Viy summary for the reader's diary. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. If he hadn't looked...

The most anticipated event for seminarians is graduation from the seminary. Small groups of seminarians leave Kyiv, earning food by singing spiritual songs in rich farms.

Three seminarians - Khalyava, Khoma Brut and Tiberiy Gorobets lose their way in the darkness and go out to the farm. The old mistress allows the seminarians to spend the night, but on one condition - everyone will sleep in a separate place. Homa Brutus gets the sheepshed. Trying to sleep, Brutus notices that an old woman has entered the barn. She flashes her eyes, catches Brutus and climbs onto his shoulders. Khoma realizes that this is a witch, but she is already flying with him above the ground. Brutus tries to remember all the prayers, while feeling that the witch is weakening. Dodging, Brutus manages to jump out from under the witch. He immediately jumps on her back, grabs a log and starts beating the old witch with it. She screams and soon falls to the ground, but immediately turns into a young girl who, with deathly groans, lies in front of Brutus. Terrified, Khoma rushes back to Kyiv at full speed.

The rector of the seminary calls Brutus to him and instructs him to go to a distant farm to a rich centurion to read the prayers for the departure - his daughter returned from a walk badly beaten. The last desire of the young girl was for Khoma to read the waste on her for three days. So that he would not slip away along the road, a wagon and 6 big men were sent especially for him. When Khoma gets to the farm, the centurion is curious about how he knows his daughter and where they met. Brutus himself does not know this, but when he approaches the coffin, he recognizes the witch in the dead girl.

During dinner, Homa listens to many stories about the tricks of the young witch. Towards nightfall, he is taken to a church with a coffin, where he is locked up. He approaches the choir to read prayers and draws a circle around him. While reading the prayers, the witch rises from the coffin, but cannot cross the line of the circle. She lays down in a coffin and begins to fly in it, but Khoma is protected by prayers and a circle. The coffin falls and the green cadaverous body of the witch emerges from it, but the crowing of the rooster causes the witch to fall back into the coffin. The lid closes.

During the day, Khoma sleeps, drinks and wanders around the farm, but the closer the evening, the fatter he becomes. In the evening he is taken back to church. There he again draws a circle around himself and begins to read a prayer aloud. The corpse of the witch is already very close, she stands and looks at him with her dead eyes, muttering curses and spells, whose power generates wind inside the church, and a horde of evil spirits begins to break in the door. But, with the first cock crow, evil recedes again. Khoma becomes gray-haired from fear, and in the morning he is found barely alive. Homa begs the centurion to let him go, but he does not give in to persuasion and only threatens terrible punishment for disobedience. Then Homa decides to run away, but gets caught.

The third and final night is coming. The unbearable silence inside the church is broken by the clang of an iron coffin lid. The witch clatters her teeth, screeches her spells, doors fall off their hinges and a horde of various monsters makes their way inside, bringing the sound of wings and scratching of claws. With the rest of his strength, Homa reads prayers.

The witch demands that Viy be brought to her. A terrible short monster with an iron face enters the church with heavy steps. This leader of evil spirits orders to raise his iron eyelids. Khoma's inner voice tells him not to look, but he can't help himself and looks. Viy points at Khoma with his finger and says: “Here he is!” Immediately all the evil spirits rush to Khoma and the spirit leaves his body. The church remains for ever and ever with evil spirits stuck in the windows and doors, overgrown with weeds and now no one will ever find a way to it.

Khoma's friends - Tiberius and Freebie learn about his fate and begin to commemorate him in Kyiv. After the third glass, the friends come to the conclusion that the philosopher died because of fear.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - the most filmed work of the writer.

The most long-awaited event for the seminary is the vacancies, when the bursaks (state-run seminarians) go home. In groups they are sent from Kyiv along the high road, earning their livelihood with spiritual chants in wealthy farms.

Three bursaks: the theologian Khalyava, the philosopher Khoma Brut and the rhetorician Tiberius Gorobets, having lost their way in the night, go out to the farm. The old hostess lets the Bursaks spend the night on the condition that they put everyone in different places.

