Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch is one of the mayors of the city of Glupov in the novel “The History of a City” by Saltykov-Shchedrin. A detailed story about Pimple can be found in the chapter “The era of dismissal from wars.” This article presents a quotation image and characterization of Pimple in “The Story of a City.”
The image and characteristics of Pyshch in “The History of a City” (Ivan Panteleevich Pyshch)
Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch has been the mayor of the city of Glupov since 1811 for several years.
Mayor Pyshch bears the military rank of major (according to other sources - lieutenant colonel):
"...Pimple, Major, Ivan Panteleich." "...Lieutenant Colonel Pyshch appeared..."
At the same time, officer Pimple has never been in battle, but he took part in parades:
“I can say one thing about myself: I’ve never been in battle, sir, but I’m hardened in parades even beyond proportion.”
Pimple is a wealthy person:
“I have, thank God, a fair fortune. I commanded, sir; therefore, I did not waste it, but multiplied it, sir.”
Mayor Pyshch is an elderly man:
"Pimple was no longer young..."
The following is known about Pimple's appearance:
"The pimple was no longer young, but it was remarkably preserved. Broad-shouldered, ridged*,
with his whole figure he seemed to be saying:
Don’t look at the fact that I have a gray mustache: I can do it! I can still do it!
He was rosy-cheeked, had scarlet and luscious lips, from behind which a row of white teeth could be seen;
His gait was active and cheerful, his gestures were quick.
And all this was decorated with shiny staff officer epaulets, which played on his shoulders at the slightest movement."
Pimple is a stupid person, according to one of the chroniclers:
"Pimple and Ivanov were stupid..."
Pimple himself considers himself a simple person:
“I’m a simple man, sir,” he said to one...
“...but I’m a simple man and I don’t see any consolation for myself in attacks!”
Having become the mayor of Foolov, Pyshch does not issue new laws:
“...I didn’t come here to make laws, sir. My duty is to make sure that the laws are intact and not lying around the tables,” sir.”
“Consequently, I know what laws there are regarding this, but I don’t want to make new ones.”
“I say, get rid of the new laws, but I hope to fulfill the rest exactly!”
Pimple manages Foolov using a very simplified control system. His plan is to "rest":
“Lieutenant Colonel Pryshch came to replace Benevolensky and brought with him an even more simplified administration system.”
“Of course, I also have a campaign plan, but this plan is this: rest, sir!”
Pimple gives the Foolovites complete freedom and asks them only one thing - to handle fire carefully:
“Well, old people,” he told the townsfolk, “let’s live peacefully.
Don't touch me, and I won't touch you.
Plant and sow, eat and drink, start factories and mills - what, sir!
All this is for your benefit, sir!
For me, even erect monuments - I won’t interfere with that either!
Just be careful with fire, for Christ’s sake, because it won’t be long before you sin.
Burn your property, burn yourself - what good!”
Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch leads Foolov in the spirit of “boundless liberalism”:
"...liberalism so limitless made them think: is there a catch here?"
"...liberalism still continued to give the tone of life..."
Mayor Pyshch does not interfere at all in the life of the Foolovites:
“...the mayor not only refuses to interfere in ordinary affairs, but even claims that this non-interference is the whole essence of the administration.”
Pimple does not attend to the affairs of the city and instead visits guests, holds balls and goes hunting:
“But Pimple was completely sincere in his statements and firmly decided to follow his chosen path.
Having stopped all business, he visited guests, hosted dinners and balls, and even started a pack of greyhounds and hounds, with which he hunted hares and foxes in the city pasture..."
Under Pyshche, the Foolovites live happily, as under the two previous mayors - Mikaladze and Benevolensky:
“But the happiness of the Foolovites, apparently, was not yet to end soon.”
The Foolovians like Pimple's inaction:
“Listening to the stories about the benevolent inaction of Major Pimple, he was seduced by the picture of the general rejoicing that was the result of this inaction.”
With Pimple, Foolovites become 4 times richer:
“...they didn’t even have time to look back when everything they had was double and triple what it was before.”
“And so another year passed, during which the Foolovites had not doubled or tripled their wealth, but quadrupled it.”
