In the description of this ten-year-old boy Kostya in the story “Bezhin Meadow,” the writer notes his thoughtful and sad look. He, drooping, constantly looked somewhere into the distance. He had a thin face covered with freckles, on which his black, large and always sad eyes stood out, a sharp, squirrel-like chin... One gets the impression that he wanted to say something, but he did not have enough words for it. Kostya is two whole years younger than Pavlusha. The thin boy dressed as poorly as everyone else. Some kind of tiredness, not childish, was visible on his face, which had a painful expression.

The scary stories told by other village children make a very strong impression on this boy. He found himself in the forest at night with them, and, just like them, he was frightened by the barking of dogs that sensed someone strange. Kostya, of course, did not think about the goblin, he was just very scared in the dark. He, like the boys, begins to retell his stories to them: about the mermaid, about Vasya and the voice that came from the boom, which he heard from his father. All these guys, like Kostya, were very superstitious and illiterate, which is why they believed all these horror stories. Kostya was a boy who could describe nature very beautifully and colorfully in his stories. His speech is filled with dreaminess and poetry; he saw something in the nature around him that the other guys did not see. He always dreamed of something fabulous.

The village children were not very educated, but they worked very hard: both in the field and at home, they picked mushrooms and berries for the winter, and went to the “night”. Boys are real helpers for their parents from a very early age.

The image of Pavlusha in the story “Bezhin Meadow” One of the boys met by the hunter in the valley was Pavlusha. This squat and clumsy guy of twelve years old, with a huge head, tousled black hair, gray eyes, a pale and pockmarked face, was kneeling by the fire and cooking “potatoes.” And although he was unprepossessing in appearance, Ivan Petrovich immediately liked him. He admires his “bold prowess and firm determination” when he headlong, without a weapon, rushed alone towards the wolf in the middle of the night and did not boast about it at all, and soon he went alone to the river to draw water, heard the voice of the dead man and showed no signs of fear. "What a nice boy!" - this is how the hunter assessed him.

The narrator also paid attention to Pavlusha’s talent: “he looked very smart and direct, and there was strength in his voice.” And only lastly did the author pay attention to the clothes, which consisted of ports and a simple shirt. Pavel remains calm and courageous, he is businesslike and decisive: after the terrible story that Kostya told, he was not afraid, but calmed the guys down and turned the conversation to another topic. Pavlusha himself, an intelligent and intelligent boy, only listens to stories about evil spirits, telling only a real incident that happened in his village during the “heavenly foresight”. Only his innate courage and strong character did not reward him with a long life. As the narrator notes, in the same year Pavel died, he was killed by falling from a horse. "It's a pity, he was a nice guy!" - Turgenev finishes his story with sadness in his soul.

Characteristics of Fedya The oldest of the guys is Fedya. He came from a wealthy family, and he went out to guard the herd for fun. Unlike the other boys, he was dressed in a calico shirt with a border, a brand new army jacket, wore his own boots, and also had a comb with him - a rare attribute among peasant children. Fedya was a slender boy, “with beautiful and thin, slightly small features, curly blond hair and a constant half-cheerful, half-absent-minded smile.” Fedya lay like a lord, leaning on his elbow, showing his superiority with all his appearance. During the conversation, he behaves in a businesslike manner, asks questions, puts on airs, and patronizingly allows the boys to share amazing stories. He listens carefully to his friends, but with all his appearance he demonstrates that he has little faith in their stories. It is felt that he had a good education at home, and therefore he is not characterized by the naivety inherent in other children.

Description of Ilyusha from the story “Bezhin Meadow” Ilyusha is a twelve-year-old boy with an insignificant appearance, hook-nosed, with an elongated, weak-sighted face, expressing “some kind of dull, painful solicitude.” The author emphasizes how poor this peasant boy looked: “He was wearing new bast shoes and onuchi; a thick rope, twisted three times around the waist, carefully pulled together his neat black scroll.” And he kept pulling his low felt cap, from under which sharp braids of yellow hair stuck out, over his ears with both hands.

