The stories of V. Shalamov are dedicated to the hard life of prisoners in the Gulag, their prison life. In the world of the Gulag leading role the chiefs and the so-called "thieves" play, the life of the prisoners of the camps depends entirely on the case, whatever it may be. The author very vividly and reliably describes the terrible existence of prisoners: eternal hunger, ill-treatment by the authorities, frequent illnesses and gradual degradation.

Gravestone
The author dedicates this story to the comrades who were with him in the camps. Shalamov describes the fate of his friends, their sufferings and hopes, painful deaths. Few of those whom the author recalls survived and retained their former worldview.

Life of engineer Kipreev
The author, who lives on the basis of the principles of morality, said to himself that the honor and dignity of a person lie in the readiness to meet death at any time. But then he realizes that it is impossible to know in advance how you will behave at a critical moment, whether you can survive.
An engineer-physicist by the name of Kipreev behaved very dignified during interrogation: he withstood physical violence. But because of the intention to beat the investigator, the engineer was put in a punishment cell. Kipreev was required to sign false testimony and blackmailed - they threatened to arrest his wife. However, the engineer could not be broken, he stood his ground. Sometimes Kipreev was released from hard work, because he repaired some items that were out of order. Thanks to chance, the hero remains alive. However, he is internally shocked.

For the show
Shalamov in his story says that the massacre in the camp affected everyone without exception and gives an example. One of the "thieves" during the game of cards is defeated and offers a game for "representation", which means in debt. Fully absorbed in the game, he orders one of the prisoners, an ordinary intellectual, to give him his sweater in front of everyone. After the refusal of the intellectual, one of the "thieves" kills him, and the dead man's sweater goes to the card player.

At night
Gulag prisoners come to the grave of their comrade, take off his underwear. They want to sell the dead man's things in order to buy food the next day. At first, the prisoners are disgusted. But then they forget what they are doing, because tomorrow there will be an opportunity to eat and maybe smoke.

Single metering
The author compares imprisonment in the Gulag with corruption. The prisoner, emaciated and weak, works very slowly and, of course, does not give a percentage rate. One of these people is a certain Zek Dugaev, he is weakened by a working day lasting 16 hours. All day Dugaev does the same work. In the evening, the caretaker measures the work - it is 25 percent. Dugaev, this figure seems huge. His whole body hurts terribly, he no longer feels hungry. Then the investigator asks Dugaev about his name, surname, term and reason for imprisonment. The next day, the prisoner is taken to an unknown place, enclosed by a fence. The exhausted Dugaev realizes that his life is over. The only thing this man regrets is that he worked the last day of his life.

Rain
A certain Rozovsky shouts to a narrator working nearby that the meaning of life simply does not exist. Rozovsky tries to interrupt the escort, but to no avail. A man who has lost the meaning of life tries to rush at the guards, but then the narrator runs towards him. In order to save Rozovsky, he tells the guards that his comrade is ill. Then Rozovsky wants to commit suicide and throws himself under the trolley. After the trial, he is simply sent to another place.

Sherry Brandy
The prisoner - a poet, one of the most recognized in the twentieth century, dies painfully and for a long time. He lies in the darkness of two-story bunks. The poet thinks about terrible things, for example, that his bread was stolen. He is ready to seek this bread, to fight for it. But the forces disappear every minute. When bread is brought to the poet, he greedily bites it with his ruined teeth. The authorities do not learn about his death for another two days. Cunning neighbors raise the dead man's hand in order to get his share of bread during the distribution.

Shock therapy
A prisoner of the Gulag, Merzlyakov, a contented large man, feels a breakdown due to the fact that he works too much. At some point, he became so weak that he fell to the ground. Due to the fact that Merzlyakov no longer wants to carry the log, he is beaten by guards and other prisoners. Despite the fact that soon Merzlyakov recovers, he wants to delay the time before going to work. The prisoner complains about his poor condition. As a result, Merzlyakov is sent to the surgical department of the central hospital, then to the nervous one. He tries his best to appear sick because he doesn't want to be exposed as a lie and sent back to prison.
But Merzlyakov is examined by the doctor Pyotr Ivanovich, who always exposed those who feigned. Petr Ivanovich is very proud of the fact that he works so professionally. The doctor immediately understands Merzlyakov's intentions and wants to reveal the whole truth. To do this, Pyotr Ivanovich makes his patient a round anesthesia, thanks to which Merzlyakova became possible to unbend. After that, the prisoner passes shock therapy, as a result of which his behavior is similar to that of an epileptic. The village of these torments Merzlyakov begs to be discharged.

Typhoid Quarantine
A prisoner of the Gulag named Andreev falls ill with typhus. This saves him from hard work and provides an opportunity to survive. Andreev wants to do everything possible to stay in transit for a long time. Then he will have a chance not to be sent to the so-called golden mines, where nightmarish conditions reign. The prisoner hides for a long time: he does not respond to the roll call of the recovered. Finally, it's time for the release. Andreev is sure that he has already managed to avoid the worst, because business trips, most likely, will not be so long now. But then the prisoners see a truck leaving with people who were sent to their neighbors, and understand all the bitterness of their situation.

aortic aneurysm
Diseases occupy a special place in Shalamov's stories. The author classifies the terrible condition of the emaciated prisoners as a kind of illness, although officially this was not the case.
The doctor on duty, Zaitsev, draws attention to Ekaterina Glovatskaya, who was admitted to the hospital, very beautiful woman. Zaitsev is aware of the beauty's close relationship with a prisoner named Podshivalov, who leads an amateur art circle. Despite this, the doctor does not leave hope. Zaitsev examines Glovatskaya, he forgets about his interest in relation to her, he is seized by professional concern. The doctor finds out that the woman is sick with an aortic aneurysm, in which the probability of death is high. The doctor draws up a report on Głowacka's serious illness. But the head of the hospital believes that Zaitsev is lying in order not to separate Glovatskaya and Podshivalov. The beauty is discharged, and she dies while being loaded into the car.

Major Pugachev's last fight
Shalamov in his stories also pays attention to people who can influence the course of events, and not just save themselves, no matter what. In the early 1940s, among the prisoners were those who fought and were captured by the Germans. These people are fundamentally different from the rest of the Gulag prisoners, they can take risks for the sake of freedom. They saw death, shed their blood. But they were not exhausted by the conditions of the camp, and that was what the "wine" consisted of. Major Pugachev, one of such brave and determined people, understands that in such conditions he and his comrades cannot survive. Therefore, he gathers a group consisting of a scout, a tanker, a paramedic and pilots in order to escape. But they will be able to escape only if they do not participate in common work. Therefore, those who participate in the conspiracy are gradually moving into the service staff. Finally, spring comes - it's time to escape.

Early in the morning the camp cook came for the keys to the pantry. The attendant, suspecting nothing, opens the door, and they kill him. The same fate befell the duty officer who came later. Then the participants of the escape kill the guards and take their weapons. The prisoners wake up. The conspirators hold them at gunpoint, at this time they stock up on food and put on the uniform of the military. Leaving the camp, they “catch” a truck on the terrace and drive until the car runs out of gas. Then the conspirators go to the taiga. The leader of the escape - Pugachev - recalls his German captivity, the arrival of the "Vlasov" emissaries in the camp of the Germans, who believed that the captives were traitors to the Motherland. At first, Pugachev did not believe the emissaries, but then he became convinced of this. On the first night after the escape, the major realizes that the comrades who agreed to go with him are the most worthy people. A little later, a fierce battle unfolds between the fugitives and the soldiers who found them. As a result, almost all those who escaped from prison die, one is left to be cured and then shot. The organizer of the escape manages to escape. However, he is aware that sooner or later he will be caught. However, Major Pugachev does not regret anything. He shoots himself.

Please note that this is only summary Literary work "Kolyma stories". This summary omits many important points and quotes.

Year of publication of the collection: 1966

Shalamov's "Kolyma Tales" were written on the basis of personal experience writer, he spent thirteen years in Kolyma. Varlam Shalamov created a collection of enough for a long time from 1954 to 1962. First « Kolyma Tales" could be read in the New York magazine "New Journal" in Russian. Although the author did not want to publish his stories abroad.

Collection "Kolyma stories" summary

Through the snow

The collection of Varlam Shalamov "Kolyma Tales" begins with a question: do you want to know how they tread the road through the virgin snow? The man, swearing and sweating, goes ahead, leaving behind him black holes in the loose snow. A windless day is chosen so that the air is almost still and the wind does not sweep away all human labors. Five or six more people follow the first one, they go in a row and step near the footprints of the first one.

The first is always harder than the rest, and when he gets tired, he is replaced by one of the people walking in the line. It is important that each of the "pioneers" set foot on a piece of virgin land, and not on someone else's trail. And readers ride horses and tractors, not writers.

For the show

The men were playing cards at Naumov's horse racing. The guards usually did not go into the barracks of the Konogons, so every night the thieves gathered there to hold card fights. In the corner of the hut, blankets were spread out on the lower beds, on which lay a pillow - a "table" for card games. On the pillow lay a recently made deck of cards, cut from a volume of V. Hugo. To make a deck, paper, an indelible pencil, a slice of bread (used for gluing thin paper) and a knife were needed. One of the players tapped the pillow with his fingers, the little fingernail was incredibly long - Blatarian chic. This man had a very suitable appearance for a thief, you look at his face and you no longer remember his features. It was Sevochka, they said that he "perfectly performs", shows the dexterity of a card sharper. The thieves' game was a game of deceit, played only by two. Sevochka's opponent was Naumov, who was a railway thief, although outwardly he looked like a monk. A cross hung around his neck, such was the fashion of thieves in the forties.

