GOGOL.
COMEDY “THE AUDITOR”

Comedy N.V.
Gogol's “The Inspector General” was written in 1836.
The comedy accurately reflects the time it was written,
time of the era of Nicholas I, time
denunciations and surveillance. Gogol himself’s plan for “The Inspector General”
defined it this way: “In “The Inspector General” I decided
collect all the bad things in Russia, which I
knew exactly all the injustices... and for
Everyone should laugh at once.”

Plot
comedy was born from reality, he
inspired by the perversions of the Nikolaev reaction:
one St. Petersburg young official
accepted in provincial town behind
auditor, and he, having fun,
Having robbed officials, he leaves with impunity.
This situation is typical for
bureaucratic regime of Nikolaev
Russia, when they served persons and not causes, when
everyone, or almost everyone, while in service,

tried
deceive another.

Mayor
is not involved in the affairs of the city and keeps everyone in
fear with its ferocity. “Such grievances
repairs things that cannot be described,” they complain about
him merchants. He ordered without understanding,
flog a non-commissioned officer's wife at the market.
The mayor takes bribes, and only in large quantities
sizes. Others to match the mayor
officials: envious, narrow-minded, they
treat the service only as a source
income. Judge Tyapkin-Lyapkin read in life
five or six books, and is therefore considered a “freethinker”,
He takes bribes with greyhound puppies. Trustee
Strawberry launched charitable institutions
It's just that patients in scrubs look alike
more on “blacksmiths”. That
represents a “teacher of youth”,
caretaker educational institutions Khlopov,
evidenced by his own remark: “Don’t
May God lead you to serve in the scientific field! Total
you're afraid...”

For that,
in order to fully understand the character of Skvoznik-Dukhanovsky,
It is enough to observe his actions.
The mayor who received the “notification” about
secret arrival of the auditor, gathers his
subordinates and gives them advice on how to
prepare for this “unpleasant
event." Almost immediately

same
it turns out that in the local tavern there is already
someone showed up, didn’t pay money for food and
behaves defiantly. That was enough
so that frightened officials would accept
an ordinary person for an important person.

Each of
heroes, alarmed by the news of
possible revision, behaves in
according to your character and your
actions against the law. Mayor
comes to the tavern to Khlestakov, believing
that he is an auditor. In the first minutes both
scared: the mayor thinks that this
the visitor is not happy with the order in the city, but
Khlestakov suspects that they want him
take him to prison for non-payment of accumulated
accounts. This scene reveals the essence of these two
characters: cowardice and evasiveness
Khlestakov and experienced resourcefulness
mayor. Gradually Khlestakov begins
understand that he is being taken for some kind of
an important person, and therefore a story about his
metropolitan life is trying to give itself more
more important. Everyone takes turns going to
Khlestakov, trying to warn him
actions. Everyone knows about their sins and
tries to attract the attention of the “auditor” to
the shortcomings of the other. Throwing mud at a friend
friend, officials reveal how low and
They live disgustingly. They flatter, ingratiate themselves,
They try to pay off with bribes.

Khlestakov in
this society feels increasingly simpler: he
dines with the mayor, looks after him
wife and daughter, “borrowed” from
officials, taking everything they can, and from
merchants, etc.

The case with
The Khlestakovs did not teach the officials anything. TO
neither the mayor nor the arrival of the real auditor,
neither his subordinates were ready.
The play ends with a silent scene.

Mastery
Gogol was manifested not only in the fact that
the writer managed to accurately convey the spirit of the times,
characters' personalities that match
this time. Gogol is surprisingly subtle
noticed and reproduced linguistic culture
their heroes. Each character has their own
way of speaking, own intonation, vocabulary. Speech
Khlestakova is incoherent, in conversation he
jumps from one moment to another: “Yes
me

already
everyone knows... With pretty actresses
familiar. I'm also a different kind of vaudeville...
I often see writers.” Trustee's Speech
charitable institutions are very resourceful,
flattering. Lyapkin- Tyapkin,
“philosopher”, as Gogol calls him,
speaks unintelligibly and tries
consume as much as possible more words from
books he has read, doing this often
out of place. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky always
they talk vying with each other. Their vocabulary
very limited, they use abundantly
introductory words: “yes, sir,” “if you please see.”

Belinsky
identified two conflicts in comedy: external -
between the bureaucracy and the imaginary auditor, and
internal - between autocratic-bureaucratic
apparatus and the general population.
The solution to situations in the play is related to
the nature of these conflicts. External
the conflict is overgrown with many
absurd and therefore funny collisions.
Gogol does not spare his heroes, denouncing them
vices. The more merciless the author is to comic
characters, the more dramatic it sounds
subtext internal conflict. This -
Gogol's soul-stirring laughter through
tears.

"Laughter
Gogol - a means of combating social
vices, it has a positive effect on
formation of new views and
morality. Gogol's achievements as
playwrights paved the way for the plays of A.N.
Ostrovsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, M.
Gorky.

The comedy “The Inspector General” (1836) is the pinnacle of Gogol’s work as a playwright; the play combines Russian criticism public life XIX century, a satirical depiction of Russian characters and a tragic story about “lost souls” on the eve of the Last Judgment.

A series: List school literature 7-8 grade

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The given introductory fragment of the book The Inspector General (N.V. Gogol, 1836) provided by our book partner - the company liters.

ACT ONE

A room in the mayor's house.

PHENOMENON I

Mayor, trustee of charitable institutions, superintendent of schools, judge, private bailiff, doctor, two quarterly officers.

Mayor. I invited you, gentlemen, in order to tell you some very unpleasant news: an auditor is coming to visit us.

Ammos Fedorovich. How's the auditor?

Artemy Filippovich. How's the auditor?

Mayor. Inspector from St. Petersburg incognito. And with a secret order.

Ammos Fedorovich. Here you go!

Artemy Filippovich. There was no concern, so give it up!

Luka Lukic. Lord God! also with a secret prescription!

