Summary and analysis of "The Tale of Ershov Ershovich, Son of Schetinnikov"

"The Tale of Ersh Yershovich" are four editions of the same work, with which we will introduce you in this article. In it you will find a brief summary of this tale. We will also conduct a small analysis of the work "A Tale of Ruff Yershovich." As the residents of Rostov Lake and judges, you also learn from this text.

Abstract: The beginning of the work

There is a court in one city, located in the Rostov district. Sturgeon, boyar, Som, governor of the entire Khvalynsk Sea, as well as ship muzhiks-Shchuka-trepetuha and Sudak-consider the petition submitted to the Yersh, which was compiled by the fish of Golovl and Bream, peasants residing in the Rostov district.

The ruffians accuse these residents of asking to live with their family in the Rostov ooozero, who is an old fiefdom for some time, coming from somewhere in the Volga, and then reared the kiddies, mastered and drove the peasants out of this place, having taken possession of the undivided Rostov Lake, hereditary possession their.

Yersh's answer ("The Tale of Ruff Yershovich")

What was the name of the residents of Rostov Lake and the judges, in which they accused Yersh, we found out. Now we learn that he answered his accusers. Yersh said that he comes from small boyars, did not rob and beat anyone, since his property was always Rostov Lake, which his grandfather, Ersh, also owned, and Golovl and Bream, his accusers, were in the slaves of his father.

In turn, Yersh accuses these peasants of showing ingratitude, forgetting that he ordered them to live at home, having released them to freedom, and they went hungry to the Volga and settled there along the bays, and then began to attempt With a petition on his head. Yersh complains to the court that Chub and Bream are themselves thieves and thieves and wish to ruin it completely. The defendant concludes his story by mentioning his acquaintances with the deacons, boyars and princes who eat him-they correct the stomachs with a hangover.

Statement of witnesses

Bream and Chub, plaintiffs, refer to the request of judges, to witnesses and ask that they listen.

Witnesses in the case report that the Chub and Bream are kind people, the peasants of God who feed themselves to the best of their ability, live on the fence, and Yersh is a dashing man, a slanderer, a robber and a thief, no one lives from him, many other honest people Ruined and ruined by his machinations. It is said that he comes from the lowest kind, and not at all boyar, but he lies arrogantly about his acquaintance and friendship with the boyars and princes, since he is well known only to the poor, the tavern and the braziers who do not have a good fish to buy.

Sturgeon Story

We continue to tell you about "The Tale of Ersh Yershovich." Sturgeon appears last to the court with a story about how craftily and meanly Yersh treated him: he met him in the Rostov lake, called his brother and advised him to go to the lake, where there is always abundant food. He believed Yersha, and because of this his family nearly died of hunger, and the Sturgeon himself was in the net, where he was lured by Ersh.

Court sentence

He listens with attention to the court of the plaintiffs, the defendant and the witnesses and sentences: to justify Holovlya and Bream, and Yersha is convicted and extradited to the plaintiff. They execute the defendant with a commercial execution, for pauperism and theft, hanging in the sun on a hot day.

We have considered the short content of the work "A Tale of Ruff Yershovich." What was the name of the residents of the Rostov Lake, what they accused Yersh of, that he answered these charges and how the fairy tale ended, you already know. We now analyze the work.

The time of creation, its origins

The time of creation of the satirical Russian novel about Ersh Ershovich - the end of the 16th - the beginning of the 17th century. Judging by the described place of action, it was written somewhere in the vicinity of the city of Rostov. Researcher AM Panchenko pointed out that this work arose as a reflection of land claims that became very frequent after the Time of Troubles. N.A. and A.V. Afanasyev also assumed that the basis for this story could be the story of a lawsuit with the heirs of Peter, the Horde prince, Rostov princes, which was described at the end of another work - "Tales of Peter, the prince of Ordynsky."

Transformations of the story

This story is considered one of the most popular works of the 17th century, referring to the satirical. Today there are 4 main editions in which there are novels about Ersh Yershovich, located in more than 30 different lists of 17-19 centuries. The alterations can also be found: it is a fiction (skomoroshina-joke) of the end of the 17th century (in which it is said how Yersha was caught and eaten), which was related to the second half of the 18th century, and this work also turned into fairy folklore. According to researcher V. Mitrofanov, this fairy tale was established in the Russian oral tradition.

Writer Vasily White has translated this story into a modern way.

In 1978, based on the works of the director SM Sokolov shot a cartoon called "About Ersh Ershovich."

Characteristics of the work

"The Tale of Ersh Yershovich," the analysis of which we are conducting, is written in the form of a court case. The Russian court proceedings of the 16th and 17th centuries are parodied in the work, its language and procedures are given in the text with irony. This is the main theme of "The Tale of Ersh Yershovich." Creates a comic effect of a combination of fish signs and social characteristics in the characters. In the future this method was used by Saltykov-Shchedrin in his tales.

It occurs in the work and play of words.

Social orientation in the "Tale of Ersh Ershovich" is not present. The author does not condemn Yersh, but the sympathetic attitude to this character in later editions intensifies. Yersh was enterprising and brave, unlike the stupid, stupid plaintiffs, witnesses and judges. This work is related to the animal fairytale epic, you can also find the parallels between the main character and the cunning fox in other Russian fairy tales.

With a general story, each of the editions of the work is independent in the artistic organization of narration and language. If the first has a strong imitation of the style of the official document, then in the second much more attention is paid to the sound of the text itself (rhyme, rhythm, tautology, paronomasia, etc.).