5 short sentences of the story soldier's overcoat

1. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin- a petty official who is engaged in rewriting documents. Quiet, very inconspicuous, over 50 years old. He has no family or friends. Very passionate about his work.

Other heroes

1. Petrovich- former serf Gregory, now a tailor. Bashmachkin turns to him for help. Likes to drink, has a wife. Respects old customs.
2. significant person- a person who has recently gained weight in society. He acts arrogant to make himself look bigger.

Acquaintance with the quiet modest Akaky Akakievich

The titular adviser was not lucky even when choosing a name on the day he was born, all the names were strange. As the mother did not try to find the right one for her son in the Saints, it did not work out. Then they decided to name him in honor of his father - Akakiy. Even then it became clear that he would be a titular adviser.

Bashmachkin rented an apartment in a poor area of ​​St. Petersburg, because he could not afford more on his salary. He led a modest life, he had no friends, no family either. The main place in his life was occupied by work. Yes, and on it, Akaki Akakievich could not distinguish himself in any way. Colleagues laughed at him, and he, being a very modest and quiet man, could not answer them in any way, he only quietly asked when they would stop offending him. But Bashmachkin loved his work very much.

Even at home, he was engaged in work - he diligently rewrote something, lovingly treated every letter. Falling asleep, he continued to think about his papers. But when he was given a more difficult task - to correct the shortcomings in the documents himself, poor Akaky Akakievich did not succeed. He asked that he not be given such work. Since then, he has been engaged only in rewriting.

The need for a new overcoat

Bashmachkin always wore old, patched, shabby clothes. He had the same overcoat. And he would not even have thought to buy a new one if it had not come extreme cold. He had to go to Petrovich, a former serf, and now a tailor. And Grigory said terrible news for Akaki - the old overcoat cannot be repaired, it is necessary to buy a new one. And he asked for a very large amount for Akaky Akakievich. Poor Bashmachkin thought all the way what to do.

He knew that the tailor was a drinker and decided to come to him when he was in a suitable condition. Akaki Akakievich buys him alcohol and persuades him to make him a new overcoat for 80 rubles. The adviser had half the amount: thanks to his savings, he managed to save from his salary. And in order to collect for the rest, he decided to live even more modestly.

Holiday in honor of the overcoat

Akaky Akakievich had to save a lot in order to save the required amount. But he was encouraged by the thought of a new greatcoat, and he often went to the tailor and consulted on tailoring. Finally, she was ready, and Bashmachkin, happy, went to work. Such simple thing how the new overcoat became the most significant event in his life. Colleagues appreciated his renovation, they said that now he has become much more respectable appearance. Embarrassed by the praise, Akaky Akakievich was very pleased with the purchase.

He was offered to put down in honor of this event. This put the adviser in a difficult position - he had no money. But he was rescued by a significant person who arranged a holiday in honor of his name day, to which Akaki Akakievich was also invited. At the celebration, at first everyone continued to discuss the overcoat, but after that everyone went about their business. Bashmachkin for the first time in his life allowed himself to relax and rest. But he still left before everyone else, inspired by his new position and overcoat.

The loss of the overcoat and the mysterious events associated with it

But on the way home, two people attacked the adviser and took away his new clothes. Akaky Akakievich was shocked and the next day he went to the police to write a statement. But they did not listen to him and the poor adviser left with nothing. At work they laughed at him, but he was found a kind person who felt sorry for him. He advised me to contact a significant person.

Bashmachkin went to the chief, but he shouted at the poor man and did not help him. So, the adviser had to walk in an old overcoat. Because of severe frosts, Akaki Akakievich fell ill and died. They learned about his death a few days later, when they came to him from work to find out why he was gone. Nobody mourned for him.

But strange things began to happen. They said that late in the evening, a ghost appears and takes away the overcoat from all passers-by. Everyone was sure that this was Akaky Akakievich. Once a significant person went to rest and a ghost attacked him and demanded to give his overcoat. Since then, a significant person, began to behave much kinder and more humble with subordinates.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - one of the world's most famous life stories of the "little man".

The story that happened to Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin begins with a story about his birth and his bizarre name and proceeds to a story about his service as a titular adviser.

Many young officials, chuckling, fix him up, shower him with papers, push him under the arm, and only when he is completely unbearable, he says: “Leave me, why are you offending me?” in a pitiful voice. Akaky Akakiyevich, whose job it is to copy papers, does it with love and, even coming out of his presence and having hastily sipped his own, takes out a jar of ink and copies the papers brought home, and if there are none, he purposely makes a copy for himself from some document with an intricate address. Entertainment, the pleasures of friendship do not exist for him, "having written to his heart's content, he went to bed," with a smile anticipating tomorrow's rewriting.

