Red scroll. "Sorochinsky Fair", analysis of Gogol's story

Gogol's story "The Sorochinskaya Fair", a summary of which you will read today, is included in the collection "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". This is Gogol's first book. She left in 1831. It consists of mystical stories, many of which are filled with colorful Ukrainian humor. So, the story of Nikolai Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair" is briefly described below.

Sorochinskiy Fair

Warm August summer day in Little Russia. Since early morning, wagons with goods have been dragging along the road - people are going to the Sorochinskaya fair. A little further away from this line, the convoy of the peasant Solopy Cherevik slowly rides. A pretty girl, Solopiy's daughter, is sitting on the cart. She attracts the attention of many young men. Next to Paraska, her stepmother Khavronya, an evil and scandalous woman, was placed on the wagon train.

One of the lads, a smartly dressed young man, compliments Paraska, but immediately calls her stepmother sitting next to her a witch. The laughter of others and the curses of Khavronya are carried for kilometers ahead. In the meantime, the train is moving on...

Incident at the market

Paraska is walking with her father at the fair. Here her attention is seized by the very beautiful young man. He whispers sweet words of love to her.

And Solopiy accidentally hears a conversation between two peasants: they say there will be no trade this year. In an abandoned barn under the mountain, evil spirits nestled. The devil is looking for pieces of his red scroll. That is why not a single Sorochinsky Fair passes without trouble at this place.

But then Solopiy sees how some fellow is embracing Paraska, and is distracted from the conversation. The lad turns out to be the son of his old friend - Golopupenok. Men go to a tavern (tavern) and, having drunk, agree on the wedding of lovers. Solopiy is greatly impressed by the way the lad drinks a mug of beer without even frowning.

However, when Cherevik breaks the news to his wife, she does not share his enthusiasm. She accuses her husband of stupidity and forbids the wedding. She accuses her husband of having found a drinking buddy. Solopius has to obey.

Conspiracy against Cherevik

The next chapter of the "Sorochinsky Fair", a summary of which we are considering, tells about Gritsk. That is the name of the son of Golopupenko. The young man is visibly upset that Cherevik did not keep his word. At this moment, a gypsy approaches him with an offer to buy oxen "for twenty". But Gritsk is not up to it - he is in love. Then the cunning gypsy offers him a deal - he makes Solopiy get married, and the lad sells oxen to him. Gritsko promises that he will give the oxen "for fifteen" if the gypsy does not lie.

Guests in Cherevika's hut

At this time, Khavronya Nikiforovna receives priest Afanasy Ivanovich in the hut. He fell into nettles while trying to climb over the fence. The woman tries to cajole the victim in every possible way. She serves him food, but the priest admits that he craves sweeter food from the incomparable Khavronya - her love ...

However, the lovers are interrupted by the sudden appearance of Solopiy with a whole company of guests. In the evening he went to spend the night under the wagons so that the goods would not be stolen. The guests are already pretty drunk - Solopiy drove past the house several times before he found his own hut. With him is his daughter, godfather Tsybulya and his wife, and several visiting men.

Khavronya, having hidden the priest in a niche with all the utensils, cordially greets the guests. And Solopiy finally decides to ask what kind of red scroll he heard about the day before. Terrible rumors are circulating around the village, but Cherevik still does not know anything! And he hears a mystical story from godfather Tsybuli.

About the red sweater...

This chapter of the "Sorochinsky Fair" in a summary (for the reader's diary) tells the legend of the magical red scroll.

They once expelled one devil from hell for some kind of guilt. What he did wrong is unknown. He left hell and settled in a dilapidated barn. And he became so bored in hell, even climb into the noose. He began to get drunk with grief. The devil has become such a reveler, which you will not find among the lads. From morning till night he sat in a tavern owned by an old Jew.

Finally, he drank everything he had with him. There were debts in the shinkarna. He had to pawn his red scroll. He promised the shopkeeper that he would return in a year for a scroll - and disappeared. Shinkar looked at the beautiful cloth from which the scroll was sewn, and decided that the deal was successful.

Forgetting about the deadline, the Jew quickly sold the scroll to some visiting pan. He slipped the goods to the gypsies. So the scroll returned to the Sorochinsky fair. But since then no one has bought anything from merchants. They managed to sell the scroll to some gullible man, who soon discovered that this thing was unclean. He chopped it into small pieces, but the pieces of cloth climbed into each other. Out of fright, he chopped the scroll again and scattered it all over the fair.

