Title of the work: Miraculous Doctor

Year of writing: 1897

Genre of work: story

Main characters: Mertsalov- poor man Elizaveta Ivanovna- his wife, Volodya and Grisha- sons Pirogov- Professor.

Reading the reader's diary summary of the story "The Wonderful Doctor" reveals the incredible change that came about through one chance meeting.

Plot

Mertsalov fell ill with typhoid fever. All savings went to treatment. Because of this, the master gave the job of managing the house to another. Misfortune simply surrounded the family. The children started getting sick. One girl died, and nursing Masha became seriously ill. Food was scarce. The father of the family did everything necessary, but the situation could not be corrected. In desperation, he tried to beg, but received only reproaches and threats. Finding no way out, Mertsalov decides to commit suicide in the park. Fate brought a meeting with the old man. Hearing a sad story, he helped with funds. Then he said that he was a doctor. After the examination, the stranger wrote out a prescription for the patient and gave more money. When asked what his name was, to thank the doctor did not answer. It soon turned out that this was the famous Professor Pirogov. And for the family, this case was a turning point. Everyone got to their feet.

Conclusion (my opinion)

This story is based on real events. Having met a lot of suffering on the way, you need to believe that they will come better times. There are many virtuous people in the world, the main thing is not to despair. Like a professor, doing good should not attach great importance to your person. Selfless help will bring happiness and will be rewarded in the future. An important lesson is that it is illogical to divide people by status. Everyone deserves support and help.

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Book Information

Title and author of the book	Theme, idea of ​​the book	main characters	Plot	Date of reading
Kuprin A.I. Miraculous Doctor	Kindness and help of doctors	Mertsalov family, Dr. Pirogov	Two brothers - Volodya and Grisha Mertsalov were standing near the shop window, where there were mountains of red apples, oranges and tangerines, smoked and pickled fish, chicken legs, sausages and even a pig with greens in its mouth. Swallowing saliva and sighing heavily, they returned home with a letter that they could not convey to the master asking for help. The boys lived in the basement of a dilapidated house. The basement smelled of dirty baby clothes, rats and dampness. In the corner, on a large dirty bed, lay a sick seven-year-old girl, and under the ceiling was a cradle with a screaming baby. An emaciated, pale mother was kneeling near the sick girl, not forgetting to rock the cradle. Father Mertsalov was in despair. Mertsalov decided to hang himself. He did not want to think about poverty and the sick Mashutka and about his family. But by coincidence, an old man sat down on the bench next to Mertsalov, who turned out to be very responsive to the misfortune of a simple, unfamiliar person. Soon they were already at Mertsalov's house. He examined the girl and prescribed medicine, and on the prescription after the stranger left, the guys saw that the wonderful doctor had the surname Pirogov. And soon the family's affairs improved - Mashutka recovered, Mertsalov found a job and even Grishka found a good place in the bank. The whole family believes that this is all thanks to their savior - the wonderful doctor Pirogov.	26.06.2015

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About the author of the book

Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich (1870-1938), writer. Born on September 7, 1870 in the city of Narovchat, Penza province. At the age of one, he lost his father, who died of cholera. The mother arrived in Moscow in 1874 and, due to her difficult financial situation, was forced to send her son to an orphanage. In 1880, Kuprin entered the 2nd Moscow Military Gymnasium (since 1882, the Cadet Corps), and in 1888, the Moscow and Alexander Military School. He made his first literary experiments while studying at cadet corps, and in 1889 his story “The Last Debut” was published, for which the author received a disciplinary sanction at the school). In 1890-1894. Kuprin, with the rank of second lieutenant, served in the Podolsk province. After retiring, he settled in Kyiv, in 1901 he moved to St. Petersburg, and then to Sevastopol. For a decade, the retired officer lived in constant need, living off odd jobs. However, it was during these years that Kuprin became a writer, which was largely facilitated by his friendship with I. A. Bunin, A. P. Chekhov and M. Gorky. Then the stories "Moloch" (1896), "Duel" (1905), "Pit" (1909 - 1915), the story " Garnet bracelet"(1911). In 1909, Kuprin's talent was awarded the Pushkin Prize. The writer actively participated in public life: in 1905, he helped a group of sailors from the rebel cruiser Ochakov escape from police pursuit. At the beginning of the First World War, Kuprin volunteered to go to the front, and after demobilization for health reasons in 1915, he organized a hospital for the wounded in his own house. The writer met the February Revolution of 1917 with joy, becoming close to the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, but the events of October 1917 and the ensuing Civil War disappointed him. Kuprin joined the army of N. N. Yudenich, and in 1920 he left for France. The most significant work created in exile was the autobiographical novel "Junker" (1928-1932). Homesickness forced Kuprin to return to the USSR in 1937, where famous writer received quite favorably. But he did not live long in Soviet Russia. He died on August 25, 1938 in Leningrad. Buried at Volkovo Cemetery.

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My impressions of the book

This story touched me to the core. When I read, I was overcome by various feelings: pity for the children, indignation at the terrible thoughts of the father of the family, pride in the doctor.