Mayor. It was as if I had a presentiment: today I dreamed all night about two extraordinary rats. Really, I’ve never seen anything like this: black, of unnatural size! They came, they smelled it, and they left. Here I will read to you a letter that I received from Andrei Ivanovich Chmykhov, whom you, Artemy Filippovich, know. This is what he writes: “Dear friend, godfather and benefactor (mutters in an undertone, quickly running his eyes)… and notify you." A! here: “I hasten, by the way, to notify you that an official has arrived with orders to inspect the entire province and especially our district (raises thumbs up significantly). I learned this from the most reliable people, although he represents himself as a private person. Since I know that you, like everyone else, have sins, because you are a smart person and you don’t like to miss what’s in your hands...” (stopping), well, there are people here... “then I advise you to take precautions, because he can arrive at any hour, unless he has already arrived and lives somewhere incognito... Yesterday I...” Well, here family matters have gone: “... sister Anna Kirilovna came to us with her husband; Ivan Kirilovich has gained a lot of weight and keeps playing the violin...” - and so on, and so on. So this is the circumstance!

Ammos Fedorovich. Yes, this circumstance is... extraordinary, simply extraordinary. Something for nothing.

Luka Lukic. Why, Anton Antonovich, why is this? Why do we need an auditor?

Mayor. For what! So, apparently, it’s fate! (Sighing.) Until now, thank God, we have been approaching other cities; Now it's our turn.

Ammos Fedorovich. I think, Anton Antonovich, that there is a subtle and more political reason here. This means this: Russia... yes... wants to wage war, and the ministry, you see, sent an official to find out if there is any treason.

Mayor. Eh, where have you had enough! More clever man! There is treason in the county town! What is he, borderline, or what? Yes, from here, even if you ride for three years, you won’t reach any state.

Ammos Fedorovich. No, I’ll tell you, you’re not that... you’re not... The authorities have subtle views: even if they are far away, they are shaking their heads.

Mayor. It shakes or doesn’t shake, but I, gentlemen, warned you. Look, I have made some orders for my part, and I advise you to do the same. Especially you, Artemy Filippovich! Without a doubt, a passing official will want, first of all, to inspect the charitable institutions under your jurisdiction - and therefore you should make sure that everything is decent: the caps would be clean, and the sick would not look like blacksmiths, as they usually do at home.

Artemy Filippovich. Well, that's nothing yet. The caps, perhaps, can be put on clean.

Mayor. Yes, and also above each bed to write in Latin or in some other language... that’s your thing, Christian Ivanovich, every disease: when someone got sick, what day and date... It’s not good that your patients smoke such strong tobacco, that you always sneeze when you walk in. And it would be better if there were fewer of them: they would immediately be attributed to poor judgment or the lack of skill of the doctor.

Artemy Filippovich. ABOUT! As for healing, Christian Ivanovich and I took our own measures: the closer to nature, the better - we do not use expensive medicines. The man is simple: if he dies, he will die anyway; if he recovers, then he will recover. And it would be difficult for Christian Ivanovich to communicate with them: he doesn’t know a word of Russian.

Christian Ivanovich makes a sound somewhat similar to a letter And and several on e.

Mayor. I would also advise you, Ammos Fedorovich, to pay attention to public places. In your front hall, where petitioners usually come, the guards have kept domestic geese with little goslings that are scurrying around under your feet. It is, of course, commendable for anyone to start a household chore, and why shouldn’t the watchman start one? only, you know, it’s indecent in such a place... I wanted to point this out to you before, but somehow I forgot everything.

Ammos Fedorovich. But today I’ll order them all to be taken to the kitchen. If you want, come and have lunch.

Mayor. Besides, it’s bad that you have all sorts of rubbish dried in your very presence and a hunting rifle right above the cupboard with papers. I know you love hunting, but it’s better to accept him for a while, and then, when the inspector passes, perhaps you can hang him again. Also, your assessor... he, of course, is a knowledgeable person, but he smells as if he had just come out of a distillery, this is also not good. I wanted to tell you about this for a long time, but I don’t remember, I was distracted by something. There is a remedy against this, if it really is, as he says, it has a natural smell: you can advise him to eat onions, or garlic, or something else. In this case, Christian Ivanovich can help with various medications.

Christian Ivanovich makes the same sound.

Ammos Fedorovich. No, it’s no longer possible to get rid of this: he says that his mother hurt him as a child, and since then he’s been giving him a little vodka.

Mayor. Yes, I just noticed that to you. As for the internal regulations and what Andrei Ivanovich calls sins in his letter, I cannot say anything. Yes, and it’s strange to say: there is no person who does not have some sins behind him. This is already arranged this way by God himself, and the Voltaireans are in vain speaking against it.

Ammos Fedorovich. What do you think, Anton Antonovich, are sins? Sins and sins are different. I tell everyone openly that I take bribes, but with what bribes? Greyhound puppies. This is a completely different matter.

Mayor. Well, puppies or something else - all bribes.

Ammos Fedorovich. Well, no, Anton Antonovich. But, for example, if someone’s fur coat costs five hundred rubles, and his wife’s shawl...

Mayor. Well, what if you take bribes with greyhound puppies? But you don’t believe in God; you never go to church; and I, by at least, I am firm in my faith and go to church every Sunday. And you... Oh, I know you: if you start talking about the creation of the world, your hair will just stand on end.

Ammos Fedorovich. But I came to it on my own, with my own mind.

Mayor. Well, otherwise a lot of intelligence is worse than not having it at all. However, I only mentioned the district court; but to tell the truth, it’s unlikely that anyone will ever look there: it’s such an enviable place, God himself patronizes it. But you, Luka Lukic, as the superintendent of educational institutions, need to take special care of the teachers. They are people, of course, scientists and were brought up in different colleges, but they have very strange actions, naturally inseparable from an academic title. One of them, for example, this one, who has a fat face... I don’t remember his last name, can’t get by without making a grimace when he ascends to the pulpit, like that (makes a grimace) and then he begins to iron his beard with his hand from under his tie. Of course, if he makes such a face on a student, then it’s nothing: maybe it’s what’s needed there, I can’t judge that; but judge for yourself, if he does this to a visitor, it can be very bad: Mr. Inspector or someone else who may take it personally. God knows what could happen from this.

