Summary of Chapter 2 Prisoner of the Caucasus. "Prisoner of the Caucasus". Zhilin and Kostylin are two different characters, two different destinies. "Zhilin is preparing to escape"
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Officer Zhilin served in the Caucasus, who decided to respect his mother and go to see her before her death. On the way, he and his cowardly fellow traveler Kostylin were attacked by the Tatars and taken prisoner. They forced him to write a ransom letter home to his mother. He wrote, but the address was incorrect, since she had no money. Zhilin met the girl Dina, whom he sculpted clay dolls, and she fed him for this. Secretly, he was digging, and when he was ready, he persuaded Kostylin to run away with him. Kostylin could not walk fast, so they were caught. The second time he did not take him with him, but with the help of Dina, he escaped alone. He was able to get to the Russians, and a month later a ransom came for Kostylin.
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An officer named Zhilin once served in the Caucasus. A letter came to him from an elderly mother, in which she asked him to come to see him, and to look at the bride. The colonel did not mind, but there was war everywhere in the Caucasus, so it was difficult to drive along the roads. As soon as the Russians were left alone, the Tatars took them prisoner. Zhilin at first rode alone, but then Kostylin joined him with a gun. Together it was somehow safer. On the way they were attacked by the Tatars. Zhilin shouted to Kostylin to shoot, and he, frightened, began to run away. So Zhilin was captured and ended up in the village. They put him in shackles and locked him in a barn.
He did not sleep the whole night, he was terribly thirsty. In the morning two Tatars dropped in on him, and Zhilin gestured to them that he was thirsty. One Tatar called his daughter Dina to bring water. Dina watched with curiosity as he drank the water greedily. Then all the visitors left, and after a while he was called to the house of a Tatar. They ordered me to write a letter home asking for a ransom. They claimed that for three thousand they would release Zhilin's coins home. But he knew that his mother did not have that kind of money, so he insisted on five hundred coins. At first they did not agree, then he said that if they killed him, they would not receive anything at all. One of the Tatars even called him a dzhigit, that is, a brave fellow.
Soon Kostylin was also brought in. It turns out that he was also caught, as the gun failed. The Tatars told Zhilin that his comrade had long ago written a letter home asking him to send as many as five thousand coins. To this Zhilin replied that since he is rich, let him write. Before writing his letter, he demanded that they be fed, given fresh clothes, removed the shackles and put in a barn. Then he wrote a letter, but the address was wrong. For a whole month they lived with the Tatars. They fed them unimportantly, but did not offend. Kostylin was still waiting for a ransom, and Zhilin was thinking about escaping. Sometimes he sculpted dolls out of clay. Once Dina, the daughter of a Tatar, saw one of these dolls and took it for herself. She dressed her up in red patches and rocked her like a child.
When this doll broke, Zhilin made another one for Dina, and she brought him milk in gratitude. Soon she became attached to Zhilin, began to bring cheese cakes, milk, even pieces of meat. And when Zhilin repaired the watch for some Tatar, then in the village they began to talk about him as a master. So Zhilin lived in the village for another month. In the evenings, he secretly dug into the barn to escape. Somehow the Tatars returned angry, one of them was killed. They commemorated for three days, and then they left again. Zhilin decided it was time to run. He barely persuaded Kostylin to run away with him. As soon as everything calmed down in the village, they got out of the barn, headed towards the forest and found the right path.
Soon Kostylin began to lag behind, all whining that he had rubbed his leg with boots. Because of this, they were unable to run far. They were noticed by a Tatar passing through the forest, and they were brought back. This time they were put in a deep hole instead of a barn. Zhilin still did not despair. One day he asked Dina to bring a long stick. That's how he was able to get out of the hole, and Kostylin preferred to stay there. Dina gave him cakes for the journey and wept as she parted from him. Although he could not remove the shackles, he managed to move away from the village and move forward. When the strength ended, he crawled to the field, beyond which he knew there were Russians.
Most of all, he was afraid of being seen. Before he had time to think about it, he saw that the Tatars were standing two acres to his left. Seeing him, they rushed to catch up, but the Cossacks were already ahead. Zhilin waved with all his might and began to ask for help. Hearing him, the Cossacks immediately rushed to help, but the Tatars were frightened and did not go further. This is how the Cossacks saved Zhilin. When he came to, he told them about his adventures. In the end, Zhilin decided to stay to serve in the Caucasus, and decided to postpone his marriage. The ransom for Kostylin came only a month later. He was delivered barely alive.
