. twirled

I didn't sleep all night...

Oh! what are you, a guy, in a girl

Did you find the good in me?

Where did you spot me?

Is it about Christmas time, how am I from the hills

With guys, with friends

Riding, laughing?

You are mistaken, father's son!

From the game, from skating, from running,

Inflamed with frost

The girl has a face!

Is it in a quiet conversation?

I was dressed up there

Prestige and Pretty

Saved up over the winter

Bloomed like a poppy flower!

And you would look at me

I shake like flax, like sheaves

I’m praying on the rig ...

Is it in the parent's house? ..

Oh! to know! would send

I'm in the city of the brother-falcon:

"Dear brother! silk, garus

Buy - seven colors,

Yes, a blue headset!

I would embroider in the corners

Moscow, king and queen,

Yes Kyiv, yes Tsargrad,

And in the middle is the sun

And this curtain

I would hang it in the window

Perhaps you would look

I would have been beaten!..

I've been thinking all night...

“Leave it,” I said to the guy, “

I am in bondage from the will,

God sees, I won’t go!”

We have traveled so far!

Go! Filipushka said. -

I won't offend! -

I grieved, wept bitterly,

And the girl did the work:

On the betrothed sideways

Looked at.

Pretty-ruddy, broad-powerful,

Rus hair, quiet conversation -

Fell on Philip's heart!

"You stand, good fellow,

Straight against me

Get on the same board!

Look into my clear eyes

Look at the ruddy face

Think, dare:

To live with me - do not repent,

And I don't cry with you...

I'm all like that!"

- I'm not going to repent

You won't cry! -

Filippushka said.

While we were trading

Philip I: "Go away!",

And he: - Come with me! -

It is known: - Beloved,

Good ... pretty ... -

"Ai! .." - I suddenly rushed ...

- What are you? Eka strength! -

Do not hold back - would not see

Forever to him Matryoushki,

Hold on Philip!

While we were trading

Must be what I think

Then there was happiness...

And hardly ever again!

I remember the starry night

Just as good

As now, it was...

Timofeevna sighed.

I bowed to the haystack,

She sang to herself:

"Tell me why

young merchant,

Loved me

A peasant's daughter?

I'm not in silver

I'm not in gold

pearls i

Not hung!"

– Pure silver -

Your purity

Red gold -

Your beauty

Bel-large pearls -

From your eyes

Tears are rolling...

My dear father ordered,

Blessed by mother

Parents put

To the oak table

With the edges of the spell poured:

"Take a tray, foreign guests

Take it with a bow!”

For the first time I bowed -

The frisky legs shuddered;

The second I bowed -

Faded white face;

I bowed for the third

And the will During the last party, or errand, the will was removed from the bride, i.e. a ribbon worn by girls before marriage. rolled down

From a girl's head...

“So, is it a wedding? It should -

One of the Gubins said, -

Congratulate the young.

"Let's! Start with the hostess.

“Are you drinking vodka, Timofeevna?”

- Old woman - but not to drink? ..

Chapter II. Songs

Stand by the court -

Breaking legs,

Stand under the crown -

My head hurts,

My head hurts,

I remember

The song is old

The song is terrible.

To the wide yard

The guests have entered

young wife

Husband brought home

And a dear

How to pounce!

Deverek her -

Wasteful,

And the cinderella -

dandy,

Father-in-law -

That bear

And the mother-in-law

Cannibal

Who is a slob

Who is not straight ...

Everything in a song

Toy sang

All with me now

That's what happened!

Tea, did you sing?

Tea, you know?

“Start, godfather!

We have to catch…”

Leaning his head on the pillow

The father-in-law walks along the senichki,

Angry on new walks.

Wanderers (in chorus)

The daughter-in-law does not let her sleep:

I sleep, baby, doze,

Leaning his head on the pillow

Mother-in-law in the hay

walks around

Angry on the new walks.

Wanderers (in chorus)

Knocking, rattling, knocking, rattling,

The daughter-in-law does not let her sleep:

Get up, get up, get up, you are sleepy!

Get up, get up, get up, you dormant!

Sleepy, drowsy, restless!

- The family was big

Grumpy ... I got

From girlish holi to hell!

Husband went to work

Silence, endure advised:

Don't spit on hot

Iron - hiss!

I stayed with the sisters-in-law

With father-in-law, with mother-in-law,

There is no one to love, to dove,

And there is someone to scold!

To the elder sister-in-law

To the devout Martha,

Work like a slave;

Look after your father-in-law

You do it - at the tavern

Buy the loss.

And stand up and sit down with a sign,

Otherwise, the mother-in-law will be offended;

Where can you find them all?

There are good signs

And there are poor people.

Happened like this: mother-in-law

Puffed into the ears of the father-in-law,

That rye will be born kinder

From stolen seeds.

Tikhonych went at night,

Caught - half dead

Thrown into the shed...

As ordered, so done:

Walked with anger in my heart

And didn't say too much

Word to nobody.

Filippushka came in winter,

Bring a silk handkerchief

Yes, a ride on a sled

On Catherine's Day First sledding.,

And there was no grief!

Sang like I sang

At the parent's house.

We were one-year-olds

Don't touch us, we're having fun

We are always fine.

It is true that the husband

Like Filippushka

Search with a candle...

“It’s like you didn’t sing?”

Timofeevna hesitated:

She said.

"For what?" the strangers asked.

- It's like you don't know

Like village quarrels

Are they coming out? To hubby

Sister came to visit

She has cats Cats - women's warm shoes. crashed.

"Give the shoes to Olenushka,

Wife!" Philip said.

I didn't suddenly answer.

I raised the korchaga

Such a craving: to say

I couldn't speak.

Philip Ilyich was angry,

Waited to put

Korchaga on the sixth,

Yes, slap me on the temple!

"Well, you've come,

And that's how you look!" - said

Other, unmarried

Philip's sister.

Philip cheered up his wife.

"We haven't seen each other for a long time.

And if I knew, I wouldn’t go!” -

The mother-in-law said.

Filyushka also added ...

And everything is here! Wouldn't fit

I won't hide anything!

"Well, women! with such and such

Podkolny snakes

And the dead will take the whip!

The hostess did not answer.

Peasants, for the sake of chance,

Drank from a new cup

And in chorus they thundered a song

About the silk braid.

About my husband's family.

My disgusting husband

Rises:

For a silk whip

Accepted.

The whip whistled

Blood splattered...

Oh! leli! leli!

Blood splattered...

father-in-law

Bowed:

father-in-law,

take me away

From the dashing husband

Fierce snake!

father-in-law

Tells you to hit more

Makes blood shed...

The whip whistled

Blood splattered...

Oh! leli! leli!

Blood splattered...

mother in law

Bowed:

mother-in-law,

take me away

From the dashing husband

Fierce snake!

mother in law

Tells you to hit more

Makes blood shed...

The whip whistled

Blood splattered...

Oh! leli! leli!

Blood splattered...

- Philip on the Annunciation

He left, but on Kazanskaya

I gave birth to a son.

How written was Demushka!

Beauty taken from the sun

The snow is white

Poppies have scarlet lips

The sable's eyebrow is black,

The Siberian sable

The hawk has eyes!

All the anger from my soul is my handsome

Driven away with an angelic smile,

Like the spring sun

Drives snow from the fields ...

I didn't worry

Whatever they say, I work

No matter how they scold - I am silent.

Yes, there is a problem here:

Abram Gordeich Sitnikov,

master manager,

Began to bother hard:

"You are a written kralechka,

You are a pouring berry ... "

“Get off, shameless!” berry,

Yes, not that! -

Cursed the cinderella

I myself will go to the barshchina,

So it will roll into the hut!

I'll hide in the shed, in the barn -

The mother-in-law will pull out from there:

"Hey, don't mess with fire!"

- Drive him away, dear,

On the neck! - "Don't you want

To be a soldier? Me to grandpa

"What to do? Teach!”

From the whole family of her husband

One Savely, grandfather,

father-in-law's parent,

Pity me... to tell

About grandfather, well done?

“Dump all the ins and outs!

Let's throw two sheaves, "-

The men said.

- Well, that's it! speech is special.

It's a sin to keep silent about grandfather.

Lucky was also...

Chapter III. Saveliy, Holy Russian hero

With a huge gray mane,

Tea, not cut for twenty years,

With a big beard

Grandpa looked like a bear

Especially from the forest

Bending down, he left.

Grandpa has an arched back.

At first I was afraid

Like in a low hill

He entered: well, straighten up?

Punch a hole in the bear

In the light of the head!

Let's straighten up grandpa

He could not: he was already knocked,

According to fairy tales, a hundred years,

Grandfather lived in a special room,

Didn't like families

He didn’t let me into his corner;

And she was angry, barking,

His "branded, convict"

He honored his own son.

Savely will not be angry.

He will go into his light,

Reads the holy calendar, is baptized,

And suddenly he will say cheerfully:

"Branded, but not a slave! .."

And they will annoy him hard -

He jokes: "Look,

Matchmakers to us! Unmarried

Cinderella - to the window:

But instead of matchmakers - beggars!

From a tin button

Grandfather fashioned two kopecks,

Threw up on the floor -

Father-in-law got caught!

Not drunk from drinking -

The beaten one dragged on!

They sit silently at dinner:

The father-in-law's eyebrow is cut,

Grandfather, like a rainbow,

A smile on your face.

From spring to late autumn

Grandfather took mushrooms and berries,

Silochki became

On capercaillie, on hazel grouse.

And the winter was talking

On the stove by myself.

Had favorite words

And their grandfather released

A word in an hour.

…………………………………

“Dead… lost…”

…………………………………

“Oh, you, Aniki-warriors! Anika the warrior was a popular folklore character at that time, boasting of exorbitant strength.

With old people, with women

You only have to fight!”

…………………………………

"Unbearable - the abyss,

Endure - the abyss! .. "

…………………………………

"Oh, the share of Holy Russian

Homemade hero! Sermyaga - rough unpainted cloth, usually made at home. The same name was given to clothes made of similar cloth.

All his life they tear him up,

Time will reflect

About death - hellish torments

In the next worldly life, they are waiting.

…………………………………

“Korezina thought Korezhin is the place where Saveliy spent his life in his youth.,

Give it up! give it up! give it up!..”

…………………………………

And more! yeah i forgot...

How the father-in-law unravels,

I ran to him.

Let's lock ourselves up. I'm working,

And Dema, like an apple

At the top of an old apple tree

On my grandfather's shoulder

Sits ruddy, fresh ...

Here's what I say:

“Why are you, Savelyushka,

Called branded, convict?

- I was a convict. -

"You, grandfather?"

