What brings the author and Onegin together. Lyrical digressions and philosophical reflections

Action 1

Phenomenon 1

A room in the mayor's house. The mayor informs the assembled officials of “the most unpleasant news”: an auditor is coming to the city. The crowd is horrified. Officials assume that the auditor is specially sent to find out whether there is any treason in the city before the war. Mayor: “Where does treason come from in a district town? Even if you jump from here for three years, you won’t reach any state.” He advises everyone to restore a semblance of order in the institutions under their jurisdiction (in the hospital, put clean caps on the sick, write illnesses in Latin; remove geese from the court reception area, hide hunting equipment). He reproaches officials for bribery (Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin takes bribes with greyhound puppies), inappropriate behavior (in the gymnasium, teachers make faces at their students).

Phenomenon 2

The postmaster expresses fear that the arrival of the auditor could mean an imminent war with the Turks. The mayor asks him to print out and read every letter that arrives in the mail. The postmaster readily agrees, since he did exactly that before the mayor’s request.

Phenomenon 3

Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky appear and spread a rumor that the auditor is a certain Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, who has been living in the hotel for a week without paying the owner any money. The mayor decides to visit the passing person. Officials disperse to their subordinate institutions.

Phenomenon 4

The mayor orders the quarterly to sweep the streets clean.

Phenomenon 5

The mayor orders that police officers should be placed around the city, the old fence should be demolished, and any questions from the auditor should be answered by saying that the church that was under construction burned down, and was not at all taken apart in parts.

Phenomenon 6

The mayor's wife and daughter run in, burning with curiosity. Anna Andreevna sends a maid to fetch her husband’s droshky in order to independently find out everything about the visiting auditor.

Act 2

Hotel room

Phenomenon 1

Hungry Osip lies on the master's bed and talks to himself. (They left St. Petersburg with the master two months ago. On the way, the master squandered all his money, living beyond his means and losing money at cards. The servant himself likes life in St. Petersburg - the “haberdashery address” to “you.” The master leads a stupid life because "not involved in business.")

Phenomenon 2

Khlestakov appears and tries to send Osip to the owner for lunch. He refuses to go, reminds Khlestakov that they have not paid for their accommodation for three weeks and the owner was going to complain about them.

Phenomenon 3

Khlestakov alone. He really wants to eat.

Phenomenon 4

Khlestakov orders the tavern servant to demand lunch on credit from the owner.

Phenomenon 5

Khlestakov imagines how he, in a chic St. Petersburg suit, will roll up to the gates of his father’s house, and will also pay visits to neighboring landowners.

Phenomenon 6

The tavern servant brings a small lunch. Khlestakov is dissatisfied with the soup and roast, but eats everything.

Phenomenon 7

Osip announces that the mayor has arrived and wants to see Khlestakov.

Phenomenon 8

The mayor and Dobchinsky appear. Bobchinsky, the eavesdropper, peeks out from behind the door throughout the entire phenomenon. Khlestakov and the mayor each, for their part, begin to make excuses to each other (Khlestakov promises that he will pay for the stay, the mayor swears that order will be restored in the city). Khlestakov asks the mayor for a loan of money, and the mayor gives him a bribe, slipping him four hundred rubles instead of two hundred, assuring him that he just came to check on people passing by, and this is a normal activity for him. He does not believe Khlestakov’s words that he is going to his father in the village, he believes that he is “casting bullets” in order to disguise his real goals. The mayor invites Khlestakov to live in his house.

Phenomenon 9

On the advice of the mayor, Khlestakov decides to postpone settlements with the tavern servant for an indefinite period.

Phenomenon 10

The mayor invites Khlestakov to inspect various establishments in the city and make sure that order is maintained everywhere. He sends Dobchinsky with notes to his wife (to prepare the room) and to Strawberry.

Act 3

Room in the mayor's house

Phenomenon 1

Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna are sitting by the window waiting for news. They notice Dobchinsky at the end of the street.

Phenomenon 2

Dobchinsky appears, retells the scene in the hotel to the ladies, and gives the landlady a note. Anna Andreevna makes the necessary orders.

Phenomenon 3

The ladies are discussing what clothes to wear for the guest's arrival.

Phenomenon 4

Osip brings Khlestakov’s suitcase and “agrees” to eat “simple” dishes - cabbage soup, porridge, pies.

Phenomenon 5

Khlestakov and the mayor appear, surrounded by officials. Khlestakov had breakfast in the hospital and was very pleased, especially since all the patients recovered - they usually “recover like flies.” Khlestakov is interested in card establishments. The mayor replies that there are no such people in the city, he swears that he himself never knew how to play, and uses all his time “for the benefit of the state.”

