"Notes of the little schoolgirl": a brief summary. Lydia Charskaya, "Notes of a little schoolgirl"

Lydia Charskaya, like a real engineer of human souls, introduces into the outline of her narrative a girl who has a talent of kindness and self-sacrifice. Many generations of Russian girls considered their reference book "Notes of a little schoolgirl". The brief content of her shows how a man possessing not ostentatious, but real virtues, is able to change the world around him for the better. The main heroine of the story is a nine-year-old girl. She is bright and kind (in Greek, the name Elena means "light").

Lenochka orphaned

The reader gets to know her when she rushes on a train from her native Volga Rybinsk to St. Petersburg. Sad is a trip, not on its own it rushes. The girl was orphaned. Her beloved "sweetest, kindest" mother with eyes similar to the eyes of an angel depicted in the church caught a cold "when the ice started" and, emaciated, becoming "like a wax", died in September.

Tragically, the "Notes of a little schoolgirl" begin. The brief content of the introductory part is to nurture the child's clean and gentle nature.

Mom, feeling the approach of her death, asked the cousin Iconin Mikhail Vasilievich, who lives in St. Petersburg and has the rank of general (state counselor), to raise a girl.

Maryushka bought a railway ticket for the girl to Petersburg, sent a telegram to her uncle-to meet the girl-and instructed her to look after Lenochka on the way to a familiar guide-Nikifor Matveyevich.

In the house of my uncle

The scene in the house of the State Councilor is colorful, Lydia Charskaya describes. "Notes of a little schoolgirl" contain an image of an unfriendly humiliating encounter between her sister and two brothers. Lenochka went into the galoshes in the living room, and this did not go unnoticed, immediately turned into a reproach to her. Opposite her, smirking, with a clear sense of superiority, stood a blond, like a porcelain doll with an upturned capricious upper sponge Nina; An older boy, with features similar to her, - Zhorzhik, and the thin, twisted youngest son of the state councilor Tolya.

How did they perceive the cousin who came from the provinces? The story "Notes of the little schoolgirl" answers this question: with disgust, with a sense of superiority, with a specific childish cruelty ("beggar", "mocryca", "we do not need it", taken "out of pity"). Lenochka persistently endured bullying, but when Tolik, teasing and twisting, in conversation, mentioned the late mother of the girl, she pushed him, and the boy broke an expensive Japanese porcelain vase.

Broken Vase

Immediately these little Iconins ran to complain to Bavaria Ivanovna (as they called themselves governess Matilda Frantsevna), in their own way, turning the situation over and accusing Lenochka.

Touchingly describes the scene of the perception of the act of a gentle and neozlobivsheysya girl Lydia Charsky. "Notes of a little schoolgirl" contain an obvious contrast: Lenochka does not think about her brothers and sister angrily, does not call them in thoughts, as they constantly do. "Well, how should I deal with these scuffles?" She asks, looking at the gray St. Petersburg sky and presenting her late mother. She talked to her with her "strong heart."

Very soon came "Uncle Michelle" (as his uncle introduced himself to his niece) with his wife, Aunt Nellie. Aunt, as it was seen, was not going to treat her niece as her own, but she simply wanted to give her to the gymnasium, where she was "drilled". Uncle, when he found out about the broken vase, became gloomy. Then everyone went to dinner.

The ikonin's eldest daughter is Julia (Julie)

During dinner, Lenochka got acquainted with one more inhabitant of this house, the humped Julie, Aunt Nellie's eldest daughter. "Notes of a little schoolgirl" describe her disfigured illness, narrow-faced, flat-breasted, humpbacked, vulnerable and embittered girl. She was not understood in the Icon family, she was an outcast. Lenochka was the only one who sincerely felt sorry for the poor nature-disfigured girl, who had only beautiful eyes that looked like "two diamonds."

However, Julie hated the newly arrived relative for the fact that she was infused into the room previously owned by her.

Revenge of Julie

The news that she should go to the gym tomorrow was pleased with Lenochka. And when Matilda Frantsevna in her style ordered the girl to go "to disassemble her things" before the school, she ran into the living room. However, things have already been moved to a tiny room with one window, a narrow bed, a washstand and a chest of drawers (Julie's former room). Contrasting with the nursery and the drawing room, this boring corner of Lydia Charskaya depicts. Her books often describe the difficult childhood and adolescence of the writer herself. She, like the main heroine of the story, lost her mother early. She hated her stepmother, so she ran away from home a couple of times. From the age of 15 she kept a diary.

