Title of the work: Wonderful doctor
Alexander Kuprin
Year of writing: 1897
Genre of the work: story
Main characters: Mertsalov- poor man, Elizaveta Ivanovna- his wife, Volodya and Grisha- sons, Pirogov- Professor.
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Plot
Mertsalov fell ill with typhoid fever. All savings went towards treatment. Because of this, the master gave the job of managing the house to someone else. Misfortunes simply surrounded the family. The children began to get sick. One girl died, and infant Masha became seriously ill. Food was scarce. The father of the family did everything necessary, but the situation could not be improved. In desperation, he tried to beg, but received only reproaches and threats. Finding no way out, Mertsalov decides to end his life in the park. Fate presented a meeting with an old man. Hearing the sad story, he helped with funds. He further said that he was a doctor. After the examination, the stranger wrote out a prescription for the patient and gave her more money. The doctor did not answer the question of his name in order to thank him. It soon turned out that this was the famous professor Pirogov. And for the family this incident became a turning point. Everyone rose to their feet.Conclusion (my opinion)
This story is based on real events. Having encountered a lot of suffering along the way, you need to believe that they will come. better times. There are many virtuous people in the world, the main thing is not to despair. Like the professor, doing good should not be given great importance to your person. Selfless help will bring happiness and will be rewarded in the future. The important lesson is that it is illogical to divide people by status. Everyone deserves support and help.Kyiv. The Mertsalov family has been huddled in the damp basement of an old house for more than a year. Most youngest child hungry and screaming in his cradle. An older girl heat, but there is no money for medicine. On New Year's Eve, Mertsalova sends her two eldest sons to the man for whom her husband worked as a manager. The woman hopes that he will help them, but the children are kicked out without giving a penny.
In this terrible fateful year, misfortune after misfortune persistently and mercilessly rained down on Mertsalov and his family.
Mertsalov fell ill with typhus. While he was recovering, another man took his place as manager. All the family’s savings were spent on medicine, and the Mertsalovs had to move to a damp basement. The children started getting sick. One girl died three months ago, and now Mashutka is sick. In search of money for medicine, Mertsalov ran around the whole city, humiliated himself, begged, but did not get a penny.
Having learned that nothing worked out for the children either, Mertsalov leaves.
He was overcome by an uncontrollable desire to run anywhere, to run without looking back, so as not to see the silent despair of a hungry family.
Mertsalov wanders aimlessly around the city and turns into a public garden. There is deep silence here. Mertsalov wants peace, the thought of suicide comes to mind. He almost makes up his mind, but then a short old man in a fur coat sits down next to him. He talks to Mertsalov about New Year's gifts, and he is overcome by a “tide of desperate anger.” The old man, however, is not offended, but asks Mertsalov to tell everything in order.
About ten minutes later, the old man, who turned out to be a doctor, already enters the Mertsalovs’ basement. Money immediately appears for firewood and food. The old man writes out a free prescription and leaves, leaving a few on the table large bills. The name of the wonderful doctor - Professor Pirogov - Mertsalov is found on the label attached to the bottle of medicine.
Since then, “like a beneficent angel descended” into the Mertsalov family. The head of the family finds a job, and the children recover. Fate brings them together with Pirogov only once - at his funeral.
The narrator learns this story from one of the Mertsalov brothers, who became a major employee of the bank.
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- Professor Pirogov- famous doctor. He was very kind and responsive.
- Mertsalov family— poor people who did not have money to buy medicine for their children.
The plight of the Mertsalovs
This story took place in Kyiv, in the second half of the 19th century on Christmas Eve. For a year now, the Mertsalov family has been living in the damp basement of an old house. Emelyan Mertsalov was laid off from his job and his relatives began to live in poverty. The youngest child, who is still lying in the cradle, wants to eat and therefore he screams loudly. His sister, who is a little older than him, has a high fever, but her parents do not have money to buy medicine.
The mother of the family sends her two eldest sons to the manager for whom her husband previously worked, in the hope that he will help them. But the poor boys are driven away without giving them a penny. It should be explained why Mertsalov lost his job. He fell ill with typhus. While the man was being treated, another person was taken in his place. All savings were spent on medicine, so the Mertsalovs had to move to the basement.
One after another, the children began to get sick. One of their girls passed away 3 months ago, and now Masha is also sick. Their father tried to get money: he walked all over the city, begged, humiliated himself, but no one helped him. When the sons returned from the manager with nothing, Mertsalov leaves. He is possessed by a painful desire to run away, to hide somewhere, so as not to see the torment of his relatives.
Meeting with a kind professor
A man simply wanders around the city and ends up in a public garden. There was no one there and silence reigned. Mertsalov wanted to find peace and the thought of suicide arose in his head. He had almost gathered his strength, but suddenly an unfamiliar old man in a fur coat sat down next to him. He starts a conversation with him about New Year's gifts, and from his words Mertsalov is seized with a fit of anger. His interlocutor is not offended by what he said, but only asks him to tell him everything in order.
After 10 minutes, Mertsalov returns home with a mysterious old man, who turned out to be a doctor. With his arrival, firewood and food appear in the house. The good doctor writes out a free prescription for medicine, leaves the family a few large bills and leaves. The Mertsalovs discover the identity of their savior, Professor Pirogov, on a label attached to the medicine.
After the meeting with Pirogov, it was as if grace descended into the Mertsalovs’ house. The father of the family finds himself a new one Good work, and the children are on the mend. They meet their benefactor, Doctor Pirogov, only once - at his funeral. This amazing and truly magical story is told to the narrator by one of the Mertsalov brothers, who holds an important position in the bank.
