Summary of the story A cloud spent the night. The golden cloud spent the night. The guys visit Regina Petrovna, and then go to a boarding school

Year: 1987 Genre: story

Main characters: twins Kolya and Sasha

1987 Anatoly Pristavkin writes a story about the orphanage residents, “The Golden Cloud Spent the Night.” The essence of the plot of the work is that the main characters - the Kuzmenyshi twins - were sent from the Moscow region to the Caucasus, away from the war, to where it is warm and satisfying. The events that befell them are described. The ending is tragic - one of the Kuzmenyshes dies...

the main idea the story “The Golden Cloud Spent the Night” is that Pristavkin draws the reader’s attention to the ability to be tolerant of people of other nationalities. He emphasizes the idea that there are no bad or good nations on Earth. There are simply bad or good people.

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Moscow region. Orphanage. The management decides to send older guys to the Caucasus, but they didn’t want to. But the Kuzmenyshi twins expressed their joyful desire to go. Because the day before they tried to dig under the room where they cut bread and eat to their fill, but... it didn’t work out. And therefore you need to take your feet further away.

We drove and drove and arrived. The name of the station Caucasian Waters is written in charcoal. The station building was bombed. Emptiness... All around there are sown fields. But there is no one to clean the crops. War. Deserted. Quiet. And the Kuzmenysh are interested in everything. After all, they had never seen anything like it.

While the brothers were driving, they met the teacher. We arrived and remembered our recent acquaintance. They decided to visit her because they really liked her. Let's go to the village. It turns out that people live here, but they hardly go outside and don’t light a fire. Afraid. Finally, the long-awaited meeting with the teacher.

At the boarding school, the director arranged for the children to work at the factory. The teacher recommended the Kuzmenysh twins there. Night came, everyone fell asleep, and the teacher, carried away by sewing hats for the children, did not notice the black barrel of a pistol from the window sash.

There was a fire at night. In the morning, the teacher was taken away by no one knows who and where. Nothing is known, and this makes it scary and incomprehensible.

A female driver, Vera, takes the Kuzmenyshs to work. The brothers liked it at the factory. You can take apples, plums, pears... which is what they did. Nobody blames them for this. The hunger has subsided. Aunt Zina treats them to eggplant caviar. Well, what more could you want?

Relations with the local population are strained. Constantly hungry children from the boarding school make robbery raids on other people's gardens and orchards... In order to somehow smooth out the conflict, the director of the boarding school organizes a performance for collective farmers, where children perform. During the last number - tricks, the highlanders blew up Vera's car. She died. Everyone jumped up, bustle, confusion. Scary. It seems like the war is far away, but death, here it is, is very close.
In the morning, the teacher was already in her place and invited the Kuzmenys to go with her to the farm.
The boys and the teacher went to the field and got down to business. It seems that fears have been forgotten. Life returned to normal. One day, the Kuzmenyshs were sent to a boarding school on a passing cart to buy food, but the cart did not reach its destination. At night in the steppe she stopped for some unknown reason, and the guide turned pale in fear and covered his face with his hands.

The twins decided to go see what happened at the boarding school. When they arrived, they saw that everything was broken and empty. Something terrible happened.

We returned to the guide through the corn field. At this time, the Chechens waylaid them and the brothers were confused. Kolka ran until he fainted. But Sasha...

In the morning Kolka came to his senses. It's dawn. Kolka went to look for his brother and guide, but... in the village he came across a terrible picture - Sashka was crucified on a fence. Goodbye brother! We are no longer together...

Then Kolka decided to drag a cart to take his brother to the station and fulfill his dream - to send him to see the mountains... After all, he had dreamed about this so much... He loaded his brother’s body onto a freight train heading in the right direction.

Kolka himself wandered for a long time until he found a traveling companion, a Chechen boy. They wandered together for a long time through the mountains, where danger awaited them at every step. One fine day they were discovered by a Russian soldier. Kolka slept in an embrace with a Chechen boy. The children woke up, and so as not to be separated, they said that they were twins, Kuzmenyshi.

The last scenes are of a children's reception center in Grozny. This is the time when Kolka and his named brother are waiting to leave for an orphanage, so that they will never be separated under any circumstances.

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Two guys were supposed to go to the Caucasus from an orphanage, but disappeared somewhere. But the Kuzmin brothers, by the way, they are twins, decided to go. Recently their tunnel collapsed. They wanted to eat normally at least once in their lives, but it didn’t work out. And they decided to disappear.

