Chapter 1
Here Gogol describes the nature of Ukraine and how traders go to the Sorochinsky fair. Our hero Solopiy Cherevik is heading there with his beautiful daughter named Paraska. That is why the hat is removed in front of their cart. But their whole appearance is spoiled by their wife Solopia Khavronya. She's such a grumpy woman, she keeps him under her thumb. They are going to the fair to sell wheat and an old mare. When they pass the river, they hear the shout of one of the boys, he really admires the beauty of his daughter. But he called his stepmother “a hundred-year-old witch.” She scolds him, and in response he throws a lump of dirt at her.
Gogol “Sorochinskaya Fair”, chapter 10 – summary
Cherevik and Khivrya spend the rest of the night in the godfather’s barn. The next morning, Khavronya wakes up her husband, hurrying him to take the mare to the Sorochinsky fair, which is already in full swing. Solopy wants to wash himself. Khivrya hands him the first rag he finds instead of a towel - and throws it away in horror: the rag turns out to be a red cuff of a scroll!
The frightened Cherevik somehow takes the mare out and goes with her to the fair, not expecting anything good from his trade. On the way, a tall gypsy stops him, asking what he is selling. “Can’t you see for yourself?” - Solopy answers, but, turning around, notices: there is no mare. In his hands he has one bridle, to which a red sleeve of a scroll is tied! In horror, Solopy rushes to run “faster than a young lad.”
Chapter 3
Then Solopiy heard a conversation between two men about wheat. They said that you shouldn’t expect good trade, since there is an evil spirit in the barn on the edge of the fair, and when people pass by it, they are even afraid to look, God forbid they ever see the red scroll. But he didn’t have time to listen to the end, as he was distracted by his daughter, who was already hugging the boy. Of course, at first he was eager to interrupt this, but when he recognized him as a friend’s son, he did not do this. Meanwhile, the boy invited him to the tavern. There Solopy saw him drain a mug of vodka, and he immediately developed respect for him. And when he drank himself, he proposed to the boy to marry Paraska.
Chapter 7
Solopy and Kum returned because a rumor about a red scroll spread through the fair. Several acquaintances asked to spend the night with Tsybula. They drink. And Cherevik asks his godfather to tell him about this very scroll. Well, one day the devil sat in the tavern and drank it all away, he left his scroll to the owner, but said that the year would come back. And the owner sold it to the master, and the gypsy stole it from the master, who also sold it. The devil has returned, but the scrolls are gone. The reseller who bought it stopped trading, then she slipped the scroll to the man. So his trade stopped. So he took and cut the scroll and scattered it around. Now the devil appears at the fair every year and looks for his scroll.
But then his story is interrupted, because a pig appeared at the window.
Summary of the story Sorochinskaya Fair by Gogol N.V.
