Gogol's prose from the first pages inspires many students with awe: how complicated his ornate language is to understand! An equally difficult process is the summary of his works. But in this matter, the Literaguru team can help you - take as a sample our very short content for the reader’s diary, which is important to combine with book analysisexplaining the meaning of the story.
(389 words) Once in March, an incredible event took place in St. Petersburg. During breakfast, the barber Ivan Yakovlevich discovered a real human nose in the sliced bread. His wife scolded him, saying that everything to blame for his love is to fiddle with someone else's noses while shaving. And he knew that the nose belongs to college assessor Kovalev, whom he constantly receives. Frightened by a possible arrest, he went outside to quietly get rid of the evidence. Ivan Yakovlevich went to the Isakievsky bridge and threw a paper-wrapped organ into the Neva. Leaving, he attracted the attention of the quarterly warden. He began to interrogate him what he was doing on the bridge.
Meanwhile, Kovalev woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror, but instead of his nose he saw a completely smooth place there. Frightened in earnest, he went to the Chief Police Officer. A few words about Kovalev: he was a college assessor, but in order to add significance, he was called a major. He was very proud of his rank. He came to Petersburg to occupy a high position.
On the way, Kovalev saw a carriage near one house, from which his own nose came out! Judging by the gold uniform and hat with a plume, he was in the rank of state adviser. Having caught him in the Kazan Cathedral, the hero told his escaped authority that he should be where he should be. But the nose replied that he was on his own and soon quietly left the church. Kovalev first went on a newspaper expedition, where he asked for an advertisement in the newspaper about the loss of nose. But the official found such an announcement stupid and refused to print it. Then Kovalev went to a private bailiff, but he only told him unpleasant things. The upset hero went home. He was convinced that a person of his status could be dispensed with without an arm, leg or ears, but walking without a nose was terribly embarrassing, and you shouldn’t show yourself like that to decent people. Soon, the overseer appeared to Kovalev, the same one who interrogated Ivan Yakovlevich on the bridge. He found the loss and hastened to return it to the owner. However, to attach the nose to its original place did not work. Then Kovalev wrote a letter to headquarters officer Podtochina, accusing her of involvement in the loss of his nose. He was sure that she wanted to avenge him for refusing to marry her daughter, and demanded to improve the situation. But her reply letter refuted his suspicions.
One morning, Kovalev woke up and found that his nose was back in place. When he shaved with the barber Ivan Yakovlevich, he no longer allowed him to touch his nose. His life returned to its former course, where he was cheerful and confident.
