Retelling plan
1. The barber Ivan Yakovlevich found the nose of collegiate assessor Kovalev in fresh bread.
2. Major Kovalev notices the missing nose.
3. He sees his nose and watches his actions.
4. Major arranges for the return of the nose.
5. The nose appears in its place by itself.
6. Further life of Major Kovalev.
retelling
I
On March 25, an unusually strange incident happened in St. Petersburg. The barber Ivan Yakovlevich woke up early in the morning and smelled hot bread. His wife was taking freshly baked bread out of the oven. Sitting down at the table, he began to cut bread. Having cut it, he looked into the middle and saw something whitening. Ivan Yakovlevich stuck his fingers in and pulled out... his nose! The wife began to scold: “Where are you, the beast, cut off your nose?” “But Ivan Yakovlevich was neither alive nor dead. He learned that this nose was none other than the collegiate assessor Kovalev, whom he shaved every Wednesday and Sunday. At the same moment Ivan Yakovlevich was driven out of the house along with his nose. He stood like a dead man and did not know what to think. Finally the barber, frightened that the police would come and find the nose and blame him, went out into the street. He wanted to slip it somewhere, but people always came across on the way. Ivan Yakovlevich was seized with despair, and he decided to go to St. Isaac's Bridge and there try to throw his nose into the Neva. Once on the bridge, he looked around and slowly tossed the rag with his nose. But the quarter warden noticed all this and began to inquire, what was he doing while standing on the bridge? Ivan Yakovlevich turned pale, but what happened next is unknown.
Collegiate assessor Kovalev woke up early and asked for a small mirror to look at a pimple that had jumped up on his nose yesterday. But to his great surprise, instead of a nose, there was a completely smooth place. He began to feel with his hand, jumped up, shook himself: there was no nose! .. He immediately dressed and went to the Chief of Police.
Kovalev liked his own title of collegiate assessor, but "in order to give himself more nobility and weight, he never called himself a collegiate assessor, but always a major."
Major Kovalev liked to walk along Nevsky Prospekt every day. He came to St. Petersburg to seek a vice-gubernatorial or executive position in a prominent department. He was not averse to marrying a rich bride. Imagine what his position was when he saw instead of a nose "a stupid, even and smooth place."
Kovalev went into the confectionery to look in the mirror, did he have a nose? Leaving the confectionery, he stopped dead in his tracks: in front of the entrance of one of the breaks, a carriage stopped, and a gentleman in uniform jumped out of it, running up the stairs. Kovalev found out: it was his own nose! There's a pimple on his side from yesterday... Trembling as if in a fever, the major decided to wait for his nose to return to the carriage. Two minutes later, the nose came out. “He was in a uniform embroidered with gold, with a large standing collar; he was wearing suede trousers; at the side of the sword. From the hat with the plume, one could conclude that he was considered to be in the rank of state councilor... Poor Kovalev almost lost his mind... How is it possible, in fact, that the nose that was on his face yesterday could ride and walk - was in uniform! He ran after the carriage, which, fortunately, stopped in front of the Kazan Cathedral. Entering the church, he was in such a state that he could not pray, and he searched in the corners for this gentleman. Nose hid his face in a large stand-up collar "and prayed with an expression of the greatest piety."
Major Kovalev did not know how to approach him, because the nose was a state adviser. Finally he made up his mind. Trembling, speechless, apologizing, he tries to explain the situation to this gentleman. With self-respect he says: “After all, you are my own nose!” To which he replies: “I am on my own. Moreover, there can be no close relationship between us.” While Kovalev looked at the light lady, the nose managed to get into the carriage and leave. The major decided to go on a newspaper expedition and publish an advertisement describing all the qualities of the nose, "so that anyone who met him could immediately introduce him to him, or at least let him know about the place of his stay." The official in the newspaper was forced to refuse: the newspaper is already accused of printing inconsistencies. Then Major Kovalev went to a private bailiff. He took it very dryly, as he was going to fall asleep for two hours, but he was interrupted. He did not even want to listen to Kovalev. Tired and sad, the major returned home. He again looked at himself in the mirror and kept thinking: who could play such a cruel joke with him? Finally, he decided that it was the staff officer Podtochina who hired the witches because he refused to marry her daughter.
