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Online reading of the book Sorochinskaya Fair Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Sorochinskaya Fair

Online reading of the book Sorochinskaya Fair Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Sorochinskaya Fair

Wealthy peasant Solopy Cherevik goes to the local fair in Sorochintsy to sell wheat and a horse. He is accompanied by the beautiful daughter Paraska and the grumpy wife Khavronya. On the way, they meet a group of lads (young guys), one of them, bearing the name Gritsko, falls in love with a peasant daughter at first sight.

"- Glorious girl! continued the lad in the white coat, without taking his eyes off her. - I would give all my household to kiss her. And here is the devil sitting ahead!

With these words, a skirmish began between Solopiy's wife and Gritsko, who at the end threw mud at her. Khavronya grumbled the rest of the way and was able to calm down only upon arrival in the suburbs to their old friend and godfather Tsybulya.

Meanwhile, Gritsko finds Solopiy and his daughter at the fair and bluntly offers to woo them. The father does not mind, but upon arrival home, the evil wife (Prasky's stepmother) dissuades her weak-willed husband from marrying the couple with the beautiful Praska.

Gritsko finds out about it. Disappointed by the refusal, he wanders around the fair, where he meets a gypsy who offers his help, but in return asks for Cherevik's horse.

Out of fear of losing the goods, Cherevik and his godfather go to guard the wagon with wheat, and Khavronya, taking advantage of the absence of her husband, brings her lover, the priest's son, to the hut and treats him with various dishes. After a short dinner, Popovich tries to persuade the hostess to move on to love pleasures. Unexpectedly, they hear Solopiy and his godfather returning. Khavronya hides her unfortunate lover on boards placed under the ceiling.

The reason for the hasty return of her husband was a local legend about the curse of the Sorochinskaya Fair. Solopy asks the godfather to tell the legend in more detail and sitting down at the table, the godfather begins his story. “In the local tavern (inn), the devil himself was drinking, and he spent so much money that he had to give his caftan to the owner of the tavern. The shinkar sold the devil's clothes, and the demon, who went in search, found out that his caftan was torn to shreds, because it brought misfortune to its owners. Scraps of clothing, according to local residents, are scattered throughout the fair. Suddenly, the godfather and Cherevik see a pig's snout in the window, and the general turmoil is intensified by the priest's son who has fallen from the ceiling. Cherevik runs out with a frightened cry: “Damn, damn!”, followed by his wife. Found them soon, lying on the road, scared to death and laughed.

The next morning, Solopiy again goes to the fair. During the auction, the gypsy distracts him with a conversation, meanwhile someone takes his horse away from him, and leaves a tied cuff from a red caftan on the bridle. Having discovered the loss, Solopiy, out of fear, runs aimlessly, but in the crowd he is caught by a group of Cossacks. He tells them about what happened, but they do not believe him, accusing him of stealing his own horse. Solopiy is tied up and, together with the godfather (who stood up for a friend), they are thrown into a barn. After some time, the unfortunate finds Gritsko. In exchange for a promise to marry him, Paraska helps to free himself. Upon returning home, the peasant finds in the stall not only the missing horse, but also buyers for wheat.

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.

"Crap!"

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 afraid. 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.

“Sorochinsky Fair” is the first story of the famous collection of N.V. Gogol “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 1 - summary

On a summer day, in the midst of the luxurious Ukrainian nature picturesquely depicted by Gogol (see the text of the description), carts of merchants go to the Sorochinsky Fair. The peasant Solopy Cherevik is also heading there, to whom he needs to sell ten sacks of wheat and an old mare. Many people they meet, having caught up with Cherevik, take off their hats and bow. The reason for such friendliness is the black-browed beautiful daughter Parask, a girl of 18 years old, sitting on his cart. The view of Cherevik’s cart, however, is greatly spoiled by the stepmother Khavronya (Khivrya), sitting next to Paraska, a grumpy, nasty woman who keeps her husband under his heel.

When moving the cart across the river Psyol, Paraska suddenly hears an exclamation: “Ay, yes, maiden!” Looking around, she sees that these words were uttered by a beautiful lad (guy) with fiery eyes, standing in a crowd of comrades. Having praised Cherevik's daughter, this merry fellow immediately calls her stepmother a "hundred-year-old witch". Khavronya unleashes on him from the top of the wagon streams of square abuse. The lad in response, with general laughter, aptly throws a lump of dirt at her.

