The plan is the leader of the Redskins. Outline of the plot of the story

The protagonist of the work Alyosha tells that his first distinct memory was the death of his father. At this moment, the child does not yet understand that he is orphaned, but for a long time he remembers the desperate cry and sobs of Varvara, his mother. The tragedy provokes a premature birth in a woman, and soon Alyosha himself, his newborn brother and mother travel with their grandmother Akulina to Nizhny Novgorod.

On the way, the baby dies. The grandmother does her best to cheer up and calm her grandson, distracting him with various fairy tales, and upon arrival at their destination, Alyosha and his mother are met by grandfather Vasily Kashirin, as well as uncles, all these people immediately arouse antipathy and fear in the baby.

Grandfather's large family lives in a house, the first floor of which is occupied by a workshop where dyeing work is carried out. The boy quickly realizes that the household members are absolutely not friends with each other, they treat each other with hostility, and rivalry between uncles does not subside.

His mother Varya at one time entered into marriage without the blessing of her father, so her brothers do not get tired of demanding the dowry due to their sister from the elder Kashirin. The arrival of Varvara and her little son at the house only increases the general hostility and tension that reigns in this family.

Every Saturday, the grandfather arranged a spanking for his grandchildren, who had been guilty of something during the week. There comes a moment when the same thing happens to Alyosha, but later, when the beaten boy is forced to lie down in bed, the old man comes to him to put up. The child understands that in fact the grandfather is not such a terrible and cruel person, but he cannot forgive him for the torture. An apprentice named Gypsy, who grew up in the Kashirins' house, rushes to help Alyosha, putting his own hands under the ruthless rods.

Varvara's son soon becomes close to this handsome, cheerful and hard-working boy, but soon Gypsy dies, one of Alyosha's uncles makes him carry a heavy cross to the grave of his wife, and the young man, overstrained, dies from internal bleeding. Over time, life in Kashirin's house becomes more and more difficult, painful and sad, the only consolation for the boy is the tales of his grandmother Akulina.

Alyosha also notices that the neighbors respect and love this elderly woman and constantly turn to her for advice on a variety of issues, she knows many culinary recipes, knows how to weave lace, and the grandfather gradually begins to teach his grandson to read and write. The boy turns out to be a capable student and soon he easily understands the church charter.

Meanwhile, the boy's uncles are increasingly demanding Varvara's dowry from his grandfather, one of them even threatens him with reprisal, as a result, the Kashirins acquire another house. At this time, Alyosha strikes up a friendship with a lodger, nicknamed Good Deed. This person is distinguished by an extraordinary mind, a penchant for invention, a calm character, and under his guidance the guy learns to present the events in order, without adding unnecessary details. However, Alyosha's grandparents do not like his communication with a strange, unlike other man at all, and Good Deed is forced to leave.

Grandfather insists that Alexei's mother remarry, but the young woman refuses any proposals. When the grandmother stands up for her daughter, Kashirin beats her mercilessly, and the grandson, indignant to the depths of his soul, takes revenge on the offender, spoiling his calendar.

Alyosha endures smallpox, the disease is long and difficult, during all this time the grandmother takes care of the boy. Instead of fairy tales, she now tells him about her father, Maxim Peshkov, about whom the son actually knows nothing. The late Maxim was an excellent cabinet maker, but Varvara married him against the will of her father, Kashirin believed that his beautiful daughter was worthy to marry a real nobleman.

After some time, Alyosha's mother still chooses a second husband for herself, a certain Evgeny Maksimov. The boy immediately takes a dislike to his stepfather, and his grandfather's affairs are getting worse, he sells the house and rents two small rooms in the basement. Aleksey is forced to live with his mother and her husband, he sees that his stepfather is deceiving Varvara with another woman and regularly raises his hand against her, despite her pregnancy. Once the guy even swings a knife at Eugene, but his mother manages to intercept his hand.

Alyosha again has to live with his grandparents, the old man shows extreme stinginess, Akulina embroiders and weaves lace in order to earn at least a few kopecks for bread. Her grandson collects various rags, bones, does not hesitate to rob drunkards, steals firewood, and school friends, seeing everything that happens, do not stop mocking Alyosha and the poverty of his family. Soon Varvara comes to the Kashirins with a baby, her husband has fled, and the woman does not know where he is.

Alexei's mother is seriously ill, and his grandmother moves to the house of a wealthy merchant, who hired her to embroider the cover. Old Kashirin is forced to take care of his little grandson; because of his greed, he constantly underfeeds the baby.

Alyosha himself also willingly plays with his brother, but after a few months Varvara passes away in the arms of her son, never having met her husband again. Immediately after the funeral, the grandfather announces to the boy that he does not intend to support him, and from now on, a completely independent life begins for the boy, he begins real, adult work for strangers.

Narration on behalf of the main character

Father died (now dressed “in white and unusually long; the toes of his bare feet are strangely spread out, the fingers of affectionate hands, quietly laid on his chest, are also crooked; his cheerful eyes are tightly covered with black circles of copper coins, his kind face is dark and frightens me with badly bared teeth "). His mother is half naked next to him on the floor. Grandmother arrived - “round, big-headed, with huge eyes and a funny, loose nose; she is all black, soft and surprisingly interesting ... she spoke affectionately, cheerfully, smoothly. I became friends with her from the very first day.

