The boy Seryozha lives in Ufa with his father, mother and little sister, whom he adores. As a child, he often gets sick, even doctors thought that he would die. But the mother makes every effort, takes her to the doctors to cure her son. And only Bukhun's doctor helped. The child becomes healthy.

Seryozha was a coward, and for a long time he was afraid to go into his grandfather's office: he saw a ghost there. The boy's favorite pastime was reading. Each new book made him happy. His mother was often sick. And since the Ufa doctors could not cure her, it was decided to take her to

Children in Bagrovo to visit their grandparents, and go to Orenburg for treatment. The carriage was laid down, and the whole family set off.

We drove to Bagrovo for a long time with stops. The boy looked at the trees with curiosity, the plants that he met on the way, he even forgot about his favorite books. He especially remembered how he and his father were fishing. These impressions remained in his memory for a long time.

After a long journey, the family arrived in Bagrovo. They were greeted kindly, even grandfather, despite being unwell, got out of bed. But the mother was getting worse, and a week later her father took her to Orenburg doctors for treatment.

Seryozha with sister

Without a father and without a mother, they lived for more than a month in the inhospitable house of their grandfather. The children rarely left their rooms. They were sad. Seryozha was saved by books. He was worried about his mother, whether she would recover. But the parents are back. Mom looked healthy and cheerful. A week later, the family gathered back in Ufa. The road back didn't seem so fun.

In the Ufa house, their mother's brothers were waiting for them. They were on vacation and came to see their sister for a few months. They were cheerful young people. One of them drew beautifully and infected Seryozha with this. Mother felt great. The parents' house was often full of guests. The boy did not leave a book. But soon the serene life ended.

Uncles frightened Seryozha with future military service and constantly teased him. The father bought the Sergeyevka estate, and the boy was proud that he had his own land. And the uncles found food for jokes here too. And Seryozha fell ill. But through the efforts of his mother, he quickly recovered from his illness.

And then a new misfortune - his mother sends him to study at a public school. After spending one day there, Seryozha was so upset that it was decided to continue his education at home.

A trip to Sergeevka in the summer only strengthened the mother's health. And Seryozha got so many impressions there: fishing on the Belaya River and lakes, stories of hunters, meetings with interesting people.

Winter in Ufa passed in reading books, classes with teachers. But the news comes that the grandfather is dying in Bagrovo. The family is going there.

The death of his grandfather made a strong impression on the boy. He was not only afraid to enter the room where the coffin stood, but even to pass by. After the grandfather's funeral, the parents and children returned home to Ufa.

The boy's father decided to retire and move to live with his family in Bagrovo to his mother. Serezha's mother was against it. But suddenly she falls ill again. Seryozha does not understand what is happening to her, he is worried about her health. But he continues to study with his sister, teaches her to read. After some time, the mother's malaise is explained: a boy is born in the family.

Soon the father transports the family for permanent residence in Bagrovo. The house is being remodeled and rebuilt.

Seryozha became addicted to hunting, baiting hawks. His father began to take him to the field for peasant work. The harvesting and threshing of bread made a great impression. Part of the winter the family lived with a beautiful woman, Praskovya Ivanovna, in Churasovo. The boy was especially struck by the library in which he was allowed to borrow books. But no matter how beautiful the Churasovsky house was, everyone was drawn to Bagrovo.

Life there was ordinary for a villager. Reading books in winter, watching rivers overflow in spring. Easter was fun. And in the summer - hunting, fishing. Seryozha became even closer to his mother. And they rarely talked with their sister, because their interests were different.

Neighbor Praskovya Ivanovna again invited them to her house, promising to show them a beautiful apple orchard. Having arrived in the summer, the Bagrovs could not leave from there until the cover. Praskovya Ivanovna did not want to let them go, even though her little brother remained at home. Only the fatal illness of the grandmother allowed her to return to her beloved Bagrovsky house. But Grandma was no longer there. She did not wait for the arrival of her son.

Praskovya Ivanovna sends a letter to the Bagrovs with a request to stay with her in the winter. After the forties since the death of the grandmother, parents with children come to Churasovo. The same spacious rooms, the library greeted the guests. Seryozha again became close to his sister, confiding his thoughts and feelings to her.

