The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.
It all starts with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of rhein wine, pendants pine resin in a new wooden house, etc. The most common image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. ( Detailed description moving hundreds of miles - to visit relatives, to visit, etc. - takes up most of the "Children's years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, made a bed for him in tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and "suddenly woke up." After an illness, the child experiences "a feeling of pity for everything that suffers."
With every memory of Serezha, "the constant presence of the mother merges", who went out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.
Sequential memories begin at the age of four. Serezha lives in Ufa with his parents and younger sister. The disease "brought to extreme susceptibility" the boy's nerves. According to the nanny's stories, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, and so on. (various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he does not even remember it; he had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so that when neighbor S.I. Anichkov presented him with Novikov's "Children's Reading for the Heart and Mind", the boy, carried away by books, was "just like a madman." He was especially impressed by articles explaining thunder, snow, insect metamorphosis, etc.
Mother, exhausted by Seryozha's illness, was afraid that she herself fell ill with consumption, her parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; the children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father's parents. The road amazed the child: crossing the Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “ores”, large trees, spending the night in the field and especially fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire obtained by flint, and the fire of the torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even "how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off them in thick layers." The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even squeamish.
The people met on the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the family Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashino is incomprehensible, the relations of the peasants with the "terrible" headman are incomprehensible, etc.; the child sees, among other things, the harvest in the heat, and this causes "an inexpressible feeling of compassion."
The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his insane fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that the "sissy" loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). Children of a proud daughter-in-law, who "disdained" Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrovo, so inhospitable that they even fed the children badly, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses herself by frightening her sister with stories about unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and her beloved "uncle" Yevseich. Auntie gave the boy "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which strongly influenced his imagination.
After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly matured. Young brothers of the mother, military men, who graduated from the Moscow University noble boarding school, are visiting the house: from them Serezha learns what poetry is, one of the uncles draws and teaches this Serezha, which makes the boy seem to be a "higher being". S. I. Anichkov donates new books: "Anabasis" by Xenophon and "Children's Library" by Shishkov (which the author praises very much).
Uncles and their friend adjutant Volkov, playing, tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushes to fight; he is punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in a room, placed in a corner, he dreams and, finally, falls ill from excitement and fatigue. Adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.
At the request of Serezha, they begin to teach him to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone's advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so affectionate with him at home), the spanking of the guilty scares the child very much.
Serezha's father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it "Sergeevskaya wasteland", which the boy is very proud of. Parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir koumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens up. Seryozha can't think of anything else and watches with tension the ice drift and the flood of the river.
In Sergeevka, the house for gentlemen has not been completed, but even this amuses: "There are no windows and doors, but the fishing rods are ready." Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Evseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Serezha sees gun hunting for the first time and feels "some kind of greed, some unknown joy." Summer is spoiled only by guests, though infrequent: outsiders, even peers, burden Seryozha.
After Sergeevka, Ufa "got sick of it." Seryozha is entertained only by the neighbor's new gift: Sumarokov's collected works and Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada", which he recites and tells his relatives various details invented by him about his favorite characters. The mother laughs, and the father worries: "Where does all this come from? You don't become a liar." News comes about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; the child listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which are not always clear to him.
The news comes that the grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will fall ill from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the road, the boy is tormented by sad forebodings, and the belief in forebodings takes root in him from now on for life.
Grandfather dies a day after the arrival of relatives, the children have time to say goodbye to him; "all feelings" of Seryozha are "suppressed by fear"; He is especially struck by the explanations of the nanny Parasha, why the grandfather does not cry and does not scream: he is paralyzed, "looks wide-eyed and only moves his lips." "I felt the whole infinity of torment, which cannot be said to others."
The behavior of the Bagrovskaya relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - "the real master in the house", the grandmother expressly yields to the power of the mother, and this is disgusting to the mother. Everyone at the table, except Mother, weeps and eats with great appetite. And then, after dinner, in the corner room, looking at the non-freezing Buguruslan, the boy for the first time understands the beauty of winter nature.
Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: while giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.
Becoming the owner of Bagrov after the death of his grandfather, Serezha's father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo for permanent residence. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) is very busy with Seryozha; he does not understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. The kind boy tries to feel sorry for and comfort his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he had not known before, in fact; but her habit of beating the servants, very common in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.