Ilyusha differs from other village boys in his ability to retell scary stories in an interesting and exciting way. He told his friends 7 stories: about the brownie that happened to him and his comrades, about the werewolf, about the late master Ivan Ivanovich, about fortune telling on his parents' Saturday, about the Antichrist Trishka, about the peasant and the goblin, and about the merman.

Kostya In the description of ten-year-old Kostya, the narrator notes the sad and thoughtful look with which he, drooping, looked somewhere into the distance. On his thin and freckled face, only “his large, black eyes, shining with a liquid brilliance, stood out; they seemed to want to say something, but he had no words.” Creepy stories about evil spirits make a strong impression on little Kostya. However, he also retells to his friends the story he heard from his father about the mermaid, about the voice from the butch, and also about the unfortunate Vasya, a boy from his village.

Vanya For the youngest of the children, Vanya, the author does not give a portrait description, noting only that the boy was only seven years old. He lay quietly under his matting, trying to sleep. Vanya is silent and timid, he is still too small to tell stories, but only looks at the night sky and admires the “stars of God” that look like bees.

Illustration by P. Sokolov

Very briefly

A lost hunter in the night comes across peasant children who are sitting by the fire, guarding horses and telling each other scary stories about goblin, mermaids, brownies and other evil spirits.

The action takes place in the Russian Empire, in the Chernsky district of the Tula province. The narration is told in the first person. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional.

"Beautiful July Day"

Summer days, when the weather settles, are beautiful. The morning is clear and radiant. By noon, the sky is covered with light golden-gray clouds, from which a small warm rain occasionally falls. Before the evening dawn, the clouds disappear, and the sun sets as calmly as it rose in the sky.

The hunter got lost

It was on such a day that the narrator was hunting black grouse.

Narrator - a man with a gun, a game bag and a dog; his name is not mentioned in the story

In the evening he was returning home and suddenly got lost.

“Where am I?” - I repeated again out loud, stopped for the third time and looked questioningly at my English yellow-piebald dog Dianka.

Climbing a high, sharply sloping hill, he saw below him a huge plain, surrounded by a wide river. The narrator finally recognized the area - in the area it was called Bezhin Meadow.

By the fire at night

Right under the cliff, two fires were burning in the darkness, where five peasant children with two dogs were guarding the horses. During the day, the heat and flies with gadflies did not give the horses any rest, so in the summer they were grazed at night.

Driving out the herd before the evening and bringing in the herd at dawn is a great holiday for peasant boys.

The tired hunter went down to the fires, said that he was lost and asked to spend the night. He lay down under a bush nearby, pretended to be asleep and listened to what the kids were talking about.

The boys boiled potatoes and told stories about evil spirits.

Ilyusha

Most of the stories were told by twelve-year-old Ilyusha, with a hook-nosed, elongated, half-sighted face, on which a dull, preoccupied expression was frozen.

Ilyusha - 12 years old, hook-nosed, long face, yellow hair, neatly dressed, works in a paper mill; superstitious and fearful, believes in the supernatural

The boy was dressed cleanly and neatly, but poorly. Ilyusha's large family, apparently, was not rich, so the boy, along with his two brothers, worked at a paper factory from early childhood. Ilyusha “knew all the rural beliefs better than others” and sincerely believed in them.

Brownie at a paper mill

The first story was about how the clerk ordered Ilyusha and a group of guys to spend the night at a paper factory. Someone suddenly stomped upstairs, went down the stairs, and approached the door. The door swung open, and there was no one behind it. And suddenly someone coughs! Scared the brownie boys.

Talking lamb on the grave of a drowned man

Then Ilyusha spoke about a broken dam, an unclean place where a drowned man was once buried. One day the clerk sent a huntsman to the post office. He returned through the dam late at night. Suddenly he sees a little white lamb sitting on the grave of a drowned man. The huntsman decided to take him with him. The lamb does not escape from your hands, it only looks intently into your eyes. The hound felt terrible, he stroked the lamb and said: “Byasha, byasha!” And the lamb bared his teeth and answered him: “Byasha, byasha!”

