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A. S. Pushkin's story "The Shot" was written in 1830 and entered the famous Boldino cycle of the writer "Belkin's Tale". The story belongs to the literary direction of realism and tells about the history of the duel between the retired hussar Silvio and Count B ***. The story consists of two sections, in the first the narrator learns the beginning of the story from Silvio, in the second - its completion from the count.

Main characters

Silvio- a man about thirty-five years old, served in the hussars, but retired, after which he settled in a poor place. His greatest passion was pistol shooting, for many years he lived with the intention of bringing the duel with the count to the end.

Narrator- a young army officer who, after the service, left for the village. On his behalf, the story is told in the work, he was familiar with all the heroes of the story.

Other characters

Count B***- "a man of about thirty-two, beautiful in appearance", Silvio's opponent in a duel.

Countess B*** (Masha)- "beauty", the wife of Count B ***.

Chapter 1

The life of army officers in the town of *** was quite monotonous and boring, the military "besides their uniforms, did not see anything."

The only one who stood out in their society was the retired hussar Silvio - a gloomy man with a tough temper and an evil tongue, about whom the officers knew practically nothing. He always generously received the military in his house, and his favorite pastime was pistol shooting, which he mastered perfectly.

One evening the officers at Silvio's sat down to play cards. As a rule, the owner was always silent during the game, without words correcting the mistakes of the players in the records. At that time, among the officers was a newcomer, who did not know about the habits of Silvio. Noticing the actions of the owner, he flared up and threw a copper candlestick at Silvio. Angry, the owner asked him to leave.

Contrary to the expectations of the officers, Silvio did not take revenge on the offender, which shook his reputation among the military, but over time this story was forgotten.

One day, Silvio received a letter, which he read with impatience, after which he announced to the officers that he urgently needed to leave, and he invites everyone to visit him "for the last time". After dinner, Silvio asked the narrator, with whom he was on friendly terms, to stay and talk. To the amazement of the interlocutor, Silvio said that he did not then challenge the officer to a duel, because he had no right to expose himself to mortal danger - “six years ago I received a slap in the face, and my enemy is still alive.”

In his youth, serving in the *** hussars, Silvio was "the first brawler in the army", constantly participating in duels and officer revels. His comrades adored him, and the commanders looked at him as a "necessary evil". However, somehow a man of “a rich and noble family” was transferred to them. He tried to make friends with Silvio, but the man, jealous of the success, luck and status of the newcomer, hated him. Once, at a ball at a Polish landowner, Silvio quarreled with the favorite of fortune, he flared up and slapped him.

The duel was scheduled for dawn. They cast lots, the opponent was the first to shoot. He fired and hit Silvio in the cap. Silvio's turn came, however, enraged by the opponent's complete indifference to what was happening (he calmly ate cherries while waiting for the shot), the man lowered his gun and, saying that he did not want to interfere with his breakfast, ended the fight.

After what happened, Silvio retired and thought about revenge every day, and finally the time had come. The owner showed the narrator the letter that had arrived, which said that the "famous person" - the same man, was soon to be married. Silvio travels to Moscow, wanting to see "whether he [the rival] will accept death before his wedding with indifference, as he once waited for her behind the cherries."

Chapter 2

Several years have passed. Due to domestic circumstances, the narrator settled in the "poor village of N** county". He was very lonely here - neither books, nor communication with the housekeeper, nor conversations with "bitter" neighbors saved him from boredom. However, “in the second spring” of life in the village, the narrator learns that the owners, Count and Countess B ***, are coming to the neighboring rich estate.

The neighbors received the narrator very friendly. During a friendly conversation with the count and countess, the narrator noticed a picture that "was shot through with two bullets, planted one in the other" and, noting the accuracy of the shooter, remembered his old friend Silvio. Hearing this name, the hosts were excited. As it turned out, the count was the same officer whom Silvio wanted to avenge for many years for his indifference during the duel, and the picture is a “monument” to their last meeting.

Five years ago, the count married, and he and the countess spent their honeymoon here in the village. Once, upon returning from a horse ride, the count was informed that a man who did not want to introduce himself was waiting for him in the office. Recognizing in the dusty, bearded guest Silvio, the count felt "how the hair suddenly stood on end on him." Silvio said that he had come to finish their duel and measured twelve paces. The count ordered no one to be let in. Drawing a pistol, Silvio, testing the patience of the enemy, hesitated for a long time, and then lowered the weapon, offering to cast lots. This time it fell to the Count to shoot first again: “You, Count, are devilishly happy,” said Silvio with a grin.

