The childhood of the crimson grandson read a summary. The childhood years of the crimson grandson. Memories of Infancy

Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov

Childhood years of Bagrov-grandson

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Introduction

I myself don’t know whether I can fully believe everything that my memory has preserved? If I remember the events that actually happened, then these can be called memories not only of childhood, but even of infancy. Of course, I remember nothing in connection, in continuous sequence; but many incidents still live in my memory with all the brightness of colors, with all the vividness of yesterday’s event. When I was three or four years old, I told those around me that I remember how they took me away from my nurse... Everyone laughed at my stories and assured me that I had heard them enough from my mother or nanny and thought that I had seen it myself. I argued and sometimes cited as evidence circumstances that could not be told to me and that only I and my nurse or mother could know. We made inquiries, and it often turned out that this was indeed the case and that no one could tell me about it. But not everything that seemed to me to be seen, I actually saw; the same certificates sometimes proved that I could not see much, but could only hear.

So, I will begin to tell from the prehistoric, so to speak, era of my childhood only what I cannot doubt in reality.

Fragmentary memories

The very first objects that survived in the dilapidated picture of a long time ago, a picture that was greatly faded in other places by time and the flow of the sixties, objects and images that still float in my memory - a nurse, a little sister and mother; then they had no specific meaning for me and were only nameless images. The nurse seems to me at first to be some kind of mysterious, almost invisible creature. I remember myself lying at night, sometimes in a crib, sometimes in my mother’s arms, and crying bitterly: with sobs and screams, I repeated the same word, calling for someone, and someone appeared in the darkness of a dimly lit room, took me to I put my hands on my chest... and I felt good. Then I remember that no one came to my cries and calls, that my mother, holding me to her chest, singing the same words of a soothing song, ran with me around the room until I fell asleep. The nurse, who loved me passionately, again appears several times in my memories, sometimes in the distance, furtively looking at me from behind others, sometimes kissing my hands, face and crying over me. My nurse was a peasant peasant and lived thirty miles away; she left the village on foot on Saturday evening and arrived in Ufa early on Sunday morning; Having looked at me and rested, she returned on foot to her Kasimovka to catch up on her corvee. I remember that she came once, and maybe even came sometime, with my foster sister, a healthy and red-cheeked girl.

At first I loved my sister more than all the toys, more than my mother, and this love was expressed by an incessant desire to see her and a feeling of pity: it seemed to me that she was cold, that she was hungry and that she wanted to eat; I constantly wanted to dress her with my dress and feed her with my food; Of course, I was not allowed to do this, and I cried.

My mother's constant presence merges with my every memory. Her image is inextricably linked with my existence, and therefore it does not stand out much in the fragmentary pictures of the first time of my childhood, although it constantly participates in them.

Here follows a long gap, that is, a dark spot or a faded place in the picture of the long past, and I begin to remember myself as already very sick, and not at the beginning of the illness, which lasted for more than a year and a half, not at the end of it (when I was already recovering), no, I remember being in such weakness that every minute they feared for my life. One day, early in the morning, I woke up or woke up and didn’t know where I was. Everything was unfamiliar to me: a high, large room, bare walls made of very thick new pine logs, a strong resinous smell; bright, it seems like a summer sun, the sun is just rising and through the window on the right side, on top of the single canopy that was lowered above me, it is brightly reflected on the opposite wall... Beside me, my mother sleeps anxiously, without pillows and undressed. How now I look at her black braid, disheveled across her thin and yellow face. The day before I was transported to the foothill village of Zubovka, about ten miles from Ufa. Apparently, the road and the calm sleep produced by the movement strengthened me; I felt good and cheerful, so for several minutes I looked through the canopy at the new objects surrounding me with curiosity and pleasure. I didn’t know how to save my poor mother’s sleep, I touched her with my hand and said: “Oh, what sunshine! it smells so good!” Mother jumped up, frightened at first, and then rejoiced, listening to my strong voice and looking at my refreshed face. How she caressed me, what names she called me, how joyfully she cried... I can’t tell you this! - The canopy was raised; I asked for food, they fed me and gave me half a glass of old Rhine wine to drink, which, as they thought then, was the only thing that strengthened me. Reinwine was poured for me from some strange bottle with a flattened, wide, round bottom and a long, narrow neck. Since then I have not seen such bottles. Then, at my request, they got me pieces or pendants of pine resin, which was drowning, dripping, even flowing everywhere on the walls and doorposts, freezing and drying on the road and hanging in the air as small icicles, completely similar in appearance to ordinary ice icicles. I really loved the smell of pine and spruce resin, which was sometimes smoked in our children's rooms. I smelled, admired, and played with the fragrant and transparent resin icicles; they melted in my hands and glued my thin long fingers together; my mother washed my hands, wiped them dry, and I began to doze off... Objects began to get in the way in my eyes; It seemed to me that we were traveling in a carriage, that they wanted to give me medicine and I didn’t want to take it, that instead of my mother, Agafya’s nanny or nurse was standing next to me... How I fell asleep and what happened after - I don’t remember anything.