- I, granddaughter!

I'm in the land of the German Vogel

Khristyan Khristianych

Buried alive...

“And full! kidding, grandpa!"

- No, I'm not kidding. Listen! -

And he told me everything.

- In the days before the age

We were also lords

Yes, but no landlords,

No German rulers

We didn't know then.

We did not rule corvee,

We didn't pay dues

And so, when it comes to judgment,

We will send once in three years.

“But how is it, Savelyushka?”

- And they were blessed

Such times.

There is a proverb,

What is our side

I've been looking for the devil for three years.

Dense forests all around,

Swamps all around.

Not a horse ride to us,

No foot to pass!

Our landowner Shalashnikov

Through animal paths

With his regiment - he was a military man -

Tried to reach us

Yes, I turned the skis!

We are the local police

Didn't hit for a year, -

Those were the times!

And now - the master is at hand,

Road tablecloth-tablecloth ...

Ugh! take her ashes!

We were only concerned

Bears... yes with bears

We got along easily.

With a knife and with a horn

I myself am scarier than the elk,

Along the reserved paths

I go: "My forest!" I scream.

Once I got scared

How did you step on sleepy

Bear in the forest.

And then he did not rush to run,

And so planted a spear,

What is like on a spit

Chicken - spun

And I didn’t live for an hour!

The back crunched at that time,

Pained occasionally,

While I was young

And bent to old age.

Isn't it true, Matryonushka,

On the eye Village well. I look like? -

“You started, so tell me!

– According to Shalashnikov time

Thought up a new thing

An order comes to us:

"Show up!" We didn't show up

Shut up, don't move

In his swamp.

There was a strong drought

The police came

We are a tribute to her - honey, fish!

Came back again

He threatens to straighten out with an escort,

We are animal skins!

And in the third - we are nothing!

Shoe old bast shoes,

They put on torn hats,

Thin Armenians -

And Koryozhina moved! ..

They came ... (In the provincial city

He stood with the Shalashnikov regiment.)

"Obrok!" - There is no quitrent!

Bread is not born,

Snowballs were not caught ... -

"Obrok!" - There is no quitrent! -

Didn't even speak:

"Hey, first change!" -

And he started beating us.

Tuga moshna korezhskaya!

Yes, racks and Shalashnikov:

Languages ​​are interfering

Brains are shattered

In the heads - shit!

Fortified heroic,

Do not whip! .. There is nothing to do!

We shout: wait, give it time!

Onuchi we ripped

And the master of "lobanchikov" Lobanchiki - coins.

Half caps were raised.

The fighter Shalashnikov subsided!

So-and-so bitter

He brought us an herbalist,

He himself drank with us, went nuts

With Koryoga conquered:

"Well, you've given up!

And that is God! I decided

skin you clean...

I would put on a drum

And gave a shelf!

Ha ha! haha! haha! haha!

(Laughs - glad to have a little idea.)

That would be a drum!

We're going home dejected...

Two thick-set old men

Laughing... Ay, wedges!

Hundred-ruble notes

Home under cover

Untouched bear!

How rested: we are beggars -

So they got away with it!

I thought then:

“Well, okay! hell,

You won't get ahead

Laugh at me!"

And others felt ashamed

They worshiped the church:

“Forward we will not be ashamed,

We will die under the rods!

Liked by the landowner

Koryozhsky lobanchiki,

What a year - calls ... pulls ...

Excellently fought Shalashnikov,

And not so hot great

Earned income:

Weak people gave up

And the strong for the patrimony

They stood well.

I also endured

He was silent, thinking:

"Whatever you do, son of a dog,

And you won't knock out your whole soul,

Leave something!

How will Shalashnikov accept tribute,

Let's go - and behind the outpost

Let's share the profits:

“What money is left!

You are a fool, Shalashnikov!”

And made fun of the master

Koryoga in your turn!

Those were the proud people!

And now give a crack -

Corrector, landowner

Drag the last penny!

But we lived as merchants ...

Suitable summer red

We are waiting for letters ... Came ...

And there is a notification

What Mr. Shalashnikov

Near Varna Varna - in 1828, during the Russian-Turkish war, there were bloody battles for the fortress of Varna. Now it is a large Bulgarian city. killed.

We did not regret

And a thought fell on my heart:

"Prosperity comes

Peasants' end!"

And that’s right: the unimaginable

The heir invented the remedy:

He sent a German to us.

Through dense forests

Through the marshy swamps

On foot came, rogue!

One as a finger: cap

Yes, a cane, but in a cane

For fishing projectile.

And at first he was quiet:

"Pay what you can."

We can't do anything! -

"I'll notify the gentleman."

- Notify! .. - And that ended.

He began to live and live;

Ate more fish;

Sits on the river with a fishing rod

Yes, he himself is on the nose,

Then on the forehead - bam yes bam!

We laughed: - You do not love

Korezhsky mosquito ...

Don't you love, nemchura? .. -

Rides along the coast

As in the bath on the shelf ...

With guys, with girls

Befriended, wandering through the forest ...

No wonder he wandered!

"If you can't pay,

Work!” - What is your

Work? - "Dig in

Grooved desirable

Swamp ... "We dug ...

"Now cut down the forest..."

- OK then! - We cut

And the nemchura showed

Where to cut.

We look: a clearing is coming out!

How the clearing was cleared

To the swamp of the crossbar

He ordered to carry on it.

Well, in a word: we realized

How did you make the road

That the German caught us!

Went to town as a couple!

We look, lucky from the city

Boxes, mattresses;

Where did they come from

German barefoot

Kids and wife.

He took bread and salt with a police officer

And with other zemstvo authorities,

The yard is full of guests!

And then came the hardship Hard labor is one of the most difficult types of imprisonment associated with work in mines or construction in hard-to-reach places.

Koryozhsky peasant -

Ruined to the bone!

And he fought ... like Shalashnikov himself!

Yes, that one was simple; pounce

With all military strength,

Think it will kill you!

And sun the money, it will fall off,

Neither give nor take bloated

Tick ​​in a dog's ear.

The German has a dead grip:

Until they let the world go

Without moving away sucks!

"How did you endure, grandfather?"

That's why we endured

That we are rich.

That is Russian bogatyrdom.

Do you think, Matryonushka,

The man is not a hero?

And his life is not military,

And death is not written for him

In battle - a hero!

Hands twisted with chains

Legs forged with iron

Back ... dense forests

Passed on it - broke.

And the chest? Elijah the prophet

Rattles on it - rides

On a chariot of fire...

The hero suffers everything!

And it bends, but does not break,

Doesn't break, doesn't fall...

Really not a hero?

"You're kidding jokes, grandpa! -

I said. - So-and-so

mighty hero,

Tea, the mice will eat!”

“I don’t know, Matryonushka.

For now, terrible cravings

He raised it,

Yes, he went into the ground up to his chest

With an effort! By his face

Not tears - blood flows!

I don't know, I can't imagine

What will happen? God knows!

And about myself I will say:

How the winter blizzards howled,

How old bones ached

I lay on the stove;

Lie down and think:

Where are you, power, gone?

What were you good for? -

Under rods, under sticks

Gone little by little!

“And what about the German, grandfather?”

- And no matter how the German ruled,

Yes, our axes

They lay - for the time being!

We have been patient for eighteen years.

A German built a factory

He ordered to dig a well.

Nine of us dug,

Worked until half a day

We want to have breakfast.

A German comes: “Just something? ..”

And started us in our own way

Don't rush, drink.

We were hungry

And the German scolded us

Yes, the ground is wet in the pit

He tossed his foot.

It was a good hole...

It happened, I lightly

Pushed him with his shoulder

Then another pushed him

And the third ... We crowded ...

Two steps to the hole...

We didn't say a word

We didn't look at each other

In the eyes ... and with the whole crowd

Khristyan Khristianych

Pushed gently

Everything to the pit ... everything to the edge ...

And the German fell into the pit,

Shouts: "Rope! ladder!

We are nine spades

They answered him.

"Give it up!" - I dropped the word -

Under the word Russian people

They work friendly.

“Give it! give it up!" They gave it so much

That there was no hole -

Flattened to the ground!

Here we look at...

A tavern ... a prison in Bui-gorod.

There I studied literacy,

Until they decided us.

The solution came out: hard labor

And whip in advance;

Not torn out - anointed,

Bad shit there!

Then ... I fled from hard labor ...

Caught! not stroked

And here on the head.

factory bosses

All over Siberia they are famous -

They ate the dog.

Yes, Diral Shalashnikov

More painful - I did not wince

From factory rubbish.

That master was - he knew how to flog!

He made my skin so

What has been worn for a hundred years.

And life was not easy.

Twenty years of strict hard labor,

Twenty years of settlement.

I saved money

According to the royal manifesto

Went home again

Built this burner

And I've been living here for a long time.

As long as there was money

They loved grandfather, groomed,

Now they spit in the eyes!

Oh you, Aniki-warriors!

With old people, with women

You only have to fight...

"Well? the strangers said. -

Tell me, mistress

Your life-being!”

- It's hard to tell.

God spared one misfortune:

Sitnikov died of cholera, -

Another came up.

"Give it up!" the strangers said

(They liked the word)

And drank some wine...

CHAPTER IV. DEMUSHKA

- A tree was lit by a thunderstorm,

And it was nightingale

Nest on a tree.

The tree burns and groans,

The chicks are burning and moaning:

“Oh, mother! where are you?

And you would take care of us

Until we fledged:

How do we grow wings?

In the valleys, in the quiet groves

We'll fly away!"

The tree burned down

The chicks burned to the ground,

Here comes the mother.

Not a tree... not a nest...

No chicks! .. Sings, calls ...

Singing, crying, spinning,

So fast, spinning fast

What wings whistle! ..

The night has come, the whole world is silent,

One sobbed little bird,

Yes, the dead did not call

Until the white morning! ..

I wore Demidushka

By marriage ... cherished ...

Let the mother-in-law get up

How she yelled, how she growled:

"Leave it with grandpa,

You can't do much with him!"

Frightened, scolded

I did not dare to argue

Left a child.

Such rich rye

In that year, we were born

We are not lazy on the ground

Fertilized, taken away, -

It was hard for the plowman

Yes, more fun!

I loaded with sheaves

cart with rafters

And sang, well done.

(The cart is loaded

Always with a cheerful song

And the sleigh with a bitter thought:

The cart brings bread home,

And the sleigh - to the market!)

Suddenly I heard groans:

Saveliy-grandfather is crawling,

Pale as death:

"I'm sorry, sorry, Matryonushka! -

And fell on his feet. -

My sin - overlooked! .. "

Oh swallow! oh stupid!