However, let us return to the plot of the story "Notes of a Little Grammar Girl." The brief content of further events lies in the malicious pranks of Julie and Ninochka. First, the first, and then the second, scattered around the room things from the suitcase Lenochka, then broke the table. And then Julie accused the unfortunate orphan that she struck Nina.

Unserved punishment

With knowledge of the case (it is obvious personal experience) describes the subsequent punishment of the main character Lydia Charskaya. "Notes of a little schoolgirl" contain a depressing scene of violence over the orphan and blatant injustice. An angry, rude and unsympathetic governess pushed the girl into a dusty, dark, cold, uninhabited room and closed the bolt behind her on the outside of the door. Suddenly, in the darkness a pair of huge yellow eyes appeared, flying straight to Lenochka. She fell to the ground and fainted.

The governess, having discovered Lena's limp body, was frightened herself. And she let the girl out of prison. She was not warned that there lives a manual owl.

Ikonina-the first and Ikonina-the second

The next day the governess led the girl to the director of the gymnasium - Anna Chirikova, a tall and stately woman with gray hair and a young face. Matilda Frantsevna characterized Lenochka, charging her with all the guilt for the tricks of her sisters and brothers, but the chief did not believe her. Anna Vladimirovna warmly reacted to the girl, who, in the care of the governess, burst into tears. She sent Lenochka to the classroom, saying that Julie, who was studying in it, (Julia Iconon), would introduce the girl to the others.

Dictation. Harassment

"Recommendation" Julie was peculiar: she slandered Lenochka in front of the whole class, saying that she did not consider her sister, accusing him of pugnaciousness and deceit. Slander did its job. In the classroom, where the first violin was played by two or three selfish, physically strong brazen girls who were quick to punish and persecute, an atmosphere of intolerance was created around Lenochka.

Teacher Vasily Vasilyevich was surprised by such unrelated relations. He seated Lenochka near Zheleva, and then the dictation began. Lenochka (Ikonina-the second, as the teacher called her) wrote him calligraphically and without blots, and Julie (Ikonina-first) made twenty mistakes. Further events in the classroom, where all were afraid to contradict the insolent Ivina, we will describe briefly.

"Notes of a little schoolgirl" contain a scene of brutal persecution of a new student by the whole class. She was surrounded, pushed and jerked from all sides. Envious Zhelelyova and Julie angered her. However, these two were far from well-known in the gymnasium bastards and daredevils Ivin and Zhenya Rosh.

Why did Ivina and others initiate this pressure? To "break" the new one, to deprive the will, to make it obedient. Did this come from young hooligans? No.

Lena suffers for the act of Julie. The First Miracle

On the fifth day of stay in the house of my uncle, Lenochka was hit by another misfortune. Julie, pissed off at Georges for reporting to the Pope about the unit she received at the lesson of the law of God, closed his poor owl in a box.

George was attached to the bird, which he trained and fed. Julie, unable to restrain herself from glee, betrayed herself in the presence of Lenochka. However, Matilda Frantsevna already found the body of poor Filka and in its own way defined his killer.

She was supported by the general's wife, and Lenochka had to be cut. The cruel customs in this house show "Notes of a little schoolgirl". The main characters are often not only unmerciful, but also unfair.

However, here the first miracle happened, the first soul was opened to the Kindness. When Bavaria Ivanovna brought a cane over the poor girl, the execution was interrupted by a scream: "Do not you dare sow!" He was tossed into the room pale, trembling, with big tears on his face, Tolya's younger brother, "She's an orphan, she's not to blame! She should be sorry". From that moment he and Lena became friendly.

White crow

Once black Ivina and plump Eugene Roche decided to "persecute" the teacher of literature of Vasily Vasilyevich. As usual, the rest of the class supported them. Only Lenochka, summoned by the teacher, answered homework without reproaches.

Such an outbreak of hatred for herself Lenochka has never seen ... She was dragged along the corridor, pushed into an empty room and closed. The girl cried, she was very hard. She called mom, she was even ready to return to Rybinsk.

And then there was a second miracle in her life ... She was approached by the favorite of the whole gymnasium, a senior student, Countess Anna Simolin. She, being herself meek and kind, understood what kind of treasure the soul of Lenochka was, wiped away her tears, calmed her and sincerely offered her unhappy friendship. Ikonina-the second after this literally "rose from the ashes", she was ready to study further in this gymnasium.