I often remember myself in a carriage, not always drawn by horses, not always on the road. I remember very well that my mother, and sometimes the nanny, holds me in her arms, dressed very warmly, that we are sitting in a carriage standing in the barn, and sometimes taken out into the yard; that I was whining, repeating in a weak voice: “Soup, soup,” which they gave me little by little, despite the painful, excruciating hunger, which was sometimes replaced by a complete aversion to food. I was told that in the carriage I cried less and was generally much calmer. It seems that the gentlemen doctors treated me badly at the very beginning of the illness and finally healed me almost to the point of death, leading to complete weakening of the digestive organs; or it may be that suspiciousness, excessive fears of a passionate mother, incessant changes in medications were the cause of the desperate situation in which I found myself.

The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of the child’s life (1790s), spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.

It all begins with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of Rhine wine, pendants pine resin in new wooden house etc. The most common image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. ( Detailed description moving hundreds of miles - to relatives, to visit, etc. - takes up most of the “Childhood Years”.) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill in big trip and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, made him a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and “suddenly woke up as if.” After an illness, the child experiences “a feeling of pity for everyone who suffers.”

With every memory of Seryozha, “the constant presence of his mother merges,” who came out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.

Sequential memories begin at age four. Seryozha with his parents and younger sister live in Ufa. The disease “brought the boy’s nerves to extreme sensitivity.” According to the nanny, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, etc. (Various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he doesn’t even remember it; He had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so when neighbor S.I. Anichkov gave him Novikov’s “Children’s Reading for the Heart and Mind,” the boy, carried away by the books, was “just like crazy.” He was especially impressed by articles explaining thunder, snow, metamorphoses of insects, etc.

The mother, exhausted by Seryozha’s illness, was afraid that she herself had fallen ill with consumption, the parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; The children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father’s parents. The road amazed the child: crossing Belaya, collecting pebbles and fossils - “pieces”, big trees, spending the night in the field and especially - fishing on Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire mined with flint, and the fire of a torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then it fell off from them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, but his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even disgusted.

The people met along the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the ancestral Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashin is incomprehensible, the relationship of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc., is incomprehensible; The child sees, by the way, the harvest in the heat, and this evokes an “inexpressible feeling of compassion.”

The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his crazy fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that “mama’s boy” loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). The children of the proud daughter-in-law, who “disdained” Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrov, so inhospitable that even the children were poorly fed, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses himself by scaring his sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and his beloved “uncle” Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy a “Dream Book” and some kind of vaudeville, which greatly influenced his imagination.

After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly grew up. The mother’s young brothers, military men who graduated from the Moscow University Noble Boarding School, are visiting the house: from them Seryozha learns what poetry is, one of his uncles draws and teaches this to Seryozha, which makes the boy seem like a “superior being.” S.I. Anichkov gives new books: “Anabasis” by Xenophon and “Children’s Library” by Shishkov (which the author very much praises).

The uncles and their friend, adjutant Volkov, playfully tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day rushes to fight; they punish him and demand that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in the room, placed in a corner, he dreams and finally falls ill from excitement and fatigue. The adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.

At Seryozha’s request, they begin to teach him how to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone’s advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so kind to him at home), the spanking of the guilty really frightens the child.