The late gentleman looking for the gap-grass

Then Ilyusha spoke about the late gentleman he met at the same dam. The dead man was looking for a gap of grass in the “unclean place” and complained that the grave was pressing on him.

Parents' Saturday

Ilyusha was sure that “you can see the dead at any hour,” and on parental Saturday you can find out who will die this year, you just need to sit on the porch and look at the church road - whoever passes by will die. He talked about a woman who decided to find out who would die this year, went to the porch on her parents’ Saturday and recognized herself in a woman passing by.

Solar eclipse and Trishka

When the conversation turned to the recent “celestial foresight” - a solar eclipse, Ilyusha told the legend about the amazing man Trishka, who will come during the solar eclipse. This Trishka is amazing with his ability to free himself from any shackles and get out of any prison.

Pavlusha

Then Pavlusha also remembered the solar eclipse.

Pavlusha - 12 years old; gray-eyed, big-headed and squat, poorly dressed; brave, tries to explain the incomprehensible, determined and inquisitive

When the sun disappeared, the peasants got scared, and the master's cook broke all the pots in the oven, believing that the end of the world had come and there would be no one to eat cabbage soup. Everyone believed that “white wolves would run across the earth, eat people, a bird of prey would fly, or even see Trishka himself.”

The peasants went to the field to meet Trishka. Suddenly they see a “sophisticated” man with a strange head walking. Everyone rushed to hide, and it turned out to be not Trishka, but a village cooper who bought a new jug and put it on his head to make it easier to carry. Pavlushin's story amused the boys.

Suddenly, in the midst of the conversation, the dogs started barking and rushed away. Pavlusha rushed after them. When he returned, he said that the dogs sensed the wolf.

Without a twig in his hand, at night, he, without hesitation at all, galloped alone towards the wolf... “What a nice boy!” - I thought, looking at him.

Kostya

Kostya, a small, frail, very poorly dressed and timid boy of about ten years old with a thoughtful and sad look, told two stories.

Kostya - 10 years old, thin and short, poorly dressed; coward, afraid of the unknown, capable of sympathy, believes Ilyusha’s stories

Carpenter meets mermaid

The first is about a carpenter who gets lost in the forest and stumbles upon a mermaid. She sat on a tree branch, called him to her and laughed. The carpenter took it and crossed himself. The mermaid cried pitifully, and then cursed him - the carpenter would grieve until the end of his days. Since then he has been sad and walking around.

The merman who dragged the boy to the bottom

Kostya’s second story was about a boy who was dragged under water by a merman, and his mother went crazy with grief.

Fedya

The eldest of the boys, Fedya, a slender, handsome teenager of about fourteen, belonged, judging by his clothes, to a wealthy family and was the “lead singer” in this company - he treated his friends patronizingly, but kindly, occasionally interrupting them with good-natured ridicule.

Fedya - 14 years old, handsome, well dressed; as an elder, treats friends patronizingly, but kindly, taciturn

Fedya remembered a woman living in his village who was abandoned by her lover. She went to drown herself, and the waterman dragged her to the bottom, and “ruined” her there. The woman was pulled out, but she did not come to her senses and remained a fool.

The narrator regrets that in the same year the “nice guy” Pavel died - he crashed, falling from a horse.

Kostya stood out from the rest of the boys guarding the horses with his unusual eyes. It was they who interested the narrator so much. The boy's gaze was sad; he was constantly thinking about something.

Kostya's eyes were large. They were begging to be told something exciting, but he didn't have the courage or words to bring up the topic that interested him. Large and black they glittered in the night. Eyes widened even more when talking about terrible incidents.

Despite his age of ten, Kostya is a short and thin, if not skinny, boy. The frail build is complemented by a small and thin face, which the sun generously decorated with freckles. The lips were so narrow that they were difficult to notice. He reminded the narrator a little of a squirrel. Everything about Kostya was subtle, even his voice.

Like the rest of the guys, he was from a peasant family, quite poor, since he could not show off his clothes.

Kostya is not known for his courage. He is very afraid of wolves. When he talks about his terrible adventure and Pavlusha reminds him that Kostya walked past the places where a man was drowned, Kostya gets even more scared.