Do not nest under the shore,

Under the steep coast!

What a day is added

Water in the river: it will flood

Your cubs.

Oh poor young lady!

The daughter-in-law is the last in the house,

Last slave!

Endure the great storm

Take extra beatings

And from the eye of the unreasonable

Don't let the baby go!

The old man fell asleep in the sun

Feed the pigs Demidushka

Stupid grandfather!

I rolled around with a ball

I twisted like a worm

Called, woke Demushka -

Yes, it was too late to call! ..

Chu! the horse is clattering its hooves

Chu, gilded harness

Ringing ... still trouble!

The guys got scared

They fled to the huts,

At the windows they rushed

Old people, old people.

The headman runs by the village,

Knocks on the windows with a stick.

Runs into fields, meadows.

The people gathered: they go - groan!

Trouble! The Lord got angry

He sent uninvited guests,

Wrong judges!

Know the money is wasted

Boots are trampled

Know that hunger has dismantled! ..

Jesus Prayer

Having not created, sit down

At the earth's table

Nala and the cross were placed,

Brought our pop, Father Ivan

To the oath of witnesses.

Grandpa was questioned

Then a ten's manager follows me

Sent. Stanovoy

Walked up the mountain

Like a beast growling in the forest...

"Hey! wife! you were

With peasant Savely

In cohabitation? Blame!"

I answered in a whisper:

- It's a shame, sir, joke!

I am an honest wife to my husband,

And old Savely

One hundred years... Tea, you know? -

Like a savvy horse in a stall

stomped; about the maple table

Hit with a fist:

"Silence! Isn't it by agreement?

With peasant Savely

Have you killed a child?

mistress! what you thought!

A little bit of this

I did not call a non-Christ,

I boiled all over...

Yes, I saw the doctor:

Knives, lancets, scissors

He sharpened here.

I shuddered, I changed my mind.

- No, - I say, - I'm Demushku

Loved, cherished ... -

“Didn’t you drink the potion?

And didn’t you sprinkle arsenic?

- Not! save the Lord! .. -

And then I surrendered

I bowed at my feet.

- Be compassionate, be kind!

Led without reproach

Honest burial

betray the child!

I'm his mother! .. - Will you beg?

They don't have a soul in their chest

They have no conscience in their eyes

On the neck - no cross!

From a thin diaper

Rolled out Demushka

And the body became white

To torment and plastovat.

Here I did not see the light, -

I thrashed and screamed:

- Villains! executioners!..

Drop my tears

Not on land, not on water,

Not to the Lord's temple!

Fall right on the heart

My villain!

Give me, Lord God!

So that decay comes on a dress,

Madness on the head

My villain!

his foolish wife

Come on, foolish children!

Receive, hear, Lord,

Prayers, mother's tears,

Punish the villain! .. -

“No way, is she crazy? -

The chief of the sotsky said. -

Why didn't you anticipate?

Hey! don't be stupid! I command you to tie! .. "

I sat down on a bench.

I'm weak, I'm trembling.

I tremble, I look at the doctor:

Sleeves rolled up

The chest is hung with an apron,

In one hand - a wide knife,

In another handbrake - and the blood on it,

And glasses on my nose!

It became so quiet in the upper room ...

The boss was silent

creaked with a pen,

Pop puffed on his pipe,

Without moving, gloomy

The men were standing.

- You read with a knife in the hearts, -

The priest said to the doctor,

When Demushka has a villain

Broken heart.

Here I am again rushed ...

“Well, it is – crazy!

Tie her up!" - ten's manager

The chief screamed.

He began to interrogate witnesses:

"In the peasant woman Timofeeva

And before the madness

Did you notice?"

They asked the father-in-law, brother-in-law,

Mother-in-law, sister-in-law:

- Didn't notice, no! -

They asked the old grandfather:

- Didn't notice! was smooth...

One thing: they clicked to the authorities,

I went ... but not a cell officer Tselkovik - silver ruble.,

No news Novina is unbleached homemade canvas., lost,

I didn't take it with me!

The grandfather burst into tears.

The chief frowned

Didn't say a word.

And then I caught on!

God is angry: the mind

Deprived! was ready

New in the box!

Yes, it was too late to repent.

In my eyes on the bones

The doctor cut Demushka,

Covered with a tarp.

I'm like wood

Suddenly I became: I looked,

Like a doctor washing his hands

Like drinking vodka. to the priest

He said: “I beg you most humbly!”

And pop him: - What are you asking?

No twig, no whip

We all walk, sinful people,

To this waterhole!

The peasants insisted

The peasants got excited.

(Where did they come from

At the flying kite

lucrative business?)

Prayed without a church

They bowed without an image!

How the whirlwind flew -

Tore the beards of the chief,

Like a fierce beast jumped -

He broke the golden rings ...

Then he began to eat.

I drank and ate, I talked with the priest.

I heard a whisper

Pop cried to him:

- Our people are all naked and drunk,

For a wedding, for a confession

Due to years.

They carry the last pennies

To the pub! And the dean

Some sins drag! -

Natasha, Glasha, Daryushka...

Chu! dance! chu! harmony!..

And then all of a sudden everything went quiet...

I fell asleep, you see, or what, I? ..

It suddenly became easy: it seemed

that someone is leaning

And whispers over me:

"Sleep, mnogokruchinnaya!

Sleep, long-suffering!"

And baptizes ... They rolled off their hands

Ropes... I didn't remember

Then nothing...

I woke up. Dark all around

I look out the window - dead of night!

Where am I? yeah what about me?

I don't remember, for the life of me!

I got out into the street

Empty. Looked up at the sky

No moon, no stars.

Solid black cloud

hung over the village.

Dark peasant houses

One outbuilding

She shone like hell.

I entered and I remembered everything:

With candles to ardent wax

Furnished, among the mountain

The oak table stood

On it is a tiny coffin

Covered with a damask tablecloth

Icon in the mind...

“Oh, carpenters!

What kind of house did you build

My son?

The windows are not cut

Glasses are not inserted

No oven, no bench!

There is no downy feather...

Oh, it will be tough for Demushka.

Oh, it will be terrible to sleep! ..

“Go away!” I suddenly shouted,

I saw my grandfather

In glasses, with an open book

He stood in front of the coffin

Over Demoyu read.

I am a hundred year old

Called branded, convict.

Angry, formidable, I shouted:

"Go away! you killed Demushka!

Damn you… go away!..”

The old man doesn't move. Baptized.

Reads ... I left,

Then grandfather came up:

- In winter, you, Matryonushka,

I told my life.

Yes, he did not tell everything:

Our forests are gloomy,

Lakes uninhabited,

Our people are savages.

Our crafts are harsh:

Give the grouse a noose,

Cut the bear with a horn

You mess up - you disappeared!

And Mr. Shalashnikov

With your military strength?

And the German killer?

Then jail and hard labor ...

I'm petrified, granddaughter,

He was fiercer than the beast.

Hundred years of unchanging winter

Stood. melted her down

Your Dema is a hero!

One day I rocked it

Suddenly Demushka smiled ...

And I answer him!

A miracle happened to me:

third waters took aim

I'm in a squirrel: on a bitch

The squirrel swayed ... with a sweetheart,

Like a cat, washed ...

Did not blurt out: live!

I wander through the groves, through the meadow,

I love every flower.

I'm going home again

Laughing, playing with Demushka...

God sees how sweet I am

Loved the baby!

And I, for my sins,

Killed an innocent child...

Corey, execute me!

There is nothing to argue with God

Become! pray for demushka!

God knows what he's doing

Is the life of a peasant sweet?

And long, long grandfather

About the bitter share of the plowman

He spoke sadly...

Moscow merchants happen,

Grandees of the sovereign,

If the king himself happened: it would not be necessary

It's better to speak!

- Now your Demushka is in paradise,

Easy for him, light for him... -

The old man cried.

“I don’t complain,” I said,

That God took the baby

And it hurts why they

Cursed over him?

Why, like black crows,

Part of the body is white

Tortured? .. Really

Neither God nor the king will intercede? .. "

- God is high, the king is far ...

“There is no need: I will come!”

– Ah! What are you? what are you, granddaughter?

Be patient, you bastard!

Be patient, long-suffering!

We can't find the truth. -

"But why, grandfather?"

“You are a serf woman!” -

Savelyushka said.

I thought long and hard...

Thunder struck, the windows trembled,

And I shuddered... To the coffin

The old man let me down:

- Pray that to the face of angels

The Lord numbered Demushka! -

And gave me in the hands of grandfather

Burning candle.

All night until the light is white

I prayed, and grandfather

Over Demoyu read ...

CHAPTER V. THE WOLF

For twenty years, like Demushka

Sod blanket

Covered up - everything is a pity of the heart!

I pray for him, in the mouth of an apple

I don't take until the Savior Sign: if the mother of a deceased baby begins to eat apples before the Savior (when they ripen), then God, as a punishment, will not let her dead baby “play an apple” in the next world..

It didn't take long for me to recover.

I didn't talk to anyone

And old Savely

I couldn't see.

Work did not work.

The father-in-law thought up

to teach with the reins,

So I answered him:

"Kill!" I bowed at my feet.

"Kill! one end!

Father hung up the reins.

On Demin's grave

I lived day and night.

I swept a handkerchief

Grave to grass

Rather, overgrown

Prayed for the deceased

Grieved for parents:

You forgot your daughter!

Are you afraid of my dogs?

Are you ashamed of my family?

“Oh, no, dear, no!

Your dogs are not afraid

Your family is not ashamed

And go forty miles

Tell your troubles

Ask your troubles -

It's a pity to drive a beetle!

We should have come a long time ago

Yes, we thought that:

We will come - you will cry,

Let's go - you will cry!

Winter has come: steep

I shared with my husband

In Savelyevskaya extension

We both grieve. -

“Well, did he die, or something, grandfather?”

- Not. He is in his closet

For six days lay hopeless,

Then he went into the woods

So sang, so cried grandfather,

What a forest groaned! And in autumn

Gone to repentance

At the Sand Monastery.

At the father, at the mother

I visited Philip

She got down to business.

Three years, I think so

Week by week

They went in one order

What a year, then children: once

Don't think, don't be sad

God bless the job

Yes, cross the forehead.

Eat when it's left

From the elders and from the children,

Sleep when you're sick...

And on the fourth new

Fierce grief crept up -

To whom will it be attached?

Do not get rid of death!

Ahead flies - a clear falcon,

Behind flies - a black crow,

It flies ahead - it will not roll away,

Behind flies - will not remain ...

I lost my parents...

Heard dark nights

Heard violent winds

orphan sadness,

And you don't need to say...