Luka Lukic. What should I really do with him? I've already told him several times. Just the other day, when our leader came into the classroom, he made such a face as I had never seen before. He made it from kind heart, and I am reprimanded: why are free-thinking thoughts being instilled in young people?

Mayor. I must note the same thing about the historical teacher. He scientific head- it’s obvious, and he’s taken in a ton of information, but he just explains it with such fervor that he doesn’t remember himself. I listened to him once: well, for now I was talking about the Assyrians and Babylonians - nothing yet, but when I got to Alexander the Great, I can’t tell you what happened to him. I thought it was a fire, by God! He ran away from the pulpit and with all the strength he had, he slammed the chair on the floor. Of course, Alexander the Great is a hero, but why break the chairs? This results in a loss to the treasury.

Luka Lukic. Yes, he's hot! I have already noticed this to him several times... He says: “As you wish, I will not spare my life for science.”

Mayor. Yes, this is the inexplicable law of fate: an intelligent person is either a drunkard, or he will make such a face that he can at least endure the saints.

Luka Lukic. God forbid you serve in an academic capacity! You are afraid of everything: everyone gets in the way, everyone wants to show that he is also an intelligent person.

Mayor. That would be nothing - damned incognito! Suddenly he’ll look in: “Oh, you’re here, my dear! And who, say, is the judge here? - “Lyapkin-Tyapkin.” - “And bring Lyapkin-Tyapkin here! Who is the trustee of charitable institutions?” - “Strawberry”. - “And serve Strawberries here!” That's what's bad!

SCENE II

The same goes for the postmaster.

Postmaster. Explain, gentlemen, what official is coming?

Mayor. Haven't you heard?

Postmaster. I heard from Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky. It just arrived at my post office.

Mayor. Well? What do you think about this?

Postmaster. What do I think? there will be a war with the Turks.

Ammos Fedorovich. In one word! I thought the same thing myself.

Mayor. Yes, both of them hit the mark!

Postmaster. Right, war with the Turks. It's all the Frenchman crap.

Mayor. What a war with the Turks! It will just be bad for us, not for the Turks. This is already known: I have a letter.

Postmaster. And if so, then there will be no war with the Turks.

Mayor. Well, how are you, Ivan Kuzmich?

Postmaster. What am I? How are you, Anton Antonovich?

Mayor. What am I? There is no fear, but just a little... Merchants and citizenship confuse me. They say that they had a hard time with me, but by God, even if I took it from someone else, it was truly without any hatred. I even think (takes him by the arm and takes him aside) I even wonder if there was some kind of denunciation against me. Why do we really need an auditor? Listen, Ivan Kuzmich, could you, for our common benefit, print out every letter that arrives at your post office, incoming and outgoing, you know, a little bit and read it: does it contain some kind of report or just correspondence. If not, then you can seal it again; however, you can even give the letter printed out.

Postmaster. I know, I know... Don’t teach me this, I do this not so much out of precaution, but more out of curiosity: I love to know what’s new in the world. Let me tell you, this is a very interesting read. You will read another letter with pleasure - this is how various passages are described... and what edification... better than in the Moskovskie Vedomosti!

Mayor. Well, tell me, have you read anything about some official from St. Petersburg?

Postmaster. No, there is nothing about the St. Petersburg ones, but a lot is said about the Kostroma and Saratov ones. It’s a pity, however, that you don’t read letters: there are wonderful places. Recently, one lieutenant wrote to a friend and described the ball in the most playful... very, very good way: “My life, dear friend, flows, he says, in the empyrean: there are many young ladies, music is playing, the standard is jumping...” - with great, with great feeling described. I left it with me on purpose. Do you want me to read it?

Mayor. Well, now there's no time for that. So do me a favor, Ivan Kuzmich: if by chance you come across a complaint or report, then detain him without any reasoning.

Postmaster. With great pleasure.

Ammos Fedorovich. Look, you will get it someday for this.

Postmaster. Ah, fathers!

Mayor. Nothing, nothing. It would be a different matter if you made something public out of this, but this is a family matter.

Ammos Fedorovich. Yes, something bad is brewing! And I confess, I was coming to you, Anton Antonovich, in order to treat you to a little dog. Native sister to the dog you know. After all, you heard that Cheptovich and Varkhovinsky started a lawsuit, and now I have the luxury of hunting hares on the lands of both.

Mayor. Fathers, your hares are not dear to me now: the damned incognito sits in my head. You just wait for the door to open and walk away...

SCENE III

The same Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, both enter out of breath.

Bobchinsky. Emergency! Dobchinsky. Unexpected news! All. What, what is it?

Dobchinsky. Unforeseen event: we arrive at the hotel...

Bobchinsky (interrupting). We arrive with Pyotr Ivanovich at the hotel...

Dobchinsky (interrupting). Eh, let me, Pyotr Ivanovich, I’ll tell you.

Bobchinsky. Eh, no, excuse me, I... excuse me, excuse me... you don’t even have such a syllable...

Dobchinsky. And you will get confused and not remember everything.

Bobchinsky. I remember, by God, I remember. Don't bother me, let me tell you, don't bother me! Tell me, gentlemen, please don’t let Pyotr Ivanovich interfere.

Mayor. Yes, tell me, for God's sake, what is it? My heart is not in the right place. Sit down, gentlemen! Take the chairs! Pyotr Ivanovich, here's a chair for you.

Everyone sits down around both Petrov Ivanovichs.

Well, what, what is it?

Bobchinsky. Excuse me, excuse me: I’ll get everything in order. As soon as I had the pleasure of leaving you after you deigned to be embarrassed by the letter you received, yes, sir, then I ran in... please don’t interrupt, Pyotr Ivanovich! I already know everything, everything, everything, sir. So, if you please, I ran to Korobkin. And not having caught Korobkina at home, I stopped by Rastakovsky, and not finding Rastakovsky, I went to Ivan Kuzmich to tell him the news you had received, and, on my way from there, I met with Pyotr Ivanovich...

Dobchinsky (interrupting). Near the booth where pies are sold.