Next, the players had to argue and swear in order to set the bet. Naumov lost his costume and wanted to play for a performance, that is, on credit. Konogon called the main character to him and Garkunov demanded to take off his quilted jackets. Garkunov had a sweater under his quilted jacket, a gift from his wife, with which he never parted. The man refused to take off his sweater, and then the others jumped on him. Sashka, who had recently been pouring soup for them, pulled out a knife from the top of his boot and held out his hand to Garkunov, who sobbed and fell. The game was over.

At night

Dinner is over. Glebov licked the bowl, the bread melted in his mouth. Bagretsov kept looking into Glebov's mouth, not having enough strength to look away. It was time to go, they went to a small ledge, the stones burned their feet with cold. And even walking did not warm.

The men stopped to rest, there was still a long way to go. They lay down on the ground and began to scatter stones. Bagretsov swore, he cut his finger and the blood did not stop. Glebov was a doctor in the past, although now, that time seemed like a dream. Friends were removing stones, and then Bagretsov noticed a human finger. They pulled out the corpse, took off his shirt and underpants. When they finished, the men threw stones at the grave. They were going to trade the clothes for the biggest treasures in the camp. As in it was bread and maybe even tobacco.

Carpenters

The next content in the collection "Kolyma stories" contains the story "Carpenters". He talks about how fog stood on the street for days, so thick that it was not possible to see a person two steps away. The temperature had been below minus fifty-five degrees for two weeks now. Potashnikov woke up with the hope that the frost had fallen, but this did not happen. The food that the workers were fed gave energy for a maximum of one hour, and then they wanted to lie down and die. Potashnikov slept on the upper bunk, where it was warmer, but his hair froze to the pillow during the night.

The man grew weaker every day, he was not afraid of death, but did not want to die in a barracks, where the cold froze not only human bones, but also souls. Having finished breakfast, Potashnikov reached the place of work, where he saw a man in a deer hat who needed carpenters. He and another man from his team introduced themselves as carpenters, although they were not. The men were brought to the workshop, but since they did not know carpentry, they were sent back.

Single metering

In the evening, Dugaev was informed that the next day he would receive single measurement. Dugaev was twenty-three and everything that happened here greatly surprised him. After a meager dinner, Baranov offered Dugaev a cigarette, although they were not friends.

In the morning, the caretaker measured out to the man the segment on which he should work. Working alone was even better for Dugaev, no one will grumble that he does not work well. In the evening the caretaker came to evaluate the work. The guy completed twenty-five percent, and this number seemed huge to him. The next day he worked together with everyone, and at night he was taken to the horse base, where there was a high fence with barbed wire. Dugaev regretted one thing, that he suffered and worked that day. Last day.

The man was on duty to receive the parcel. His wife sent him a few handfuls of prunes and a cloak, which they would not be able to wear anyway, because it was not proper for ordinary workers to wear such expensive shoes. But the mountain ranger, Andrei Boyko, offered him to sell these cloaks for a hundred rubles. With the proceeds main character bought a kilo of butter and a kilo of bread. But all the food was taken away and the brew with prunes was knocked over.

Rain

The men had been working at the site for three days, each in his own pit, but no one had gone deeper than half a meter. They were forbidden to leave the pits, to talk among themselves. The protagonist of this story wanted to break his leg by dropping a stone on it, but nothing came of this venture, only a couple of abrasions and bruises remained. It was raining all the time, the escorts thought that this would make the men work faster, but the workers only began to hate their work even more.

On the third day, the hero's neighbor, Rozovsky, shouted from his pit that he realized something - there is no meaning to life. But the man managed to save Rozovsky from the escorts, although he still threw himself under the trolley after some time, but did not die. Rozovsky was tried for a suicide attempt and the hero never saw him again.

Kant

The hero says that his favorite northern tree is cedar, elfin. From the dwarf one could find out the weather, if you lie down on the ground, then it will be snowy and cold and vice versa. The man was just transferred to new job collect elfin, which was then sent to the factory to make unusually nasty vitamins against scurvy.

They worked in pairs to assemble the elfin. One chopped, the other pinched. On that day, they did not manage to collect the norm, and in order to correct the situation, the partner of the protagonist put a large stone in a bag with branches, they still did not check there.

Dry rations

In this "Kolyma story" four men from the stone faces are sent to cut trees on the Duskanya spring. Their ten-day rations were negligible, and they were afraid to think that this meal would have to be divided into thirty portions. The workers decided to dump all their food together. They all lived in an old hunting hut, buried their clothes in the ground at night, leaving a small edge outside so that all the lice crawled out, then they burned the insects. They worked from sun to sun. The foreman checked the work done and left then the men worked more relaxed, did not quarrel, but rested more, looked at nature. Every evening they gathered at the stove and talked, discussed their hard life in the camp. It was impossible to refuse to go to work, because there was no pea coat or mittens, in the act they wrote “dressed for the season”, so as not to list everything that is not there.

Not everyone returned to the camp the next day. Ivan Ivanovich hanged himself that night, and Savelyev cut off his fingers. Upon returning to the camp, Fedya wrote a letter to his mother that he was living well and was dressed according to the season.

Injector

This story is Kudinov's report to the head of the mine, where the worker reports a broken injector, which does not allow the entire team to work. And people have to stand for several hours in the cold at temperatures below minus fifty. The man informed the chief engineer, but no action was taken. In response, the head of the mine suggests replacing the injector with a civilian one. And call the injector to responsibility.

Apostle Paul

The hero dislocated his leg and was transferred to the assistant carpenter Frisorger, who, in his past life was a pastor in some German village. They became good friends and often talked about religious topics.

Frizorger told the man about his only daughter, and this conversation was accidentally overheard by their boss, Paramonov, and offered to write a statement on the wanted list. Six months later, a letter arrived stating that Frisorger's daughter was disowning him. But the hero noticed this letter first and burned it, and then another one. Subsequently, he often remembered his camp friend, as long as he had the strength to remember.

Berries

The protagonist lies on the ground without strength, two guards approach him and threaten him. One of them, Seroshapka, says that tomorrow he will shoot the worker. The next day, the team went to the forest to work, where blueberries, wild roses and lingonberries grew. The workers ate them during smoke breaks, but Rybakov had a task: he picked berries in a jar, so that later they could be exchanged for bread. The protagonist, along with Rybakov, came too close to the forbidden territory, and Rybakov crossed the line.

The escort fired twice, the first warning, and after the second shot Rybakov lay on the ground. The hero decided not to waste time and picked up a jar of berries, intending to exchange them for bread.

Bitch Tamara

Moses was a blacksmith, he worked wonderfully, each of his products was endowed with grace, and his superiors appreciated him for this. And once Kuznetsov met a dog, he began to run away from it, thinking that it was a wolf. But the dog was friendly and remained in the camp - she was given the nickname Tamara. Soon she whelped, a kennel was built for six puppies. At this time, a detachment of "operatives" arrived in the camp, they were looking for fugitives - prisoners. Tamara hated one escort, Nazarov. It was clear that the dog had already met him. When it was time for the guards to leave, Nazarov shot Tamara. And after going down the slope on skis, he ran into a stump and died. The skin from Tamara was torn off and used for mittens.

sherry brandy

The poet was dying, his thoughts were confused, life flowed out of him. But she appeared again, he opened his eyes, moved his fingers swollen from hunger. The man thought from life, he deserved creative immortality, he was called the first poet of the twentieth century. Although he had not written down his poems for a long time, the poet put them together in his head. He was dying slowly. In the morning they brought bread, the man grabbed it with his bad teeth, but the neighbors stopped him. In the evening he died. But the death was recorded two days later, the poet's neighbors received the dead man's bread.

baby pictures

That day they got an easy job - sawing firewood. After finishing work, the team noticed a pile of garbage near the fence. The men even managed to find socks, which was a rarity in the north. And one of them managed to find a notebook filled with children's drawings. The boy painted soldiers with machine guns, painted the nature of the North, in bright and pure colors, because it was so. The northern city consisted of yellow houses, sheep dogs, soldiers and blue skies. A man from the detachment looked into the notebook, felt the sheets, and then crumpled it up and threw it away.

Condensed milk

Once after work, Shestakov suggested that the main character escape, they were in prison together, but were not friends. The man agreed, but asked for canned milk. At night he slept badly, and did not remember the working day at all.

Having received condensed milk from Shestakov, he changed his mind about running away. I wanted to warn the others, but I didn't know anyone. Five fugitives, together with Shestakov, were caught very soon, two were killed, three were tried a month later. Shestakov himself was transferred to another mine, he was full and shaved, but did not greet the main character.

Bread

In the morning, herring and bread were brought to the barracks. The herring was given out every other day, and each prisoner dreamed of a ponytail. Yes, the head was more fun, but there was more meat in the tail. Bread was given out once a day, but everyone ate it at once, there was not enough patience. After breakfast, it became warm and did not want to go anywhere.

This team was in typhoid quarantine, but they still worked. Today they were taken to the bakery, where the master chose only two out of twenty, stronger and not prone to escape: the Hero and his neighbor, a guy with freckles. They were fed with bread and jam. Men had to carry broken bricks, but this work was too hard for them. They often took breaks, and soon the master sent them back and gave them a loaf of bread. In the camp, bread was shared with neighbors.

snake charmer

This story is dedicated to Andrei Platonov, who was a friend of the author and wanted to write this story himself, even the name came up with "The Snake Charmer", but died. Platonov spent a year on the Dzhanhar. On the first day, he noticed that there are people who do not work - thieves. And Fedechka was their leader, at first he was rude to Platonov, but when he found out that he could squeeze novels, he immediately softened. Andrei retold "The Jacks of Hearts Club" until dawn. Fedya was very pleased.