Sergei's mother had long wanted to visit Kazan, to venerate the holy relics. Praskovya Ivanovna arranged this trip for them. Parents take Seryozha with them. There he expects the beginning of an important event in his life.

The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.

It all starts with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from his nurse, remembers a long illness from which he almost died - one sunny morning when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of rhein wine, pendants pine resin in a new wooden house, etc. The most common image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. (A detailed description of moving hundreds of miles - to visit relatives, to visit, etc. - occupies most of the "Children's years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, spread he had a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and "suddenly woke up." After an illness, the child experiences "a feeling of pity for everything that suffers."

With every memory of Serezha, “the constant presence of his mother merges”, who went out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.

Sequential memories begin at the age of four. Serezha lives in Ufa with his parents and younger sister. The disease "brought to extreme susceptibility" the boy's nerves. According to the nanny's stories, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, and so on. (various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he does not even remember it; he had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so that when neighbor S.I. Anichkov gave him Novikov's "Children's Reading for the Heart and Mind", the boy, carried away by books, was "just like a madman." He was especially impressed by the articles explaining thunder, snow, insect metamorphoses, etc.

Mother, exhausted by Seryozha's illness, was afraid that she herself fell ill with consumption, her parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; the children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father's parents. The road amazed the child: crossing the Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “ores”, large trees, spending the night in the field, and especially fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire obtained by flint, and the fire of the torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even squeamish.

The people met on the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the family Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashino is incomprehensible, the relations of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc .; the child sees, among other things, the harvest in the heat, and this causes "an inexpressible feeling of compassion."

The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his insane fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that "sissy" loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). Children of a proud daughter-in-law, who "disdained" Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrovo, so inhospitable that they even fed the children badly, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses herself by frightening her sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and her beloved "uncle" Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which strongly influenced his imagination.

After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly matured. Young brothers of the mother, military men, who graduated from the Moscow University noble boarding school, are visiting the house: Serezha learns from them what poetry is, one of the uncles draws and teaches this Serezha, which makes the boy seem like a “higher being”. S. I. Anichkov donates new books: "Anabasis" by Xenophon and "Children's Library" by Shishkov (which the author praises very much).

Uncles and their friend adjutant Volkov, playing, tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushes to fight; he is punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in a room, placed in a corner, he dreams and, finally, falls ill from excitement and fatigue. Adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.

At the request of Serezha, they begin to teach him to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone's advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so affectionate with him at home), the spanking of the guilty scares the child very much.

Serezha's father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it "Sergeevskaya wasteland", which the boy is very proud of. Parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir koumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens up. Seryozha can't think of anything else and watches with tension the ice drift and the flood of the river.

In Sergeevka, the house for gentlemen has not been completed, but even this amuses: “There are no windows and doors, but the fishing rods are ready.” Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Evseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Serezha sees gun hunting for the first time and feels “some kind of greed, some unknown joy.” Summer is spoiled only by guests, though infrequent: outsiders, even peers, burden Seryozha.

After Sergeevka, Ufa "got sick of it." Seryozha is entertained only by the neighbor's new gift: Sumarokov's collected works and Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada", which he recites and tells his relatives various details invented by him about his favorite characters. The mother laughs, and the father worries: “Where does all this come from? Don't be a liar." News comes about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; the child listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which are not always clear to him.

The news comes that the grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will fall ill from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the road, the boy is tormented by sad forebodings, and the belief in forebodings takes root in him from now on for life.

Grandfather dies a day after the arrival of relatives, the children have time to say goodbye to him; “all feelings” of Seryozha are “suppressed by fear”; He is especially struck by the explanations of the nanny Parasha, why the grandfather does not cry and does not scream: he is paralyzed, "looks with all his eyes and only moves his lips." “I felt the whole infinity of torment, which cannot be told to others.”

The behavior of the Bagrovskaya relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - “the real master in the house”, the grandmother expressly yields to the power of the mother, and this is disgusting to the mother. Everyone at the table, except Mother, weeps and eats with great appetite. And then, after dinner, in the corner room, looking at the non-freezing Buguruslan, the boy for the first time understands the beauty of winter nature.

Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: while giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.

Becoming the owner of Bagrov after the death of his grandfather, Serezha's father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo for permanent residence. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) is very busy with Seryozha; he does not understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. The kind boy tries to feel sorry for and comfort his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he had not known before, in fact; but her habit of beating the servants, very common in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.

