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A brief retelling of Belkin's shot. Silvio reveals his secret to a friend

The provincial place *** could not boast of a variety of entertainment. The officers of the regiment stationed there most often whiled away the time playing cards. They knew little of the locals, but one of the townspeople, a 35-year-old former hussar, was still a regular in the regimental society. Almost nothing was known about this mysterious man's past. He seemed Russian, but bore a foreign name - Silvio, lived very poorly, but often invited the entire regiment to his dinners. Silvio fired his pistol with extraordinary accuracy. He constantly practiced this art, and all the walls of his room were riddled with marks from the shots, like a honeycomb.

I (says the hero of Pushkin) also served in this regiment, and for some reason Silvio singled me out among other comrades. I treated this partly demonic man with mutual goodwill. My acquaintance with him was suddenly interrupted when one day Silvio received a certain letter in the mail. After reading it, he announced that he was leaving the town of *** forever.

Before leaving, Silvio, in a burst of frankness, told me about his reason. Six years ago, he received a slap in the face, for which he has not yet avenged the offender. At that time, Silvio served as a hussar and was the first ringleader and brawler of his regiment. His comrades idolized him until a rival appeared among his colleagues: a newly determined young man from a wealthy family. In a short time, this newcomer won more success with women. He spent more money on friends, wrote epigrams better. In the soul of Silvio awakened envy of a competitor. It came to a public quarrel at one ball, during which the opponent gave Silvio a slap in the face.

Silvio challenged him to a duel. The enemy came to her quite calmly. Having fired first at the lot, he pierced Silvio's cap just an inch from the forehead, and then he himself calmly stood in front of the pistol, eating cherries. Enraged, Silvio did not want to kill him in such arrogant self-confidence and negotiated for himself the right to fire back not this time, but whenever he pleases.

And now he received the news in a letter that his enemy was preparing to marry a beautiful girl. Having languished with a thirst for revenge for six years, Silvio decided to go to his opponent, exercise his right to return the shot and see if he would accept death before the wedding with such indifference, as he once waited for her behind the cherries.

II

Silvio left and I never saw him again. About five years later, I had to retire and settle in my poor estate to manage my faltering affairs. Almost all the neighbors-nobles were the same poor, but one day the news spread around the district about the imminent arrival of the owners of the only rich local estate. The count and countess arrived, both about my age. I went to introduce myself to them.

The courteous count received me cordially and politely. In his richly furnished office, a strange picture of a view from Switzerland caught my attention. She was shot with two bullets, one on top of the other.

Curious about who was such an accurate shooter, I told about my former acquaintance Silvio. The count was shocked and told me that it was he who was the previously mentioned rival and offender of this man. I also learned about what happened to Silvio immediately after his departure from the town of ***.

A. S. Pushkin "Shot". Performance

He appeared to the count-offender in this very room and presented his right to a duel shot postponed several years ago. Out of a sense of honor, the count could not refuse. He stood in the corner. Silvio raised his pistol, took aim, but then suddenly nobly suggested that his opponent again cast lots about who would shoot first. The ticket fell to the count. In some kind of oblivion, he took up arms, but missed and fell into that very picture.

At that moment, his wife ran in screaming. Silvio raised his pistol. The count was waiting for a shot while his wife lay at the feet of his enemy. Starting to aim, Silvio suddenly lowered his weapon and said that he would not shoot: he was pleased that he saw the confusion and timidity of the person he hated and turned out to be more generous than him, again giving him the opportunity to fire the first shot. Silvio went to the exit, but turned around in the doorway and, almost without aiming, fired a bullet into the picture that had been perforated by the count with such accuracy that he hit the same hole.

There was no exact information about the further fate of this person. There were rumors that Silvio died fighting the Turks during

Pushkin wrote “The Shot” (a summary of the story is given in this article) in 1830, and it was published a year later. Historians studying the biography of the writer argue that this work is clearly autobiographical in nature. In the life of Alexander Sergeevich there was a similar case. So, a short summary of the story.

