The summary - "Olesya", the story of AI Kuprin

The story "Olesya" Kuprin (a brief summary of it is presented below) was written in 1898. This work is quite voluminous, before it the author published short stories.

Summary. "Olesya" (chapter 1 -3)

The hero, the master of Timofeevich, the fate forced for six months to settle in a remote village on the outskirts of Polissya. The only entertainment is hunting with Yarmola, a local hired sweeper. The hero, however, tried to teach Yarmolu the letter of boredom, but he did not show much interest in this occupation. Once there was talk about local wonders. Polesovschik said that there used to live in the village a witch with a small granddaughter, but the peasants drove them out, because one woman died a child, and the villagers accused the whole witch. A few days later the master lost his way in the forest and went out to the swamp, where he saw a hut on stilts. He went in, asked for water and wanted to talk with the landlady, but the old woman was not sociable and began to send him out. As he was about to leave, he ran into a tall black-haired girl and asked him to escort him to the road. We met, it turned out, it's Olesya.

Summary. "Olesya" (chapters 1 -3)

Spring came. The hero had not met Olesya for a long time, but he kept thinking about her. As soon as the earth subsided, he again comes to the hut on the swamp. At first Olesya was delighted with him, and then sadly told her that she was guessing at him on the maps. They showed that the hero is not a bad person, but very weak and his word is not the master. He is waiting for his great love with the lady of clubs, but the lady because of this love expects great sorrow and shame in the very near future. Ivan Timofeevich asks the girl not to believe in fortune telling, because the cards often lie. But Olesya replies that her divination is the truth.

After a simple dinner Olesya escorts the master. He wondered how sorcery was going on. He asks Olesya to conjure. The girl agrees, cuts his hand with a knife, and then stops the blood in a conspiracy. But the master is not enough, he asks more. Then she warns that she can completely subordinate his will, and he will fall. They go further, but Ivan Trofimovich stumbles all the time on a flat spot and falls down, which makes a girl laugh very much.

After that, the master often visited the forest hut. He noticed that Olesya was very clever, she had a figurative and competent speech, although she could not read and write. The forest beauty explained that she had been taught everything by her grandmother, who was an unusual person.

Once there was talk about the future, about whether Olesya wanted to marry. She replied that she should not be married, because it is forbidden to go to church. All the power of their kind is not of God, but of him . And God, to the last tribe, is cursed to the ages of ages. Barin disagrees, he persuades Olesya not to believe in these grandmothers inventions. The girl has remained at the opinion. Yarmola does not approve of the barin's wanderings to witches.

Summary. "Olesya" (chapters 4 -10)

Once Ivan Trofimovich finds Olesya in a bad mood. It turns out that the sergeant visited them in the hut and demanded to leave his district. Barin offered his help. Olesya refused her, but her grandmother agreed.

Barin calls the sergeant to him, treats him and gives him a gun. He temporarily leaves the women alone. But the relationship of the master, or panchy, as his local villagers call, with Olesya spoil. The girl meets him unfriendly, they no longer walk through the forest, but he continues to visit the hut.

Ivan Trofimovich fell ill and a fortnight did not come to Oles. As soon as he recovers, he immediately visits the girl. She meets him with joy. He asks about his health, he goes to see me off. Ivan Trofimovich and Olesya confess each other in love. Olesya explains her coldness by trying to avoid relations, but, apparently, you will not escape from fate. It is evident that she is ready for all the troubles that were predicted by her fortune telling, because she is this lady of clubs. She promised Ivan Trofimovich that he would never regret anything.

Summary. "Olesya" (chapter 11-14)

The master is surprised to notice that, unlike his previous relationship, he is not bored with Olesya. He is amazed to see that she is endowed with sensitivity and innate natural tact. But his office ends here, and soon he needs to leave. He wants to marry a girl. But she refuses. She says she is illegitimate and can not leave her grandmother. In addition, she does not want to associate her Vanya with her hands and feet - suddenly he will fall in love with another woman. Then, when Ivan Trofimovich offers to take his grandmother with him, Olesya asks out of gratitude, he would like her to visit the church. Ivan says that he would like.

Olesya decides for her love to go to church. But the parishioners notice it and start mocking it. The church is attacked by a crowd of women, they begin to beat and tear her clothes, throw stones at her. Miraculously Olesya manages to escape and escape, but at last she loudly threatens the crowd. The hero jumps into the hut, where he finds the battered Olesya in delirium. She says that being together is not destiny. He and his grandmother need to leave: if something happens, they will immediately blame them. At night, over the village it was raining with hail, the villagers were dying of bread. Ivan ran too late, the hut was empty ...

The peculiarity of Kuprin's story is that the elements of the mystical, mysterious are woven into a realistic plot, and folklore coloring is also added. The story entered the classics of Russian literature, it is studied in school. The summary (Kuprin, "Olesya") does not give an opportunity to assess the poetic beauty of this work. To enjoy it, read the whole story.