On Demin's grave

I went to cry.

I look: the grave is cleaned,

On a wooden cross

Folding gilded

Icon. in front of her

I am a prostrate old man

I saw. "Savelushka!

Where did you come from?"

- I came from Pesochnoe ...

I pray for the poor Dema,

For all the terrible Russian

Peasantry I pray!

I still pray (not the image

Now Savely was bowing.)

So that the heart of an angry mother

The Lord softened... Forgive me! -

“I forgave you a long time ago, grandfather!”

Savely sighed… – Granddaughter!

And granddaughter! - "What, grandfather?"

- Still look! -

I looked still.

Savelyushka stared

in my eyes; old back

Tried to unbend.

Completely became a white grandfather.

I hugged the old lady

And long at the cross

We sat and cried.

I'm a grandfather grief new

Told her...

Grandpa did not live long.

In the autumn at the old

Some kind of deep

There was a wound on the neck

He died hard.

Haven't eaten for a hundred days hirel yes soh,

He teased himself:

- Isn't it true, Matryonushka,

On the korezhsky mosquito

Do I look skinny? -

He was kind, accommodating,

He was angry, picky,

Scared us: - Do not plow,

Not this one, peasant! hunched over

For yarn, for linen,

Peasant, don't sit!

No matter how you fight, stupid

What is written in kind

That is not to be missed!

There are three paths for men:

Tavern, jail and hard labor.

And the women in Russia

Three loops: white silk,

The second - red silk,

And the third - black silk,

Choose any!..

Get into any ... -

So grandpa laughed

That everyone in the closet shuddered, -

And by nightfall he died.

As ordered - performed:

Buried next to Dema ...

He lived one hundred and seven years.

Four years of silence

Like twins,

Gone then ... Everything

I submitted: the first

From Timofeevna's bed,

The last one is in bed;

For everyone, about everyone I work, -

From the mother-in-law, the father-in-law of the drunk,

From a married sister-in-law If the younger sister marries before the elder, then the first is called defective.

I take off my boots...

Just don't touch the kids!

I stood up for them...

It happened, well done

A pilgrimage came to us;

Sweet-tongued wanderer

We listened;

Save yourself, live like a god

The saint taught us

On holidays in the morning

I woke up ... and then

The stranger demanded

So that we do not breastfeed

Children on fast days.

The village is in turmoil!

hungry babies

Wednesdays, Fridays

They scream! Another mother

Herself over her crying son

Filled with tears:

And she's afraid of God

And the child is a pity!

I just didn't listen

I judged in my own way:

If you endure, then mothers

I am a sinner before God

Not my child!

Yes, God is obviously angry.

How eight years old

my son,

The father-in-law gave him up as a shepherd.

One day I'm waiting for Fedotushka -

The cattle has already come,

I'm going to the street.

There is invisible

To the people! I listened

And jumped into the crowd.

I look, Fedot is pale

Silantius is holding by the ear.

"What are you holding him for?"

- We want to cut the manenichko:

feed sheep

He thought of wolves! -

I pulled out Fedotushka,

Yes, from the feet of Silantya the headman

And accidentally knocked down.

Something amazing happened:

The shepherd is gone; Fedotushka

There was only one in the herd.

"I'm sitting," he said

My son, on the hillock,

Wherever you come from -

Huge she-wolf

And grab Maryina the sheep!

I ran after her

I scream, I clap with a whip,

I'm whistling, I'm using Valetka...

I run well done

Yes, wherever the damned

Catch up, if not schennaya:

Her nipples were dragging,

Blood trail, mother.

I was after her!

Went quieter gray

Goes, goes - looks back,

And how I will let go!

And sat down ... I whip her:

"Give me the sheep, you damned one!"

Doesn't give up, sits...

I did not hesitate: “So I’ll tear it out,

Though die! .. ”And rushed,

And pulled out ... Nothing -

Not bitten gray!

She is barely alive.

Just clicks his teeth

Yes, it's hard to breathe.

Beneath it is a bloody river,

The nipples are cut with grass,

All ribs count.

Looking up, head up

In my eyes ... and howled suddenly!

Howled like crying.

I touched the sheep

The sheep was dead...

Is the she-wolf so plaintively

She looked, howled ... Mother!

I threw her a sheep!..”

So that's what happened to the guy.

Came to the village yes, silly,

He himself told everything

For that, they thought of it.

Yes, I got it right…

Silantius was angry,

Screaming: “What are you pushing?

Do you want to be whipped yourself?”

And Marya, that one:

"Give me a lesson for a fool!"

And tears out of the hands of Fedotushka.

Fedot is trembling like a leaf.

Hunting horns sound

The landowner returns

From hunting. I to him:

"Don't give it away! Be an intercessor!"

- What's the matter? - Called the elder

And instantly decided:

- Child custody

By youth, by stupidity

Forgive ... but a daring woman

About to punish! -

"Ai, barin!" I jumped:

“Freed Fedotushka!

Go home, Fedot!"

- Let's do what we say! -

The elder said to the laity. -

Hey! let's dance!

The neighbor slipped in here:

“And you would be at the feet of the elder ...”

"Go home, Fedot!"

I stroked the boy

"Look, when you look back,

I'll be angry... Go!"

Throw out the word from the song,

So the whole song is broken

I went to bed, well done ...

………………………………….

In Fedotov's closet,

Like a cat I crept

The boy is sleeping, delirious, rushing about;

One arm dangled

Another one on the eye

Lies, clenched in a fist:

"Were you crying, poor thing?

Sleep. Nothing. I'm here!"

I grieved for Demushka,

How they were pregnant -

Weak was born

However, the clever one came out:

At Alferov's factory

The pipe was taken out

With a parent, what a passion!

I sat on it all night

I am a kind shepherd

Raised up to the sun

She shod herself in bast shoes,

rebaptized; cap,

She gave me a horn and a whip.

The whole family woke up

Yes, I did not appear to her,

Didn't go to harvest.

I went to the fast river

I chose a quiet place

At the willow bush.

I sat on a gray stone

She leaned her head on her hand,

Sobbed, orphan!

Loudly I called my parent:

You come, intercessor father!

Look at your beloved daughter...

I called in vain.

There is no great defense!

Early guest without jurisdiction,

Tribal, rootless,

The death of a loved one took away!

I called my mother loudly.

Violent winds resounded,

The distant mountains responded,

But the native did not come!

Denna day my sadness,

In the night - the night pilgrimage!

Never you, desired,

I can't see now!

You've gone irrevocably

unfamiliar path,

Where the wind doesn't blow

The beast does not doryskivat ...

There is no great defense!

If only you knew and knew

To whom did you leave your daughter,

What can I do without you?

Night - I shed tears,

Day - like grass I lay down ...

I bow my head

I carry an angry heart!

CHAPTER VI. HARD YEAR

That year the extraordinary

The star played in the sky;

Some judged it like this:

The Lord is walking in the sky

And his angels

Sweeping with a fiery broom Comet.

Before the feet of God

In the heavenly field the way;

Others thought the same

Yes, only on the Antichrist,

And they sensed trouble.

It came true: the breadlessness has come!

Brother did not persuade brother

Piece! It's been a terrible year...

She-wolf that Fedotova

I remembered - hungry,

Similar to kids

I was on it!

Yes, there is still a mother-in-law

Served as an omen.

Neighbors spit

That I called trouble

With what? Clean shirt

Worn at Christmas Sign: do not wear a clean shirt on Christmas, otherwise wait for a crop failure. (Dal has it.).

For a husband, for an intercessor,

I got off cheap;

And one woman

Not for the same

Killed to death with stakes.

Don't mess with the hungry!

One misfortune did not end:

Slightly coped with the lack of bread -

The recruitment has arrived.

Yes, I wasn't worried.

For the Filippov family

The brother went to the soldiers.

I sit alone, I work

Both husband and brother-in-law

We left in the morning;

Father-in-law at the meeting

Went off and the women

They scattered to the neighbors.

I was very unwell

I was Liodorushka

Pregnant: recent

Went for days.

Dealing with the guys

In a big hut under a fur coat

I lay down on the stove.

The women returned in the evening,

There is no only father-in-law,

They are waiting for him to eat.

Came: “Oh-oh! tired,

And things didn't get better.

We are lost, wife!

Where seen, where heard:

How long have they taken the elder,

Now give me less!

I calculated over the years

I bowed at the feet of the world,

What kind of world do we have?

I asked the burmister: he swears,

What a pity, but there is nothing to do!

And asked the clerk

Yeah the truth from the crook

And you can't cut it with an ax

What shadows from the wall!

Gifted... all gifted...

Tell the governor

So he would ask them!

All you could ask

So that he is in our parish

Regular murals

Ordered to check.

Yes, turn in! .. "Weeping

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law,

And I ... It was cold,

Now I'm on fire!

I'm burning ... God knows what I think ...

Not thinking... nonsense... Hungry

Orphans are standing

In front of me ... Unkindly

The family looks at them

They are noisy in the house

On the street pugnacious,

Gluttons at the table...

And they began to pinch them,

Bang on the head...

Shut up, soldier mother!

…………………………………

Now I'm not a sharecropper

rural area,

Mansion builder,

Clothes and livestock.

Now one wealth:

Three lakes cry

Flammable tears, sown

Three stripes of trouble!

…………………………………

Now as guilty

I stand in front of the neighbors:

Sorry! I was

Haughty, uncompromising,

I did not expect, stupid,

Stay an orphan...

I'm sorry, good people

Teach the mind

How to live by yourself? like kids

Drink, feed, raise...

…………………………………

Sent children around the world:

Ask, children, affection,

Don't you dare steal!

And the children in tears: “Cold!

Our clothes are torn.

From porch to porch

We get tired of walking

Let's trample under the windows,

Let's chill ... At the rich

We are afraid to ask.

"God will give!" the poor will answer...

We return home with nothing -

You will scold us! .. "

………………………………….

Picked up dinner mother

I call, sister-in-law, brother-in-law,

I stand hungry

At the door, like a slave.

The mother-in-law shouts: “Cunning!

Are you in a hurry to get to bed?"

And the brother-in-law says:

"You haven't worked hard!

All day behind the village

Stood: waiting

When the sun goes down!"

………………………………….

I dressed better

I went to the church of God

I hear laughter behind me!

………………………………….

Well don't dress up

Don't wash your face

Neighbors have sharp eyes

Vostro tongues!

Walk the street quieter

Carry your head down

When it's fun, don't laugh

Don't cry out of sadness!

………………………………….

The winter has come,

Fields, meadows green

Hiding under the snow.