Seryozha's parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesov; Seryozha's father is considered her heir and therefore does not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat clumsy house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Having made friends with Serezha's mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let her family go back to Bagrovo; meanwhile, the bustling life in a strange house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks of Bagrov, who is already dear to him.
Returning to Bagrovo, Seryozha truly sees spring for the first time in his life in the village: "I followed every step of spring. In every room, almost in every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations …" From excitement, the boy begins insomnia; so that he falls asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and among other things - "The Scarlet Flower" (this fairy tale is placed in the appendix to "Children's years ...").
In autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Serezha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let the guests go; On the night of the Intercession, the father has a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother's illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. Grandmother died on the very Pokrov; this terribly strikes both Serezha's father and the capricious Kurolesova.
The following winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan, to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. In Kazan, they plan to spend no more than two weeks, but everything turns out differently: Seryozha is waiting for the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to the gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov-grandson ends and adolescence begins.
In 1858, Aksakov created "Childhood of Bagrov-grandson". Summary The work of interest to us is preceded by a story about its features.
This is the 2nd part of the autobiographical trilogy of Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov. The story "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson", a summary of which we will outline below, introduces us to the first ten years of the child's life, spent by him in the villages of the Orenburg region and in Ufa (1790s). The author of the work reproduces the perception of the child. Everything was equally important and new for the boy from the story "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson". A brief summary is therefore not so easy to compose. It is difficult to divide events into more and less significant ones, and the plot is practically absent in the work. However, we will try to highlight the main points of the story "Childhood of Bagrov-grandson". The summary below will give you an idea of the most important events that influenced the formation of the boy's personality.
Memories of infancy
The story begins with vivid, incoherent memories of infancy. The child remembers how he was taken away from the nurse, as well as a long illness from which the boy almost died, a bottle of rhine wine of a strange shape, etc. The road is the most frequent image in the work "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson". We will briefly describe the summary of each chapter. Note that most of the work is occupied by the description of crossings.
Seryozha (that was the name of the boy) is recovering after he became very ill on a long journey and his parents, who were forced to stop in the forest, laid him on a bed in tall grass. Here the boy lay for 12 hours, and then "as if he woke up." A child after an illness feels pity for all who suffer. The presence of his mother merges with the boy's memories. She managed to get him out. She loved him, perhaps that's why, more than other children.
The appearance of a passion for reading in the hero of the story "Childhood of Bagrov-grandson"
The summary of the chapters continues with a description of successive memories. They begin at Serezha from the age of four. A separate chapter is dedicated to them. It is called just that - "Consecutive Memories", and is preceded by "Fragmentary Memories" (Chapter Three). The boy and his younger sister in Ufa. His nerves are brought by illness "to the point of extreme susceptibility." He listens to the nanny's stories and starts the dead and so on. (Various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that Seryozha does not even remember when. He had only one book, and the boy knew it by heart. Serezha read this book every day to his sister. Therefore, when S.I. Anichkov (a neighbor) gave the boy "Children's Reading for the Heart and Mind", he was so carried away by books that he was "like a madman."
New impressions
The mother was afraid that she fell ill with consumption, exhausted by her son's illness. Her father decided to go with her to a good doctor in Orenburg. They took the children to their father's parents, in Bagrovo. The road amazed the boy: crossing the river, large trees, fossils and pebbles, spending the night in the field, fishing, which he loved as much as books. He was all curious. Father, along with Seryozha, rejoiced at all this, and mother was indifferent and even somewhat squeamish.
The people we met along the way are new and incomprehensible. A boy, for example, cannot understand the relationship of the peasants with the headman. He sees the harvest in the heat, which causes a feeling of compassion in his soul.
Life in Bagrovo
The chapter "Bagrovo" is devoted to the life of grandparents. Serezha does not like the patriarchal way of life. The house is sad and small, its inhabitants are no better dressed than the servants of their parents in Ufa. Terrible and stern grandfather. Seryozha witnessed one of his fits of anger. Somewhat later, when the grandfather realized that the boy loved his father, and not just his mother, his attitude towards Seryozha changed dramatically. In Bagrov, they do not like the children of a proud daughter-in-law, who "disdained" her relatives. The guys lived here for more than a month. Bagrov was so inhospitable that his brother and sister were even poorly fed. Seryozha amused himself by frightening his sister with stories of unprecedented adventures. He read aloud to her and to "uncle" Evseich. Some kind of vaudeville and "Dream Interpretation", which the aunt gave the boy, strongly influenced his imagination.