Late in the afternoon a police officer showed up. He said that the nose had now been found: it had been intercepted on the way to Riga, and that he had brought it with him. The collegiate assessor was beside himself with joy, but then he realized that he still needed to be put in his place. With trembling hands, sitting in front of the mirror, Major Kovalev put his nose, but he did not want to stick, and fell on the table like a cork. He sent for a doctor. The doctor came, examined, could not do anything and began to assure that the major was much better. And the nose advised to alcoholize or better to sell. The next day, Kovalev decided to write a letter to the staff officer, so that she agreed to "return what should be returned without a fight." After reading Podtochina's answer to his letter, he became convinced that she was definitely not to blame for anything. In the meantime, various rumors about Major Kovalev's nose were spreading around St. Petersburg. But on April 7, the nose, as if nothing had happened, found itself again in its place. Ivan Yakovlevich came to shave the major. And how difficult it was not for him, but he shaved Kovalev without touching his nose even once.
After that, the collegiate assessor traveled around all his acquaintances in order to assure them and himself at the same time that the nose was really in place.
The end of the story is tragicomic. Kovalev, having found his nose, was delighted, “as if he had found some great treasure,” but he didn’t realize anything, didn’t change anything in his life, didn’t guess that he had a loss worse than the one that frightened him - he lost soul. “And after that, Major Kovalev was always seen in good humor, smiling, decisively pursuing all the pretty ladies, and even stopping once in front of a shop in Gostiny Dvor and buying some kind of sash, it is not known for what reasons, because he himself was not a gentleman of any orders."
As the narrator himself testifies, this incident happened on March 25 in the city of St. Petersburg. Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber, eating fresh bread in the morning, which was baked by his wife Praskovya Osipovna, found a nose in it. In his find, he immediately recognized the nose of the collegiate assessor Kovalev and was very discouraged by this event. Deciding to get rid of the found nose, the barber throws it from the Isakievsky bridge, but is immediately detained by the quarter warden with sideburns.
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In the meantime, the collegiate assessor, the same Kovalev, waking up in the morning, decides to squeeze a pimple on his nose and discovers the loss. Major Kovalev (as he liked to call himself more) was very upset, because he simply needed a decent appearance, since the purpose of his arrival in the capital was to get a job in some prominent department. In addition, Kovalev's immediate plans included marriage, and he had already made acquaintances in several decent houses (state councilor Chekhtyreva, staff officer Pelageya Grigorievna Podtochina). Disappointed, Kovalev goes to the Chief of Police and on the way he meets his own nose, dressed in a chic uniform and a hat with a plume. Nose gets into the carriage and goes to the Kazan Cathedral, where he prays with a very pious air.
Major Kovalev pursues his own nose and tries to talk to him, but he turns out to be very uncompromising interlocutors, and as soon as Kovalev is distracted by the lady in the hat, the nose disappears from sight. The Chief of Police was not at home, and Kovalev went on a newspaper expedition to advertise the loss. The newspaper official is sympathetic, but turns him down, fearing that the publication might lose its reputation. Further, Kovalev follows the private bailiff, who turns out to be out of sorts and angrily remarks that decent people do not tear off their noses. Arriving home, Kovalev thinks about the reason for what happened and comes to the conclusion that this is all the work of the staff officer Podtochina, whose daughter he was in no hurry to marry. So, apparently, she hired some kind of old witch to get revenge. Suddenly, a police official appears and brings a nose wrapped in paper, which was intercepted on the way to Riga with false documents. Kovalev is infinitely happy.
However, his joy was short-lived. The nose did not stick to the previous place. The called doctor also could not help, only advised to put the nose in a jar of alcohol and sell it for good money. Kovalev writes a message to the staff officer Podtochina, in which he threatens her and demands that his nose be returned to his place. Podtochina's answer was not long in coming, and was so full of misunderstanding that Kovalev was finally convinced that the staff officer was not involved in what had happened.