The boy is seriously ill, just got to his feet. Mother Varvara: “For the first time I see her like this, - she was always strict, she spoke little; she is clean, smooth and big like a horse; she has a rigid body and terribly strong arms. And now she is somehow unpleasantly swollen and disheveled, everything on her is torn; the hair, which lay neatly on the head, in a large light cap, scattered over the bare shoulder ... ". The mother went into labor and gave birth to a child.
I remember the funeral. It was raining. There are frogs at the bottom of the hole. They were also buried. He didn't want to cry. He seldom wept from resentment, never from pain. His father laughed at his tears, his mother forbade him to cry.

We went on a steamboat. Newborn Maxim died. He's scared. Saratov. Grandmother and mother came out to bury. The sailor has arrived. When the locomotive roared, he rushed to run. Alyosha decided that he, too, needed to run. Found. Grandma has long thick hair. Sniffed tobacco. Tells stories well. Even the sailors love it.

We arrived at Nizhny. Grandfather, uncles Mikhail and Yakov, aunt Natalya (pregnant) and cousins, both Sasha, sister Katerina, met.

He didn’t like anyone, “I felt like a stranger among them, even my grandmother somehow faded, moved away.”

They came to a "squat one-story house, painted dirty pink, with a low roof pulled down and bulging windows." The house looked big, but it was cramped. The yard is unpleasant, hung with wet rags, filled with vats of multicolored water.

“Grandfather’s house was filled with a fog of mutual enmity of everyone with everyone; it poisoned adults, and even children took an active part in it. The brothers demanded from their father the division of property, the arrival of the mother further aggravated everything. The sons yelled at their father. Grandma offered to give everything. The brothers fought.

The grandfather kept a close eye on the boy. It seemed that the grandfather was evil. Made him learn prayers. This was taught by Natalia. I didn’t understand the words, I asked Natalia, she made me just remember, distorted on purpose. He had not been beaten before. Sasha was to be flogged by the thimble (the uncles wanted to play a trick on the half-blind craftsman Grigory, Mikhail ordered his nephew to glow the thimble for Grigory, but his grandfather took it). Guilty and he decided to paint something. Sasha Yakovov offered to paint the tablecloth. The gypsy tried to save her. Grandmother hid the tablecloth, but Sasha let it slip. He, too, decided to flog. Everyone was afraid of their mother. But she did not take away her child, her authority with Alyosha was shaken. They pinned me down until I lost consciousness. I was sick. Grandfather came to him. He told how in his youth he pulled barges. Then a watershed. He was called, but he did not leave. The boy didn't want to leave either.

The gypsy put out his hand so that the boy would not be so hurt. He taught me what to do so that it would not hurt so much.

The gypsy occupied a special place in the house. Ivanka has golden hands. The uncles did not joke with him, as with Grigory. Behind the eyes they spoke angrily about the gypsy. So they were cunning in front of each other so that no one would take him to work. He is a good worker. They were still afraid that his grandfather would leave him for himself.

Gypsy is a foundling. My grandmother was born at 18. She got married at 14.

I loved Gypsy very much. He knew how to deal with children, cheerful, knew tricks. He loved mice.

On holidays Yakov liked to play the guitar. Sang an endless sad song. The gypsy wanted to sing, but there was no voice. Dancing Gypsies. Then the grandmother with him.

Uncle Yakov beat his wife to death.

Gregory was afraid. Friends with Gypsy. Still held out his hand. Every Friday, Tsyganok went for provisions (mostly he stole).

The gypsy died. Jacob decided to put a cross on his wife. Big oak. The cross was carried by uncles and Tsyganok. “He fell, and he was crushed ... And we would have been crippled, but we dropped the cross in time.” The gypsy lay in the kitchen for a long time, blood coming from his mouth. Then he died. Grandmother, grandfather and Grigory were very worried.

He sleeps with his grandmother, she prays for a long time. He speaks not according to the written word, from the heart. “I really like my grandmother's god, so close to her,” that she often asked me to talk about him. “Speaking of God, heaven, angels, she became small and meek, her face became younger, her moist eyes streamed a particularly warm light.” Grandmother said that they were doing well. But it's not. Natalya asked the god of death, Grigory saw worse and worse, he was going to go around the world. Alyosha wanted to be a guide to him. Natalia was beaten by her uncle. Grandmother said that her grandfather also beat her. She said that she saw the unclean. And also fairy tales and stories, there were poems. Knew them a lot. I was afraid of cockroaches. In the dark, she heard them and asked to be killed. So I couldn't sleep.
Fire. Grandmother rushed into the fire for vitriol. Burnt her hands. Loved the horse. She was rescued. The workshop burned down. It was not possible to sleep that night. Natalya gave birth. Died. Alyosha felt bad, they took him to bed. Grandma's hands hurt a lot.

The uncles split up. Jacob in the city. Michael across the river. Grandfather bought another house. Lots of tenants. Akulina Ivanovna (grandmother) was a healer. Helped everyone. Gave business advice.
Grandmother's story: mother was crippled, but formerly a noble lacemaker. They gave her freedom. She asked for charity. Akulina learned to weave lace. Soon the whole city knew about her. Grandfather at 22 was already a water dispenser. His mother decided to marry them.
Grandpa was sick. Out of boredom, I decided to teach the boy the alphabet. He quickly caught on.

Fought with street boys. Very strong.