Seryozha’s father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it “Sergeevskaya wasteland,” which the boy is very proud of. The parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir kumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens. Seryozha cannot think about anything else and tensely watches the ice drift and the river flood.

In Sergeevka, the house for the gentlemen is not completed, but even this is amusing: “There are no windows or doors, but the fishing rods are ready.” Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Yevseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Seryozha sees rifle hunting for the first time and feels “some kind of greed, some unknown joy.” Summer is spoiled only by guests, albeit infrequent ones: strangers, even peers, are a burden to Seryozha.

After Sergeevka, Ufa became disgusted. Seryozha is entertained only by a new gift from his neighbor: the collected works of Sumarokov and the poem “Rossiada” by Kheraskov, which he recites and tells his family various details about his favorite characters he has invented. The mother laughs, and the father worries: “Where do you get all this from? Don't become a liar." News arrives about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; The child listens carefully to conversations of worried adults that are not always clear to him.

The news arrives that grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will get sick from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the way, the boy is tormented by sad premonitions, and faith in premonitions takes root in him from then on for the rest of his life.

The grandfather dies a day after his relatives arrive, the children have time to say goodbye to him; “all feelings” of Seryozha are “suppressed by fear”; His nanny Parasha’s explanations of why his grandfather doesn’t cry or scream are especially striking: he is paralyzed, “he looks with all his eyes and only moves his lips.” “I felt the infinity of torment, which cannot be told to others.”

The behavior of Bagrov's relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - “the real master of the house”, the grandmother emphatically cedes power to the mother, and the mother is disgusted. At the table, everyone except Mother is crying and eating with great appetite. And then, after lunch, in the corner room, looking at the ice-free Buguruslan, the boy first understands the beauty of winter nature.

Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.

Having become the owner of Bagrovo after the death of his grandfather, Serezha’s father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo to live permanently. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) keeps Seryozha very busy; he doesn’t understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. A kind boy tries to pity and console his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he essentially did not know before; but her habit of beating servants, very common in the life of a landowner, quickly turns her grandson away from her.

Seryozha’s parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesova; Seryozha’s father is considered her heir and therefore will not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat lurid house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child like a palace from Scheherazade's fairy tales. Having made friends with Seryozha’s mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let the family go back to Bagrovo; Meanwhile, the fussy life in someone else’s house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks about Bagrov, who is already dear to him.

Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha truly sees spring for the first time in his life in the village: “I followed every step of spring. In every room, in almost every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations...” From excitement, the boy begins to experience insomnia; To help him fall asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and by the way - “The Scarlet Flower” (this fairy tale is included in the appendix to “Childhood Years ...”).

In the fall, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Seryozha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let guests go; on the night of Intercession the father sees horrible dream and in the morning he receives news of his grandmother’s illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family almost drowned. Grandmother died on the very Intercession; This terribly affects both Seryozha’s father and the capricious Kurolesova.

Next winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. They plan to spend no more than two weeks in Kazan, but everything turns out differently: Serezha awaits the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to a gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov the grandson ends and adolescence begins.

Retold by G. V. Zykova

The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of the child’s life (1790s), spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.

It all begins with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of Rhine wine, pendants pine resin in a new wooden house, etc. The most common image is the road: travel was considered medicine. (A detailed description of moves of hundreds of miles - to relatives, to visit, etc. - takes up most of the "Childhood Years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, lay down gave him a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and “suddenly woke up as if.” After an illness, the child experiences “a feeling of pity for everyone who suffers.”

With every memory of Seryozha, “the constant presence of his mother merges,” who came out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.

The mother, exhausted by Seryozha’s illness, was afraid that she herself had fallen ill with consumption, the parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; The children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father’s parents. The road amazed the child: crossing Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “stuffs”, large trees, spending the night in the field and especially - fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, fire mined with flint, and the fire of a torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off from them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, but his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even disgusted.

The people met along the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the ancestral Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashin is incomprehensible, the relationship of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc. is incomprehensible; The child sees, by the way, the harvest in the heat, and this evokes an “inexpressible feeling of compassion.”