Khoma Brutus is about to fall asleep like a dead man in an empty sheepshed, when suddenly an old woman enters. With sparkling eyes, she catches Homa and jumps onto his shoulders. “Hey, yes, this is a witch,” the student guesses, but he is already rushing above the ground, sweat is rolling off him in a hail. He begins to remember all the prayers and feels that the witch is weakening at the same time. With the speed of lightning, Khoma manages to jump out from under the old woman, jumps on her back, picks up a log and begins to walk around the witch. Wild cries are heard, the old woman falls to the ground in exhaustion - and now a young beauty lies with her last moans in front of Khoma. In fear, the student starts running at full speed and returns to Kyiv.

Khoma is summoned by the rector and ordered to go to a distant farm to the richest centurion - to read the prayers for his daughter, who returned from a beaten walk. Panna's dying wish: the seminarian Khoma Brut should read the last three nights on her.

So that he would not run away along the road, a wagon and six healthy Kozaks were sent. When the bursak is brought in, the centurion asks him where he met his daughter. But Khoma himself does not know this. When they bring him to the coffin, he recognizes the same witch in the pannochka.
At dinner, the student listens to the stories of the Kozakovs about the tricks of the lady-witch. By nightfall, he is locked up in the church where the coffin stands. Khoma goes to the kliros and begins to read prayers. The witch gets up from the coffin, but stumbles upon the circle outlined by Homa around herself. She returns to the coffin, flies around the church in it, but loud prayers and a circle protect Khoma. The coffin falls, a green corpse rises from it, but a distant cock crow is heard. The witch falls into the coffin and the lid slams shut.

During the day, the bursak sleeps, drinks vodka, wanders around the village, and in the evening he becomes more and more thoughtful. They take him back to church. He draws a lifeline, reads aloud and raises his head. The corpse is already standing nearby, staring at him with dead, green eyes. The wind carries the terrible words of witch spells through the church, countless evil spirits are breaking in the doors. The crowing of a rooster again stops the demons
action. Homa, who has become gray-haired, is found barely alive in the morning. He asks the centurion to let him go, but he threatens with a terrible punishment for disobedience. Homa tries to run, but he is caught.

The silence of the third hellish night inside the church explodes with the crack of the iron lid of the coffin. The witch's teeth chatter, spells screech, doors are ripped off their hinges, and a myriad of monsters fill the room with the sound of wings and the scratching of claws. Khoma is already singing prayers with the last of his strength. "Bring Viy!" the witch screams. A squat clubfoot monster with an iron face, the leader of evil spirits, enters the church with heavy steps. He orders to raise his eyelids. "Don't look!" - hears Khoma's inner voice, but does not hold back and looks. "Here he is!" Viy points at him with an iron finger. The impure force rushes at the philosopher, and the spirit flies out of him. For the second time the rooster crows, the first one was listened to by the spirits. They run away, but they don't make it. So the church remains forever standing with monsters stuck in the doors and windows, overgrown with weeds, and no one will find a way to it now.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a famous Russian writer. His works are familiar to us from the school bench. We all remember his "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", "Dead Souls" and other famous creations. In 1835, Gogol finished his mystical story Viy. The summary of the work presented in this article will help to refresh the main points of the plot. The story stands apart in the work of the writer. Viy is an ancient Slavic demonic creature. It could kill with just one look. His image was embodied in his story by Gogol. The work "Viy" at one time was not appreciated by critics. Belinsky called the story "fantastic", devoid of useful content. But Nikolai Vasilyevich himself attached great importance to this work. He remade it several times, removing the details of the description of the terrible fairy-tale creatures that killed the main character. The story was published in the collection "Mirgorod".

"Viy", Gogol ( summary): introduction

The most long-awaited event for the students at the Kyiv Seminary is vacancies, when all students go home. They go home in groups, earning money along the way with spiritual chants. Three bursaks: the philosopher Khoma Brut, the theologian Freebie and the rhetorician Tiberius Gorodets - go astray. At night, they go out to an abandoned farm, where they knock on the first hut with a request to be allowed to spend the night. The hostess, the old woman, agrees to let them in on the condition that they lie down in different places. She determines Khoma Brutus to spend the night in an empty sheepshed. Not having time to close his eyes, the student sees an old woman entering him. Her gaze seems sinister to him. He understands that before him is a witch. The old woman comes up to him and quickly jumps on his shoulders. Before the philosopher has time to come to his senses, he is already flying through the night sky with a witch on his back. Khoma tries to whisper prayers and feels that the old woman is weakening at the same time. Having chosen the moment, he slips out from under the cursed witch, sits on her and begins to walk around her with a log. Exhausted, the old woman falls to the ground, and the philosopher continues to beat her. Groans are heard, and Khoma Brut sees that a young beauty is lying in front of him. In fear, he runs away.

