Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev "Notes of a Hunter". Summary of the story "Singers"

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev was not just a great Russian writer, but also a subtle connoisseur of the human soul. Love for the Russian people and a trembling sense of unity with him breathe all his works. The cycle of short stories "Hunter's Notes", a brief summary and analysis of one of which we will consider in this article, was no exception.

Wrote I.S. Turgenev's "Notes of the Hunter," a brief summary of which we are considering, for quite some time: they regularly published, beginning in 1847, in the journal Sovremennik, one after another, up to 1851. The story "Singers" was released for the first time in 1850 and became the seventeenth in the cycle "Notes of a Hunter". The summary of his story tells how in the poor village of Kolotovka, where everything was peppered with despondency: and the dirty road, the skinny rakits, and the rustling huts of the inhabitants, and the huge ravine across the street, there was an event that managed for a moment to wrest all of it Participants from the oppressive gloomy reality. This event was the inspired singing of a simple guy named Yashka, nicknamed the Turk.

One day in a tavern on the edge of a ravine, a fat, tattered kisser Nikolai Ivanovich, a simple-looking peasant with cunning eyes, gathered a "cheerful" company in every sense of the word: the short and fat lame Morgach, the tall and larking and abandoned masters of the yard The muzhik Obladuy, clumsy as a bear, and the mighty Wild Barin, a drawer from a paper mill Yashka Turk, a town-burgher Rider and a visiting nobleman-hunter (the narrator) who watched the whole company of peasants from the side.

The summary of the "Notes of the Hunter" tells how, from idleness and excitement, two of these peasants (namely: Yashka Turok and Ryadchik) were betting to compete in singing and find out for sure who will sing whom. To decide which of them to sing first, the men in the tavern offer to cast lots. Drops first to the Rider. He busily enters the middle of the tavern and, singing his hand on his hips, sings a merry song with his lyrical tenor. He sings with all diligence, with skill, making a great impression on listeners. Soon they begin to sing along with him and praise him in a rush when Ryadchik pauses.

We read further on "Notes of a Hunter" ... The summary of the story "Singers" tells that the whole gay society of the pub promises victory to the Rider, but the Wild Barin orders the peasants to remain silent and Yashka Turku to sing. Yashka abandons everything and covers his face with his hands, after which he becomes pale and tense. With his amazing and penetrating voice, strong, young and sad-mournful at the same time, he sings a simple song, completely giving himself to her with all his hot and passionate soul. Such singing produces a hypnotic impression on everyone who is present in the tavern, including a hunter who has come in by chance and the wife of a tavern keeper, who starts crying quietly at the window. Yashka's singing is so heartfelt and soulful that tears come to everyone's eyes. When Yashka pauses, the men rush to hug him and kiss him, and the Rider himself gives him victory.

This story from the cycle "Notes of a Hunter", a brief summary of which was set out above, shows us how in the environment of rotten and miserly a spark of true talent arises and flares up, a spark of the Divine spirit. This spark ignites only for a brief moment, but at this moment everyone who touches it becomes itself, revealing its true, spiritual essence.