Phenomenon 6

The mayor introduces the guest to his wife and daughter. Khlestakov shows off in front of Anna Andreevna, assures that he does not like ceremonies and with everyone important officials in St. Petersburg (including with Pushkin) “on friendly foot", that he himself composes in his spare time, that he wrote "Yuri Miloslavsky", that he has the most famous house in St. Petersburg, that he gives balls and dinners, to which he is delivered “a watermelon worth seven hundred rubles,” “soup in a saucepan from Paris.” He goes so far as to say that the minister himself comes to his house, and once, meeting the requests of 35,000 couriers, he even managed the department. “I’m everywhere, everywhere... I go to the palace every day.” It's completely screwed up. The mayor invites him to rest from the road.

Phenomenon 7

The officials are discussing the guest. They understand that even if half of what Khlestakov said is true, then their situation is very serious.

Phenomenon 8

Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna are discussing " manhood» Khlestakov. Each is sure that Khlestakov paid attention to her.

Phenomenon 9

The mayor is scared. The wife, on the contrary, is confident in her feminine charms.

Phenomenon 10

Everyone rushes to ask Osip about the master. The mayor gives him generously not only “for tea,” but also “for bagels.” Osip reports that his master “loves order.”

Phenomenon 11

The mayor places two policemen on the porch - Svistunov and Derzhimorda - so that petitioners are not allowed to see Khlestakov.

Act 4

Room in the mayor's house

Phenomenon 1 and 2

In full regalia, on tiptoe, enter: Lyapkin-Tyapkin, Zemlyanika, the postmaster, Luka Lukich, Dobchinsky and Bobchinsky. Lyapkin-Tyapkin builds everyone up in a military manner. Decides that he should introduce himself one by one and give bribes. They argue about who should go first.

Phenomenon 3

Presentation of Lyapkin-Tyapkin to Khlestakov: “And the money is in the fist, and the fist is all on fire.” Lyapkin-Tyapkin drops the money on the floor and thinks that he is lost. Khlestakov agrees to “loan” the money. Happy Lyapkin-Tyapkin leaves with a feeling of accomplishment.

Phenomenon 4

Postmaster Shpekin, who came to introduce himself, only echoed Khlestakov, who was talking about the pleasant city. Khlestakov takes a “loan” from the postmaster, and Shpekin leaves reassured: Khlestakov has no comments regarding the postal business.

Phenomenon 5

Presentation by Luka Lukic. Luka Lukich is trembling all over, speaks at random, his tongue is slurred. Scared to death, he still hands the money to Khlestakov and leaves.

Phenomenon 6

Presentation of Strawberries. Strawberries remind the “auditor” of yesterday’s breakfast. Khlestakov thanks. Confident of the “auditor’s” disposition, Strawberry informs on the rest of the city officials and gives a bribe. Khlestakov takes it and promises to sort everything out.

Phenomenon 7

Khlestakov directly demands money from Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky who came to introduce themselves. Dobchinsky asks to recognize his son as legitimate, and Bobchinsky asks Khlestakov, on occasion, to tell the sovereign “that Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky lives in such and such a city.”

Phenomenon 8

Khlestakov realizes that he was mistakenly taken for an important government official. In a letter to his friend Tryapichkin, he describes this funny incident.

Phenomenon 9

Osip advises Khlestakov to get out of the city as soon as possible. A noise is heard: the petitioners have come.

Phenomenon 10

Merchants complain to Khlestakov about the mayor, who demands that gifts be given to him on name days twice a year, takes away best product. They give Khlestakov money because he refuses the food offered.

Phenomenon 11

A non-commissioned officer's widow, who was flogged without any justification, and a locksmith, whose husband was taken into the army out of turn, appear, demanding justice, because those who were supposed to go in his place made an offering on time. The non-commissioned officer's widow demands a fine, Khlestakov promises to look into it and help.

Phenomenon 12

Khlestakov talks with Marya Antonovna. She is afraid that the capital’s guest will laugh at her provincialism. Khlestakov swears that he loves her, kisses her shoulder, and kneels.

Phenomenon 13-14

Anna Andreevna comes in and shoos her daughter away. Khlestakov kneels before Anna Andreevna, swears that he really loves her, but since she is married, he is forced to propose to her daughter.

Phenomenon 15

The mayor appears and begs Khlestakov not to listen to the opinions of merchants and townspeople about him (the non-commissioned officer’s widow “flogged herself”). Khlestakov makes an offer. The parents call their daughter and hastily bless her.

Phenomenon 16

Khlestakov takes more money from the mayor and says goodbye under the pretext of the need to discuss the wedding with his father. He promises to return tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Leaves the city.

Action 5

Room in the mayor's house

Phenomenon 1

The mayor and Anna Andreevna dream about the future of their daughter and how they, with the help of Khlestakov, will move to St. Petersburg.