Getting to know uncles
Then he suddenly grew up. The parents' house is visited by young mother's brothers (chapter "Winter in Ufa"). These are the military who graduated from the noble university boarding school in Moscow. From them the boy learns what poetry is. Serezha is taught to draw by one of his uncles, which makes him seem like a "higher being" to the child. A neighbor gives him new books: "Children's Library" written by Shishkov, and "Anabasis" by Xenophon.
Uncles and Volkov, their adjutant and friend, jokingly tease the boy, including because Seryozha cannot write. The child is seriously offended. Once he even throws himself into a fight. Serezha is punished and demanded to ask for forgiveness. The boy does not want to do this - he believes that he is right. Serezha stands in the corner and dreams. In the end, from fatigue and excitement, the child falls ill. Adults are ashamed. This matter ends with a general reconciliation.
Learning to write
At his request, the boy is taught to write. For this, teachers are invited from the public school. One day, probably on the advice of someone, he is sent there for a lesson. The rudeness of the teacher (and he was so affectionate with him at home) and the students, the flogging of the guilty ones greatly frighten Seryozha.
Sergeevskaya wasteland
The protagonist's father buys 7,000 acres of land with forests and lakes. He gives them the name "Sergeevskaya wasteland". The boy is very proud of this. Parents go to Sergeevka so that the mother can be cured with Bashkir koumiss in the spring. Serezha is watching the flood of the river and the ice drift with tension.
The house for gentlemen in Sergeevka has not been completed, but even this is amusing. Seryozha, together with Evseich and his father, is fishing on the lake until the end of July. Kiishki. The boy observes a gun hunt for the first time and feels "some kind of greed", "an unknown joy".
Only guests spoil the summer. True, they are rare. Seryozha is burdened by strangers, even peers.
Return to Ufa
Ufa "got sick of" the boy after Sergeevka. He is entertained only by new books donated by a neighbor. The boy recites Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada". He tells the details he invented about her characters. The news comes that Catherine II has died. The people swear allegiance to Tsar Pavel Petrovich. Seryozha listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which, however, are not always understandable to him.
grandfather's death
The news comes that the grandfather is dying. The family goes to Bagrovo. The boy is afraid to look at his dying grandfather. He thinks that his mother might get sick from all this, that they will freeze in the winter on the way. Seryozha on the road is haunted by sad forebodings, and since then, faith in them has taken root in him forever.
The summary of the story "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson" continues with the fact that a day after the arrival of his relatives, the grandfather dies. The children manage to say goodbye to him. Serezha is afraid, and this suppresses all his feelings. In particular, he is struck by the explanations of Parasha (the nanny), who says that the grandfather does not scream and does not cry because he is paralyzed. He looks into all eyes and only moves his lips. The boy feels the infinity of torment.
The child is unpleasantly surprised by the behavior of Bagrovskaya relatives. Falling down at his brother's feet, 4 aunts howl. The grandmother emphatically concedes power to the mother, and the latter is unpleasant. At the table, everyone eats with appetite and weeps. After dinner, the boy looks at Buguruslan and for the first time realizes the beauty of winter nature.
Mother's birth and communication with grandmother
Serezha, having returned to Ufa, is again shocked. Mother, giving birth to a son, almost dies. Having become the owner of Bagrov after the death of his father, his father retires. The whole family moves to permanent residence in the village. Seryozha is very interested in rural work (mowing, threshing, etc.).
He does not understand why the little sister and mother are indifferent to this. The boy tries to console and feel sorry for his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after his grandfather died. He didn't really know her before. However, this woman's habit of beating the serfs, which is very familiar in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.
Visiting Praskovya Kurolesova
Praskovya Kurolesova invites Seryozha's parents to visit. The protagonist's father is considered her heir. Because of this, he does not dare to argue with this kind and intelligent, but rude and domineering woman. The house of the widow Kurolesova, rich, although a bit clumsy, at first seems to Seryozha as a palace, which is described in the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Praskovya, having made friends with the boy's mother, does not want to let her family go to Bagrovo for a long time. And the hectic life in this house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha. He thinks impatiently about returning to Bagrovo, which is already dear to him.
Returning here, the boy truly sees spring for the first time in his life. From excitement, he starts insomnia. The housekeeper Pelageya, in order for Serezha to fall asleep better, tells him fairy tales, including (it is placed in the appendix to the story).