Grandfather: when the robbers arrived, his grandfather rushed to ring the bells. Chopped up. I remembered myself from 1812, when I was 12. Captured French. Everyone came to look at the prisoners, scolded, but many regretted it. Many died from the cold. Orderly Miron knew the horses well and helped. And the officer soon died. He treated the child well, even taught his own language. But they banned it.
He never talked about Alyosha's father and mother. The kids didn't leave. One day my grandfather hit my grandmother in the face for no reason. “Angry, it’s hard for him, the old one, all failures ...”

One evening, without saying hello, Yakov burst into the room. He said that Mikhail had gone completely crazy: he tore his ready-made dress, broke the dishes and offended him and Grigory. Mikhail said that he would kill his father. They wanted Varvarino's dowry. The boy was supposed to look outside and say when Mikhail would appear. Scary and boring.

“The fact that the mother does not want to live in her family raises her higher and higher in my dreams; It seems to me that she lives in an inn by the high road, with robbers who rob the rich who pass by and share the loot with the beggars.
Grandma is crying. “Lord, did you not have a good mind for me, for my children?”

Almost every weekend, boys ran to their gates: “The Kashirins are fighting again!” Michael appeared in the evening, kept the house under siege all night. Sometimes several drunken landowners are with him. They pulled out raspberry and currant bushes, they smashed the bathhouse. One day my grandfather felt especially bad. He got up and lit the fire. Mishka threw a half brick at him. Missed. Another time my uncle took a stake and pounded on the door. Grandmother wanted to talk to him, she was afraid that they would mutilate, but he hit her with a stake on the arm. Mikhail was tied up, doused with water and laid in a barn. Grandmother told grandfather to give them Varino's dowry. Grandmother's bone broke, a chiropractor came. Alyosha thought that this was grandmother's death, rushed at her, did not let her near her grandmother. They took him to the attic.

Grandfather has one god, grandmother has another. Grandmother "almost every morning found new words of praise, and this always made me listen to her prayer with intense attention." “Her god was with her all day, she even talked about him to animals. It was clear to me that everything obeys this god easily and obediently: people, dogs, birds, bees and grasses; he was equally kind to everything on earth, equally close.
Once the tavern maid quarreled with her grandfather, at the same time she scolded her grandmother. Decided to take revenge. Locked her up in the cellar. Grandma spanked when she realized. She said not to interfere in the affairs of adults, who is to blame is not always clear. The Lord himself does not always understand. Her god became closer and clearer to him.

Grandpa didn't pray like that. “He always stood on the same knot of the floorboard, like a horse’s eye, stood silently for a minute, stretching his arms along his body, like a soldier ... his voice sounds distinct and demanding ... He does not beat his chest very much and insistently asks ... Now he often crossed himself , convulsively, nods his head, as if butting heads, his voice squeals and sobs. Later, when I was in the synagogues, I realized that my grandfather prayed like a Jew.”
Alyosha knew all the prayers by heart and made sure that his grandfather did not miss, when it did happen, he gloated. The grandfather's god was cruel, but he also involved him in all matters, even more often than his grandmother.
Once grandfather was saved from trouble by the saints, it was written in the calendar. Grandfather was secretly engaged in usury. Came with a search. Grandfather prayed until morning. It ended well.

Didn't like the street. Fought with the street. He was not loved. But it didn't offend him. Their cruelty revolted. They mocked drunken beggars. Got to the beggar Igosh Death in the Pocket. Master Gregory is blind. Went with a little gray old lady and she was begging. Couldn't get close to him. Grandmother always served him, talked to him. Grandmother said that the Lord would punish them for this man. After 10 years, grandfather himself went and asked for alms. There was also a dissolute woman Voronikha on the street. She had a husband. He wanted to get a higher rank, sold his wife to the boss, he took her away for 2 years. And when she returned, her boy and girl died, and her husband lost government money and began to drink.
They had a starling. His grandmother took it from the cat. Learned to speak. The starling imitated his grandfather when he read prayers. It was interesting in the house, but sometimes an incomprehensible melancholy piled up.

Grandfather sold the house to a tavern keeper. Bought another. He was better. There were many tenants: a military man from the Tatars with his wife, a cab driver Peter and his mute nephew Styopa, a freeloader Good Deed. “He was a thin, round-shouldered man, with a white face in a black forked beard, with kind eyes, and glasses. He was silent, inconspicuous, and when he was invited to dine, to drink tea, he invariably answered: Good deed. Grandma called him that. “His whole room was littered with some kind of boxes, thick books of a civil press unfamiliar to me; everywhere stood bottles with multicolored liquids, pieces of copper and iron, and rods of lead. From morning until evening... he melted lead, soldered some copper things, weighed something on small scales, mumbled, burned his fingers... and sometimes he suddenly stopped in the middle of the room or at the window and stood for a long time, eyes closed, face raised, dumbfounded and silent ". Alyosha climbed onto the roof and watched him. Good Deed was poor. Nobody in the house liked him. He asked what he was doing. Good Deed offered to climb into his window. He offered to make a drink so that the boy would no longer go to him. He was offended.

When there was no grandfather arranged interesting meetings. All the inhabitants were going to drink tea. Fun. Grandmother told a story about Ivan the Warrior and Miron the Hermit. Good Deed was shocked, said that this story must be written down. The boy was drawn to him again. They liked to sit together and be silent. “I don’t see anything special in the yard, but from these jolts with my elbow and from brief words, everything I see seems especially significant to me, everything is remembered strongly.”
Went with my grandmother for water. Five philistines beat the peasant. Grandmother fearlessly poked them with a yoke. Good Deed believed him, but said that these cases should not be memorized. Taught to fight: faster means stronger. Grandfather beat him for every visit. He was survived. They didn’t love him, because he was a stranger, not like everyone else. I prevented my grandmother from cleaning the room, called everyone fools. Grandpa was glad he survived. Alyosha broke the spoon in anger.