"Viy", Gogol (summary): development of events

Soon the rector of the seminary calls Khoma to him and informs him that a rich centurion from a distant farm has sent a wagon and six healthy Cossacks for him to take the seminarian to read prayers over his deceased daughter, who returned from a beaten walk. When the bursak is brought to the farm, the centurion asks him where he could meet his daughter. After all last wish pannochki - so that the seminarian Khoma Brut read the waste on it. Bursak says he does not know his daughter. But when he sees her in a coffin, he notes with fear that this is the same witch whom he was guarding with a log. At dinner, the villagers tell Khoma different stories about the dead lady. Many of them noticed that hell was going on with her. By nightfall, the seminarian is taken to the church where the coffin stands, and they lock him up there. Approaching the kliros, Khoma draws a protective circle around him and begins to recite prayers aloud. By midnight, the witch rises from the coffin and tries to find the bursak. The protective circle prevents her from doing so. Khoma reads prayers with his last breath. Then a rooster crow is heard, and the witch returns to the coffin. Its lid closes. The next day the seminarian asks the centurion to let him go home. When he refuses this request, he tries to escape from the farm. They catch him and by nightfall they again take him to the church and lock him up. There, Khoma, before he had time to draw a circle, sees that the witch has risen from the coffin again and walks around the church - looking for him. She casts spells. But the circle again does not allow her to catch the philosopher. Brutus hears how an uncountable army of evil spirits is breaking into the church. With the last of his strength, he reads prayers. A cock crow is heard, and everything disappears. In the morning Khoma is taken out of the church gray-haired.

"Viy", Gogol (summary): denouement

The time has come for the third night of prayer reading by the seminarian in the church. All the same circle protects Homa. The witch is on a rampage. bursting into the church, trying to find and seize the bursak. The latter continues to read prayers, trying not to look at the spirits. Then the witch shouts: "Bring Viy!" Walking heavily, a squat monster with large eyelids covering his eyes enters the church. An inner voice tells Khoma that it is impossible to look at Viy. The monster demands that his eyelids be opened. Evil spirits rush to carry out this order. The seminarian, unable to resist, casts a glance at Viy. He notices him and points at him with an iron finger. All evil spirits rush to Homa, who immediately gives up the spirit. A cock crow is heard. The monsters rush out of the church. But this is the second cry, the first they did not hear. The evil spirit does not have time to leave. The church remains standing with the evil spirit stuck in the cracks. No one else will come here. After all these events, Freebie and Tiberius Gorodets, having learned about the plight of Khoma, commemorate the soul of the departed. They conclude that he died from fear.

The work "Viy" is not included in the compulsory program for the study of literature in secondary schools. But we are very interested in it. This mystical story allows you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of ancient fairy tale legends (here is a brief retelling of it). "Viy" Gogol wrote more than a century and a half ago. Then the work caused a lot of rumors and conversations. Nowadays, it is read with no less trepidation.

The most terrible, according to many readers, the story of N.V. Gogol - "Viy" - first saw the light in the collection "Mirgorod", published in 1835. In terms of subject matter and style, it clearly differs from other works, because they are historical in nature, like Taras Bulba, or everyday, like The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich.

The author borrowed the basis of the plot from Ukrainian folklore, for he himself was originally from Ukraine by nationality. However, the folklore, fairy-tale tradition is only an external canvas, on which Gogol “embroiders” his own patterns. So he himself was somewhat cunning when, in a note to the publication of the story, he indicated that he decided to tell the folklore story to readers almost in the same form in which he himself had heard it once.

By 1835, the author of The Inspector General and Dead Souls had not yet ceased to be a romantic in terms of writing and artistic style. Thus, taking the fairy-tale folklore plot as a basis, Gogol developed it in a new, original way, introduced new episodes into the fabric of the text, detailed descriptions of the scene and characteristics of the main characters.

