Summary: "My Universities" (Maxim Gorky)

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suggest you familiarize yourself with autobiographical works, created in 1923, to read his summary."My Universities" wrote Maxim Gorky (pictured below).The plot works next.

Alyosha goes to Kazan.He wants to learn, he wants to attend university.However, life was not as planned.On the fate of Alexei Peshkov, you will learn by reading a summary."My Universities" - a work in which the author describes his youth.This is part of an autobiographical trilogy, which includes also "Childhood" and "The people."It completes the trilogy novel "My Universities".Summary of the first two chapters of its parts in this article has been submitted.

Life at Evreinov

Alex realized arrived in Kazan, he would not have to prepare for the university.Very poor living Evreinov could not feed him.So they do not eat lunch, he went out of the house in the morning, looking for a job.And in bad weather sitting in the basement, was not far from their apartment, the protagonist of the work, "My Universities".Summary, as well as the story itself, devoted to the period of Gorky's life from 1884 to 1888.

Introduction to Gury Pletnev

often in a vacant lot was going to play in the towns of student youth.Here Alesha befriended Gury Pletnev, printing employees.Having learned how difficult life is Alyosha, he offered to move in with him and begin to prepare for the work of rural teachers.However, nothing came of the idea.Alyosha found refuge in a dilapidated house inhabited by the urban poor and hungry students.Pletnev at night work and earn money on the night of 11 cents.Alyosha was asleep in his bed when he went to work.

narrator, Alex Peshkov, in the morning for hot water ran to a nearby restaurant.Pletnev during tea read funny poems, she told news from newspapers.Then he went to bed, and Alyosha went to the pier on the Volga earnings.He dragged loads, sawed wood.So Alyosha lived in the winter to late summer.

Derenko and shop

We describe further events that make up the summary."My Universities" continues that in 1884, in the fall, one of the students with whom he was familiar narrator, led him to Derenkov Andrey Stepanovich.It was the owner of a grocery shop.Even the gendarmes had no idea that the apartment Andrey Stepanovich going youth, revolutionary-minded, banned books stored in his closet.

Alyosha quickly made friends with the owner of the shop.He read a lot and helped him in his work.Evenings often converged schoolboys and students.There were a bunch of noisy.These people are very different from those who lived in the Lower Alex.They, like him, hated the dull life of the well-fed burghers, would change the existing order.Among them were revolutionaries, left to live in Kazan after his return from exile in Siberia.Visit

revolutionary circles

Lived new friends in trouble and worries about the future of Russia.They are worried about the fate of the Russian people.Peshkov sometimes thought that in their speeches, sounded his own thoughts.He participated in the meetings of the clubs which they carried.However, these mugs seemed narrator "boring."He sometimes thought he knew better than most the life of their teachers.He has read a lot of what they talked about, he suffered a lot.

Jobs krendelnom institution Semenova

Alyosha Peshkov shortly after his acquaintance with Derenkov joined krendelnoe institution headed by Semenov.He began to work here in the position of apprentice baker.Restaurant is in the basement.Alyosha had never worked in such unbearable conditions.I had to work 14 hours a day in the dirt and stupefying heat.Working Semenova housemates called "arestantikami."Alexei Peshkov could not accept the fact that they carry so meekly host-bullying tyrant.He read from his work in secret forbidden books.I wanted to give hope to these people that can be a completely different life, Alex Peshkov (Gorky)."My Universities", a summary of which is in the format of a single article can be given only in general terms, continue to the secret room description.

Chamber of Secrets at the bakery

Alexei Semenov from the bakery soon went to work for Derenkov who opened a bakery.Income from it was supposed to put on the revolutionary goals.There Alexei Peshkov puts into the oven breads, kneads dough in the morning early, stuffed rolls basket bakery carries on apartments, carries bread in the student cafeteria.All this describes the Maxim Gorky ("My Universities").Summary, we have made is to give the reader to understand that in his youth Gorky became interested in revolutionary activities.Therefore, we note that under his rolls were leaflets, brochures, books that he gave quietly with whom to pastries.

secret room located in a bakery.People come here, which was only a pretext buy bread.Bakery This soon began to arouse police suspicion.Nikiforich policeman he was "vulture circling" around Alyosha.He asked him about the visitors bakery, as well as the book he was reading Alex, invited him to her.