He affectionately calls one of the guys Pavlusha, not Pavel. And with sadness he remembers the drowned boy Vasya, with whom they went swimming more than once. He treats his parents with love and respect, and not only his own. He calls his own father “daddy” and describes in detail how Vasya Feklista’s mother grieved.

He is very interested in the mystical stories told by the children. He himself actively participates in the conversation and often asks leading questions. He is more afraid of meeting a dead person or a ghost than of seeing wolves. Kostya is well informed about signs and folk beliefs. He claims that there are no mermaids near the river. And when a lost white dove appears, the boy calls it a “righteous soul” that is on its way to heaven. He constantly listens to night sounds and shudders either from the cry of a heron or from the whistling of flying Easter cakes. He dreams of flying with them to those lands where there is no frost.

Kostya's essay from the story Bezhin Meadow

The story of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev says that, having gotten lost in the evening, a hunter goes out into a clearing where local boys are sitting. The hunter asks to stay with them for the night and the boys do not refuse him. In the cauldron, the guys cook potatoes for dinner and tell various stories. They heard these stories in the villages from relatives and fellow villagers, these are horror stories.

Guys around the fire of different ages, among them ten-year-old Kostya. The boy is poorly dressed, but this did not affect his upbringing. Kostya is a boy with sad eyes and an extraordinary appearance, his chin is sharp towards the bottom, like a squirrel’s. Large black eyes sparkled as if he had something to say, but he had no words.

Kostya told horror stories that he heard from his father and decided to tell them to the guys. He spoke about the mermaid who destroyed Gavrila and many other people. The boy tries to imitate the adults, but what gives him away is that he is a little cowardly. Kostya is a very superstitious boy and believes in everything: mermaids and goblin and other evil spirits. The boy is also very afraid of wolves, so when their herd of horses started up and Pavlusha ran to investigate, it scared Kostya very much.

Kostya is afraid of wolves and constantly asks if it was the wolves who drove the herd away. While talking, the boys did not notice how quickly time flew by and that it was high time for them to sleep. Despite his small age, Kostya thinks like an adult and has a feeling of pity. So, for example, the boy feels very sorry for Feklist, the woman whose son drowned. When telling his stories, Kostya attached great importance to nature; he described its beauty so beautifully and colorfully.

At such a young age, these guys knew what friendship, honor and dignity were. Each of them was a kind and honest person, Turgenev wanted to show what kind of generation we need. Each of the guys was hard-working, they helped their parents and knew what responsibility was.

Ivan Sergeevich wanted to say with his story that you need to respect work and always help your parents, as these boys helped. The hardworking guys won the reader’s love from the first line; Turgenev knew what to write about and what the Russian people were so lacking.

Option 3

As the author describes the boy, whose name was Kostya, aged ten years, he had a thoughtful and sad look. He sat all the time with his head down and looked into the unknown distance. His face was thin and covered with freckles. The eyes were black and constantly sad. The chin is sharp, like a squirrel's. There was a feeling as if Kostya was going to say something, but for some reason he was unable to do it. His friend Pavlusha was approximately two years older than him. This skinny boy was wearing the same clothes as the others. There was some kind of fatigue on his sickly face, like that of an adult, not a child. Kostya grew up quite dreamy and imagined various pictures on various topics in his own head.

He was quite afraid of all the nightly horror stories that the other boys told in turn. In their friendly company, he was also frightened by the fact that at night their dogs barked in the forest, smelling the smell of a stranger in the air. However, Kostya naturally didn’t even think about any devils; he was very frightened in a dark and quiet forest, when you couldn’t hear the birds singing and every crunching branch alarmed your ears.

Like all his other friends, he is going to tell creepy stories and fables about evil spirits, about an unknown sound and the boy Vasya, about whom his dad told him. Absolutely all the children sitting here by the fire were superstitious, had a competent education, and therefore were afraid of various night horror stories. Unlike other boys, Kostya was able to describe the beauty of nature in all colors and details. His stories contained poetry, lyricism and romanticism, which made the stories special. He could say things that other children would not have noticed in the nature around them. He had his own talent for storytelling. He was constantly immersed in some non-existent, unusual and fairy-tale worlds.