A small victory

Soon the girl's uncle announced to the children that there would be a ball in the house, and invited them to write an invitation to their friends. As the general said, there will be only one guest from him - the daughter of the chief. About how Georges and Ninochka invited school friends, and Lenochka same - Nyurochka (the daughter of conductor Nikifor Matveyevich), the writer Lydia Charsky leads her further story. "Notes of a little schoolgirl" represent for Lenochka and Nyurochka the first part of the ball failed: they were the object of ridicule on the part of children brought up in contempt for "peasants." However, the situation changed dramatically when the guest arrived from his uncle.

What was the surprise of Lenochka when she was Anna Simolin! To the "daughter of the minister" small, snobbish little snobs tried to cling, but Anna spent the whole evening only with Lena and Nyurochka.

And when she danced with Nyura waltz, all froze. The girls danced so plastic and expressive that even Matilda Frantsevna, dancing like an automaton, after watching, made two mistakes. But then the boy-nobles vied with each other and invited the "commoner" Nyura to dance. It was a small victory.

New suffering for the misdeed of Julie. Miracle № 4

However, soon destiny prepared Lena for a real test. It happened in the gymnasium. Julie burned a red book of a German teacher with dictations. It was immediately from her words that Lena recognized. She took the sister's guilt upon herself, turning to the teacher with words of regret. "Oh, a gift from my deceased sister Sophia!" - cried the teacher ... She was not magnanimous, she could not forgive ... As you can see, real life characters are enlivened with "Notes of the little schoolgirl".

The brief content of the subsequent events is a new trial that fell to the lot of this brave girl. Lena was publicly accused of stealing before the whole gymnasium. She was standing in the corridor with a pinned pin to her clothes with a sheet of paper with the inscription "The thief." She who took on the guilt of another person. This note was ripped from her Anna Simolin, announcing to everyone that she did not believe in Lena's guilt.

Bavaria Ivanovna was told about the incident, and that one - Aunt Nellie. Even more severe trials were awaited for Elena ... The general in openness called Elena a thief, a shame of the family. And then the fourth miracle happened. To her came all at night in tears the repentant Julie. She really repented. Indeed, the Christian humility of her sister awakened her soul!

The fifth miracle. Consent in the Icon family

Soon the newspapers were filled with news of the tragedy. The train Nikifor Matveyevich Rybinsk-Petersburg was in an accident. Elena asked Aunt Nellie to let her go to see him, to help. However, the callous general did not allow. Then Elena in the gymnasium pretended that she had not learned the lesson of the law of God (at the lesson the headmistress of the gymnasium and all teachers were present) and was punished - left for three hours after the lessons. Now it was easy to escape to visit Nikifor Matveyevich.

The girl went into the cold and a snowstorm on the outskirts of the city, lost her way, was exhausted and sat down in a snowdrift, she felt good, warm ... She was rescued. Accidentally on this terrain, Anna Simolin's father returned from hunting. He heard a groan, and the hunting dog found a girl almost snowballed in a snowdrift.

When Lena came to herself, she was reassured, the news of the train crash turned out to be a newspaper misprint. In the house of Anna, under the supervision of doctors, Lena recovered. Anna was also shocked by the dedication of her friend, and she invited her to stay, becoming a named sister (my father agreed).

Grateful Lena could not even dream of such happiness. Anna and Elena went to the house to my uncle, announce this decision. Anna said that Elena would live with her. But then Tolik and Julie fell to their knees and began to ask her warmly not to leave the house. Tolik said that, like Friday, he can not live without Robinson (ie Helen), and Julie asked her, because without her she can not really reform.

And then the fifth miracle happened: at last the soul of Aunt Nellie had begun to see. She only realized just how magnanimous Lena was, that she had truly done the priceless things for her children. The mother of the family finally accepted her as her own daughter. Georges, indifferent to everything, also, having begun to feel, cried, his eternal neutrality between good and evil was rejected in favor of the former.

Conclusion

Both Elena and Anna realized that Lena is more necessary in this family. After all, this orphan girl, initially not met with kindness on her way, her warm heart managed to melt the ice around her. She managed to bring into the arrogant, disfiguring, cruel house the rays of love and a true Christian humility of high taste.

Today (almost a hundred years after writing), again at the peak of the popularity of "The Notes of a Little Grammar Girl." Readers' comments state that the story is vital.

How often our contemporaries live, responding with blow to blow, revenge, hate. Is the world around them better from this? Hardly.

Charskaya's book gives us to understand that only kindness and sacrifice can really change the world for the better.