In the morning, when Platonov was going to work, some guy pushed him. But he immediately whispered something in his ear. Then this guy approached Platonov and asked him not to say anything to Fedya, Andrei agreed.

Tatar mullah and clean air

It was very hot in the prison cell. The prisoners joked that first they would be subjected to evaporation torture, and then freezing torture. The Tatar mule, a strong man of sixty, was talking about his life. He hoped to live in a cell for another twenty years, and in clean air for at least ten, he knew what “clean air” was.

It took twenty to thirty days for a person to turn into a goner in the camp. The prisoners tried to escape from the prison to the camp, thinking that the prison was the worst thing that could happen to them. All the prisoners' illusions about the camp were very quickly destroyed. People lived in unheated barracks, where ice froze in all the cracks in winter. Parcels arrived after six months, if at all. There is nothing to talk about money at all, they were never paid, not a penny. An incredible amount of disease in the camp left the workers with no way out. Given all the hopelessness and depression, clean air was much more dangerous for a person than a prison.

First death

The hero saw many deaths, but he remembered the first one he saw best. His crew worked the night shift. Returning to the barracks, their foreman Andreev suddenly turned in the other direction and ran, the workers followed him. In front of them stood a man in military uniform, a woman lying at his feet. The hero knew her, it was Anna Pavlovna, the secretary of the head of the mine. The brigade loved her, and now Anna Pavlovna was dead, strangled. The man who killed her, Shtemenko, was the boss who, a few months ago, had broken all the prisoners' homemade cauldrons. He was quickly tied up and taken to the head of the mine.

Part of the brigade hurried to the barracks to have lunch, Andreev was taken to testify. And when he returned, he ordered the prisoners to go to work. Shtemenko was soon convicted of murder out of jealousy for ten years. After the verdict, the chief was taken away. Former bosses are kept in separate camps.

Aunt Polya

Aunt Polya died of terrible disease- stomach cancer. Nobody knew her surname, not even the wife of the boss, to whom Aunt Polya was a servant or “orderly”. The woman was not engaged in any dark deeds, she only helped to arrange her fellow Ukrainians for easy work. When she fell ill, visitors came to her hospital every day. And everything that the chief's wife passed on, Aunt Polya gave to the nurses.

One day Father Peter came to the hospital to confess the sick woman. A few days later she died, soon Father Peter appeared again and ordered to put a cross on her grave, and they did so. Timoshenko Polina Ivanovna was first written on the cross, but it seemed that her name was Praskovya Ilyinichna. The inscription was corrected under the supervision of Peter.

Tie

In this story by Varlam Shalamov "Kolyma Tales" you can read about a girl named Marusya Kryukova, who came to Russia from Japan and was arrested in Vladivostok. During the investigation, Masha's leg was broken, the bone healed incorrectly, and the girl was limping. Kryukova was a wonderful needlewoman, and she was sent to the “house of the directorate” to embroider. Such houses stood near the road, and the chiefs spent the night there two or three times a year, the houses were beautifully decorated, paintings and embroidered canvases hung. In addition to Marusya, two more girls, needlewomen, worked in the house, a woman looked after them, giving out threads and fabric to the workers. For fulfilling the norm and good behavior, the girls were allowed to go to the cinema for prisoners. The films were shown in parts, and once, after the first part, the first part was again staged. This is because the deputy head of the hospital, Dolmatov, came, he was late, and the film was shown first.

Marusya ended up in the hospital, in the women's department to see a surgeon. She really wanted to give the doctors who cured her ties. And the overseer allowed it. However, Masha failed to fulfill her plan, because Dolmatov took them away from the craftswoman. Soon, at an amateur concert, the doctor managed to examine the boss's tie, such a gray, patterned, high-quality one.

Taiga golden

The zone is of two types: small, that is, transfer, and large - camp. On the territory of the small zone there is one square hut, in which there are about five hundred places, bunks on four floors. The main character lies on the bottom, the top ones are for thieves only. On the very first night, the hero is called to be sent to the camp, but the zone worker sends him back to the barracks.

Soon, artists are brought to the barracks, one of them, a Harbin singer, Valyusha, a thug, asks him to sing. The singer sang a song about the golden taiga. The hero fell into a dream, he woke up from a whisper on the upper bunk and the smell of shag. When the contractor wakes him up in the morning, the hero asks to go to the hospital. Three days later, a paramedic comes to the barracks and examines the man.

Vaska Denisov, pig thief

Vaska Denisov could not arouse suspicion only by carrying firewood on his shoulder. He carried the log to Ivan Petrovich, the men sawed it together, and then Vaska chopped all the wood. Ivan Petrovich said that now he had nothing to feed the worker, but gave him three rubles. Vaska was sick of hunger. He walked through the village, wandered into the first house he came across, in the closet he saw the frozen carcass of a pig. Vaska grabbed her and ran to the state house, the department of vitamin business trips. The chase was close. Then he ran into the red corner, locked the door and began to gnaw on a pig, damp and frozen. When Vaska was found, he had already gnawed off half of it.

Seraphim

Seraphim had a letter on the table, he was afraid to open it. The man worked in the North in a chemical laboratory for a year, but he could not forget his wife. Seraphim worked with two more engineers, prisoners, with whom he hardly spoke. Every six months, the lab technician received a 10 percent pay raise. And Seraphim decided to go to the neighboring village, to unwind. But the guards decided that the man had run away from somewhere and put him in a barracks, six days later the head of the laboratory came for Seraphim and took him away. Although the escorts did not return the money.

Returning, Seraphim saw a letter, his wife wrote about a divorce. When Seraphim was left alone in the laboratory, he opened the manager's cabinet, took out a pinch of the powder, dissolved it in water and drank it. Started to burn in the throat, and nothing more. Then Seraphim cut open his vein, but the blood flowed too weakly. Desperate, the man ran to the river and tried to drown himself. He woke up in the hospital. The doctor injected a glucose solution, and then unclenched Seraphim's teeth with a spatula. The operation was done, but too late. The acid corroded the esophagus and the walls of the stomach. Seraphim calculated everything correctly the first time.

Day off

A man was praying in the meadow. The hero knew him, it was the priest from his barracks, Zamyatin. Prayers helped him to live like a hero of poetry, which is still preserved in his memory. The only thing that was not supplanted by the humiliation of eternal hunger, fatigue and cold. Returning to the barracks, the man heard a noise in the instrumental room, which was closed on weekends, but today the lock did not hang. He went inside, two thieves were playing with a puppy. One of them, Semyon, pulled out an ax and lowered it on the puppy's head.

In the evening, no one slept from the smell of meat soup. The Blatari didn't eat all the soup because there weren't many of them in the barracks. They offered the rest to the hero, but he refused. Zamyatin entered the barracks, and the blatari offered him soup, saying that it was made from lamb. He agreed and five minutes later returned a clean bowler hat. Then Semyon told the priest that the soup was from a dog, Nord. The priest silently went out into the street, he vomited. Later, he confessed to the hero that the meat tasted no worse than lamb.

Dominoes

The man is in the hospital, his height is one hundred and eighty centimeters, and his weight is forty-eight kilograms. The doctor took his temperature, thirty-four degrees. The patient was placed closer to the stove, he ate, but the food did not warm him. The man will stay in the hospital until spring, two months, so the doctor said. At night, a week later, the patient was awakened by an orderly and said that Andrei Mikhailovich, the doctor who treated him, was calling him. Andrei Mikhailovich suggested that the hero play dominoes. The patient agreed, although he hated this game. During the game they talked a lot, Andrei Mikhailovich lost.

Several years passed when the patient in the small area heard the name of Andrei Mikhailovich. After some time, they still managed to meet. The doctor told him his story, Andrei Mikhailovich was ill with tuberculosis, but he was not allowed to be treated, someone reported that his illness was a false “bullshit”. And Andrei Mikhailovich has come a long way through the frost. After successful treatment, he began to work as an intern in the surgical department. On his recommendation, the main character graduated from paramedic courses and began working as a nurse. Once they finished cleaning, the orderlies played dominoes. “A foolish game,” Andrei Mikhailovich admitted, he, like the hero of the story, played dominoes only once.

Hercules

For a silver wedding, the head of the hospital, Sudarin, was presented with a rooster. All the guests were delighted with such a gift, even the guest of honor Cherpakov appreciated the cockerel. Cherpakov was about forty, he was the head of dignity. department. And when the guest of honor got drunk, he decided to show everyone his strength and began to lift chairs, then armchairs. And later he said that he could tear off the rooster's head with his hands. And tore it off. The young doctors were impressed. Dancing began, everyone danced because Cherpakov did not like it when someone refused.

Shock therapy

Merzlyakov came to the conclusion that it was easiest for the undersized to survive in the camp. Since the amount of food given out is not calculated by the weight of people. Once, at a general work, Merzlyakov, carrying a log, fell and could not go further. For this, he was beaten by the guards, and the foreman, and even comrades. The worker was sent to the hospital, he no longer had any pain, but he delayed the moment of returning to the camp with any lie.