The station was burnt out after recent fighting. During this long journey from station to station, where the street children were housed, there were no cars or travelers. No one.

The fields are almost ripe. Someone was sowing and plowing, but who? Why is this beautiful land so empty?

The twins visited their teacher Regina Petrovna. They met her on the road. Then we went to the village. The people there are kind of secretive. They don't go out for walks. There are no lights in the huts at night. News appeared at the boarding school: the director, whose name was Pyotr Asimovich, had agreed to work at the factory. The teacher enrolled the Kuzmins there too, despite the fact that only seniors, fifth to seventh graders, were sent there.

Regina Petrovna found a strap and a hat. I gave the strap and put the Kuzmenysh to bed, and decided to make winter hats from the hat. A dark thing appeared behind us.

There was a fire. The teacher was taken away, and Sasha showed Kolya the hoof marks and the cartridge case.

The chauffeur Vera began taking them to work. Everything is fine at the factory. Nothing is protected. You can pick yourself a variety of fruits and vegetables. Aunt Zina gave them eggplant caviar, but Sasha always forgot the name and said “blessed caviar.” Once Aunt Zina said that they were all afraid. After all, they work in the Caucasus, while others were taken to the Siberian paradise.

Relations with the settlers have deteriorated greatly. Hungry colonists stole potatoes, but the collective farmers caught one of them. The director decided to hold a concert. When Mityok began to perform tricks, the neighing of horses began to be heard. Then something crashed and a scream was heard: “They blew up the car! There is our Faith! The house is on fire!

Later it became known that Regina Petrovna had arrived. She invited her brothers to go with her to the farm.

They agreed. They began to drive the herd to the meadow, went to the spring, and ground corn. Next, a one-legged man named Demyan arrived. The teacher asked him to give them a ride to the colony, since they needed to get food. The boys fell asleep on the cart, and when they woke up, they did not immediately understand where they were. Demyan sat on the ground and forced them to remain silent.
There's your colony, but there's no one there. - Demyan said quietly.

The Kuzmenyshis entered the territory. Nobody here. Windows and doors are broken. And very quiet. They became scared.

We ran back to Demyan. He was walking in front when he suddenly jumped to the side and disappeared. Sasha jumped after him, and Kolya simply sat down. And then a horse's face appeared. He ran and fell into a hole.

In the morning he went to the village to look for his brother and Demyan. He saw Sasha from afar and ran towards him, but with every step he began to slow down. My brother stood somehow unnaturally.

But he didn’t stand, but hung, attached under his arms to the edges of the fence. An ear of corn was stuffed into his mouth. And the silver strap was missing.

A couple of hours later, Kolya brought the cart and took his brother to the station. Then he sent us by train to the mountains. The murdered brother always wanted to go there.

Kolya was later found by soldiers. The boy slept in an embrace with a little Chechen. They both knew how to escape death. They were not separated and called themselves brothers. Kolya and Sasha Kuzmin.

From the children's clinic in Grozny, they went to an orphanage, and then were sent to different colonies and orphanages.

Please note that this is only a brief summary of the literary work “The Golden Cloud Spent the Night.” This summary omits many important points and quotes.

Two twin brothers - Sashka and Kolka Kuzmin, nicknamed Kuzmenyshi - live in an orphanage in Tomilino, near Moscow. The director of the orphanage is a thief (the bread intended for orphans and street children ends up with the director's relatives and his dogs; the clothes with which he is obliged to supply the children also end up with his relatives and friends). The Kuzmyonys dream of getting into the “bread slicer” (the room where the loaves of bread are kept), and for several months they have been digging under it. When the tunnel is accidentally discovered, the guys realize that they will have a bad time and agree to go to the Caucasus (where several children from each orphanage near Moscow are sent). Their only association with the concept of “Caucasus” is a picture from a pack of “Kazbek” cigarettes, as well as a couple of lines from M. Lermontov’s poem “The Cliff”. But the hungry children are promised fruit (which they have never seen) and a lot of bread, which is a decisive argument in favor of leaving. On the road, the hungry Kuzmenysh touchingly take care of each other (Kolka gives his brother a tiny ration of bread, he goes to bed hungry), at stations they run to the market to steal food (they eat the crumb of a stolen loaf and then ask the traders to pour sour cream or Varenets into it; having no money, the brothers pour the milk back, and scrape out what has been absorbed with spoons). Together with the entire horde of street children (five hundred children from the orphanage are traveling on the train), the Kuzmenysh raid young crops (when the train enters the Black Earth Region), and then “suffer their stomachs” by overeating fresh vegetables. They meet the teacher Regina Petrovna, who is traveling on the same train with her little sons Zhores and Marat (she calls them “peasants”), and the new director, an intelligent former supply worker Pyotr Anisimovich. At one of the stations, the brothers come across a strange train - the windows are barred, children's hands are reaching out to them from behind the bars, black-haired and black-eyed children are asking Kolka and Sashka for something in an incomprehensible language. An armed soldier pushes them away from the train, calling the strange passengers “chechmeks.” Sashka has become very weak (from an upset stomach) and they want to hospitalize him. Kolka turns to Regina Petrovna for help so as not to be separated from his brother (she arranges for both brothers to leave on the same train).