“As a child, I imagine myself as a beehive, where various simple, gray people carried, like bees, their knowledge and thoughts about life, generously enriching my soul in whatever way they could. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but all knowledge is still honey.
Befriended Peter. He looked like a grandfather. “... he looked like a teenager dressed up as an old man for a joke. His face was woven like a sieve, all made of thin leather flagella, between them jumping, as if living in a cage, funny brisk eyes with yellowish whites. His gray hair was curly, his beard curled in rings; he smoked a pipe ... ". He argued with his grandfather, "which of the saints is holier than whom." A gentleman settled on their street, who shot at people for fun. Nearly got into the Good Deed. Peter liked to tease him. One day a shot hit him in the shoulder. He told the same stories as grandma and grandpa. “Various, they are all strangely similar to each other: in each they tortured a person, mocked him, persecuted him.”

Brothers came to visit on holidays. Traveled on the roofs, saw the master, he has puppies. We decided to scare the master and take the puppies. Alyosha should have spit on his bald spot. The brothers had nothing to do with it.
Peter praised him. The rest scolded. After that, he disliked Peter.

Three boys lived in Ovsyannikov's house. Watched them. They were very friendly. Once they were playing hide and seek. The little one fell into the well. Alyosha saved, became friends. Alyosha caught birds with it. They had a stepmother. An old man came out of the house and forbade Alyosha to go to him. Peter lied about Alyosha to his grandfather. Alyosha and Peter started a war. The acquaintance with barchuks continued. I went in secret.

Peter often dispersed them. “Now he somehow looked sideways and had long ceased to attend grandmother's evenings; He didn’t treat him to jam, his face shriveled, the wrinkles became deeper, and he walked swaying, raking his legs like a sick person. One day a policeman came. They found him dead in the yard. The mute was not mute at all. There was also a third one. They confessed that they robbed churches.

Alyosha was catching birds. They didn't go into a trap. Annoyed. When I returned home, I found out that my mother had arrived. He was worried. His mother noticed that he had grown up, he was wearing dirty clothes and he was all white from the frost. She began to undress him and rub his ears with goose fat. “... it hurt, but she had a refreshing, delicious smell, and this reduced the pain. I clung to her, looking into her eyes, numb with excitement ... ”grandfather wanted to talk to his mother, they drove him away. Grandmother asked to forgive her daughter. Then they cried, Alyosha also burst into tears, hugging them. He told his mother about the Good Deed, about the three boys. “It hurt my heart too, I immediately felt that she would not live in this house, she would leave.” His mother began to teach him civil literacy. Learned in a few days. “She began to demand that I memorize more and more poems, and my memory perceived these lines worse and worse, and grew more and more, the invincible desire to alter, distort the verses, to pick up other words for them became more and more angry; I succeeded easily - unnecessary words were whole swarms and quickly confused the obligatory, bookish. Mother now taught algebra (it was easy), grammar and writing (with difficulty). “The first days upon arrival, she was dexterous, fresh, and now dark spots lay under her eyes, she went around uncombed for days on end, in a crumpled dress, without buttoning her jacket, this spoiled her and offended me ... ”Grandfather wanted to woo his daughter. She refused. Grandmother began to intercede. Grandfather brutally beat grandmother. Alyosha threw pillows, grandfather knocked over a bucket of water and went to his room. “I sorted out her heavy hair, it turned out that a hairpin had entered deep under her skin, I pulled it out, found another one, my fingers were numb.” She asked me not to tell my mother about it. Decided to take revenge. I cut the saints to my grandfather. But he didn't manage to do everything. Grandfather appeared, began to beat, grandmother took away. The mother appeared. Interceded. She promised to stick everything on the calico. He confessed to his mother that his grandfather beat his grandmother. Mother made friends with the inn, almost every evening she went to her. Officers and young ladies came. Grandpa didn't like it. He drove everyone away. He brought furniture, forced her rooms and locked her. “We don’t need guests, I myself will receive guests!” On holidays there were guests: grandmother's sister Matryona with her sons Vasily and Viktor, uncle Yakov with a guitar and a watchmaker. It seemed that he had once seen him arrested on a cart.

His mother wanted to marry him, but she flatly refused.

“Somehow I couldn’t believe that they were doing all this seriously and that it was hard to cry. And tears, and their cries, and all mutual torment, flashing often, fading quickly, became familiar to me, excited me less and less, touched my heart more and more weakly.

"... Russian people, due to their poverty, generally love to amuse themselves with grief, play with it like children, and are rarely ashamed to be unhappy."

“After this story, the mother immediately got stronger, straightened up tightly and became the mistress of the house, and the grandfather became invisible, thoughtful, quiet, unlike himself.”

Grandfather had chests with clothes and old things and all sorts of good things. One day my grandfather allowed my mother to wear it. She was very beautiful. She often had guests. most often brothers Maximov. Peter and Eugene (“tall, thin-legged, pale-faced, with a black pointy beard. His big eyes looked like plums, he dressed in a greenish uniform with large buttons ...).