At the central hospital, Merzlyakov was transferred to the nervous department. All thoughts of the prisoner were only about one thing: not to unbend. During the examination by Pyotr Ivanovich, the “patient” answered at random, and the doctor did not have to guess that Merzlyakov was lying. Pyotr Ivanovich was already looking forward to a new exposure. The doctor decided to start with raush anesthesia, and if that does not help, then shock therapy. Under anesthesia, the doctors managed to unbend Merzlyakov, but as soon as the man woke up, he immediately bent back. The neuropathologist warned the patient that in a week he himself would ask him to be discharged. After the shock therapy procedure, Merzlyakov asked to be discharged from the hospital.

Stlanik

In autumn, when it is already time for snow, the clouds hang low, and there is a smell of snow right in the air, but the cedar tree does not creep, then there will be no snow. And when the weather is still autumn, there are no clouds, but the dwarf lay on the ground, and in a few days it snows. Cedar not only predicts the weather, but also gives hope, being the only evergreen tree in the North. But the dwarf is quite gullible, if you make a fire near a tree in winter, then it will immediately rise from under the snow. The author considers dwarf the most poetic Russian tree.

Red Cross

In the camp, the only person who can help a prisoner is a doctor. Doctors determine the "labor category", sometimes they even release them, make certificates of disability and release them from work. The camp doctor has a lot of power, and the blatari realized this very quickly, they treated the medical workers with respect. If the doctor was a civilian, then they gave him gifts, if not, then most often they threatened or intimidated him. Many doctors were killed by thieves.

In exchange for good relationship doctors had to put the blatars in the hospital, send them on vouchers, cover the malingerers. The atrocities of the thieves in the camp are incalculable, every minute in the camp is poisoned. After returning from there, people cannot live as before, they are cowardly, selfish, lazy and crushed.

Conspiracy of lawyers

Further, our collection "Kolyma Tales" will tell a brief summary about Andreev, a former student at a law university. He, like the main character, ended up in the camp. The man worked in the Shmelev team, where human slag was sent, they worked on the night shift. One night the worker was asked to stay because Romanov called him to him. Together with Romanov, the hero went to the office in Khatynny. True, the hero had to ride in the back of a sixty-degree frost for two hours. After the worker was taken to the authorized Smertin, who, as before, Romanov asked Andreev whether he was a lawyer. At night, the man was left in the cell, where there were already several prisoners. The next day, Andreev sets off on a journey with escorts, as a result of which he freezes his fingers.

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How is the road laid on virgin snow? First, a man goes in calm weather, leaving his mark on the untouched snow. Others follow him, but do not step on his tracks. When they reach the end of the trail, they turn back to make the road wide and vehicular. Everyone who follows the trail must step on at least a small, but piece of virgin land. Only readers ride tractors and horses, while writers pave the way.

For the show

Gathering at Naumov's horse-drawn horse was the safest thing. The guards on duty never looked in there. That is why card fights between thieves took place here every night. That evening the cards were made from V. Hugo's volume. Every thug should be able to draw them. This distinguished those who gathered from the rest of the prisoners. Sevochka possessed all the qualities of a thief.

His face was unmemorable, his hands were white, non-working. The nail of the little finger seemed longer than all the others. He was a sharpie. His opponent in the game was Naumov. A suit was put on the line from Naumov's side, from Sevochka - a thousand rubles and several well-worn jumpers. The narrator and Garkunov, who sawed wood for the Naumov barracks, watched the game. Naumov lost his costume, but was not going to give up. A blanket was put on the line.

Having lost all things, Naumov offered to play on credit. After examining those sitting in the barracks, he beckoned the narrator to him, but, not finding valuable things from him, he sat him down. Garkunov was wearing a wool sweater that the players liked. The partner's resistance was quickly crushed. The players, satisfied, dispersed. The narrator now had to find a new partner for sawing firewood.

After dinner, Glebov and Bagretsov went to the mountain where the deceased had recently been buried. Throwing stones, Bagretsov injured himself, and Glebov unexpectedly remembered that he had once been a doctor. But it didn't matter now. Taking off the clothes of the deceased, Glebov felt uncomfortable. Tomorrow they will be able to buy bread and some tobacco with the money from the sale of linen.

Carpenters

It's been minus 50 degrees for two weeks now. Potashnikov could no longer endure this cold. While working, he could not keep warm. Meager lunch and dinner did not contribute to the restoration of strength. Yesterday his neighbor died - he just didn't wake up. Potashnikov realized that something had to be done. But he couldn't think in the cold. It seemed that the soul was frozen.

Now he was just trying to get through those cold days. He had a chance to become a foreman, but he did not take advantage of it: he did not want to destroy his comrades. The team was offered to work as carpenters, and only Potashnikov and Grigoriev agreed. It turned out that they both do not know how to carpentry. But they didn't care, the main thing was that they would spend at least two days in the warmth. Carpenter Arnshtrem, after seeing how the newly arrived prisoners work, allowed them to warm themselves by the stove for two days. At the end of the term, the frost dropped to thirty degrees. 3rd was coming to an end.

Single metering

In the evening, the caretaker said that tomorrow, twenty-three-year-old Dugaev would receive a single measurement. This news alarmed the brigadier. After dinner, Dugaev wanted to smoke. Suddenly, his partner Baranov handed him a cigarette. Dugaev knew that no one could be trusted here. The next morning the caretaker himself put Dugaev on workplace. By evening, he had completed only twenty-five percent of necessary work. He was sent for interrogation to the investigator.

After answering four standard questions: name, surname, article, term, he went to the barracks and fell asleep. The next day, Bugaev again worked with his brigade, and in the evening he was taken under escort into the forest. Walking along the path, he suddenly realized that he had wasted his energy on work on his last day.

Parcels are received at the watch. Standing in line, the narrator dreamed that he would now receive sugar and shag, but his wife sent him unnecessary cloaks and some prunes. Caretaker Boyko immediately offered to buy cloaks for a hundred rubles. There was no other way out, and he sold. I decided to buy butter and bread with the money I received. He ran to the store manager, and then to Semyon Sheinin, Kirov's former assistant. He ran for boiling water, but then the narrator was hit on the head and the food was taken away.

He returned to the barracks and began to boil the remaining prunes. Next to him, Sintsov and Gubarev each boiled soup in their own pot. Suddenly, the military broke in and scattered their dishes. The prisoners had only to eat the remaining products from the floor. After some time, they brought Efremov, beaten to a pulp for stealing firewood.

“It has been raining for the third day. The authorities hoped that because of him the prisoners would work faster. They stood waist-deep in the ground and drilled stones. Looking at the dying horses, the narrator realized that a man became a man because he is physically stronger than all other animals. He checked his viability recently, in the same pit. And I realized that I was not capable of self-mutilation. He had to wait until the end of the working day. And while he waited, he remembered the woman who had passed them on the path yesterday. “Pointing to the sky, she said: “Soon, guys, soon.” Her support amazed the prisoner. At this time, a cry was heard from Rozovsky, who realized that there was no meaning to life. Some time later, he was accused of attempting suicide and transferred to another location.

In Siberia, spring is always short. During this time, many plants have time to bloom. Prisoners also went to collect dwarf elfin. This plant was considered a useful cure for scurvy, although after some time it was proved that it does not benefit the body. For collecting dwarf elfin relied kant - a short rest. The narrator's partner has long been going to the gathering of elfin. He understood that with a storyteller who was not accustomed to this work, he would not be able to fulfill the norm. The partner helped the narrator and urged him on. Putting a stone in a bag for more weight, the prisoners hurried to dinner. They barely had time to get soup and tea.

Dry rations

Four prisoners were sent on a business trip to the Duskanya key to clear a clearing in the forest. The rations given to them were frighteningly small, but still they were glad to escape from the stuffy barracks into nature, where there was no convoy. All of them were exhausted by long years of imprisonment. Lack of food, frost affected their health. Ivan Ivanovich was once one of the best workers, but now he has weakened. He was happy to go on this business trip, because in the colony he had no authority, he could be humiliated and beaten by everyone.

Fedya Shchapov, the youngest of the four, was sentenced to ten years for illegal slaughter of cattle. The natural love of work distinguished him from all other prisoners. Savelyev once studied at the Moscow Institute of Communications. He was sentenced to ten years for writing a letter about horrors to the leader from Butyrka prison, where he ended up on a trifling matter prison life. The narrator liked to talk to him about Moscow. After working all day, they completed only ten percent of the norm. The ten's managers didn't like it. The prisoners realized that now they would be sent back to the camp.

Ivan Ivanovich hanged himself at night. Savelyev refused to take the dead man's belongings. He took an ax and, in front of the foreman, cut off four of his fingers. When they returned to the camp, Savelyev was charged with premeditated self-mutilation. The narrator and Fedya continued their lives in the same tent from which they had left on a forest mission some time ago.

Injector

Report to the head of the mine comrade. A.S. Queen. On the twelfth of November, six hours of simple work of the fourth brigade took place. This was due to the low temperature, reaching minus fifty degrees. As a result, the injector failed. Having considered this report, Korolev decided to arrest the Injector's c / c and bring him to legal responsibility. Instead, he offered to put a civilian worker.

Apostle Paul

The narrator sprained his foot while descending the slippery stairs in the pit. He was sent to help Adam Frisorger, a carpenter who had previously been a pastor in a German village near Marksstadt on the Volga. They already knew each other: they were sent together to coal exploration as servants. Frisorger liked the narrator for his peaceful nature. They never quarreled.