In the meantime, rumors were already spreading around the capital. The nose of a collegiate assessor is seen in a variety of crowded places, people are going to stare at this wonderful phenomenon.
But on the seventh of April, the nose again found itself in its usual place. Happy Kovalev manages to arrange all his affairs and resolve all issues in one day.
At the end of the story, the writer declares that there are many implausible things in this story, but such incidents sometimes really happen.
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The story "The Nose" was written by N.V. Gogol in 1836. Gogol himself considered it an ordinary joke and for a long time did not agree to publish it. Humor is the main part of the content of The Nose, although by no means the only one. In Gogol's story, laughter is subtly intertwined with well-aimed sketches of the then everyday life. Outlining the summary of The Nose, we will try to convey, as far as possible, both of these characteristic features of it - and humor in the first place.
Gogol. Nose. Feature Film
St. Petersburg barber Ivan Yakovlevich, waking up in the morning, smells hot bread baked by his grumpy wife Praskovya Osipovna. Sitting at the table, he begins to cut the bread - and suddenly finds something white and dense inside. Running his fingers, Ivan Yakovlevich pulls out a human nose from the edge.
“Where are you, beast and drunkard, cut off your nose? his wife screams. “Robber, I’ve already heard from three people that when you shave, you pull on your noses so much that you can barely hold on!”
Ivan Yakovlevich recognizes the nose: it belongs to Major Kovalev, whom he shaves twice a week. The barber does not understand anything: "an unrealizable incident, because bread is a baked business, but the nose is not at all the same." Gogol describes how Ivan Yakovlevich, in terrible anxiety, wraps his nose in a rag and takes it out into the street to throw it somewhere. After several unsuccessful attempts, the barber comes to the bridge across the Neva and, pretending to be looking at the running fish, imperceptibly throws the rag with his nose into the water. With a sigh of relief, he is about to go to the tavern for a glass of punch, but at that time a quarter warden standing at a distance calls him and asks what he was doing while standing on the bridge ...
At the same time, collegiate assessor Kovalev wakes up in one of the St. Petersburg apartments - a petty civil official, who, nevertheless, likes to call himself a military major. Looking in the mirror to check if the pimple that popped up on his nose yesterday has disappeared, he finds that there is no nose: only a smooth spot is visible instead. The situation is scandalous! Kovalev likes to walk along Nevsky Prospekt and is going to look for a vice-governor's seat. He is not averse to marrying if two hundred thousand capital happens for the bride. But now how to do all this without a nose?!
Gogol. Nose. audiobook
Covering his face with a handkerchief, Kovalev runs out of the house to go straight to the Chief of Police. But, unfortunately, there is not a single cab driver. Standing on the street, Kovalev suddenly sees an inexplicable phenomenon: his own nose comes out of the carriage in the uniform of a state councilor and hides in the entrance of a house. Two minutes later, the nose comes back and, shouting to the coachman: “Give it!”, Leaves.
Kovalev runs after the carriage. She stops in front of the Kazan Cathedral. Kovalev runs into the cathedral and sees how his nose, hiding his face in a high standing collar, prays with an expression of the greatest piety. Coming closer, Kovalev coughs for a minute, but then he still decides to speak directly with his nose, although he, judging by his uniform, is much higher in official rank.
Kukryniksy's illustration for Gogol's "The Nose"
"What do you want?" the nose asks. Kovalev explains that the nose "should know its place, and not stand in the church." “I am a major who knows many ladies, and it is indecent for me to go without a nose ... And you are my own nose.” “You are mistaken, dear sir,” the nose replies irritably.
Kovalev's attention is distracted for a moment by the sight of a pretty young lady entering the cathedral. The major looks at her fresh chin with pleasure, but at that moment he remembers that he does not have a nose. With tears in his eyes, he turns to the nose to call him a rogue and a scoundrel. However, he is no longer there: he probably went to visit someone.
