Artists. Story (1879)

The narration is conducted alternately on behalf of two artists - Dedov and Ryabinin, contrastingly opposed to each other.

Dedov, a young engineer, having received a small inheritance, leaves the service in order to devote himself entirely to painting.

He works hard, paints and paints landscapes and is perfectly happy if he manages to capture the spectacular play of light in the picture. Who and why will need a landscape painted by him - he does not ask himself such a question.

Dedov's comrade at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Ryabinin, on the contrary, is constantly tormented by the question, does anyone need his painting, and in general - art?

Dedov and Ryabinin often return together after classes at the academy. Their path lies past the pier, cluttered with parts of various metal structures and mechanisms, and Dedov often explains to his comrade their purpose. Somehow he draws Ryabinin's attention to a huge cauldron with a seam that has parted. There is a conversation about how to fix it. Dedov explains how rivets are made: a person sits in a cauldron and holds the rivet from the inside with tongs, pushing them with his chest, and outside, with all his might, the master beats the rivet with a hammer. "After all, it's like beating on the chest," Ryabinin worries. “It doesn’t matter,” Dedov agrees, explaining that these workers quickly become deaf (for which they are called wood grouse), do not live long and receive a penny, because for this work “neither skill nor art is required.”

Ryabinin asks Dedov to show him such a capercaillie. Dedov agrees to take him to the factory, leads him to the boiler room, and Ryabinin himself climbs into a huge boiler to see how the capercaillie works. He comes out completely pale.

A few days later, he decides to paint capercaillie. Grandfather does not approve of his friend's decision - why multiply the ugly?

Meanwhile, Ryabinin is working frantically. The closer to the end the picture moves, the more terrible it seems to the artist that he has created. The emaciated man crouched in the corner of the cauldron has a painful effect on Ryabinin. Will it have the same effect on the public? "Kill their peace, as you killed mine," the artist conjures his creation.

Finally, Ryabinin's painting was exhibited and bought. According to the tradition that lives among artists, Ryabinin should arrange a feast for his comrades. Everyone congratulates him on his success. It looks like he has a bright future ahead of him. Soon - the end of the academy, he is an indisputable candidate for a gold medal, giving the right to four years of perfection abroad.

At night, after the feast, Ryabinin becomes ill. In delirium, it seems to him that he is again at the factory where he saw the capercaillie, that he himself is something like a capercaillie and all his acquaintances beat him with hammers, sticks, fists, so that he physically feels how a terrible blow falls on his skull .

Ryabinin loses consciousness. Lying unconscious, he is discovered by the landlady. Dedov takes Ryabinin to the hospital and visits him. Ryabinin is gradually recovering. The medal was missed - Ryabinin did not have time to submit a competitive work. Dedov received his medal and sincerely sympathizes with Ryabinin - as a landscape painter, he did not compete with him. When asked by Dedov whether Ryabinin intends to participate in the competition next year, Ryabinin answers in the negative.

Dedov goes abroad - to improve in painting. Ryabinin, on the other hand, gives up painting and enters a teacher's seminary.

Author of the retelling: A. N. Latynina

Red flower. Story (1883)

Garshin's most famous story. While not strictly autobiographical, it nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of the writer, who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880.

A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is stubborn, and the doctor fails to relieve the severity of the attack. He walks continuously from corner to corner of the room, hardly sleeping, and despite the intense nutrition prescribed by the doctor, he is uncontrollably losing weight. He realizes that he is in a lunatic asylum. A man is educated, he largely retains his intellect and properties of his soul. He is worried about the abundance of evil in the world. And now, in the hospital, it seems to him that somehow he stands in the center of a gigantic enterprise aimed at eliminating evil on earth, and that other eminent people of all time gathered here are called upon to help him in this.

Meanwhile, summer comes, the sick spend whole days in the garden, cultivating vegetable beds and caring for a flower garden.

Not far from the porch, the patient discovers three poppy bushes of unusually bright scarlet color. The hero suddenly imagines that all the world’s evil is embodied in these flowers, that they are so red because they have absorbed the innocently shed blood of humanity, and that his purpose on earth is to destroy the flower and with it all the evil of the world...

He plucks one flower, quickly hides on his chest, and the whole evening begs others not to approach him.

The flower, it seems to him, is poisonous, and it would be better if this poison first goes into his chest than affects anyone else... He himself is ready to die, “like an honest fighter and as the first fighter of humanity, because so far no one I didn’t dare fight all the evil in the world at once.”

In the morning, the paramedic finds him barely alive, the hero is so exhausted by the fight against the poisonous secretions of the red flower...