Phenomenon 2

The mayor announces the engagement to the merchants and threatens Khlestakov with reprisals for complaining. The merchants are to blame.

Phenomenon 3

Lyapkin-Tyapkin, Zemlyanika and Rastakovsky congratulate the mayor.

Phenomenon 4-6

Congratulations to other officials.

Phenomenon 7

Raut in the mayor's house. The mayor and his wife behave very arrogantly, sharing with the guests their plans to move to St. Petersburg and receive the rank of general for the mayor. Officials ask not to leave them patronized. The mayor condescendingly agrees, although his wife believes that he should not help “all the small fry.”

Phenomenon 8

The postmaster appears and reads aloud Khlestakov’s letter to Tryapichkin, from which it turns out that Khlestakov is not an auditor: “The mayor is stupid as gray gelding... The postmaster... drinks bitter... The overseer of a charitable establishment, Strawberry is a perfect pig in a yarmulke.” The mayor was killed by the news on the spot. It is impossible to return Khlestakov, since the mayor himself ordered that the best horses be given to him. Mayor: “Why are you laughing? - you’re laughing at yourself!.. I still can’t come to my senses. Now, truly, if God wants to punish, he will first take away reason. Well, what was there in this helipad that looked like an auditor? There was nothing!" Everyone is looking for the culprit of what happened and decide that Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky are to blame for everything, who spread the rumor that Khlestakov is the auditor.

The last phenomenon

A gendarme enters and announces the arrival of a real auditor. Silent scene.