The style of the work

It is impossible not to pay attention to the fact that, in terms of style and figurative system, Gogol's "Viy" adjoins those of his stories that formed the basis of his first collection - "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". Motives associated with the appearance of evil spirits are found in "May Night", "Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala" and especially in "Terrible Revenge".

How do you get past...

In Soviet times, the film adaptation of “Viya” became a huge event, where the “Caucasian Captive” actress Natalya Varley shone in the role of the pannochka-witch. However, she remembered this role for a long time - after all, then she had to repent for participating in the film and for agreeing to such a role. After all, contact with evil spirits and diabolism rarely goes unnoticed even for a strong-willed person.

The most anticipated event for the seminary is vacancies. There comes a time when the Bursaks are sent home. And then in large groups they disperse from Kyiv in all directions. If the path is not short, then you have to earn a living with spiritual chants. It especially makes sense to do this when passing through more or less prosperous farms. Three friends - the theologian Khalyava, rhetorician Tiberius Gorobets and seminarian Khoma Brut - lost their way due to the onset of night. They are allowed to spend the night by an old woman on the outskirts of the farm, but she sets the condition that everyone should lie down in different places.

Fight with a witch

Khoma was given a place in the sheepshed. He had already begun to go to sleep, when suddenly the old mistress appears, who turns out to be a real witch. She deftly jumps Khoma onto his shoulders. Seconds - and both of them soar into the sky. Home is hard, sweat rolls off him in hail. He has to remember various prayers and shout them out loud in a shaky voice. There is an effect - the witch begins to weaken. They change places. Now Khoma is riding the old woman. He grabs a log that has fallen under his arm and, with all his strength, begins to woo the witch with it. The old woman falls to the ground dead, uttering several wild screams. And suddenly she turns into a fatal beauty. Terrified, Khoma hurries away. He returns to Kyiv.

After some time, the rector calls him and orders him to go to a distant farm, where a certain rich centurion lives, whose only beloved daughter recently died. Before her death, she ordered the funeral prayers to be read for it to the Bursak Khoma Brutus. Homa is trying to resist the boss's will, feeling some kind of catch. However, he does not have to choose - the centurion sent several healthy Cossacks to accompany the bursak.

Terrible discovery

Upon arrival Khoma appears to the centurion. He asks where he met his late daughter. Khoma replies that he has no idea about her. And only when he approaches the coffin, he immediately realizes with horror that in front of him is the witch he killed. At dinner, Khoma had heard enough of the stories of the Cossacks about what the lady did during her lifetime, and his blood freezes in his veins at the mere thought that he would have to be left alone with the coffin of this devil for three whole nights.

And now it's time for the first night. The church where the coffin stands is tightly locked. Khoma begins his direct duties, approaches the kliros, and from there begins to read the prescribed prayers. The witch at first does not show any signs of life, but then rises from the coffin, begins to rush around the church.

Intuitively, Khoma understands that he can only be saved if he draws a chalk circle around him, which he does exactly. The witch is angry and raging, but she can't do anything. Therefore, he changes tactics - he returns to the coffin, he rises into the air and flies around the church, but all in vain - loud prayers and a circle reliably protect Khoma from evil spirits. The coffin falls. A greenish corpse rises from it. There is a distant crowing of a rooster, heralding the coming of morning. The witch falls back into the coffin and the lid slams shut behind her.

She is no longer alone!

During the day, Khoma tries to come to his senses, then sleeps, then takes a vodka, then wanders aimlessly around the farm. However, it is not possible to unwind and drive away gloomy thoughts. The closer to the evening, the more thoughtful Homa becomes.

In the evening he is again taken to the church and locked up there. He again draws a saving circle, begins to read prayers loudly. When he looks up from his book, the witch is already standing beside him. The witch also hisses her spells. They are echoed by other evil spirits bursting at the door. And the second time the rooster crow puts an end to the rampant demonic action.

Khoma turned gray during that night. He is found barely alive. Homa begs the centurion to let him go in peace, fearing that he will not survive the third night. However, the centurion threatens to pour lashes on Khoma if he decides to disobey and run away. And although he really tries to run, he does not run far. He is caught and brought back.

If he hadn't looked...