It is clear that the village boys were not taught to read and write, but they knew how to work very hard and diligently, helping around the house or in the fields, finding forest mushrooms and berries. They were truly strong and capable helpers for parents. It would be difficult to live without them in the village.

Image 4

In the story “Bezhin Meadow,” which was included in the series of stories “Notes of a Hunter,” writer I.S. Turgenev showed the reader the image of peasant children. In a small text, the author so accurately and skillfully managed to talk about village life, with all its hardships and joys. At the center of the story are peasant boys who graze horses at night near a river in a meadow. They are all different and different from each other, but they are all united by the same peasant life. The author did not neglect a single boy, revealing the image and forming the reader’s idea of ​​each of them.

One of the younger representatives of this friendly company was Kostya, he was approximately ten years old. This boy was small in stature, with a small face, and did not particularly attract the narrator’s attention. Looking at Kostya, it was clear that he was from a poor family, since the boy was dressed very simply and poorly. In appearance, the boy was of small build, with a thin and freckled face. But he had something so thoughtful and a little sad that could be read in his black, sparkling eyes. This immediately attracted attention from the outside and prompted reflection on what could be troubling a child at this age. Looking at Kostya, one got the impression that this boy wanted to say something, but could not find the right words, he had such an interesting and mysterious look. Perhaps this was because of his age, because he was younger than most of the boys, who already had more experience and a richer circle of knowledge. Therefore, he listened to each of them with interest and attention, trying not to miss anything. Kostya tried not to move away from the company of boys, despite his age. He kept the conversation going in every possible way, did not hesitate to ask questions and told stories he knew. Of course, the boy was a little afraid of stories about goblins and mermaids, but he tried not to show it. Perhaps this also gave him a certain stiffness and wariness. After all, he really listened to all the extraneous sounds in the dark, which frightened him greatly.

From his conversations with friends, we understand that he is a kind, polite, sensitive boy. With sympathy and pity, he remembers the mother of the drowned Vasya and the other residents of the village with whom troubles have ever happened. Analyzing the full image of Kostya, his behavior, actions and conversation with friends around the fire, we can conclude that hard work, patience, endurance and courage are his main character traits. A ten-year-old boy is conscious of participating in helping his family; he helps as much as he can due to his age. Even if it is minimal help, he is proud that he is also useful for his family, because Kostya sees how difficult it is for his parents.

From all the images of the heroes of the story, we see that childhood for peasant children ends very early, sometimes, before it even begins, and their working life begins early. But the guys are not disappointed, they learn to combine work with children's conversations and games, they strive to see something good and useful in everything and only benefit from everything. And this, in turn, educates responsible, hardworking citizens who respect themselves and the older generation.

Essay 5

That summer the author hunted black grouse in the Chernsky district of the Tula province. It was a beautiful July day and the hunt was successful. In the evening, having decided to return home, he noticed that the places around him were unfamiliar. After wandering around looking for a road, the hunter realized that he was lost. Meanwhile, evening came. Finally, having climbed another hill, he saw a fire in the distance and people walking near it. Coming down the hill and approaching the fire, he saw peasant children guarding the herd. In these places, horses that have not eaten on a hot day are released to pasture until the next morning, under the protection of the children. There were five boys, with two large dogs. The hunter met them, asked permission to spend the night and quietly lay down under a bush. The kids were shy at first, but then they got used to it and stopped paying attention to the stranger and continued the interrupted conversation. The hunter was quietly watching them.

Kostya, one of the younger boys, about ten years old, was small and poorly dressed. He looked thoughtful and sad. A thin little face with a pointed chin was adorned with large black shiny eyes. “They seemed to want to express something for which there were no words in his language.” He sat by the fire, lowered his head and looked somewhere into the distance. Meanwhile, the kids were talking about evil spirits. Kostya joined the general conversation with a story about a mermaid that one of the villagers saw. The story was very figurative, poetic, replete with details... As if Kostya himself was present. The boy’s observation skills are also noted: by comparing the mermaid with fish, he showed considerable knowledge of them.