In desperation, the major catches a cab and goes to the Chief of Police. Togo is not at home. Kovalev is considering whether to file a complaint with the Deanery Council, because his nose is clearly such a person for whom there is nothing sacred. But, on reflection, he decides to first make a publication about the shamelessly slipped nose in the newspaper.
The newspaper expedition, where Kovalev arrives, is a small room with many visitors who come to give announcements. They are received by a gray-haired official sitting at the table in a tailcoat and glasses. Kovalev reports that his nose ran away from him, deceitfully dressed up in the uniform of a state councilor, and he himself, as a major, cannot be without such a noticeable part of the body: this is not "a pinky toe that is in a boot - and no one will see."
A confused official in a tailcoat refuses to take Kovalev's ad, saying that if a newspaper writes about the loss of a nose, then it may lose its reputation. He tells about a similar case: one citizen, having paid 2 rubles 73 kopecks, advertised in the newspaper about the disappearance of a black poodle, and this poodle later turned out to be the treasurer of a certain institution. To convince the gray-haired gentleman, Kovalev removes the rag from his face. The official confirms that instead of a nose he sees “a place completely smooth, as if it were a freshly baked pancake,” but still does not want to take the advertisement. He advises the major to turn to one of the literary magazines, where a skillful pen will describe "this rare work of nature" in such a way that at least there will be a useful edification to youth.
Trying to calm the completely upset Kovalev, the gray-haired official kindly offers him a sniff of tobacco. Kovalev takes this as a mockery: what is there to smell when he has no nose? With an exclamation: "damn your tobacco," he goes to a familiar private bailiff, in whose house the entire front hall is lined with sugar heads brought from neighboring merchants. The bailiff loves offerings and of all their types he prefers government banknotes: “there is nothing better than this thing: it doesn’t ask for food, it won’t take up much space, it will always fit in your pocket, if you drop it, it won’t hurt you.” But just about to take a nap after dinner, the bailiff takes the major rudely, declaring that "a decent person's nose will not be torn off."
Exhausted, Kovalev returns home, where his footman Ivan, lying on a soiled sofa, spits at the ceiling and quite successfully hits the same place. Once in his room, the major laments sadly: “A man without a nose is the devil knows what: a bird is not a bird, a citizen is not a citizen.” He pinches himself to make sure he's not drunk, and once again examines his "libelous look" in the mirror.
Thinking about the reasons for the loss of his nose, Kovalev suggests that the staff officer Podtochina, who wanted him to marry her daughter, could be to blame for everything. The major himself liked to follow this daughter, but he avoided the "final dressing". And therefore, the staff officer, probably out of revenge, decided to spoil it and hired some witches-women for this.
At this moment, a quarterly police officer enters Kovalev's apartment and says that the missing major's nose was found: he was caught red-handed when he got into a stagecoach to go to Riga using a fake passport issued in someone else's name. One swindler-barber is also involved in this case.
The quarterly gives Kovalev a nose wrapped in a rag, loudly complaining about the growing high cost, which, given his large family, is very difficult. Taking the hint, Kovalev thrusts a red banknote into his hands. After the warden left, the major examines the bundle he brought and joyfully understands: the nose is really his, on the left, a pimple that jumped up yesterday is visible. But momentary triumph is replaced by anxiety: Kovalev does not know how to make his nose stick to its original place.
With trembling hands, he brings his nose to his face, but it does not stick even after the major warms him with his breath and persuades: “well, get in there, you fool!” Kovalyov then sends the footman Ivan to his neighbor, the doctor. Soon a prominent man with beautiful resinous sideburns enters and, after saying “Hm!” several times, begins to examine Kovalev. Taking him by the chin, the doctor gives a click in the place where the nose used to be - from this Kovalev throws his head back so that he hits the back of his head against the wall. Taking him away from the wall, the doctor gives a second click, shakes his head and persuades the major to remain as he is now, because the nose can be easily attached, but "it will only get worse."