The genre is defined by the author as a comedy in five acts. “Notes for Gentlemen Actors” are attached to the play.
CHARACTERS:
Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, mayor.
Anna Andreevna, his wife.
Marya Antonovna, his daughter.
Luka Lukich Khlopov, superintendent of schools.
His wife.
Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin, judge.
Artemy Filippovich Strawberry, trustee of charitable institutions.
Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin, postmaster.
Petr Ivanovich Dobchinsky
Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky - city landowners.
Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, an official from St. Petersburg.
Osip, his servant.
Christian Ivanovich Gibner, district doctor.
Fedor Andreevich Lyulyukov
Ivan Lazarevich Rastakovsky
Stepan Ivanovich Korobkin - retired officials, honorary persons in the city.
Stepan Ilyich Ukhovertov, private bailiff.
Svistunov
Pugovitsyn - police officers.
Derzhimorda
Abdulin, merchant.
Fevronya Petrovna Poshlepkina, mechanic.
Non-commissioned officer's wife.
Mishka, the mayor's servant.
Inn servant.
Guests and guests, merchants, townspeople, petitioners.
ACT ONE
Room in the mayor's house
PHENOMENON I
The mayor informs the officials he called of “very unpleasant news”: an auditor is coming to the city, and with a secret order. Officials are at a loss as to whether an official has been sent to find out whether there is any treason on the eve of the war. The mayor is alarmed, but not to the same degree: “Where are you going?” There is treason in the county town! Yes, from here, even if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.” The mayor himself made some orders and advises everyone to do so “so that everything is decent.” In the hospital, the caps should be clean, and “the sick would not look like blacksmiths, as they usually do at home... and above each bed there should be an inscription in Latin or some other language... every disease... It’s not good that Your patients smoked such strong tobacco... And it would be better if there were fewer of them...” The mayor advises the judge to remove the geese from the waiting room where they are found, and it’s better not to dry the hunting arapka over the papers... Then... the assessor gives off a painfully strong spirit, maybe he should eat onions... As for the sins, the judge is justified , which takes only greyhound puppies. The mayor is unhappy that the judge does not go to church. He justifies himself that he came up with ideas about the creation of the world with his own mind, to which the mayor says: “Well, otherwise there is a lot of intelligence worse than there would be none at all.” Now about educational institution. The teachers make faces at their students, they are too hot. “Yes, such is the inexplicable law of fate: clever man- either he’s a drunkard, or he’ll make such a face that he’ll at least take out the saints,” says the mayor.
SCENE II
The postmaster appears and is afraid that the arrival of the auditor might mean an imminent war with the Turks, “it’s all the Frenchman crap.” The mayor, taking the postmaster aside, asks him to open and read all the letters (“was there any denunciation against me”). This is not the first time for the postmaster - he is generally very curious.
SCENE III
Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky run in. Having somewhat come to their senses after running, hectic, interrupting each other and getting confused, they announce that the auditor is none other than Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, allegedly traveling from St. Petersburg to the Saratov province, but for the second week now he has been living in a tavern on credit. The mayor, starting to ask about the details, swears more and more: after all, it was in the last two weeks that the non-commissioned officer’s wife was flogged, the prisoners were not given provisions, etc., etc. The mayor decides to visit the tavern, “whether those passing by are not in trouble?” " The rest of the officials hastily scatter to their departments. Dobchinsky and Bobchinsky follow the mayor.
PHENOMENA IV
The mayor demands a sword and a new hat. Bobchinsky doesn’t fit in the droshky, so he decides to run after him “cockerel, cockerel.” The mayor orders the entire street to the tavern to be swept clean.
PHENOMENA V
The mayor scolds the private bailiff who finally appeared, whose entire staff had run away about their business or were drunk. The mayor hastily camouflages the old bridge: let the tall quarterly Pugovitsyn stand on the bridge; break down the old fence at the cobbler's and put up a pole, it seems like the planning is going on... Lord, what to do with all this garbage? “What a nasty city this is! just put up some kind of monument somewhere or just a fence - God knows where they’ll come from and they’ll do all sorts of crap!” He remembers the half-naked soldiers and orders them not to be let out into the street.
SCENE VI
The mayor's wife and daughter run in. They are burning with curiosity whether the visiting inspector is a colonel, or whether his eyes are black... They send a maid to find out everything. Auditor
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ACT TWO
Small room in a hotel.
Bed, table, suitcase, empty bottle, boots
PHENOMENON I
The servant Osip, lying on the master's bed, complains of hunger. She and her owner have been from St. Petersburg for two months now. He squandered all the money, lost at cards, always chose the best... Osip likes it in St. Petersburg, especially when the master’s father sends money. But now they don’t give me loans.
SCENE II
Khlestakov appears. In a decisively pleading tone he sends Osip to tell the buffet to give him lunch. Osip offers to bring the owner himself here.
SCENE III
Khlestakov, left alone, complains about his past losses and complains about hunger.
PHENOMENA IV
The tavern servant comes with Osip. He asks what the master wants. The owner said that he would not feed her anymore until they paid for the previous one.
PHENOMENA V
Khlestakov dreams of how he will come home in a carriage in St. Petersburg clothes, and Osip will be behind him in livery. "Ugh! I even feel sick, I’m so hungry.”
SCENE VI
The tavern servant, with plates and napkins, reports that the owner gives in last time. There is not enough food. Khlestakov is dissatisfied, but eats everything. Osip and his servant take away the dishes.
SCENE VII
Osip enters and reports that the mayor wants to see Khlestakov. Khlestakov decided that they had complained about him and would now drag him to prison. He turns pale and shrinks.
SCENE VIII
Dobchinsky is hiding behind the door. The mayor enters: “I wish you good health!” Then he explains that he is trying to take care of those passing by. Khlestakov simultaneously makes excuses, promises to pay, and complains about the innkeeper. Bobchinsky looks out from behind the doors. The mayor becomes timid from the flow of complaints and invites Khlestakov to move to another apartment. Khlestakov refuses: he is sure that this means going to prison. Screams. The mayor is scared. Khlestakova skids. He threatens to go straight to the minister! “Have mercy, don’t destroy! Wife, small children... - The mayor repents of bribery in fear. “As for the non-commissioned officer’s wife, whom I allegedly flogged, that’s slander...” Khlestakov quickly figures out to himself where the conversation about the widow would go... No, it’s not his. dare to flog! He will pay, but he doesn’t have the money yet. That's why he's sitting here because he doesn't have a penny! The mayor decides what it is tricky way trick him out of money. He offers them. “My duty is to help those passing by,” he adds. Khlestakov takes two hundred rubles (the mayor actually slipped four hundred). Well, if the auditor decided to be incognito, then the mayor behaves accordingly. They have a nice, increasingly calm conversation. Behind every word of Khlestakov, the mayor sees some hint and shakes his head. Finally, the mayor invites Khlestakov as a guest to his house.
SCENE IX
Argument with the servant about the bill until the mayor intervenes: the servant will wait.
PHENOMEN X
The mayor invites Khlestakov to inspect the city’s institutions, and Khlestakov flatly refuses to inspect the prison, and meanwhile Dobchinsky carries one note to Strawberry to a charitable institution, and the other to the mayor’s wife. Auditor
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ACT THREE
Room in the mayor's house
PHENOMENON I
The mayor's wife and daughter are waiting at the window for news. Finally, Dobchinsky appears at the end of the street.
SCENE II
Dobchinsky gives the note and makes excuses for his slowness. And that the auditor is real, “I was the first to discover this together with Pyotr Ivanovich.” He talks about events confusingly. Anna Andreevna makes housekeeping orders and orders a room to be prepared for the guest.
SCENE III
The daughter and mother are discussing what clothes to wear when the guest arrives. The rivalry between them is clearly visible.
PHENOMENA IV
Osip, together with the mayor's servant Mishka, drags Khlestakov's things and learns from him that his master is a general. He asks for something to eat.
PHENOMENA V
After a hearty breakfast, Khlestakov and the mayor leave the hospital, surrounded by officials. Khlestakov is very pleased with everything. It seems that there were few sick people there... Did they all recover? To which they answer that there are ten people left, no more. “Everyone is recovering like flies,” boasts Strawberry. Khlestakov wonders if there are any entertainment options in the city where one could, for example, play cards? The mayor denies in every possible way, but from the gestures of his subordinates it is clear that he is playing cards.
SCENE VI
The mayor introduces Khlestakov’s wife and daughter. He, being nice to Anna Andreevna, tries to increase his value: “You may think that I’m just rewriting; no, the head of the department is on friendly terms with me.” They wanted to make him a collegiate assessor, yes, he thinks, why? Invites everyone to sit down. “I don’t like ceremonies.” He himself even tries to always slip through unnoticed, but it doesn’t work. He was once mistaken for the commander-in-chief. On friendly terms with Pushkin. Yes, he writes and publishes them in magazines. He has many works: “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Norma”... “Yuri Miloslavsky”, for example, his work, Marya Antonovna’s timid objection that the author is Zagoskin, is suppressed by his mother. Khlestakov has his first house in St. Petersburg. He gives balls and receptions, so, for example, a watermelon worth seven hundred rubles is served on the table. And the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the French envoy, the English and German envoys play whist with him. They even write “Your Excellency” on the packages. Once he even managed the department. And thirty-five thousand couriers with requests! “Tomorrow I will be promoted to field march now...” - These were last words, coming out of Khlestakov’s mouth, before he is respectfully put to bed.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