Description of the main character

The story begins with the story that the officer regiment was quartered in a certain place, let's call it N. The boredom here was terrible. There is nothing for officers to do. After all, all the teachings took place only in the morning, and the rest of the time they were left to themselves. A former hussar lived in this place, who arranged dinners for young army men in his house. His name was Silvio. He was a strange and mysterious person. It was known that he once served as a hussar, and then quit and settled in this outback. Nobody knew the reason why he had to do it. He himself was gloomy and silent, did not enter into disputes and conversations. No one had a desire to climb into his soul and ask him about the past. With an acquaintance with the main character, Pushkin begins his story in the work “The Shot”. A summary of this episode is available here.

Skirmish at the card game of officers

Once, when the officers once again dined at Silvio's, an unpleasant incident occurred between the owner of the house and one young campaigner. The guests, as always, played cards. This was their only entertainment. Silvio himself very rarely took part in such events. And if he still played, then by his own rules. He never made remarks to his partners. And if he noticed their mistakes, then he wrote down the miscalculations of the opponents in a notebook, without saying a word. This time he was persuaded to play. During the process, Silvio noticed the ponter's mistake and began to write something with chalk. His opponent noticed this and began to object. The former hussar was silent, continuing to do his job. And the young officer, having lost his restraint, threw a copper shandal at the owner of the house. Everyone expected the case to end in a duel. However, Silvio did not do this. Through his teeth, he asked the enemy to leave. The summary of Pushkin's story "The Shot" does not allow us to convey the intensity of passions that was at that moment around the protagonist and his opponent.

Silvio talks about his old duel

Once a former hussar received an envelope in the mail. After reading its contents, he urgently decides to leave. He gives out the reason for such a quick departure only to one young officer, with whom he became close and to whom he could entrust his secret. Silvio told him a story that happened to him many years ago, when he was still a hussar. It turned out that then he challenged a daring officer to a duel for insulting him. The duel took place. The officer shot through Silvio's cap. When the time came to shoot the hussar, he refused to do so. After all, his offender stood, ate cherries and with all his appearance showed him his disdain. After this incident, Silvio left the army and settled in this outback, where his officers found him. The letter he received contained information that his former opponent, now an earl, had recently married. Silvio decided to repay his debt by killing him in a duel. So mysteriously describes the events of bygone years in the life of the protagonist in the story "Shot" Pushkin. A summary of the episode where Silvio shares his secret with a friend is given here.

Return shot of a hussar after many years

And now our hero appears in the house of the count, who did not expect to see his former colleague after so many years. Upon learning that Silvio wanted to fire a shot, the right of which was left to him, the count turned pale. After all, he now had something to lose. He had a young wife. So ends the story "Shot" (summary). Pushkin, perhaps in this work, described an incident that happened to him in a duel. Then the poet appeared for a duel with cherries - he had breakfast with them. At that time, everything ended well for him.

In 1830, Pushkin wrote the story "The Shot". You have just read a summary of the work. The time of the creation of the story in the life of Russia was marked by popular unrest and the loss of political stability. Perhaps this is what prompted the author to write this work.

The army regiment is stationed in the town ***. Life goes on according to the routine of the army, and only the acquaintance of the officers with a certain man named Silvio, who lives in this place, dispels the boredom of the garrison. He is older than most of the officers of the regiment, sullen, has a tough temper and an evil tongue. There is some secret in his life that Silvio does not reveal to anyone. It is known that Silvio once served in a hussar regiment, but no one knows the reason for his resignation, as well as the reason for living in this outback. Neither his income nor his fortune is known, but he keeps an open table for the officers of the regiment, and champagne flows like water at dinners. For this, everyone is ready to forgive him. The mystery of Silvio's figure sets off his almost supernatural skill in pistol shooting. He does not take part in the conversations of officers about duels, and when asked if he had ever fought, he answers dryly that he did. Between themselves, the officers believe that some unfortunate victim of his inhuman art lies on the conscience of Silvio. One day, as usual, several officers gathered at Silvio's. Having drunk a lot, they started a card game and asked Silvio to sweep the bank. In the game, he was silent as usual and without a word corrected the mistakes of the punters in the records. One young officer, who had recently joined the regiment and did not know the habits of Silvio, it seemed that he was mistaken. Enraged by Silvio's silent stubbornness, the officer threw a shandal at his head, Silvio, pale with anger, asked the officer to leave. Everyone considered the duel inevitable and did not doubt its outcome, but Silvio did not call the officer, and this circumstance ruined his reputation in the eyes of the officers, but gradually everything went back to normal and the incident was forgotten. Only one officer, to whom Silvio sympathized more than others, could not come to terms with the idea that Silvio did not wash off the insult.

