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Chichikov went to see Sobakevich in the most pleasant mood. He did not even notice that Selifan, cordially accepted by people Manilov, was drunk. Therefore, the britzka quickly lost its way. The coachman could not remember whether he had driven two or three turns. It started to rain. Chichikov became worried. He finally made out that they had long been lost, and Selifan was drunk as a shoemaker. The chaise swayed from side to side until it finally tipped over completely. Chichikov flopped hands and feet into the mud. Pavel Ivanovich was so angry that he promised Selifan to flog him.
A dog barking was heard from afar. The traveler ordered the horses to be driven. Pretty soon the britzka hit the fence with shafts. Chichikov knocked on the gate and asked for a lodging for the night. The hostess turned out to be a thrifty old woman
from small landowners who cry for crop failures, losses ... and meanwhile they collect a little money in motley bags ...
Chichikov apologized for his intrusion and asked if Sobakevich's estate was far away, to which the old woman replied that she had never heard such a name at all. She named several names of local landowners unfamiliar to Chichikov. The guest asked if there were rich people among them. Hearing that no, Pavel Ivanovich lost all interest in them.
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Waking up quite late the next morning, Chichikov saw the hostess peeping into his room. Having dressed and looking out the window, the traveler realized that the old woman's village was not small. Behind the master's garden one could see quite well-behaved peasant huts. Chichikov peered through the crack in the door. Seeing that the hostess was sitting at the tea table, with an affectionate air, he entered her. Starting a conversation, the uninvited guest found out that the name of the hostess was Nastasya Petrovna Korobochka. The collegiate secretary had nearly eighty souls. Chichikov began to question the hostess about dead souls. Nastasya Petrovna had eighteen of them. The guest asked if it was possible to buy the dead peasants. At first, the box was in complete bewilderment: is Pavel Ivanovich really going to dig them out of the ground? Chichikov explained that the souls would be registered with him only on paper.
At first the landowner was stubborn: the business seems to be profitable, but it is too new. The old woman, selling dead souls, was afraid of incurring a loss. Finally, with great difficulty, Chichikov persuaded his interlocutor to sell the dead peasants to her for fifteen banknotes. Having dined at Korobochka, Pavel Ivanovich ordered the britzka to be laid down. The yard girl escorted the travelers to the main road.
Name: Dead Souls
Genre: Poem
Duration:
Part 1: 10min 10sec
Part 2: 10min 00sec
Part 3: 9min 41sec
Annotation:
In Gogol's time, a Russian landowner could buy and sell serfs, or "souls," just like any other property. Serfs were counted every ten years for tax purposes. Thus, the landowner had to pay taxes for the serfs, who had already died, until the next census. In Dead Souls, in this prose novel, Gogol's character, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, plans to buy these "dead souls" and use them as collateral for a large loan. He arrives in a small provincial town and proposes to the local landowners. Someone is playing for time, someone refuses without visible reasons, some make promises, and then do not keep, while others agree to the implementation of the transaction. In the end, Chichikov, concluding that these stingy and petty landowners are hopeless, goes to other destinies.
In Dead Souls, Gogol shows Russian life as a mosaic of nonsense. His presence is felt in the novel, as he comments on everything that happens. The position of His commentator is very vacillating. Although he gives Russia such epithets as “the three fastest. .. rushes recklessly… inspired by the word of God” he himself seems stubborn and persistent, in his long-winded, mocking prose depicting a limited and superficial life.
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Chichikov could not recover for a long time after visiting Nozdryov. Selifan was also dissatisfied with the landowner, because the horses were not given oats. The britzka flew at full speed until it collided with a carriage with six horses and almost overhead came the cry of the ladies and the cursing of the coachman. Selifan, although he felt his mistake, nevertheless began to quarrel with a strange coachman.
At this time, the ladies sitting in the britzka - an old woman and a young fair-haired girl - watched everything that happened with fear. Chichikov stared at the sixteen-year-old beauty. Finally, they began to disperse, but the horses stood opposite each other as if rooted to the spot and did not want to disperse. They were taken up by men who had come running from a nearby village. While bred in different sides horses, Pavel Ivanovich looked at the young stranger and even wanted to talk to her, however, while he was getting ready, the carriage left, taking the beauty with it.
Since Chichikov had long since passed the age when they instantly fall in love, and then stand for a long time, seeing off their beloved with a suffering look, he ordered to go further. However, he thought about the stranger, deciding that she was good because she had just left the boarding house. Very little time will pass, and being in the care of various mothers and aunts, she will learn to lie and "finally will begin to lie all her life."
Soon the village of Sobakevich appeared, and Chichikov's thoughts returned to their usual subject. The estate was large, two forests stretched to the right and left - birch and pine. The house with a mezzanine looked like a military settlement of German colonists. The yard was surrounded by a thick wooden lattice. The landowner cared more about strength than about beauty. Even village houses were solid and durable, without any patterned decorations.