The count fired and hit the painting. At the moment when Silvio began to take aim, Masha ran into the room and threw herself on her husband's neck. The count, trying to calm his wife, said that he was joking with an old friend. Masha turned to Silvio, asking if this was really so. “He always jokes, Countess,” Silvio answered her; - once he gave me a joking slap in the face, jokingly shot me through this cap, jokingly gave me a miss now; now I have a desire to joke ... "- and wanted to shoot at the count, but the woman threw herself at the feet of Silvio. In a rage, the count shouted at her to get up, ordering the enemy to finally fire. However, Silvio said that he was already pleased with the duel, because he saw the confusion and timidity of the count. And with the words “You will remember me. I betray you to your conscience, ”he headed for the exit, but stopping at the door, almost without aiming, he shot at the picture exactly in the place where the count had previously hit. Silvio left before the Count could recover.

The narrator did not meet Silvio again, but he heard that he “during the indignation of Alexander Ypsilanti, led a detachment of etherists and was killed in the battle of Skulyany”.

Conclusion

In The Shot, as in the rest of the works of the Belkin Tales cycle, Pushkin raises the theme of the role of fate, chance in a person's life. The author reflects on whether someone can control the fate of another person and whether personal satisfaction from victory is really important if the happiness of another person is at stake. The hero of the story, Silvio, realizes at a decisive moment that the count is an ordinary person who is able to be afraid of death, therefore, in the end, he forgives his enemy, leaving the situation “on his conscience”.

A brief retelling of Pushkin's "Shot" will be useful to schoolchildren, students and anyone who is fond of classical Russian literature.

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There is one remarkable work of the classic and romantic Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the school curriculum in literature. The poet and writer himself did not indicate his authorship, giving it to a fictional character - the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin. "Belkin's Tales", a summary of which is known to absolutely everyone from an early age, are five unique stories about the everyday ups and downs of different heroes. They are united only by the narrator, who became an accidental witness to these scenes, conveying their summary.

Belkin's Tales are five separate stories about ordinary people scattered in different parts of the vast Russian Empire. These are dramas, and comedies, and parodies that were present in the realities of that time. But even now they take place in the modern world. In them, the theme of the struggle for one's own happiness runs like a red thread. It is different for each person and the path to it is also varied. What is Belkin's Tales? A summary of real earthly happiness, worldly wisdom, the basics of generally accepted morality and everyday behavior.

"Tales of Belkin": a summary

The first story is called "The Shot". It tells about Silvio - a brave man with a strong character and an exotic name. He knew all the hard life in the outback and army garrisons. He was used to the fact that fate did not indulge him, and he was used to paying the bills for everything. One day in a duel he met another man who was always successful. He wasn't even afraid of death. Refusing to duel then, he searches for the count a few years later, when he was about to marry. Silvio taught him a lesson: you should always cherish what you have.

The story "Snowstorm" is a romantic ballad about unequal love and parental prohibition. secretly runs away to marry in a small church under the howling of a snow storm. But, alas, the happiness was short-lived: although the parents accepted the poor son-in-law, he soon dies.

In The Undertaker, the narrator will tell the audience about the gray everyday life of Adrian Prokhorov, who invites the dead to visit him. As in the famous opera about Don Giovanni, they come to him. But the soul of the undertaker, hardened by everyday worries, was not even afraid. The hero began to remember the details of the funeral of each guest: what were the coffins, how much he earned on them ... In the morning, he simply discarded the memories of a gloomy dream and returned to his duties.

The Peasant Young Lady is a happy story about Russian Romeo and Juliet. And The Stationmaster is the best part of the Belkin Tales cycle. Its summary is the separation of daughter and father, longing for each other, the struggle of mind and feelings. The death of Vyrin and the arrival of a noble young lady at his grave show that all the old man's torment was in vain: Dunya is happy, and her lover was not a scoundrel. The girl was already saying the last "sorry" to a small grave mound.

