Pushkin (a summary of the story is given in this article) wrote Pushkin in 1830, and published it a year later. Historians studying the writer's biography claim that this work is clearly autobiographical in nature. In the life of Alexander Sergeyevich there was a similar incident. So, a summary of the story.
Description of the protagonist
The story begins with the story that the officer regiment was stationed in some place, let's call it N. The boredom here was terrible. The officers have nothing to do. After all, all the exercises took place only in the morning, and the rest of the time they were left to their own devices. A former hussar lived in this place, who arranged dinners for young army men in his house. His name was Silvio. He was a strange and mysterious person. It was known that he once served as a hussar, and then quit and settled in this outback. No one knew the reason why he had to do this. He himself was gloomy and silent, did not enter into disputes and conversations. No one even had the desire to go into his soul and ask him about the past. From acquaintance with the main character, Pushkin begins his story in the work “Shot”. A summary of this episode is given here.
Skirmish at a card game of officers
Once, when the officers once again had lunch with Silvio, an unpleasant incident occurred between the owner of the house and one young servant. Guests, as always, played cards. That was their only entertainment. Silvio himself very rarely participated in such events. And if he did play, then by his own rules. He never made comments to his partners. And if I noticed their mistakes, then I wrote down the miscalculations of the opponents in a notebook, without saying a word. This time he was persuaded to play. During the process, Silvio noticed a ponter error and began to write something in chalk. His opponent noticed this and began to object. The former hussar was silent, continuing to do his job. And the young officer, having lost his temper, threw a copper shandal at the owner of the house. Everyone expected the case to end in a duel. However, Silvio did not do this. Through teeth, he asked the enemy to leave. A summary of Pushkin’s novel “The Shot” does not allow us to convey the intensity of passions that was at that moment around the protagonist and his opponent.
Silvio talks about his long-standing duel
Once, a former hussar received an envelope in the mail. After reading its contents, he urgently decides to leave. He gives the reason for such a quick departure to only one young officer with whom he became close and to whom he could entrust his secret. Silvio told him a story that happened to him many years ago, when he still served as a hussar. It turned out that then he challenged a daring officer for a duel for insulting him. The duel took place. Shot the officer struck Silvio's cap. When the time came to shoot the hussar, he refused it. After all, his offender stood, ate sweet cherries and with all his appearance showed him neglect. After this incident, Silvio left the army and settled in this outback, where his officers found. The letter he received contained information that his former adversary, who had now become Earl, had recently married. Silvio decided to repay his debt by killing him in a duel. So mysteriously describes the events of bygone years in the life of the protagonist in the novel "Shot" by Pushkin. A summary of the episode where Silvio shares his secret with a friend is given here.
Hussar's return shot after many years
And now our hero appears in the house of the count, who did not expect to see his former colleague after so many years. Upon learning that Silvio wanted to fire a shot, the right of which remained with him, the count turned pale. After all, now he had something to lose. He had a young wife. So ends the story "Shot" (summary). Pushkin, perhaps, in this work described a case that happened to him in a duel. Then the poet came to a duel with cherries - he had breakfast with them. At that time, it ended well for him.
In 1830, Pushkin wrote the novel Shot. A summary of the work you just read. The time of the creation of the story in the life of Russia was marked by popular unrest and the loss of political stability. Perhaps this is precisely what prompted the author to write this work.