Once in the regimental office, where the mail came, Silvio received a package, the contents of which greatly excited him. He announced his unexpected departure to the assembled officers and invited everyone to a farewell dinner. Late in the evening, when everyone was leaving Silvio's house, the owner asked the most sympathetic officer to linger and revealed his secret to him.

Several years ago, Silvio received a slap in the face, and his offender is still alive. It happened during the years of his service, when Silvio had a violent temper. He excelled in the regiment and enjoyed this position until "a young man of a rich and noble family" was determined in the regiment. He was the most brilliant lucky man, who was always fabulously lucky in everything. At first, he tried to win the friendship and favor of Silvio, but, not having succeeded in this, moved away from him without regret. The primacy of Silvio was shaken, and he began to hate this favorite of fortune. Once, at a ball with a Polish landowner, they quarreled, and Silvio received a slap in the face from his enemy. At dawn there was a duel, to which the offender Silvio appeared with a cap full of ripe cherries. By lot, he got the first shot, making it and shooting through Silvio's cap, he calmly stood at the muzzle of his pistol and enjoyed eating cherries with pleasure, spitting out the bones, which sometimes reached his opponent. His indifference and equanimity infuriated Silvio, and he refused to shoot. His opponent said indifferently that Silvio would have the right to use his shot whenever he pleased. Soon Silvio retired and retired to this place, but not a day passed that he did not dream of revenge. And finally, his time has come. He is informed that "a famous person will soon enter into a legal marriage with a young and beautiful girl." And Silvio decided to see if he would accept death with such indifference before his wedding, as he once waited for her behind the cherries! Friends said goodbye, and Silvio left.

A few years later, circumstances forced the officer to retire and settle in his poor village, where he was dying of boredom, until Count B *** came to the neighboring estate with his young wife. The narrator goes to visit them. The count and countess enchanted him with their secular appeal. On the wall of the living room, the narrator's attention is drawn to a picture shot through by "two bullets stuck one into the other." He praised the successful shot and said that he knew in his life a man whose skill in shooting was truly amazing. When asked by the count what the name of this shooter was, the narrator named Silvio. At this name, the count and countess were embarrassed. The count asks if Silvio told his friend about a strange story, and the narrator guesses that the count is the very old offender of his friend. It turns out that this story had a continuation, and the shot through picture is a kind of monument to their last meeting.

It happened five years ago in this very house where the count and countess spent their honeymoon. One day, the count was informed that a certain person was waiting for him, who did not want to give his name. Entering the living room, the count found Silvio there, whom he did not immediately recognize and who reminded him of the shot left behind him and said that he had come to unload his pistol. The Countess could come in any minute. The count was nervous and in a hurry, Silvio hesitated, and finally forced the count to draw lots again. And again the count got the first shot. Against all rules, he shot and shot through the picture hanging on the wall. At that moment, the frightened countess ran in. Her husband began to assure her that they were just joking with an old friend. But what happened was not too much of a joke. The countess was on the verge of fainting, and the enraged count shouted to Silvio to shoot, but Silvio replied that he would not do this, that he saw the main thing - the fear and confusion of the count, and that was enough for him. The rest is a matter of conscience of the count himself. He turned and walked towards the exit, but he stopped at the very door and, almost without aiming, fired and hit exactly in the place shot by the count in the picture. The narrator did not meet Silvio again, but heard that he died participating in the uprising of the Greeks led by Alexander Ypsilanti.

