"Wax person", a short summary: the "proscenium" of history "

This is a story about the sudden, unexpected death of Peter the Great, who did not leave an heir to the throne, about thoughts and feelings that had seized the first people of the state, who had put their hands on power. In the story (the same is shown to us by its brief content), Tynyanov's "Wax Personality" by chapters will present the characters of the figures of that era (Catherine, Menshikov, Yaguzhinsky) and recreate her gloomy atmosphere.

Chapter One - Dying Hard

"But still recently it was pito. Yes, like a pito! "And now he is leaving. It's hard to die, Tsar Peter Alekseevich. Alone, all alone. From a dream, from a half-forgotten mind, thought, which, he realizes it, is never realized. And why he dies, he knows: poisoned, mean, special for him was preparing a drink. Is it really necessary to die among the unfinished works? And in a dream come thoughts. For whom were the works? For the country, for the Fatherland. This burden was heavy. I dragged it myself from one difficult place to another. I woke up already in the early twilight, alone, all neglected. He lay without thinking, but it was getting brighter. And again there were thoughts: it would be necessary to the Senate. In the tokarnyu go, but he can not, but the business in it wander. And when I woke up at all, I understood: he came to the end quick. Farewell, the sea and dagger with a sword belt, ropes, sails, navigation, sea breeze. All goodbye! And you, goodbye, a good ship. Everything that he did and conquered collapses. He cried, but there was no anger. So begins the story "Wax person". The summary of the first chapter of his talks about the suffering of a person who is ill with the soul about the affairs of the state with "great care and diligence".

The living, however, prevailed over the affairs of life. The most illustrious prince Menshikov was yearning that there was no deed, which meant that they did not run to him money. But it was scary in front of the huge force that is under his control.

Rastrelli came and begged Menshikov to make a death mask from the emperor. The story "Wax person" (short summary) also shows small-minded thoughts of people who are trying to grab a "piece" by themselves.

Everyone, everyone knew that Peter Alekseevich would soon die.

Chapter Two - Kunstkammer

It began as a favorite child in Moscow, and then moved to Sanktpetersburg. But the people looked little to see the freaks floating in alcohol. Therefore, everyone who came, began to give vodka and zukerbrody. And their heads were alcoholized, and babies, and stuffed animals, and minerals, and boobies dug from the earth. Throughout the country, they collected monsters and monsters by decree. But not only alcoholized, but also live people were shown. And there were six-fingered and two-fingered freaks there, servants.

Chapter Three - Death

It was neither light nor dark, it was snowing. The bell rang - the tsar died.

Chapter four - who should I be?

Danilych did not find a place for himself, until he decided, and the Senate did not convince him to be "a woman's kingdom". At that time, Mr. Rastrelli entered the house quietly with his apprentice and promised the empress to remove the semblance of a demigod. In half an hour everything was over. Rastrelli quickly went to the barn, where he usually worked, melted the wax and began ...

And Catherine slept and woke up with Marta. Her whole life caught on to her: both the adoptive parents, and the cows in the stable, dear Mons, a kindly chevalier. Having made her morning toilet, she went into the front room and sobbed. But very soon I was consoled with a young officer. The story "Wax person" (short summary) conveys which empty-headed and stupid woman the Peter the Great has brought to himself and made empress. She was like a village girl, so she stayed.

Meanwhile, Rastrelli's work was boiling. He mixed up the wax with snake blood, did, altered, and, at last, the portrait was ready in the rough. At the same time, he was and looks like, and does not look like. And a few days later in the ward under the canopy sat a wax doll, dressed in ceremonial coronation clothes. This so did not like Catherine, that she ordered to fence the "Peter" and was afraid to approach him closely. So he sat, all abandoned and unnecessary, until they decided to identify him in the kunshtkamera. There to him a place. "Wax person" (summary) for the chapters shows that people, level with Peter, at the end of his life was not at all.

Chapter Five - Yaguzhinsky and Menshikov

Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky, the "sovereign of the eye," yearned. He survived after the coup, but was dissatisfied. "Repair the supervision so that the case will stand and that it will go, and who should be beaten on the hands." Danilich threw high, Osterman - a dark man, Apraksin - a thief, Golitsyn, Dolgorukov - boyar arrogance, gentlemen guardsmen - nahlebnichki. Now he is alone. Perhaps, from Siberia to return Shafirov, Shayushkina? The city can empty by summer. They say that the place is marshy, and run away.

The wax was brought to the kunstkammer at night. In the wards, they cleared a large corner and seated them. And all that - wax, nothing more. Why is it done? For what sits? His eyes are open, he looks through the window, dressed, shod.

The story "Wax person" (summary) for the chapters will describe how people were afraid and did not understand Peter Alekseevich, either alive or dead ...

Alexander Danilich ascended, but there was no excitement, no excitement. He began to "tame" Catherine - really wanted to rule. He became cautious, stopped taunting. "Such is his power."

And here in the Senate there was a scandal: both shout, and swearing, and fight. This is between the first people of the state. Where to go? In kunshtkamera - to him. Taking off his hat, Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky approached. And the wax rose up, and made a favor in his hand. The Attorney General began to complain, said that his arrest is awaiting him, and from whom? From the groom's son! Then the wax sat down on the armchair, and Pavel Ivanovich, completely weakened, left.

Danilovich arrived there too. Slowly he went to the wax, to the likeness, and the hand of the doll pointed out: there. The "wax person" (summary) shows how Peter controlled his subjects after death: this is how fear works.

Chapter Six - the city to be

Catherine, becoming the empress, was pleased to have fun on the first of April: in different parts of the city volleys burst. All ran - is not it a fire that will sweep away both the arsenal and the city, do not flood? Ekaterina Alekseyevna was having fun. And what? The mourning was over. And she was having fun.

Sanovito dressed Menshikov richly and went to see his mother.

Entered - recoiled, beside her stood Pashka Yaguzhinsky and whispered something in his ear. And Catherine laughed. And Pavel Ivanovich will not go to Siberia, but an ambassador to Vienna. "He understood that he won, but there is no victory."

And in kunshtkamera little has changed. The wax was still standing, pointing to the door. All around him, Petrov, was housed: the dogs, Lisetta's horse, which he wore in the battle of Poltava, the Guinean parrot.

A language that reproduces the vocabulary of the Petrine era, used by Yury Tynyanov , is complicated. The "wax person" (summary) recreates the senselessness of terror, suspicion as the basis of relations and the horror of the complete destruction of human dignity.

Thus ends the story, which opens the story of the palace coups that began after Peter's death. After him on the throne remained Romanov, who did not have a single drop of Russian blood.