The boy does not like patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, his grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, his grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his crazy fits of anger; later, when his grandfather saw that “mama’s boy” loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). The children of the proud daughter-in-law, who “disdained” Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrov, so inhospitable that even the children were poorly fed, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses himself by scaring his sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and his beloved “uncle” Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy a “Dream Book” and some kind of vaudeville, which greatly influenced his imagination.

Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.

Seryozha’s parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesova; Seryozha’s father is considered her heir and therefore will not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat lurid house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child like a palace from Scheherazade’s fairy tales. Having made friends with Seryozha’s mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let the family go back to Bagrovo; Meanwhile, the fussy life in someone else’s house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks about Bagrov, who is already dear to him.

Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha truly sees spring for the first time in his life in the village: “I […] followed every step of spring. In every room, in almost every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations...” From excitement, the boy begins to experience insomnia; To help him fall asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and by the way - “The Scarlet Flower” (this fairy tale is included in the appendix to “Childhood Years ...”).

In the fall, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Seryozha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let guests go; On the night of Intercession, the father sees a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother’s illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family almost drowned. Grandmother died on the very Intercession; This terribly affects both Seryozha’s father and the capricious Kurolesova.

Summary of “The Childhood Years of Bagrov the Grandson” The story “The Childhood Years of Bagrov the Grandson” by Aksakov was written in 1858. The book is the second part of the writer's autobiographical trilogy. It describes the childhood years of Sergei Timofeevich, spent in the Southern Urals. To better prepare for a literature lesson, we recommend reading online summary “Childhood years of Bagrov the grandson” by chapters. A retelling of the story will also be useful for the reader's diary. The main characters are Seryozha Bagrov - a little boy, kind, loving, open. Other characters Father is a caring, gentle, family man. Mother is a sickly, slightly nervous woman who loves Seryozha more than other children. Sister is Seryozha’s younger sister, who loves her brother very much. Grandparents are my father’s parents, old, strict people. Praskovya Ivanovna Kurolesova is my father’s aunt, a rich, powerful, but kind woman. Summary Chapter 1. Fragmentary memories In Seryozha's earliest memories there are only three people - “a nurse, a little sister and a mother.” A difficult test for him was the separation from his nurse, whom he loved very much. The sick boy was treated for a long time, and “finally he was healed almost to the point of death, his digestive organs being completely weakened.” It is impossible to describe the suffering of a mother who prayed day and night for her sick son. Seryozha’s consolation was always communication with his younger sister, especially when they “gave him a kiss, patted him on the head,” and then he showed her his toys. Chapter 2. Consistent memories After recovery, Seryozha became “quiet, meek, unusually compassionate, a great coward.” The boy was taught to read, but he learned to write much later. In those years, his family lived in Ufa, in a large wooden house. Seryozha grew up as a nervous, impressionable child with a rich imagination - the nanny’s stories “about the beech tree, about brownies and the dead” could easily drive him into a frenzy. Having learned that the boy began to be afraid of the dark because of the old woman's fairy tales and legends, his mother sent her to the village. At first, Seryozha read “the only book “The Mirror of Virtue” every day.” He became so interested in reading that he began to read everything voraciously. His mother, exhausted by Seryozha’s serious illness and his slow recovery, fell ill with consumption herself. The husband decided to take her to Orenburg to the best specialist. The children were temporarily sent to their grandparents in Bagrovo. Chapter 3. The road to Parashin The road made a strong impression on little Seryozha. He was so amazed by the change of pictures that he even forgot about his passion - reading. Chapter 4. Parashino Arriving in the “rich village of Parashino,” Seryozha’s parents first met Mironych, the manager and attorney of grandmother Kurolesova. The boy immediately disliked Mironych, who was angry, cruel and unfair towards the peasants. Father took Seryozha with him to the horse yard, to the fields, and these trips gave him great pleasure. Chapter 5. The road from Parashin to Bagrovo The move from Parashino to Bagrovo “was huge, more than forty miles.” Mother decided to relax in a tiny Chuvash village. Father invited Seryozha to go fishing with him, and he happily agreed. The awakening was very early, at dawn. At the sight of Bagrovo, the mother’s eyes “filled with tears and sadness was expressed on her face,” and Serezha’s father also became noticeably sad. Chapter 6. Bagrovo Serezha’s grandparents turned out to be old, strict, poorly dressed people. The mother communicated with her husband’s parents very respectfully, but Seryozha immediately sensed in their conversation “something alien, unkind.” The boy was not happy in Bagrovo, he was afraid of his grandfather, and wanted to “get back into the carriage, again on the road.” The next day the mother “fell very ill; she had bile and a fever.” Seryozha, who had never seen his mother so sick, was very frightened. The parents' departure to Orenburg to see the doctor, and, in particular, the first separation from their mother, was a great shock for Serezha. Chapter 7. In Bagrov without father and mother “The wet weather soon arrived,” and the children could not walk outside for a long time. Staying at my grandparents' house turned out to be very boring. Grandfather's mood often changed - he was sometimes cheerful, sometimes