Seryozha's parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesov; Seryozha's father is considered her heir and therefore does not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat clumsy house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Having made friends with Serezha's mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let her family go back to Bagrovo; meanwhile, the bustling life in a strange house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks of Bagrov, who is already dear to him.

Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha for the first time in his life in the village really sees spring: “I followed every step of spring. In every room, almost in every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations ... ”Insomnia begins in the boy from excitement; so that he falls asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and among other things - “The Scarlet Flower” (this tale is placed in the appendix to “Childhood ...”).

In autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Serezha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let the guests go; On the night of the Intercession, the father has a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother's illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. Grandmother died on the very Pokrov; this terribly strikes both Serezha's father and the capricious Kurolesova.

The following winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan, to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. In Kazan, they plan to spend no more than two weeks, but everything turns out differently: Seryozha is waiting for the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to the gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov-grandson ends and adolescence begins.

Childhood years of Bagrov-grandson
Summary of the story
The book, essentially a memoir, describes the first ten years of a child's life (1790s) spent in Ufa and the villages of the Orenburg province.
The author reproduces children's perception, for which everything is new and everything is equally important, events are not divided into major and minor: therefore, in "Children's Years" the plot is practically absent.
It all starts with incoherent but vivid memories of infancy and early childhood - a person remembers how he was taken away from the nurse, remembers a long