Once, during one of the conversations, the narrator corrected Adam, who called: Paul an apostle. Frizorger sincerely repented of his mistake. He began to trust the narrator and even showed him a photograph of his only daughter. She did not write to him, and the chief offered to help in the search for her. After some time, a statement came in which the daughter abandoned her father because he was an enemy of the people. The narrator burned the statement, and then the letter that came later. Soon he was transferred to another place, and he heard nothing more about Adam.

The detachment had been waiting for the narrator for a long time: he fell under the weight of a log and could not get up. Only after Seroshapka's guard threatened to shoot him did the narrator stand up. The next day, Sero Hat led the prisoners to collect fallen timber. He marked the territory beyond which it was forbidden to go. Rybakov, a friend of the narrator, collected rose hips. He was promised bread for this. Seeing that the jar is not filled to the end, he enters the forbidden territory. A shot is fired and Rybakov falls. When the detachment was built, Gray Hat, looking at the narrator, said that he wanted to kill him, but he did not give a reason.

Bitch Tamara

She was brought from the taiga by the blacksmith Moses Moiseevich Kuznetsov. He ended up in the camp at the denunciation of his own young wife. The authorities appreciated his skill and for this they forgave him a lot. The dog immediately endeared himself to the entire camp. She took food only from her hands and never stole. Soon the bitch whelped. When a group of operatives arrived at the camp searching for the escaped prisoners, Tamara rushed at them and bit into the felt boots of the head of the task force, Nazarov. She was tied to a tree. From her behavior, it was clear that this was not the first time she met with the guards. When the operatives were leaving, Nazarov, having heard the growl of a dog, fired a burst from a machine gun at it and disappeared into the forest. Nothing passes without a trace: Nazarov ran into a stump in the forest and died. The dog was skinned. Soon a forester bought it to sew "dogs".

sherry brandy

The poet was dying. He did not have the strength to quarrel with those who stole his bread. The mittens were also stolen by someone. He lay and thought that a person could be immortal. He himself gained creative immortality: his poems will live after him. He thought that all life was created to inspire the poet. He compared the whole world with poetry.

Once, in childhood, a Chinese told him happy life now he remembered this man without malice. He wanted to eat, but there was nothing. When the daily ration was handed out, he grabbed the bread with his wobbly teeth and greedily ate it. Everyone told him not to rush, that he could finish his meal later. The poet suddenly asked himself: when then? In the evening he died. Neighbors received bread for a dead man for another two days.

baby pictures

The prisoners were taken to work in groups of five. Today they sawed wood. Having finished their work, the prisoners began to dig through the rubbish heap. They found torn socks, frozen bread and meatballs there. The narrator was especially jealous of the socks. He was lucky to find only a children's notebook. Looking at the drawings, he remembered the legend of the boy-god who created the taiga.

The child, judging by the drawings from the notebook, saw very little in his life. All his drawings were devoted to prison barriers and soldiers. The partner, having felt the sheets of the notebook, threw it back into the trash and advised him to look for a newspaper from which to make cigarettes.

Condensed milk

Most of all, Shestakov was lucky. He was the only one in the camp who got a job in his specialty. Once, when the narrator could not take his eyes off the loaves of bread in the store, Shestakov suggested that he run away. The narrator realized that this was a trap, that he would definitely deceive him, but agreed, but first he needed to eat.

He received two cans of condensed milk from Shestakov. Immediately after eating them, he refused to participate in the escape. Those five whom Shestakov persuaded were soon either killed or added to their terms. The conspirator himself was transferred to another place, and when the narrator met him again, Shestakov did not greet him because of those two cans of condensed milk.

Today was a distribution day. They gave herring. Usually got either heads or tails. Today were the last ones. Everyone waited for their turn with bated breath, hoping for luck. Suddenly, it is he who will get a piece ten grams more than the rest. After they have eaten the herring, the prisoners are taken to the bread. When everything is eaten, you need to get dressed and go to work.

Now everyone is in typhoid quarantine, but even here they are forced to work. Every time the prisoners are assigned to work, everyone tries to get into the place where they sort out vegetables or some other food. In this lottery, someone is lucky, but someone is not. When the detachment passed by the bakery, two people were taken to the workshop. Everyone else could only envy their luck. The master fed both prisoners with hot, freshly baked bread and led them to work. In the evening they were given a loaf each, and they went back to the camp. The day ended well.

snake charmer

Andrei Fedorovich Platonov told how he told the thieves at the Javkhara mine. Dumas, Conan Doyle, Wallace. He dreamed of writing the story "The Snake Charmer", but died three weeks after the conversation. The narrator decided to write this work for him. In "The Snake Charmer" Platonov, having got into "Dzhankhara", experienced the full power of the thieves. When he agreed to retell them novels, he was under their protection. Thanks to them, he ate well, slept well, worked little. No one touched him, fearing reprisals from the thieves.

Tatar mullah and clean air

The prison was hot. A Tatar mullah, an investigative prisoner in the “Big Tataria” case, said that if he was not shot, he would live another ten years in “clean air” in the camp or twenty years in prison. The narrator knew that in the camp one could become exhausted after twenty or thirty days of work in the "clean air".

Many considered arrest and prison the most terrible event of their lives. They rushed to the camp, thinking that it would be easier there. They were taken further north, where the village air was replaced by the smell of fumes from the swamps and overwhelmed by the ubiquitous mosquitoes. The northern air was too heavy for the cores. No one ran here, except perhaps the youngest. Reality shattered all illusions.

The only connection to the mainland was through parcels. Everyone knew that what was sent should be used immediately, otherwise the thieves would be taken away. They didn't get paid for the work. Sometimes the brigades themselves decided who to give the overfulfilled percentage, so that at least someone received a bonus. Having tasted camp life, the prisoners remembered the cell of the remand prison as something bright and the best thing that happened to them. If we count all the misfortunes and difficulties that overtake in the camp, then we can no longer talk about useful properties"clean air".

First death

The prisoners who went to clear the road from snow drifts were heavily guarded by a convoy. They could not get warm until the working day was over. Six hours later, already feeling nothing, the prisoners think only of one thing: how not to freeze completely. The end of the day always comes unexpectedly, and everyone is so happy that they even find the strength to talk.

Kolya Andreev was a foreman. He always went ahead of the detachment, paving the way. That evening he led the brigade up the top of the snow-covered rampart. Suddenly he began to descend. There, near the woman's body, there was a mine investigator Shtemenko. The secretary of the head of the mine, Anna Pavlovna, turned out to be killed. Shtemenko was convicted of murder out of jealousy for ten years, but served time somewhere else.

Aunt Polya

Aunt Polya died of stomach cancer. She was the orderly at the chief's wife. Aunt Polya was a great cook, for which she was highly regarded. The woman helped her countrymen - the Ukrainians, but the rest of the prisoners gave only advice. Her incorruptibility was very liked by the bosses. They patronized her and petitioned for her release. But Aunt Polya fell ill.

From the day she was admitted to the hospital, bosses began to visit her. One day Father Peter came to confess it. Everyone called him Petka Abramov, and it was unusual for them to see him as a priest. When Aunt Polya died, Peter demanded to put a cross on the grave and write the real name of the deceased: Praskovya Ilyinichna Timoshenko.

Marusya Kryukova came to Moscow from Japan. When she was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years, her leg was broken. In Kolyma, the authorities immediately saw her talent for embroidery, but never paid her for her work. Soon Marusya was sent to Dalstroy to embroider curtains. Two other girls worked there with her. A woman was placed to watch them, who believed that at any second the girls could steal something. But they didn't steal. All three were arrested and sent to the camp under Article 58.

When Marusya was admitted to the hospital, she was diagnosed with osteomyelitis. Soon she was discharged, and she promised to embroider ties for doctors. When Marusya was embroidering, Dolmatov came in and took away the ties. She was very upset, but there was nothing she could do. Dol Matov came to the next film show in one of the ties, and Marusya, gesturing, showed the doctor that it was supposed to be his gift.

Taiga golden

In the small zone, prisoners are waiting to be sent further to work. The narrator, knowing this system, deceives the contractor who came to pick up people: he pretends to be sick and unable to work, although there was no need to pretend in the camp. Left in the small zone, he hears how singers are brought to the thieves for entertainment, but he doesn’t care anymore. He tries to sleep as much as possible.

In the evening, the contractor asks angrily where he wants to go to work. The narrator doesn't want to go anywhere. He says he is sick and needs to go to the hospital. Three days later, a doctor comes and examines him, but does not send him to the hospital.

Vaska Denisov, pig thief

Vaska, in order to go to the village, borrowed a newer pea jacket from his friend. He understood that in his dirty clothes he would be too noticeable for the “freemen”.

Prisoners in the village had to walk under escort or with firewood on their backs. Vaska found a hidden log and knocked on the door. They opened it and let him into the house. Having chopped firewood, he began to wait until he was fed, but the owner gave him only three rubles. Hungry, he went through the whole village and climbed into a house. There he found a raw frozen pig in the pantry and was about to leave, when suddenly people began to leave the rooms. He took off running. Hid in the vitamin travel office. Having barricaded himself in the room, he began to eat the piglet. When the door was broken down, he managed to eat half.

Seraphim worked as a laboratory assistant in a chemical laboratory in the North. He left because of a "family spat", believing distance to be the best cure for grief. After working for a year, he felt that love for his wife still lives in his heart. All this time, Seraphim hardly spoke to anyone, only exchanging a few words with the head of the laboratory, Presnyakov.