Grandma's death
At the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs spend autumn in Churasovo. The boy's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov. However, Praskovya does not want to let the guests go. Father on the night of the Intercession sees a terrible dream. And the next morning, the news comes that the grandmother is ill. The autumn road is hard. While crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. In the very Pokrov, my grandmother died. This is very striking for both the capricious Kurolesova and Serezha's father.
Final events
Let us describe the final events of the story "Childhood of Bagrov-grandson". Their summary is as follows. The Bagrovs gather in Kazan in winter to pray to the miracle workers. Not only Seryozha, but also the boy's mother has never been to this city. It is planned to spend no more than 2 weeks in Kazan. However, everything turns out differently: the boy is waiting for the beginning of a very important event - he will be sent to the gymnasium. This is where Seryozha's childhood ends and adolescence begins. Aksakov also completes his work ("Childhood of Bagrov-grandson"). The summary of the next part of the trilogy ("Memories") is not included in our task.
Note that the work of interest to us is very popular. It is part of the school literature curriculum. Therefore, the description of the work "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson" (summary) is very relevant today. 4th grade of school is the time when we first get to know him. However, many are interested in this work after school. In order to recall its plot, we have created this article. It can also be useful at the first acquaintance with the story - the events of the work "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson" are consistently and in some detail described. A very brief content is unlikely to be useful to those who decide to discover this creation of Aksakov. And it is best to read the story in the original. The summary of the work "Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson" gives only a superficial idea of \u200b\u200bit.
Retold by G. V. Zykova
The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.
It all starts with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of rhein wine, pendants pine resin in a new wooden house, etc. The most frequent image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. (A detailed description of moving hundreds of miles - to visit relatives, to visit, etc. - occupies most of the "Children's years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, spread he had a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and "suddenly woke up." After an illness, the child experiences "a feeling of pity for everything that suffers."
With every memory of Serezha, “the constant presence of his mother merges”, who went out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.
Sequential memories begin at the age of four. Serezha lives in Ufa with his parents and younger sister. The disease "brought to extreme susceptibility" the boy's nerves. According to the nanny's stories, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, and so on. (various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he does not even remember it; he had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so that when neighbor S.I. Anichkov gave him Novikov's "Children's Reading for the Heart and Mind", the boy, carried away by books, was "just like a madman." He was especially impressed by articles explaining thunder, snow, insect metamorphoses, and so on.
Mother, exhausted by Seryozha's illness, was afraid that she herself fell ill with consumption, her parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; the children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father's parents. The road struck the child: crossing the Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “ores”, large trees, spending the night in the field, and especially fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire obtained by flint, and the fire of the torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even squeamish.
The people met on the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the family Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashino is incomprehensible, the relations of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc .; the child sees, among other things, the harvest in the heat, and this causes "an inexpressible feeling of compassion."
The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his insane fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that the "sissy" loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). Children of a proud daughter-in-law, who "disdained" Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrovo, so inhospitable that they even fed the children badly, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses herself by frightening her sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and her beloved "uncle" Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which strongly influenced his imagination.
After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly matured. Young brothers of the mother, military men, who graduated from the Moscow University noble boarding school, are visiting the house: from them Serezha learns what poetry is, one of the uncles draws and teaches this Serezha, which makes the boy seem like a “higher being”. S. I. Anichkov donates new books: "Anabasis" by Xenophon and "Children's Library" by Shishkov (which the author praises very much).
Uncles and their friend adjutant Volkov, playing, tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushes to fight; he is punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in a room, placed in a corner, he dreams and, finally, falls ill from excitement and fatigue. Adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.
At the request of Serezha, they begin to teach him to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone's advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so affectionate with him at home), the spanking of the guilty scares the child very much.
Serezha's father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it "Sergeevskaya wasteland", which the boy is very proud of. Parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir koumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens up. Seryozha can't think of anything else and watches with tension the ice drift and the flood of the river.
In Sergeevka, the house for gentlemen has not been completed, but even this amuses: “There are no windows and doors, but the fishing rods are ready.” Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Evseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Serezha sees gun hunting for the first time and feels “some kind of greed, some unknown joy.” Summer is spoiled only by guests, though infrequent: outsiders, even peers, burden Seryozha.