In the Caucasus, a gentleman named Zhilin serves as an officer. He receives a letter from his mother, in which she writes that she wants to see her son before her death and, moreover, found him a good bride. He decides to go to his mother.
At that time there was a war in the Caucasus, so the Russians traveled only with escorted soldiers. It was summer. Zhi-ling, together with the wagon train, drove very slowly, so he decided that he would go alone. Kostylin, a heavy and fat man, stuck up to him, and they drove off together. Kostylin had a loaded gun, so Zhilin decided to go with him. At this time, they are attacked by the Tatars. Zhilin does not have a gun, he shouts to Kostylin to shoot. But, seeing the Tatars, Kostylin began to run away. Zhilin was captured. They brought him to the village, put stocks on him and put him in a barn.
Almost all night Zhilin does not sleep. When dawn comes, he begins to examine the place where he fell into a crack. He is terribly thirsty.
Two Tatars come to him, one is angry, swears in his own language, and the second begins to mutter something in his own way to Zhilin. Zhilin shows that he is thirsty. The Tatar called his daughter Dina. She brought Zhilin to drink, and she herself sat down and watched him drink, as if at a wild beast. Zhilin gives her a jug, and she will jump like a wild goat. The Tatars left, locking Zhilin alone again.
After some time, a Nogai comes to Zhilin and says that he must go. They brought Zhilin to the house of one of the Tatars. There were a lot of them there.
One Tatar tells Zhilin in Russian to write a letter home, asking for a ransom of three thousand coins, and when the ransom comes, he, Zhilin, will be released. But Zhilin says that he does not have so much money, he can only pay five hundred rubles.
Tatars began to swear among themselves. The translator tells Zhilin that only three thousand, no less, should be a ransom, and Zhilin stands his ground: five hundred rubles and that's it. And if you kill, you won't get anything at all.
The Tatars began to swear again, and one of them came up to Zhili-nu and said to him: "Urus, horseman." Dzhigit in Tatar means well done.
Here they bring Kostylin to the house, the Tatars also took him prisoner: the horse stopped under him and the gun stopped, so they took him.
The Tatars tell Zhilin that his comrade wrote home a long time ago asking for a ransom in the amount of five thousand. That is why Kostylin will be fed and will not be offended. But Zhilin stands his ground, even kill.
The Tatar, who was the owner of Zhilin, got angry, gave him a paper, told him to write - he agreed to five hundred rubles. Zhilin, before writing, demands that they feed them well, give them clothes, put them together and remove the stocks. The Tatars agreed to everything, except for the docks. Zhilin wrote a letter, but the address was incorrect, so that it would not reach.
They took Zhilin and Kostylin to a barn, gave them shabby clothes, water and bread, and for the night they took off the stocks and locked them up.
So Zhilin and Kostylin lived for a month. They are poorly fed. Kostylin is still waiting for money from the house, and Zhilin thinks how to get out himself, walks around the village, looks out, sculpts clay dolls. One day Dina saw such a doll, grabbed it and ran away with it. The next morning, she put red shreds on her and shakes her like a child.
Yes, only the old Tatar woman broke this doll, and sent Dina to work somewhere.
Then Zhilin made another doll, gave it to Dina, and she brought milk for it. And so Dina began to bring him either milk, or cheese cakes, or a piece of meat once brought him. Then Zhilin repaired a clock for some Tatar, and the glory of the master went about him. The Tatars fell in love with Zhilin, although some still looked askance, especially the red Tatarin and one old man. That old man was once the best horseman, he had eight sons, seven of whom were killed by the Russians, for which he now hates the Russians.
So Zhilin lived for another month. He walks around the village during the day, and digs in the barn in the evening. Only now he does not know in which direction he should go. Once he decided to go up the mountain to see where the Russians were, and the fellow was spying on him. Zhilin barely persuaded him to go to the mountain, he says that the grass must be collected in order to heal the people. The little one agreed. Zhilin looked where to run, he saw his side. Zhilin decides to run away that same night. But to his misfortune, the Tatars returned early that day, angry, brought with them the murdered Tatar. The Tatars buried the dead, commemorated him for three days. Only then did they pack up and leave. Zhilin thinks that today it is necessary to run. Offers Kostylin, but he is afraid, refuses. Finally, Zhilin persuaded Kostylin.
As soon as everything was quiet in the village, Zhilin and Kostylin got out of the barn. The dog Ulyashin began to bark, but Zhilin had tamed her long ago, fed her, stroked her, and she calmed down.