Bobchinsky. Near the booth where pies are sold. Yes, having met Pyotr Ivanovich, I say to him: “Have you heard about the news that Anton Antonovich received from a reliable letter?” And Pyotr Ivanovich already heard about this from your housekeeper Avdotya, who, I don’t know, was sent to Philip Antonovich Pochechuev for something.

Dobchinsky (interrupting). For a keg of French vodka.

Bobchinsky (moving his hands away). For a keg of French vodka. So Pyotr Ivanovich and I went to Pochechuev... You, Pyotr Ivanovich... this... don’t interrupt, please don’t interrupt!.. We went to Pochechuev, but on the road Pyotr Ivanovich said: “Let’s go,” he says, “to the tavern. It’s in my stomach... I haven’t eaten anything since this morning, I’ve got stomach tremors..." - yes, sir, it’s in Pyotr Ivanovich’s stomach... “And at the tavern,” he says, “they’ve now brought fresh salmon, so we’ll have a snack.” . We had just arrived at the hotel when suddenly a young man...

Dobchinsky (interrupting). Not bad-looking, in a private dress.

Bobchinsky. Not bad-looking, in a particular dress, walks around the room like that, and in his face there’s a kind of reasoning... physiognomy... actions, and here (twirls his hand near his forehead) many, many things. It was as if I had a presentiment and said to Pyotr Ivanovich: “There’s something here for a reason, sir.” Yes. And Peter Ivanovich already blinked his finger and called the innkeeper, sir, the innkeeper Vlas: his wife gave birth to him three weeks ago, and such a perky boy will, just like his father, run the inn. Pyotr Ivanovich called Vlas and asked him quietly: “Who, he says, is this young man?” - and Vlas answers this: “This,” he says... Eh, don’t interrupt, Pyotr Ivanovich, please don’t interrupt; you won’t tell, by God you won’t tell: you whisper, I know you have one tooth whistling in your mouth... “This,” he says, is a young man, an official, yes, sir, coming from St. Petersburg, and by last name, he says, Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, sir, but he goes, he says, to the Saratov province and, he says, he attests himself in a very strange way: he’s been living for another week, he’s not leaving the tavern, he’s taking everything into his account and doesn’t want to pay a penny.” As he told me this, and so it was brought to my senses from above. "Eh!" - I say to Pyotr Ivanovich...

Dobchinsky. No, Pyotr Ivanovich, it was I who said: “eh!”

Bobchinsky. First you said it, and then I said it too. “Eh! - Pyotr Ivanovich and I said. “Why on earth should he sit here when his road lies to the Saratov province?” Yes, sir. But he is this official.

Mayor. Who, what official?

Bobchinsky. The official about whom you deigned to receive a notification is an auditor.

Mayor (in fear). What are you, God bless you! It's not him.

Dobchinsky. He! and he doesn’t pay money and doesn’t go. Who else should it be if not him? And the road ticket is registered in Saratov.

Bobchinsky. He, he, by God he... So observant: he looked at everything. He saw that Pyotr Ivanovich and I were eating salmon, more because Pyotr Ivanovich was talking about his stomach... yes, so he looked into our plates. I was filled with fear.

Mayor. Lord, have mercy on us sinners! Where does he live there?

Dobchinsky. In the fifth room, under the stairs.

Bobchinsky. In the same room where passing officers fought last year.

Mayor. How long has he been here?

Dobchinsky. And it’s already two weeks. Came to see Vasily the Egyptian.

Mayor. Two weeks! (To the side.) Fathers, matchmakers! Bring it out, holy saints! In these two weeks the non-commissioned officer's wife was flogged! The prisoners were not given provisions! There's a tavern on the streets, it's unclean! A shame! vilification! (He grabs his head.)

Artemy Filippovich. Well, Anton Antonovich? - Parade to the hotel.

Ammos Fedorovich. No no! Put your head forward, the clergy, the merchants; here in the book “The Acts of John Mason”...

Mayor. No no; let me do it myself. Were there difficult cases in real life, we went and even received a thank you. Perhaps God will bear it now. (Addressing Bobchinsky.) You say he is a young man?

Bobchinsky. Young, about twenty-three or four years old.

Mayor. So much the better: you’ll get wind of the young man sooner. It's a disaster if the old devil is the one who's young and on top. You, gentlemen, get ready for your part, and I will go on my own, or at least with Pyotr Ivanovich, privately, for a walk, to see if those passing by are in trouble. Hey Svistunov!

Svistunov. Anything?

Mayor. Go now for a private bailiff; or not, I need you. Tell someone there to send a private bailiff to me as soon as possible, and come here.

The quarterly runs in a hurry.

Artemy Filippovich. Let's go, let's go, Ammos Fedorovich! In fact, disaster can happen.

Ammos Fedorovich. What do you have to be afraid of? I put clean caps on the sick, and the ends were in the water.

Artemy Filippovich. What hubcaps! The patients were ordered to give gabersup, but I have such cabbage flying through all the corridors that you should only take care of your nose.

Ammos Fedorovich. And I’m calm about this. In fact, who will go to the district court? And even if he looks at some paper, he won’t be happy with life. I’ve been sitting on the judge’s chair for fifteen years now, and when I look at the memorandum – ah! I’ll just wave my hand. Solomon himself will not decide what is true and what is not true in it.

The judge, the trustee of charitable institutions, the superintendent of schools and the postmaster leave and at the door encounter the returning quarterly.

PHENOMENA IV

Gorodnichy, Bobchinsky, Dobchinsky and quarterly.

Mayor. What, are there droshky parked there?

Quarterly. They are standing.

Mayor. Go outside... or no, wait! Go get it... But where are the others? are you really the only one? After all, I ordered that Prokhorov be here too. Where is Prokhorov?

Quarterly. Prokhorov is in a private house, but it cannot be used for business.

Mayor. How so?

Quarterly. Yes, so: they brought him dead in the morning. Two buckets of water have already been poured out, and I still haven’t sobered up.

Mayor (grabbing his head). Oh, my God, my God! Go outside quickly, or not - run into the room first, listen! and bring a sword and a new hat from there. Well, Pyotr Ivanovich, let's go!

Bobchinsky. And I, and I... let me too, Anton Antonovich!