angry, sometimes gloomily silent. At first, Seryozha tried to “teach his little sister to read,” but to no avail. In order to somehow entertain himself, he “indulged in various inventions,” telling his sister fascinating stories in which he himself was the main character. After a while, the father returned with a cheerful, stronger mother. Everyone got ready to head back. Chapter 8. Winter in Ufa Seryozha was very happy to return to his Ufa home, namely, “the freedom to run, play and make noise anywhere.” He noticeably “became bolder than before, firmer and more lively,” and close friends of his parents noted that the boy had grown up and wiser. Brothers on his mother’s side began to teach his beloved nephew the skills of drawing and writing, and opened up the world of poetry to him. Chapter 9. Sergeevka With the arrival of spring, Seryozha went with his parents and sister to the village of Sergeevka, where his mother could, on the advice of the doctor, freely receive fresh kumis. Here the boy had a wonderful time watching the hunt and fishing. But the most important thing is that the mother’s health has noticeably improved. Chapter 10. Return to city life in Ufa His usual city life in Ufa seemed to Seryozha in great contrast to the carefree, free life in the village. To escape boredom, the boy engrossed himself in reading new books. Chapter 11. Winter road to Bagrovo The road to Bagrovo, which took two days, left the boy with “the most painful and unpleasant memory.” He was very worried about his mother, who “felt nauseous and dizzy” all the way. At the entrance to Bagrovo, the cart in which the children and nannies were traveling overturned, and Seryozha hit his head hard. Chapter 12. Bagrovo in winter It turned out that the grandfather was dying, but he was “in perfect memory and impatiently wanted to see his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.” In Seryozha’s head there was a complete confusion of “various impressions, memories, fear and premonitions” - the thought of his grandfather’s imminent death did not give him peace. Grandfather died that same night. Seryozha was very surprised that after the funeral the household “cryed and ate with amazing appetite.” Before her parents left, my grandmother tearfully asked my father to resign and come to her to manage the village. Chapter 13. Ufa Upon returning home to Ufa, Seryozha began to notice that “his mother and father had arguments, even unpleasant ones.” The fact is that the father wanted to fulfill the promise given to his mother - “to resign immediately, move to the village, relieve his mother of all household chores and calm her old age.” In turn, his mother hotly argued with him that life in Bagrovo, where no one loved her, would have a bad effect on her health. This time, the father decided to do it his way, and the move to the village was postponed until the summer, until Seryozha’s mother gave him a brother or sister. In June, the mother safely gave birth to a boy, the father retired, and the whole family moved to Bagrovo. Chapter 14. Arrival for permanent residence in Bagrovo In Bagrovo, the family was met by “grandmother, who was very old at six months, and aunt Tatyana Stepanovna.” The father immediately began to fulfill his duties as host, while the mother “firmly announced that she would live as a guest.” Seryozha is addicted to Arabian tales, which completely occupied his imagination. Chapter 15. Churasovo In late autumn, the family went to stay with their father’s aunt, Praskovya Ivanovna Kurolesova, in Churasovo. The aunt greeted the guests “simply, kindly and cheerfully,” and Seryozha quickly became attached to the kind woman. Two months later, it was decided to return to Bagrovo. Chapter 16. Bagrovo after Churasov Compared to life with my aunt in Bagrovo, “everything was quiet, dull, empty.” After Maslenitsa, Mitenka Rozhnov, whose main and only need was gluttony, came to woo one of his father’s sisters. After dinner, “Auntie announced that she would never marry such a freak and lout,” which Seryozha was very happy about. Chapter 17. The first spring in the village The arrival of spring made a great impression on the boy. He could not get used to “spring and its various phenomena, always new, amazing and delightful.” When installed warm weather, Seryozha spent a lot of time catching fish and crayfish. Together with his beloved sister, he picked flowers for his mother and collected “worms, butterflies and various bugs.” In August, the family gathered in Churasovo to visit their aunt Praskovya Ivanovna. Chapter 18. Summer trip to Churasovo On the way to Churasovo, the family stopped with the rich landowner Durasov. Seryozha was impressed by the “marble fountain and sundial” located in the courtyard. The luxurious furnishings of the house had much in common with a real palace, and the boy felt like the hero of some kind of fairy tale. The hospitable host showed his magnificent greenhouses and greenhouses, in which strange flowers and overseas fruits grew. Seryozha was amazed by everything he saw, and his mother was annoyed by his inability to hide his surprise. Praskovya Ivanovna greeted his relatives with unfailing complacency. However, soon the father received an alarming letter about his mother’s illness, and everyone began to prepare to return. Chapter 20. Autumn road to Bagrovo The road to Bagrovo turned out to be very difficult due to bad weather, and lasted for seven days. The father was on the verge of despair, and the mother tried to calm him down as best she could. He never had time to say goodbye to his mother, who “died on the very veil.” This news seriously affected my father. Chapter 21. Life in Bagrov after the death of his grandmother Soon after the death of his grandmother, Seryozha became seriously ill, lying “in the heat and in oblivion for three days.” All this time, his mother did not leave his side, day or night. Praskovya Ivanovna urgently asked her parents to come to her in Churasovo in the winter, and they could not refuse her. It was decided to go “immediately as soon as the winter road sets in.” Meanwhile, Yevseich taught Seryozha how to catch birds using snares, and the boy was very happy about the new entertainment. Praskovya Ivanovna advised her mother to “visit Kazan and pray to the miracle workers there.” Seryozha was glad to have the opportunity to see the “new rich city” - he did not yet know that the beginning of the most important event in his life awaited him... Conclusion In his work, Sergei Aksakov emphasized how important it is to treat children with love and attention when they are just learning the world around them. After familiarizing yourself with a brief retelling“The Childhood Years of Bagrov the Grandson” we recommend reading the story in its full version.