Sasha's father, Mikhail, got married. The stepmother didn't like it. Grandma took it. They didn't like school. Alyosha could not disobey and walked, but Sasha refused to walk, buried his books. Grandpa knew. Whipped both. Sasha escaped from the assigned escort. Found.

Alyosha has smallpox. Grandmother left vodka with him. I drank secretly from my grandfather. She told him the story of her father. He was the son of a soldier who was exiled to Siberia for cruelty to his subordinates. Father was born there. He had a bad life, ran away from home. He beat hard, the neighbors took it away and hid it. The mother had already died. Then the father. He was taken by his godfather - a carpenter. Taught a trade. Escaped. Led the blind to the fairs. He worked as a carpenter on a ship. At 20 he was a cabinetmaker, upholsterer and draper. Came to get married. They were already married, they just needed to get married. The old man wouldn't give his daughter away like that. Decided secretly. There was an enemy of the father, the master, blabbed. Grandmother cut the tugs at the shafts. Grandfather could not cancel the wedding. He said he didn't have a daughter. Then he forgave. They began to live with them, in the garden in the wing. Alyosha is born. Uncles did not like Maxim (father). They wanted to let you know. Lured to the pond to ride, pushed into the hole. But the father surfaced, grabbed the edges of the hole. And the uncles beat on the hands. Stretched out under the ice, breathing. They decided that they would sink, left ice in the head and left. And he got out. Didn't give it to the police. Soon we left for Astrakhan.
Grandmother's tales took less. I wanted to know about my father. "Why is the father's soul worried?"

He recovered and began to walk. I decided to surprise everyone and quietly go down. I saw "another grandmother." Terrible and all some kind of green. The mother was married. They didn't tell him. “Several empty days passed monotonously in a thin stream, the mother, after collusion, left somewhere, it was depressingly quiet in the house.” He began to equip himself with a dwelling in a pit.

"I hated the old woman - and her son too - with concentrated hatred, and this heavy feeling brought me a lot of beatings." The wedding was quiet. The young people left the next morning. Almost got into the hole.
Sold the house. Grandfather rented two dark rooms in the basement of an old house. Grandmother called the brownie with her, grandfather did not give. He said that everyone will now feed himself.

“Mother appeared after grandfather settled in the basement, pale, thinner, with huge eyes and a hot, surprised gleam in them.” Dressed ugly, pregnant. They said everything was on fire. But my stepfather lost everything at cards.
Lived in Sormov. The house is new, without wallpaper. Two rooms. Grandma is with them. Grandmother worked as a cook, chopping wood, mopping floors. They rarely let him go outside - he fought. Mother beat. Once he said that he would bite her, run into the field and freeze. Stopped. My stepfather quarreled with my mother. “Because of your stupid belly, I can’t invite anyone to visit me, cow, you sort of!” before childbirth to the grandfather.

Then back to school. Everyone laughed at his poor clothes. But soon he got along with everyone, except for the teacher and the priest. The teacher came up. And Alyosha was naughty in revenge. Pop demanded a book. There was no book, he drove it away. They wanted to kick me out of school for bad behavior. But Bishop Chrysanthos came to the school. Bishop Alyosha liked it. The teachers got better at him. And Alyosha promised the bishop to be less mischievous.
Tell stories to peers. They said that a book about Robinson is better. Once I accidentally found 10 rubles and a ruble in my stepfather's book. Ruble took. I bought Sacred History for it (demanded pop) and Andersen's fairy tales, as well as white bread and sausage. I really liked the Nightingale. His mother beat him and took away his books. The stepfather told his colleagues about this, they learned to the children at school, they called him a thief. Mother did not want to believe what her stepfather had told. “We are poor, we have every penny, every penny ...” Brother Sasha: “clumsy, big-headed, he looked at everything around with beautiful, blue eyes, with a quiet smile and as if expecting something. He began to speak unusually early, never cried, living in a continuous state of quiet fun. He was weak, could hardly crawl and was very happy when he saw me… He died unexpectedly, not ill…”.

Got better with school. Again moved to the grandfather. Stepfather cheated on mother. “I heard him hit her, rushed into the room and saw that the mother, falling on her knees, leaned her back and elbows on a chair, arching her chest, throwing her head, wheezing and terribly shining eyes, and he, cleanly dressed, in a new uniform kicks her in the chest with his long leg. I grabbed a knife from the table ... it was the only thing that my mother had left after my father - I grabbed it and with all my strength hit my stepfather in the side. Mother pushed Maksimov away, remained alive. He promised his mother that he would kill his stepfather and himself too.

“Our life is amazing not only because a layer of all bestial rubbish is so prolific and fat in it, but because bright, healthy and creative nevertheless victoriously sprouts through this layer, good - human grows, arousing an unshakable hope for our rebirth to light, human life.

Again with grandfather. Property division. All the pots for my grandmother, the rest for myself. Then he took her old dresses from her and sold them for 700 rubles. And he gave the money as interest to his Jewish godson. Everything was shared. One day the grandmother cooks from her provisions, the other - with the money of her grandfather. Grandma always had better food. Even tea was counted. It should be the same in terms of strength.