On a white, snowy shroud

There is no melted talinochka -

The soldier mother does not have

All over the world friend!

With whom do you think?

With whom to have a word?

How to deal with misery?

Where to take offense?

Into the forests - the forests would wilt,

In the meadows - the meadows would burn down!

In a fast river?

The water would stay!

Wear it, poor soldier,

With her to the coffin!

…………………………………

No husband, no intercessor!

Choo drum! Soldiers

They're going... they've stopped...

Lined up in ranks.

"Live!" Philip was taken out

To the middle of the square:

"Hey! first change! -

Shalashnikov screams.

Fell Philip: - Have mercy! -

“And you try! fall in love!

Ha ha! haha! haha! haha!

Fortified heroic,

Don't piss me off!.."

And then I jumped off the stove,

I put on my shoes. I listened for a long time -

Everything is quiet, the family is sleeping!

Slightly I creaked the door

And she left. Frosty night...

From Domina's hut,

Where are the country boys

And the girls were going

The folded song rumbled.

My love…

There is a Christmas tree on the mountain

Light under the mountain

In the small light Masha.

Father came to her

He woke her up, encouraged her:

You, Mashenka, let's go home!

You, Efimovna, let's go home!

I don't go and don't listen

The night is dark and moonless,

The rivers are fast, there are no transports,

The forests are dark, there are no guards...

There is a Christmas tree on the mountain

Light under the mountain

In the small light Masha.

Mother came to her

I woke up, prompted:

Mashenka, let's go home!

Efimovna, let's go home!

I don't go and don't listen

The night is dark and moonless,

The rivers are fast, there are no transports.

The forests are dark, there are no guards...

There is a Christmas tree on the mountain

Light under the mountain

In the small light Masha.

Peter came to her

Peter sir Petrovich,

He woke her up, encouraged her:

Mashenka, let's go home!

Dusha Efimovna, let's go home!

I go, sir, and listen:

The night is bright and moonlit,

The rivers are quiet, there are transportations,

The forests are dark, there are guards.

CHAPTER VII. GOVERNOR

I almost ran

Through the village, it seemed

What are the guys chasing with the song

And the girls follow me.

I looked around Klin:

White plain,

Yes, the sky with a clear moon,

Yes me, yes my shadow...

Not creepy or scary

Suddenly it became - like joy

So the chest was up…

Thanks to the winter wind!

He is like cold water

The patient got drunk:

Wrapped a wild head,

Scattered black thoughts,

Mind turned.

I fell on my knees

"Open to me, Mother of God,

Why did I anger God?

mistress! inside of me

No broken bone

There is no unstretched vein,

There is no uncorrupted blood, -

I endure and do not grumble!

All the power given by God

I believe in work

All in children love!

You see everything, Lady.

You can do anything, Guardian!

Save your servant!..”

Pray on a frosty night

Under the starry sky of God

I have loved since then.

Trouble will overtake - remember

And advise the wives:

Don't pray harder

Nowhere and never.

The more I prayed

The easier it got

And strength increased

The more I touched

To the white, snowy tablecloth

Burning head...

Then - on the road set off.

Familiar path!

I drove over it.

You go early in the evening

So in the morning with the sun

Hurry up to the market.

All night I walked, did not meet

Living soul. Under the city

The hauls have begun.

High, high

Carriages of peasant hay,

I felt sorry for the horses:

Their feeds are legal

They are being taken from the yard, cordial,

To go hungry afterwards.

And that's it, I thought:

The workhorse eats the straw.

And empty dance - oats!

Need dragged with a sack, -

Torment, tea, not superfluous,

Don't wait for tribute!

From the suburban

Merchants

They ran to the peasants;

Bozhba, deceit, swearing!

Hit by the morning

How did I enter the city?

I'm looking for the cathedral square,

I knew: governor

Palace on the square.

Dark, empty area

In front of the chief's palace

The sentry walks.

“Tell me, soldier, is it too early

Is the boss waking up?

- I do not know. You go!

We are not allowed to speak! -

(I gave him two kopecks).

That's why the governor

There is a special doorman. -

"And where he? how to name it?

- Makar Fedoseich ...

Get on the stairs! -

I went and the doors were locked.

I sat down and thought

It's already starting to get light.

The lamplighter came with a ladder

Two dim lanterns

On the square he blew.

- Hey! what are you doing here?

I jumped up and got scared.

At the door stood in a dressing gown

Bald person.

Soon I'm whole

Makar Fedoseich

With respect, she gave:

"Such is the great

Need for a governor

Though to die - to reach!

- You are not ordered to let go,

Yes ... nothing! .. push you

So… in two hours…

Gone. I wander slowly...

It is made of forged copper,

Exactly Savely grandfather,

The man in the square.

"Whose monument?" - Susanina. -

I hesitated in front of him.

Wandered to the market.

I got really scared there.

What? You will not believe,

When to say now:

The cook broke out

Seasoned gray drake,

The guy began to catch up with him,

And how he screams!

Such was the cry, what a soul

Enough - I almost fell,

So they scream under the knife!

Caught! stretched out his neck

And hissed menacingly

As if the chef thought

Poor thing, scare.

I ran away, thinking:

The gray drake will subside

Under the chef's knife!

Now the chief's palace

With a balcony, with a tower, with a staircase,

richly carpeted,

Everything was in front of me.

I looked at the windows.

hung. "In some

Your bedchamber?

Are you sleeping sweetly, my beloved,

What kind of dreams do you see? .. "

Sideways, not on the rug,

I sneaked into the Swiss.

- You're early, godfather!

Again I got scared

Makar Fedoseich

I did not recognize: shaved,

I put on an embroidered livery,

Picked up a mace

As the baldness never happened.

Laughs: - Why are you startled? -

"I'm tired, dear!"

- Don't be afraid! God is merciful!

Give me a whole lot more

You will see - I will! -

Gave another whole.

- Let's go to my closet,

Have a cup of tea! -

Closet under the stairs:

Bed and iron stove

Shandal and samovar.

In the corner a lamp is lit.

And pictures on the wall.

- Here he is! Makar said. -

His Excellency! -

And snapped the finger of the brave

Military in the stars.

"Is it kind?" I asked.

- How to find a verse! Today here

I am also kind, but in time -

Like a dog, I'm angry.

"Do you miss it, you see, uncle?"

- No, this is a special article,

No boredom here - war!

Both myself and people in the evening

They will leave, but to Fedoseich

Enemy in the closet: let's fight!

I have been fighting for ten years.

How do you drink an extra glass

How do you smoke shag,

How does this oven heat up?

Let the candle burn

So stop here ... -

I have remembered

About grandfather's wealth:

“You, uncle,” I said,

Must be a hero."

- I'm not a hero, my dear,

Don't brag about that strength

Who has not overcome sleep! -

They knocked on the closet.

Makar left ... I sat,

Waiting, waiting, bored.

Opened the door.

The carriage was brought up to the porch.

"Is he driving?" - Governor! -

Makar replied to me

And rushed up the stairs.

Went down the stairs

In a sable coat, a lady,

The clerk is with her.

I didn't know what I was doing

(Yes, apparently, I thought of

Mistress!) ... How will I rush

At her feet: “Stand up!

Deception, not godly

Provider and parent

They take from children!

- Where are you from, dove?

Did I answer in a right way -

I don't know... mortal flour

Came under the heart ...

I woke up guys

In a rich, bright room.

I lie under the canopy;

Against me is the nurse,

Elegant, in a kokoshnik,

Sitting with a child

"Whose child, beauty?"

- Your! - I kissed

Horny child…

Like at the feet of the governor

I fell as I cried

As she began to speak

A long fatigue said,

Istoma is unreasonable,

The time has passed -

My time has come!

Thank you Governor

Elena Alexandrovna,

I am so grateful to her

Like a mother!

She baptized the boy

And the name Liodorushka -

Chose the baby...

"What happened to your husband?"

- They sent a messenger to Klin,

The whole truth was brought to light,

Filipushka was rescued.

Elena Alexandrovna

To me him, my dear,

Herself - God bless her!

She let me down by the handle.

She was good, she was smart

Beautiful, healthy.

But God did not give children!

While I was visiting her

All the time with Liodorushka

Worn like family.

Spring has begun

The birch blossomed

As we went home...

ok light

In the world of God!

Okay, easy

Clearly n a ̒ heart.

We go, we go -

Let's stop

To forests, meadows

Let's admire.

Let's admire

Let's listen

How they run

spring waters,

How it sings

Lark!

We stand and look...

Eyes will meet

We smile

Will smile at us

Liodorushka.

And we will see

The old beggar -

Let's serve him

We are a penny:

"Don't pray for us, -

Let's say old

You pray old man

For Elenushka,

For the beauty

Alexandrovna!”

And we will see

Church of God -

in front of the church

We are baptized for a long time:

"Give her, Lord,

Joy is happiness.

Good darling

Alexandrovna!”

Green forest,

green meadow,

Where is the low

There's also a mirror!

ok light

In the world of God

Okay, easy

Clear on the heart.

I'm floating on the waters

white swan,

I run across the steppes

Quail.

Arrived at home

Blue dove…

bowed to me

father-in-law,

bowed

mother-in-law,

Deverya, sons-in-law

bowed down

bowed down

They apologized!

You sit down

You don't bow

You listen.

What will I tell you:

Bow down to that

Who is stronger than me -

Who is better than me

To that glory to sing.

To whom should we sing glory?

Governor!

Good darling

Alexandrovna!

Chapter VIII. WOMAN'S PARABLE

Timofeevna fell silent.

Of course, our wanderers

Didn't miss a chance

For the health of the Governor

Dry in a bowl.

And seeing that the hostess

I bowed to the haystack,

- You know yourself:

Glorified by the lucky one

Nicknamed the governor

Raising children... Is it for joy?

You need to know too.

Five sons! Peasant

Orders are endless, -

They already took one!

beautiful eyelashes

Timofeevna blinked,

hastily bowed

Head to the stack.

The peasants hesitated, hesitated.

We whispered. "Well, mistress!

What else can you tell us?"

- And what you started

It's not the case - between the women

Happy searching!

“Did you tell everything?”

- What else do you want?

Isn't it right to tell you

That we burned twice

That God anthrax Anthrax is a dangerous infectious disease that affects both animals and humans.

Visited us three times?

Horse pushes

We carried; I took a walk

Like a gelding, in a harrow!..

My feet are not trampled,

Not tied with ropes

Needles are not stabbed ...

What else do you want?

Promised to lay out the soul,

Yes, it is clear that I did not succeed, -

Sorry guys!

The mountains didn't move

Fell on the head

God is not a thunderbolt

In anger he pierced his chest,

For me - quiet, invisible -

The storm has passed,

Will you show her?