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The prose cycle "Belkin's Tale" was written by A. S. Pushkin in the famous "Boldino Autumn" of 1830 and then published anonymously. Upon his return from Boldin, Pushkin introduced Baratynsky to the Tales. “Baratynsky neighs and beats,” he jokingly wrote to Pletnev soon after.

This Pushkin cycle consists of a preface ("From the Publisher") and five stories: "Shot", "Snowstorm", "The Undertaker", "The Stationmaster" and "The Young Lady Peasant Woman".

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - From the publisher"

In the preface to the cycle, Pushkin says that the author of the stories was allegedly the late young man Ivan Petrovich Belkin, who was born in the village of Goryukhino. After the death of his parents, he left the service in the Jaeger regiment and returned to this patrimony of his. The fictional Belkin did not have economic abilities and soon ruined the estate. But he showed an extraordinary penchant for the female sex, as well as for listening and recording amusing life stories. According to Pushkin, Belkin died at the end of 1828 from "a catarrhal fever that turned into a fever." His stories are now offered to readers as "a monument to a noble way of thinking and touching friendship."

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Shot"

Colleagues in the regiment idolize the ringleader, the brawler and the skilled shooter Silvio. But he has a rival - a newly determined young earl from a rich family, who is more liked by women and spends more money on friends. The rivalry between them comes to a duel. The enemy pierces Silvio's cap with his bullet just an inch from the forehead, and then stands under his pistol, eating cherries with calm contempt.

Enraged, Silvio refuses to shoot right now and negotiates with his opponent the right to shoot at a moment that he himself chooses later. For several years he burns with gloomy revenge, waiting for the moment when the count does not want to die. Finally, Silvio finds out: his rival has just married a beautiful girl. He goes to the count in the village and demands to complete the unfinished duel. In order to further humiliate the enemy, Silvio allows him to shoot again.

The Count misses again, hitting a painting hanging on the wall of the room. His young wife runs into the noise and falls at Silvio's feet, begging him not to kill her husband. Having enjoyed the confusion and timidity of his opponent, Silvio refuses to shoot him. Leaving, he makes a shot at the picture on the wall - and aptly hits the mark left by the count's bullet.

Pushkin. Shot. audiobook

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Snowstorm"

Young nobles, neighbors on estates, Masha and Vladimir, love each other. But their marriage is hindered by the Machine's parents. At the suggestion of Vladimir, Masha decides to run away from home at night in order to move in with her betrothed in a nearby church, get married there, and then confront her father and mother with a fait accompli.

The flight takes place in winter, in a terrible snowstorm. Masha and the witnesses chosen by Vladimir reach the church, but he himself loses his way in the thick snow and ends up in a completely different direction. At the church, where the bride, already almost unconscious, is waiting for the groom, stops on the way to the army of hussars. Confusing him with Vladimir, the witnesses drag the hussar to the priest. Only at the end of the ceremony, Masha, who has regained consciousness, realizes: she married the wrong one. The hussar, realizing that he got into an unpleasant story, hurries to leave.

But the ritual has already been completed. Vladimir can no longer marry Masha. With grief, he goes to the war of 1812 with Napoleon and dies there. Married to a stranger, Masha has been alienating all applicants for her hand for several years, until her attention is attracted by the cavalryman Burmin who has returned from a campaign in Europe. Burmin really likes Masha, but for a long time he does not dare to start a decisive explanation with her. Finally, in a burst of candor, he tells her the reason for this. Burmin is married - he was the same hussar who had previously married Masha of the Church. Now he doesn't recognize her. Masha reveals the truth to Burmin, and he falls at her feet.