On the third night, the iron lid of the coffin shatters to the sides. The witch clatters her teeth in anger, her screeching spells are heard throughout the church chapel, calling for the help of ghouls and ghouls. Finally, the doors of the church are nevertheless torn off their hinges, and the entire interior space is filled with a host, where one another is more disgusting. Noisy wings, scratching of claws is heard.

Gathering the last of his strength, Khoma continues to read prayers. The witch calls for help Viy - a squat clubfoot monster with an iron face. He is considered the leader of all evil spirits. With heavy steps, Viy enters the church and orders him to lift his eyelids.

You can also read the summary. This work is considered one of the most mystical works of Gogol.

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An inner voice whispers to Khoma not to raise his eyes. However, curiosity overcomes horror - Homa raises his eyes and they meet the eyes of Viy. He points to Homa. The chalk circle magic no longer works. The whole host of evil spirits rushes at the philosopher and he falls dead.

Desecrated church and commemoration

Behind all these events, the rooster crowed for the second time. Demons scatter in all directions, but not everyone has time to hide, some get stuck in window openings. The church remains standing, gradually overgrown with weeds and covered with moss. This place in the district is rightly considered cursed. Having learned about the terrible fate of their comrade, Tiberius Gorobets and Freebie decide to commemorate Khoma with vodka. They consider cowardice to be the main reason for his death.

Modern directors also do not lose sight of Gogol's masterpiece. So, already this year, a fundamentally new adaptation of the story was released, filmed a few years ago, but, apparently, due to financial difficulties, it was not released on a wide release in time. The film is wonderful and original in its own way, however, we have to admit that it has very little to do with Gogol's masterpiece.

The picture was shot in an indefinite, mixed genre - not a thriller, not a psychological detective story. The names of Gogol's characters have been retained, but the plot has been completely rewritten. Therefore, if you decide to watch such a movie, then it is better to represent the original source. This will help in the subsequent comparison, although cinema and literature are still different kinds art.

There are many famous writers who tell the reader horror stories. Of the Western authors, two stand apart: Howard Lovecraft and the modern king of horror - Stephen King. But there is one work in world literature that is more terrible than all the heritage of famous writers put together. Of course, we are talking about the story "Viy" (Gogol). A summary of it will be presented to the reader in this article.

Three students of the Kyiv Theological Seminary

The story begins with a description of the ordinary student life of that time. The writer makes you feel what it is like to be a seminary student in the 19th century. We find the characters just at the moment when classes are over and the young people have been dismissed for the holidays.

As now, in those days, large cities accumulated students who (some less, some more) wanted to study. And, as a rule, they were not Kievans. Which means they had to walk to get home.

Some, however, did not return home at all, finding places for themselves as tutors for the holidays in rich village houses near a large city. Russian Empire. The young people who set out on their journey made a living by singing spiritual songs, and pious peasants brought them bacon, vodka and sometimes invited them to stay.

Three students took a wrong turn and lost their way. Their names are: Freebie (theologian), Khoma Brutus (philosopher) and Tiberius Gorobets (rhetorician).

They already wanted to spend the night in an open field, in which they found themselves, when they suddenly came across an abandoned farm. They began to knock on the gate and got their way: the ancient old woman responded. She told them that her yard was full of guests and there were no places. Young people still begged the grandmother. But the old woman was cunning, she divided the company and put the young people apart from each other.

So begins his story "Viy" Gogol. Its summary does not yet seem so terrible. Wait, the most interesting begins further, when Khoma Brut, tired, almost fell asleep.

An old woman came to his barn. He, being a student and a young man, considered that they visited him in order to have fun. But the grandmother's eyes shone unkindly, and H. Brutus realized that she had come old woman for his life.

Cinematic fight with the old woman

Then everything was like in a movie. The old woman jumps on Khoma's shoulders and, until he comes to his senses, makes him roll her with witchcraft spells. Moreover, the magic is so strong that it raises both the "horse" and the "rider" into the air. The philosopher sweats and remembers prayers. The witch is weakening. The couple falls to the ground. Khoma picks up a log from the ground and begins to beat the old woman mercilessly.

Being near death, the "kind" hostess of the farm turns into a young girl of heavenly beauty. Khoma sees this and, with fright, finds a road that leads him all the way to Kyiv.