Children from the orphanage are unloaded at the Caucasian Waters station. Children bathe in sulfur springs. A close friendship develops between the Kuzmyonyshis and Regina Petrovna: despite the fact that she takes care of the girls, the teacher often invites the brothers to her place and treats them to tea with saccharin, but the Kuzmyonyshis do not abuse her hospitality: they are used to taking care of themselves, and Regina Petrovna is the same. like all those who arrived, he is starving. The brothers are slowly stealing in the village of Berezovskaya. The village looks strange: the brothers cannot understand for sure whether people live there or not. The harvest is ripe, but the doors are boarded up, and only muffled whispers and coughs can be heard from time to time. In one of the houses, the Kuzmenyshis find a guide Ilya, who tells them that the village is actually the Chechen village of Dey Churt. People have been evicted from it, and the orphanage residents should become its new “population.” Ilya treats the guys to moonshine. Based on his tip, the Kuzmenyshis begin to bring him “junk” from the warehouse, which Ilya deceitfully takes from them and then sells. Ilya himself, nicknamed “The Animal,” as a child went through a colony, and logging, and wandered, and stole, and was in prison, where he learned that there was a lot of “waste” land in the Caucasus, etc. houses are given to refugees for “free” along with belongings. The Kuzmenysh are ashamed to return to the colony. Following the example of some colonists, they decide to leave “even further,” but, remembering Regina Petrovna and the “peasants,” they stay to support her. She realized that the brothers stole things from the warehouse, but did not hand over the Kuzmenysh to the director, however, she also refused the lard they brought (from Ilya). Regina Petrovna arranges for Kolka and Sashka to work part-time with high school students at a cannery (where they can “feed themselves”). Having discovered a Chechen furry hat in the back room, the teacher begins to cut it into two winter hats for the children.

At night, the Chechens set fire to a building (several people on horses set off an explosion nearby), which houses a warehouse and, accordingly, winter clothes intended for the colonists.

