Chodynka (Tolstoy)
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Chodynka , also Auf dem Chodynkafeld ( Russian Ходынка ), is a short story that Lev Tolstoy wrote down on February 25, 1910 and which appeared posthumously in Vol. 3 of LN Tolstoy's posthumous works on pages 183-193 in Moscow in 1912 . In 1983 the text in Vol. 14 Powesti and Tales of the 22-volume Tolstoy edition was published by Verlag für Künstlerische Literatur, also in Moscow.
Tolstoy captured an episode from the mass panic of May 18, 1896 on Moscow's Chodynka Field in his little story. The reason for the festival was the accession to the throne of Nicholas II .
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On May 17, 1896, the 23-year-old Princess Alexandra, called Rina, obtained permission from her father, Prince Pavel Golitsyn, to attend the folk festival on the Chodynka meadow. The father is unable to talk his only beloved daughter out of the absurd idea. Rina, the pretty, stately young lady-in-waiting who seeks the proximity of the Narodniki , has to mingle with the people in the company of her brother Alek.
On May 18th, gifts are given to the people on the Chodynka meadow in front of the imperial pavilion. It is said that lucky tickets are hidden in some gift packages - with prizes of up to several hundred rubles. The rush is accordingly. Rina is trampled down and believed dead. The young Yemeljan Semyonych Jagodov, a married, by no means wealthy worker in a Moscow cigarette factory, takes a closer look at the half-bare young lady lying on her back. There is still life in it!
Rina had only been passed out for a while. Later it turns out that Alek was able to turn his back on the crowd in time and is already home. So Jemelyan calls a cab. Rina asks her rescuer into the vehicle. Jemelyan should receive thanks from her father, the prince. Jemeljan feels so happy at the moment. He magnanimously refuses. Rina insists on her wish. Emelyan remains firm; During the final farewell, he only asks for his summer coat back, which he carefully put on the beautiful young lady while she was being rescued from the unbelievable turmoil.
Used edition
- Chodynka. Translated from the Russian by Hermann Asemissen . P. 492-502 in: Eberhard Dieckmann (Ed.): Lew Tolstoi. Haji Murat. Late narratives . Vol. 13 by Eberhard Dieckmann (ed.), Gerhard Dudek (ed.): Lew Tolstoi. Collected works in twenty volumes . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1986
Web links
- The text
- Wikisource Ходынка (Толстой) (Russian)
- online at RVB.ru (Russian)
- online at tolstoy-lit.ru (Russian)
- Entry in the list of works Late Stories (1888–1910)
- Entry at fantlab.ru (Russian)
- Entry at tolstoy.ru (Russian)
- Marietta Boiko : Commentary on the text (Russian)