These five stories teach us that there are no small and big people. There is only a Man who forges his own destiny and is responsible for it himself. And the tools in this difficult task are perseverance, faith in the best, nobility, and that's what Pushkin wrote about. "Belkin's Tales", the summary of which cannot convey the beauty of the artistic word that is inherent in genius, makes the reader think about the meaning of being.

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From the publisher

The publisher decided to attach to the first edition of the stories "a brief biography of the late author", Ivan Petrovich Belkin. He contacted his friend, and he said that Belkin's father was a second major and a poor landowner. Belkin himself also served in the army, but retired after the death of his parents.

Ivan Petrovich was a gentle and inexperienced man, the peasants were not afraid of him and shamelessly deceived him. He led a moderate life, had a strong inclination towards the female sex, but he was hindered by "truly girlish" modesty. Ivan Petrovich died a bachelor, in his thirtieth year, from a fever.

These stories were his first literary experience. They are mostly true - Belkin wrote down the stories he heard from different persons. The housekeeper sealed the windows with the rest of Ivan Petrovich's manuscripts.

The officers of an army regiment stationed in a provincial town met a mysterious man named Silvio. He was gloomy and quick-tempered, he had once served in a hussar regiment and shot very accurately, but did not take part in duels. Nothing more was known about him.

One day, Silvio decided to leave, and before leaving he told one of the officers his story. During his service years, he quarreled with a young aristocrat and challenged him to a duel. The aristocrat came to the duel with a cap full of cherries and after his shot began to feast on it. Enraged, Silvio did not shoot. The enemy declared that he could use this shot whenever he pleased. Now Silvio learned that the aristocrat was engaged, and was going to take revenge.

A few years later, the retired officer met the count and his young wife. In their living room, he saw a painting shot through by "two bullets stuck one into the other." This well-aimed shot reminded him of Silvio. It turned out that the count is the same opponent.

Five years ago, Silvio appeared before the count and forced him to draw lots. The first shot again went to the aristocrat, but he shot not at Silvio, but at the picture. Then a frightened countess appeared, the count also became confused, and Silvio did not shoot. It was enough for him that the count was frightened. Leaving the room, Silvio almost without aiming fired at the picture and hit the place shot by the count.

The officer later learned that Silvio had died participating in a Greek uprising.

The daughter of a wealthy landowner, Marya Gavrilovna R., was in love with a poor neighbor, army ensign Vladimir. He believed that Masha's parents would not bless their marriage, and persuaded the girl to marry in secret.

Vladimir prepared a wedding in a neighboring village and was supposed to meet the bride at the church, but got lost in a blizzard, got lost all night, and, having reached the village, found the church locked.

By the evening of the next day, Masha had a fever. From the daughter's delirium, the parents realized that she was in love with a neighbor, and decided to marry her to him. They sent an invitation to Vladimir, but he replied that he would not have his foot in their house, went to the army, was wounded near Borodino and died.

Soon Masha's father also died. The girl became a rich heiress, but refused all suitors. After World War II, Masha got a new neighbor - the wounded hussar colonel Burmin. There was sympathy between them.

Burmin confessed to Masha that he loves her, but he is married and does not know who his wife is. Once, during a heavy snowstorm, he lost his way, drove into an open church and frivolously married an unfamiliar girl who fainted when she saw him after the ceremony. Pale, Masha confessed that it was her, and Burmin threw himself at her feet.

Undertaker Adrian Prokhorov moved into a new house and met a neighbor, a German shoemaker Schultz. He invited him to a celebration on the occasion of his silver wedding. During the feast, the Germans began to drink to their customers and offered Prokhorov to drink to the health of the dead, which seemed offensive to him.

Adrian returned home drunk and angry. At night they sent for him - a rich merchant's wife died. Returning, the undertaker saw some people entering his gate. Entering the house, Adrian was horrified to find that the room was full of dead people - his clients.

One of the dead tried to hug Adrian, he pushed him away, the dead man fell and crumbled. The rest saw this, surrounded the undertaker with threats, and he fainted.

In the morning, Adrian learned that the merchant's wife was not dying and the dead did not come to him. Returning from the shoemaker, Prokhorov immediately fell asleep, and he dreamed all this.

Caught in the rain, the narrator stopped at the postal station, where he met the stationmaster Samson Vyrin and his fourteen-year-old beautiful daughter Dunya. A few years later, the narrator again ended up at this station, but Dunya was no longer found. Vyrin told him the story of her disappearance.