The owner himself outwardly resembled an average bear. Nature didn’t philosophize here for a long time: “she grabbed with an ax once - her nose came out, she grabbed another one - her lips came out, she poked her eyes with a large drill and, without scraping, let her out into the light, saying: “lives!”
Seeing the guest, Sobakevich briefly said: “Please!” - and led him to the inner chambers.
The master's living room was hung with paintings depicting Greek generals in full height. Chichikov met Sobakevich's wife, Feodulia Ivanovna, a tall lady, straight as a palm tree.
There was silence for about five minutes, after which the guest was the first to start talking about the chairman of the chamber, to which he heard in response that the chairman was "such a fool as the world did not produce."
Enumerating city officials, Sobakevich scolded each and each gave an unflattering definition. At dinner, the owner praised the dishes served and scolded the cuisine of other landowners and city officials.
Sobakevich tells Chichikov about Plyushkin, who has eight hundred souls, but lives and dines worse than any shepherd. Pavel Ivanovich learns that Sobakevich's neighbor is a rare miser, he starved all his peasants to death, while others ran away.
Carefully, the guest found out in which direction and where Plyushkin's estate was located.
After a hearty dinner, the host and guest retired to the living room, where Chichikov spoke about his business. Sobakevich quickly realized that the purchase of dead souls brought some benefit to the guest, so he immediately broke a hundred rubles per soul. When Pavel Ivanovich became indignant, the owner began to list the merits of each dead peasant. In the process of hard bargaining, they agreed on two rubles and a half for each soul. The guest asked for a list of the peasants he had bought, and Sobakevich, with his own hand, by name, indicating laudable qualities, began to copy the dead souls. When the note was ready, the owner demanded a deposit of fifty rubles from Chichikov. New friends again began to bargain and agreed on twenty-five rubles. Having received the money, Sobakevich looked at the banknotes for a long time and complained that one of them was old.
I had to linger, because the negligent coachman Selifan did not warn in time about the malfunction of the britzka. I had to wait five or six hours for the hastily found blacksmiths to repair it. When the chaise left the city very late, she had to wait out the funeral procession. A prosecutor was carried to the cemetery, the cause of whose death was unwittingly Chichikov himself. Now he drew down the curtains on the windows of the carriage and hid himself until the procession passed by.
Having passed the city barrier, the britzka rolled along high road. After two lyrical digressions - about this road and about unpleasant, but always alluring Rus' - Gogol introduces the reader to the biography, explaining the purpose of buying dead serfs.
Chichikov - main character"Dead Souls" by Gogol
Chichikov's father and mother were poor nobles who owned a single serf family. His sick parent did nothing, but only, shuffling, walked around the room and tore his son by the ear. Very young, Chichikov was taken from the village to an old relative in the city and sent to a school there. The father, parting with his son forever, advised him to please teachers and bosses and save a penny, because "this thing is more reliable than anything in the world, you can do everything and break everything in the world with a penny." (See Chichikov's childhood.)
Father's instruction sunk into the boy's soul. Not distinguished by outstanding talents, young Chichikov became the most exemplary student in the class in terms of behavior. Thanks to currying favor with teachers, he received an excellent certificate. Already at school, he showed a very inventive money-grubbing: having bought edibles on the market, he sat in the classroom next to those who were richer, and as soon as he noticed that a friend was hungry, he would stick out from under the bench, as if by chance, a corner of a gingerbread or a roll and take it by the hand. him money, according to his appetite.
Leaving the school, Chichikov entered the service in treasury chamber. At first, he was paid the lowest salary. But Chichikov managed to flatter himself with his elderly boss, who had an ugly, pockmarked daughter. Chichikov pretended to be ready to marry her. He even moved to the boss's house and began to call him daddy. The boss secured a promotion for him, but immediately after that Chichikov skillfully hushed up the matter of the wedding, as if there had been no talk of it.
The lively and cunning Chichikov began to quickly rise in ranks. Everywhere he mercilessly took bribes, but he did it covertly and deftly: he never accepted money from the petitioner himself, but only through subordinate clerks. Having joined the commission for the construction of one state-owned building, Chichikov managed things in such a way that this structure did not go beyond the foundation, and he and his associates acquired beautiful houses of their own.
The authorities, however, started up and sent a strict military man to them as a new chief. Chichikov involuntarily had to leave his bread place. He spent some time in low positions, but soon got a job in customs. Here he showed unheard-of quickness and truly canine instinct. No smuggler on the western frontier could fool him. Chichikov's talents were noticed here too. For a long time he showed complete incorruptibility. But when, satisfied with his success, his superiors made him the head of a team to fight against one large smuggling society, he entered into an agreement with him and began to facilitate the transportation of illegal goods, earning hundreds of thousands on this.