During the reign of Pimple, abundance comes to the city. Pimple himself becomes so rich that his chests are bursting with gold and silver:
“Pimple looked at this prosperity and rejoiced.
And it was impossible not to rejoice at him, because the general abundance was reflected in him.
His barns were bursting with offerings made in kind;
the chests did not hold silver and gold, and the banknotes were simply lying on the floor."
During Pimple, the city of Glupov produces a lot of honey, leather and bread:
“The bees swarmed unusually, so that almost the same amount of honey and wax was sent to Byzantium as under the Grand Duke Oleg.”
"....the skins were sent to Byzantium in full and for everything they received pure banknotes."
"...there was so much grain that, in addition to selling, there was even left for our own use..."
Thanks to Pimple, the city of Foolov achieves the highest level of prosperity in its entire history:
“But no one guessed that thanks to this very circumstance the city was brought to such prosperity, which the annals had not imagined since its very foundation.”
Having become rich, the Foolovites do not believe their luck. They begin to attribute their well-being to some kind of evil spirit, “devilishness” on the part of the mayor:
“...the Foolovites began to attribute this phenomenon to the mediation of some unknown force.
And since in their language the unknown force was called devilry, they began to think that this was not entirely pure and that, therefore, the devil’s participation in this matter could not be doubted.”
The Foolovians begin to follow Pimple and find out that he is sleeping in a glacier, surrounded by mousetraps. (The Foolovites do not yet know that Pimple thus protects his stuffed head from the heat and mice.):
“We started keeping an eye on Pimple and found something questionable in his behavior.
They said, for example, that once someone found him sleeping on the sofa, and it was as if his body was surrounded by mousetraps."
In the end, the leader of the nobility exposes Pimple. The mayor dies. As a result, the Foolovites learn that Pimple had a stuffed head:
“He ended up with a stuffed head, which is what the local leader of the nobility caught.”
“The next day the Foolovites learned that their mayor had a stuffed head...”
After the death of Pimple, the city of Foolov still lives for some time by inertia, calmly and safely:
"...The unexpected beheading of Major Pimple had almost no impact on the well-being of the inhabitants. For some time, due to the impoverishment of the mayors, the city was ruled by the quarterly..."
The history of one city is a very significant work by Saltykov-Shchedrin. This is, in its own way, a parody of Russian history. Saltykov-Shchedrin talks about the city of Glupov as a collective image of all the cities of Russia. And the citizens of this city are Foolovites, they are Russians.
In this work, Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch himself plays the role of mayor in the city of Foolov. Saltykov-Shchedrin bestows Pysh with different ranks: first he is a major, then a lieutenant colonel. It is not clear why he was awarded these ranks, because according to Pimple himself, he had never been in battle.
According to the description, the pimple was no longer young, but very well preserved: broad shoulders, a snow-white smile and his whole nature screams that he is still capable of much. But just like the rest of the Foolovites, he was stupid. During the entire time that Pimple was the mayor of the city, he did not pass a single law. And in general, it seems that work is not intended for him, he wants to be a mayor, while having one plan - to relax. Under his leadership, ordinary people have no rules and are completely free and free to do what they want. There is only one condition: handle fire carefully. Of course, if the city burns down, then what kind of city will Ivan Panteleevich be the mayor of? He doesn’t care about the city at all, all he knows is visiting guests and going hunting. The mayor spoke of himself as a simple man, although in reality he is an inveterate slacker.
The satirist Saltykov-Shchedrin, even with the very name of our hero, shows us that a pimple is a kind of moral disease that has emerged on the face of society, that is, at the very foundation of the city. And such a Pimple can exist in any city.
In his work and in the image of Pimple, Mikhail Evgrafovich, ridicules bureaucratic power. He shows us that there is no more faith in honest service, and our officials are fooling ordinary people, leading them by the nose. Accordingly, after reading this work to the end, you can understand why the city is called Foolov, and why people are Foolovites. Saltykov-Shchedrin shows us a naive and trusting society that lives and completely relies on the decency and good work of its officials. But even despite the image of the Foolovites and how they remove one official and replace him with exactly the same one, Pimple, Shchedrin is still trying to show us that faith in a wonderful future has not disappeared anywhere.