One day he decided to go to another village to buy the necessary things. Arriving there, he discovered that he had forgotten the documents. The guards immediately seized him and sent him to the isolation ward. He sat there for five long days. When they finally released him, beaten and hungry, Seraphim decided to commit suicide. The wife's letter, in which she demanded a divorce, was the last straw. He drank acid, but, feeling no effect, tore the veins in his left arm. Not satisfied with this, he ran to the river and threw himself into the icy water. He was pulled out and sent to the hospital. There, Seraphim's stomach was operated on, but the acid had already done its job, and he died.

Day off

In the camp, everyone rests in their own way. Walking in the forest, the narrator saw Zamyatin praying. He did not have a dignity, but still often repeated the Sunday service, so as not to forget. Returning to the barracks, the author heard a noise in the instrument room. Going inside, he saw two thugs holding a puppy. They killed the animal with an ax blow and cooked soup from it in the evening. They offered the rest to the narrator, but he refused. Then they gave the soup to Zamyatin. When he ate it, the blatari revealed to him the secret of what the broth was made from. Zamyatin ran out of the barracks. He was sick. Later, he admitted to the narrator that the meat seemed to him no worse in taste than lamb.

When the narrator got to the hospital, his weight was forty-eight kilograms. The attending physician - Andrei Mikhailovich - allowed him to stay in the hospital for two months. One evening he called the patient to his room and offered to play dominoes. The narrator did not like this game, but out of gratitude he agreed. The game was played slowly. They talked more. A few years later, the narrator found himself in a small zone. He wanted to be sent to the hospital. Hearing the name of Andrei Mikhailovich from the paramedic, he asked me to pass a note to him. After waiting for several weeks, he began to despair, but then he was called to the dentist. Andrei Mikhailovich was waiting for him in the corridor. During the time they did not see each other, he fell ill with tuberculosis. The doctor was already sailing for the mainland, when suddenly, on a denunciation, he was removed from the ship. When he recovered, he began working as an intern in the surgical department. Thanks to Andrei Mikhailovich, the narrator managed to return to the mainland. He first worked for him as a nurse, then trained as a paramedic. Once in a conversation, the narrator finds out that Andrei Mikhailovich also does not like dominoes: for the first time he took dominoes in his hands. “I wanted to please you,” the doctor admits. Their term was supposed to end in one year, but Andrei Mikhailovich died earlier.

Hercules

Andrey Ivanovich Dudar was a little late for the silver wedding of the head of the hospital Sudarin. Having presented the spouses with a rooster, he sat down at the table. After drinking a little, the honored guest Cherpakov began to demonstrate his physical abilities: he lifted chairs, let his biceps be felt. After some time, he came up with another number: taking a rooster, the guest of honor tore off his head. Delighted women rushed to wipe the blood from his trousers and shirt. When everyone went to dance, Andrei Ivanovich stepped on the corpse of his beloved rooster. He pushed it deeper under the table and went to dance.

Shock therapy

Merzlyakov often wondered why, when compiling rations for prisoners, no one looks at a person's weight: a tall and large prisoner receives the same amount of bread as a thin and short one. He knew that a frail intellectual would live longer in the camp than any giant. He himself was large in stature and suffered greatly from the lack of food.

When he was appointed groom, he began to steal oats and grind them. So he thought to hold out for the winter. But soon the head of the horse base was replaced by another senior groom, who reported to the authorities about the theft of oats. Merzlyakov was sent to general work. Having lost the rest of his strength, he fell under the weight of a log, thereby delaying the return of the brigade to the barracks. He was severely beaten and sent to the hospital.

Merzlyakov decided to pretend to be ill to the last, but one of the doctors, Pyotr Ivanovich, liked to expose the fakers. He undertook to expose Merzlyakov. First, the doctor applied roush anesthesia, under which it turned out that the patient was pretending. But Merzlyakov was not ready to give up. Then Peter Ivanovich applied shock therapy. It consisted of the following: a large dose of camphor oil is injected into the patient's blood, which leads to an attack. After the procedure, Merzlyakov agreed to be discharged from the hospital.

Dwarf is the only evergreen plant in the North. This is the tree of hope. It does not like winter just as much as the prisoners. When the dwarf rises from under the snow, then the cold has come to an end. Even the warmth of a fire can wake a tree from its sleep. This is the most poetic tree, and it gives more warmth than other firewood.

Red Cross

In the zone, only a doctor can really help a prisoner. He cares about people's lives, protects them from the arbitrariness of the authorities, can send them to the hospital, issue disability, give them rest. But the doctor is also forced to survive in the camp. Blatari play a big role in prison life. They bribe or intimidate doctors, authorities, other prisoners. They are devoid of morality, shame, conscience. They can steal, humiliate, kill.

Their way of life affects the fate of other prisoners. Those who end up in the camp are forced to adapt to the wishes of the blatars. By pleasing them, you can count on extending your life. In the camp, the main argument is strength. If you are weak, you will suffer. An intellectual loses all his knowledge in a few weeks. He becomes a servant of the thieves at the first blow. The opinions and tastes of thieves and murderers affect the entire camp life in Kolyma.

Conspiracy of lawyers

Andreev was transferred to Shmelev's brigade, which consisted of "human slag" - all those who had visited the gold mines. He did not see the brigadier's face, only knew his hoarse voice. When the brigade was being built, Shmelev sent Andreev to the representative Romanov. Arriving at the appointed time, Andreev knocked on the door. He was let in by a fat man smelling of perfume. He asked Andreev about his specialty. It turned out that he studied at Moscow University at the Faculty of Law. Romanov took him to another city, where senior commissioner Smertin was waiting for them. Andreev was put in a prison cell for the night. In the morning he was taken away by escorts. Romanov gave him bread, two herrings and shag. Andreev was taken further. When the car drove up to the Serpantinnaya remand prison, he thought that his end had come, but the car moved on. The next stop took place in the village of Yagodny. Andreev stayed there for two days. During the next trip, the convoy stopped at the road canteen. Andreev was placed on the floor next to another prisoner who was being taken to Magadan to be shot. Some time later, they were put into the back of a car and taken again to no one knows where. By the time they got to Sporenoe, the prisoners were numb from the cold. They were placed in an unheated isolation ward, where Andreev froze all ten of his toes. When they arrived in Magadan, the hero was sent to the regional department. There he was received by Captain Rebrov, who began to ask if he knew Parfentiev and Vinogradov. The first was once Andreev's foreman, but he did not know the second. After the interrogation, Andreev was sent to Vaskov's house, a Magadan prison. After some time, it was announced that Rebrov had been arrested and all those convicted on his orders were released.

Typhoid Quarantine

Andreev was sent to typhoid quarantine. There he felt that he was still able to respect himself and fight for life. He realized that he needed as long as possible not to catch the eye of the contractor who was recruiting people for the gold mines. Andreev no longer wanted to return there. More than a thousand people were in quarantine. There was the same peace as in the camp.

The thieves took places closer to the stove, ate more than everyone else. Andreev managed to deceive the authorities, he was sent to light work. Sometimes he was able to work alone, which was much more preferable. When about thirty people remained in quarantine, Andreev was sent on a local business trip. But, to the surprise of the prisoners, they were given winter clothes. When they were put into the car, everyone realized that they were being sent north again, beyond the Yablonovy Ridge.

5 / 5. 1

The plot of the stories of V. Shalamov is a painful description of the prison and camp life of the prisoners of the Soviet Gulag, they are similar to one another tragic fates in which chance reigns, merciless or merciful, helper or murderer, arbitrariness of bosses and thieves. Hunger and its convulsive satiety, exhaustion, painful dying, a slow and almost equally painful recovery, moral humiliation and moral degradation - this is what is constantly in the center of the writer's attention.

FUNERAL WORD

The author recalls by name his comrades in the camps. Calling to mind a mournful martyrology, he tells who died and how, who suffered and how, who hoped for what, who and how behaved in this Auschwitz without stoves, as Shalamov called the Kolyma camps. Few managed to survive, few managed to survive and remain morally unbroken.

THE LIFE OF ENGINEER KIPREEVA

Having never betrayed or sold anyone, the author says that he has developed for himself a formula for actively protecting his existence: a person can only consider himself a person and survive if he is ready to commit suicide at any moment, ready to die. However, later he realizes that he only built himself a comfortable shelter, because it is not known what you will be like at a decisive moment, whether you just have enough physical strength, and not just mental. Arrested in 1938, the engineer-physicist Kipreev not only withstood the beating during interrogation, but even rushed at the investigator, after which he was put in a punishment cell. However, they still try to get him to sign false testimony, intimidating him with the arrest of his wife. Nevertheless, Kipreev continued to prove to himself and others that he was a man, and not a slave, as all prisoners are. Thanks to his talent (he invented a way to restore burnt out light bulbs, repaired an X-ray machine), he manages to avoid the most difficult work, but not always. He miraculously survives, but the moral shock remains in him forever.

FOR A PRESENTATION

Camp corruption, Shalamov testifies, affected everyone to a greater or lesser extent and took place in a variety of forms. Two thieves are playing cards. One of them is played down and asks to play for a "representation", that is, in debt. At some point, irritated by the game, he unexpectedly orders an ordinary intellectual prisoner, who happened to be among the spectators of their game, to hand over a woolen sweater. He refuses, and then one of the thieves “finishes” him, and the thieves still get the sweater.

AT NIGHT

Two prisoners sneak to the grave where the body of their deceased comrade was buried in the morning, and remove the linen from the dead man in order to sell or exchange it for bread or tobacco the next day. The initial squeamishness about the removed clothes is replaced by a pleasant thought that tomorrow they might be able to eat a little more and even smoke.