Three days later, he plucks the second flower, despite the protests of the watchman, and again hides it on his chest, while feeling how evil is wriggling from the flower in long, snake-like streams.

This struggle further weakens the patient. The doctor, seeing the patient’s critical condition, the severity of which is aggravated by incessant walking, tells him to put a straitjacket on him and tie him to a bed.

The patient resists - because he needs to pick the last flower and destroy evil. He is trying to explain to his watchmen what danger threatens them all if they do not let him go - after all, only he alone in the whole world can defeat the insidious flower - they themselves will die from one touch to him. The watchmen sympathize with him, but do not pay attention to the patient's warnings.

Then he decides to deceive the vigilance of his watchmen. Pretending that he calmed down, he waits for the night and here he shows wonders of dexterity and ingenuity. He is freed from the straitjacket and put, with a desperate effort bends the iron bar of the window grille, clambers along the stone wall. With torn nails and bloody hands, he finally gets to the last flower.

In the morning he is found dead. The face is calm, light and full of proud happiness. In the stiffened hand is a red flower, which the fighter against evil takes with him to the grave.

Author of the retelling: A. N. Latynina

Signal. Story (1887)

Semyon Ivanov serves as a watchman on the railway. He is an experienced man, but not very successful. Nine years ago, in 1878, I went to war and fought with the Turks. He was not wounded, but lost his health. He returned to his native village - the farm did not work out, his little son died, and he and his wife went to new places to seek happiness. Not found.

Met Semyon during the wanderings of a former officer of his regiment. He recognized Semyon, sympathized and found him a job at the railway station, over which he was in charge.

Semyon got a new booth, as much firewood as you wanted, a garden, a salary - and he and his wife began to acquire a household. Semyon's work was not a burden, and he kept his entire section of the road in order.

Semyon also got to know his neighbor Vasily, who was looking after the adjacent plot. When they met on rounds, they began to interpret.

Semyon endures all his troubles and failures stoically: "God did not give happiness." Vasily, on the other hand, believes that his life is so poor, because others profit from his work - rich people and bosses, all of them are bloodsuckers and knackers, and he hates all of them fiercely.

Meanwhile, an important audit arrives from St. Petersburg. Semyon put everything in order ahead of time, he was praised. But on Vasily's site, everything turned out differently. He had long been in a quarrel with the roadmaster. According to the rules, it was necessary to ask this master for permission to plant a garden, but Vasily neglected it, planted cabbage without permission - he ordered to dig it out. Vasily got angry and decided to complain about the master to the big boss. Yes, he not only did not accept the complaint, but he shouted at Vasily and hit him in the face.

Vasily threw a booth on his wife - and went to Moscow to seek justice now for this boss. Yes, apparently, I did not find it. Four days passed, Semyon met Vasily's wife on the rounds, her face was swollen from tears, and she did not want to talk to Semyon.

Just at that time, Semyon went into the forest to cut willows: he made pipes from it for sale. Returning, I heard strange sounds near the railway embankment - as if iron tinkled against iron. He crept closer and sees: Vasily tampered with the rail with a crowbar and turned the path. I saw Seeds - and run away.

Semyon stands over the broken rail and does not know what to do. You can't put it in place with your bare hands. Vasily had the key and the crowbar - but no matter how much Semyon called him to return - he did not get through. The passenger train is due soon.

“It’s at this curve that he’ll get off the rail,” Semyon thinks, “and the embankment is high, eleven fathoms, the carriages will fall down, and there will be small children...” Semyon started to run to the hut for the tool, but realized that he wouldn’t have time . I ran back - I could already hear the distant whistle - the train was coming soon.

Then a light seemed to illuminate his head. Semyon took off his hat, took out a scarf from it, crossed himself, stabbed his right hand with a knife above the elbow, and a stream of blood sprayed out. He soaked his handkerchief in it, put it on a stick (the waistcoat he brought from the forest came in handy) - and raised a red flag - a signal to the driver that he needed to stop the train.

But, apparently, Semyon hurt his hand too deeply - the blood gushing without stopping, it gets dark in his eyes and only one thought in his head: "Help, Lord, send a shift."

Semyon could not stand it and lost consciousness, fell to the ground, but the flag did not fall - his other hand grabbed it and raised it high towards the train. The driver manages to brake, people jump out onto the embankment and see a man covered in blood, lying unconscious, and next to another, with a bloody rag in his hand...

This is Vasily. He looks around the audience and says: "Knit me, I turned the rail off."

Author of the retelling: A. N. Latynina

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