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The work of Saltykov-Shchedrin, a democrat for whom the autocratic serfdom that reigned in Russia was absolutely unacceptable, had a satirical orientation. The writer was outraged by the Russian society of “slaves and masters”, the outrages of the landowners, the obedience of the people, and in all his works he exposed the “ulcers” of society, cruelly ridiculed its vices and imperfections.
So, starting to write “The History of a City,” Saltykov-Shchedrin set himself the goal of exposing the ugliness, the impossibility of the existence of autocracy with its social vices, laws, morals, and ridiculing all its realities.
Thus, “The History of a City” is a satirical work; the dominant artistic means in depicting the history of the city of Foolov, its inhabitants and mayors is the grotesque, a technique of combining the fantastic and the real, creating absurd situations and comic incongruities. In fact, all the events taking place in the city are grotesque. Its inhabitants, the Foolovites, “descended from an ancient tribe of bunglers,” who did not know how to live in self-government and decided to find themselves a ruler, are unusually “boss-loving.” “Experiencing an unaccountable fear,” unable to live independently, they “feel like orphans” without city governors and consider the “saving severity” of the outrages of Organchik, who had a mechanism in his head and knew only two words - “I will not tolerate” and “I will ruin.” Quite “common” in Foolov are such mayors as Pimple with a stuffed head or the Frenchman Du-Mario, “on closer examination he turned out to be a girl.” However, the absurdity reaches its culmination with the appearance of Gloomy-Burcheev, “a scoundrel who planned to embrace the entire universe.” In an effort to realize his “systematic nonsense,” Gloomy-Burcheev is trying to equalize everything in nature, to organize society so that everyone in Foolov lives according to the plan he himself invented, so that the entire structure of the city is created anew according to his design, which leads to the destruction of Foolov by his own residents who unquestioningly carry out the orders of the “scoundrel”, and further - to the death of Ugryum-Burcheev and all Foolovites, consequently, the disappearance of the order established by him, as an unnatural phenomenon, unacceptable by nature itself.
Thus, by using the grotesque, Saltykov-Shchedrin creates a logical, on the one hand, and on the other hand, a comically absurd picture, but for all its absurdity and fantasticness, “The History of a City” is a realistic work that touches on many topical problems. The images of the city of Foolov and its mayors are allegorical; they symbolize autocratic-serf Russia, the power that reigns in it, Russian society. Therefore, the grotesque used by Saltykov-Shchedrin in the narrative is also a way to expose the ugly realities of contemporary life that are disgusting for the writer, as well as a means of revealing the author’s position, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s attitude to what is happening in Russia.
Describing the fantastic-comic life of the Foolovites, their constant fear, all-forgiving love for their bosses, Saltykov-Shchedrin expresses his contempt for the people, apathetic and submissive-slavish, as the writer believes, by nature. The only time in the work the Foolovites were free - under the mayor with a stuffed head. By creating this grotesque situation, Saltykov-Shchedrin shows that under the existing socio-political system, the people cannot be free. The absurdity of the behavior of the “strong” (symbolizing the real power) of this world in the work embodies the lawlessness and arbitrariness perpetrated in Russia by high-ranking officials. The grotesque image of Gloomy-Burcheev, his “systematic nonsense” (a kind of dystopia), which the mayor decided to bring to life at all costs, and the fantastic end of his reign - the implementation of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s idea of inhumanity, the unnaturalness of absolute power, bordering on tyranny, about the impossibility of its existence.
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Wartkin Vasilisk Semenovich - Foolov's mayor, appears in the chapter "Warriors for Enlightenment". He was distinguished by “unheard-of administrative meticulousness,” loudness and efficiency. “Even with only one eye” and had a watchful eye. B. thought big: he dreamed of campaigns of conquest. But, since there was no such opportunity yet, he limited himself to “wars for enlightenment.” There were four such wars in total, they were fought against the Foolovites and always ended in victory for B. It couldn’t have been any other way: with the help of tin soldiers filled with blood, the mayor destroyed everything in his path. Therefore, it was easier for the Foolovites to agree to use mustard and Provençal oil, build houses on stone foundations, plant Persian chamomile, or even send their children to Foolov’s academy.
