Summary of "Childhood" (the story of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy)

Let's remember the mandatory program on Russian literature! Leo Tolstoy "Childhood" (summary). The author wrote this work in 1852. This is the first story of the three available about the life of Nicholas Irtenev. The hero tells the first person about the early period of his life, nostalgically regretting the irretrievable freshness of children's feelings, carefree, love and faith.

Summary of "Childhood" (Chapters 1-6)

In the morning, a few days after his decade, Irtenev Nikolenka was awakened by a teacher (or rather, a cotton of his fly swat). The boy was offended that they woke him, a small and defenseless, and not his elder brother Volodya. From anger and self-pity, he burst into tears, explaining the tears of a terrible dream. But after the teacher tickled and laughed good-naturedly, began to lift Nicholas from the bed, Karl Ivanych was forgiven and called "dear."

Every morning the tutor, along with the boys, went down to the drawing-room to wish their mother good morning.

Resurrected in the imagination of my mother, Nicholas never managed to recreate her whole appearance. Most often remembered a birthmark on the neck, an embroidered collar, a look of always kind brown eyes and dry, delicate hands. She consulted German Karl Ivanych about how the children slept, whether Nicholas had not wept.

Often they found his father behind the calculations. He gave financial orders to the serf clerk Yakov. He was stingy, like every good and faithful servant, but he had rather strange ideas about the benefits of the gentleman, caring about increasing his income at the expense of the lady's funds (namely, her Khabarovsk estate).

After greeting the sons, the pope said that, since they had already grown up, it's time to start seriously studying. To do this, he takes them to Moscow to his grandmother's house, and the maman and his sisters stay in Petrovsky. The brothers were amazed at this news. Nicholas had been sorry for my mother and the old teacher, who, indeed, would be refused from home. Feeling, he began to cry.

Summary of "Childhood" (Chapters 7-12)

Dad took the boys with him on the hunt, and the girls asked. With them in the stroller went maman. Afterwards there was tea, fruit, ice cream and, of course, children's outdoor games.

Later, at home, everyone started his own business. My mother played the piano, my father came with a report of the serfs. Volodya, Nikolenka and the girls decided to take a closer look at the beliefs of the holy fool, whom mother had sheltered.

Nicholas has for life remembered the sincere, powerful prayer of a real Christian - the holy fool Grisha, whom they became involuntary witnesses. He prayed with love for everyone who gave him shelter. When there was not enough words, he fell to the ground in sincere, flowing tears.

Summary of "Childhood" (Chapter 13)

Red-cheeked, merry and fat Natasha was taken into the house by a young girl as a female servant for her grandmother. As a maid, Natalia was very diligent and meek. After the mother was born, and the maid became a nanny, and then she too deserved the award and praise for the affection and loyalty that the girl gave (the family did not have Natalia).

Having married, maman tried to thank Natalia Savishna, as she was now called, for her service. She was granted a free and lifelong pension of three hundred rubles. But her faithful Our tore the document with the stamp stamp and remained to serve as housekeeper, overseeing the economy and giving love and care to the third generation of their masters now.

Summary of "Childhood" (Chapters 14-28)

The boys lived in Moscow, in the house of my grandmother, for more than six months. The children studied, danced at balls, got acquainted with Moscow relatives: Princess Kornakova, Prince Ivan Ivanovich, brothers Ivin, even fell in love with Sonechka Walakhin.

Having received an alarming letter from his wife, his father again took them to Petrovskoye. Unfortunately, the children found Mother already in unconsciousness. It was very hard for Nicholas to die and the funeral of his maman. His pious conversations and the sincere tears of Natalia Savishna, who loved the deceased, were a little easier for him.

Grandmother found out about the death of her daughter only after the return of Irtenev to Moscow. Her sorrow and grief were touching and strong, but Nikolenka somehow sympathized and empathized more with Natalia Savishna, because she was convinced that no one had so sincerely and sincerely repented of his mother as this loving and faithful creature.

With the death of the maman for Nikolenka, childhood ended. The time of adolescence began.

The summary of Tolstoy's "Childhood" only reveals a huge world created by the author. The inquisitive reader, turning to the full text of the story, learns much more interesting about the life of the landed estates, about the noble system of education and training of children in the nineteenth century.