The story “The Childhood Years of Bagrov the Grandson” by Aksakov was written in 1858. The book is the second part of the writer's autobiographical trilogy. It describes the childhood years of Sergei Timofeevich, spent in the Southern Urals.

To better prepare for a literature lesson, we recommend reading online a summary of “The Childhood Years of Bagrov the Grandson” chapter by chapter. A retelling of the story will also be useful for the reader's diary.

Main characters

Seryozha Bagrov- a little boy, kind, loving, open.

Other characters

Father– a caring, gentle, family man.

Mother– A sickly, slightly nervous woman who loves Seryozha more than other children.

Sister- Seryozha’s younger sister, who loves her brother very much.

Grandmother and grandfather- Father's parents, old, strict people.

Praskovya Ivanovna Kurolesova- Father’s aunt, a rich, powerful, but kind woman.

Chapter 1. Fragmentary memories

In Seryozha’s earliest memories there are only three people - “a nurse, a little sister and a mother.” A difficult test for him was the separation from his nurse, whom he loved very much. The sick boy was treated for a long time, and “finally he was healed almost to death, his digestive organs were completely weakened.” It is impossible to describe the suffering of a mother who prayed day and night for her sick son. Seryozha’s consolation was always communication with his younger sister, especially when he was “given a kiss and a pat on the head,” and then he showed her his toys.