| Sorochinskaya fair |
The pretty young girl Paraska, at the age of eighteen, goes for the first time with her father Solopy, Cherevik and stepmother Khavronya (Khivrey) to the fair in Sorochintsy. She is so good that all the girls she meets respectfully take off their hats to her gray-haired father. But the stepmother evokes ridicule - her red face is so angry and even wild. She responds to ridicule with sophisticated Ukrainian swearing - for which she receives a lump of dirt in her cap from a tanned young man in a white scroll. And his stepdaughter liked the guy so much... At the fair, he finds a girl and immediately starts talking about marriage. The father doesn’t mind, especially since his new son-in-law immediately takes him to treat himself under the “yatka”, where there is a whole flotilla of bottles. However, the girl’s stepmother makes a scandal for Solopia: with a guy like that who “covered” her face with manure, there will be no wedding! Gritsko is very sad. A roguish gypsy pesters him: if Gritsko gives him the oxen “for twenty,” the gypsy and his comrades will arrange a wedding for him with Paraska. The gypsy's idea is to take advantage of rumors that there is rampant evil spirits at the site of the fair. Everyone is scared of the “red scroll”! There is a legend that the devil, who was once kicked out of the inferno, became addicted to drinking and instead of payment, he pawned his red scroll to the shinkar. He promised to return for her in a year. But the scroll was made of such luxurious material that the shaver could not stand it and sold it. For the scroll, devils appeared in the form of pigs on stilts and flogged the shinkar with leather whips. And since then the scroll appears here and there - and brings misfortune to everyone. Even if you cut it into pieces, they will slide off. And again the scroll begins to harm. Now the sleeve of the scroll is missing - and the devil just can’t calm down. Khivrya hosts Popovich in the absence of her husband. He treats him, flirts - and suddenly: the sound of cart wheels - the husband has arrived. Popovich climbs into the attic in fear. The guests begin to help themselves, and a bottle of fusel is passed around in a circle. Someone present tells the story about the red scroll. Suddenly a pig's grunt is heard - and a terrible pig's face sticks out of the window. The guests jumped up, the priest fell from the attic... Everyone ran away shouting: “Damn! Crap!" The next day, Solopiy Cherevik took his old mare to sell, looked back - and instead of the mare, the sleeve from the “red scroll” was hanging on the straps. Moreover, he and his godfather were taken to jail for theft. Why did they run as fast as they could? Are you scared of the devil? An honest man will not run! It turns out that Solopy stole his own mare. Everything that is happening is a gypsy prank. Gritsko is a hero and frees Cherevik in exchange for a promise to marry Paraska to him. Gritsko and his fellow gypsies found a buyer for Cherevik’s old mare and wheat. Khivrya received the money and rushed off to buy new clothes for herself. While she was running for new clothes, they had already arranged a fun wedding with music and dancing. Khivrya, who returned, was unable to break through the crowd of celebrations. She failed to prevent her stepdaughter’s happiness... But the laughter and songs died away. “Isn’t it so that joy, a beautiful and fickle guest, flies away from us, and in vain does a lonely sound think to express joy? In his own echo he already hears sadness and desert and wildly listens to it. Isn’t it so that the playful friends of their stormy and free youth, one by one, one after another, get lost around the world and finally leave behind one of their old brothers? Bored left! And the heart becomes heavy and sad, and there is nothing to help it.”
Chapter 13
Paraska is alone at home, admiring herself in front of the mirror and remembering Gritsko. She puts on outfits one after another, dances and sings about love. Her answer comes into the hut and also starts dancing. And the godfather says that the groom has arrived and the wedding is beginning. Here Khavronya takes it, waves his arms, but is no longer able to interfere. A magnificent celebration begins. But the author notes that any feast and fun ends someday.
No matter how Khivrya resisted, truth and justice still prevailed. With the appearance of the devil, the author indicates the strength of society and throughout the entire work he ridicules them and their vices.
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Gogol. Brief summaries of works
- The evening before Ivan Kupala
- Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
- Viy
- Marriage
- Enchanted place
- Diary of a Madman
- Ivan Fedorovich Shponka and his aunt
- Players
- The history of the creation of the story Taras Bulba
- The history of the creation of the Inspector
- Stroller
- May Night or Drowned Woman
- Dead Souls
- Dead souls history of creation
- Dead souls by chapters
- Mirgorod
- Nevsky Avenue
- Nose
- Christmas Eve
- Petersburg stories
- The Tale of Captain Kopeikin
- The story of how Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich quarreled
- Portrait
- Missing certificate
- Auditor
- Rome
- Sorochinskaya fair
- Old world landowners
- Terrible revenge
- Taras Bulba
- Overcoat
Brief summary of the story “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”
Part one
Preface
The story is told on behalf of the beekeeper. The preface talks about winter gatherings, which turned into real fun. Those present told scary stories. The most interesting of them are collected in this collection.
Sorochinskaya fair
Chapters 1-4
Solopy Cherevik and his daughter Paraska came to Sorochynets for the fair, where the young girl immediately took a liking to the boy. The guy wooes Paraska, and the father agrees to marry his daughter to him, but the girl’s stepmother is against it.
