"Nevsky Prospect" Gogol: a brief retelling. Nevsky Prospect: Heroes

The outline of the story "Nevsky Prospect" appeared,when N. V. Gogol worked on The Night Before Christmas in 1831. At this time, the writer lived in St. Petersburg and briefly served in various government departments. Personal impressions affected the accuracy of the description of the St. Petersburg landscape and life.

Oda Nevsky Prospect

At the beginning of the story, the author gives a fine exactcharacteristic of the main street of the city. In her description, both the lyricist and the satirist are already visible. Laying down the hymn to the life of the street, and it is described directly by the hour, ironically and poeticly, the writer tells who, when and in what mood, walks or runs along the beautiful avenue, the main artery of the capital.

Here it smells like a walk.The tutors and governesses take their pets for walks, married couples stroll a little later and those lucky ones whose service ends at two in the afternoon. Later, at three o'clock, it blooms at all seasons of the year, as in spring, with green uniforms, which are mostly in a hurry and run through the hungry, not considering signs and shops, and in the evenings, at dusk, young people stroll here in search of adventure. With this description of the center of the capital begins a brief retelling. Nevsky Prospect becomes for a time the protagonist in the story, in which in the evening two acquaintances walk - Piskarev and Pirogov.

Artist Piskarev

They both noticed two beautiful girls and decided to meet. But since the girls went in different directions, the young people dispersed, catching up with young beauties. This is the start of the action.

We continue a brief retelling.Nevsky Prospect led the artist Piskarev for a very beautiful, as it seemed to him, an unearthly brunette. Piskarev is a very delicate and timid person by nature, but N. V. Gogol generalizes this image. He gives a portrait of not a particular artist, but a person belonging to a particular social group. Such are all the poor artists of St. Petersburg - they are kind, meek, shy, they drink tea for themselves with each other and talk quietly, sitting in a small room.

While Piskarev goes after the girl, he wantssee only one thing - where she lives. But she beckoned him behind her, and the artist got into a house of tolerance. This is a terrible surprise for the tender heart of the artist, he runs away in horror to his home. This continues a brief retelling. Nevsky Prospect with his temptations will destroy the artist unsuitable for life. At home he had a wonderful dream that the girl invited him to the ball. And then he will dream of her continuously, until he comes to the idea that he needs to marry the girl and pull her out of the abyss into which she fell. But the beauty is not required. She does not want to live a quiet half-way through the life.

Resume a brief retelling. Nevsky Prospect leads Piskarev home. He is locked, and the neighbors do not see him. Finally, the door of his room was hacked, and everyone saw that he had committed suicide.

He was quietly buried in the Okhta cemetery. Unadapted to real life, he could not cope with it.

Lieutenant Pirogov

This is a completely different social type, shown N.V. Gogol, arrogant and unprincipled. This lady became to pursue the blonde he liked. In this part, "Nevsky Prospect" - the story of the self-satisfied and arrogant Nikolaev military style. Lieutenant Pirogov gets into the house of the German tinsmith Schiller, whom his friend Hoffmann is going to cut off his nose. Schiller calculated the money that goes on tobacco, and decided that it was cheaper to live without a nose. Both friends are completely drunk, but sober when they see a stranger in themselves. Pirogov, to explain how he got here, says he wants to order new spurs. But, looking almost every day, the attracted blonde cannot be found in any way. Finally, he finds out when the husband is not at home, and calmly comes to care for the pretty wife of the tinsmith. He persuades her to dance with him, hoping that everything will go on by itself.

But in the midst of the dance husband returns with his friendsand interrupts this fun, which the hostess does not like at all. They whipped off, so stands in the first edition of the story, the lieutenant, and in the second it is said about it vaguely, and they kicked him out. At first, Pirogov wanted to flee to complain even to the general, even to the king, but, on reflection, he decided to put the insult out of his head. So goes on "Nevsky Prospect", the story of N. V. Gogol. The lieutenant completely calms down, going into the candy store and eating puff pastries. In the evening in the company he was already dancing, and everyone admired him.

Conclusion

Such is the story "Nevsky Prospect".Heroes, Piskarev and Pirogov are very different, and N. V. Gogol is extremely brightly shown. If an artist evokes sympathy, then a self-confident and completely unconscionable lieutenant is disgust. This is a very short story - Nevsky Prospect (Gogol). The content is what the author himself summed up: everything is a deception and an empty dream, the devil himself shows “everything is not in its present form.”