Film based on the story of A. S. Pushkin "Snowstorm", 1984

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - The Undertaker"

Moscow German shoemaker Gottlieb Schulze invites his neighbor, undertaker Adrian Prokhorov, to his silver wedding. Local artisans gather for the celebration. During a drinking bout, one of them offers to drink "to the health of our customers." All the guests immediately begin to laugh at Adrian, saying that he should also drink to the health of his dead.

Adrian used to intend to invite the neighbors to his housewarming party, but now he decides not to do it out of resentment. Returning home drunk and going to bed, the undertaker tells the maid that he would better call those for whom he works: the Orthodox dead.

Adrian spends the whole next day at the funeral of the merchant Tryukhina. When returning home in the evening, he sees several strangers entering his gate. Entering the room, the undertaker discovers: it is full of the dead, who were previously buried in his coffins. All of them joyfully greet Prokhorov, and one skeleton even tries to hug him. From fear, the undertaker begins to scream - and wakes up. It turns out that not only the scene with the dead, but also the funeral of Tryukhina dreamed of him in a drunken dream after a drinking bout with a German.

The stationmaster Samson Vyrin has a daughter Dunya from his late wife, a girl of extraordinary beauty. The wealthy hussar Minsky, who once stopped at the station, falls in love with her. Pretending to be sick, the hussar stays with the caretaker for several days. During this time, he closely converges with Dunya and, leaving, invites her to ride together to the church on the outskirts of the village.

Having driven off with a hussar, Dunya does not return. Her inconsolable father learns from the roadside that Minsky was going to St. Petersburg. The stationmaster goes to the capital, finds Minsky and demands the return of his daughter. But Minsky assures that Dunya has already weaned from her former poor state and will be happy with him. He drives Vyrin away. The caretaker begins to follow the hussar, recognizes the house where he lives on the money of Minsky Dun, and makes his way into her room. Dunya, seeing his father, falls unconscious, and Minsky again throws him out into the street.

Unable to get the truth, the caretaker returns to his station, becomes an inveterate drunkard and dies. A few years later, the neighbors see how a richly dressed lady with three small children comes to his grave and lies on the cemetery mound for a long time.

Pushkin "Tales of Belkin - Young lady-peasant"

Enemies-neighbors, the landowners Berestov and Muromsky, do not visit each other. After graduating from Moscow University, the handsome son Alexei returns to the Berestov estate. All the neighboring young ladies gossip about the ardent young man. The desire to see Alexei also burns the daughter of Murom Liza, but she does not have the opportunity to do this because of the enmity of their fathers.

Playful Lisa still finds a way to fulfill her dream. She dresses up in the clothes of a peasant woman and goes at dawn to a grove on the border with the Berestov estate. There she is met by hunting Alexei. Young people really like each other. They begin to meet frequently. The young lady Liza, out of modesty, does not reveal her real name to Alexei, calling herself a peasant of the Muromskys, Akulina.

Meanwhile, Berestov Sr. once sees Muromsky, who has fallen from his horse and is bruised, in the forest. Out of noble courtesy, he helps him get home. After that, the long-standing enmity of the two landowners is quickly replaced by friendship. Muromsky invites Berestov and his son to his home. Not wanting Aleksey to recognize her during this visit, the young lady Liza utterly makes up her face with antimony and whitewash, dresses up in an old, wonderful dress, speaks only in French and in a singsong voice. Alexei remains unaware of who she is, and continues to meet with "peasant woman Akulina" with pleasure.

Berestov and Muromsky, meanwhile, decide to marry their children. Passionately in love with Akulina, Alexei flatly refuses to marry Liza. His father threateningly insists on this. In terrible excitement, Alexei goes to Muromsky without warning - to explain the impossibility of marrying his daughter. But when he enters the house, he suddenly sees his “Akulina” there, dressed not like a peasant, but in a young lady’s dress ...