However, this regularity of life is violated by an unforeseen incident. One morning, after repeated suggestions made by the Petersburg frost, Akaky Akakievich, having studied his greatcoat (so lost in appearance that the department had long called it a bonnet), notices that it is completely transparent on the shoulders and back. He decides to carry her to the tailor Petrovich, whose habits and biography are briefly, but not without detail, outlined. Petrovich examines the hood and declares that nothing can be fixed, but a new overcoat will have to be made. Shocked by the price Petrovich had named, Akaky Akakievich decides that he has chosen a bad time, and comes when, according to calculations, Petrovich is hungover, and therefore more accommodating. But Petrovich stands his ground. Seeing that you can’t do without a new overcoat,

Akaky Akakievich is trying to figure out how to get those eighty rubles for which, in his opinion, Petrovich will get down to business. He decides to reduce the “ordinary costs”: not to drink tea in the evenings, not to light candles, to walk on tiptoe so as not to wear out the soles prematurely, to give the laundry to the laundry less often, and in order not to wear out, stay at home in one dressing gown.

His life changes completely: the dream of an overcoat accompanies him, like a pleasant friend of life. Every month he visits Petrovich to talk about the overcoat. The expected reward for the holiday, against expectations, turns out to be twenty rubles more, and one day Akaky Akakievich and Petrovich go to the shops. And the cloth, and the calico on the lining, and the cat on the collar, and the work of Petrovich - everything turns out to be beyond praise, and, in view of the onset of frost, Akaki Akakievich one day goes to the department in a new overcoat. This event does not go unnoticed, everyone praises the overcoat and demands that Akaky Akakievich set the evening on such an occasion, and only the intervention of a certain official (as if on purpose a birthday man), who called everyone for tea, saves the embarrassed Akaky Akakievich.

After a day that was like a great solemn holiday for him, Akaky Akakiyevich returns home, has a merry dinner, and, having sat idle without work, goes to the official in a distant part of the city. Again everyone praises his overcoat, but soon they turn to whist, dinner, champagne. Forced to do the same, Akaky Akakievich feels unusual joy, but, mindful of the late hour, slowly goes home. Excited at first, he even rushes after some lady (“whose every part of her body was full of unusual movement”), but the deserted streets that soon stretch out inspire him with involuntary fear. In the middle of a huge deserted square, some people with mustaches stop him and take off his overcoat.

The misadventures of Akaky Akakievich begin. He does not find help from a private bailiff. In the presence, where he comes a day later in his old hood, they pity him and even think of making a clubbing, but, having collected a mere trifle, they give advice to go to a significant person, which can contribute to a more successful search for an overcoat. The following describes the methods and customs of a significant person who has become significant only recently, and therefore preoccupied with how to give himself greater significance: “Strictness, severity and - severity,” he usually used to say.

Wanting to impress his friend, whom he had not seen for many years, he cruelly scolds Akaky Akakievich, who, in his opinion, addressed him out of form. Not feeling his legs, he gets to the house and falls down with a strong fever. A few days of unconsciousness and delirium - and Akaky Akakievich dies, which is only found out in the department on the fourth day after the funeral. Soon it becomes known that at night near the Kalinkin bridge a dead man appears, ripping off everyone's overcoat, without disassembling the rank and rank. Someone recognizes Akaki Akakievich in him. The efforts made by the police to catch the dead man are in vain.

At that time, one significant person, who is not alien to compassion, having learned that Bashmachkin died suddenly, remains terribly shocked by this and, in order to have some fun, goes to a friendly party, from where he goes not home, but to the familiar lady Karolina Ivanovna, and, in the midst of terrible weather, he suddenly feels that someone has grabbed him by the collar. In horror, he recognizes Akaky Akakievich, who triumphantly pulls off his overcoat. Pale and frightened, a significant person returns home and no longer scolds his subordinates with severity. The appearance of the dead official has since completely ceased, and the ghost that met a little later the Kolomna guard was already much taller and wore an enormous mustache.