Mikhail Romas

In the bakery visited among many others, and Romas Michael Antonovich, nicknamed the Little Russian.It was a broad-chested, big man with a bushy beard and a shaved thick Tatar head.He used to sit in the corner and silently smoked a pipe.Michael Antonovich, together with the writer Vladimir Korolenko Galaktionovich recently returned from Yakutsk links.He settled in Krasnovidovo, Volga village is not far from Kazan.There Romas opened the shop, which was selling cheap goods.He also organized a gang of fishermen.It had to be Michael Antonovich to discreet and convenient to conduct revolutionary propaganda among the peasants that said Maxim Gorky ("My Universities").Summary brings the reader into Krasnovidovo, which decided to go on foot.

Alyosha goes to Krasnovidovo

In 1888, in June, in one of his visits to Kazan Romas Alyosha suggested to him to go to the village to help in the trade.Michael Antonovich also promised to help Peshkov learn.Naturally, Maksimych as often now called Alexei, he agreed to this.He did not give up his dream of scientists.Besides, he liked Romas - his quiet tenacity, calm, silence.Alex was curious to know what is the silent hero.

Maksimych a few days was already in Krasnovidovo.He had a long conversation with the Romas on the first night of his arrival.Talk to Alexei very much.Then followed the other in the evening, when the shutters closed tight, the room lit the lamp.Michael Antonovich said, and peasants listened to him attentively.Alyosha got in the attic, I studied hard, read a lot, went to the village and talked with local farmers.

Fire

goes on to describe the events of his life in the autobiographical novel "My Universities" Bitter.Summary works introduces readers to the main ones.

local rich and the head to the Romas were hostile, suspicious.At night, lay in wait for him, tried to blow up in his hut stove and then to the end of the summer, the shop burned Romasya with all its products.Alyosha, when it caught fire, was in the attic and, above all rushed to save the box in which there were books.He nearly burned himself, but realized jump out the window, wrapped in a sheepskin.Parting words

Romasya

Romas fire shortly thereafter decided to leave the village.Parting with Alyosha eve of his departure, he punished to look calmly at all, remembering that everything passes, everything changes for the better.While Alexei Maximovich was 20 years old.It was a strong, big, awkward boy with blue eyes.He grew long hair, and they are not stuck in the opposite sides of the vortex.High cheekbones, blunt his face could not be called beautiful.But it is transformed, when Alexei smiled.

childhood: life Kashirinyh

When a pawn, the hero of the work, "My Universities" (Gorky), a summary of which we are concerned, was a little boy, cheerful young worker Kashirinykh Gypsy (adoptee grandmother), once told him thatAlyosha "small and angry."And it was true.Peshkov was angry with his grandfather when he hurt his grandmother on his comrades, if they mistreated those who were weaker on their hosts for their greed, their gray, dull life.He was always ready to fight and quarrel, protested against what degrading, interferes with life.

Gradually, Alex begins to realize that his grandmother's wisdom is not always correct.The woman said that the need to firmly remember the good and forget the bad.However, Alyosha felt that we should not forget it, you need to deal with it, if the bad ruining a man spoils his life.Gradually his soul growing attention to the man, love him, respect for work.He was looking for good people everywhere and firmly became attached to them when found.So, Alyosha was tied to his grandmother, a fun and clever Gypsy to Smouri, a wood pigeon.I met good people, and when he worked at the fair, and Romasya, and Derenkov, and Semenova Gorky ("My Universities").Summary of chapter introduces only the main characters, so we have described is not all.Alyosha gave myself a solemn promise to serve these people.

As always, the book helped him understand many things in life, explained, and Alex began to treat more serious literature, demanding.He is a lifetime since childhood carried in his heart the joy of the first acquaintance with the works of Lermontov, Pushkin, with a special fondness always remembered his grandmother's songs, fairy tales ...

Reading books, Alexei Peshkov wanted to be like their heroes, and wanted to meet herthe life of this "simple, wise man," so he brought it to clear a path, which is the truth, straight and hard as a sword.

"Universities" Gorky

Thoughts on higher education lagged far behind.And failed to do Alyosha."My Universities" (summary does not replace the work itself) ends with a description of how he "wandered through life" instead of studying at the university, learned people to acquire knowledge in circles minded revolutionary youth, a lot of thought and believed more in that manbeautiful and great.Life itself was his university.This is what he said in his third autobiography, with which we have introduced the reader, describing its summary - "My Universities".Read the original product can be approximately 4 hours.Recall that the autobiographical trilogy consists of the following story: "Childhood", "The people", "My Universities".Summary of the last 4 years the work describes the life of Alexei Peshkov.