Grandmother wove lace, and Alyosha began to engage in rags. Grandmother took money from him. He also stole firewood with a group of children. Company: Sanka Vyakhir, Kostroma, Tatar child Khabi, Ide, Grishka Churka. Vyakhirya beat her mother if he did not bring her money for vodka, Kostroma saved up money, dreaming of pigeons, Churka's mother was sick, Khabi also saved up, intending to return to the city where he was born. Vyakhir reconciled everyone. He still considered his mother good, sorry. Sometimes they formed so that Vyakhir's mother would not beat. Vyakhir also wanted to know how to read and write. Churka called him to him. His mother taught Vyakhir. Soon I was reading. Vyakhir felt sorry for nature (it was inconvenient to break something in his presence). Fun: they collected worn-out bast shoes and threw them at Tatar hookers. Those in them. After the battle, the Tatars took them with them and fed them with their food. On rainy days, they gathered at Father Yaz’s at the cemetery. “... I didn’t like it when this man began to list in which house there were sick people, which of the Slobozhans would die soon, - he spoke about this relish and ruthlessly, and seeing that his speeches were unpleasant to us - deliberately teased and incited us.

“He very often spoke about women and always - dirty ... He knew the life story of almost every Slobozhan, buried by him in the sand ... he seemed to open the doors of houses in front of us ... we saw how people live, felt something serious, important " .

Alyosha liked this independent street life. At school it is again difficult, they called me a rag, a poor ford. They even said that he smelled. Lies, thoroughly washed before studying. Successfully passed the exams in the 3rd grade. They gave me a letter of commendation, the gospel, Krylov's fables and Fata Morgana. Grandfather said that it should be hidden in a chest, he was delighted. Grandma was sick. She had no money for several days. Grandfather complained that he was being eaten. I took the books, took them to the shop, received 55 kopecks and gave them to my grandmother. I spoiled the commendation sheet with inscriptions and gave it to my grandfather. He, without unfolding, hid in the chest. My stepfather was fired from his job. He dissapeared. Mother with little brother Nikolai settled with his grandfather. “The mute, withered mother could hardly move her legs, looking at everything with terrible eyes, the brother was scrofulous ... and so weak that he could not even cry ...” they decided that Nikolai needed will, sand. Alyosha picked up sand and poured it on the baking sheet under the window. The boy liked it. He became very attached to his brother, but it was a little boring with him. The grandfather himself fed the child and did not feed enough.

Mother: “She is completely dumb, she rarely says a word in a seething voice, otherwise she lies silently in a corner all day and dies. That she was dying - I, of course, felt, knew, and my grandfather spoke too often, importunately, about death ... "
“I slept between the stove and the window, on the floor, it was short for me, I put my legs in the stove, they were tickled by cockroaches. This corner gave me a lot of evil pleasures - while cooking, my grandfather constantly beat out the glass in the window with the ends of the tongs and the poker. Alyosha took a knife and cut off the long handles, the grandfather scolded that not with a saw, rolling pins could come out. Stepfather returned from a trip, grandmother with Kolya moved in with him. Mother died. Before that, she asked: “Go to Evgeny Vasilyevich, tell me - I ask him to come!” She stabbed her son. But the knife slipped from her hands. “A shadow floated across her face, going deep into her face, stretching her yellow skin, pointing her nose.” Grandfather did not immediately believe that his mother had died. My stepfather came. Grandmother, like a blind woman, smashed her face on a grave cross. Vyakhir tried to make him laugh. It didn't work out. He offered to cover the grave with turf. Soon the grandfather said that it was time for him to become people.

Childhood is one of Maxim Gorky's trilogy, written in 1913.

In the work of Maxim Gorky, one of the central places is occupied by an autobiographical trilogy: "Childhood". " In people". "My Universities".

Childhood summary

In the story "Childhood", the author, having created the image of a boy named Alexei Peshkov, was able to tell all the key events of his childhood. The narration in the book is conducted in the first person, the main character - Alexei gradually talks about the first brightest events of his life.

His family lived in Astrakhan, soon his father tragically dies of cholera and a grandmother appears in the boy's life - Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina, who moved to live with them. The boy quickly finds a common language with her, he likes to communicate with her.

Shortly after the funeral, the main character, along with his mother - Varvara, grandmother and newborn brother - Maxim, move to live with his grandfather in Nizhny Novgorod, the little brother dies on the road. Grandmother, in order to distract her grandson from sad events, tells fairy tales.

The situation in the house of grandfather Vasily Vasilyevich was very difficult, quarrels constantly arose between the uncles of the boy Mikhail and Yakov because of the division of property, they wanted to get the grandfather's dyeing workshop as soon as possible, and the grandfather himself, who was engaged in usury, was very stingy and always dissatisfied.

A big shock for Alexei was the corporal punishment that grandfather practiced for offenses. Alyosha also got it, his cousin persuaded him to paint the front tablecloth. first the boy was whipped, and then Alexei himself. The boy, who did not know such pain and resentment, bit his grandfather, for which his grandfather flogged him severely, and his only friend Tsyganok stood up for him. Alyosha was ill, but soon the offender came to him to put up.

The protagonist quickly made friends with one of his grandfather's workers - Gypsy - Ivan. He was thrown when he was still small and his grandmother insisted on leaving him in the house, raised him and raised him as his own son. The gypsy soon died absurdly - a wooden cross fell on him. This event caused the boy a great psychological trauma, which was helped by conversations with his grandmother.

The next blow for the boy is the forced move to another house that his grandfather bought. Alexey began to live with his grandfather and grandmother, separately from his mother and uncle. Grandmother and grandson lived in the attic, grandfather in the upper room, rented out the rest of the house.