Wars for enlightenment abruptly gave way to campaigns against enlightenment in connection with the French Revolution. But the Foolovites did not notice much of a difference. Also B. “burned the dung settlement, ... ruined the Wrong Woman, ... squandered the Swamp.” He was about to burn down the entire city when he suddenly died.
Dvoekurov Semyon Konstantinych - sent to Glupov after the story with Organchik and the turmoil he caused. He considered himself an enlightened reformer. The main one of D.'s transformations was the decree on the mandatory use of mustard and bay leaves. To implement his decree into Foolov’s heads, D. “did not spare the rod.” This hero was trying to establish an academy in Foolov - not for the dissemination of sciences, but for their “examination”. D. became famous for nothing else, except that he would serve as an inspiring example for Wartkin. He died a natural death, the only one of all the mayors, since he was the most harmless of them.
Organchik (Brudasty Dementy Varlamovich) is one of the mayors in Glupov. At his first appearance, he “crossed a lot of coachmen” and stunned Foolov’s officials with the exclamation: “I won’t tolerate it! “During his further reign, O. limited himself only to this phrase. With this he struck terror into the whole city.
The mysterious behavior of the mayor was explained in the most unexpected way: in his head he discovered an organ that played only two pieces - “I’ll ruin you!” " and "I will not tolerate it! “One day this organ broke. The local master, no matter how hard he tried, could not fix it. Then, under terrible secrecy, a new head of the mayor was ordered in St. Petersburg.
On the way back, O.’s head fell and was severely dented. Meanwhile, in Foolov, seeing that O. had disappeared somewhere, the people began to worry and demanded that the mayor be shown to him. They decided that they would put an old head on O. and take him to the Foolovites.
As a result, two O. appeared before the people - with a new head and with an old one. As a result of this, unrest began in Foolov.
Pimple Ivan Panteleich is the next mayor of Foolov. Lieutenant Colonel: “I haven’t been in battles, sir, but I’m seasoned in parades even beyond proportion.” P. said about himself that he was “in a fair state,” because “he was in command, sir; therefore, he did not waste, but multiplied, sir.”
P. arrived in Glupov with one goal - “to relax, sir!” “Therefore, at first he did not interfere in any of Foolov’s affairs. With this, P. led the city to an abundance unheard of for him: “so much grain was produced that, in addition to sale, there was even left for one’s own use.” However, the Foolovites, unaccustomed to such a “good” life, began to suspect something was wrong with P. And, indeed, he “goes to sleep on the glacier every night,” for example. In the end, it turned out that P. had a stuffed head, which was eaten.
Characteristics of a literary hero
Pimple Ivan Panteleich is the next mayor of Foolov. Lieutenant Colonel: “I haven’t been in battles, sir, but I’m seasoned in parades even beyond proportion.” P. said about himself that he was “in a fair state,” because he “was in command, sir; therefore, he did not waste, but multiplied, sir.”
P. arrived in Foolov with one goal - “to relax, sir!” Therefore, at first he did not interfere in any Foolov affairs. With this, P. led the city to an abundance unheard of for him: “so much grain was produced that, in addition to sale, there was even left for one’s own use.” However, the Foolovites, unaccustomed to such a “good” life, began to suspect something was wrong with P. And, indeed, he “goes to sleep on the glacier every night,” for example. In the end, it turned out that P. had a stuffed head, which was eaten.
Essay on literature on the topic: Pimple (The history of one city Saltykov-Shchedrin)
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- The history of one city This story is the “true” chronicle of the city of Foolov, “The Foolov Chronicler,” covering the period of time from 1731 to 1825, which was “successively composed” by four Foolov archivists. In the chapter “From the Publisher,” the author especially insists on the authenticity of the “Chronicle” and invites the reader to “catch Read More ......
- Wartkin Characteristics of the literary hero Wartkin Vasilisk Semenovich, Foolov’s mayor, appears in the chapter “Warriors for Enlightenment.” He was distinguished by “unheard-of administrative meticulousness,” loudness and efficiency. “Even with only one eye” and had a watchful eye. B. thought big: he dreamed of campaigns of conquest. Read More......