Chapter 2: Sequential Memories

After recovery, Seryozha became “quiet, meek, unusually compassionate, a great coward.” The boy was taught to read, but he learned to write much later. In those years, his family lived in Ufa, in a large wooden house. Seryozha grew up as a nervous, impressionable child with a rich imagination - the nanny’s stories “about the beech tree, about brownies and the dead” could easily drive him into a frenzy. Having learned that the boy began to be afraid of the dark because of the old woman's fairy tales and legends, his mother sent her to the village.

At first, Seryozha read “the only book “The Mirror of Virtue” every day.” He became so interested in reading that he began to read everything voraciously.

His mother, exhausted by Seryozha’s serious illness and his slow recovery, fell ill with consumption herself. The husband decided to take her to Orenburg to the best specialist. The children were temporarily sent to their grandparents in Bagrovo.

Chapter 3. The road to Parashin

The road made a strong impression on little Seryozha. He was so amazed by the change of pictures that he even forgot about his passion - reading.

Chapter 4. Parashino

Arriving in the “rich village of Parashino,” Seryozha’s parents first met Mironych, the manager and attorney of grandmother Kurolesova. The boy immediately disliked Mironych, who was angry, cruel and unfair towards the peasants. Father took Seryozha with him to the horse yard, to the fields, and these trips gave him great pleasure.

Chapter 5. The road from Parashin to Bagrovo

The move from Parashino to Bagrovo “was huge, more than forty miles.” Mother decided to relax in a tiny Chuvash village. Father invited Seryozha to go fishing with him, and he happily agreed. The awakening was very early, at dawn. At the sight of Bagrovo, the mother’s eyes “filled with tears and sadness was expressed on her face,” and Serezha’s father also became noticeably sad.

Chapter 6. Bagrovo

Serezha's grandparents turned out to be old, strict, poorly dressed people. The mother communicated with her husband’s parents very respectfully, but Seryozha immediately sensed in their conversation “something alien, unkind.” The boy was not happy in Bagrovo, he was afraid of his grandfather, and wanted to “get back into the carriage, again on the road.” The next day the mother “fell very ill; she had bile and a fever.” Seryozha, who had never seen his mother so sick, was very frightened. The parents' departure to Orenburg to see the doctor, and, in particular, the first separation from their mother, was a great shock for Serezha.

Chapter 7. In Bagrov without father and mother

"Wet weather soon arrived" and the children could not walk outside for long. Staying at my grandparents' house turned out to be very boring. Grandfather's mood often changed - he was sometimes cheerful, sometimes angry, sometimes gloomily silent. At first, Seryozha tried to “teach his little sister to read,” but to no avail. In order to somehow entertain himself, he “indulged in various inventions,” telling his sister fascinating stories in which he himself was the main character. After a while, the father returned with a cheerful, stronger mother. Everyone got ready to head back.

Chapter 8. Winter in Ufa

Seryozha was very happy to return to the Ufa house, namely, “the freedom to run, play and make noise anywhere.” He noticeably “became bolder than before, firmer and more lively,” and close friends of his parents noted that the boy had grown up and wiser. Brothers on his mother’s side began to teach his beloved nephew the skills of drawing and writing, and opened up the world of poetry to him.

Chapter 9. Sergeevka

With the arrival of spring, Seryozha went with his parents and sister to the village of Sergeevka, where his mother could, on the advice of the doctor, freely receive fresh kumiss. Here the boy had a wonderful time watching the hunt and fishing. But the most important thing is that the mother’s health has noticeably improved.

Chapter 10. Return to Ufa to city life

Serezha found his usual city life in Ufa in great contrast to the carefree, free life in the village. To escape boredom, the boy engrossed himself in reading new books.

Chapter 11. Winter road to Bagrovo

The road to Bagrovo, which took two days, left the boy with “the most painful and unpleasant memory.” He was very worried about his mother, who “felt nauseous and dizzy” all the way. At the entrance to Bagrovo, the cart in which the children and nannies were traveling overturned, and Seryozha hit his head hard.