At the cannery, the watchman Aunt Zina takes pity on the Kuzmyonysh and allows them to take fresh fruits and berries, as well as eggplant caviar, jam, and plum jam. She is the only one who knows how to distinguish between the brothers; they cannot deceive her with their similarity. Aunt Zina is also a migrant; she is deathly afraid of the Chechens, who were forcibly taken from here to Siberia “for treason,” but they could not force everyone to leave.” Those who stayed and hid in the mountains are taking revenge on the Russians. The Kuzmyonysh store jars of jam for the winter according to an old orphanage habit - they go out through the entrance in an embrace, so that the jars are squeezed under their clothes, and they float the jars outside the factory along the stream in rubber galoshes. The brothers do not forget about Regina Petrovna’s sons in her absence (after the Chechen attack on the warehouse, she “fell ill”), they feed Marat and Zhores with jam from their reserves. However, their plan is revealed by the older colonists and the Kuzmenysh banks are stolen. The theft of the elders is discovered, and the colonists are removed from work at the plant. They conduct a search on the territory of the colony and find a cache - five hundred cans of canned food. At this time, the colonists give a concert of amateur performances in front of the settlers. One of the guys shows tricks and takes out a document from the director’s briefcase - a search report. The colonists rush out of the hall to save their supplies, but at that moment a horse's tramp is heard. The Chechens blew up the car driven by the cheerful chauffeur Vera, who was friends with the colonists, and the house in which Ilya lived. The Kuzmenysh decide to escape from the colony. Regina Petrovna returns from the hospital and tells her brothers that on the night when the warehouse was burning, three Chechens shot at her. But the boy, the son of one of them, jerked his father’s gun at the moment of the shot, and the bullet flew past. The teacher is sent to a subsidiary farm to recover. She calls the Kuzmenysh with her, dissuades them from running away for now, and then promises to leave all together. For the first time, the Kuzmenysh people think about the reasons for the Chechens’ hatred of the Russians; they do not believe that all Caucasians, as one, are traitors to the Motherland. The brothers decide that Ilya was killed for a cause - he used someone else’s house and goods as his own, without even once working in the garden. The Kuzmenysh actively help Regina Petrovna on the farm, graze cows, collect brushwood and dung, and grind flour on millstones. One day, out of old memory, they are trying to make a stash, but Regina Petrovna talks to them about how it is impossible to steal from themselves: after all, they live like one family. The brothers return the food, and no one remembers what happened anymore. Regina Petrovna comes up with a holiday - she appoints Kuzmenysh's birthday (October 17), prepares a treat (sweet pie). Immigrant Demyan takes care of her and persuades her to live together. Regina Petrovna says that she is the widow of a pilot, and that she went to work in an orphanage to make it easier to raise her own children. The Kuzmyons are jealous, they both want to marry Regina Petrovna, despite their young age (they are probably turning 11 years old). Regina Petrovna gives her brothers gifts - shirts, skullcaps, boots, scarves. The next morning, Regina Petrovna asks Demyan to take Kolka and Sashka to the colony. The colony is empty. The windows are broken, the director's briefcase is lying on the ground, the yard is littered with things, as if "for evacuation." Demyan explains that they need to save themselves one by one: this way it will be more difficult for the Chechens scouring the area to catch them. The boys scatter and hide in the corn. Kolka, after some time, sneaks into the village and finds his dead brother there. Kolka buries Sashka, feeling at the same time that he is “burying himself.” He sees a soldier's patrol and understands from the conversations that they... They are going to “kill Chechens”, and therefore will avenge Sasha. Kolka takes his brother’s body to the railway, places it in an iron bunker under one of the cars and says goodbye to Sashka. Sashka dreamed of leaving; Kolka cannot leave Regina Petrovna. Kolka gets sick and loses consciousness. Opening his eyes, he notices that Sashka is giving him water from an iron mug and speaking in an incomprehensible language. In broken Russian, an unfamiliar boy explains to Kolka that his name is Alkhuzur, that he saved Kuzmenysh from his Chechen relatives, and at the same time from Russian soldiers. Alkhuzur agrees for Kolka to call him Sashka. When the boys are found by Russian soldiers, Kolka insists that his twin brother is with him. The boys set off on a long journey; meeting the Chechens, they are saved thanks to the pleas of Alkhuzur; in a collision with the Russians, Kolka tearfully convinces the soldiers not to touch them, and as a result they end up in an orphanage. Regina Petrovna finds them there. She escaped with the help of Demyan, but did not give up hope of finding the Kuzmyonyshes. She decides to take the boys and adopt them. Regina Petrovna declares that she remembers the Kuzmin brothers from the colony and Alkhuzur - this is the same Sashka. However, she is not given permission. Kolka and Alkhuzur are sent to a new settlement. The boys are lying on the same shelf, hugging each other, just as the real Kuzmenysh once set off on their journey to the Caucasus from the Kazan station. Regina Petrovna slowly asks Kolka where his real brother is. He replies that Sashka has gone far away.

It was planned to send two older children from the orphanage to the Caucasus, but they immediately disappeared into space. And the Kuzmina twins, in the orphanage Kuzmenysh, on the contrary, said that they would go. The fact is that a week before, the tunnel they had made under the bread slicer collapsed. Dreamed

They had enough to eat once in their life, but it didn’t work out. Military sappers were called to inspect the tunnel, they said that without equipment and training it was impossible to dig such a metro, especially for children... But it was better to disappear, just in case. To hell is this Moscow region, devastated by the war!

The name of the station - Caucasian Waters - was written in charcoal on plywood nailed to a telegraph pole. The station building burned down during the recent fighting. During the entire multi-hour journey from the station to the village where the homeless children were housed, we did not come across a cart, a car, or a random traveler. Empty all around...