SINGLE MEASUREMENT

Camp labor, unequivocally defined by Shalamov as slave labor, is for the writer a form of the same corruption. A goner-prisoner is not able to give a percentage rate, so labor becomes torture and slow mortification. Zek Dugaev is gradually weakening, unable to withstand the sixteen-hour working day. He drives, turns, pours, again drives and again turns, and in the evening the caretaker appears and measures Dugaev's work with a tape measure. The mentioned figure - 25 percent - seems to Dugaev to be very large, his calves are aching, his arms, shoulders, head are unbearably sore, he even lost his sense of hunger. A little later, he is called to the investigator, who asks the usual questions: name, surname, article, term. A day later, the soldiers take Dugaev to a remote place, fenced with a high fence with barbed wire, from where the chirring of tractors can be heard at night. Dugaev guesses why he was brought here and that his life is over. And he regrets only that the last day was in vain.

RAIN

SHERRY BRANDY

A prisoner-poet, who was called the first Russian poet of the twentieth century, dies. It lies in the dark depths of the bottom row of solid two-story bunks. He dies for a long time. Sometimes a thought comes - for example, that they stole bread from him, which he put under his head, and it is so scary that he is ready to swear, fight, search ... But he no longer has the strength for this, and the thought of bread too weakens. When a daily ration is put into his hand, he presses the bread to his mouth with all his strength, sucks it, tries to tear and gnaw with scurvy loose teeth. When he dies, two more annas do not write him off, and inventive neighbors manage to get bread for the dead man as if they were alive: they make him raise his hand like a puppet doll.

SHOCK THERAPY

Prisoner Merzlyakov, a man of large build, finds himself at common work, feels that he is gradually losing. One day he falls, cannot get up immediately and refuses to drag the log. He is beaten first by his own people, then by the escorts, they bring him to the camp - he has a broken rib and pain in the lower back. And although the pain quickly passed, and the rib grew together, Merzlyakov continues to complain and pretends that he cannot straighten up, trying to delay his discharge to work at any cost. He is sent to the central hospital, to the surgical department, and from there to the nervous department for research. He has a chance to be activated, that is, written off due to illness at will. Remembering the mine, aching cold, a bowl of empty soup, which he drank, without even using a spoon, he concentrates all his will so as not to be caught cheating and sent to a penal mine. However, the doctor Pyotr Ivanovich, himself a prisoner in the past, did not miss. The professional replaces the human in him. He spends most of his time exposing the fakers. This amuses his vanity: he is an excellent specialist and is proud that he has retained his qualifications, despite the year of general work. He immediately understands that Merzlyakov is a simulator and looks forward to the theatrical effect of a new exposure. First, the doctor gives him a round anesthesia, during which Merzlyakov's body can be straightened, and a week later, the procedure of the so-called shock therapy, the effect of which is similar to an attack of violent madness or an epileptic seizure. After it, the prisoner himself asks to be discharged.

TYPHOSIS QUARANTINE

Prisoner Andreev, ill with typhus, is quarantined. Compared to general work in the mines, the position of the patient gives a chance to survive, which the hero almost no longer hoped for. And then he decides, by hook or by crook, to stay here as long as possible, in transit, and there, perhaps, he will no longer be sent to the gold mines, where there is hunger, beatings and death. At the roll call before the next dispatch to work of those who are considered recovered, Andreev does not respond, and thus he manages to hide for quite a long time. The transit is gradually emptying, and the line finally reaches Andreev as well. But now it seems to him that he has won his battle for life, that now the taiga is full, and if there are shipments, then only for nearby, local business trips. However, when a truck with a selected group of prisoners who were unexpectedly given winter uniforms passes the line separating short trips from long ones, he realizes with an internal shudder that fate has cruelly laughed at him.

ANEURYSM OF THE AORTIC

Illness (and the emaciated state of the “goal” prisoners is quite tantamount to a serious illness, although it was not officially considered as such) and the hospital are an indispensable attribute of the plot in Shalamov’s stories. Ekaterina Glovatskaya, a prisoner, is admitted to the hospital. Beauty, she immediately liked the doctor on duty Zaitsev, and although he knows that she is in close relations with his acquaintance, the prisoner Podshivalov, the head of the amateur art circle, (“the serf theater,” as the head of the hospital jokes), nothing prevents him in turn try your luck. He begins, as usual, with a medical examination of Głowacka, with listening to the heart, but his male interest is quickly replaced by a purely medical concern. He finds an aortic aneurysm in Glovatsky, a disease in which any careless movement can cause death. The authorities, who took it as an unwritten rule to separate lovers, had already once sent Glovatskaya to a penal female mine. And now, after the doctor's report about the prisoner's dangerous illness, the head of the hospital is sure that this is nothing more than the machinations of the same Podshivalov, who is trying to detain his mistress. Glovatskaya is discharged, but already when loading into the car, what Dr. Zaitsev warned about happens - she dies.

LAST FIGHT OF MAJOR PUGACHEV

Among the heroes of Shalamov's prose there are those who not only strive to survive at any cost, but are also able to intervene in the course of circumstances, to stand up for themselves, even risking their lives. According to the author, after the war of 1941-1945. prisoners who fought and passed German captivity began to arrive in the northeastern camps. These are people of a different temper, “with courage, the ability to take risks, who believed only in weapons. Commanders and soldiers, pilots and scouts…”. But most importantly, they possessed the instinct of freedom, which the war awakened in them. They shed their blood, sacrificed their lives, saw death face to face. They were not corrupted by camp slavery and were not yet exhausted to the point of losing their strength and will. Their “guilt” was that they were surrounded or captured. And it is clear to Major Pugachev, one of those people who have not yet been broken: "they were brought to their death - to replace these living dead" whom they met in Soviet camps. Then the former major gathers just as determined and strong, to match, prisoners who are ready to either die or become free. In their group - pilots, scout, paramedic, tanker. They realized that they were innocently doomed to death and that they had nothing to lose. All winter they are preparing an escape. Pugachev realized that only those who bypassed the general work could survive the winter and then run away. And the participants in the conspiracy, one by one, advance into the service: someone becomes a cook, someone a cultist who repairs weapons in the security detachment. But spring is coming, and with it the day ahead.

At five o'clock in the morning there was a knock on the watch. The attendant lets in the prisoner camp cook, who has come, as usual, for the keys to the pantry. A minute later, the duty officer is strangled, and one of the prisoners changes into his uniform. The same thing happens with another, who returned a little later on duty. Then everything goes according to Pugachev's plan. The conspirators break into the premises of the guard detachment and, having shot the guard on duty, take possession of the weapon. Keeping the suddenly awakened fighters at gunpoint, they change into military uniforms and stock up on provisions. Leaving the camp, they stop the truck on the highway, drop off the driver and continue on their way in the car until the gas runs out. After that, they will go to the taiga. At night - the first night at liberty after long months of captivity - Pugachev, waking up, recalls his escape from the German camp in 1944, crossing the front line, interrogation in a special department, accusation of espionage and sentence - twenty-five years in prison. He also recalls the visits to the German camp of the emissaries of General Vlasov, who recruited Russian soldiers, convincing them that for the Soviet authorities all of them, who were captured, are traitors to the Motherland. Pugachev did not believe them until he could see for himself. He lovingly looks over his sleeping comrades who believe in him and stretch out their hands to freedom, he knows that they are “the best, worthy of all *. A little later, a fight breaks out, the last hopeless fight between the fugitives and the soldiers surrounding them. Almost all of the fugitives die, except for one, seriously wounded, who is cured and then shot. Only Major Pugachev manages to escape, but he knows, hiding in a bear's lair, that he will be found anyway. He doesn't regret what he did. His last shot was at himself.

Consider Shalamov's collection, on which he worked from 1954 to 1962. Let's describe its brief content. "Kolyma stories" - a collection, the plot of which is a description of the camp and prison life prisoners of the Gulag, their tragic destinies, similar to one another, in which chance rules. The author constantly focuses on hunger and satiety, painful dying and recovery, exhaustion, moral humiliation and degradation. You will learn more about the issues raised by Shalamov by reading the summary. "Kolyma Tales" is a collection that is a reflection of what the author experienced and saw over the 17 years he spent in prison (1929-1931) and Kolyma (from 1937 to 1951). The photo of the author is presented below.

Gravestone

The author recalls his comrades from the camps. We will not list their names, as we are compiling a summary. "Kolyma stories" is a collection in which artistry and documentary are intertwined. However, all the murderers are given real names in the stories.

Continuing the story, the author describes how the prisoners died, what torments they endured, speaks of their hopes and behavior in "Auschwitz without ovens", as Shalamov called the Kolyma camps. Few managed to survive, but few survived and did not break morally.

"The Life of Engineer Kipreev"

Let us dwell on the following curious story, which we could not help but describe, making up a summary. "Kolyma Tales" is a collection in which the author, who has not sold or betrayed anyone, says that he has worked out a formula for protecting his own existence. It consists in the fact that a person can survive if he is ready to die at any moment, he can commit suicide. But later he realizes that he only built a comfortable shelter for himself, since it is not known what you will become at a decisive moment, whether you will have enough not only mental strength, but also physical.

Kipreev, an engineer-physicist arrested in 1938, not only was able to withstand the interrogation with a beating, but even attacked the investigator, as a result of which he was put in a punishment cell. But all the same, they are trying to get him to give false testimony, threatening to arrest his wife. Nevertheless, Kipreev continues to prove to everyone that he is not a slave, like all prisoners, but a man. Thanks to his talent (he fixed the broken one and found a way to restore burnt out light bulbs), this hero manages to avoid the most difficult work, but not always. It is only by a miracle that he survives, but the moral shock does not let him go.