Chapter 12. Bagrovo in winter

It turned out that the grandfather was dying, but he was “in perfect memory and impatiently wanted to see his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.” In Serezha’s head there was a complete confusion of “various impressions, memories, fear and premonitions” - the thought of his grandfather’s imminent death did not give him peace. Grandfather died that same night. Seryozha was very surprised that after the funeral the household “cryed and ate with amazing appetite.” Before her parents left, my grandmother tearfully asked my father to resign and come to her to manage the village.

Chapter 13. Ufa

Upon returning home to Ufa, Seryozha began to notice that “my mother and father had arguments, even unpleasant ones.” The fact is that the father wanted to fulfill the promise given to his mother - “to resign immediately, move to the village, relieve his mother of all household chores and calm her old age.” In turn, his mother hotly argued with him that life in Bagrovo, where no one loved her, would have a bad effect on her health. This time, the father decided to do it his way, and the move to the village was postponed until the summer, until Seryozha’s mother gave him a brother or sister.

In June, the mother safely gave birth to a boy, the father retired, and the whole family moved to Bagrovo.

Chapter 14. Arrival for permanent residence in Bagrovo

In Bagrovo, the family was met by “the grandmother, who was very old at six months, and Aunt Tatyana Stepanovna.” The father immediately began to perform his duties as host, while the mother "firmly declared that she would live as a guest." Seryozha became addicted to Arabic fairy tales, which completely occupied his imagination.

Chapter 15. Churasovo

In late autumn, the family went to stay with their father’s aunt, Praskovya Ivanovna Kurolesova, in Churasovo. The aunt greeted the guests “simply, kindly and cheerfully,” and Seryozha quickly became attached to the kind woman. Two months later, it was decided to return to Bagrovo.

Chapter 16. Bagrovo after Churasov

Compared to life with my aunt in Bagrovo, “everything was quiet, dull, empty.” After Maslenitsa, Mitenka Rozhnov, whose main and only need was gluttony, came to woo one of his father’s sisters. After dinner, “Auntie announced that she would never marry such a freak and a lout,” which Seryozha was very happy about.

Chapter 17. First spring in the village

The arrival of spring made a great impression on the boy. He could not get used to “spring and its various phenomena, always new, amazing and delightful.” When warm weather set in, Seryozha spent a lot of time catching fish and crayfish. Together with his beloved sister, he picked flowers for his mother and collected “worms, butterflies and various bugs.” In August, the family gathered in Churasovo to visit their aunt Praskovya Ivanovna.

Chapter 18. Summer trip to Churasovo

On the way to Churasovo, the family stopped with the rich landowner Durasov. Seryozha was impressed by the “marble fountain and sundial” located in the courtyard. The luxurious furnishings of the house had much in common with a real palace, and the boy felt like the hero of some kind of fairy tale. The hospitable host showed his magnificent greenhouses and greenhouses, in which strange flowers and overseas fruits grew. Seryozha was amazed by everything he saw, and his mother was annoyed by his inability to hide his surprise.

Praskovya Ivanovna greeted his relatives with unfailing complacency. However, soon the father received an alarming letter about his mother’s illness, and everyone began to prepare to return.

Chapter 20. Autumn road to Bagrovo

The road to Bagrovo turned out to be very difficult due to bad weather, and lasted for seven days. The father was on the verge of despair, and the mother tried to calm him down as best she could. He never had time to say goodbye to his mother, who “died on the very veil.” This news seriously affected my father.

Chapter 21. Life in Bagrov after the death of my grandmother

Soon after the death of his grandmother, Seryozha became seriously ill, lying “in the heat and in oblivion for three days.” All this time, his mother did not leave his side, day or night. Praskovya Ivanovna urgently asked her parents to come to her in Churasovo in the winter, and they could not refuse her. It was decided to go “immediately, as soon as the winter road sets in.” Meanwhile, Yevseich taught Seryozha how to catch birds using snares, and the boy was very happy about the new entertainment. Praskovya Ivanovna advised her mother to “visit Kazan and pray to the miracle workers there.” Seryozha was glad to have the opportunity to see the “new rich city” - he did not yet know that the beginning of the most important event in his life awaited him ahead...

Conclusion

In his work, Sergei Aksakov emphasized how important it is to treat children with love and attention when they are just learning about the world around them.

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