The fields are ripening. Someone plowed them, sowed them, someone weeded them.

Who. Why is this beautiful land so deserted and desolate?

The Kuzmenys went to visit their teacher Regina Petrovna - they met again on the road, and they really liked her. Then we moved to the village. People, it turns out, live in it, but somehow secretly: they don’t go out into the street, they don’t sit on the rubble. There are no lights in the huts at night. And there is news at the boarding school: the director, Pyotr Anisimovich, has agreed to work at a cannery. Regina Petrovna and the Kuzmenyshes enrolled there, although in general they only sent the older ones, fifth to seventh grades.

Regina Petrovna also showed them a hat and an old Chechen strap found in the back room. She gave the strap and sent the Kuzmenyshes to bed, and she sat down to sew winter hats for them from their fur hats. And she didn’t notice how the window sash quietly opened and a black barrel appeared in it.

There was a fire at night. In the morning, Regina Petrovna was taken somewhere. And Sashka showed Kolka numerous traces of horse hooves and a cartridge case.

The cheerful chauffeur Vera began taking them to the cannery. It's good at the factory. IDPs are working. Nobody is guarding anything. We immediately picked up apples, pears, plums, and tomatoes. Aunt Zina gives “blessed” caviar (eggplant, but Sashka forgot the name). And once she admitted: “We are so afraid... Damn Chechens! We were taken to the Caucasus, and they were taken to the Siberian paradise... Some didn’t want to... So they hid in the mountains!”

Relations with the settlers became very strained: the always hungry colonists stole potatoes from the gardens, then the collective farmers caught one colonist in the melon patch... Pyotr Anisimovich proposed holding an amateur concert for the collective farm. In the last number Mitek showed tricks. Suddenly, very close by, hooves began to clatter, a horse neighed and guttural cries were heard. Then it crashed. Silence. And a cry from the street: “They blew up the car! Our Faith is there! House is burning!"

The next morning it became known that Regina Petrovna had returned. And she invited the Kuzmenysh to go to the farm together.

The Kuzmenysh got down to business. We took turns going to the spring. They drove the herd to the meadow. They ground corn. Then the one-legged Demyan arrived, and Regina Petrovna begged him to give the Kuzmenyshs a ride to the colony to get food. They fell asleep on the cart, and at dusk they woke up and did not immediately understand where they were. For some reason, Demyan was sitting on the ground, and his face was pale. "Quiet! - he tsked. - There is your colony! Only there… it’s… empty.”

The brothers entered the territory. Strange view: the yard is littered with junk. There are no people. The windows are broken. The doors are ripped off their hinges. And - quietly. Scary.

They rushed to Demyan. We walked through the corn, avoiding gaps. Demyan walked ahead, suddenly jumped somewhere to the side and disappeared. Sashka rushed after him, only the gift belt sparkled. Kolka sat down, tormented by diarrhea. And then a horse’s face appeared from the side, right above the corn. Kolka fell to the ground. Opening my eye slightly, I saw a hoof right in front of my face. Suddenly the horse jumped aside. He ran, then fell into some hole. And fell into unconsciousness.

The morning came blue and peaceful. Kolka went to the village to look for Sashka and Demyan. I saw my brother standing at the end of the street, leaning against the fence. I ran straight to him. But as he walked, Kolka’s pace began to slow down of its own accord: Sashka was standing strangely. He came close and froze.

Sashka was not standing, he was hanging, attached under his arms to the points of the fence, and a bunch of yellow corn was sticking out of his stomach. Another cob was stuffed into his mouth. Below his stomach, Sashka’s black entrails, clotted with blood, hung over his pants. Later it was discovered that he was not wearing a silver strap.

A few hours later, Kolka brought a cart, took his brother’s body to the station and sent it with the train: Sashka really wanted to go to the mountains.

Much later, a soldier came across Kolka, turning off the road. Kolka was sleeping in an embrace with another boy who looked Chechen. Only Kolka and Alkhuzur knew how they wandered between the mountains, where the Chechens could kill the Russian boy, and the valley, where the Chechen was already in danger. How they saved each other from death.

The children did not allow themselves to be separated and were called brothers. Sasha and Kolya Kuzmin.

The children were transferred from the children's clinic in Grozny to an orphanage. Street children were kept there before being sent to various colonies and orphanages.

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