The devil, having visited the tavern and scared the Jew to death, got him to confess that the scroll had been sold. But the Jew no longer knows where she is. Since then, the devil has been walking around the villages, collecting parts of his lost scroll.

The guests gathered at the table become noticeably uncomfortable.

"Heck!"

And then a grunt is heard in the house. This is Afanasy Ivanovich having fun, who is buried in a niche. Barely alive with fear, Khavronya shames the peasants for their cowardice, says that it was under her that the bench creaked.

But suddenly a real panic begins in the hut - a window breaks and a terrible pig's mug looks into it. The guests scatter in all directions. Cherevik, distraught with horror, run into the field with heart-rending cries: "Damn!". It seems to him that something heavy is running after him ... He loses consciousness from fatigue and fear. And he feels like something heavy is falling on him.

The gypsies who were sleeping on the street heard the screams and went in search of its source. A man was lying on the street, and his wife, Khavronya, fell from above...

I stole from myself

The next chapter of the story "Sorochinsky Fair" briefly tells about the cunning of the gypsies.

Solopy and Khivrya wake up in the hut of godfather Tsybuli. The wife drives the lazy Cherevik to the fair to sell the mare, giving him a washcloth. The towel turns out to be the red cuff of the scroll. The couple are scared. Cherevik grumbles that there will be no sale that day. However, he dutifully takes the horse by the bridle and leads him to the bazaar.

On the way, he is blocked by gypsies. He asks what Solopy is selling. He turns to the mare, but finds that he is holding a bridle with a sleeve of a red scroll tied to it. Solopiy drops the bridle and tries to run away.

But Solopiy cannot run away far. He is grabbed by several hefty fellows, shouting that they have caught the thief. They tie him up and put him in a barn. It turns out that he is accused of kidnapping the mare Solopiy Cherevik. “Where has it been seen that a person stole something from himself?”, - the man is surprised.

Tsybulya's bound godfather turns out to be nearby. He was caught running around the fairground screaming in terror. Kum says that instead of tobacco, he pulled out a piece of a red scroll from his pocket. This incredibly frightened Tsybulya, and he started to run, not making out the road. But he was caught and accused of theft.

Golopupenko's son, as if by chance, enters the barn. Seeing the deplorable state of a potential father-in-law, he promises to help. But he takes a promise from Cherevik to arrange a wedding between them and Paraska. The frightened Solopiy agrees. The lads immediately release a couple of "thieves". It turns out that Cherevik's horse is already waiting for him at home.

The gypsies are happy - the oxen now belong to them.

Wedding

The next chapter of the "Sorochinsky Fair", a summary of which we are discussing, talks about Parask. The girl sadly recalls the handsome young man who she liked so much. She starts a song about love, at that moment Solopy returns to the hut and starts dancing with her. On the street, a happy groom is already waiting for the girl.

Khavronya comes. Hearing about the wedding, she tries to make a scandal, but she is pushed back by a couple of fellows. The wedding begins, everyone is happy. However, Gogol notes that the end of fun, love and life itself is inevitable. This pessimistic note will be even more noticeable in his future works.

Even in brief, "Sorochinsky Fair" is a very fun and interesting work. It is filled with a special Gogolian humour, affable and friendly, like Ukraine itself.

This story begins with a description of the delightful luxuries of a summer day in Little Russia. Among the beauties of the August afternoon, carts filled with goods are moving, and pedestrians are moving to the fair in the town of Sorochinets. Behind one of the wagons, loaded not only with hemp and sacks of wheat (for on top of that, a black-browed maiden and her evil stepmother are sitting here), the owner, Solopiy Cherevik, exhausted by the heat, wanders. As soon as he entered the bridge thrown over Psel, he attracted the attention of local lads, and one of them, “dressed more ostentatiously than the others”, admiring the pretty Paraska, started a squabble with an evil-speaking stepmother. However, having arrived at the godfather, the Cossack Tsybula, the travelers forget this adventure for a while, and Cherevik and his daughter soon set off for the fair. Here, pushing between the wagons, he learns that the fair has been assigned a “cursed place”, they are afraid of the appearance of a red scroll, and there were sure signs of this. But no matter how concerned Cherevik is about the fate of his wheat, the sight of Paraska embracing the old lad returns him to "the former carelessness." However, the resourceful young man, calling himself Golopupenko's son and using his old friendship, leads Cherevik to the tent, and after several mugs the wedding is already agreed. However, upon Cherevik's return home, his formidable wife does not approve of this turn of events, and Cherevik backs down. A certain gypsy, trading with the saddened Gritsko oxen, not entirely disinterestedly undertakes to help him.