The disease from which he almost died was one sunny morning, when he felt better, a strangely shaped bottle of Rhine wine, pine resin pendants in a new wooden house, etc. The most frequent image is the road: travel was considered a medicine. (A detailed description of moving hundreds of miles - to visit relatives, to visit, etc. - occupies most of the "Children's years".) Seryozha recovers after he becomes especially ill on a long journey and his parents, forced to stop in the forest, spread he had a bed in the tall grass, where he lay for twelve hours, unable to move, and “suddenly woke up.” After an illness, the child experiences “a feeling of pity for everything that suffers.”
With every memory of Serezha, “the constant presence of his mother merges”, who went out and loved him, perhaps for this reason, more than her other children.
Sequential memories begin at the age of four. Serezha lives in Ufa with his parents and younger sister. The disease "brought to extreme susceptibility" the boy's nerves. According to the nanny's stories, he is afraid of the dead, the dark, and so on. (various fears will continue to torment him). He was taught to read so early that he does not even remember it; he had only one book, he knew it by heart and read it aloud to his sister every day; so that when neighbor S.I. Anichkov presented him with Novikov’s “Children’s Reading for the Heart and Mind”, the boy, carried away by books, was “just like a madman”. He was especially impressed by the articles explaining thunder, snow, insect metamorphoses, etc.
Mother, exhausted by Seryozha's illness, was afraid that she herself fell ill with consumption, her parents gathered in Orenburg to see a good doctor; the children were taken to Bagrovo, to their father's parents. The road amazed the child: crossing the Belaya, collected pebbles and fossils - “ores”, large trees, spending the night in the field and especially fishing on the Dema, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, the fire obtained by flint, and the fire of the torch, springs, etc. Everything is curious, even “how the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell off them in thick layers.” The father rejoices in all this together with Seryozha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is indifferent and even squeamish.
The people they meet on the way are not only new, but also incomprehensible: the joy of the family Bagrov peasants who met their family in the village of Parashino is incomprehensible, the relations of the peasants with the “terrible” headman, etc .; the child sees, among other things, the harvest in the heat, and this causes "an inexpressible feeling of compassion."
The boy does not like the patriarchal Bagrovo: the house is small and sad, the grandmother and aunt are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is stern and scary (Seryozha witnessed one of his insane fits of anger; later, when the grandfather saw that the “sissy” loves not only mother, but also father, their relationship with their grandson suddenly and dramatically changed). Children of a proud daughter-in-law, who “disdained” Bagrov, are not loved. In Bagrovo, so inhospitable that they even fed the children badly, the brother and sister lived for more than a month. Seryozha amuses herself by frightening her sister with stories of unprecedented adventures and reading aloud to her and her beloved "uncle" Yevseich. The aunt gave the boy "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which strongly influenced his imagination.
After Bagrov, returning home had such an effect on the boy that he, again surrounded by common love, suddenly matured. Young brothers of the mother, military men, who graduated from the Moscow University noble boarding school, are visiting the house: from them Seryozha learns what poetry is, one of the uncles draws and teaches this to Seryozha, which makes the boy seem like a “higher being”. S. I. Anichkov donates new books: “Anabasis” by Xenophon and “Children's Library” by Shishkov (which the author praises very much).
Uncles and their friend adjutant Volkov, playing, tease the boy, among other things, because he cannot write; Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushes to fight; he is punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but the boy considers himself right; alone in a room, placed in a corner, he dreams and, finally, falls ill from excitement and fatigue. Adults are ashamed, and the matter ends with a general reconciliation.
At the request of Serezha, they begin to teach him to write, inviting a teacher from a public school. One day, apparently on someone's advice, Seryozha is sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of both the students and the teacher (who was so affectionate with him at home), the spanking of the guilty scares the child very much.
Serezha's father buys seven thousand acres of land with lakes and forests and calls it "Sergeevskaya wasteland", which the boy is very proud of. Parents are going to Sergeevka to treat their mother with Bashkir koumiss in the spring, when Belaya opens up. Seryozha can't think of anything else and watches with tension the ice drift and the flood of the river.
In Sergeevka, the house for gentlemen has not been completed, but even this amuses: “There are no windows and doors, but the fishing rods are ready.” Until the end of July, Seryozha, father and uncle Evseich are fishing on Lake Kiishki, which the boy considers his own; Serezha sees gun hunting for the first time and feels “some kind of greed, some unknown joy”. Summer is spoiled only by guests, though infrequent: outsiders, even peers, burden Seryozha.
After Sergeevka, Ufa “got sick of it”. Seryozha is entertained only by the neighbor's new gift: Sumarokov's collected works and Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada", which he recites and tells his relatives various details invented by him about his favorite characters. Mother laughs, and father worries: “Where does all this come from? Don't be a liar." News comes about the death of Catherine II, the people swear allegiance to Pavel Petrovich; the child listens attentively to the conversations of worried adults, which are not always clear to him.
The news comes that the grandfather is dying, and the family immediately gathers in Bagrovo. Seryozha is afraid to see his grandfather dying, he is afraid that his mother will fall ill from all this, that in winter they will freeze on the way. On the road, the boy is tormented by sad forebodings, and the belief in forebodings takes root in him from now on for life.
Grandfather dies a day after the arrival of relatives, the children have time to say goodbye to him; “all feelings” of Seryozha are “suppressed by fear”; He is especially struck by the explanations of the nanny Parasha, why the grandfather does not cry and does not scream: he is paralyzed, “looks wide-eyed and only moves his lips.” “I felt the whole infinity of torment, which cannot be told to others.”
The behavior of the Bagrovskaya relatives unpleasantly surprises the boy: four aunts howl, falling at the feet of their brother - “the real master in the house”, the grandmother expressly yields to the power of the mother, and this is disgusting to the mother. Everyone at the table, except Mother, weeps and eats with great appetite. And then, after dinner, in the corner room, looking at the non-freezing Buguruslan, the boy for the first time understands the beauty of winter nature.
Returning to Ufa, the boy again experiences a shock: while giving birth to another son, his mother almost dies.
Becoming the owner of Bagrov after the death of his grandfather, Serezha's father retires, and the family moves to Bagrovo for permanent residence. Rural work (threshing, mowing, etc.) is very busy with Seryozha; he does not understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. The kind boy tries to feel sorry for and comfort his grandmother, who quickly became decrepit after the death of her husband, whom he had not known before, in fact; but her habit of beating the servants, very common in landlord life, quickly turns her grandson away from her.
Seryozha's parents are invited to visit by Praskovya Kurolesov; Seryozha's father is considered her heir and therefore does not contradict this smart and kind, but domineering and rude woman in anything. The rich, albeit somewhat clumsy house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tales of Scheherazade. Having made friends with Serezha's mother, the widow for a long time does not agree to let her family go back to Bagrovo; meanwhile, the bustling life in a strange house, always filled with guests, tires Seryozha, and he impatiently thinks of Bagrov, who is already dear to him.
Returning to Bagrovo, Serezha for the first time in his life in the village really sees spring: “I followed every step of spring. In every room, almost in every window, I noticed special objects or places on which I made my observations ... ” From excitement, the boy begins insomnia; so that he falls asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya tells him fairy tales, and among other things - “The Scarlet Flower” (this tale is placed in the appendix to “Childhood ...“).
In autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, the Bagrovs visit Churasovo. Serezha's father promised his grandmother to return to Pokrov; Kurolesova does not let the guests go; On the night of the Intercession, the father has a terrible dream and in the morning receives news of his grandmother's illness. The autumn road back is hard; crossing the Volga near Simbirsk, the family nearly drowned. Grandmother died on the very Pokrov; this terribly strikes both Serezha's father and the capricious Kurolesova.
The following winter, the Bagrovs are going to Kazan, to pray to the miracle workers there: not only Seryozha, but also his mother has never been there. In Kazan, they plan to spend no more than two weeks, but everything turns out differently: Seryozha is waiting for the “beginning of the most important event” in his life (Aksakov will be sent to the gymnasium). Here the childhood of Bagrov-grandson ends and adolescence begins.