An army regiment is stationed in the town. Life passes according to the routine of the army, and only the acquaintance of the officers with a certain man named Silvio, who lives in this place, dispels the boredom of the garrison. He is older than most of the officers of the regiment, sullen, has a tough temper and an evil tongue. There is some secret in his life that Silvio does not reveal to anyone. It is known that Silvio once served in a hussar regiment, but no one knows the reason for his resignation, as well as the reason for living in this outback. Neither his income nor his fortune is known, but he keeps an open table for the officers of the regiment, and at dinner champagne flows like water. For this, everyone is ready to forgive him. The mystery of Silvio's figure sets off his almost supernatural skill in pistol shooting. He does not take part in the conversations of officers about duels, and when asked if he had ever fought, he answers dryly that he did. Between themselves, the officers believe that some unfortunate victim of his inhuman art lies on the conscience of Silvio. One day, as usual, several officers gathered at Silvio's. Having drunk a lot, they started a card game and asked Silvio to sweep the bank. In the game, he was silent as usual and without a word corrected the mistakes of the punters in the records. One young officer, who had recently joined the regiment and did not know the habits of Silvio, it seemed that he was mistaken. Enraged by Silvio's silent obstinacy, the officer threw a shandal at his head. Silvio, pale with anger, asked the officer to leave. Everyone considered the duel inevitable and did not doubt its outcome, but Silvio did not call the officer, and this circumstance ruined his reputation in the eyes of the officers, but gradually everything went back to normal and the incident was forgotten. Only one officer, to whom Silvio sympathized more than others, could not come to terms with the idea that Silvio did not wash off the insult.

Once in the regimental office, where the mail came, Silvio received a package, the contents of which greatly excited him. He announced his unexpected departure to the assembled officers and invited everyone to a farewell dinner. Late in the evening, when everyone was leaving Silvio's house, the owner asked the most sympathetic officer to linger and revealed his secret to him.

A few years ago, Silvio received a slap in the face, and his offender is still alive. This happened during the years of his service, when Silvio had a violent temper. He excelled in the regiment and enjoyed this position until “a young man of a rich and noble family” was determined in the regiment. He was the most brilliant lucky man, who was always fabulously lucky in everything. At first, he tried to win the friendship and favor of Silvio, but, not having succeeded in this, moved away from him without regret. The primacy of Silvio was shaken, and he began to hate this favorite of fortune. Once, at a ball with a Polish landowner, they quarreled, and Silvio received a slap in the face from his enemy. At dawn there was a duel, to which the offender Silvio appeared with a cap full of ripe cherries. By lot, he got the first shot, firing it and shooting through Silvio's cap, he calmly stood at the muzzle of his pistol and enjoyed eating cherries with pleasure, spitting out the bones, which sometimes reached his opponent. His indifference and equanimity infuriated Silvio, and he refused to shoot. His opponent said indifferently that Silvio would have the right to use his shot whenever he pleased. Soon Silvio retired and retired to this place, but not a day passed that he did not dream of revenge. And finally, his time has come. He is informed that "a famous person will soon enter into a legal marriage with a young and beautiful girl." And Silvio decided to see if he would accept death with such indifference before his wedding, as he once waited for her behind the cherries! Friends said goodbye, and Silvio left.

A few years later, circumstances forced the officer to retire and settle in his poor village, where he was dying of boredom, until Count B arrived at the neighboring estate with his young wife. The narrator goes to visit them. The count and countess enchanted him with their secular appeal. On the wall of the living room, the narrator's attention is drawn to a picture shot through by "two bullets stuck one into the other." He praised the successful shot and said that he knew in his life a man whose skill in shooting was truly amazing. When asked by the count what the name of this shooter was, the narrator named Silvio. At this name, the count and countess were embarrassed. The count asks if Silvio told his friend about a strange story, and the narrator guesses that the count is the very old offender of his friend. It turns out that this story had a continuation, and the shot through picture is a kind of monument to their last meeting.