Soon “a strange incident happened at the fair”: a red scroll appeared, and many saw it. That is why Cherevik with his godfather and daughter, who were going to spend the night under the wagons, hurriedly return home in the company of frightened guests, and Khavronya Nikiforovna, his formidable cohabitant, who hitherto delighted the hospitality of her priest Afanasy Ivanovich, is forced to hide him on boards under the very ceiling among all household utensils. and sit at the common table like on pins and needles. At the request of Cherevik, the godfather tells the story of the red scroll - how the devil was expelled from hell for some offense, how he drank from grief, nesting in a barn under the mountain, drank everything he had in a tavern, and pawned his red scroll, threatening to come for her in a year. The greedy shopkeeper forgot about the deadline and sold a prominent scroll to some passing pan, and when the devil appeared, he pretended that he had never seen him before. The devil left, but the evening prayer of the tavern keeper was interrupted by pig snouts suddenly appearing in all the windows. Terrible pigs, “on legs as long as stilts,” treated him with whips until he confessed to deception. However, the scrolls could not be returned: the gypsies robbed the pan on the way, sold the scroll to a repurchase, and she again brought it to the Sorochinsky Fair, but the trade did not work for her. Realizing that the matter was in the scroll, she threw it into the fire, but the scroll did not burn, and the repurchase slipped the “damn gift” onto someone else's cart. The new owner got rid of the scroll only when, having crossed himself, chopped it into pieces, scattered it around and left. But since then, every year during the fair, the devil "with a pig's face" is looking for pieces of his scroll, and now only the left sleeve is missing from him. At this point in the story, which was repeatedly interrupted by strange sounds, a window was broken, "and a terrible pig's face was exposed."

Everything was mixed up in the hut: the priest "with thunder and crash" fell, the godfather crawled under the hem of his wife, and Cherevik, grabbing a pot instead of a hat, rushed out and soon fell exhausted in the middle of the road. In the morning, the fair, although it is full of terrible rumors about the red scroll, is still noisy, and Cherevik, who already in the morning came across the red cuff of the scroll, grumbling, leads the mare for sale. But, noticing that a piece of a red sleeve was tied to the bridle and rushing to run in horror, Cherevik, suddenly seized by the lads, is accused of stealing his own mare and, along with the godfather who turned up, who fled from the devilry he had imagined, was tied up and thrown on the straw into the barn. Here both godfathers, mourning their fate, are found by Golopupenkov's son. Having reprimanded Paraska to himself, he frees the slaves and sends Solopiy home, where not only a miraculously acquired mare is waiting for him, but also buyers of her and wheat. And although the frantic stepmother tries to interfere with the merry wedding, soon everyone is dancing, and even the dilapidated old women, who, however, are not carried away by general joy, but only by hops.

This story begins with a description of the splendor of a summer day in Little Russia. The young beautiful girl Paraska, together with her father Solopiy (Cherevik) and the evil stepmother Khavronya Nikiforovna, go to the city of Sorochinets to the fair to sell wheat and a mare. At the fair, the beautiful Paraska was spotted by the lad Gritsko, which caused discontent of the evil-speaking stepmother. A quarrel arose between them and Khavronya received a lump of dirt from a guy in an ochipok (bonnet).

Despite the conflict with the girl's stepmother, Gritsko intends to marry Paraska in any way. Posing as Golopupenko's son, the guy lures Cherevik into a tent with a lot of alcohol. The men drank heavily, and it was agreed on the wedding with Paraska. However, the stepmother, having reminded her husband of Gritsk's misconduct, makes a scandal and forbids the wedding.

A rogue gypsy came to the aid of the saddened guy, who bargained with him for oxen. The gypsy suggested using the rumors that the place of the fair was inhabited by evil spirits, and in return, Gritsko should sell the oxen cheaper. It was about a "red scroll" supposedly left in one of the taverns by the devil, which was then sold by the tavern to some pan. When the devil came back for her, she was gone, and supposedly he is still looking for her. It was said that if the scroll was cut into pieces, they would join together wherever they were.

In the evening, having escorted her husband out of the house, Khavronya invites the priest to her place, but the unexpected return of her husband with Kum and guests disrupts all plans. Popovich was hastily hidden in the attic, and the woman, as if on pins and needles, had to sit at the table with the guests. The conversation around the table turned to the red scroll. Only under the hops did everyone calm down, as Kum again spoke about evil spirits. Suddenly, a pig's snout appeared in the windows of the hut, which overtook everyone in panic and fear. These were the tricks of the Gypsy.