After Sergeevka, Ufa "got sick of it." Seryozha is entertained only by the neighbor's new gift: Sumarokov's collected works and Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada", which he recites and tells his relatives various details invented by him about his favorite characters. The mother laughs, and the father worries: “Where does all this come from? Don't be a liar." News comes about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; the child listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which are not always clear to him.
The news comes that the grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will fall ill from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the road, the boy is tormented by sad forebodings, and the belief in forebodings takes root in him from now on for life.
Grandfather dies a day after the arrival of relatives, the children have time to say goodbye to him; “all feelings” of Seryozha are “suppressed by fear”; He is especially struck by the explanations of the nanny Parasha, why the grandfather does not cry and does not scream: he is paralyzed, "looks with all his eyes and only moves his lips." “I felt the whole infinity of torment, which cannot be told to others.”
The behavior of the Bagrovskaya relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - “the real master in the house”, the grandmother expressly yields to the power of the mother, and this is disgusting to the mother. Everyone at the table, except Mother, weeps and eats with great appetite. And then, after dinner, in the corner room, looking at the non-freezing Buguruslan, the boy for the first time understands the beauty of winter nature.
Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.
Becoming the owner of Bagrov after the death of his grandfather, Serezha's father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo for permanent residence. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) is very busy with Seryozha; he does not understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. The kind boy tries to feel sorry for and comfort his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he had not known before, in fact; but her habit of beating the servants, very common in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.
Seryozha's parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesov; Seryozha's father is considered her heir and therefore does not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat clumsy house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Having made friends with Serezha's mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let her family go back to Bagrovo; meanwhile, the bustling life in a strange house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks of Bagrov, who is already dear to him.
Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha for the first time in his life in the village really sees spring: “I […] followed every step of spring. In every room, almost in every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations ... ”Insomnia begins in the boy from excitement; so that he falls asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and among other things - “The Scarlet Flower” (this tale is placed in the appendix to “Childhood ...”).
In autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Serezha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let the guests go; On the night of the Intercession, the father has a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother's illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. Grandmother died on the very Pokrov; this terribly strikes both Serezha's father and the capricious Kurolesova.
The following winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan, to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. In Kazan, they plan to spend no more than two weeks, but everything turns out differently: Seryozha is waiting for the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to the gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov-grandson ends and adolescence begins.
The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.
It all starts with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of rhein wine, pendants pine resin in a new wooden house, etc. The most common image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. (A detailed description of moving hundreds of miles - to visit relatives, to visit, etc. - takes up most of the "Children's years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, spread he had a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and "suddenly woke up." After an illness, the child experiences "a feeling of pity for everything that suffers."
With every memory of Serezha, “the constant presence of his mother merges”, who went out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.
Sequential memories begin at the age of four. Serezha lives in Ufa with his parents and younger sister. The disease "brought to extreme susceptibility" the boy's nerves. According to the nanny's stories, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, and so on. (various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he does not even remember it; he had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so that when neighbor S.I. Anichkov gave him Novikov's "Children's Reading for the Heart and Mind", the boy, carried away by books, was "just like a madman." He was especially impressed by articles explaining thunder, snow, insect metamorphosis, etc.
Mother, exhausted by Seryozha's illness, was afraid that she herself fell ill with consumption, her parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; the children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father's parents. The road amazed the child: crossing the Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “ores”, large trees, spending the night in the field and especially fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire obtained by flint, and the fire of the torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even squeamish.
The people met on the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the family Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashino is incomprehensible, the relations of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc .; the child sees, among other things, the harvest in the heat, and this causes "an inexpressible feeling of compassion."
The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his insane fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that the "sissy" loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). Children of a proud daughter-in-law, who "disdained" Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrovo, so inhospitable that they even fed the children badly, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses herself by frightening her sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and her beloved "uncle" Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which strongly influenced his imagination.
After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly matured. Young brothers of the mother, military men, who graduated from the Moscow University noble boarding school, are visiting the house: from them Serezha learns what poetry is, one of the uncles draws and teaches this Serezha, which makes the boy seem like a “higher being”. S. I. Anichkov donates new books: "Anabasis" by Xenophon and "Children's Library" by Shishkov (which the author praises very much).
Uncles and their friend adjutant Volkov, playing, tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushes to fight; he is punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in a room, placed in a corner, he dreams and, finally, falls ill from excitement and fatigue. Adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.