Zhilin ran quickly, and Kostylin barely followed him, only groaning. They took it a little more to the right than they should, they almost got into a strange village. Then they went into the forest, attacked the path, they were going. We came to a clearing. Kostylin sat down in the clearing and said that he could no longer walk. Zhilin began to persuade him to go further, but he did not. Zhilin says that then he will go alone. Kostylin was frightened, jumped up and went on.
Suddenly, a Tartar rides past, they waited. Zhilin gets up to go on, but Kostylin cannot: his legs are skinned. Zhilin lifts him by force, and he screams, so after all, the Tatar can hear. Zhilin Kostylin took it upon himself and carried it. And the Tatar heard Kostylin shouting, and went for help. Zhilin Kostylin could not carry them far, they were caught.
They brought them to the village, they beat them with stones and whips. The Tatars gathered in a circle, discussing what to do with the prisoners. The old man offers to kill, but the owner of Zhilin says that he will help out the money for him. Finally, they came to the conclusion that if money was not sent for the prisoners in a week, they would be killed. She forced the Tatars to write letters to Zhilin and Kostylin again, and then put them in a deep pit behind the mosque.
Now they are not let out into the world and they do not remove the blocks, they only give water. Kostylin howled like a dog, all swollen. And Zhilin became despondent: he couldn't get out of here. material from the site
Once a cake fell on top of him, then cherries. And it was Dina who brought the food. Zhilin thinks that maybe Dina will help him escape. He made her dolls, dogs, horses out of clay.
The next day, Dina came and said that they wanted to kill Zhilin, but she felt sorry for him. And Zhilin tells her that if it's a pity, then bring a long pole. Dina shook her head and left. Zhilin was upset, he thinks that the girl will not do this, and then at night Dina brings a pole.
Zhilin called Kostylin to get out, but he says that now his fate is here, he will not go anywhere. Zhilin said goodbye to Kostylin, crawled upstairs.
Zhilin ran downhill to remove the blocks. The lock is strong and doesn't come off. Dina tries to help him, but she is still small, she has little strength. Then the moon began to rise. Zhi-lin said goodbye to Dina, she burst into tears, gave him cakes and ran away. Zhilin went like this, in stocks.
Zhilin goes quickly, the month has already illuminated everything around. He walked all night. He reached the end of the forest, he sees guns, Cossacks. And from the other end of the Tatars. They saw Zhilin, set off to him. His heart skipped a beat. He screamed with all his might. The Cossacks heard, set off to cut across the Tatars. They got scared and stopped. So Zhilin ran to the Cossacks. They recognized him and took him to the fortress. Zhilin told everything that happened to him.
And Zhilin remained after this incident to serve in the Caucasus. And Kostylin was redeemed only a month later for five thousand. They brought him barely alive.
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"Prisoner of the Caucasus"
Chapter I
1. Why is the story called "Caucasian
prisoner"?
2. Whom
called in the story "Caucasian
prisoner"?
3. What is the reason that made Zhilin
hit the road.
4. What was the danger of the path?
Chapter I
5.
What made Zhilin and Kostylin
break away from the guard and go ahead? "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
Chapter I
6. How the heroes agreed to behave when leaving
from the convoy, and how they behaved when they met
mountaineers? "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
Chapter I
7. Tell us about how you were captured in
captured Zhilin and Kostylin. "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
Chapter II
8.
How
decided
the fate of Zhilin, and then
and Kostylin in captivity?
9. What makes Zhilina
to bargain,
give
wrong address? "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
Chapter III
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
How did Zhilin and Kostylin live in captivity? How
their life was different during the month of captivity
in the camp of the enemy?
With whose help we get acquainted with life
mountain village?
How did the Tatars in the first days of captivity treat
Zhilin and Kostylin and why?
Are the highlanders right when they call Zhilin a "dzhigit"
And
Kostylin
"meek"?
explain
reason for this difference.
Why locals began to come to Zhilin
residents from nearby villages?
comparison table
Quality1. Meaning
surnames
2. Appearance
Zhilin
Kostylin
Veins - blood vessels Crutch - stick with
vessels, tendons.
crossbar,
pledged under
wiry -
mouse serving
lean,
support when walking
muscular, with
lame people or
speakers
those who are sick
veins
legs
“And Zhilin at least not“ A
Kostylin
great in stature, yes the man is daring
overweight,
was".
fat,
the whole
red and sweat from it
so it pours"
comparison table
Quality3rd place
residence
heroes
4. What did they eat
prisoners?
Zhilin
Kostylin
Mountain Tatar aul, barn
Cake
from
millet flour or
raw dough and water;
milk,
cheese
flatbread,
piece
lamb
Only a cake
millet flour or
raw dough and water
10. Comparison table
Quality5. Than
were engaged
officers?
