Category: Soviet literature

City of masters, or The Tale of Two Hunchbacks

: The city of Masters is captured by foreign soldiers. A hunchback sweeper, together with friends, frees the city from invaders, gets rid of the hump and marries the first beauty of the city. Action one In the ancient City of Masters there are people who know how to do everything in the world. Aliens take over the city ...

Cynics

In 1918, Vladimir brings his beloved Olga a bouquet of asters. At this time, loved ones are given mainly flour and millet, and bags, like corpses, lie under the beds of Karelian birch. Tinting her lips with a golden Guerlain pencil, Olga asks her boyfriend if it could happen that in Moscow ...

You never dreamed

: Boy and girl, ninth graders, fall in love. The boy’s mother is against their romance; she is trying to separate the lovers. To meet his beloved again, the boy jumps out of the window. Shortly before the start of the school year, a family moved into one of Moscow's new buildings: the ninth-grader Yulka ...

Chick's defense

Chick was in terrible trouble. Russian language teacher Akaky Makedonovich said that he should bring one of his parents to school.The teacher had a habit of writing grammar rules in poetic form, and students had to memorize this poem, and at the same time the rule. Akaky Makedonovich ...

Bathhouse

: In a city bath, a man is faced with Soviet life: bath attendants are rude, there aren’t enough gangs, the laundry is going around. Barely having received a coat, he leaves - unwashed, without his soap and in the pants of others. The narration is conducted on behalf of a man whose name is not mentioned in the story. They say citizens in America ...

Missing eye

: The young doctor, having gained experience, believes that you will not surprise him with anything. A child with a tumor instead of an eye is brought to him. Upon learning that the tumor is an ordinary abscess, the doctor realizes that he will have many surprises. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Star rash

: 1917 year. A young rural doctor begins the fight against syphilis, which infects entire families in villages. Patients do not finish the treatment, and the doctor seeks to open a special department in the hospital. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Baptism by turn

: The young doctor is having a difficult birth for the first time. It is not the textbook that helps save the mother and the child, but the advice of an experienced midwife. The doctor understands that theoretical knowledge can never be compared with experience. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Action takes place in ...

Winter storm

: 1917 year.Returning from a call, a young rural doctor gets lost in a field during a blizzard, almost freezes, escapes from wolves. As soon as he died, he realizes that he will risk his life more than once for the sake of the patient. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Steel throat

: Saving a terminally ill three-year-old girl, a young village doctor inserts a silver tube into her throat so that she can breathe. The child recovers, and the doctor becomes famous throughout the district.The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Egyptian darkness

: A rural woman drinks a bottle of belladonna, a miller takes ten quinine powders at once, a man sticks a mustard plaster on a sheepskin coat. These cases prompt the young doctor to fight the darkness of ignorance. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Action going on ...

Resentment

Sasha Ermolaev offended. On Saturday morning, he collected empty milk bottles and said to his little daughter: “Masha, will you come with me?” - "Where? Gagazinchik? " - the girl was delighted. “And buy some fish,” the wife ordered. Sasha and her daughter went to the store. We bought milk, butter, went to watch the fish, and there behind the counter ...

Towel with a cock

: A girl is brought to the hospital at death. Despite the inexperience and low chances of success, the young doctor still decides to operate it. The girl miraculously survives and, having gained strength, comes to thank him. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Girl from the Earth

: A girl living at the end of the 21st century falls into adventure on Earth and Mars; saves a whole civilization by moving to the distant past, and fights with space pirates in deep space. All three stories are narrated on behalf of Alisa Selezneva’s father, a professor of cosmobiology. ...

Notes of a young doctor

: The young doctor gets to the village hospital, where he has to take a hundred people a day, to carry out the most complicated operations alone, to fight diseases, ignorance and his own cowardice. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor whose name is not mentioned. Action takes place in ...

Morphine

: Morphine was given to the doctor to relieve acute abdominal pain. The pain from the fact that the girl had recently abandoned her had also gone away with her. He began to inject himself in order to forget himself, but he sucked himself in, could not get down, and committed suicide. The narration is on behalf of the young doctor Vladimir Bomgard. In the winter of 1917, a young doctor ...

At the walls of the city of the invisible(Bright Lake)

My homeland is a small estate of the Oryol province. It was there that, after listening to disputes at religious and philosophical meetings in Petersburg, I decided to go to look around, to find out what wise forest elders think. Thus began my journey into the invisible city. Spring. In the black garden they sing ...

Doll

: The old man who has gone through the war, seeing the mutilated doll, is amazed at how hardened people are and buries the doll as a person. The narrator likes to visit under Lipino, twenty-five miles from his house. There is a large pool on the river, which was even avoided by geese.Only old, wounded ...

Russian character

: After returning from the war with a disfigured face, the tanker does not want to scare loved ones and is called by a different name. The heart tells the mother that this is her son, and the bride remains with the hero, despite his injuries. “Russian character! - the title is too meaningful for a short story, but to the narrator ...

The twelve Chairs

On Good Friday April 15, 1927, mother-in-law Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov, a former leader of the nobility, dies in the city of N. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs of the living room, which remained in Stargorod, from where they fled after the revolution, she sewed all the family jewels....