One day, a young officer, Minsky, arrived at the station, fell ill with a fever, and lay with Vyrin for several days. Getting ready to leave, Minsky offered to give Dunya a lift to the church. Vyrin allowed, but after that he felt uneasy, ran to the church and found out that his daughter had not appeared there - Minsky took her with him.

Vyrin fell ill with a fever, and, having recovered, went to St. Petersburg and sought out Minsky. He swore that he loved Dunya and would make her happy, gave the caretaker money and escorted him out into the street. Then Vyrin found his daughter, who lived in a luxurious mansion. Seeing her father, Dunya fainted, and Minsky pushed the old man out of the house.

Once again at that station, the narrator learned that Vyrin had died a year ago. Then a “beautiful lady” came here with three children and lay on his grave for a long time.

The retired guardsman Berestov was visited by his son Alexei, who had graduated from the university. Lisa, the daughter of their Angloman neighbor Muromsky, found out about this. She wanted to see Alexei, but it was impossible - Berestov and Muromsky were at enmity. The story of the maid, who visited the neighbors, further piqued Lisa's curiosity. She disguised herself as a peasant woman and met Alexei in the forest, calling herself Akulina, the blacksmith's daughter.

Alexey fell in love with a smart and pretty "peasant girl", and young people began to secretly meet. Two months later, Muromsky and Berestov reconciled. Berestov invited the neighbors to visit. To remain unrecognized, Lisa whitened her face and appeared before Alexei in the form of a cutesy young lady.

Soon Berestov and Muromsky finally became friends and decided to marry their children. Aleksey refused to marry Muromskaya and decided to link his fate with the blacksmith's daughter. He went to the neighbors to explain himself, saw Lisa without makeup and recognized her as his beloved Akulina.

The prose cycle "Belkin's Tale" was written by A. S. Pushkin in the famous "Boldino Autumn" of 1830 and then published anonymously. Upon his return from Boldin, Pushkin introduced Baratynsky to the Tales. “Baratynsky neighs and beats,” he jokingly wrote to Pletnev soon after.

This Pushkin cycle consists of a preface ("From the Publisher") and five stories: "Shot", "Snowstorm", "The Undertaker", "The Stationmaster" and "The Young Lady Peasant Woman".

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - From the publisher"

In the preface to the cycle, Pushkin says that the author of the stories was allegedly the late young man Ivan Petrovich Belkin, who was born in the village of Goryukhino. After the death of his parents, he left the service in the Jaeger regiment and returned to this patrimony of his. The fictional Belkin did not have economic abilities and soon ruined the estate. But he showed an extraordinary penchant for the female sex, as well as for listening and recording amusing life stories. According to Pushkin, Belkin died at the end of 1828 from "a catarrhal fever that turned into a fever." His stories are now offered to readers as "a monument to a noble way of thinking and touching friendship."

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Shot"

Colleagues in the regiment idolize the ringleader, the brawler and the skilled shooter Silvio. But he has a rival - a newly determined young earl from a rich family, who is more liked by women and spends more money on friends. The rivalry between them comes to a duel. The enemy pierces Silvio's cap with his bullet just an inch from the forehead, and then stands under his pistol, eating cherries with calm contempt.

Enraged, Silvio refuses to shoot right now and negotiates with his opponent the right to shoot at a moment that he himself chooses later. For several years he burns with gloomy revenge, waiting for the moment when the count does not want to die. Finally, Silvio finds out: his rival has just married a beautiful girl. He goes to the count in the village and demands to complete the unfinished duel. In order to further humiliate the enemy, Silvio allows him to shoot again.

The Count misses again, hitting a painting hanging on the wall of the room. His young wife runs into the noise and falls at Silvio's feet, begging him not to kill her husband. Having enjoyed the confusion and timidity of his opponent, Silvio refuses to shoot him. Leaving, he makes a shot at the picture on the wall - and aptly hits the mark left by the count's bullet.

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Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Snowstorm"

Young nobles, neighbors on estates, Masha and Vladimir, love each other. But their marriage is hindered by the Machine's parents. At the suggestion of Vladimir, Masha decides to run away from home at night in order to move in with her betrothed in a nearby church, get married there, and then confront her father and mother with a fait accompli.