"Inspector"

In a district town, from which “you’ll have to jump for three years and never get to any state,” the mayor, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, gathers officials to deliver unpleasant news: a letter from an acquaintance informed him that an “auditor from St. Petersburg” was coming to their city , incognito. And with a secret order." The mayor - all night long he dreamed of two rats of unnatural size - had a presentiment of bad things. The reasons for the arrival of the auditor are sought, and the judge, Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin (who has read “five or six books, and therefore is somewhat free-thinking”), assumes that Russia is starting a war. Meanwhile, the mayor advises Artemy Filippovich Strawberry, the trustee of charitable institutions, to put clean caps on the sick, make arrangements for the strength of the tobacco they smoke and, in general, if possible, reduce their number; and meets with the complete sympathy of Strawberry, who respects that “a simple man: if he dies, he will die anyway; If he gets well, he’ll get well.” The mayor points out to the judge the “domestic geese with little goslings” that scurry underfoot in the hall for the petitioners; to the assessor, from whom, since childhood, he “smacks of a little vodka”; on the hunting rifle that hangs just above the cupboard with papers. With a discussion about bribes (and in particular, greyhound puppies), the mayor turns to Luka Lukich Khlopov, the superintendent of schools, and laments the strange habits “inseparable from an academic title”: one teacher constantly makes faces, another explains with such fervor that he does not remember himself (“Of course, Alexander the Great is a hero, but why break the chairs? This will result in a loss to the treasury.”)

Postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin appears, “a simple-minded man to the point of naivety.” The mayor, fearing a denunciation, asks him to look through the letters, but the postmaster, having been reading them for a long time out of pure curiosity (“you will read another letter with pleasure”), has not yet seen anything about the St. Petersburg official. Out of breath, landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky enter and, constantly interrupting each other, talk about visiting the hotel tavern and young man, observant (“and looked into our plates”), with such an expression on his face - in a word, exactly like an auditor: “he doesn’t pay money and doesn’t go, who should be if not him?”

The officials disperse anxiously, the mayor decides to “parade to the hotel” and gives urgent instructions to the quarterly regarding the street leading to the tavern and the construction of a church at a charitable institution (don’t forget that it began “to be built, but burned down,” otherwise someone will blurt out what and was not built at all). The mayor leaves with Dobchinsky in great excitement, Bobchinsky runs after the droshky like a cockerel. Anna Andreevna, the mayor's wife, and Marya Antonovna, his daughter, appear. The first scolds her daughter for her slowness and asks her leaving husband through the window whether the newcomer has a mustache and what kind of mustache. Frustrated by the failure, she sends Avdotya for a droshky.

In a small hotel room, the servant Osip lies on the master's bed. He is hungry, complains about the owner who lost the money, about his thoughtless wastefulness and recalls the joys of life in St. Petersburg. Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, a rather stupid young man, appears. After a squabble, with increasing timidity, he sends Osip for dinner - and if they don’t give it, he sends for the owner. Explanations with the tavern servant are followed by a crappy dinner. Having emptied the plates, Khlestakov scolds, and at this time the mayor inquires about him. In the dark room under the stairs where Khlestakov lives, their meeting takes place. Sincere words about the purpose of the trip, about the formidable father who called Ivan Alexandrovich from St. Petersburg, are taken as a skillful invention incognito, and the mayor understands his cries about his reluctance to go to prison in the sense that the visitor will not cover up his misdeeds. The mayor, lost with fear, offers the newcomer money and asks him to move into his house, and also to inspect, for the sake of curiosity, some establishments in the city, “somehow pleasing to God and others.” The visitor unexpectedly agrees, and, having written two notes on the tavern bill, to Strawberry and his wife, the mayor sends Dobchinsky with them (Bobchinsky, who was diligently eavesdropping at the door, falls to the floor with her), and he himself goes with Khlestakov.