The next day, Cherevik was frightened by the fact that instead of a mare for sale, he found the sleeve of the same scroll tied to a bridle. In addition, according to the cunning plan of the Gypsy, he, along with the godfather, was tied up and accused of stealing a mare, the very one that belonged to him. Gritsko came to the aid of the men. A stolen mare and a buyer for wheat were waiting for Cherevik at home. As a reward for saving the guy receives Solopiy's consent to the wedding with his daughter. And although the evil stepmother tries to interfere with the wedding, she fails.

The book makes fun of ignorance and greed, which never lead to anything good. "Sorochinsky Fair" is a wonderful lesson that you should always achieve your goals by any means.

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The story Sorochinskaya Fair was written in 1829 by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1831. This story is part of the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, which became the writer's first book. The action in the story Sorochinskaya Fair develops in the homeland of Nikolai Gogol in the village of Velikie Sorochintsy, Poltava region.

It is interesting that the manuscript of the story The Sorochinskaya Fair itself consists of four separate sheets of gray paper (16 pages in total), which are completely filled with autographic text in ink. And the title and date at the end are marked with a pencil by someone else's hand.

Read below a summary of the story Sorochinskaya Fair.

This story begins with a description of the delightful luxuries of a summer day in Little Russia. Among the beauties of the August afternoon, carts filled with goods are moving, and pedestrians are moving to the fair in the town of Sorochinets. Behind one of the wagons, loaded not only with hemp and sacks of wheat (because on top of that, a black-browed maiden and her evil stepmother are sitting here), the owner, Solopy Cherevik, exhausted by the heat, wanders. As soon as he entered the bridge thrown over Psel, he attracted the attention of local lads, and one of them, “dressed more ostentatiously than the others”, admiring the pretty Paraska, started a squabble with an evil-speaking stepmother. However, having arrived at the godfather, the Cossack Tsybula, the travelers forget this adventure for a while, and Cherevik and his daughter soon set off for the fair. Here, pushing between the wagons, he learns that the fair has been assigned a “cursed place”, they are afraid of the appearance of a red scroll, and there were sure signs of this. But no matter how concerned Cherevik is about the fate of his wheat, the sight of Paraska embracing the old lad returns him to "the former carelessness." However, the resourceful lad, calling himself Golopupenko's son and using his old friendship, leads Cherevik to the tent, and after several mugs the wedding is already agreed. However, when Cherevik returns home, his formidable wife does not approve of this turn of events, and Cherevik backs down. A certain gypsy, trading with the saddened Gritsko oxen, not quite disinterestedly undertakes to help him.

Soon “a strange incident happened at the fair”: a red scroll appeared, and many saw it. That is why Cherevik with his godfather and daughter, who were going to spend the night under the wagons, hurriedly return home in the company of frightened guests, and Khavronya Nikiforovna, his formidable cohabitant, who hitherto delighted the hospitality of her priest Afanasy Ivanovich, is forced to hide him on boards under the very ceiling among all household utensils. and sit at the common table like on pins and needles. At the request of Cherevik, the godfather tells the story of the red scroll - how the devil was expelled from hell for some offense, how he drank from grief, nesting in a barn under the mountain, drank everything he had in a tavern, and pawned his red scroll, threatening to come for her in a year. The greedy shopkeeper forgot about the deadline and sold a prominent scroll to some passing pan, and when the devil appeared, he pretended that he had never seen him before. The devil was gone, but the evening prayer of the tavern keeper was interrupted by pig snouts suddenly appearing in all the windows. Terrible pigs, “on legs as long as stilts,” treated him with whips until he confessed to deception. However, the scrolls could not be returned: the gypsies robbed the pan on the way, sold the scroll to a repurchase, and she again brought it to the Sorochinsky Fair, but the trade did not work for her. Realizing that the matter was in the scroll, she threw it into the fire, but the scroll did not burn, and the repurchase slipped the "damn gift" into someone else's cart. The new owner got rid of the scroll only when, having crossed himself, chopped it into pieces, scattered it around and left. But since then, every year during the fair, the devil "with a pig's face" is looking for pieces of his scroll, and now only the left sleeve is missing from him. At this point in the story, which was repeatedly interrupted by strange sounds, a window was broken, "and a terrible pig's face was exposed."