Mayor. No, no, Pyotr Ivanovich, it’s impossible, it’s impossible! It’s awkward, and we won’t even fit on the droshky.

Bobchinsky. Nothing, nothing, I’ll run like a cockerel, like a cockerel, after the droshky. I would just like to look a little through the crack in the door and see how he does these things...

Mayor (taking the sword to the policeman). Run now and take the tens, and let each of them take... Oh, the sword is so scratched! The damned merchant Abdulin sees that the mayor has an old sword, but did not send a new one. O wicked people! And so, scammers, I think they are preparing requests under the counter. Let everyone pick up a broom down the street... damn it, down the street! and they would sweep the entire street that goes to the tavern, and sweep it clean... Do you hear! Look: you! You! I know you: you are thinking about yourself and stealing silver spoons into your boots - look, my ear is on the alert!.. What did you do with the merchant Chernyaev - huh? He gave you two arshins of cloth for your uniform, and you stole the whole thing. Look! You're not taking it according to rank! Go!

PHENOMENA V

The same and private bailiff.

Mayor. Ah, Stepan Ilyich! Tell me, for God's sake: where have you gone? What does it look like?

Private bailiff. I was here just outside the gates.

Mayor. Well, listen, Stepan Ilyich! An official came from St. Petersburg. What did you do there?

Private bailiff. Yes, just as you ordered. I sent the quarterly Pugovitsyn with the tens to clean the sidewalk.

Mayor. Where is Derzhimorda?

Private bailiff. Derzhimorda rode on a fire pipe.

Mayor. Is Prokhorov drunk?

Private bailiff. Drunk.

Mayor. How did you let this happen?

Private bailiff. God knows. Yesterday there was a fight outside the city - I went there for order, but returned drunk.

Mayor. Listen, you do this: quarterly Pugovitsyn... he’s tall, so let him stand on the bridge for improvement. Yes, quickly sweep up the old fence that is near the shoemaker, and put up a straw pole so that it looks like a layout. The more it breaks, the more it means the activity of the city ruler. Oh my god! I forgot that near that fence there were forty carts of all sorts of rubbish piled up. What a nasty city this is! just put up some kind of monument or just a fence somewhere – God knows where they’ll come from and they’ll do all sorts of crap! (Sighs.) Yes, if a visiting official asks the service: are you satisfied? - so that they say: “Everything is happy, your honor”; and whoever is dissatisfied, then I will give him such displeasure... Oh, oh, ho, ho, x! sinful, sinful in many ways. (Takes a case instead of a hat.) God only let it get away with it as soon as possible, and then I’ll put up a candle that no one has ever put up before: I’ll charge three pounds of wax for each of the merchant’s beasts. Oh my God, oh my God! Let's go, Pyotr Ivanovich! (Instead of a hat he wants to wear a paper case.)

Private bailiff. Anton Antonovich, this is a box, not a hat.

Mayor (throwing the box). A box is just a box. To hell with her! Yes, if they ask why a church was not built at a charitable institution, for which a sum was allocated five years ago, then do not forget to say that it began to be built, but burned down. I submitted a report about this. Otherwise, perhaps someone, having forgotten himself, will foolishly say that it never began. Yes, tell Derzhimorda not to give too much free rein to his fists; For the sake of order, he puts lanterns under everyone’s eyes – both those who are right and those who are guilty. Let's go, let's go, Pyotr Ivanovich! (Leaves and returns.) Don't let the soldiers go out into the street without everything: this crappy guard will only wear a uniform over their shirt, and nothing underneath.

Everyone leaves.

SCENE VI

Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna run onto the stage.

Anna Andreevna. Where, where are they? Oh my god!.. (Opening the door.) Husband! Antosha! Anton! (Says soon.) And everything is you, and everything is behind you. And she went digging: “I have a pin, I have a scarf.” (Runs up to the window and screams.) Anton, where, where? What, have you arrived? auditor? with a mustache! with what mustache?

Anna Andreevna. After? Here's the news - after! I don’t want after... I have only one word: what is he, colonel? A? (With disdain.) Left! I'll remember this for you! And all this: “Mama, mamma, wait, I’ll pin the scarf at the back; me now." Here you go now! So you didn’t learn anything! And all the damned coquetry; I heard that the postmaster is here, and let’s pretend in front of the mirror: both from that side and from this side will come up. She imagines that he is trailing after her, and he just makes a grimace at you when you turn away.

Marya Antonovna. But what can we do, mummy? We'll know everything in two hours anyway.

Anna Andreevna. In two hours! Thank you most humbly! Here I lent you an answer! How did you not think to say that in a month we can find out even better! (Hangs out the window.) Hey Avdotya! A? What, Avdotya, did you hear that someone arrived there?.. Didn’t you hear? How stupid! Waving his arms? Let him wave, but you still would have asked him. I couldn't find out! There is nonsense in my head, the suitors are still sitting. A? We're leaving soon! Yes, you should run after the droshky. Go, go now! Do you hear the runaways, ask where they went; Yes, ask carefully: what kind of visitor is he, do you hear? Look through the crack and find out everything, and whether the eyes are black or not, and come back this very minute, do you hear? Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry! (She screams until the curtain falls. So the curtain covers both of them standing at the window.)

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

"Inspector"

In a district town, from which “you’ll have to jump for three years and never get to any state,” the mayor, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, gathers officials to deliver unpleasant news: a letter from an acquaintance informed him that an “auditor from St. Petersburg” was coming to their city , incognito. And with a secret order." The mayor - all night long he dreamed of two rats of unnatural size - had a presentiment of bad things. The reasons for the arrival of the auditor are sought, and the judge, Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin (who has read “five or six books, and therefore is somewhat free-thinking”), assumes that Russia is starting a war. Meanwhile, the mayor advises Artemy Filippovich Strawberry, the trustee of charitable institutions, to put clean caps on the sick, make arrangements for the strength of the tobacco they smoke and, in general, if possible, reduce their number; and meets with the complete sympathy of Strawberry, who respects that “a simple man: if he dies, he will die anyway; If he gets well, he’ll get well.” The mayor points out to the judge the “domestic geese with little goslings” that scurry underfoot in the hall for the petitioners; to the assessor, from whom, since childhood, he “smacks of a little vodka”; on the hunting rifle that hangs just above the cupboard with papers. With a discussion about bribes (and in particular, greyhound puppies), the mayor turns to Luka Lukich Khlopov, the superintendent of schools, and laments the strange habits “inseparable from an academic title”: one teacher constantly makes faces, another explains with such fervor that he does not remember himself (“Of course, Alexander the Great is a hero, but why break the chairs? This will result in a loss to the treasury.”)

Postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin appears, “a simple-minded man to the point of naivety.” The mayor, fearing a denunciation, asks him to look through the letters, but the postmaster, having been reading them for a long time out of pure curiosity (“you will read another letter with pleasure”), has not yet seen anything about the St. Petersburg official. Out of breath, landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky enter and, constantly interrupting each other, talk about visiting the hotel tavern and young man, observant (“and looked into our plates”), with such an expression on his face - in a word, exactly like an auditor: “he doesn’t pay money and doesn’t go, who should be if not him?”

The officials disperse worriedly, the mayor decides to “parade to the hotel” and gives urgent instructions to the quarterly regarding the street leading to the tavern and the construction of a church at a charitable institution (don’t forget that it began “to be built, but burned down,” otherwise someone will blurt out what and was not built at all). The mayor leaves with Dobchinsky in great excitement, Bobchinsky runs after the droshky like a cockerel. Anna Andreevna, the mayor's wife, and Marya Antonovna, his daughter, appear. The first scolds her daughter for her slowness and asks her leaving husband through the window whether the newcomer has a mustache and what kind of mustache. Frustrated by the failure, she sends Avdotya for a droshky.

In a small hotel room, the servant Osip lies on the master's bed. He is hungry, complains about the owner who lost the money, about his thoughtless wastefulness and recalls the joys of life in St. Petersburg. Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, a rather stupid young man, appears. After a squabble, with increasing timidity, he sends Osip for dinner - and if they don’t give it, he sends for the owner. Explanations with the tavern servant are followed by a crappy dinner. Having emptied the plates, Khlestakov scolds, and at this time the mayor inquires about him. In the dark room under the stairs where Khlestakov lives, their meeting takes place. Sincere words about the purpose of the trip, about the formidable father who called Ivan Alexandrovich from St. Petersburg, are taken as a skillful invention incognito, and the mayor understands his cries about his reluctance to go to prison in the sense that the visitor will not cover up his misdeeds. The mayor, lost with fear, offers the newcomer money and asks him to move into his house, and also to inspect, for the sake of curiosity, some establishments in the city, “somehow pleasing to God and others.” The visitor unexpectedly agrees, and, having written two notes on the tavern bill, to Strawberry and his wife, the mayor sends Dobchinsky with them (Bobchinsky, who was diligently eavesdropping at the door, falls to the floor with her), and he himself goes with Khlestakov.

Anna Andreevna, waiting impatiently and anxiously for news, is still annoyed with her daughter. Dobchinsky comes running with a note and a story about the official, that “he is not a general, but will not yield to the general,” about his menacing behavior at first and his softening later. Anna Andreevna reads the note, where the list pickles and caviar is interspersed with a request to prepare a room for the guest and take wine from the merchant Abdulin. Both ladies, quarreling, decide which dress to wear. The mayor and Khlestakov return, accompanied by Zemlyanika (who had just eaten labardan in the hospital), Khlopov and the inevitable Dobchinsky and Bobchinsky. The conversation concerns the successes of Artemy Filippovich: since he took office, all the patients are “getting better like flies.” The mayor makes a speech about his selfless zeal. The softened Khlestakov wonders if it is possible to play cards somewhere in the city, and the mayor, realizing there is a catch in the question, decisively speaks out against cards (not at all embarrassed by his recent winnings from Khlopov). Completely upset by the appearance of the ladies, Khlestakov tells how in St. Petersburg they took him for the commander-in-chief, that he was on friendly terms with Pushkin, how he once managed the department, which was preceded by persuasion and the sending of thirty-five thousand couriers to him alone; he depicts his unparalleled severity, predicts his imminent promotion to field marshal, which instills panic in the mayor and his entourage, in which fear everyone disperses when Khlestakov retires to sleep. Anna Andreevna and Marya Antonovna, having argued over who the visitor looked at more, together with the mayor, vying with each other, ask Osip about the owner. He answers so ambiguously and evasively that, assuming Khlestakov is an important person, they only confirm this. The mayor orders the police to stand on the porch so as not to let in merchants, petitioners and anyone who might complain.

The officials in the mayor's house are conferring on what to do, decide to give the visitor a bribe and persuade Lyapkin-Tyapkin, famous for his eloquence (“every word, Cicero rolled off his tongue”), to be the first. Khlestakov wakes up and scares them away. The completely frightened Lyapkin-Tyapkin, having entered with the intention of giving money, cannot even answer coherently how long he has served and what he has served; he drops the money and considers himself almost under arrest. Khlestakov, who raised the money, asks to borrow it, because “he spent money on the road.” Talking with the postmaster about the pleasures of life in the county town, offering the superintendent of schools a cigar and the question of who, in his taste, is preferable - brunettes or blondes, confusing Strawberry with the remark that yesterday he was shorter, he takes from everyone in turn " “loan” under the same pretext. Strawberry diversifies the situation by informing on everyone and offering to express their thoughts in writing. Khlestakov immediately asks Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky for a thousand rubles or at least a hundred (however, he is content with sixty-five). Dobchinsky is taking care of his first-born, born before marriage, wanting to make him a legitimate son, and he is hopeful. Bobchinsky asks, on occasion, to tell all the nobles in St. Petersburg: senators, admirals (“and if the sovereign has to do this, tell the sovereign too”) that “Peter Ivanovich Bobchinsky lives in such and such a city.”

