To better prepare for the school year, you need to read as many works from the list of literature as possible in the summer. That is how there will be more time in the fall to gain new knowledge. If now there is not enough strength for everything, then in this case you can scroll through a brief retelling of the chapters. Here we offer for reading the well-known, useful for essays and exams Solzhenitsyn's story “Matryonin Dvor”, an analysis of which you can find by reference.
Chapter 1
The calendar is 1956. The narrator, wishing to find peace and silence, arrives in the town with an unusual name - High Field. But here he does not find rest, therefore he is redirected to the village of Peat product (or the village of Talnovo). The hero stops at an old woman Matryona (here is her description). The interior of the hut was not the best: cockroaches and mice ran across the floor, and a lame cat was lying on its feet.
Matryon lived according to a specific, established regime: getting up at 5 in the morning, feeding the goat and preparing a simple breakfast for her tenant - the storyteller. True, the woman did not have a pension, because in the pursuit of endless seals, a huge number of kilometers had to be covered, and opportunities did not allow.
Local residents of the village of Peat product lived poorly. The soil was not entirely suitable for harvest, and the peat surrounding the settlement did not belong to the Taln people. Every year they stole it in secret to heat their homes in winter.
A distinctive feature of Matryona was that she always came to everyone's aid. So, for example, a woman never refused the villagers household chores. She happily engaged in other people's gardens and rejoiced in another's harvest.
The most costly for the heroine was the regular feeding of shepherds once a month and a half. Then Matryona spent a lot of money on the purchase of products that she never ate. But she could not refuse ....
Winter came, and the heroine still received a pension. After that, she seemed to blossom: she bought herself new boots and a coat, and set aside the remaining money for the funeral. But, despite all the responsiveness and help, the villagers began to envy her.
When the time came for Baptism, suddenly the sisters of the main character came to visit. Perhaps they wanted to take part of Matryonin's pension to themselves, but the woman herself did not care. Her grief was only a stolen bucket of holy water from the church.
Chapter 2
Neither the narrator himself nor Matryona particularly shared their personal lives. The guest only told that he was in prison, and the heroine shared her unhappy share: she got married, but all the children died suddenly, and then her husband did not come from the front.
Once, a certain Thaddeus comes to visit. Later, the narrator learns that this is the younger brother of Matryona’s husband. On the same evening, a woman decides to talk about her life in more detail.
Throughout her life, the heroine loved only Thaddeus, but married his own brother, because the beloved was missing at the front, and relatives insisted that the girl should not languish, but should marry and help the groom's family with the housework. Unfortunately, none of their six children survived. After returning from captivity, Thaddeus hated relatives for treason, married and became the father of six children.
Soon, the elder brother, the husband of Matryona, is also taken away to the war, but he goes missing. The heroine takes the niece Kira as an au pair, who she has been raising for ten years. Feeling deterioration in health, Matryona writes a will in which he gives a part of the house to a young girl.
A few years later, Kira gets married and becomes the owner of an empty plot of land. Thaddeus finds nothing better than to transfer part of Matryonin’s house to another village. The heroine agrees to do this. The man quickly dismantled a small extension to the house, put everything in a sled and set off for the neighboring village. Matryona and one of the sons of Thaddeus got into the second sled, which got stuck and broke near the railway. Due to the strong roar of the tractor, no one heard the whistle of an approaching engine ... At one o'clock in the morning, terrible news spread over - on the railway tracks the son of Thaddeus and Matryon died.
Chapter 3
In the morning they brought the body of the main character. The time has come for the funeral. Only Kira and Thaddeus’s wife genuinely mourned the deceased Matryona. The rest did it at the show. Thaddeus himself was not there that day, and he was more worried about how to transfer the plot of the house to the deceased.
Matryona was buried according to all traditions, and her hut was stabbed with boards. The narrator had to look for new housing. He always spoke of heroin with kind, affectionate words. In his opinion, Matryona was the righteous man on whom the village rested.