Kovalyov begs the doctor to put his nose on so that he can somehow hold on. The major even agrees to “support his nose with his hand in dangerous cases” - otherwise it will be impossible for him to make visits to good houses. But the doctor only advises him to wash the nose with cold water - and "I assure you that you, without a nose, will be as healthy as if you had one." The doctor offers Kovalev to alcoholize his nose and sell it for decent money. "Better let him go!" the major shouts in despair.
After the departure of the doctor, Kovalev sits down to write a letter to the staff officer Podtochina. In it, he makes it appear to her that her participation in the story with a nose disguised as an official is not a secret to him. If the nose is not in place today, the major threatens to "recourse to the protection and patronage of the laws." Soon the answer comes from Podtochina. She assures that she never hosted any disguised official and that she never thought of leaving Kovalev with a nose, that is, giving him a refusal in the event of a possible matchmaking with her daughter. Podtochina, on the contrary, is ready to satisfy the major right now, "because this has always been the subject of her keenest desire." Kovalev comes to the conclusion that Podtochina, apparently, is really not to blame.
Meanwhile, rumors about his runaway nose are spreading throughout St. Petersburg - and with the most colorful additions. Crowds of curious people flock to Nevsky Prospekt to check the stories that the nose goes for a walk every day at exactly three o'clock. One speculator makes strong wooden benches from which it is convenient to look out the nose, and allows those who wish to stand on them for a fee of 80 kopecks. True, trustworthy people are unhappy with this hype ...
Two weeks after the incident, Kovalev, who woke up in the morning, suddenly notices that the nose, as if nothing had happened, is on his face. The presence of the nose is also confirmed by the footman Ivan. Overjoyed, Kovalev first of all goes to shave to the barber Ivan Yakovlevich. At first, he meets him timidly, but, seeing the nose in place, calms down. Shaving is very difficult for Ivan Yakovlevich because he tries not to take his nose with his hands. Happy Kovalyov, no longer covering his face, goes out into the street and makes visits. Having accidentally met the staff officer Podtochina with her daughter, he has a long and cheerful conversation with them, while taking out a snuffbox and generously stuffing his nose "from both entrances."
This is what happened in the northern capital of our vast state! Gogol concludes his short story. - Although no one still knows how the nose separated and then appeared in different places under the guise of a state councilor - such incidents (Gogol smiles) happen in the world - rarely, but they do happen.
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It happened, according to the narrator, in St. Petersburg, on March 25. Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber, discovered a nose in the bread baked by his wife while eating. Being extremely puzzled by a strange find, he recognizes, however, Kovalev's nose and, in fright, tries to figure out how to get rid of it. Finding nothing better than throwing him off St. Isaac's Bridge, he already felt that the danger had passed, but he was detained by the quarter warder.
Kovalev, a collegiate assessor, wakes up in the morning of the same day and discovers that his nose is missing. Major Kovalev always strove to have a befitting appearance, since his goal in the capital was to find an enviable position in the State Department and a wife. On his way to the police chief, he notices his own nose, dressed in a gold-lined uniform, and a hat with feathers. Sitting in a wagon, he arrives at the Kazan Cathedral and prays with incredible piety.
The assessor, at first a little timid, then, directly speaking to his nose about his rightful place, does not achieve anything and, focusing his attention for a moment on the girl in the hat, loses sight of his interlocutor. Kovalev does not find the chief police chief at home and decides to go to the newspaper office in order to publish an announcement about the loss, but is refused by an elderly man who, trying to help, advises sniffing tobacco, which completely upsets Kovalev. Having come to a private bailiff, but to all requests for help, he hears only displeased sleepy remarks of the bailiff.
Once at home, a depressed Kovalev reflects on the reasons for this event and comes to the conclusion that the staff officer is guilty of this (he was in no hurry to call her daughter in marriage, and she probably took revenge with the help of witchcraft). At the moment of such reflections, a policeman appears, bringing his nose with him and explaining that he was intercepted due to the use of false documents, which causes a joyful shock to the major.
But, despite his happy mood, the nose could not be returned to the face. The doctor refuses to attach it, explaining that it will turn out much worse this way, urging him to sell his nose with alcohol for a lot of money. Refusing, Kovalev even writes a letter to officer Podtochina with reproaches and a demand that the nose be returned to its rightful place. However, her answer fully proves her ignorance and non-involvement in what happened.