"For the show"

Shalamov, who wrote the Kolyma Tales, a brief summary of which interests us, testifies that the camp corruption affected everyone to one degree or another. It was carried out in various forms. Let us describe in a few words one more work from the collection "Kolyma stories" - "On the show". A summary of his story is as follows.

Two thieves play cards. One loses and asks to play on credit. Exasperated at some point, he orders an unexpectedly imprisoned intellectual, who happened to be among the spectators, to hand over his sweater. He refuses. One of the thieves "finishes" him, and the thieves get the sweater anyway.

"At night"

We turn to the description of another work from the collection "Kolyma stories" - "At night". A brief summary of it, in our opinion, will also be interesting to the reader.

Two prisoners sneak to the grave. The body of their comrade was buried here in the morning. They take off the dead man's linen in order to exchange it tomorrow for tobacco or bread, or sell it. Disgust for the clothes of the deceased is replaced by the thought that perhaps tomorrow they will be able to smoke or eat a little more.

There are a lot of works in the collection "Kolyma stories". "Carpenters", the summary of which we have omitted, follows the story "Night". We invite you to familiarize yourself with it. The product is small in size. The format of one article, unfortunately, does not allow describing all the stories. Also, a very small work from the collection "Kolyma stories" - "Berries". A summary of the main and most interesting, in our opinion, stories is presented in this article.

"Single freeze"

Defined by the author as slave camp labor - another form of corruption. The prisoner, exhausted by him, cannot work out the norm, labor turns into torture and leads to slow death. Dugaev, the convict, is getting weaker and weaker because of the 16-hour working day. He pours, kaylit, carries. In the evening, the caretaker measures what he has done. The figure of 25%, named by the caretaker, seems very large to Dugaev. His hands, head, aching calves are unbearable. The prisoner does not even feel hunger anymore. Later, he is called to the investigator. He asks: "Name, surname, term, article." The soldiers take the prisoner every other day to a remote place surrounded by a fence with barbed wire. At night, the sound of tractors can be heard from here. Dugaev guesses why he was brought here, and understands that life is over. He regrets only that he suffered in vain for an extra day.

"Rain"

You can talk for a very long time about such a collection as Kolyma Tales. A summary of the chapters of the works is for informational purposes only. We bring to your attention the following story - "Rain".

"Sherri Brandy"

The poet-prisoner, who was considered the first poet of the 20th century in our country, dies. He lies on the bunk, in the depths of their bottom row. The poet dies for a long time. Sometimes a thought comes to him, for example, that someone stole bread from him, which the poet put under his head. He is ready to seek, fight, swear... However, he no longer has the strength to do so. When a daily ration is put into his hand, he presses the bread to his mouth with all his strength, sucks it, tries to gnaw and tear with loose scurvy teeth. When a poet dies, he is not written off for another 2 days. During the distribution, the neighbors manage to get bread for him as if it were alive. They arrange for him to raise his hand like a puppet.

"Shock therapy"

Merzlyakov, one of the heroes of the collection "Kolmysk Stories", a summary of which we are considering, a convict of large build, understands that he is failing at general work. He falls, cannot get up and refuses to take the log. First, he is beaten by his own, then by the escorts. He is brought to the camp with lower back pain and a broken rib. After recovering, Merzlyakov does not stop complaining and pretends that he cannot straighten up. He does this in order to delay the discharge. He is sent to the surgical department of the central hospital, and then to the nervous one for research. Merzlyakov has a chance to be written off due to illness. He tries his best not to be exposed. But Pyotr Ivanovich, a doctor, himself a former convict, exposes him. Everything human in him replaces the professional. He spends the bulk of his time precisely exposing those who feign. Pyotr Ivanovich is looking forward to the effect that the case with Merzlyakov will produce. The doctor first makes him anesthetized, during which he manages to unbend Merzlyakov's body. A week later, the patient is prescribed shock therapy, after which he asks to be discharged himself.

"Typhoid Quarantine"

Andreev enters quarantine, having contracted typhus. The position of the patient compared to the work in the mines gives him a chance to survive, which he hardly hoped for. Then Andreev decides to stay here as long as possible, and then, perhaps, he will no longer be sent to the gold mines, where death, beatings, hunger. Andreev does not respond to the roll call before sending the recovered to work. He manages to hide in this way for quite a long time. The transit line is gradually emptying, and finally Andreev's turn comes. But now it seems to him that he has won the battle for life, and if now there will be dispatches, then only for local, close business trips. But when a truck with a group of prisoners who were suddenly given winter uniforms crosses the line separating long-distance and short-range business trips, Andreev realizes that fate has laughed at him.

In the photo below - on the house in Vologda, where Shalamov lived.

"Aortic Aneurysm"

In Shalamov's stories, illness and hospital are an indispensable attribute of the plot. Ekaterina Glovatskaya, a prisoner, is taken to the hospital. This beauty immediately attracted Zaitsev, the doctor on duty. He knows that she is in a relationship with the convict Podshivalov, his acquaintance, who leads the local amateur art circle, the doctor still decides to try his luck. As usual, he begins with a medical examination of the patient, with auscultation of the heart. However, male interest is replaced by medical concern. In Glovatsky, he discovers This is a disease in which every careless movement can provoke death. The authorities, who made it a rule to separate lovers, once sent the girl to a penal female mine. The head of the hospital, after the doctor's report about her illness, is sure that these are the machinations of Podshivalov, who wants to detain his mistress. The girl is discharged, but she dies during loading, which Zaitsev warned about.

"Major Pugachev's last fight"

The author testifies that after the Great Patriotic War prisoners began to arrive in the camps, who fought and went through captivity. These people are of a different temper: able to take risks, courageous. They only believe in weapons. Camp slavery did not corrupt them, they were not yet exhausted to the point of losing their will and strength. Their "guilt" was that these prisoners were captured or surrounded. It was clear to one of them, Major Pugachev, that they had been brought here to die. Then he gathers strong and determined, to match himself, prisoners who are ready to die or become free. Escape is prepared all winter. Pugachev realized that after surviving the winter, only those who managed to bypass the common work could escape. One by one, the participants in the conspiracy are moving into service. One of them becomes a cook, the other becomes a cult trader, the third repairs weapons for the guards.

One spring day, at 5 am, they knocked on the watch. The attendant admits the prisoner-cook, who, as usual, came for the keys to the pantry. The cook strangles him, and another prisoner changes into his uniform. The same thing happens with other attendants who returned a little later. Then everything happens according to Pugachev's plan. The conspirators burst into the security room and take possession of the weapon, shooting the guard on duty. They stock up on provisions and put on military uniforms, holding suddenly awakened fighters at gunpoint. Leaving the territory of the camp, they stop the truck on the highway, drop the driver off and drive until the gas runs out. Then they go to the taiga. Pugachev, waking up at night after many months of captivity, recalls how in 1944 he escaped from a German camp, crossed the front line, survived interrogation in a special department, after which he was accused of espionage and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He also recalls how emissaries of General Vlasov came to the German camp, who recruited Russians, convincing them that the captured soldiers for the Soviet regime were traitors to the Motherland. Then Pugachev did not believe them, but soon he himself was convinced of this. He looks lovingly at his comrades sleeping beside him. A little later, a hopeless battle ensues with the soldiers who surrounded the fugitives. Almost all of the prisoners die, except for one, who is cured after a severe wound in order to be shot. Only Pugachev manages to escape. He is hiding in a bear den, but he knows that they will find him too. He does not regret what he did. His last shot is to himself.

So, we examined the main stories from the collection, authored by Varlam Shalamov ("Kolyma stories"). The summary introduces the reader to the main events. You can read more about them on the pages of the work. The collection was first published in 1966 by Varlam Shalamov. "Kolyma Tales", a summary of which you now know, appeared on the pages of the New York edition of "New Journal".

In New York in 1966, only 4 stories were published. The following year, 1967, 26 stories by this author, mostly from the collection we are interested in, were translated into German in the city of Cologne. During his lifetime, Shalamov never published the collection "Kolyma Tales" in the USSR. The summary of all chapters, unfortunately, is not included in the format of one article, since there are a lot of stories in the collection. Therefore, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the rest.

"Condensed milk"

In addition to those described above, we will tell about one more work from the collection "Kolyma Stories" - Its summary is as follows.

Shestakov, an acquaintance of the narrator, did not work at the mine in the face, since he was a geological engineer, and he was taken to the office. He met with the narrator and said that he wanted to take the workers and go to the Black Keys, to the sea. And although the latter understood that this was not feasible (the path to the sea is very long), he nevertheless agreed. The narrator reasoned that Shestakov probably wants to hand over all those who will participate in this. But the promised condensed milk (to overcome the path, it was necessary to eat) bribed him. Going to Shestakov's, he ate two cans of this delicacy. And then suddenly he said that he had changed his mind. A week later, other workers fled. Two of them were killed, three were tried a month later. And Shestakov was transferred to another mine.

We recommend reading other works in the original. Shalamov wrote Kolyma Tales very talentedly. The summary ("Berries", "Rain" and "Children's Pictures" we also recommend reading in the original) conveys only the plot. The author's style, artistic merits can only be appreciated by getting acquainted with the work itself.

Not included in the collection "Kolyma stories" "Sentence". We did not describe the summary of this story for this reason. However, this work is one of the most mysterious in Shalamov's work. Fans of his talent will be interested to get acquainted with him.