At first, Alexei likes to live in a new house, but soon events change dramatically. In this house, the grandfather shows all the cruelty even more clearly - he periodically beats his wife. These fights happen so often that they become the property of street gossip. At the same time, sometimes, out of boredom, grandfather begins to study literacy with Alexei and notices that the boy is very smart. The boy finds an outlet in his grandmother, listens to stories about her childhood, about God, about angels, loves to watch her pray.

At the end of winter, grandfather sells the house and buys a new one, again rents out rooms. Alexey became friends with the guest, whom he called Good Deed. Grandmother and grandfather did not like such friendship. Soon he left them.

At the new place of residence, Alexei has new friends - the three sons of a neighbor-colonel. Suddenly, a mother reappears in the boy's life, who returns to her parents' house, she even begins to teach Alexei grammar and arithmetic, but Alexei does not like it. Grandfather wants Alexei's mother to remarry. To do this, he even finds an elderly watchmaker, but Varvara marries another and leaves with her young husband.

Unexpectedly, the main character falls ill with smallpox, but the patient care of his grandmother helps the boy recover. At this time, the grandfather decides to sell the house and grandmother and Alexei move to his mother in Sormov, but life with his mother does not add up, as the stepfather loses the money earned from the sale of the house in cards. Soon a son is born to the mother, with his birth, hatred for Alexei is more and more manifested, but the newborn dies. Alyosha goes to school.

Alexey and his grandmother return to his grandfather, and then the pregnant mother and stepfather come here again. His stepfather constantly beat his mother, and Alexei, standing up for her, almost stabbed his stepfather. Because of this event, the mother and stepfather leave again. Grandfather, having become completely mean, makes his grandmother weave lace for sale, and Alexei collect junk and steal firewood, however, despite this, Alexei continues to study at school, he graduated from the second grade with a commendable diploma.

The story ends very tragically. Once again, Alexei's mother returns with a sick newborn Nikolai in her arms, besides, she herself was very sick. Due to illness, the mother dies and after the funeral, grandfather puts Alexei out of the house, forcing him to "go to the people" so that he himself provides for his life.

The action of the story is transmitted on behalf of the main character - Alyosha Peshkov. He lived in Astrakhan, where his father, a cabinet maker, was instructed to build a triumphal gate for the arrival of the tsar. But the father died of cholera, from grief, Varvara's mother began premature birth. The boy remembered her scream, disheveled hair, bared teeth.

The father was buried on a rainy day, there were frogs in the pit, and the boy was shocked that they were buried along with the coffin. But he did not want to cry, because he rarely cried and only from resentment: his father laughed at tears, and his mother forbade crying.

The hero's grandmother, Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina, came to Astrakhan, she took them to Nizhny Novgorod. On the way, the newborn Maxim died, he was buried in Saratov. Alyosha almost got lost during the stay, but the sailor recognized him and returned him to the cabin.

All the sailors recognized the family thanks to their grandmother, whom they treated to vodka, and Alyosha to watermelons. Grandmother told outlandish stories, and it seemed to the boy that she was all glowing from the inside. Despite her fullness, she moved easily and dexterously, like a cat.

In Nizhny, they were met by a large Kashirin family. Most of all, the small, wizened grandfather Vasily Vasilyevich stood out.
II.

The whole family lived in a huge house, but they lived unfriendly. He felt the mutual enmity between his grandfather and his sons, Mikhail and Yakov. The lower floor was occupied by a dyeing workshop - the subject of contention. The sons wanted to get their part of the inheritance and separate, but the grandfather resisted.

The uncles themselves often fought, and Alyosha witnessed their tussle. This frightened the boy, because he grew up in a friendly family, where he was not punished, and here grandfather Kashirin on Saturday flogged the guilty grandchildren with rods. Alyosha accidentally ruined the front tablecloth (he wanted to dye it) and did not escape this fate either. He resisted his grandfather, bit him, for which he spotted the boy half to death.

Alyosha was ill for a long time afterwards; grandfather came to him to put up and told about his difficult youth. The boy was also struck by the fact that Tsyganok, an apprentice, stood up for him and offered his hand to break the rods.
III.

Later, Tsyganok explained to Alyosha how to behave during the spanking so that it would not hurt. He was a foundling, raised by his grandmother, and of her eighteen children, three survived. The gypsy was 17 years old, but he was as naive as a child: he stole from the market in order to bring more food and please his grandfather. And my grandmother was sure that someday he would be caught and killed.

Her prophecy came true: Tsyganok died. According to master Gregory, his uncles killed him. They quarreled because of him, because everyone wanted Tsyganok to go to him after the division of the inheritance: he could become an excellent master.

Ivan died when, together with his uncles, he carried a heavy oak cross to the grave of Yakov's wife. He got the butt, he stumbled, and the uncles, so that they would not be crippled, let go of the cross - Ivan was crushed to death.
IV.

Alyosha liked to watch her grandmother pray. After the prayer, she told outlandish stories: about devils, about angels, heaven and God. Her face became younger, she became meek, and her eyes radiated a warm light.

Not afraid of either grandfather, or people, or evil spirits, grandmother was terribly afraid of black cockroaches and woke Alyosha at night to kill another insect.

Apparently, they angered the Kashirin god: the workshop caught fire, the grandmother burned her hands, but she saved Sharap by throwing herself under the feet of the rearing horse. At the beginning of the fire, Aunt Natalya began to give birth prematurely from fright and died in childbirth.
v.

By spring, the uncles were divided: Yakov remained in the city, and Mikhail settled across the river. Grandfather bought another house and began to rent rooms. He himself settled in the basement, and Alyosha and his grandmother in the attic. Grandmother was well versed in herbs, treated many and gave advice on the household.