- Organchik Characteristics of the literary hero Organchik (Brudasty Dementy Varlamovich) is one of the mayors in Foolov. At his first appearance, he “crossed a lot of coachmen” and stunned Foolov’s officials with the exclamation: “I won’t tolerate it!” During his further reign, O. limited himself only to this phrase. This Read More......
- Dvoekurov Characteristics of the literary hero Semyon Konstantinych Dvoekurov - sent to Foolov after the story with Organchik and the turmoil he caused. He considered himself an enlightened reformer. The main one of D.'s transformations was the decree on the mandatory use of mustard and bay leaves. To implement your Read More......
- Ferdyshchenko Characteristics of the literary hero Ferdyshchenko Petr Petrovich is the mayor of Foolov. Brigadier, former orderly of Prince Potemkin. At first he allowed the Foolovites to “see the light”, since in his simplicity he did not interfere in the affairs of the government for 6 years. But then F. “became active”: he began to satisfy his Read More ......
- Gloomy-Burcheev Characteristics of the literary hero Gloomy-Burcheev is the last mayor of Foolov. Appears in the chapter “Confirmation of Repentance. Conclusion". The image is very exaggerated, in many ways it is a parody of Arakcheev. W.-B. there was a “gloomy idiot” who could not see beyond his nose. But within this radius everything should Read More......
- Pimple Ivan Panteleich - lieutenant colonel. In his own words, “I’ve never been in battle, sir, but I’m tempered in parades even beyond proportion.” Having a “sizeable fortune” (“He commanded, sir; therefore, he did not squander it, but multiplied it, sir”), he arrived in Foolov with a “campaign plan”: “to rest, sir!” From any interference in Read More......
- The work of Saltykov-Shchedrin, a democrat for whom the autocratic serfdom that reigned in Russia was absolutely unacceptable, had a satirical orientation. The writer was outraged by the Russian society of “slaves and masters”, the outrages of the landowners, the obedience of the people, and in all his works he exposed the “ulcers” of society, cruelly ridiculed its vices Read More ......
Mayor Pimple. Artist Kukryniksy
Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch is one of the mayors of the city of Glupov in the novel “The History of a City” by Saltykov-Shchedrin. A detailed story about Pimple can be found in the chapter “The era of dismissal from wars.” This article presents a quotation image and characterization of Pimple in “The Story of a City.”
The image and characteristics of Pyshch in “The History of a City” (Ivan Panteleevich Pyshch)
Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch has been the mayor of the city of Glupov since 1811 for several years.
Mayor Pyshch bears the military rank of major (according to other sources - lieutenant colonel):
"...Pimple, Major, Ivan Panteleich." "...Lieutenant Colonel Pyshch appeared..."
At the same time, officer Pimple has never been in battle, but he took part in parades:
“I can say one thing about myself: I’ve never been in battle, sir, but I’m hardened in parades even beyond proportion.”
Pimple is a wealthy person:
“I have, thank God, a fair fortune. I commanded, sir; therefore, I did not waste it, but multiplied it, sir.”
Mayor Pyshch is an elderly man:
"Pimple was no longer young..."
The following is known about Pimple's appearance:
"The pimple was no longer young, but it was remarkably preserved. Broad-shouldered, ridged*,
with his whole figure he seemed to be saying:
Don’t look at the fact that I have a gray mustache: I can do it! I can still do it!
He was rosy-cheeked, had scarlet and luscious lips, from behind which a row of white teeth could be seen;
His gait was active and cheerful, his gestures were quick.
And all this was decorated with shiny staff officer epaulets, which played on his shoulders at the slightest movement."
Pimple is a stupid person, according to one of the chroniclers:
"Pimple and Ivanov were stupid..."
Pimple himself considers himself a simple person:
“I’m a simple man, sir,” he said to one...
“...but I’m a simple man and I don’t see any consolation for myself in attacks!”
Having become the mayor of Foolov, Pyshch does not issue new laws:
“...I didn’t come here to make laws, sir. My duty is to make sure that the laws are intact and not lying around the tables,” sir.”
“Consequently, I know what laws there are regarding this, but I don’t want to make new ones.”
“I say, get rid of the new laws, but I hope to fulfill the rest exactly!”