After a while, gossip began to circulate around St. Petersburg: at 3 o'clock the collegiate assessor's nose walked along Nevsky, later that he was seen in the store, after another time - in the garden. All these places are beginning to attract huge masses of people.
Be that as it may, on April 7, Kovalev sees a nose on his face, which makes him truly happy. A barber we already know comes to him and, embarrassed, begins to carefully shave him. During these days, the major was able to visit everywhere: in the confectionery, in the department, with his friend major, having met the staff officer with his daughter, he managed to sniff tobacco. a lot of fiction, but it is especially surprising that there are authors who publish such stories. It also says that occasionally such incidents take place.
main characters
- Platon Kuzmich Kovalev- Collegiate Assessor. Appearance is more important for him than inner content.
- Ivan Yakovlevich- barber. Drinker.
- Nose- a fugitive who escaped from the owner.
Chapter 1
An unusual incident occurred in St. Petersburg on March 25. Ivan Yakovlevich waking up in the morning, instead of the usual coffee, he wanted to taste fresh bread, just pulled out of the oven by his wife Praskovya Ivanovna. Taking a knife in his hands, he cuts the bread in half and freezes from the spectacle before his eyes. Inside the crumb was a nose. The real, human.
As it turned out, the nose had an owner. This is collegiate assessor Kovalev, who came to shave twice a week. Ivan Yakovlevich is trying to get rid of the terrible find, but he is always interfered with. Either friends will stop, then acquaintances.
Approaching St. Isaac's Bridge, he throws his nose into the river and, having calmed down that he has freed himself from it, goes to the tavern for a bite to eat. It was not possible to enjoy food. The meal was interrupted by the appearance of the quarter warden, who arranged an interrogation on the topic of what he was doing on the bridge.
Chapter 2
Platon Kuzmich goes to the mirror to examine a pimple that has popped off his nose. Approaching the mirror, the man was stunned. Instead of a nose, a smooth surface. Kovalev rushes to the chief of police.
On the way home, his attention was attracted by a carriage from which a gentleman in uniform jumped out. He immediately recognized his nose. Judging by the clothes of the new owner of the nose, the man was not an ordinary one. Kovalev decides to arrange surveillance of him. He goes after him. The road led to the Kazan Cathedral, where the nose went. Kovalev follows him. The nose fervently prayed to no one paying attention. The man asks him to return to his seat, but the nose ignores the request.
If it was not possible to influence the nose through persuasion, Kovalev decides to seek help from the press by posting an advertisement about the loss. In the editorial office, he was given to understand that they do not work with ads of this kind. In order to somehow calm the upset man, he is offered to sniff an excellent tobacco.
Kovalev is offended by such a proposal. He runs with a complaint to a private bailiff, but his visit is not welcome there. The bailiff makes it clear that this situation would never happen to normal people.
Already at home, the collegiate assessor thought of who could be the culprit of what happened. This is the staff officer Podtochina. She dreamed of marrying him to her daughter. Looks like she let in damage for refusing, and he take the rap. He sends a letter threatening her, but upon receiving a response, he realizes that she is not involved in the kidnapping of the nose.
With an unexpected visit on a visit to Kovalev, the quarter warder, who saw him on the bridge, came down. He reports the good news that the nose was caught while trying to leave for Riga. The quarterly complains about life, but the bundle does not let go. Kovalev understood the hint. He gives the quarterly money, and in return receives the missing part of the face.
Everything seemed to work out well. The nose of the owner, but there was another problem. He stubbornly refused to return to his seat. Even the doctors gave up in helplessness.
Meanwhile, rumors began to spread in St. Petersburg that the nose was walking around the city.
Chapter 3
In early April, the nose deigned to return to its original place. Everything fell into place. Ivan Yakovlevich is now carefully shaving Kovalev, afraid to once again touch his nose. The major is no longer hiding from anyone. He is now always in a good mood and tries not to miss a single skirt.