For a mother who has been scolded,

Like a trampled snake,

The blood of the firstborn has passed

For me insults are mortal

Gone unpaid

And the whip passed over me!

I just didn't taste

Thank you! Sitnikov died -

Inexcusable shame,

Last shame!

And you - for happiness stuck your head!

It's a shame, well done!

Go to the official

To the noble boyar,

Go to the king

Don't touch women

Here is God! pass with nothing

To the grave!

Asked us for the night

One old woman of God:

The whole life of a poor old woman -

Flesh killing, fasting;

At the tomb of Jesus

Prayed for Athos

ascended heights,

Swimming in the Jordan River...

And that holy old woman

Told me:

"The keys to female happiness,

From our free will

abandoned, lost

God himself!

desert fathers,

And blameless wives

And the scribes

They are looking for - they will not be found!

Gone! need to think

The fish swallowed them...

In chains, exhausted,

Hungry, cold

Gone are the Lord's warriors

Deserts, cities, -

And ask the Magi

And count by the stars

Tried - no keys!

The whole world of God has been explored,

In the mountains, in the underground abysses

Looking for... Finally

Companions found the keys!

The keys are priceless

And all - not those keys!

They came - great

Chosen people of God

It was a celebration

Came to the slave slaves:

The dungeons have dissolved

A sigh passed through the world,

Is it loud, joyful! ..

And to our female will

Everything is missing and there are no keys!

Great Companions

And to this day they try -

Down to the bottom of the seas,

Rise under the sky,

Everything is missing and there are no keys!

Yes, they are unlikely to be found ...

What kind of fish swallowed

Those reserved keys

In what seas is that fish

Walking - God forgot! .. "

Nekrasov's poem "Who Lives Well in Russia" tells about the journey of seven peasants across Russia in search of a happy person. The work was written in the late 60's - mid 70's. XIX century, after the reforms of Alexander II and the abolition of serfdom. It tells about a post-reform society in which not only many old vices have not disappeared, but many new ones have appeared. According to the plan of Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, the wanderers were supposed to reach St. Petersburg at the end of the journey, but due to the illness and imminent death of the author, the poem remained unfinished.

The work “To whom it is good to live in Russia” is written in blank verse and stylized as Russian folk tales. We offer you to read the online summary of “Who Lives Well in Russia” by Nekrasov chapter by chapter, prepared by the editors of our portal.

main characters

Novel, Demyan, Luke, Gubin brothers Ivan and Mitrodor, Pahom, Prov- seven peasants who went to look for a happy person.

Other characters

Ermil Girin- the first "candidate" for the title of lucky man, an honest steward, very respected by the peasants.

Matryona Korchagina(Governor) - a peasant woman who is known in her village as a "lucky woman".

Savely- grandfather of her husband Matryona Korchagina. Centennial old man.

Prince Utyatin(Last child) - an old landowner, a tyrant, to whom his family, in collusion with the peasants, does not speak about the abolition of serfdom.

Vlas- a peasant, steward of the village, once owned by Utyatin.

Grisha Dobrosklonov- a seminarian, the son of a deacon, dreaming of the liberation of the Russian people; the revolutionary democrat N. Dobrolyubov was the prototype.

Part 1

Prologue

Seven men converge on the "pillar path": Roman, Demyan, Luka, the Gubin brothers (Ivan and Mitrodor), the old man Pakhom and Prov. The county from which they come is called by the author Terpigorev, and the “adjacent villages” from which the men come from are referred to as Zaplatovo, Dyryaevo, Razutovo, Znobishino, Gorelovo, Neyolovo and Neurozhayko, thus, the poem uses the artistic device of “talking” names .

The men got together and argued:
Who has fun
Feel free in Russia?

Each of them insists on his own. One shouts that the landowner lives most freely, the other that the official, the third - the priest, "fat-bellied merchant", "noble boyar, minister of the sovereign", or the tsar.

From the outside, it seems that the men found a treasure on the road and are now dividing it among themselves. The peasants have already forgotten what business they left the house for (one went to baptize a child, the other to the market ...), and they go no one knows where until night falls. Only here the peasants stop and, "blaming the trouble on the goblin", sit down to rest and continue the argument. Soon it comes to a fight.

Roman hits Pakhomushka,
Demyan hits Luka.

The fight alarmed the whole forest, the echo woke up, the animals and birds got worried, the cow mooed, the cuckoo forged, the jackdaws squeaked, the fox, eavesdropping on the peasants, decides to run away.

And here at the foam
With fright, a tiny chick
Fell from the nest.

When the fight is over, the men pay attention to this chick and catch it. It is easier for a bird than for a peasant, Pahom says. If he had wings, he would fly all over Russia to find out who lives best on it. “We don’t even need wings,” the rest add, they would only have bread and “a bucket of vodka,” as well as cucumbers, kvass and tea. Then they would have measured the whole "Mother Russia with their feet."

While the men are interpreting in this way, a chiffchaff flies up to them and asks to release her chick into the wild. For him, she will give a royal ransom: everything desired by the peasants.

The men agree, and the chiffchaff shows them a place in the forest where a box with a self-assembled tablecloth is buried. Then she enchants clothes on them so that they do not wear out, so that the bast shoes do not break, footcloths do not decay, and louse does not breed on the body, and flies away “with her dear chick”. In parting, the warbler warns the peasants: they can ask for food from the self-collection tablecloth as much as they like, but you can’t ask for more than a bucket of vodka a day:

And one and two - it will be fulfilled
At your request,
And in the third be trouble!

The peasants rush to the forest, where they really find a self-assembled tablecloth. Overjoyed, they arrange a feast and give a vow: not to return home until they know for sure, "who lives happily, freely in Russia?"

Thus begins their journey.

Chapter 1. Pop

Far away stretches a wide path lined with birch trees. On it, the peasants mostly come across “small people” - peasants, artisans, beggars, soldiers. Travelers don’t even ask them anything: what kind of happiness is there? Toward evening, the men meet the priest. The men block his way and bow low. In response to the priest's silent question: what do they need?, Luka talks about the dispute and asks: “Is the priest's life sweet?”

The priest thinks for a long time, and then replies that, since it is a sin to grumble at God, he will simply describe his life to the peasants, and they themselves will realize whether it is good.

Happiness, according to the priest, consists in three things: "peace, wealth, honor." No rest is known to the priest: his rank is given to him by hard work, and then no less difficult service begins, the crying of orphans, the cries of widows and the groans of the dying do little to promote peace of mind.

The situation with honor is no better: the priest serves as an object for witticisms of the common people, obscene tales, anecdotes and fables are composed about him, which do not spare not only himself, but also his wife and children.

The last thing remains, wealth, but even here everything has changed a long time ago. Yes, there were times when the nobles honored the priest, played magnificent weddings and came to their estates to die - that was the work of the priests, but now "the landlords have scattered in distant foreign land." So it turns out that the pop is content with rare copper nickels:

The peasant himself needs
And I would be glad to give, but there is nothing ...

Having finished his speech, the priest leaves, and the debaters attack Luka with reproaches. They unanimously accuse him of stupidity, that it was only in appearance that the priestly housing seemed free to him, but he could not figure it out deeper.

What did you take? stubborn head!

The men would probably have beaten Luka, but here, fortunately for him, at the bend in the road, the “priestly strict face” is once again shown ...

Chapter 2

The men continue on their way, and their road goes through empty villages. Finally, they meet the rider and ask him where the inhabitants have disappeared.

We went to the village of Kuzminskoye,
Today there is a fairground...

Then the wanderers decide to also go to the fair - what if the one “who lives happily” is hiding there?

Kuzminskoye is a rich, albeit dirty, village. It has two churches, a school (closed), a dirty hotel and even a paramedic. That’s why the fair is rich, and most of all there are taverns, “eleven taverns”, and they do not have time to pour for everyone:

Oh, Orthodox thirst,
How big are you!

There are a lot of drunk people around. A peasant scolds a broken ax, grandfather Vavila is sad next to him, who promised to bring shoes to his granddaughter, but drank all the money. The people feel sorry for him, but no one can help - they themselves have no money. Fortunately, there happens to be a "master", Pavlusha Veretennikov, and it is he who buys shoes for Vavila's granddaughter.

Ofeni (booksellers) also sell at the fair, but the most base books, as well as portraits of “thicker” generals, are in demand. And no one knows if the time will come when a man:

Belinsky and Gogol
Will you carry it from the market?

By evening, everyone is so drunk that even the church with the bell tower seems to stagger, and the peasants leave the village.

Chapter 3

It's worth a quiet night. The men walk along the "hundred-voiced" road and hear snippets of other people's conversations. They talk about officials, about bribes: “And we are fifty kopecks to the clerk: We made a request,” women's songs are heard with a request to “fall in love.” One drunk guy buries his clothes in the ground, assuring everyone that he is "burying his mother." At the road post, the wanderers again meet Pavel Veretennikov. He talks with the peasants, writes down their songs and sayings. Having written down enough, Veretennikov blames the peasants for drinking a lot - "it's a shame to look!" They object to him: the peasant drinks mainly from grief, and it is a sin to condemn or envy him.

The objector's name is Yakim Goly. Pavlusha also writes his story in a book. Even in his youth, Yakim bought his son popular prints, and he himself loved to look at them no less than a child. When a fire broke out in the hut, he first of all rushed to tear pictures from the walls, and so all his savings, thirty-five rubles, burned down. For a fused lump, they now give him 11 rubles.

After listening to stories, the wanderers sit down to refresh themselves, then one of them, Roman, remains at the bucket of vodka for the guard, and the rest again mix with the crowd in search of a happy one.

Chapter 4

Wanderers walk in the crowd and call the happy one to come. If such a person appears and tells them about his happiness, then he will be treated to glory with vodka.

Sober people chuckle at such speeches, but a considerable queue is lined up from drunk people. The deacon comes first. His happiness, in his words, "is in complacency" and in the "kosushka", which the peasants will pour. The deacon is driven away, and an old woman appears, in which, on a small ridge, "up to a thousand raps were born." The next torturing happiness is a soldier with medals, "a little alive, but I want to drink." His happiness lies in the fact that no matter how they tortured him in the service, he nevertheless remained alive. A stonecutter with a huge hammer also comes, a peasant who overstrained himself in the service, but still, barely alive, drove home, a courtyard man with a "noble" disease - gout. The latter boasts that for forty years he stood at the table of the most illustrious prince, licking plates and drinking foreign wine from glasses. The men drive him away too, because they have a simple wine, “not according to your lips!”.