Having sent the landowners away, Khlestakov sits down to write a letter to his friend Tryapichkin in St. Petersburg in order to outline an amusing incident of how he was mistaken for a “statesman.” While the owner is writing, Osip persuades him to leave quickly and succeeds in his arguments. Having sent Osip with a letter and for the horses, Khlestakov receives the merchants, who are loudly prevented by the quarterly Derzhimorda. They complain about the mayor’s “offenses” and give him the requested five hundred rubles on loan (Osip takes a loaf of sugar and much more: “and the rope will come in handy on the road”). The hopeful merchants are replaced by a mechanic and a non-commissioned officer's wife with complaints about the same mayor. Osip pushes out the rest of the petitioners. The meeting with Marya Antonovna, who, really, was not going anywhere, but was only wondering if mamma was here, ends with a declaration of love, a kiss from the lying Khlestakov and his repentance on his knees. Anna Andreevna, who suddenly appeared, exposes her daughter in anger, and Khlestakov, finding her still very “appetizing,” falls to his knees and asks for her hand in marriage. He is not embarrassed by Anna Andreevna’s confused admission that she is “in some way married,” he suggests “retiring under the shade of the streams,” because “for love there is no difference.” Marya Antonovna, who unexpectedly runs in, receives a beating from her mother and a marriage proposal from Khlestakov, who is still kneeling. The mayor enters, frightened by the complaints of the merchants who broke through to Khlestakov, and begs him not to believe the scammers. He does not understand his wife’s words about matchmaking until Khlestakov threatens to shoot himself. Not really understanding what is happening, the mayor blesses the young people. Osip reports that the horses are ready, and Khlestakov announces to the mayor’s completely lost family that he is going for just one day to visit his rich uncle, borrows money again, sits in a carriage, accompanied by the mayor and his household. Osip carefully accepts the Persian carpet onto the mat.

Having seen off Khlestakov, Anna Andreevna and the mayor indulge in dreams of St. Petersburg life. The summoned merchants appear, and the triumphant mayor, having filled them with great fear, joyfully dismisses everyone with God. One after another, “retired officials, honorable persons in the city” come, surrounded by their families, in order to congratulate the mayor’s family. In the midst of congratulations, when the mayor and Anna Andreevna, among the guests languishing with envy, consider themselves to be a general’s couple, the postmaster runs in with the message that “the official whom we took for an auditor was not an auditor.” Khlestakov’s printed letter to Tryapichkin is read aloud and one by one, since every new reader, having reached the description of his own person, becomes blind, stalls and moves away. The crushed mayor says diatribe not so much for the helipad Khlestakov as for the “click-cutter, paper-scraper,” which will certainly be inserted into the comedy. The general anger turns to Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, who started a false rumor, when the sudden appearance of a gendarme, announcing that “an official who has arrived by personal order from St. Petersburg demands you to come to him this very hour,” plunges everyone into a kind of tetanus. The silent scene lasts more than a minute, during which time no one changes their position. "The curtain falls."

There is excitement in the sleepy provincial town: the mayor gathers officials for an important announcement about the arrival of an auditor from St. Petersburg. Officials are wondering about possible reason arrival. Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, who once read several books, believes that Russia started the war. Strawberry, a trustee of charitable institutions, is advised to give clean caps to the sick. Although Strawberry is sure that a person will die someday anyway. The mayor points out to the judge the geese brought by the petitioners as a bribe. The superintendent of schools receives the same hint.

The news is brought by the postmaster, who often reads other people's letters and therefore is aware of everything in the town. The mayor, fearing denunciation, asks Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin to look through the letters. Landowners Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky talk about a man whom they saw in the hotel tavern, and who even looked into the plates. The officials disperse, and the mayor and Dobchinsky rush to the hotel. The mayor's wife and his daughter are wondering about the auditor's appearance. The servant Avdotya is sent to reconnoiter.

Meanwhile, in the hotel room lies the hungry servant Osip, scolding his master for losing money at cards and remembering the sweet life in St. Petersburg. Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov arrives, and soon there will be a meeting with the mayor. Khlestakov tells the truth about his journey, but the mayor takes it all as fiction in order to hide his true goal. The mayor is frightened, offers him money, invites him to his house and at the same time inspect the city’s establishments. The guest agrees.

Anna Andreevna, the mayor's wife, receives a note from her husband from Dobchinsky with instructions on the necessary preparations for meeting the guest. She and her daughter choose their outfits for the meeting. The mayor and Khlestakov arrive after visiting Zemlyanika in the hospital, where all the sick are “getting better like flies.” With the appearance of the ladies, Khlestakov boasts of his life in St. Petersburg. Osip's surveys about the owner confirm their version. The mayor protects Khlestakov with police in order to prevent petitioners and complainants from approaching him.

The officials decide to give Khlestakov a bribe and for this they send Lyapkin-Tyapkin to him. After him, Khlestakov takes “loans” from everyone he sees. Strawberry informs on everyone. Dobchinsky wants to legitimize his son. Bobchinsky asks to tell people about him in St. Petersburg. Khlestakov promises everything to everyone.

Having seen off the landowners, Khlestakov describes in a letter to his comrade Tryapichkin in St. Petersburg that he was mistaken for the wrong person. Osip persuades him to leave quickly and prepares the horses. Khlestakov receives merchants complaining about the mayor. She and Osip do not refuse offerings. All petitioners are encouraged. Khlestakov declares his love to the mayor's daughter, Marya Antonovna. The mother appears and kicks her daughter out. Now the guest asks for her hand in marriage. A frightened mayor enters and asks not to believe the complainants. At a moment incomprehensible to him, he even blesses the “young people”. Here Khlestakov announces the need to go to his rich uncle and leaves with Osip.

The mayor's family is already dreaming of life in St. Petersburg, receiving congratulations from honorable people of the city, when the postmaster reports that “the auditor is not an auditor at all.” And this is known from Khlestakov’s letter. Everyone is re-reading this letter when the gendarme appears and orders the mayor to appear to the official who has arrived from St. Petersburg. A silent silence reigns.

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A person first becomes acquainted with the famous and thoughtful comedy “The Inspector General” back in school during a literature lesson. Its plot remains forever in the memory. And the main phrase of the Mayor: “I invited you, gentlemen, in order to tell you some very unpleasant news: an auditor is coming to us.” widely quoted by both adults and children.