At the request of Serezha, they begin to teach him to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone's advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so affectionate with him at home), the spanking of the guilty scares the child very much.
Serezha's father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it "Sergeevskaya wasteland", which the boy is very proud of. Parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir koumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens up. Seryozha can't think of anything else and watches with tension the ice drift and the flood of the river.
In Sergeevka, the house for gentlemen has not been completed, but even this amuses: “There are no windows and doors, but the fishing rods are ready.” Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Evseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Serezha sees gun hunting for the first time and feels “some kind of greed, some unknown joy.” Summer is spoiled only by guests, though infrequent: outsiders, even peers, burden Seryozha.
After Sergeevka, Ufa "got sick of it." Seryozha is entertained only by the neighbor's new gift: Sumarokov's collected works and Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada", which he recites and tells his relatives various details invented by him about his favorite characters. The mother laughs, and the father worries: “Where does all this come from? Don't be a liar." News comes about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; the child listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which are not always clear to him.
The news comes that the grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will fall ill from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the road, the boy is tormented by sad forebodings, and the belief in forebodings takes root in him from now on for life.
Grandfather dies a day after the arrival of relatives, the children have time to say goodbye to him; “all feelings” of Seryozha are “suppressed by fear”; He is especially struck by the explanations of the nanny Parasha, why the grandfather does not cry and does not scream: he is paralyzed, "looks with all his eyes and only moves his lips." “I felt the whole infinity of torment, which cannot be told to others.”
The behavior of the Bagrovskaya relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - “the real master in the house”, the grandmother expressly yields to the power of the mother, and this is disgusting to the mother. Everyone at the table, except Mother, weeps and eats with great appetite. And then, after dinner, in the corner room, looking at the non-freezing Buguruslan, the boy for the first time understands the beauty of winter nature.
Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: while giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.
Becoming the owner of Bagrov after the death of his grandfather, Serezha's father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo for permanent residence. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) is very busy with Seryozha; he does not understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. The kind boy tries to feel sorry for and comfort his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he had not known before, in fact; but her habit of beating the servants, very common in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.
Seryozha's parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesov; Seryozha's father is considered her heir and therefore does not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat clumsy house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Having made friends with Serezha's mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let her family go back to Bagrovo; meanwhile, the bustling life in a strange house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks of Bagrov, who is already dear to him.
Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha for the first time in his life in the village really sees spring: “I followed every step of spring. In every room, almost in every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations ... ”Insomnia begins in the boy from excitement; so that he falls asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and among other things - "The Scarlet Flower" (this tale is placed in the appendix to "Children's Years ...").
In autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Serezha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let the guests go; On the night of the Intercession, the father has a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother's illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. Grandmother died on the very Pokrov; this terribly strikes both Serezha's father and the capricious Kurolesova.
The following winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan, to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. In Kazan, they plan to spend no more than two weeks, but everything turns out differently: Seryozha is waiting for the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to the gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov-grandson ends and adolescence begins.
"Childhood of Bagrov-grandson" summary
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Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov
Childhood years of Bagrov-grandson
(Chapters)
Introduction
I myself do not know whether it is possible to fully believe everything that my memory has preserved? If I remember the events that really happened, then this can be called a memory not only of childhood, but even of infancy. Of course, I do not remember anything in connection, in continuous succession; but many incidents still live in my memory with all the brightness of colors, with all the liveliness of yesterday's event. When I was three or four years old, I told those around me that I remember how they took me away from the nurse ... Everyone laughed at my stories and assured me that I had heard enough of them from my mother or nanny and thought that I myself saw it. I argued and sometimes cited circumstances as evidence that could not be told to me and that only I and my nurse or mother could know. We made inquiries, and it often turned out that this was really the case and that no one could tell me about it. But not everything that seemed to me to be seen, I actually saw; the same references sometimes proved that I could not see much, but could only hear.
And so, I will begin to tell from the prehistoric, so to speak, era of my childhood, only that, the reality of which I cannot doubt.