The line to the wanderers does not become smaller. The Belarusian peasant is happy that here he eats his fill of rye bread, because at home they baked bread only with chaff, and this caused terrible pain in the stomach. A man with a folded cheekbone, a hunter, is happy that he survived in a fight with a bear, while the bears killed the rest of his comrades. Even the beggars come: they are happy that there is alms on which they are fed.

Finally, the bucket is empty, and the wanderers realize that this way they will not find happiness.

Hey, happiness man!
Leaky, with patches,
Humpbacked with calluses
Get off home!

Here one of the people who approached them advises “ask Yermila Girin”, because if he does not turn out to be happy, then there is nothing to look for. Ermila is a simple man who deserved the great love of the people. The wanderers are told the following story: once Ermila had a mill, but they decided to sell it for debts. Bidding began, the merchant Altynnikov really wanted to buy the mill. Yermila was able to outbid his price, but the trouble is that he did not have money with him to make a deposit. Then he asked for an hour's reprieve and ran to the market place to ask the people for money.

And a miracle happened: Yermil received money. Very soon, the thousand necessary for the ransom of the mill turned out to be with him. And a week later, on the square, there was an even more wonderful sight: Yermil "counted on the people", handed out all the money and honestly. There was only one extra ruble left, and Yermil asked until sunset whose it was.

Wanderers are perplexed: by what sorcery did Yermil receive such trust from the people. They are told that this is not witchcraft, but the truth. Girin served as a clerk in the office and never took a penny from anyone, but helped with advice. Soon the old prince died, and the new one ordered the peasants to choose a burgomaster. Unanimously, “six thousand souls, with the whole patrimony” Yermila shouted - although young, he loves the truth!

Only once did Yermil "disguise" when he did not recruit his younger brother, Mitriy, replacing him with the son of Nenila Vlasyevna. But the conscience after this act tortured Yermila so much that he soon tried to hang himself. Mitrius was handed over to the recruits, and the son of Nenila was returned to her. Yermil, for a long time, did not walk on his own, “he resigned from his post,” but instead rented a mill and became “more than the former people love.”

But here the priest intervenes in the conversation: all this is true, but it is useless to go to Yermil Girin. He is sitting in jail. The priest begins to tell how it was - the village of Stolbnyaki rebelled and the authorities decided to call Yermila - his people would listen.

The story is interrupted by shouts: the thief has been caught and is being flogged. The thief turns out to be the same lackey with a "noble disease", and after the flogging, he flies away as if he had completely forgotten about his illness.
The priest, meanwhile, says goodbye, promising to finish telling the story at the next meeting.

Chapter 5

On their further journey, the peasants meet the landowner Gavrila Afanasyich Obolt-Obolduev. The landowner is at first frightened, suspecting robbers in them, but, having figured out what the matter is, he laughs and begins to tell his story. He leads his noble family from the Tatar Oboldui, who was skinned by a bear for the amusement of the Empress. She granted cloth to the Tatar for this. Such were the noble ancestors of the landowner ...

Law is my wish!
The fist is my police!

However, not all strictness, the landowner admits that he more "attracted hearts with affection"! All the courtyards loved him, gave him gifts, and he was like a father to them. But everything changed: the peasants and the land were taken away from the landowner. The sound of an ax is heard from the forests, everyone is being ruined, instead of estates drinking houses are multiplying, because now no one needs a letter at all. And they shout to the landowners:

Wake up, sleepy landowner!
Get up! - study! work hard!..

But how can a landowner work, accustomed to something completely different from childhood? They did not learn anything, and “thought to live like this for a century,” but it turned out differently.

The landowner began to sob, and the good-natured peasants almost wept with him, thinking:

The great chain is broken
Torn - jumped:
One end on the master,
Others for a man! ..

Part 2

The Last

The next day, the peasants go to the banks of the Volga, to a huge hay meadow. As soon as they got into a conversation with the locals, music was heard and three boats moored to the shore. They have a noble family: two gentlemen with their wives, little barchats, servants and a gray-haired old gentleman. The old man inspects the mowing, and everyone bows to him almost to the ground. In one place he stops and orders a dry haystack to be spread: the hay is still damp. The absurd order is immediately executed.

Strangers marvel:
Grandfather!
What a wonderful old man.

It turns out that the old man - Prince Utyatin (the peasants call him the Last) - having learned about the abolition of serfdom, "fooled", and came down with a blow. His sons were told that they had betrayed the landowner's ideals, that they could not defend them, and if so, they were left without an inheritance. The sons were frightened and persuaded the peasants to fool the landowner a little, so that after his death they would give the village poem meadows. The old man was told that the tsar ordered the serfs to be returned back to the landowners, the prince was delighted and stood up. So this comedy continues to this day. Some peasants are even happy about this, for example, the courtyard Ipat:

Ipat said: “You have fun!
And I am the Utyatin princes
Serf - and the whole story here!

But Agap Petrov cannot come to terms with the fact that even in the wild someone will push him around. Once he told the master everything directly, and he had a stroke. When he woke up, he ordered Agap to be whipped, and the peasants, in order not to reveal the deceit, led him to the stable, where they put a bottle of wine in front of him: drink and shout louder! Agap died the same night: it was hard for him to bow down...

Wanderers are present at the feast of the Last, where he speaks about the benefits of serfdom, and then lies down in the boat and falls asleep in it with songs. The village of Vahlaki sighs with sincere relief, but no one gives them the meadows - the trial continues to this day.

Part 3

peasant woman

“Not everything is between men
Find a happy
Let's touch the women!”

With these words, the wanderers go to Korchagina Matryona Timofeevna, the governor, a beautiful woman of 38 years old, who, however, already calls herself an old woman. She talks about her life. Then she was only happy, how she grew up in her parents' house. But girlhood quickly rushed by, and now Matryona is already being wooed. Philip becomes her betrothed, handsome, ruddy and strong. He loves his wife (according to her, he beat him only once), but soon he goes to work, and leaves her with his large, but alien to Matryona, family.

Matryona works for her elder sister-in-law, and for a strict mother-in-law, and for her father-in-law. She had no joy in her life until her eldest son, Demushka, was born.

In the whole family, only the old grandfather Savely, the “Holy Russian hero”, who lives out his life after twenty years of hard labor, regrets Matryona. He ended up in hard labor for the murder of a German manager who did not give the peasants a single free minute. Savely told Matryona a lot about his life, about "Russian heroism."

The mother-in-law forbids Matryona to take Demushka into the field: she does not work much with him. The grandfather looks after the child, but one day he falls asleep, and the pigs eat the child. After some time, Matryona meets Savely at the grave of Demushka, who has gone to repentance in the Sand Monastery. She forgives him and takes him home, where the old man soon dies.

Matryona also had other children, but she could not forget Demushka. One of them, the shepherdess Fedot, once wanted to be whipped for a sheep carried away by a wolf, but Matrena took the punishment upon herself. When she was pregnant with Liodorushka, she had to go to the city to ask for the return of her husband, who had been taken into the soldiers. Right in the waiting room, Matryona gave birth, and the governor, Elena Alexandrovna, for whom the whole family is now praying, helped her. Since then, Matryona has been "denounced as a lucky woman, nicknamed the governor's wife." But what kind of happiness is there?

This is what Matryonushka tells the wanderers and adds: they will never find a happy woman among women, the keys to female happiness are lost, and even God does not know where to find them.

Part 4

A feast for the whole world

There is a feast in the village of Vakhlachina. Everyone gathered here: both wanderers, and Klim Yakovlich, and Vlas the headman. Among the feasters are two seminarians, Savvushka and Grisha, good simple guys. They, at the request of the people, sing a “jolly” song, then the turn comes for different stories. There is a story about “an exemplary slave - Jacob the faithful”, who all his life went after the master, fulfilled all his whims and even rejoiced at the master's beatings. Only when the master gave his nephew to the soldiers, Yakov took to drink, but soon returned to the master. And yet, Yakov did not forgive him, and was able to take revenge on Polivanov: he brought him, with his legs off, into the forest, and there he hanged himself on a pine tree above the master.

There is a dispute about who is the most sinful of all. God's wanderer Jonah tells the story of "two sinners", about the robber Kudeyar. The Lord awakened a conscience in him and imposed a penance on him: cut down a huge oak tree in the forest, then his sins will be forgiven him. But the oak fell only when Kudeyar sprinkled it with the blood of the cruel Pan Glukhovsky. Ignatius Prokhorov objects to Jonah: the peasant's sin is still greater, and tells the story of the headman. He hid the last will of his master, who decided to release his peasants before his death. But the headman, tempted by money, tore free.

The crowd is subdued. Songs are sung: "Hungry", "Soldier's". But the time will come in Russia for good songs. Confirmation of this is two seminarian brothers, Savva and Grisha. The seminarian Grisha, the son of a sexton, has known since the age of fifteen that he wants to devote his life to the happiness of the people. Love for his mother merges in his heart with love for the whole vakhlachin. Grisha walks along his edge and sings a song about Russia:

You are poor
You are abundant
You are powerful
You are powerless
Mother Russia!

And his plans will not be lost: fate prepares Grisha "a glorious path, a loud name of the people's intercessor, consumption and Siberia." In the meantime, Grisha sings, and it is a pity that the wanderers do not hear him, because then they would understand that they had already found a happy person and could return home.

Conclusion

This ends the unfinished chapters of the poem by Nekrasov. However, even from the surviving parts, the reader is presented with a large-scale picture of post-reform Russia, which, with torment, is learning to live in a new way. The range of problems raised by the author in the poem is very wide: the problems of widespread drunkenness, the ruining of a Russian person (it’s not without reason that a bucket of vodka is offered as a reward!) The problems of women, the ineradicable slave psychology (revealed on the example of Yakov, Ipat) and the main problem of people's happiness. Most of these problems, unfortunately, to one degree or another still remain relevant today, which is why the work is very popular, and a number of quotations from it have become part of everyday speech. The compositional device of the main characters' wanderings brings the poem closer to an adventure novel, thanks to which it is read easily and with great interest.

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“Not everyone between men is looking for a happy one, let's feel the women!” - decide the strangers. They are advised to go to the village of Klin and ask Korchagina Matryona Timofeevna, whom everyone called the "governor's wife".

Wanderers come to the village: Whatever the hut - with a prop, Like a beggar with a crutch; And from the roofs the straw is fed to the Cattle. Stand like skeletons, Wretched houses. At the gate, the wanderers meet a lackey, who explains that "the landowner is abroad, and the steward is dying." Some men catch small fish in the river, complaining that there used to be more fish. Peasants and serfs steal everything they can: One serf was tormented At the door: copper handles Unscrewed; the other was carrying some kind of tiles... A gray-haired courtyard offers to buy foreign books for wanderers, gets angry that they refuse: Why do you need smart books?