"Sorochinsky Fair". Musical, 2004

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 2 - summary

Stopping at the godfather, Solopy Cherevik wanders with his daughter through the crowded Sorochinskaya fair, looking for where to sell wheat and a mare. Suddenly, Paraska is tugged at the back of his shirt sleeve by the same guy with bright eyes that he met on the bridge. He makes sweet speeches about love with the girl.

Gogol. Sorochinskaya fair. audiobook

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 3 - summary

Cherevik, meanwhile, is distracted by a conversation he heard near him between two strangers about wheat. One of them says that there is nothing to wait for good trade: the evil spirit nestled in an old barn on the edge of the Sorochinskaya fair interferes with it. Passing by this barn, people see how a terribly grunting pig's snout is exposed in its dormer window. God forbid, it will appear again red scroll!

Solopy does not listen to the story about what kind of red scroll (caftan) is. He suddenly notices that his daughter is hugging a handsome boy. Cherevik first wants to interrupt this meeting, which has taken an overly passionate turn. But the guy declares himself the son of his close friend, Golopupenko, and invites him to the tavern, known throughout the Sorochinsky fair, which is run by a Jewish woman. Seeing how the lad, valiantly, without grimacing, drains a large mug of vodka, Solopiy is imbued with respect for him. Having thoroughly drunk, he agrees to a request to marry Paraska to a guy.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 4 - summary

Returning home, Cherevik tells his wife, Khivra, that he begged his daughter. Having learned that the future son-in-law is the same guy who covered her with a lump of manure on the bridge, Khavronya tries to grab Solopiy's hair. Cherevik regretfully realizes that he "will have to refuse a good man" and look for another suitor for Paraska.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 5 - summary

Having received a refusal from Cherevik, Gritsko (that's the name of the guy with fiery eyes) sits sad in the middle of the Sorochinsky Fair in the evening. Having learned about the reason for his grief, the Gypsy who sells oxen from Gritsko promises that Cherevik will give Paraska. In return, the guy has to sell the oxen for a cheap price. Gritsko does not believe the gypsy at first, but looking at his caustic, cunning physiognomy, at his eyes, in which fraudulent enterprises and intentions change like lightning, he beats him on the hands.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 6 - summary

Cherevik, out of fear of thieves, goes with his godfather to spend the night under the wagons. His wife Khivrya, taking advantage of the fact that "the fool is gone", receives the priest Afanasy Ivanovich. When trying to climb over the wattle fence, the popovich collapses into a thicket of "serpent-like nettle grass." Comforting the awkward gentleman, Khivrya treats him in the hut with dumplings and dumplings. Popovich soon begins to beg for food that "will be sweeter" - for Khavronya's love. But near the very culmination of a pleasant meeting, a strong knock is heard at the door: Cherevik and his godfather unexpectedly returned home. Khivrya hurriedly hides her lover on boards placed under the ceiling and runs to open it.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 7 - summary

Solopy and godfather returned because it seemed scary to them to spend the night at the Sorochinskaya fair: rumors about a new appearance are spreading louder there red scrolls. Khivrya, looking uneasily at the boards under the ceiling, sits her husband and his companions at the table. Having lightly consumed vodka, Cherevika's godfather begins to explain what red scroll they are talking about.

Once one devil was kicked out of hell. Having hidden his horns under his hat, and the claws on his hands under his mittens, this unclean one got into the habit of drinking in the Sorochinsky tavern. Having drunk to the ground, he pawned his red scroll (caftan) to the owner of the tavern, a Jew. The term of the pledge was determined to be a year, but the Jew, seeing that the pawnbroker had disappeared somewhere, did not wait for the allotted time and, out of self-interest, sold the scroll for five chervonets to a passing pan. But a year later, the devil came for the red scroll. The Jew pretended not to know him, but did not even see the scroll. The unclean man left, but at night pigs on long legs climbed into the windows of the Jew's house and treated the deceiver with whips. The scroll has since been resold several times - and brought misfortune to all its owners. The last of them, a peasant who sold oil, realizing that he was unable to sell anything because of the scroll, chopped it with an ax and scattered it around the Sorochinsky fair. Since then, during the fair, the devil with a pig's face walks and looks for pieces of the scroll. He had already found them all, except for the left sleeve. His appearance causes various misfortunes at the Sorochinskaya fair ...