However, this enterprise of Chichikov was also upset due to the negligence of one assistant. With difficulty avoiding a criminal court, Chichikov lost almost everything he had, lost his place, and only with difficulty got a job as an attorney. Once one of his clients, a bankrupt landowner, decided to mortgage his ruined estate to the state board of trustees. On the security of the peasants, the treasury gave money - two hundred rubles per capita. Chichikov suddenly found out that his client would receive these amounts not only for living serfs, but also for the dead, because before the financial census (audit) conducted every few years, all peasants were formally listed as alive. In the fraudulent mind of Chichikov, the thought flashed: to travel around Russia, buying from the landlords at a cheap price, and where, out of friendship, taking for nothing, dead peasant souls. Then Chichikov hoped to pledge them in bulk, as if alive, to the board of trustees and get a rich jackpot.
Here is a summary of the 5th chapter of the work “Dead Souls” by N.V. Gogol.
A very brief summary of "Dead Souls" can be found, and the one below is quite detailed.
General content by chapter:
Chapter 5 - summary.
Chichikov could not recover for a long time after visiting Nozdryov. Selifan was also dissatisfied with the landowner, because the horses were not given oats. The britzka flew at full speed until it collided with a carriage with six horses and almost overhead came the cry of the ladies and the cursing of the coachman. Selifan, although he felt his mistake, nevertheless began to quarrel with a strange coachman.
At this time, the ladies sitting in the britzka - an old woman and a young fair-haired girl - watched everything that happened with fear. Chichikov stared at the sixteen-year-old beauty. Finally, they began to disperse, but the horses stood opposite each other as if rooted to the spot and did not want to disperse. They were taken up by men who had come running from a nearby village. While the different sides of the horses were being bred, Pavel Ivanovich looked at the young stranger and even wanted to talk to her, however, while he was getting ready, the carriage left, taking the beauty with it.
Since Chichikov had long since passed the age when they instantly fall in love, and then stand for a long time, seeing off their beloved with a suffering look, he ordered to go further. However, he thought about the stranger, deciding that she was good because she had just left the boarding house. Very little time will pass, and being in the care of various mothers and aunts, she will learn to lie and " will finally lie all his life ».
Soon the village of Sobakevich appeared, and Chichikov's thoughts returned to their usual subject. The estate was large, two forests stretched to the right and left - birch and pine. The house with a mezzanine looked like a military settlement of German colonists. The yard was surrounded by thick wooden lattice. The landowner cared more about strength than about beauty. Even village houses were solid and solid, without any patterned decorations.
The owner himself outwardly resembled an average bear. Nature did not philosophize here for long:
she grabbed with an ax once - her nose came out, she grabbed another one - her lips came out, she poked her eyes with a large drill and, without scraping, let her out into the light, saying: “he lives!”
Seeing the guest, Sobakevich briefly said: “Please!” - and led him to the inner chambers.
The master's living room was hung with paintings depicting full-length Greek generals. Chichikov met Sobakevich's wife, Feodulia Ivanovna, a tall lady, straight as a palm tree.
There was silence for about five minutes, after which the guest was the first to start talking about the chairman of the chamber, to which he heard in response that the chairman “ such a fool as the light did not produce».
Enumerating city officials, Sobakevich scolded each and each gave an unflattering definition. At dinner, the owner praised the dishes served and scolded the cuisine of other landowners and city officials.
Sobakevich tells Chichikov about Plyushkin, who has eight hundred souls, but lives and dines worse than any shepherd. Pavel Ivanovich learns that Sobakevich's neighbor is a rare miser, he starved all his peasants to death, while others ran away.
Carefully, the guest found out in which direction and where Plyushkin's estate was located.
After a hearty dinner, the host and guest retired to the living room, where Chichikov spoke about his business. Sobakevich quickly realized that the purchase of dead souls brought some benefit to the guest, so he immediately broke a hundred rubles per soul. When Pavel Ivanovich became indignant, the owner began to list the merits of each dead peasant. In the process of hard bargaining, they agreed on two rubles and a half for each soul. The guest asked for a list of the peasants he had bought, and Sobakevich, with his own hand, by name, indicating laudable qualities, began to copy the dead souls. When the note was ready, the owner demanded a deposit of fifty rubles from Chichikov. New friends again began to bargain and agreed on twenty-five rubles. Having received the money, Sobakevich looked at the banknotes for a long time and complained that one of them was old.
Leaving Sobakevich, Pavel Ivanovich was dissatisfied that he had to give so much money for the dead peasants. He ordered Selifan to go to Plyushkin's estate.
