The Story of "Shot" (Pushkin): a short summary of the work

Pushkin's "Shot" (a brief summary of the story is given in this article) was written in 1830, and from a distance it was published a year later. Historians who study the biography of the writer, argue that this work is clearly an autobiographical nature. In the life of Alexander Sergeevich there was a similar case. So, a brief account of the story.

Description of the main character

The story begins with a story that the officer regiment was lodged in some place, call it N. Boredom here was terrible. There is nothing for the officers to do. After all, all the exercises were held only in the morning, and all the rest of the time they were left to themselves. In this place lived a former hussar, who arranged in his house dinners for young army men. His name was Silvio. He was a strange and mysterious person. It was known that he once served as a hussar, and then resigned and settled in this remote place. No one knew the reason why he had to do it. He himself was gloomy and taciturn, did not enter into arguments and conversations. No one even had a desire to climb into his soul and ask him about the past. With the acquaintance with the main character begins his narrative in the work "The Shot" Pushkin. The summary of this episode is given here.

The encounter with the card game of officers

Once, when the officers once again had dinner at Silvio, an unpleasant incident occurred between the owner of the house and one young employee. The guests, as always, played cards. This was their only entertainment. Silvio himself rarely took part in such events. And if you still did, then by your own rules. He never made any comments to his partners. And if I noticed their misses, I wrote down the mistakes of opponents in a notebook, without saying a word. This time he was persuaded to play. During the process, Silvio noticed the mistake of the ponter and began writing something with chalk. His opponent noticed this and began to protest. The former hussar was silent, continuing to do his job. And the young officer, having lost his patience, threw a copper shandal into the owner of the house. Everyone expected that the matter would end with a duel. However, Silvio did not do this. Through his teeth, he asked the enemy to retire. The summary of Pushkin's story "Shot" does not allow us to convey the intensity of passions that were around this time around the main character and his opponent.

Silvio talks about his long-standing duel

Once the former hussar received an envelope by mail. After reading its contents, he urgently decides to leave. The reason for such a rapid departure, he gives only one young officer, with whom he became close and who could trust his secret. Silvio told him the story that happened to him many years ago, when he still served as a hussar. It turned out that then he summoned one daring officer to the duel for insulting him. The duel took place. The officer shot through Silvio's cap. When it was time to shoot the hussar, he refused it. After all, his offender was standing, eating cherries and all his appearance showed him his disdain. After this incident, Silvio left the army and settled in this remote place, where his officers were found. The letter he received contained information that his former adversary, who was now a count, had recently married. Silvio decided to return his debt by killing him in a duel. So mysteriously describes the events of far past years in the life of the main character in the story "Shot" Pushkin. The summary of the episode, where Silvio shares his secret with a friend, is given here.

Shot of the hussar after many years

And now our hero appears in the Count's house, who did not expect to see his former colleague after so many years. Learning that Silvio wants to make a shot, the right of which is left for him, the count turned pale. After all, now he had something to lose. He had a young wife. Thus ends the story "Shot" (summary). Pushkin, perhaps in this work described the incident that happened to him on the duel. Then the poet came to the duel with cherries - he had breakfast with them. At that time, everything ended well for him.

In 1830 he wrote the story "Shot" by Pushkin. You have just read the summary of the work. The time of the creation of the story in the life of Russia was marked by popular unrest and the loss of political stability. Perhaps this is what prompted the author to write this work.