Zhilin
Kostylin
"Wrote
Zhilin
letter, but not in writing
so wrote - so as not to
came. He thinks: "I
I'll go"
"Kostylin once again
wrote home
waiting for money to be sent
and bored. In whole
sits in the barn for days and
counting the days when
the letter will come; or
sleeping"
“And he looks out for everything,
asks him how
run. Walks around the village
whistles, and then sits,
anything
needlework - or from
clay dolls sculpts, or
weaves
wickerwork
from
rods. And Zhilin
any needlework was
master"
11. Comparison table
Quality6. Opinion
Tatars about
captives
Zhilin
Kostylin
"Dzhigit"
"Smirny"
12. Comparison table
ZhilinKostylin
We draw a conclusion
We characterize Zhilin and Kostylin
Active person. IN
difficult
situations
not
loses his mental strength. Everything
making efforts to
to get out of the village
make an escape. All of it
deeds
And
Affairs
subject to the same goal of liberation.
Passive
lazy,
inactive, bored, waiting,
when the money will be sent; not
able to adapt to
situations.
13.
"Prisoner of the Caucasus"Chapter IV
How did Zhilin live for a month?
What is the hero's trick?
to climb the mountain?
What prevented him that evening
make an escape?
Why did Zhilin propose to Kostylin
run with him?
explain
reason
hesitation
Kostylin before the escape?
14. "Zhilin is preparing to escape"
Making a story planmaterials III and IV chapters
1. Acquaintance with the life of the Tatar village.
2. Work on the tunnel.
3. Search for the road.
4. Escape route - only to the North.
5. The sudden return of the Tatars.
6. Escape.
15. Draw a conclusion
look,how
bright,
strongly
maybe
manifest the character of one person and completely
not manifest the character of another in the same
circumstances.
16. Draw a conclusion
Onehelps out patience, endurance,
cunning,
courage,
a wish
to be
free, faith in one's rightness; another
does not show any effort
to the fact that at the cost of their own efforts
to be released from captivity, although he, too,
I want to return to my homeland.
17. Homework
Preparestory according to the plan "Zhilin
getting ready to run."
Officer Zhilin served in the Caucasus. One day he receives a letter from his mother and decides to leave to rest in his native land. On the way, he meets an officer and the two of them are caught by the Tatars. The fault of this situation was Kostylin, since he was obliged to cover Zhilin, but, frightened by the Tatars *, he instantly fled. And he showed himself to be a traitor.
The Tatars who caught them sold them to other Tatars. Kostylin and Zhilin were kept in shackles in a barn for a long time. They were forced to write letters to their relatives asking them to ransom them. Having obeyed the Tatars, Kostylin wrote a letter to his mother, and his former comrade could not write such a letter, since his mother was a very poor old woman, and he wrote a similar letter to a non-existent address.
After some time, the owner's daughter became very attached to Zhilin and began to feed him with a cake, then with milk, and Zhilin helped the girl by making dolls for her. After a little thought, the captives decided to run away from their involuntary life and began to slowly dig. After digging, they ran away. But a little later, in the forest, Kostylin began to whine that his legs hurt from boots. And through the fault of Kostylin, a Tatar notices them, who immediately informed their owner that they had gone on the run and it was necessary to collect dogs to chase them. They are caught again, but living conditions worsen, and now they no longer remove the shackles even at night, and the barn is replaced with a very deep pit.
Officer Zhilin does not despair and again builds an escape plan, the owner's daughter brings him a stick, on which he was able to climb up. Kostylin, disappointed and tired, refuses and remains a prisoner in the pit. Having gone far from the village of the Tatars, he tries to remove the shackles, but nothing comes of what the officer Zhilin had planned. Since the girl Diana had collected some cakes for him, he ate a little while thinking about her and how she cried goodbye. The block greatly interfered with the officer, but he continued on his way.
When the last strength was running out, he began to crawl, as a result, he saw the field, behind which were his colleagues. Zhilin was very worried that the Tatars might catch the eye. And as soon as he thought about this situation, as here and there three Tatars appear. But the Tatars did not have time to capture him, as he began to scream loudly and the Cossacks heard him. Arriving in time, they took Zhilin to their place. Officer Zhilin understood that his service would not let him go home, it was not his destiny to see his mother and it remains to continue to serve his homeland. And the traitor Kostylin was redeemed from the Tatars for another month, a lot of money was spent, and they brought him barely alive home.