It happened five years ago in this very house where the count and countess spent their honeymoon. One day, the count was informed that a certain person was waiting for him, who did not want to give his name. Entering the living room, the count found Silvio there, whom he did not immediately recognize and who reminded him of the shot left behind him and said that he had come to unload his pistol. The Countess could come in any minute. The count was nervous and in a hurry, Silvio hesitated, and finally forced the count to draw lots again. And again the count got the first shot. Against all rules, he shot and shot through the picture hanging on the wall. At that moment, the frightened countess ran in. Her husband began to assure her that they were just joking with an old friend. But what happened was not too much of a joke. The countess was on the verge of fainting, and the enraged count shouted to Silvio to shoot, but Silvio replied that he would not do this, that he saw the main thing - the fear and confusion of the count, and that was enough for him. The rest is a matter of conscience of the count himself. He turned and walked towards the exit, but he stopped at the very door and, almost without aiming, fired and hit exactly in the place shot by the count in the picture. The narrator did not meet Silvio again, but heard that he died participating in the uprising of the Greeks led by Alexander Ypsilanti.

Option 2

The army regiment is located in the town of N. Life here takes place according to the routine established in the army. Boredom in the garrison is dispelled by Silvio, he looks older, rather gloomy, with a sharp temper and a sharp tongue. He served in the hussars, but the reason for his resignation and the reason for living in this outback is not known. He sets the table for the officers, and there is always champagne at dinner. Silvio has a knack for pistol shooting, never takes part in fight conversations, and answers questions dryly.

One day, several officers gathered at Silvio's, where they started a card game. In the game, he was silent, correcting mistakes without words. It seemed to one young officer that Silvio was mistaken. A scandal was brewing. Over time, this case was forgotten. Once a package arrived at the regimental office, the contents of which so excited him, and he announced to everyone about his unexpected departure, inviting him to a farewell dinner. Late. Everyone disperses. Silvio asks one officer, whom he trusted more, to stay and reveals his secret to him.

A few years ago, Silvio was slapped by an offender, that man is alive. It happened at a time when Silvio had a violent temper, during the years of his service. He was the first in the regiment and was proud of this position until he appeared young and rich, with a noble family. He wanted to achieve the friendship and location of Silvio, but could not.

At a ball with a Polish landowner, they argued, and Silvio was slapped by his enemy. Then there was a duel. The offender shot through Silvio's cap while feasting on cherries. Such indifference infuriated Silvio, and he refused to shoot.

Finally, Silvio is informed that the offender wants to enter into a legal marriage. Silvio wants to find out if he will calmly accept death before the wedding, as he once waited for her behind the cherries.

The narrator wants to see each other and goes on a visit. The count and countess enchanted him with their visit. On the wall he saw a picture shot through with two bullets. The count says that 5 years ago the owners spent their honeymoon in this house, Silvio arrived and reminded about the remaining shot. The count fired first and shot through a picture hanging on the wall. Silvio at first refused to shoot, intending to leave, but turned around and at the very exit, without aiming, fired at the place in the picture shot by the count.

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  5. This story is one of the wonderful "Belkin's Tales". The content of the story was conveyed to the narrator by the witnesses of what happened, who in one way or another were related to those people with whom the described events happened. The story "The Shot" is divided into two chapters. The artistic centers of both chapters are duels symbolized by Read More ......
  6. Shot A group of children handed over bottles. Took the container "a tortured old man, a gnome with glasses." The children tricked him by stealing the bottles and handing them in again. The proceeds were handed over to the ringleader Vitka Burov, nicknamed Alphonse Daudet. The company had a goal - a trip to the Crimea, Read More ......
  7. The work of A. S. Pushkin predetermined the development of Russian literature, laid the foundations of the modern Russian language. The composition of the story “Shot” is interesting and not easy due to its multi-level nature, which is created by several storytellers and a complex plot. A. S. Pushkin himself, who is at the top of the compositional Read More ......
  8. The story "Shot" is distinguished by a multi-level composition, which is created by several narrators and a complex plot. A. S. Pushkin himself is on the top rung of the compositional ladder. But he, as it were, transfers the right to become an author to Ivan Petrovich Belkin, which is why he calls his works Read More ......
Summary Shot Pushkin