Chapters 5-11
The boy who wants to marry Paraska is called Gritsko. A gypsy comes to his aid and agrees to help the guy, but in return he wants to get cheaper oxen. Having gathered the guests, Solopiy told the legend about the red scroll that the devil was looking for at the fair. Taking advantage of this story, the gypsies skillfully played Solopy, who found himself in a difficult situation.
Chapters 12-13
Solopy's savior was Gritsko, who demanded that Paraska be given in marriage to him as a token of gratitude. As a result, the gypsy got oxen, and the guy got a wife.
The evening before Ivan Kupala
The rich Cossack Korzh has a beautiful daughter, Pidorka. In their house there is an employee Petro Bezrodny. He is a prominent guy, but he doesn’t have a penny to his name. It so happened that Petrus and Pidorka fell in love with each other. When Korzh learned about this, he was furious. He grabbed the whip to teach his poor worker a lesson, but little Ivas, the girl’s younger brother, stood up for the boy. Korzh did not punish Petrus, he only advised him to stay away from their house.
Petrus finds out that Pidorka’s father wants to marry his daughter to a rich gentleman. The girl is in despair; it is easier for her to die than to marry someone she doesn’t love. Petrus went to pour out his grief in the tavern. There he met a strange man - Basavryuk, representing the forces of darkness.
Basavryuk volunteered to help the boy marry his beloved Pidorka. Petrus was supposed to pick a fern flower, which would help find the treasure. The fern blooms only once a year, on the night of Ivan Kupala, and is given only to clean hands. In the forest, the boy encountered the unexpected - evil spirits, a witch. Petrus was delirious. He learns that he cannot mine gold without human blood. The boy was ordered to commit murder. The unfortunate victim turned out to be Ivas, Pidorka’s young brother.
Basavryuk did not deceive - Petro received what he was promised. Having become rich, the guy married his beloved Pidorka, but this marriage did not bring happiness. Petrus only grew gloomy, and very soon his mind became clouded. Pidorka brought a healer to the house, but Petrus recognized her as the witch who was nearby at the time of Ivas’s murder. Petrus rushed at her, wanting to kill the old woman. He died in severe pain, leaving only ashes behind. After what happened, Pidorka went on a pilgrimage.
May Night or Drowned Woman
Chapter 1.
Levko, a young Cossack, and a girl named Ganna, love each other. The guy's father, the village head, is preventing the wedding. Levko calms his beloved, telling her that he will find a way to marry her.
A guy and a girl are talking. They notice the house by the pond, which is empty. Levko tells the strange history of this place. A long time ago, a young beautiful lady lived in it. Her father brought a woman into the house who abused the girl. Her stepmother turned out to be a witch. Unable to bear it, the lady drowned herself.
Chapter 2.
The village head is an important person. He considers himself such because he once accompanied the empress.
Chapter 3.
Levko approaches Hanna’s house, but sees a man standing next to the girl. The boy hears that the man is scolding him, using unflattering words about him. A stranger invites Hanna to marry him. Suddenly Levko recognizes the stranger - it is his father. The guy calls on his friends to play a joke on his father and teach him a lesson.
Chapter 4.
The boys in disguise are singing an obscene song under the window of the village headman.
Chapter 5.
Levko has a dream in which the lady asks to help him find his stepmother. She says that her stepmother still tortures her. The witch pretended to be a drowned woman, and the lady does not know which of the drowned girls is her stepmother. The boy manages to discover the witch-stepmother, and the lady, in gratitude, promises to help the guy.
Chapter 6.
After waking up from sleep, Levko finds a note in which he was ordered to marry Levko and Hanna. The father recognized the commissioner's handwriting in the note and was forced to agree to the marriage.