Pimple manages Foolov using a very simplified control system. His plan is to "rest":
“Lieutenant Colonel Pryshch came to replace Benevolensky and brought with him an even more simplified administration system.”
“Of course, I also have a campaign plan, but this plan is this: rest, sir!”
Pimple gives the Foolovites complete freedom and asks them only one thing - to handle fire carefully:
“Well, old people,” he told the townsfolk, “let’s live peacefully.
Don't touch me, and I won't touch you.
Plant and sow, eat and drink, start factories and mills - what, sir!
All this is for your benefit, sir!
For me, even erect monuments - I won’t interfere with that either!
Just be careful with fire, for Christ’s sake, because it won’t be long before you sin.
Burn your property, burn yourself - what good!”
Ivan Panteleevich Pryshch leads Foolov in the spirit of “boundless liberalism”:
"...liberalism so limitless made them think: is there a catch here?"
"...liberalism still continued to give the tone of life..."
Mayor Pyshch does not interfere at all in the life of the Foolovites:
“...the mayor not only refuses to interfere in ordinary affairs, but even claims that this non-interference is the whole essence of the administration.”
Pimple does not attend to the affairs of the city and instead visits guests, holds balls and goes hunting:
“But Pimple was completely sincere in his statements and firmly decided to follow his chosen path.
Having stopped all business, he visited guests, hosted dinners and balls, and even started a pack of greyhounds and hounds, with which he hunted hares and foxes in the city pasture..."
Under Pyshche, the Foolovites live happily, as under the two previous mayors - Mikaladze and Benevolensky:
“But the happiness of the Foolovites, apparently, was not yet to end soon.”
The Foolovians like Pimple's inaction:
“Listening to the stories about the benevolent inaction of Major Pimple, he was seduced by the picture of the general rejoicing that was the result of this inaction.”
With Pimple, Foolovites become 4 times richer:
“...they didn’t even have time to look back when everything they had was double and triple what it was before.”
“And so another year passed, during which the Foolovites had not doubled or tripled their wealth, but quadrupled it.”
During the reign of Pimple, abundance comes to the city. Pimple himself becomes so rich that his chests are bursting with gold and silver:
“Pimple looked at this prosperity and rejoiced.
And it was impossible not to rejoice at him, because the general abundance was reflected in him.
His barns were bursting with offerings made in kind;
the chests did not hold silver and gold, and the banknotes were simply lying on the floor."
During Pimple, the city of Glupov produces a lot of honey, leather and bread:
“The bees swarmed unusually, so that almost the same amount of honey and wax was sent to Byzantium as under the Grand Duke Oleg.”
"....the skins were sent to Byzantium in full and for everything they received pure banknotes."
"...there was so much grain that, in addition to selling, there was even left for our own use..."
Thanks to Pimple, the city of Foolov achieves the highest level of prosperity in its entire history:
“But no one guessed that thanks to this very circumstance the city was brought to such prosperity, which the annals had not imagined since its very foundation.”
Having become rich, the Foolovites do not believe their luck. They begin to attribute their well-being to some kind of evil spirit, “devilishness” on the part of the mayor:
“...the Foolovites began to attribute this phenomenon to the mediation of some unknown force.
And since in their language the unknown force was called devilry, they began to think that this was not entirely pure and that, therefore, the devil’s participation in this matter could not be doubted.”
The Foolovians begin to follow Pimple and find out that he is sleeping in a glacier, surrounded by mousetraps. (The Foolovites do not yet know that Pimple thus protects his stuffed head from the heat and mice.):
“We started keeping an eye on Pimple and found something questionable in his behavior.
They said, for example, that once someone found him sleeping on the sofa, and it was as if his body was surrounded by mousetraps."
In the end, the leader of the nobility exposes Pimple. The mayor dies. As a result, the Foolovites learn that Pimple had a stuffed head:
“He ended up with a stuffed head, which is what the local leader of the nobility caught.”
“The next day the Foolovites learned that their mayor had a stuffed head...”
After the death of Pimple, the city of Foolov still lives for some time by inertia, calmly and safely:
"...The unexpected beheading of Major Pimple had almost no impact on the well-being of the inhabitants. For some time, due to the impoverishment of the mayors, the city was ruled by the quarterly..."