* - earlier mountaineers were called Tatars
Officer Zhilin served in the Caucasus. He received a letter from his mother, and he decided to go home on vacation. But on the way, he and another Russian officer Kostylin were captured by the Tatars. It happened through the fault of Kostylin. He was supposed to cover Zhilin, but he saw the Tatars, got scared and ran away from them. Kostylin turned out to be a traitor. The Tatar who took Russian officers prisoner sold them to another Tatar. The captives were shackled and kept in the same barn.
The Tatars forced the officers to write ransom letters to their relatives. Kostylin obeyed, and Zhilin specifically wrote a different address, because he knew that there was no one to buy him out, Zhilina's old mother lived very poorly. Zhilin and Kostylin sat in the barn for a whole month. The master's daughter Dina became attached to Zhilin. She secretly brought him cakes and milk, and he made dolls for her. Zhilin began to think about how he and Kostylin could escape from captivity. Soon he began to dig in the barn.
One night they ran away. When they entered the forest, Kostylin began to lag behind and whine - he rubbed his feet with boots. Because of Kostylin, they did not go far, they were noticed by a Tatar who was driving through the forest. He told the hostage owners that they took the dogs and quickly caught up with the captives. They were again put on shackles and did not take them off even at night. Instead of a barn, the hostages were put into a five-arshin-deep pit. Zhilin still did not despair. Everyone thought about how to escape. Dina saved him. At night, she brought a long stick, lowered it into the pit, and Zhilin climbed up on it. But Kostylin remained, did not want to run away: he was frightened, and there was no strength.
Zhilin moved away from the village and tried to remove the block, but he did not succeed. Dina gave him cakes for the journey, and wept, saying goodbye to Zhilin. He was kind to the girl, and she became very attached to him. Zhilin went farther and farther, although the block was very disturbing. When the forces ran out, he crawled, and crawled to the field, behind which there were already his own, Russians. Zhilin was afraid that the Tatars would notice him when he crossed the field. I just thought about it, looking: to the left, on a hillock, two acres from it, there are three Tatars. They saw Zhilin and rushed to him. So his heart broke. Zhilin waved his hands, shouted to his heart's content: “Brothers! Help out! Brothers!” The Cossacks heard Zhilin and rushed to cut across the Tatars. The Tatars were frightened, before reaching Zhilin they began to stop. So the Cossacks saved Zhilin. Zhilin told them about his adventures, and then he says: “So I went home, got married! No, it’s not my destiny.” Zhilin remained to serve in the Caucasus. And Kostylin was redeemed for five thousand only a month later. Barely brought alive.
Option 2
After the news came from his mother, a Caucasian officer named Zhilin wanted to visit her, and he went home. However, due to the cowardice of another officer, Kostylin, with whom he went on this long journey, they were taken prisoner by the Tatars. After that, they were sold to other Tatars, who hid both in a barn, chained.
In order to get a ransom, the captives were forced to write letters to their loved ones. Zhilin remembered that his mother was very poor and she definitely wouldn’t have enough to ransom, so he entered someone else’s address, unlike the submissive Kostylin. It's been a month since they've been in captivity. Dina, the daughter of a Tatar who bought officers, began to secretly look after Zhilin. He reciprocated her. Zhilin began to plot their escape with Kostylin.
Having made a tunnel in the barn, they managed to escape from captivity. Kostylin fails again. Before he had gone very far, his legs ached due to tight shoes, and he began to hesitate, Zhilin had to wait for him. There they were noticed by a Tatar passing nearby, who informed the owners about their loss. Catching the fugitives was not difficult. But Zhilin's hope for salvation did not fade away, despite the fact that now they were thrown into a deep hole. This time, the brave and kind Dina came to the rescue: she found a stick of sufficient size and brought it to them. Kostylin did not want to get out, because he was very exhausted, although to a greater extent, he simply chickened out.
Dina had to say goodbye to Zhilin and, sobbing, she handed him a few cakes on the way. And the officer left. It was quite inconvenient to go, as it was not possible to get rid of the shackles. The fugitive could no longer walk, he was terribly tired, but he did not give up and began to crawl. When he crawled across the field, he was noticed by three Tatars standing on a hill and ran after him. Zhilin, who knew that the Cossacks were already behind the field, got up with the last of his strength, began waving his arms and shouting. And then ours appeared and ran to the Tatars, who rushed back out of fright, leaving the former prisoner alone. Later, he told his rescuers about his story.
Officer Zhilin continued his service in the Caucasus. Kostylin remained in prison for another month, and then he was ransomed for five thousand.
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