Missing certificate
Clerk Foma Grigorievich told the story of how his grandfather managed to cope with evil spirits. The events took place a long time ago, when my grandfather was still a young Cossack. The hetman ordered him to go to St. Petersburg and take the letter to the queen. Afraid of losing an important document on the road, the grandfather sewed the letter into his hat.
Walking around the fair, I met the grandfather of a Cossack. The Cossacks got into conversation and together decided to move on. The sun has set, it's time to spend the night. The grandfather noticed that the Cossack was not sleeping, as if he was afraid of something. He confirmed that he had sold his soul to the unclean, and that night his retribution awaited. The grandfather and another reveler who wandered towards them promised the Cossack that they would not sleep a wink that night. Despite the agreement, the travelers fell into a deep sleep. When they woke up, the grandfather did not find either a Zaporozhye Cossack, or horses, or a cap with a letter.
The Cossack fell into despair that he would not fulfill his obligation - the letter disappeared. He is rescued by a shaver who advises his grandfather to go into the forest to the sound of gypsy hammers forging iron. And indeed, the grandfather sees scary people in the forest, gathered around the fire.
The Cossack threw them a wallet full of money, and he found himself at the table. He is surrounded by witches and devils. One of the witches invited the Cossack to play cards, fool. The agreement was this: if the Cossack wins, then the letter will be given to him, but if he loses, he will remain in hell with evil spirits.
The Cossack lost to the witch twice, but on the third he realized that the cards needed to be crossed. Having crossed them, he won, receiving back his hat with a certificate. The grandfather asked for a horse to get out of their lair. The hellish horse soared up, carrying grandfather through the swamps and failures. The Cossack found himself on the roof of his own home. Entering the hut, he saw his wife, who was dancing in a sleepy state. He woke her up, but after these events, every year, once a year, the Cossack’s wife started dancing.
Part two
Christmas Eve
It was a snowy, clear, starry night before Christmas, so that people could joyfully carol on the holiday. Suddenly a witch appeared in the sky, flying out of the chimney. Where it flies, the stars disappear.
Another dark spot appeared in the sky - it turned out to be the devil. He grabbed the month from the sky and hid it in his pocket. With this trick the devil took revenge on the blacksmith Vakula. In the dark, the Cossack Chub will not leave the house, and then Vakula will not be able to come to Oksana, Chub’s daughter. And the devil was angry with the blacksmith because Vakula painted a picture, depicting the devil at the Last Judgment in a very obscene form.
While getting ready to go to the clerk for a merry party, Chub and godfather Panas suddenly saw that the street had become completely dark. After thinking a little, they nevertheless set off.
Left at home alone, Oksana dressed up in front of the mirror for the holiday, admiring herself. It was at this moment that the blacksmith appeared on the threshold. He can’t stop looking at Oksana and speaks tender words to her. The girl, seeing her power over him, just laughs and teases him. Vakula decided that Oksana did not love him.
At that moment they heard a knock on the door, and Vakula went to open it.
Having done their job, the witch and the devil went down through the pipe into one of the houses. The witch turned out to be Solokha, Vakula’s mother. She was very popular with men. The Cossacks of the village often visited her, but she liked the Cossack Chub most of all.
Going down the chimney, the devil suddenly saw Chub. He raised a strong snowstorm in order to return the Cossack back to the house. The devil did it. Chub and his godfather went home, not seeing anything in front of them. Knocking on his house, Chub saw Vakula. He decided that if the blacksmith was here, then his mother was home alone. And Chub went to visit Solokha.
Flying up the chimney and back, the devil dropped the month, which immediately shone joyfully in the sky. Young girls and boys ran out into the street to carol. Oksana saw beautiful new shoes on one of the girls, and she also wanted the same ones. Hearing about Oksana’s desire, Vakula said that he would bring the girl shoes of rare beauty. Capricious Oksana said that only those worn by the queen herself would suit her. If Vakula brings her some slippers, she will become the blacksmith’s wife.