Anna Andreevna, waiting impatiently and anxiously for news, is still annoyed with her daughter. Dobchinsky comes running with a note and a story about the official, that “he is not a general, but will not yield to the general,” about his menacingness at first and his softening later. Anna Andreevna reads the note, where the list pickles and caviar is interspersed with a request to prepare a room for the guest and take wine from the merchant Abdulin. Both ladies, quarreling, decide which dress to wear. The mayor and Khlestakov return, accompanied by Zemlyanika (who had just eaten labardan in the hospital), Khlopov and the inevitable Dobchinsky and Bobchinsky. The conversation concerns the successes of Artemy Filippovich: since he took office, all the patients are “getting better like flies.” The mayor makes a speech about his selfless zeal. The softened Khlestakov wonders if it is possible to play cards somewhere in the city, and the mayor, realizing there is a catch in the question, decisively speaks out against cards (not at all embarrassed by his recent winnings from Khlopov). Completely upset by the appearance of the ladies, Khlestakov tells how in St. Petersburg they took him for the commander-in-chief, that he was on friendly terms with Pushkin, how he once managed the department, which was preceded by persuasion and the sending of thirty-five thousand couriers to him alone; he depicts his unparalleled severity, predicts his imminent promotion to field marshal, which instills panic in the mayor and his entourage, in which fear everyone disperses when Khlestakov retires to sleep. Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna, having argued over who the visitor looked at more, together with the mayor, vying with each other, ask Osip about the owner. He answers so ambiguously and evasively that, assuming Khlestakov is an important person, they only confirm this. The mayor orders the police to stand on the porch so as not to let in merchants, petitioners and anyone who might complain.

The officials in the mayor's house are conferring on what to do, decide to give the visitor a bribe and persuade Lyapkin-Tyapkin, famous for his eloquence (“every word, Cicero rolled off his tongue”), to be the first. Khlestakov wakes up and scares them away. The completely frightened Lyapkin-Tyapkin, having entered with the intention of giving money, cannot even answer coherently how long he has served and what he has served; he drops the money and considers himself almost under arrest. Khlestakov, who raised the money, asks to borrow it, because “he spent money on the road.” Talking with the postmaster about the pleasures of life in the county town, offering the superintendent of schools a cigar and the question of who, in his taste, is preferable - brunettes or blondes, confusing Strawberry with the remark that yesterday he was shorter, he takes from everyone in turn " “loan” under the same pretext. Strawberry diversifies the situation by informing on everyone and offering to express their thoughts in writing. Khlestakov immediately asks Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky for a thousand rubles or at least a hundred (however, he is content with sixty-five). Dobchinsky is taking care of his first-born, born before marriage, wanting to make him a legitimate son, and he is hopeful. Bobchinsky asks, on occasion, to tell all the nobles in St. Petersburg: senators, admirals (“and if the sovereign has to do this, tell the sovereign too”) that “Peter Ivanovich Bobchinsky lives in such and such a city.”

Having sent the landowners away, Khlestakov sat down to write a letter to his friend Tryapichkin in St. Petersburg in order to outline Funny case how they took him for " statesman" While the owner is writing, Osip persuades him to leave quickly and succeeds in his arguments. Having sent Osip with a letter and for the horses, Khlestakov receives the merchants, who are loudly prevented by the quarterly Derzhimorda. They complain about the mayor’s “offenses” and give him the requested five hundred rubles on loan (Osip takes a loaf of sugar and much more: “and the rope will come in handy on the road”). The hopeful merchants are replaced by a mechanic and a non-commissioned officer's wife with complaints about the same mayor. Osip pushes out the rest of the petitioners. The meeting with Marya Antonovna, who, really, was not going anywhere, but was only wondering if mamma was here, ends with a declaration of love, a kiss from the lying Khlestakov and his repentance on his knees. Anna Andreevna, who suddenly appeared, exposes her daughter in anger, and Khlestakov, finding her still very “appetizing,” falls to his knees and asks for her hand in marriage. He is not embarrassed by Anna Andreevna’s confused admission that she is “in some way married,” he suggests “retiring under the shade of the streams,” because “for love there is no difference.” Marya Antonovna, who unexpectedly runs in, receives a beating from her mother and a marriage proposal from Khlestakov, who is still kneeling. The mayor enters, frightened by the complaints of the merchants who broke through to Khlestakov, and begs him not to believe the scammers. He does not understand his wife’s words about matchmaking until Khlestakov threatens to shoot himself. Not really understanding what is happening, the mayor blesses the young people. Osip reports that the horses are ready, and Khlestakov announces to the mayor’s completely lost family that he is going for just one day to visit his rich uncle, borrows money again, sits in a carriage, accompanied by the mayor and his household. Osip carefully accepts the Persian carpet onto the mat.