Kyiv. The Mertsalov family has been huddled in the damp basement of an old house for more than a year. Most youngest child hungry and screaming in his cradle. The girl is older heat but there is no money for medicine. On New Year's Eve, Mertsalova sends her two eldest sons to the man for whom her husband worked as a manager. The woman hopes that he will help them, but the children are kicked out without giving a penny.

In this terrible fateful year, misfortune after misfortune persistently and ruthlessly rained down on Mertsalov and his family.

Mertsalov fell ill with typhus. While he was recovering, another person took his place as manager. All the family's savings were spent on medicines, and the Mertsalovs had to move to a damp basement. The children started to get sick. One girl died three months ago, and now Mashutka got sick. In search of money for medicines, Mertsalov ran around the whole city, humiliated himself, begged, but did not get a penny.

Upon learning that the children also failed, Mertsalov leaves.

He was seized by an uncontrollable desire to run anywhere, to run without looking back, so as not to see the silent despair of a hungry family.

Mertsalov wanders aimlessly around the city and turns into a public garden. There is a deep silence here. Mertsalov wants peace, the thought of suicide comes to mind. He almost makes up his mind, but then a short old man in a fur coat sits down next to him. He speaks with Mertsalov about New Year's gifts, and he is seized by a "tide of desperate anger." The old man, however, is not offended, but asks Mertsalov to tell everything in order.

Ten minutes later the old man, who turned out to be a doctor, is already entering the Mertsalovs' cellar. Immediately there is money for firewood and food. The old man writes out a free prescription and leaves, leaving several large bills on the table. The name of the wonderful doctor - Professor Pirogov - Mertsalovs is found on a label attached to a vial of medicine.

Since then, “as if a beneficent angel descended” into the Mertsalov family. The head of the family finds a job, and the children recover. With Pirogov, fate brings them together only once - at his funeral.

The narrator learns this story from one of the Mertsalov brothers, who became a major employee of the bank.

Summary Kuprin's story "The Wonderful Doctor"

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A.I. Kuprin

Name: Miraculous Doctor

Genre: Story

Duration: 13min 04sec

Annotation:

Two boys stop in front of a grocery store window and discuss what they saw, swallowing their saliva. Especially animatedly they discuss a pink piglet with a sprig of greenery in its mouth. Hungry children look at him with hungry eyes. And in contrast to the skinny figures of unfortunate children, preparations for Christmas in Kyiv are shown.
Grisha and Volodya were sent on an important mission from their mother. But the porter drove away the little beggars. And they returned to their home - to the basement with damp walls, with nothing.
The life of the Mertsalov family is so miserable that it cannot but arouse compassion. A seven-year-old girl with a fever lies on a dirty bed, and next to her is a screaming, hungry child. An emaciated woman with a blackened face from sadness sits with a sick girl and at the same time rocks the cradle with the baby.
Father of the Mertsalov family with hands swollen from frost. He had an unhappy year. He fell ill with typhoid fever, lost his job, one by one his children begin to get sick, all his savings have been spent, one of his daughters has died, and the other is now seriously ill.
Hopelessness eats Mertsalov, he leaves the house, circling around the city without the hope of finding something. Tired, he sits down on a bench in the city park and feels the impulse to kill himself immediately. At that moment, a stranger appears in the alley. He sits down next to Mertsalov and starts a friendly conversation. Mertsalov begins to shout with fervor and anger that his children are dying of hunger. The old man listens attentively to his story and offers to help. It turns out that he is a doctor. Mertsalov takes the doctor to his sick daughter. He examines the girl, writes a prescription and gives the family money for firewood, medicine and food. That same evening, on a label stuck to a bottle of medicine, Mertsalov sees the name of their savior. Professor Pirogov is an outstanding Russian physician. Since the angel descended to them from heaven, their affairs have gone uphill.
The wonderful doctor, as Kuprin says, behaved very humanely and changed the world of the heroes of this story. The boys grew up, one of them took an important position in the bank and always showed a special sensitivity to the needs of the poor people.

The story is based on events that happened in real life.

Two boys are looking with interest at the luxurious showcase of a grocery store. Then they rush to the dirty basement. This cold and damp room is their home, where the extremely poor Mertsalov family lives. The boys were carrying a letter addressed to their father's former employer. The employer was a rich gentleman, and his porters kicked the boys out. The younger sister died, the second sister is very sick.

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The mother is breastfeeding the child. The father is looking for work, he even tried to beg people. While the children are eating cold, empty borscht, their father wanders around the city with no particular purpose. In the park next to Mertsalov, a gentleman sits down on a bench. He likes the winter night, and he is happy to talk about the gifts that he bought for his children. Mertsalov cannot stand it and tells everything to the gentleman, who turned out to be a doctor. He not only examined little Masha, but also helped with food and firewood, and also left money. The prescription that the doctor wrote out was written on behalf of Pirogov. Very soon, everything began to improve for the family. The Mertsalovs thank the doctor who helped them.