Kostya, more cowardly than the older boys, is afraid of wolves and evil spirits. However, this does not prevent him from showing curiosity - asking his comrades whether they saw wolves here; and about when you can see the dead. When a dove flew up to the fire, it occurred to Kostya to compare it with a righteous soul flying to heaven. And ask your senior comrades for confirmation. Hearing the cry of a heron that frightened him, he immediately remembered the mysterious and sad sound that he had once heard close to a tree overgrown with reeds. And asked the opinion of the elders. When he was told that one of the villagers was drowned there by thieves and “maybe it was his soul that was complaining,” he admitted that if he had known about this, he would have been even more frightened.

In addition, Kostya is a compassionate person. Remembering the drowned boy Vasya, he feels sorry for both him and his mother, who “has been out of her mind since then. And he talks about them so sympathetically and heartfeltly that we feel sorry for them too. We also sympathize with a boy with a subtle, emotional and vulnerable soul, naive and trusting. After all, if he had not been born into a poor peasant family and received a good education, he could have grown up to be a famous writer or artist.

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Answer from Nadiezhda[guru]

Then the mermaid stopped laughing and began to cry. When the carpenter asked the reason for the tears, she replied that it would be better if he lived with her until the end of his days in “merriment,” but now he crossed himself, and this became impossible. That's why she cries and is killed. However, now he too is destined to be sad until the end of his days. Since then, the carpenter Gavrila has not laughed or even smiled.

Answer from Vlad Agapov[newbie]
He went once, my father said, - he went, my brothers, into the forest for his nuts. So he went into the forest for nuts, and got lost; went - God knows where he went. He walked and walked, my brothers - no! can't find the way; and it’s night outside. So he sat down under a tree; “Come on, I’ll wait until morning,” he sat down and dozed off. He fell asleep and suddenly heard someone calling him. He looks - no one. He dozed off again - they called him again. He looks again, looks: and in front of him on a branch the mermaid sits, sways and calls him to her, and she herself is dying of laughter, laughing... And the month is shining strongly, so strongly, the month is shining clearly - that’s it, my brothers, it is seen. So she calls him, and all bright and white herself sits on a branch, like some kind of little fish or a minnow - and then there’s the crucian carp that’s so whitish, silver... Gavrila the carpenter just died, my brothers, and she knows he laughs and keeps calling him over with his hand. Gavrila stood up and listened to the mermaid, my brothers, yes, you know, the Lord advised him: he laid the cross on himself... And how difficult it was for him to lay the cross, my brothers; he says, the hand is just like a stone, it doesn’t move... Oh, you are so, eh!. .That’s how he laid down the cross, my brothers, the little mermaid stopped laughing, and suddenly she started crying... She was crying, my brothers, wiping her eyes with her hair, and her hair was as green as your hemp. So Gavrila looked, looked at her, and began to ask her: “Why are you, forest potion, crying?” And the mermaid said to him: “You shouldn’t be baptized,” he says, “man, you should live with me in joy until the end of days; but I cry, I am killed because you were baptized; but I will not be the only one who will be killed: you too will be killed until the end of days.” Then she, my brothers, disappeared, and Gavrila immediately understood how he could get out of the forest, that is, get out... But since then he has been walking around sadly.

Answer from Dima Konovalov[newbie]
Kostya tells the story of a suburban carpenter known for his gloominess. His gloomy disposition is explained by an incident that happened to him during a trip to the forest for nuts. The carpenter got lost and fell asleep under a tree towards nightfall. Hearing through a dream that someone was calling him, he got up and saw a mermaid. Having taken a few steps towards her, he came to his senses and crossed himself.
Then the mermaid stopped laughing and began to cry. When the carpenter asked the reason for the tears, she replied that it would be better if he lived with her until the end of his days in “merriment,” but now he crossed himself, and this became impossible. That's why she cries and is killed. However, now he too is destined to be sad until the end of his days. Since then, the carpenter Gavrila has not laughed or even smiled.