Drinking signs for you Yes, the word "forbidden", What is found on the poles, Enough to read! The wanderers hear how a beautiful bass sings a song in an incomprehensible language. It turns out that “the singer of Novo-Arkhangelskaya, the gentlemen lured him from Little Russia.

They promised to take him to Italy, but they left. Finally, the wanderers meet Matrena Timofeevna. Matrena Timofeevna A portly woman, Broad and thick, Thirty-eight years old.

Beautiful; hair with gray hair, Big, strict eyes, Eyelashes of the richest, Harsh and swarthy. The wanderers tell why they set off on their journey, Matrena Timofeevna replies that she has no time to talk about her zhiani - she has to reap rye. The wanderers promise to help her harvest the rye, Matryona Timofeevna "began to open her whole soul to our wanderers." Chapter 1 Before marriage I was lucky in girls: We had a good, non-drinking family. For father, for mother, Like Christ in the bosom, Residential ...

There was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. Finally, “the betrothed turned up”: On the mountain - a stranger! Philip Korchagin - St. Petersburg worker, By skill a stove-maker. The father took a walk with the matchmakers, promised to give his daughter away. Matryona does not want to go after Philip, he persuades, says that he will not offend. In the end, Matrena Timofeevna agrees. Chapter 2 Songs Matrena Timofeevna finds herself in a strange house - to her mother-in-law and father-in-law.

The narrative is interrupted from time to time by songs about the hard lot of a girl who got married "to the wrong side." The family was huge, Grumpy... I got to Hell from a girl's Holi! My husband went to work, He advised me to be silent, endure... As ordered, so done: I went with anger in my heart, And I didn’t say a word to anyone. Filippushka came in the winter, He brought a silk handkerchief, Yes, he rode it on a sled On Catherine's Day, And it was as if there was no grief!

» Matrena Timofeevna replies that only once, when her husband's sister arrived and he asked to give her shoes, and Matrena Timofeevna hesitated. On the Annunciation, Philip again goes to work, and on Kazanskaya, Matryona had a son, who was named Demushka. Life in the house of her husband's parents has become even more difficult, but Matryona endures: Whatever they tell - I work, No matter how they scold - I am silent. Of the whole family of her husband, One Savely, grandfather, Parent of the father-in-law, Pity me ... Matryona Timofeevna asks the wanderers whether to tell about grandfather Savely, they are ready to listen. Chapter 3 Saveliy, Holy Russian hero With a huge gray mane, Tea, uncut for twenty years, With a huge beard, Grandfather looked like a bear ...

He already knocked, According to fairy tales, a hundred years. Grandfather lived in a special room, He did not like families, He did not let him into his corner; And she was angry, barked, His own son honored his “branded, convict”. Savely will not get angry, He will go to his little house, Read the holy calendar, be baptized Yes, and suddenly he will say cheerfully: “Branded, but not a slave” ... One day Matryona asks Savely why he is called branded and hard labor.

Grandfather tells her his life. In the years of his youth, the peasants of his village were also serfs, “but we didn’t know either the landlords or the German managers then.

We didn’t rule the corvee, we didn’t pay dues, and so, when we judge, we’ll send it three times a year. ” The places were deaf, and no one could get there through the thickets and swamps. “Our landowner Shalashnikov through animal paths with his regiment - he was a military man - he tried to approach us, but he turned his skis!

"Then Shalashnikov sends an order - to appear, but the peasants do not go. The police swooped down (there was a drought) - “we are a tribute to her with honey, fish”, when they arrived another time - with “animal skins”, and the third time they did not give anything. They put on old bast shoes, full of holes, and went to Shalashnikov, who was stationed with a regiment in the provincial town. They came and said there was no dues. Shalashnikov ordered them to be flogged. Shalashnikov thrashed him hard, and he had to “split them up”, get the money and bring half a cap of “lobanchiks” (semi-imperials). Shalashnikov immediately calmed down, even drank with the peasants.

They set off on their way back, the two old men laughed that they were carrying home hundred-ruble notes sewn in the lining. Excellently fought Shalashnikov, And not so hot great Incomes received. Soon a notification arrives that Shalashnikov has been killed near Varna. The heir invented a remedy: He sent a German to us. Through dense forests, Through swampy marshes, A rogue came on foot! And at first he was quiet: "Pay what you can."

We can't do anything! "I'll notify the gentleman." - Notify! .. - That ended. The German, Christian Christian Vogel, meanwhile gained confidence in the peasants, saying: "If you can't pay, then work." They are interested in what the job is. He replies that it is desirable to dig in the swamp with grooves, cut down the trees where it is planned.

The peasants did as he asked, they see - it turned out to be a clearing, a road. Caught up, it's too late. And then hard labor came to the Korezsky peasant - Ruined to the bone!

And he fought ... like Shalashnikov himself! Yes, he was simple: he will attack With all his military strength, Just think: he will kill! And sun the money - it will fall off, Give or take a tick swollen In a dog's ear. The German has a deadly grip: Until he lets him go around the world, Without moving away, he sucks! This life continued for eighteen years. The German built a factory, ordered to dig a well.

It was dug by nine people, including Savely. After working until noon, we decided to rest. Then a German appeared, began to scold the peasants for idleness. The peasants pushed the German into the pit, Savely shouted "Naddy!", and Vogel was buried alive. Then there was “hard labor and lashes in advance; they didn’t tear it out - they anointed it, there’s a bad rag there!

Then ... I fled from hard labor ...

Caught! They didn’t pat on the head either.” And life was not easy. Twenty years of strict hard labor.

Twenty years of settlement. I saved up money, According to the royal manifesto, I got back to my homeland, I built this hill, And I have been living here for a long time.

- I was lucky in the girls:
We had a good
Non-drinking family.
For father, for mother,
Like Christ in the bosom,
I lived, well done.
Father, rising to the light,
I woke up my daughter with affection,
And the brother with a cheerful song;
While getting dressed
Sings: “Get up, sister!
They dress up in huts.
They are saved in chapels -
It's time to get up, it's time!
Shepherd with cattle
Got away; for raspberries
The girlfriends went to the forest,
Plowmen work in the fields
An ax is knocking in the forest!
Deal with pots
Wash everything, scrape everything,
Planting bread in the oven
Mother is coming
Does not wake up - more wraps up:
"Sleep, dear, killer whale,
Sleep, save power!
In a strange family - short sleep!
Get to bed late!
They'll come to wake up to the sun
Lukoshko will be saved,
They will throw a crust on the bottom:
Swallow it - yes complete
Pick up a lukoshko! .. "
Yes, not in the forest was born,
I didn't pray for singing
I didn't sleep much.
On the day of Simeon, father
He put me on a stick
And brought out of infancy
By the fifth year
And on the seventh for a burushka
I myself ran into the herd,
I wore my father for breakfast,
Grazed the ducklings.
Then mushrooms and berries,
Then: "Take a rake
Yes, hay!
So I got used to it...
And a good worker
And sing and dance the huntress
I was young.
You will work in the field for a day,
You return home dirty
And what's the bath for?
Thanks to the hot baenka,
birch broom,
Cold key -
White again, fresh.
For spinning with girlfriends
Eat until midnight!
I didn't hang out on guys.
I interrupted Nayanov,
And a quiet whisper;
"I'm pissed off,
And mother is smart
Don't touch! go away! .. "- go away ...
Yes, no matter how I ran them,
And the betrothed turned up,
On the mountain - a stranger!
Philip Korchagin - Petersburger,
A baker by skill.
The mother was crying
"Like a fish in a blue sea
You yelp! like a nightingale
Flutter from the nest!
Someone else's side
Not sprinkled with sugar
Not watered with honey!
It's cold, it's hungry.
There is a well-groomed daughter
Violent winds will blow,
Black crows will rob,
Shaggy dogs bark
And people will laugh! .. "
And the father with the matchmakers
Tipsy. twirled
I didn't sleep all night...
Oh! what are you, a guy, in a girl
Did you find the good in me?
Where did you spot me?
Is it about Christmas time, how am I from the hills
With guys, with friends
Riding, laughing?
You are mistaken, father's son!
From the game, from skating, from running,
Inflamed with frost
The girl has a face!
Is it in a quiet conversation?
I was dressed up there
Prestige and Pretty
Saved up over the winter
Bloomed like a poppy flower!
And you would look at me
I shake like flax, like sheaves
I'm praying on the rig...
Is it in the parent's house? ..
Oh! to know! would send
I'm in the city of the brother-falcon:
"Dear brother! silk, garus
Buy - seven colors,
Yes, a blue headset!
I would embroider in the corners
Moscow, king and queen,
Yes Kyiv, yes Tsargrad,
And in the middle is the sun
And this curtain
I would hang it in the window
Perhaps you would look
I would have been beaten!..
I've been thinking all night...
“Leave it,” I said to the guy, “
I am in bondage from the will,
God sees, I won’t go!”
We have traveled so far!
Go! Filippushka said. —
I won't offend! —
I grieved, wept bitterly,
And the girl did the work:
On the betrothed sideways
Looked at.
Comely - blush, wide - powerful,
Rus hair, quiet voice -
Fell on Philip's heart!
"You stand, good fellow,
Straight against me
Get on the same board!
Look into my clear eyes
Look at the ruddy face
Think, dare:
To live with me - do not repent,
And I don't cry with you...
I'm all like that!"
- I'm not going to repent
You won't cry! —
Filippushka said.
While we were trading
Philip I: "Go away!",
And he: - Come with me! —
It is known: - Beloved,
Good... pretty... —
"Ai! .." - I suddenly rushed ...
- What are you? Eka strength! —
Do not hold back - would not see
Forever to him Matryoushki,
Hold on Philip!
While we were trading
Must be what I think
Then there was happiness...
And hardly ever again!
I remember the starry night
Just as good
Like now, it was...
Timofeevna sighed.
I bowed to the haystack,
In a sad, quiet voice
She sang to herself:

I'm not in gold
pearls i
Not hung!"
— Pure silver —
Your purity
Red gold -
Your beauty
Bel-large pearls -
From your eyes
Tears are rolling...

My dear father ordered,
Blessed by mother
Parents put
To the oak table
With the edges of the spell poured:
"Take a tray, foreign guests
Take it with a bow!”
For the first time I bowed
Frisky legs shuddered;
The second I bowed - “Does that mean marriage? It should -
One of the Gubins said, -
Congratulate the young."
"Let's! Start with the hostess.
“Are you drinking vodka, Timofeevna?”
- Old woman - but not to drink? ..
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