There are tales in which great, not brief, content is laid. “Farewell to Mater” Rasputin wrote just that, taking the real story as a basis. The Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, being built on the Angara, demanded great sacrifices: the reservoir covered all the settlements located in the vicinity. Naturally, the people who have lived in these places all their lives perceived the death of their small homeland so painfully that it is unlikely that these feelings can be conveyed by a brief summary. “Farewell to Mater” Rasputin presented the reader with such a poetic piercing story, so honest and convincing that it almost immediately became a cult book, a classic of Russian realism.
Ice drift
The story reveals an epic picture of the ice drift, which has always been an event of great importance for the inhabitants of Matera. This time the village did not meet him as always. This spring did not bring joy, but tragedy. The village felt its old age and fast death. Many owners have stopped monitoring order. Only the elderly supported the life of a village dying on the island, observing the usual way. These small but significant details will not convey the summary.
“Farewell to Mater” Rasputin showed through a mass of images composed of colorful descriptions of simple rural life. However, among them there are fundamental, symbolic ones, such as the image of water - life-giving and destructive at the same time. There will be no end to running water, but a three-hundred-year-old village, it would seem, is also almost eternal, associated with the fluidity of time with all its existence, is already doomed. One summer remains, and in autumn this island will flood the Angara.
Conversations
At the oldest resident of Matera, Daria, two friends sat with her and drank tea from an ancient samovar. Even these years of their old women, these no longer knew, because the local church, adapted for storage, didn’t even preserve itself, not only old books with records of baptisms, weddings and funeral services. This should mention even a brief summary. “Farewell to Mater” Rasputin wrote with great attention to detail. The old women, starting from "iconic" village events, nevertheless tried to remember something about their age.
One of them, Sima, could not participate in the memoirs, because she was not local, she came here several years ago. She was Tula, she saw Moscow, which the local people did not really believe in, having decided once and for all that they would not let everyone see the capital in a row. They called Sima Moskovishna and laughed. During the war, a woman lost almost everything, was busy for a long time, gave birth to a daughter who turned out to be dumb, and now she remains old and weak, but with Kolka - a grandson in her arms.
Daria and Nastasya
Despite her age, Daria, a tall Daria, was stronger and livelier than her younger friends, she was doing housework on her own so far, since her son and daughter-in-law did not come every week, on a weekend. She could not believe in moving and flooding the village, she could not even imagine herself elsewhere on earth. And Nastasya, judging by her story, completely started to pass: "the heart rests, the legs do not go."
She and her husband Yegor had a very fast farewell to Mater. The summary of the story should not miss this line. Egor, at the distribution of his place of residence, was confused or angry, therefore, he chose the very city where the hydroelectric power station is being built, and where the attack was coming from Matera - Bratsk. When he thought better of it, it was too late to replay. They have already prepared an apartment and have twice been reminded that it is time to move into it. There was only two weeks to communicate with Nastasya friends.
Cemetery
This shaggy barefoot old man - Bogodul - came to his friends in a state close to affect: he could only scold and knock with a crutch. Somehow he managed to inform the old women that some strangers were ruining a cemetery where all their relatives and friends were buried: they cut crosses and saw nightstands. Girlfriends hastily grabbed a scarf and rushed there. The description of the cemetery continues the story "Farewell to Matera." The summary does not allow you to enjoy the simple but extremely penetrating language that the writer uses here.
Grandmothers rushed into a fight with two strangers, cleaning the territory of the cemetery. It turned out that this is a sanitary team that is responsible for the cleanliness of the bottom of the future reservoir, that there is a chairman Vorontsov who knows everything about it. The old women drove the aliens to the village council, where they realized that this was true, and that the state of the local women did not care much about the emotional affection of the local people. Women crawled through the cemetery all night and hoisted the destroyed crosses and gravestones to their former places.
Bogodul
Almost no one remembered where Bogodul came from. Once upon a time, he simply went into the village on his boat, drove around the neighboring villages so and so - exchanged or sold. And then he stayed, settling in the Kolchak barracks. He always looked like an old man, even Daria and Nastasya did not remember him by others. He always walked barefoot, all the way to the snow. Judging by the curses, he was a Pole. I hardly spoke Russian.
And the old women of God-God were loved, despite the fact that the old people called him a convict, who was exiled to Siberia for the murder. This old man did not bother to relocate at all, probably expected to die before the fall, although he explained in clumsy Russian that he was not going to go anywhere, and no one had the right to drown living people. In the morning after a skirmish at the cemetery, he came to Daria, drank the tea she prepared yesterday.