The material was provided by the Internet portal briefly.ru, compiled by E. V. Kharitonova

Retelling plan

1. Characteristics of Akaky Akakievich.
2. Akaki Akakievich orders himself a new overcoat.
3. The robbers take off the overcoat from the poor official.
4. Akaki Akakievich is looking for the truth from a private bailiff, from a general.
5. An official dies of grief.
6. The ghost of an official scares passers-by.

retelling

One official served in one department: short, somewhat pockmarked, somewhat reddish, short-sighted ... He was what is called the eternal titular adviser. The surname of the official was Bashmachkin. His name was Akaky Akakievich. At the baptism, "he wept and made such a grimace, as if he had a presentiment that there would be a titular adviser." For many years he held one position - an official for writing. No one at work respected him, the young "laughed and made fun of him." Akaky Akakievich was an unrequited man. “Only if the joke was too unbearable, he said: “Leave me, why do you offend me?” “In these penetrating words, other words rang: “I am your brother.” Akaky Akakievich served "zealously ... with love", he even had his own favorite letters. He could do nothing but mechanically rewrite documents.

Akaky Akakievich lived in poverty: he dressed poorly, ate dinner "with flies and with everything that God did not send ...", did not allow himself any entertainment. "Having written to his heart's content, he went to bed, smiling in advance at the thought of tomorrow: Will God send something to be rewritten tomorrow? He "knew how to be satisfied with his lot." Everything would be fine if it were not for the cold: his old overcoat, the subject of ridicule of his comrades, was worn out. “The cloth was so worn out that it was seething, and the lining was falling apart.” Akaky Akakiyevich took the overcoat to the tailor, but he refused to remake it: “it’s completely rotten” and advised him to sew a new one. For Akaky Akakiyevich, the amount of one and a half hundred rubles was unthinkable: “This is such a thing, I really didn’t think that it would come out like that ...” How much money to make an overcoat? “Petrovich will undertake to do it for eighty rubles; but where do you get them from? Bashmachkin used to set aside a penny from each ruble, for several years "more than forty rubles" had accumulated. He decided to save on everything: he learned not to light candles, to walk on tiptoe so as not to wear out his shoes, to starve in the evenings ... "but he ate spiritually, carrying in his thoughts the eternal idea of ​​​​a future greatcoat." “From now on, it was as if his very existence had become fuller, as if he had married; somehow became more alive, even firmer in character, like a man who had already defined and set himself a goal. Finally the money was collected. Bashmachkin, together with the tailor, bought cloth, calico for lining (instead of silk) and a cat for collar (instead of marten). Two weeks later, the overcoat was ready, "just right." The tailor solemnly dressed Akaky Akakievich and even ran after him to once again admire his work.

"Akaky Akakievich walked in the most festive disposition of all feelings." In the department, all the colleagues came running to look at the new overcoat; they persuaded Akaky Akakievich to "splash" a new thing. One official invited everyone to his place. In the evening Akaky Akakievich went to see him in a new overcoat. He felt uncomfortable, bored and tried to quietly leave. On the way home, he was beaten and his overcoat was taken away. "Desperate, not tired of screaming, he set off to run across the square to the booth." But the watchman replied that he had not seen how Akaky Akakievich was robbed, and sent him to the warder. In the morning, on the advice of the landlady, he went to a private bailiff, hardly got an appointment, but realized that there was little hope of returning the overcoat. A colleague advised me to contact one significant person. Akaky Akakievich decided to go. The “ordinary conversation” of a significant person “with the lower ones resounded with severity and consisted of almost three phrases: “How dare you? Do you know who you are talking to? Do you understand who is standing in front of you? However, he was a kind person at heart, but the rank of general completely confused him. Seeing the humble appearance of Bashmachkin, his old uniform, the general shouted at the official, stamped his feet and put him out. Frightened Akaki Akakievich caught a cold on the way home, lay in a fever and soon died. Only a bunch of goose feathers, white government paper, three pairs of socks, two or three buttons torn off the pantaloons, and an old uniform were left of the inheritance. “And Petersburg was left without Akaky Akakievich, as if he had never been in it. A creature disappeared and disappeared, protected by no one, dear to no one, not interesting to anyone. The department realized it only on the fourth day. But who would have thought that Akaky Akakievich was destined to "live noisily for several days after his death, as if as a reward for a life not noticed by anyone." Rumors swept through St. Petersburg that at Kalinkin Bridge began to appear at night "... a dead man in the form of an official looking for some kind of stolen overcoat." Someone recognized Akaky Akakievich in the dead man. The dead official began to instill considerable fear in all timid people, pulling off his greatcoats at night.

After the visit of Akaky Akakiyevich, the general felt something like regret, sent to him and learned about his death. He was somewhat upset, but quickly dispelled at a friend's party. One day he was riding in a sleigh and suddenly felt that someone grabbed him by the collar. “Not without horror,” the general recognized Akaky Akakievich, who said: “I need your overcoat!” The terribly frightened general "he even quickly threw off his overcoat from his shoulders." “Since then, the appearance of the “dead official” has completely ceased: it is clear that the general’s overcoat fell completely on his shoulders.