The flight takes place in winter, in a terrible snowstorm. Masha and the witnesses chosen by Vladimir get to the church, but he himself loses his way in the thick snow and ends up in a completely different direction. At the church, where the bride, already almost unconscious, is waiting for the groom, stops on the way to the army of hussars. Confusing him with Vladimir, the witnesses drag the hussar to the priest. Only at the end of the ceremony, Masha, who has regained consciousness, realizes: she married the wrong one. The hussar, realizing that he got into an unpleasant story, hurries to leave.

But the ritual has already been completed. Vladimir can no longer marry Masha. With grief, he goes to the war of 1812 with Napoleon and dies there. Married to a stranger, Masha has been alienating all applicants for her hand for several years, until her attention is attracted by the cavalryman Burmin who has returned from a campaign in Europe. Burmin really likes Masha, but for a long time he does not dare to start a decisive explanation with her. Finally, in a burst of candor, he tells her the reason for this. Burmin is married - he was the same hussar who had previously married Masha of the Church. Now he doesn't recognize her. Masha reveals the truth to Burmin, and he falls at her feet.

Film based on the story of A. S. Pushkin "Snowstorm", 1984

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - The Undertaker"

Moscow German shoemaker Gottlieb Schulze invites his neighbor, undertaker Adrian Prokhorov, to his silver wedding. Local artisans gather for the celebration. During a drinking bout, one of them offers to drink "to the health of our customers." All the guests immediately begin to laugh at Adrian, saying that he should also drink to the health of his dead.

Adrian used to intend to invite the neighbors to his housewarming party, but now he decides not to do it out of resentment. Returning home drunk and going to bed, the undertaker tells the maid that he would better call those for whom he works: the Orthodox dead.

Adrian spends the whole next day at the funeral of the merchant Tryukhina. When returning home in the evening, he sees several strangers entering his gate. Entering the room, the undertaker discovers: it is full of the dead, who were previously buried in his coffins. All of them joyfully greet Prokhorov, and one skeleton even tries to hug him. From fear, the undertaker begins to scream - and wakes up. It turns out that not only the scene with the dead, but also the funeral of Tryukhina dreamed of him in a drunken dream after a drinking bout with a German.

The stationmaster Samson Vyrin has a daughter Dunya from his late wife, a girl of extraordinary beauty. The wealthy hussar Minsky, who once stopped at the station, falls in love with her. Pretending to be sick, the hussar stays with the caretaker for several days. During this time, he closely converges with Dunya and, leaving, invites her to ride together to the church on the outskirts of the village.

Having driven off with a hussar, Dunya does not return. Her inconsolable father learns from the roadside that Minsky was going to St. Petersburg. The stationmaster goes to the capital, finds Minsky and demands the return of his daughter. But Minsky assures that Dunya has already weaned from her former poor state and will be happy with him. He drives Vyrin away. The caretaker begins to follow the hussar, recognizes the house where he lives on the money of Minsky Dun, and makes his way into her room. Dunya, seeing his father, falls unconscious, and Minsky again throws him out into the street.

Unable to get the truth, the caretaker returns to his station, becomes an inveterate drunkard and dies. A few years later, the neighbors see how a richly dressed lady with three small children comes to his grave and lies on the cemetery mound for a long time.

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Young lady-peasant"

Enemies-neighbors, the landowners Berestov and Muromsky, do not visit each other. After graduating from Moscow University, the handsome son Alexei returns to the Berestov estate. All the neighboring young ladies gossip about the ardent young man. The desire to see Alexei also burns the daughter of Murom Liza, but she does not have the opportunity to do this because of the enmity of their fathers.

Playful Lisa still finds a way to fulfill her dream. She dresses up in the clothes of a peasant woman and goes at dawn to a grove on the border with the Berestov estate. There she is met by hunting Alexei. Young people really like each other. They begin to meet frequently. The young lady Liza, out of modesty, does not reveal her real name to Alexei, calling herself a peasant of the Muromskys, Akulina.

Meanwhile, Berestov Sr. once sees Muromsky, who has fallen from his horse and is bruised, in the forest. Out of noble courtesy, he helps him get home. After that, the long-standing enmity of the two landowners is quickly replaced by friendship. Muromsky invites Berestov and his son to his home. Not wanting Aleksey to recognize her during this visit, the young lady Liza utterly makes up her face with antimony and whitewash, dresses up in an old, wonderful dress, speaks only in French and in a singsong voice. Alexei remains unaware of who she is, and continues to meet with "peasant woman Akulina" with pleasure.