At one time, she was taught everything by her mother, who remained crippled when, offended by the master, she jumped out of the window. She was a lacemaker and taught her daughter Akulina everything. She grew up, became a craftswoman, and the whole city learned about her. Then she was given in marriage to Vasily Kashirin, a watershed.

Grandfather was ill and, out of boredom, began to teach Alyosha the alphabet. The boy was capable. He liked to listen to his grandfather's stories about childhood: about the war, about French prisoners. True, he did not tell anything about Alyosha's parents and believed that all his children came out unsuccessful. He blamed his grandmother for everything, even somehow hit her for it.
VI.

Once Yakov burst into the house with a message that Mikhail was coming here to kill his grandfather and take Varvarino's dowry for himself. Grandmother sent Alyosha upstairs to warn him when Mikhail would come. Grandfather drove him away, and grandmother cried and prayed that the Lord would enlighten her children.

Since then, Uncle Mikhail appeared drunk every Sunday and caused scandals for the amusement of the boys of the whole street. He kept the house under siege all night. Somehow, having launched a brick through the window, he almost hit his grandfather. And once Mikhail knocked out a small window with a stake and broke his grandmother's hand, which she put out to drive him away. Grandfather became furious, doused Mishka with water, tied him up and laid him in the bath. When a chiropractor came to his grandmother, Alyosha mistook her for death and wanted to drive her away.
VII.

Alyosha noticed long ago that grandma and grandpa have different gods. Grandmother gave praise to God, and he was with her all the time. It was clear that everything on earth obeys him, and he is equally kind to everyone. When the innkeeper quarreled with her grandfather and scolded her grandmother, Alyosha took revenge on her by locking her in the basement. But the grandmother got angry and spanked her grandson, explaining that guilt is not always visible even to God.

Grandfather prayed like a Jew. The grandfather's god was cruel, but he helped him. When grandfather was engaged in usury, they came to them with a search, but thanks to grandfather's prayer, everything worked out.
But the grandfather offended master Gregory very much: when he became blind, he drove him out into the street, and he had to beg. Grandmother always served him and told Alyosha: God will punish grandfather. Indeed, in old age, the grandfather, having gone bankrupt and left alone, will also be forced to beg.
VIII.

Soon the grandfather sold the house to the innkeeper and bought another one with a garden. They started taking tenants. Among all the freeloader Good Deed stood out. He was called that because he always spoke like that.

Alyosha watched how he melted lead in his room, weighed something on the scales, and burned his fingers. The boy was interested - he met the guest and made friends. He began to come to him every day, although the grandfather beat Alyosha for every visit to the freeloader.

This man was not loved in the house for his strange behavior, they considered him a sorcerer, a warlock, and his grandfather was afraid that he would burn the house down. After some time, they still survived him, and he left.
IX.

After Alyosha became friends with the driver Peter. But one day Alyosha's brothers urged him to spit on the master's bald head. Grandfather, having learned about this, flogged his grandson. When he, tormented by shame, lay on the boards, Peter praised him, and Alyosha began to avoid him.

Later he saw three boys behind the fence and made friends with them, but he was chased away by the colonel, whom Alyosha called "the old devil." His grandfather beat him for this and forbade him to communicate with the “barchuks”. Peter saw Alyosha with the guys and complained to his grandfather. Since then, they started a war: Peter released the birds caught by Alyosha, and he spoiled his shoes.
Peter lived in a closet above the stable, but one day he was found dead in the garden. It turned out that, together with an accomplice, he robbed churches.
x.

Alyosha's mother lived far away, and he hardly thought about her. One day she returned and began to teach her son grammar and arithmetic. Her grandfather tried to force her to remarry. The grandmother stood up for her daughter all the time, which is why the grandfather even beat her. Alyosha retaliated by cutting up his favorite saints.

The neighbors often arranged "evenings", and the grandfather also decided to arrange an evening in his house. He found a fiancé - a crooked and old watchmaker. But the young and beautiful mother refused him.
XI.

After a quarrel with her father, Varvara became the mistress of the house, and he fell silent. He had a lot of good stuff in his chests. He allowed his daughter to wear all this, because she was beautiful. Guests often visited her, including the Maximov brothers.
After Christmas time, Alyosha fell ill with smallpox. His grandmother treated him and told him about his father: how they met their mother, got married against the will of their father and left for Astrakhan.
XII.

Mother married Yevgeny Maksimov and left. Grandfather sold the house and told grandmother that everyone would feed himself. Soon the pregnant mother returned with a new husband, as their house burned down, but everyone understood that Eugene had lost everything. Grandmother began to live with the young in Sormov.
A sick child was born and after some time died. Alyosha himself began to study at school, but he did not develop relationships with either students or teachers. The stepfather took a mistress and beat the pregnant mother again, and Alyosha once nearly stabbed him.
XIII.

After the departure of his mother, Alyosha and his grandmother again began to live with their grandfather. He considered them freeloaders, and grandmother had to weave lace, while Alyosha and other boys from poor families collected junk and stole firewood. At the same time, he successfully moved to the 3rd grade and received a commendable list.
A sick mother arrived with her little scrofulous son Nikolai. His grandfather fed him little, and his mother herself lay silent all the time. Alyosha understood that she was dying. Soon she really died, and grandfather sent Alyosha "to the people" - to earn his living.