Recall the mandatory program in Russianliterature! Leo Tolstoy "Childhood" (summary). The author wrote this work in 1852. This is the first of three stories about the life of Nikolai Irtenyev. The hero tells from the first person about the early period of his life, nostalgically regretting the irrevocable freshness of children's feelings, carelessness, love and faith.
Summary "Childhood" (Chapters 1-6)
In the morning, a few days afterof the decade, Irtenyev Nikolenka was awakened by a teacher (or rather, by the beat of his fly swatter). The boy was offended that he was woken up by him, a small and defenseless, and not by his older brother Volodya. From anger and self-pity, he burst into tears, explaining his tears in a terrible dream. But after the teacher, tickling and good-naturedly laughing, began to lift Nikolenka out of bed, Karl Ivanovich was forgiven and called "cute."
Every morning, the tutor went down to the living room with the boys to wish their mother good morning.
Воскрешая в воображении матушку, Николеньке never managed to recreate her whole face. Most often I remembered the birthmark spot on the neck, the embroidered collar, the look of always good brown eyes and dry delicate hands. She coped in German with Karl Ivanovich about how the children slept, whether Nikolenka wept.
Often they found the father behind the calculations.He gave financial instructions to the serf clerk Jacob. He was stingy, like any good and devoted servant, but he had rather strange ideas about the benefits of the gentleman, taking care of increasing his income at the expense of the lady’s money (namely, her estate in Khabarovsk).
After greeting the sons, dad said that,since they have already grown, it’s time to get serious about studying. To do this, he takes them to Moscow to the house of his grandmother, and the maman and his sisters will remain in Petrovsky. The brothers were amazed by this news. Nikolenka felt sorry for the mother and the old teacher, who, surely, would be denied the house. Dramatically he cried.
Summary Childhood (Chapters 7-12)
Dad took the boys with him on the hunt, and asked the girls. With them in a carriage went maman. After it was tea, fruit, ice cream and, of course, children's games in the fresh air.
Later, at home, everyone took up his business.Mother played the piano, the serfs came to the father with a report. Volodya, Nikolenka and the girls decided to take a closer look at the chains of the holy fool, who was sheltered by my mother.
Nikolenka remembered sincere for life,the powerful prayer of a real Christian, the foolish Grisha, with whom they became unwitting witnesses. He prayed with love for all who had given him shelter. When there were no words, he fell to the ground in sincere tears pouring down.
Summary "Childhood" (Chapter 13)
Red-eyed, fun and fat Natasha was taken inhome of a young girl as a female maid for a grandmother. Natalya was a maid of diligence and meekness. After mother was born, and the maid became a nanny, and here she also deserved awards and praises for affection and loyalty, which gave the young lady (Natalia's family did not work out).
After getting married, maman tried to thankNatalia Savishnu, as she was called now, for her service. She was granted a free and lifetime pension of three hundred rubles. But her faithful. Ours broke the document with the official seal and remained to serve as a housekeeper, supervising the economy and giving love and care to the third generation of our masters.
Summary "Childhood" (Chapters 14-28)
Мальчики прожили в Москве, в доме бабушки, больше half a year. The children studied, danced at balls, met Moscow relatives: Princess Kornakova, Prince Ivan Ivanovich, the brothers Ivins, even managed to fall in love with Sonia Valakhina.
Having received a disturbing letter from his wife, father againtook them to Petrovskoye. Unfortunately, the children found the mother already unconscious. It was very hard for Nikolenka to endure the death and burial of his maman. His pious conversations and the sincere tears of Natalia Savishna, who selflessly loved the deceased, made him a little easier.
Grandmother found out about the death of her daughter only byIrtenvyh returning to Moscow. Her sorrow and grief were touching and strong, but for some reason Nikoleka sympathized and empathized more with Natalia Savishne, because he was convinced that no one so purely and sincerely regretted his mother as this loving and devoted creature.
With the death of maman for Nikolenka, childhood ended. It was the time of adolescence.
Краткое содержание Толстого «Детство» только reveals a huge world created by the author. An inquisitive reader, referring to the full text of the story, learns much more interesting about the life of the landlord manor, about the noble system of education and training of children in the nineteenth century.