Berestov and Muromsky, meanwhile, decide to marry their children. Passionately in love with Akulina, Alexei flatly refuses to marry Lisa. His father threateningly insists on this. In terrible excitement, Alexei goes to Muromsky without warning - to explain the impossibility of marrying his daughter. But when he enters the house, he suddenly sees his “Akulina” there, dressed not like a peasant, but in a young lady’s dress ...

In one of the remote provinces, on his Tugilov estate, lives a retired guardsman Ivan Petrovich Berestov, who has long been a widow and never travels anywhere. He takes care of the household and considers himself "the smartest man in the whole neighborhood," although he does not read anything except the Senate Gazette. Neighbors love him, although they consider him proud. Only his closest neighbor, Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, does not get along with him. Muromsky started a house and household in the English manner on his estate Priluchino, while the conservative Berestov does not like innovations and criticizes his neighbor's Anglomania.

Berestov's son, Alexei, having finished his course at the university, comes to the village to his father. The county ladies are interested in him, and most of all - the daughter of Murom Liza, but Alexei remained cold to signs of attention, and everyone explained this by his secret love. Liza's confidante, the serf girl Nastya, goes to Tugilovo to visit her acquaintances, the yards of the Berestovs, and Liza asks her to take a good look at the young Berestov. Returning home, Nastya tells the young lady how the young Berestov played with the yard girls in the burners and how he kissed each time he was caught, how good he is, stately and blush.

Lisa is seized by the desire to see Alexei Berestov, but it is simply impossible to do this, and Lisa comes up with the idea to dress up as a peasant woman. The very next day, she proceeds to implement the plan, orders to sew a peasant dress for herself and, having tried on the outfit, finds that it suits her very much. At dawn the next day, Liza, dressed in peasant attire, leaves the house and heads towards Tugilov. In the grove, a setter dog rushes at her barking, a young hunter came to the rescue and recalls the dog and calms the girl. Liza plays her role perfectly, the young man volunteers to see her off and calls himself the young Berestov's valet, but Liza recognizes Alexei himself in him and convicts him. She pretends to be Akulina, the daughter of the blacksmith of Priluchinsky. Alexei Berestov really likes the sharp-witted peasant woman, he wants to see her again and is going to visit her blacksmith father. The prospect of being caught frightens Lisa, and she invites the young man to meet the next day at the same place.

Returning home, Liza almost repents that she made a rash promise to Berestov, but the fear that a determined young man will come to the blacksmith and find his daughter Akulina, a fat and pockmarked girl, is even more frightening. Inspired by a new acquaintance and Alex. Before the appointed time, he arrives at the meeting place and looks forward to Akulina, who is depressed and tries to convince Alexei that the acquaintance should be stopped. But Alexei, fascinated by the peasant woman, does not want this. Lisa takes his word that he will not look for her in the village and seek other meetings with her, except for those that she herself appoints. Their meetings continue for two months, until one circumstance almost destroyed this idyll. Having gone out for a ride, Muromsky meets old Berestov, hunting in these places. Thrown off by a runaway horse, Muromsky finds himself in Berestov's house. The fathers of the young people parted in mutual sympathy and with Berestov's promise to visit the Muromskys with Alexei. Upon learning of this, Lisa is dismayed, but together with Nastya, she develops a plan that, in her opinion, should save her from exposure. Having taken a promise from her father not to be surprised at anything, Liza goes out to the guests heavily bleached and frown, ridiculously combed and extravagantly dressed. Alexei does not recognize the simple and natural Akulina in this cutesy young lady.

The next day, Lisa rushes to the rendezvous point. She can’t wait to find out what impression the Priluchinsky young lady made on Alexei. But Aleksey says that the young lady, compared to her, is a freak of a freak. Meanwhile, the acquaintance of the old men Berestov and Muromsky develops into friendship, and they decide to marry the children. Alexey meets his father's message about this with a heartbeat. A romantic dream arises in his soul about marrying a simple peasant woman. He goes to the Muromskys to decisively explain himself to them. Entering the house, he meets Lizaveta Grigorievna and believes that this is his Akulina. The misunderstanding is resolved to everyone's satisfaction.