Having seen off Khlestakov, Anna Andreevna and the mayor indulge in dreams of St. Petersburg life. The summoned merchants appear, and the triumphant mayor, having filled them with great fear, joyfully dismisses everyone with God. One after another, “retired officials, honorable persons in the city” come, surrounded by their families, in order to congratulate the mayor’s family. In the midst of congratulations, when the mayor and Anna Andreevna, among the guests languishing with envy, consider themselves to be a general’s couple, the postmaster runs in with the message that “the official whom we took for an auditor was not an auditor.” Khlestakov’s printed letter to Tryapichkin is read aloud and one by one, since every new reader, having reached the characteristic himself, goes blind, stalls and moves away. The crushed mayor delivers an accusatory speech not so much to the helipad Khlestakov as to the “click-cutter, paper-scraper,” which will certainly be inserted into the comedy. The general anger turns to Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, who started a false rumor, when the sudden appearance of a gendarme, announcing that “an official who has arrived by personal order from St. Petersburg demands you to come to him this very hour,” plunges everyone into a kind of tetanus. The silent scene lasts more than a minute, during which time no one changes their position. "The curtain falls."

There is excitement in the sleepy provincial town: the mayor gathers officials for an important announcement about the arrival of an auditor from St. Petersburg. Officials are wondering about possible reason arrival. Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, who once read several books, believes that Russia started the war. Strawberry, a trustee of charitable institutions, is advised to give clean caps to the sick. Although Strawberry is sure that a person will die someday anyway. The mayor points out to the judge the geese brought by the petitioners as a bribe. The superintendent of schools receives the same hint.

The news is brought by the postmaster, who often reads other people's letters and therefore is aware of everything in the town. The mayor, fearing denunciation, asks Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin to look through the letters. Landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky talk about a man whom they saw in the hotel tavern, and who even looked into the plates. The officials disperse, and the mayor and Dobchinsky rush to the hotel. The mayor's wife and his daughter are wondering about the auditor's appearance. The servant Avdotya is sent to reconnoiter.

Meanwhile, in the hotel room lies the hungry servant Osip, scolding his master for losing money at cards and remembering the sweet life in St. Petersburg. Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov arrives, and soon there will be a meeting with the mayor. Khlestakov tells the truth about his journey, but the mayor takes it all as fiction in order to hide his true goal. The mayor is frightened, offers him money, invites him to his house and at the same time inspect the city’s establishments. The guest agrees.

Anna Andreevna, the mayor's wife, receives a note from her husband from Dobchinsky with instructions on the necessary preparations for meeting the guest. She and her daughter choose their outfits for the meeting. The mayor and Khlestakov arrive after visiting Zemlyanika in the hospital, where all the sick are “getting better like flies.” With the appearance of the ladies, Khlestakov boasts of his life in St. Petersburg. Osip's surveys about the owner confirm their version. The mayor protects Khlestakov with police in order to prevent petitioners and complainants from approaching him.

The officials decide to give Khlestakov a bribe and for this they send Lyapkin-Tyapkin to him. After him, Khlestakov takes “loans” from everyone he sees. Strawberry informs on everyone. Dobchinsky wants to legitimize his son. Bobchinsky asks to tell people about him in St. Petersburg. Khlestakov promises everything to everyone.

Having seen off the landowners, Khlestakov describes in a letter to his comrade Tryapichkin in St. Petersburg that he was mistaken for the wrong person. Osip persuades him to leave quickly and prepares the horses. Khlestakov receives merchants complaining about the mayor. She and Osip do not refuse offerings. All petitioners are encouraged. Khlestakov declares his love to the mayor's daughter, Marya Antonovna. The mother appears and kicks her daughter out. Now the guest asks for her hand in marriage. A frightened mayor enters and asks not to believe the complainants. At a moment incomprehensible to him, he even blesses the “young people”. Here Khlestakov announces the need to go to his rich uncle and leaves with Osip.

The mayor's family is already dreaming of life in St. Petersburg, receiving congratulations from honorable people of the city, when the postmaster reports that “the auditor is not an auditor at all.” And this is known from Khlestakov’s letter. Everyone is re-reading this letter when the gendarme appears and orders the mayor to appear to the official who has arrived from St. Petersburg. A silent silence reigns.