Darya
Daria brewed fresh and told Bogodul what was painful in her soul: how her dead parents would condemn her for allowing such a thing with her homeland, with their bones restless. After all, mother Daria was afraid of water all her life ... And now she’ll float ... Leaving Gododul in the hut, she left. Probably cry. She sat on the hill. Looked around. I thought about it. This destiny the land intended by them is beautiful, but how old it is! Right now, Daria is seriously starting her farewell to Matera. The summary of the story will not be able to fully convey the feeling of orphanhood that the heroine of Rasputin experienced at that time.
It came to understand that she, Daria, had already done everything from what was intended for her from birth, and it was time to die, so as not to annoy anyone. So Paul, son, says that the village in which to live is not suitable for the peasantry. Some residents of Matera want to quickly put their houses under fire and move to places where there will be no usual hassle. What is their home, what is their homeland ...
Master
When the village fell asleep, a small creature appeared a little larger than a cat near the mill. This is the owner of the island, which none of the inhabitants have ever seen or even suspected of its existence. But the Boss knew here everyone and everything. And he knew the fate of the village, and foresaw his doom. Resigned. As always, he began bypassing his territory with the hut, where Bogodul settled, about whom he also knew that he would die together when this last summer would end.
The hut of Petrukh, standing far from the rest, smelled of death very soon, the Boss never mistook these smells. And then - one after another, the old huts sighed, responding to the approach of the Master, and they also knew their fate, prepared to give up to the last all the solar heat and light absorbed over many years, turning into fire. And the island did not want to die: grass grew, bird cherry blossomed, trees were filled with life-giving juice ... But the Master had already begun his farewell to Mater. A summary of this particularly poetic chapter concludes with a tour of the Master.
First loss
After the Trinity, Yegor and Nastasya left. She walked around the hut for a long time, talking with the things left, she warmed the samovar for the last time. You can’t take your household with you into a city apartment. Rasputin simply and at the same time colorfully described farewell to Matera. A summary of the chapter, which gradually examines the entire abandoned economy: the grandfather takes to the city a gun and all hunting supplies, which is also probably in vain. And Nastasya will take a spinning wheel with him. The cat Nurse hid and did not leave for departure. Daria promises to take care of her. The neighbors are all silently suppressed, watching how quickly and forever the boat leaves the Angara.
Then Petruha burned his hut. Itself. People silently looked at the fire devouring the old house and already seemed to see how soon their homes would burn out. It just burned first. The wife of Petruha Katerina voted until Daria took her away from the conflagration. Everyone will have the same thing, and Katerina will feel better later, because her turn has already passed. This makes it clear in the dialogue of two women Valentin Rasputin. “Farewell to Mater”, a brief summary especially emphasizes this - a story about fate, which can neither be changed nor stopped.
Pavel
He visits his mother less and less: a lot of work, they appointed a foreman - to repair the equipment. He was delighted when Kateryna settled near Daria. In fact, cats scratch his soul: the new village is uncomfortable for living - the north side of the hill, five kilometers from the water. Yes, and the land is poor in comparison with the grandfather's island - red, barren. But this is not the main thing. The main thing is the mother. She will not survive here, Paul sees and knows. This is noted repeatedly in the story "Farewell to Matera." The summary, analysis of this work and the author’s reasoning also make it clear that Paul himself will never be able to forget his birthplace and get used to the new.
Petruha, along with the house, burned all the supplies of his mother - Katerina, so she now completely lived on Daria’s food. Old women talk a lot about the reasons for Petruha’s bad behavior. Why did he grow so worthless? Daria believes that because of the concessions that Katerina did to him, she agrees. Then there was the last surge in the life of a dying village in chapters on haymaking, as Rasputin described farewell to Matera. The summary, the analysis of which is presented in a condensed form, refers to the strange inspiration in these circumstances that was experienced by all the inhabitants of the village that was preparing for the death. People worked with joy and even passion.
The final
At the very end, the story “Farewell to Matera", a brief summary of which is presented here, tells how the houses of the villagers are burning, and then the old-timers do not leave, no. They settle in the barracks of Bogodul and refuse to leave there. When Chairman Vorontsov persuaded to leave and leave the island, not a single sound was heard in response. And the night came The fog came down. Barak remained in darkness and silence, except for the quiet melancholy howl with which the Master indicated his farewell to Mater. A detailed summary of the story completes this episode. But in the soul of the reader a bitter precipitate will remain for a long time.