Solokha hides the devil in a bag because there is a knock on the door - it’s the Head who has come. There is a knock on the door again, Solokha lets the clerk into the house, and hides the Head in a bag. But before she even had time to be nice to the clerk, Chub came to Solokha. After him came his son Vakula. The woman hid all her guests in bags, and Vakula took them out of the house, where he again met Oksana, laughing at him. Upset, Vakula takes the smallest bag and leaves.
The healer Patsyuk, to whom Vakula turned for help, hinted that he had the devil behind his back. The blacksmith grabbed the devil by the tail and demanded to take him to the queen herself.
In front of the residents of Dikanka, Chub and the clerk and the Head climb out of the bags. Chuba was amused by the cunning of the loving Solokha.
Vakula is already in St. Petersburg, the devil is in his pocket, and the blacksmith has joined the Cossacks going to the queen. While in front of the queen, the blacksmith began to ask her for slippers for his wife. The queen gladly fulfilled his request, and the devil and Vakula set off on their way back.
Meanwhile, in Dikanka there were alarming rumors about the blacksmith that he had hanged himself or drowned. Oksana was very worried, she loved the blacksmith. Arriving at Chub, the blacksmith received consent to marry. Oksana said that even without the slippers she agreed to become his wife.
Terrible revenge
I.
There is a celebration in the house of Captain Gorobets - his son is getting married. Guests of honor are invited to the wedding: Danilo Burulbash, the fearless ataman of the Cossacks, and Katerina, his wife. Gorobets brings out the icons, and suddenly one of the guests turns into a scary old man with a fang sticking out of his mouth. The old people are annoyed; they know that the appearance of this person brings misfortune. The hunchbacked old man is a sorcerer known in the area.
II.
Cossack Burulbash is sailing in a boat with Katerina. He remembers the appearance of the sorcerer. At this moment they sail past a cemetery, from where the dead suddenly rise up screaming. Burulbash became even gloomier. He doesn’t like Katerina’s father, who came to stay with them.
III.
The next day, a quarrel breaks out between Burulbash and Katerina’s father, both draw sabers and shoot at each other. The fight is broken up by a crying Katerina, who persuades them to stop.
IV.
Katerina has a dream in which a terrible sorcerer is her own father. He persuaded his daughter to marry him.
On the other bank of the Dnieper there is a gloomy building, in the window of which a light suddenly came on. Danilo sees Katerina’s father walking towards the castle. Burulbash climbs a tall tree, from where he looks into a room with strange symbols, where bats fly. It contains Katerina’s father, who has turned into a terrible sorcerer who was seen at the wedding. Danilo witnesses a strange action - the sorcerer summoned Katerina’s soul, as if woven from transparent threads. The soul asks why her father commits atrocities, why did he kill her mother?
V.
Danilo tells Katerina about what he saw, and she confirms his words, having seen in a dream what her husband is talking about. Now Burulbash has no doubt that Katerina’s father is a villain.
VI.
Danilo orders the sorcerer to be imprisoned in the basement. Katerina's father persuades his daughter to let him out. The girl releases the sorcerer into the wild.
VII.
Katerina's father is in hiding.
VIII.
The Poles, gathered in the tavern, hatch a plan to attack the Cossacks.
IX.
Heavy forebodings torment Buralbash, he tells Katerina about his exploits. Then he learns about the attack of the Poles and bravely fights them. A terrible sorcerer appears, he takes aim with a musket, and kills Burulbash. The Poles flee because the Cossacks of Captain Gorobets arrived to help Burulbash.
X.
Description of the Dnieper in clear, calm weather, as well as during a storm. A boat moored to the shore, from which a sorcerer emerges and descends into a dugout. He casts a spell. In the resulting cloud, the sorcerer suddenly discovers the face of a man, which greatly frightens him.
XI.
Katerina is very worried. She tells Gorobets that she has terrible dreams in which her father comes to her. He demands that Katerina marry him. If she refuses, then the father will kill her little child. Esaul calms down Katerina, promising not to offend Burulbash’s son, but he fails to protect the boy. At night the child is found dead.