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Summary: “The Inspector General” - preface

N.V. Gogol is a great Russian writer who managed to subtly ridicule everything negative traits Russian reality. The play “The Inspector General,” written by Gogol in 1835, is one of the best Russian comedies. It consists of five acts, in each of which the writer ridicules the activities of officials who are incapable of basic work - their names speak for themselves. Understand the main point a comedy in which the author depicts bribery, arbitrariness and lawlessness of the state will help summary(“The auditor,” of course, is not designed for such familiarization). So let's get started.

"Inspector". Summary of actions

The comedy takes place in a fictional county town where arbitrariness is happening. The deplorable state of hospitals, the superstitiousness and vulgarity of local officials, their penchant for lies and gossip - this is the state of the county town, which the summary of “The Inspector General” will tell readers about.

First action

It all starts with the mayor telling the officials about unpleasant news: an auditor from St. Petersburg is going to come to the city, whose arrival they expect in complete fear. At the same time, a petty official Khlestakov, a desperate liar and gambler, appears at the hotel, who is mistaken for an arriving inspector.

Second act

In the second act, the mayor visits Khlestakov and offers a bribe, and he accepts it as borrowed money. Then the mayor decides to get the false auditor drunk and invites him to inspect the city’s establishments in order to convince him that they are in perfect order.

Third act

The action takes place in the mayor's house, where a fairly drunk Khlestakov begins to pester the ladies, Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna, inventing fables about his important position, in which he himself begins to believe.

Act Four

In the fourth act, all the city officials take turns bribing the "inspector" who is supposedly borrowing money. Khlestakov realizes that he was mistaken for an important government representative, and writes a letter to his friend about what happened. He confesses his love to Marya Antonovna and proposes to her, and then, taking money from the mayor, he leaves, explaining his action by the need to discuss the wedding with his father.

Fifth act

The fifth act takes place in the mayor's house, where he and his wife happily discuss their imminent move to St. Petersburg. At this time, the postmaster arrives with a letter, from which it becomes clear about the essence of Khlestakov. At the same moment, a gendarme appears, who reports the arrival of a real auditor, demanding the mayor to come to him, which leads county officials in shock.

The dishonesty of district officials and their moral corruption are the main themes of the comedy, which are illuminated by its summary. “The Inspector General” is a work that describes typical manifestations of a centralized bureaucratic system. For some readers, it will be enough to read the summary - “The Inspector General” is good even in this presentation. Other young people will want to read it in its entirety, taking into account numerous details and details that cannot be covered in this text.

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The action of the comedy "The Inspector General" takes place in one of the provincial towns of Russia. Mayor Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky receives news of a possible secret arrival in the city of an auditor from northern capital for verification purposes. The mayor gathers local officials and informs them of this unpleasant news, which immediately causes general concern. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky begins to look for reasons that might interest the auditor. The mayor suggests that perhaps the auditor will come because of Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, who is very free-thinking. He also advises the superintendent of hospital institutions, Artemy Filippovich Zemlyanika, to carefully ensure that patients are wearing clean caps, and it is advisable to reduce their total number.

Regarding the topic of bribes, the mayor turns to another official - the superintendent of district schools, Luka Lukich Khlopov. And the mayor recommends that the postmaster appears read all the letters in order to prevent denunciation. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, local landowners, report that they saw a man in the tavern who behaved carefully and observantly. Soon the alarmed officials of the county town disperse. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky decides to go to the hotel to meet the auditor. Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov is the name of the alleged auditor.

The mayor perceives Khlestakov’s words that he does not want to go to prison as the reluctance of the visiting guest to turn a blind eye to the misdeeds and crimes of local officials. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky immediately offers Khlestakov a monetary reward and also to move into the mayor’s house. The mayor introduces the fictitious auditor to his wife and daughter. Khlestakov shows the ladies all sorts of attentions. He boasts of a luxurious house in St. Petersburg, acquaintance with the most influential officials. Everyone gathered in the mayor’s house is shocked and seriously frightened. Khlestakov finally understands that he was mistaken for an important metropolitan official. He writes about all this in his letter to his friend Tryapichkin.

The mayor and his wife begin to make plans to marry their daughter Marya Andreevna to an auditor. Khlestakov's servant Osip advises his master to quickly leave the city before the deception is revealed. At a dinner party, the mayor boasts to the officials about such a successful acquaintance and behaves arrogantly. But then the postmaster appears with a letter from Khlestakov. Everyone understands that he is not a real auditor. The mayor is amazed by the news, he understands that Khlestakov cannot be returned, he has escaped. At the end of everything, a gendarme appears and breaks the news about the arrival of a real auditor. There is silence, all the heroes are in shock.