Everything was mixed up in the hut: the priest "with thunder and crash" fell, the godfather crawled under the hem of his wife, and Cherevik, grabbing a pot instead of a hat, rushed out and soon fell exhausted in the middle of the road. In the morning, the fair, although it is full of terrible rumors about the red scroll, is still noisy, and Cherevik, who already in the morning came across the red cuff of the scroll, grumbling, leads the mare for sale. But, noticing that a piece of a red sleeve was tied to the bridle and rushing to run in horror, Cherevik, suddenly seized by the lads, is accused of stealing his own mare and, along with the godfather who turned up, who fled from the devilry he had imagined, was tied up and thrown on the straw into the barn. Here both godfathers, mourning their fate, are found by Golopupenkov's son. Having reprimanded Paraska to himself, he frees the slaves and sends Solopiy home, where not only the miraculously found mare, but also the buyers of her and wheat are waiting for him. And although the frantic stepmother tries to interfere with the merry wedding, soon everyone is dancing, and even the dilapidated old women, who, however, are not carried away by general joy, but only by hops.

At the beginning of the story, a description of the midday beauties of the end of summer in Little Russia. On the way, carts loaded with goods are moving to the fair in Sorochinets, and many people go there on foot. A black-browed girl, Paraska, and her evil stepmother, are sitting on one of the wagons, and the owner, Solopy Cherevik, weary of the heat, is walking behind. Local fellows pay attention to the cart when it enters the bridge over the Psel River. One of them, dressed richer and brighter, starts a quarrel with his stepmother and admires the pretty Paraska.

The incident is forgotten when the travelers arrive at the godfather - the Cossack Tsybula. Cherevik and his daughter will soon go to the fair, pushing among the people Cherevik learns that the fair is deployed in a “cursed place” and everyone is afraid of the appearance of a red scroll, which was already a sure sign. Cherevik fears for the brought wheat, but when he sees Paraska embracing with a young fellow, he returns to a good mood. Well done is called Golopupenkov's son and taking Cherevik to the tent, he quickly agrees on the wedding after a few mugs. His wife is against the wedding, Cherevik yields to her. Gritsko is saddened, he is taken (not for nothing) to help a gypsy who bought oxen from him.

Soon there is a commotion at the fair, many have seen the red scroll. Cherevik with his godfather and daughter, change their minds about spending the night under the carts, hurriedly go home along with frightened guests. Khavronya Nikiforovna, who did not expect the return of her husband, hastily hides her lover, priest Afanasy Ivanovich, on boards to the very ceiling and sits at the table as if on pins and needles. Kum undertakes to tell the story of the red scroll: the devil was expelled from hell for some kind of offense, he drank with grief, drank everything and pawned the red scroll, with a promise to return for it in a year. The greedy tavern keeper forgot about the deadline, sold the scroll to a passing pan, and when the devil came, he pretended that he had never seen him.

The devil left, but in the evening he interrupted the prayer of the tavern keeper, terrible pigs appeared to him on legs as long as stilts, they treated him with a whip until he confessed. The scroll was lost, the gypsy stole the scroll from the pan and sold it to a dealer who brought it to the fair in Sorochinets. Trade did not go well for her, she realized that the matter was in the scroll and threw it into the fire, but the scroll did not burn down, and the dealer threw it on someone else's cart. The new owner chopped the scroll into pieces with a prayer, scattered the pieces around and left. Since then, every year, the pig-faced devil has been looking for pieces of his scroll at the fair, he only has to find the left sleeve. The story was interrupted several times by strange sounds, and at the end the window was broken, the pig's snout stuck out through the window.

There was a terrible commotion, the priest fell with a crash from under the ceiling, the godfather hid under the hem of his wife, and Cherevik, grabbing a pot instead of a hat, started running until he fell in the middle of the road. In the morning, the fair is filled with new terrible rumors about the red scroll. Cherevik, grumbling, leads to sell the mare. But he notices a piece of a red sleeve tied to a bridle and rushes to run in horror. The lads grab him and accuse him of stealing his own mare and, along with the godfather, who fled from the dreamed devilry, are locked in a barn. Both godfathers, mourning their bitter fate, are discovered by Golopupenkov's son, who frees the slaves on the condition that Paraska be given to him. Solopy, returning home, finds both a mare and buyers for wheat. Soon everyone is having fun at a fun wedding, although the stepmother tried to stop her.

Please note that this is only a summary of the literary work "Sorochinsky Fair". This summary omits many important points and quotations.