Test on the story The Wonderful Doctor
A.I.Kuprin
"Wonderful Doctor"
The work was written in 1897. The time of action in the story is the end of the 19th century, the place is Kyiv.
Main characters.
In Kuprin’s work “The Wonderful Doctor,” the author creates a fairly extensive network of main characters. For example, one of them is Emelyan Mertsalov, the father of the Mertsalov family, who worked as a house manager until his illness. The man who rescued Emelyan is Professor Pirogov, whose real prototype is the great physician Pirogov. Emelyan has a wife, Elizaveta Ivanovna, two sons and a daughter.
In Kyiv, two boys, who have not put anything in their mouths for a long time, look at the display case with food, they are hungry.
Their mother sent the children to the city to ask for money from the man for whom their father had previously worked. But the master's doorman drove the boys away, so the attempt was unsuccessful.
The Mertsalovs have been living in an old, rickety house for about a year. Elizaveta Ivanovna's daughter is seriously ill and therefore the poor woman is torn between her daughter and her infant.
The head of the family, Emelyan Mertsalov, fell ill with typhoid fever, for which he was fired from his job. Subsequently, after an illness, they died youngest daughter. To find funds to buy medicine for his other daughter, Mertsalov desperately asked for money in the city.
After unsuccessful attempts, Emelyan went to beg for alms in the city. In the park, Mertsalov meets an old man who tells him about gifts for children.
Emelyan rashly scolds the stranger for talking about gifts for other people's children when his own are starving and sick.
But the old man did not get angry, but asked Mrtsalov to tell the story in detail. And then the stranger said that he was a doctor and could help cure the children.
After examining the child, the doctor wrote out a prescription and left money for the medicine, without telling him his name. Emelyan learned that the stranger's doctor's name was Pirogov.
After this incident, things went better in the Emelyanov family than before. The children recovered, Emelyan got a job, and the brothers studied at the gymnasium.
My opinion.
I really enjoyed this touching story. Such stories make you believe in miracles and human virtue. I sincerely recommend everyone to read this work, as it will not leave anyone indifferent.
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Two brothers - Volodya and Grisha stood near the display window and looked at what was behind it. And there was something to see - mountains of red apples, oranges and tangerines, smoked and pickled fish, chicken legs, sausages and even a pig with greens in its mouth. Swallowing saliva and sighing heavily, the boys peeled away from the glass and went home. They were returning from the task that their mother had given them - to take a letter to the master asking for help.
Soon they reached their home - a rickety, dilapidated house with a stone basement and a wooden top. Having gone down to the basement and finding their door, they again plunged into their usual poverty. The basement smelled of dirty baby clothes, rats and dampness. In the corner, on a large dirty bed, lay a sick seven-year-old girl, and under the ceiling there was a cradle with a screaming baby. An exhausted, pale mother was kneeling next to the sick girl, not forgetting to rock the cradle.
Hearing that the guys came in, she immediately turned her face to them and with hope in her eyes began to ask them if they had given the letter to the master.
However, the brothers disappointed her by telling her that the doorman did not take the letter from them for the master and sent them away. And Volodya even slapped him on the back of the head.
The mother stopped asking questions and offered them borscht.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the corridor and everyone turned to the door, waiting to see who would enter it. It was Mertsalov, their father and husband. His wife did not question him; she understood everything from his eyes. He was desperate.
This year in the Mertsalov family was full of troubles. First, the head of the family fell ill with typhoid fever, and all the money was spent on his treatment. When he was cured, it turned out that his place was taken and he had to look for new job. The family is mired in poverty, pledging and re-pledge of things, hunger, lack of money. And then the children started getting sick. One daughter died, now the second lies unconscious in the heat, and the mother still needs to feed the baby and go to the other end of the city, where she washed things for money.
All day today Mertsalov walked around the city and asked for money from whomever he could. And the children were sent with a letter to former employer Mertsalova. But everywhere there were only refusals and excuses.
After sitting on the chest for a while, Mertsalov resolutely stood up and went to beg. Unnoticed, he reached the garden and sat down on garden bench. Suddenly, a thought struck his head, and he put his hand under his vest, where there was a thick rope. He decided to die quickly rather than gradually. He didn’t want to think about poverty and the sick Mashutka.
Meanwhile, the creaking of footsteps was heard in the garden, which jerked Mertsalov out of his reverie. Soon an old man came alongside the bench and asked permission to sit on the bench next to Mertsalov.
Mertsalov turned away and moved to the edge of the bench. They were silent for several minutes while the unfamiliar old man smoked.
The old man began to tell Mertsalov that he had bought gifts for the children, which infuriated Mertsalov, and he shouted at the old man and told him about his difficult situation. But the old man was not offended, but said that he was a doctor and asked Mertsalov to show him the sick girl.
Soon they were already at Mertsalov’s house. The doctor examined the girl and prescribed medicine. And then he left, shaking hands with his parents and wishing them luck. Mertsalov was dumbfounded, and then rushed after the doctor to find out his last name. But I didn’t catch up and didn’t recognize. Upon returning, Mertsalov discovered money under the saucer.
He went to the pharmacy to get the medicine the doctor prescribed and there, on the prescription, he saw that the wonderful doctor had the last name Pirogov.
And soon the family’s affairs improved - Mashutka recovered, Mertsalov found a job and even Grishka found a good place in the bank. The whole family believes that this is all thanks to their savior - the wonderful doctor Pirogov.