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The memoir book describes the first 10 years of the child's life, which he spent in Ufa and villages in the Orenburg province.
The narrator reproduced the perception of children, for whom everything is absolutely new and everything is equally important, he does not divide events into minor and main ones: therefore, there is practically no plot in this book.

The whole story begins with an incoherent but vivid memory of childhood - a person begins to remember how they took him away from his nurse, remember a long illness from which he practically did not die - some sunny morning, when he felt much better, a bottle of rhine wine of a strange shape and much more. The most common image is the road, because travel was considered a real medicine. Seryozha recovered after the time when he became especially ill on a major journey and his parents, forced to stay in the forest, made a bed for him in the tall grass. Seryozha lay there for twelve hours, unable to move, and then he wakes up. The child feels after the illness a feeling of pity for all those who suffer.
With every memory of Serezha, the unchanging existence of a mother who loved him and went out is united.

Consistent memories are tied from the age of four years. Serezha lives in Ufa with his younger sister and parents. The disease brought the boy's nerves to acute susceptibility. According to the nurse's story, he is afraid of the dark, the dead, and so on. All these fears torment him and will continue to torment him. He was taught to read so early that he can't even remember it. He had only one book, which he knew by heart and read aloud to his sister every day. Therefore, when S.I. Anichkov, their neighbor, gave him Novikov's book entitled "Children's Reading for the Mind and Heart." Seryozha was so carried away by books that he was like a madman. Seryozha was especially impressed by those articles that explained snow, thunder, the metamorphosis of insects, and so on.

The mother, tormented by the boy's illness, was very afraid that she herself had caught consumption, so the parents decided to go to Orenburg to see a good doctor. They took the children to Bagrovo, where their father's parents live. The child’s journey was amazing: huge trees, spending the night in the field, and especially fishing on the Dyoma, which immediately drove the boy crazy no less than reading, fire obtained with flint, springs, and so on. He was curious about everything, even the fact that the earth stuck to the wheels and then fell away in thick layers from them. Father rejoiced in all this together with Serezha, and his beloved mother, on the contrary, is squeamish and indifferent to this.
The people he meets on the way are not only new to him, but also obscure: the incomprehensible joy of the Bagrov clan peasants who met a family in the village of Parashino, the incomprehensible relations of the peasants with the ugly headman, and so on; Seryozha also sees the harvest in the hot season, and this arouses an inexplicable feeling of pity.

The boy does not like the purple patriarchal: the house is very small and sad, the aunt and grandmother are dressed no better than the servants in Ufa, the grandfather is harsh and scary. Seryozha witnessed his most insane fit of anger. Then, when the grandfather realized that Seryozha loves not only his mother, but also his father, his relationship with his grandson changes dramatically. In Bagrovo, which until that moment was not at all hospitable, the children were poorly fed, so the brother and sister lived for a little over a month. Seryozha had fun, scaring his sister with stories about unprecedented adventures. He read aloud to her and his beloved uncle Evseich. Aunt gave Seryozha "Dream Interpretation" and some vaudeville, which had a strong effect on his imagination.