XII.
A sleeping knight and a baby are riding through the Carpathian Mountains on a horse.
XIII.
Katerina’s mind became clouded after the grief she experienced. She is visited by a young colleague of Burulbash. He tells Katerina that he and her husband had an agreement. Allegedly, the guest must marry her if Danilo dies. Katerina peers at the guest and realizes with horror that in front of her is her father. She grabs the knife, but the sorcerer disappears.
XIV.
A wonderful picture appears in the sky above Kiev - a sleeping knight riding on a horse. Katerina’s father observes this phenomenon - it was the face of this horseman that he saw at the moment of the spell. The sorcerer is seized with wild horror and fear. He is going to Kyiv.
XV.
Katerina’s father bursts into the schema-monk’s office and asks for help. The sorcerer wants the holy elder to help pray for his soul. Having opened the sacred book, the schema-monk sees that the letters in it have become bloody. The schema-monk understands that the sorcerer will not be forgiven. Hearing the old man’s answer, the sorcerer kills the schema-monk and drives the horse to the Tatars. The horse does not obey him, but carries him into the Carpathian mountains. A knight appears in front of him and grabs the sorcerer. Katerina's father immediately gives up the ghost.
XVI.
In conclusion, the author describes the meaning of what happened in the Carpathian Mountains. There lived two Cossacks, they were inseparable friends. One day one of them accomplished a glorious feat, and the other, out of envy, pushed him into an abyss in the mountains along with his baby son. This story is a description of retribution against a villain.
Ivan Fedorovich Shponka and his aunt
I.
Ivan Fedorovich has been living in Vytrebenki, on a farm, for several years now. As a child, he was a diligent boy. One day he had an unpleasant situation with a teacher, after which he was beaten. After this incident, civilian service became unacceptable for him, and he joined an infantry regiment. Being a naturally timid young man, Shponka kept himself aloof - he set mousetraps, polished buttons until they shined.
One day he received news from his aunt, who sent him linen and told him about what had grown in the garden. The aunt wrote that she was no longer able to take care of the estate and asked Vanyusha to take care of the housework. Shponka resigned and went on the road.
II.
Shponka goes to her aunt. There were no special events along the way. At the inn he meets a man named Grigory Strochenko. The fat man bursts through the door and unleashes a stream of questions on Shponka. As it turned out, Grigory lives next door to the Vytrebenki farm.
III.
The aunt, a woman of about fifty, portly and tall, did not make a pitiful and weak impression. She greeted her nephew with great warmth. Ivan Fedorovich will have to go for a deed of gift. When it comes to the deed of gift, Shponka learns the strange story of the relationship between his late mother and the bachelor Strochenko.
IV.
To Shponka’s surprise, the deed of gift is in the possession of the same Strochenko, his friend. He declares that there is no deed of gift, tries to take Shponka away from this conversation, introduces the young man to the sisters.
V.
Having heard about the young girls, the aunt hatches a plan - to marry Vanyusha and babysit her grandchildren. They go to a neighbor's house together. Shponka is left alone with the girl. The nephew is greatly embarrassed by the aunt’s conversations about marriage, which she starts on the way back. The aunt has a new plan, but at this point the work ends.
Enchanted place
The father of the family often left for work, while his wife, children and grandfather remained at home. One day guests came to them, and the grandfather began to dance. Suddenly he stopped and froze near one place where he grew cucumbers.
After a while, the grandfather approached this place again and found himself in a field, next to a grave, over which a light floated. The grandfather decided that a treasure was hidden there. The next day he did not find this place.
One day, while working in the garden, he again came to a strange place, and immediately found himself next to the grave. The grandfather began to dig a hole to look for the treasure, but he was surrounded by evil spirits, not allowing him to take the treasure. He managed to grab the boiler, but when he came home, his grandfather found only old rubbish in it. Then he fenced off the place so as not to touch it again.