Fragmentary memories
The very first objects that have survived in a dilapidated picture of the past, a picture that has faded heavily in other places from the time and flow of the sixties, objects and images that are still worn in my memory are a nurse, a little sister and mother; then they had no definite meaning for me and were only nameless images. The Nurse appears to me at first as some mysterious, almost invisible being. I remember myself lying at night, now in my bed, now in my mother's arms, and weeping bitterly: with sobs and cries, I repeated the same word, calling for someone, and someone appeared in the twilight of a dimly lit room, took me to I put my hands to my chest ... and I felt good. Then I remember that no one came to my cry and calls, that my mother, pressing me to her chest, singing the same words of a soothing song, ran around the room with me until I fell asleep. The nurse, who loved me passionately, again appears several times in my reminiscences, sometimes in the distance, furtively looking at me from behind others, sometimes kissing my hands, my face and crying over me. My nurse was the master's peasant woman and lived thirty miles away; she left the village on foot on Saturday evening and arrived in Ufa early on Sunday morning; after looking at me and resting, she returned on foot to her Kasimovka in order to be in time for corvée. I remember that she came once, and maybe she came sometime, with my milk sister, a healthy and red-cheeked girl.
At first I loved my sister more than all the toys, more than my mother, and this love was expressed by an incessant desire to see her and a feeling of pity: it always seemed to me that she was cold, that she was hungry and that she wanted to eat; I constantly wanted to dress her with my dress and feed her with my food; of course, I was not allowed to, and I cried.
The constant presence of my mother merges into my every memory. Her image is inextricably linked with my existence, and therefore it does not stand out much in fragmentary pictures of the first time of my childhood, although he constantly participates in them.
Here follows a large gap, that is, a dark spot or a faded place in the picture of the past, and I begin to remember myself already very sick, and not at the beginning of the illness, which lasted for more than a year and a half, not at the end of it (when I was already recovering), no, I remember myself in such weakness that every minute they feared for my life. Once, early in the morning, I woke up or woke up and did not know where I was. Everything was unfamiliar to me: a high large room, bare walls made of thick new pine logs, a strong resinous smell; bright, it seems like summer, the sun is just rising and through the window on the right side, over the canopy that was lowered over me, is brightly reflected on the opposite wall ... Beside me, sleeping anxiously, without pillows and undressed, my mother. How now I look at her black braid, tousled over her thin and yellow face. The day before I was transported to the foothill village of Zubovka, about ten versts from Ufa. Apparently, the road and the calm sleep produced by the movement strengthened me; I felt good and cheerful, so that for several minutes I looked with curiosity and pleasure through the canopy of the new objects surrounding me. I did not know how to save my poor mother's sleep, touched her with my hand and said: “Oh, what a sun! how good it smells!” Mother jumped up, frightened at first, and then rejoiced, listening to my strong voice and looking at my refreshed face. How she caressed me, what names she called me, how joyfully she cried ... you can’t tell! - The canopy was raised; I asked for food, they fed me and gave me half a glass of old Rhine wine to drink, which, as they thought then, was the only one that supported me. Rhine wine was poured for me from some strange bottle with a flattened wide round bottom and a long narrow neck. Since then I have not seen such bottles. Then, at my request, they got me pieces or pendants of pine resin, which everywhere along the walls and jambs was drowned, dripped, even flowed a little, solidifying and drying out on the road and hanging in the air in small icicles, completely similar in their external appearance to ordinary ice icicles. I was very fond of the smell of pine and spruce resin, which was sometimes smoked in our children's rooms. I sniffed, admired, played with fragrant and transparent resinous icicles; they melted in my hands and stuck together my thin long fingers; my mother washed my hands, wiped them dry, and I began to doze ... Objects began to interfere in my eyes; it seemed to me that we were riding in a carriage, that they wanted to give me medicine and I didn’t want to take it, that instead of my mother, the nanny Agafya or the nurse was standing next to me ... How I fell asleep and what happened after - I don’t remember anything.
Often I remember myself in a carriage, not even always drawn by horses, not always on the road. I remember very well that my mother, and sometimes the nanny, holds me in her arms, dressed very warmly, that we are sitting in a carriage, standing in a shed, and sometimes taken out into the yard; that I whimper, repeating in a weak voice: “Soup, soup,” which they gave me little by little, despite the painful, agonizing hunger, sometimes replaced by a complete disgust for food. I was told that in the carriage I cried less and was generally much calmer. It seems that the doctors at the very beginning of the illness treated me badly and, finally, healed me almost to death, bringing the digestive organs to a complete weakening; or it may be that suspiciousness, the excessive fears of a passionate mother, the incessant change of medicines were the cause of the desperate situation in which I found myself.