After Bagrov they returned home. This return affected Seryozha so much that he matured dramatically when he became surrounded by universal love. The house was visited by the young brothers of the mother, the military, who graduated from the Moscow University. From these brothers Seryozha learned about what poetry is, one of the uncles painted a picture and began to teach this to Seryozha. Because of this, the boy considers his uncle almost a higher being. S.I. Anichkov presented him with new books.
The uncles, together with their friend, adjutant Volkov, play and tease Seryozha for not being able to write. Seryozha is seriously offended and one day he rushed into a fight. He was punished and demanded that he ask for forgiveness, but Sergei believes that he is right. When he was left alone in a room placed in a corner, he began to dream and then he fell ill from fatigue and excitement. The adults were shamed, and the case ended in a general reconciliation.

Serezha asks to be taught to write. A teacher from the public school was invited to the house. Once, most likely on someone's advice, Seryozha was sent there for a lesson: the rudeness of the teacher and students frightened him very much, because the teacher at his house was so affectionate with him.
Papa Seryozha bought 7,000 acres of land with forests and lakes and called it the Sergeev wasteland. The boy was very proud of this. Parents gathered in Sergeevka in order to cure their mother with the help of Bashkir koumiss. Seryozha could not even think of anything else. He watches intently as the river overflows.

In Sergeevka, the house for the owners was not completed, but this is even amusing. Seryozha, together with his father and uncle Evseich, left for Lake Kishki. Seryozha considers this lake personally his own. He sees hunting with guns for the first time and feels a certain greed along with an unknown joy. The summer was spoiled by the presence of guests, although they were infrequent.
Ufa got sick of it after Sergeevka. Seryozha was entertained only by the gift of his neighbor: the poem "Rossiada" by Kheraskov and the collected works of Sumarokov. He recites a poem and tells his family various details, invented by himself, about adored characters. Mother is laughing, and father is worried. News arrives about the death of Catherine II. Serezha listened attentively to these incomprehensible conversations of excited adults.

The news came that grandfather was dying, and the whole family immediately got ready to go to Bagrovo. Serezha was afraid to look at the dying grandfather, he is afraid that his mother will get sick from all this, and that in winter they may freeze on the road. On the way Serezha was tormented by gloomy forebodings.
Grandfather died a day after their arrival, the children managed to say goodbye to him. Seryozha was struck by the explanations of Parasha's nanny, why grandfather did not cry and did not scream: he was paralyzed, he only looked and moved his lips.

The behavior of relatives in Bagrovey annoyed Seryozha: 4 aunts fought, falling at the feet of their brother, who was the real owner of the house. Grandmother ceded power to her mother, and she is disgusted with all this. Everyone, except for the mother, weeps at the table and eats with great appetite. After dinner Serezha realized the beauty of nature in winter for the first time.
When they returned to Ufa, Serezha again experienced a shock: his mother almost died giving birth to a son.

Serezha's father, after the death of his grandfather, became the owner of Bagrov. He retired, and the family moved to live in Bagrovo. Serezha likes rural work, he does not even understand why his mother and little sister are indifferent to this. He tries to console and feel sorry for her husband and grandmother, whom he practically did not know. But she is used to beating the yard, so she quickly turns her grandson away from herself.
Praskovya Kurolesova invites mom and dad Serezha to visit; Seryozha's father is her heir and therefore did not contradict her in anything. The rich house of the widow Kurolesova at first seems to the child a palace from the fairy tale of Scheherazade. The widow made friends with Serezha's mother and for a long time does not let the family go back to Bagrovo. Meanwhile, the hectic life in a third-party house, in which there are constantly guests, exhausts Seryozha, and he thinks about returning to Bagrovo.

Upon returning home, Serezha truly sees spring. Seryozha began to experience insomnia from excitement. In order for him to fall asleep better, the housekeeper Pelageya told him a fairy tale.
With the onset of autumn, at the request of Kurolesova, their family is staying in Churasovo. Seryozha's father promises his grandmother to return to Pokrov. At night, dad had a terrible dream. The next morning they receive news of their grandmother's illness. The family almost drowns on the way to Simbirsk. Grandmother dies on Pokrov. Everyone is amazed.
The following winter, the Bagrovs gathered in Kazan to pray to the miracle workers. In Kazan, they planned to stay no more than 2 weeks, but everything turned out differently. Seryozha's childhood ends here and adolescence begins.

The summary of the story “Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson” was retold by Osipova A.S.

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