This part of the work "Viy" (Gogol) ends intriguingly. The summary is just gaining momentum and moving on.

pan call

The protagonist Khoma is invited by the rector of the theological seminary and says that some wealthy pan is calling for a philosopher. The rector says that his daughter recently came, she was barely alive and ordered that H. Brutus read the last prayers for her.

The student at first, sensing something was wrong, decided to run away, but the rector took the necessary precautions so that the orphan would not go anywhere. In addition, men were sent for the philosopher - the servants of the pan, so that they personally brought him.

In other words, Khoma didn't go anywhere. The men arrived and set off on their way towards the pan. Of course, the road was not without booze. Here N.V. Gogol (“Viy”: a brief summary is the focus of our attention) is extremely realistic.

The main thing is that the Cossacks sent for Khoma almost let him go in drunken courage, but then everything fell apart at the last moment. The story is good because it keeps you in suspense from beginning to end.

Pannochka, it turns out, is a witch!

For some time, Brutus walked around the neighborhood, then he was brought to the pan, who "was waiting for him for a long time." The acquaintance of the employer and the mercenary takes place in a rich room, where there is a coffin with the body of the deceased. Khoma does not dare to look at the girl, but then, when the pan and the hero had already discussed the conditions (the hero will read prayers for 3 days, and the inconsolable father will pay him well), the philosopher nevertheless saw the heavenly beauty of the young maiden, and then the thought came: “ Witch!" Khoma even shouted out this word, since the pan was no longer in the room. He recognized her.

So skillfully twists the plot of the story "Viy" Gogol. The summary continues the main intrigue: will the orphan philosopher withstand the fight with evil spirits?

Terrible stories about a lady instead of parting words. The first day

One thing was good about all this: Khoma was fed and watered completely free of charge. The peasants (the same Cossacks who brought him to the farm) loved to gather in the late afternoon and tell stories. During Khoma's "first shift", of course, the conversation turned to the lady and the question of whether she was a witch or not. The peasants agreed that she knew with the unclean, how to give a drink, she knew. They told two stories about a witch. According to the first, she has exhausted the kennel Mikita. All that was left of him was ash. According to legend, he burned himself alive. And according to another story, the lady drank the blood of a one-year-old baby and killed his mother.

Charged with optimism, Khoma went to the outskirts of the village, to the old rickety church to read prayers for the dead. The summary of the story "Viy" (Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich - its author) enters the phase of furious action.

As S. Dovlatov likes to write, we present the rest of the events of this day in dotted lines. The coffin with the pannochka's body was placed in the church. Khoma was locked up with him. The hero decided to light all the candles so that there was more light, he began to read prayers. The deceased got up and began to walk around the church, as if looking for someone. Homa drew a circle and began to read special spells, which he was taught by a monk who was a great specialist in protection from dark forces.

How much time has passed is unknown, but the night gave way to early morning and the philosopher was encouraged by the first cock crow. Then he was changed. Of course, by that time no one was walking around the church. Khoma fell asleep with difficulty that day and slept until noon.

Second day. The dark force attacks

Everything was the same as yesterday. They locked it up again, and the doomsday began again. This time, Khoma was so scared that it was just creepy. Pannochka this time still could not see Khoma, but she called for help from black energy, performed unclean satanic spells - the church was filled with the noise of the wings of bats and other evil spirits. Khoma was again saved by roosters. True, now, in order to leave the church, the hero needed support. And he was all gray.

Day three. The phenomenon of Viy and the death of the philosopher

On the third day, the hero realized that he might not succeed, went to the pan, laid out everything for him. And he only told him that he knew his daughter, and therefore was her last will. Go, they say, Khoma, but I won’t remain in debt. The hero decided to run away, but the Cossacks stopped him and escorted him to the church.

On the third day, the satanic bacchanalia reached its climax. The evil spirit still circled Khoma, but did not see him. Then the dead lady shouted: “Bring Viy! Follow Vim!

A little reference: Viy is a terrible creature with very heavy eyelids and eyelashes (that's why he says: “Raise my eyelids!”, He himself is not able to cope with this task). His gaze is deadly to humans.

They brought Viy, lifted his eyelids. He saw Homa, and he died of fear. This actually ends the story called "Viy" Gogol. The summary (let everyone understand the meaning of the terrible tale) is also coming to an end. One thing is for sure: there is no special morality in the story told by N.V. Gogol, no.