Perhaps you haven’t forgotten yet what the history of the creation of “The Inspector General” is? If you don't remember, no problem! Just read this article and find out all the secrets that this exciting comedy hides.

Who wrote "The Inspector General"

Of course, the history of the creation of the comedy "The Inspector General" is unacceptable for consideration without mentioning this important person, as the author of the work. He is the great and inimitable Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.

His figure is quite mysterious, and his works are filled with mysticism and a certain “devilishness”. But despite this (or maybe precisely because of this), Gogol is rightfully considered one of best poets, playwrights, prose writers, publicists and critics of all times.

His contribution to Russian literature is enormous. After all, he gave his contemporaries and descendants so many fascinating and unusual works, For example " Dead Souls", "Taras Bulba", "Viy", "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka", as well as many other wonderful stories.

The beginning of the path of Nikolai Vasilyevich

Before the story of the creation of The Inspector General began to develop, Gogol went through long haul twenty-six years long.

The famous writer was born in 1809 on March 20th according to the old (Julian) calendar or April 1st according to the new (Gregorian) calendar. His family descended from the Little Russians, and was named unusual person in honor of St. Nicholas.

Gogol's school years were rather mediocre; he was not distinguished by any special talent. Of all the subjects, he was only good at drawing and studying Russian literature, and the works he wrote then were significantly far from masterpieces.

Upon reaching nineteen years of age, the future genius of Russian literature went to St. Petersburg. There he found a job as an official, and also tried himself in theater and literature. But service was a burden for Gogol, and he had little success in the theater. Eventually future writer decided to develop in the literary field.

Where did success begin?

The history of the creation of the comedy “The Inspector General” happened much later. And at the beginning literary path There were a lot of Gogol severe tests. The public did not want to notice or accept him. He wrote and put his manuscripts on the table, because no one was interested in them.

The time was difficult, but the writer withstood it and finally published a work that brought him long-awaited fame and success. It was “The Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala” (the first title was “Basavryuk”). It was after him that the world recognized Nikolai Vasilyevich as a good writer.

Gogol's mysticism

The story of the creation of “The Inspector General” (Gogol) is quite simple, it is not at all shrouded in mysticism. However, ask any schoolchild, and he will certainly answer you that Nikolai Vasilyevich is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic figures in literary history.

The writer was very interested in religion and mysticism. This is clearly demonstrated by his novel called “Viy”. Gogol himself claimed that this work was based on local (Ukrainian) folklore, folk legend. But historians and literary scholars, no matter how much they search, cannot find any mention of the events described in the work. And this proves that Nikolai Vasilyevich himself came up with and painted the entire mystical plot.

In addition, there is another mysterious page in Gogol’s writing history. It is not known for certain, but it is still believed that Gogol (a few days before own death) decided to burn the second volume of another of his great books - “Dead Souls”. Why he did this, and whether he did it at all, his descendants will never know. However, there is also no evidence that this event did not happen. Therefore, we can only guess and speculate about how mysterious figure was a writer.

The mysterious death of a writer

Before the history of the creation of “The Inspector General” is covered, let us briefly consider last days great writer.

Nikolai Vasilyevich died in 1852 on February 21. During his lifetime he was a mysterious person, but his death was also not ordinary. The thing is that all my life greatest writer He was terribly afraid of only one thing - that he would be buried alive. Therefore, I never went to bed and mostly dozed in a chair during the day.

There is an opinion that Nikolai Vasilyevich suffered mental illness, which, together with an aggravated passion for religion, worsened in last years Gogol's life brought him to severe exhaustion. But the writer still did not die from this.

Gogol's death was shrouded in mysticism, and after several years, endless speculation and gossip forced the exhumation of the writer's body. And then (allegedly) everyone present saw that Nikolai Vasilyevich’s body was in an unnatural position. A inner side The lid of the coffin in which the writer rested was all torn, as if someone had torn and scratched it with their nails to get out.

Thus, a hypothesis arose that Gogol did not die a natural death. Due to severe exhaustion of his body, he fell asleep lethargic sleep. And he was buried alive.

The history of the creation of the comedy “The Inspector General” by N. V. Gogol

It is believed that the idea to write this comedy came to Gogol’s head when he was working on the first volume of “ Dead souls" It was in 1835, the author decided to create a work that would contain all the vices of man, everything bad that was in Russia at that time.

The writer wanted to show people all the injustices of life, not only to ridicule them and force readers and viewers to draw the appropriate conclusions, but also to simply laugh heartily at the bedlam that is described in the play and, accordingly, what is happening in the country.

Gogol completed his work after two months. But he continued to rewrite and add to the result. So the history of the creation of Gogol’s comedy “The Inspector General” stretched until 1836.

First show

The comedy premiered on April 19 of the same year in Alexandrinsky Theater, which is located on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. The whole event was quite serious, because the emperor himself, Nicholas I, was sitting in the hall. Gogol was waiting and at the same time afraid of the reaction that would follow after watching his grandiose comedy.

But the public took it for vaudeville and did not understand it at all deep meaning, which was incorporated by Gogol into his creation.

However, the writer was upset not only because of this. He himself thought that the comedy was a little boring and should be remade somewhat. Therefore, the story of the creation of “The Inspector General” continued.

Final version

The comedy received a proper reaction only in 1842, when the final version of The Inspector General was presented. Then eminent critics and magazine editors noted that its main feature is grotesqueness, which is felt in absolutely everything, from the plot itself to the characters presented.

However, Nikolai Vasilyevich wanted his creation to be understood and appreciated as fully and adequately as possible, and therefore, after publishing the comedy in the newspaper and showing it in the theater, he published several articles about what it was like. true meaning"Inspector".

The secret history of the creation of the auditor. Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

The very idea of ​​writing the comedy “The Inspector General” came directly to Gogol. Here's the plot of this work was suggested to him by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

This is proven by the surviving correspondence between the two greatest literary geniuses those times in which Gogol, turning to Pushkin, asks him to throw interesting story comedy, which, according to him, will be funnier than all that came before it.

And Alexander Sergeevich responds by sending a few lines that serve as the beginning of a future grand comedy. This is the story of the creation of The Inspector General.