The story of the godfather introduces others into fear and is suddenly interrupted by a terrible incident. One of the windows of the hut, where the listeners are sitting, is suddenly knocked out, and a terrible pig's mug is exposed in it!

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 8 - summary

Panic and screams rise in the house. Popovich falls from under the ceiling to the floor with a thunder and crack. His unexpected appearance adds to the fear and turmoil. Cherevik, who put on a pot instead of a hat, shouted: “Damn! Crap!" - rushes into the street and runs until he falls exhausted to the ground, feeling something else heavy fall on top of him ...

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 9 - summary

Screams wake the gypsies sleeping on the street. Shining a bowl, they go to see who remembers the devil there. With general laughter, everyone opens up a strange sight of Cherevik lying with a pot on his head and Khivri stretched over him. It seems that she was going to ride on her husband.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 10 - summary

Cherevik and Khivrya spend the rest of the night in their godfather's barn. The next morning, Khavronya wakes up her husband, urging him to lead the mare to the Sorochinskaya fair, which is already in full swing. Solopiy wants to wash. Khivrya gives him the first rag that comes along instead of a towel, and throws it away in horror: the rag turns out to be red cuff scrolls!

The frightened Cherevik somehow leads the mare and goes with her to the fair, not tea from his trade anything good. On the way, a tall gypsy stops him, asking what he is selling. "Don't you see yourself?" - Solopy answers, but turning around, he notices: there is no mare. In his hands he has one bridle, to which the red sleeve of the scroll is tied! Horrified, Solopy rushes to run "faster than a young lad."

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 11 - summary

Several lads grab Solopiy, shouting that he is a thief who stole a mare from a visiting peasant Cherevik. “Where have you seen a man steal something from himself?” - Solopiy tries to justify himself. But the guys, not listening to anything, tie him up. Bound and bound, Cherevik is immediately brought in: it turns out that he also ran around the fair like a plague, after deciding to sniff tobacco, he pulled out a piece of a red scroll from his pocket instead. Both captured are taken to a shed.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 12 - summary

Gritsko Golopupenko, as if by chance, enters the shed, where Cherevik and his godfather are bound and weeping. Seeing Solopiy, he immediately volunteers to help him, but puts forward his own condition: to marry Paraska to him. Cherevik happily agrees. Gritsko blinks at the lads who have tied Solopiy with the godfather, and they untie them both. It turns out that Cherevik's mare was also found - she is already at his house.

The gypsy, who approached Gritsko after Cherevik left, asked: “Well, have we done our job? Are the oxen mine now? “Yours! Yours!" Gritsko happily confirms.

Gogol "Sorochinsky Fair", chapter 13 - summary

Paraska, sitting at home, looks in the mirror and remembers the meeting with Gritsko, who charmed her. Trying on outfits, she starts dancing in front of the mirror and sings a song about love. Cherevik, who entered the hut, begins to dance with his daughter, and the godfather announces that the groom has come, and now the wedding will begin. Khivrya, who came running, waving her arms, tries to interfere with the general celebration, but she is pushed back by a couple of hefty gypsies.

Gogol ends The Sorochinskaya Fair with a description of a noisy wedding feast. However, at the very end, he adds a touch of aching sadness to this cheerful picture, briefly noting that everything in the world is transient, that joy, youth and life itself are inevitably destined to end. This brief final chord of the bright, sunny "Sorochinsky Fair" will be heard throughout Gogol's further work, growing stronger over the years.

Here Gogol describes the nature of Ukraine and how merchants go to the Sorochinsky fair. Our hero Solopy Cherevik is heading there with his beautiful daughter named Paraska. That is why they take off their hats in front of their wagon. But the whole view is spoiled by the wife of Solopiy Khavronya. Already a grumpy woman, she keeps him under her heel. They go to the fair to sell wheat and an old mare. When they pass the river, they hear the cry of one lad, he painfully 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 clod of dirt at her.

Chapter 2

They stopped at a godfather. Solopy and his daughter went to the fair to find where they could sell their goods. But suddenly Paraska is pulled up by the same handsome man whom they saw on the bridge, and begins to talk with her about love.

Chapter 3

Then Solopiy heard a conversation between two men about wheat. They said that it was not worth waiting for a good trade, since there is an evil spirit in the barn at the edge of the fair, that when people pass by it, they are even afraid to look, God forbid, to see the red scroll again. But he did not have time to listen, as he was distracted by his daughter, who was already hugging the lad. Of course, at first he was eager to stop it, but when he recognized him as the son of a friend, he did not do it. Meanwhile, the lad was invited to the tavern. There Solopiy saw how he drained a mug of vodka, and he immediately had respect for him. And when he drank himself, he offered the lad to marry Paraska.

Chapter 4

When the father and daughter return home, Solopiy declares to his wife that he has found a glorious groom for Paraske. But when Khavronya finds out that this is the same insolent person who threw dirt at her, she almost tore out all of Solopiy's hair. Then he simply says that he will have to look for another suitor.

Chapter 5

The wife still makes Solopiy refuse the guy. And he sits sad at the fair. But then he meets a gypsy who promises to help him, but he must sell all the oxen cheaper. At first, Gritsko doubts, looking at him and seeing his cunning and caustic face, he agrees.

Chapter 6

While the husband and the godfather are guarding the carts with the goods, Khavronya receives the priest. She treats him with dumplings and donuts. She pretends to be embarrassed by his advances. But then there is a knock on the door and she says that a lot of people have come, so he needs to hide. Hides it on the boards that were made as shelves.

Chapter 7

Solopiy and Kum returned because a rumor about a red scroll had spread around the fair. Here are a few acquaintances and asked for an overnight stay at Tsybula. They drink. And Cherevik asks to tell his godfather about this very scroll. Well, so the devil was sitting in a tavern and drank it all away, he left his scroll to the owner, but said that the next year would return. And the owner sold it to the pan, and the gypsies stole it from the pan, who also sold it. The devil has returned, but the scrolls are gone. The dealer who bought it stopped trading, then she slipped the scroll to the peasant. And so he started trading. So he took and cut the scroll and scattered it around. Now the devil appears every year at the fair and looks for his scroll.

But here his story is interrupted, because a pig appeared one hundred times in the window.

Chapter 8

Panic and screaming began. Popovich fell off the shelves. His appearance further intensifies the panic. Cherevik put on a pot instead of a hat and began to shout: "Damn, damn it!" and ran out of the house. He rushed to run, wherever his eyes looked, he only felt that something heavy was pressing on him ...

Chapter 9

With their cries, they woke up all the gypsies who were sleeping on the wagons. They went to see who was screaming and remembering the devil. Solopiy was lying on the Earth, he had a broken pot on his head, and his wife was lying on top of him. The gypsies laughed at them for a very long time, and when they came to their senses, they began to stare at those around them.

Chapter 10

The next morning, Khavronya sends her husband to sell the mare. She gives him a towel so that he is alone and face and notices that she has a red pig in her hands. She throws it away. And Cherevik, who is simply trembling with fear, took the mare to the fair. A gypsy approaches him and asks what he is selling. Solopy seemed to pull the horse by the bridle, but found that it was gone, and instead of it a red patch was tied. He dropped everything and started running away.

Chapter 11

Solopiy was caught in the alley by the guys who began to accuse him of stealing the horse. But he tries to prove the opposite, but no one believes him, and his story about the red scroll only makes his situation even more difficult. Here, towards the guys lead a bound godfather. He wanted to get a cross out of his pocket, but he did not find it there, and found only a red scroll there, he rushed to run. Kuma was also accused of spreading panic.

Chapter 12

Solopiy and his godfather are bound. They talk to each other about injustice. But Gritsko comes up to them and says that he can master them on one condition, if they marry Paraska today. Cherevik, of course, agrees. He unties them and sends them home. There are already buyers waiting. A gypsy approaches Gritsko and asks if everything is done correctly. He says that everything went well and he hands over the water to Vlas.

Chapter 13

Paraska is alone at home, admiring herself in front of a mirror and remembering Gritsko. She puts on outfits one by one, dances and sings about love. Her answer enters the house and also starts dancing. And the godfather says that the groom has come and the wedding begins. Here Khavronya will take away, waving his arms, but he is no longer able to interfere. A grand celebration begins. But the author notes that any feast and fun someday ends.

No matter how Khivrya resisted, the truth and justice prevailed anyway. By the appearance of a trait, the author indicates the strength of society and throughout the whole work ridicules them and vices.