The culprit

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Anton Chekhov

The culprit , even a scoundrel ( Russian Злоумышленник , Sloumyschlennik ), is a short story by Russian writer Anton Chekhov , in the daily newspaper on July 24, 1885 Peterburgskaja Gazeta published.

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The slender peasant Denis Grigoryev from Klimowo stands before the examining magistrate because he was caught on 7th July at Werstpfahl 141 by the railway guard Ivan Semyonov Akinfov unscrewing a nut with which the railroad track is attached to the sleeper. A search of Denis' house brought to light a second mother. Denis admits the act in court, but weighs it down, others in the village did that to a far greater extent than he did. These nuts are particularly suitable as plumb bobs for fishing because they cost nothing and have a hole. In addition, the farmers from Klimowo carefully removed the nuts; left enough neighboring nuts in their screw connection.

The judge does not allow himself to be talked about because a train derailed in the Klimowoer area last year. According to the Criminal Code, the act is subject to banishment and forced labor. When Denis is taken to prison by two stocky soldiers, he makes no secret of his lack of understanding of the sentencing for what he believes is a petty offense. As far as the offenses - for example fraud - are concerned, the village elder, who cheated during the accounting, was a culprit of much greater caliber. The examining magistrate does not want to hear such unobjective accusations.

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Anton Chekhov's friend, the publicist Vladimir Giljarowski , reports that the farmer Denis Grigorjew from Klimowo was modeled on the eel caterpillar angler Nikita Pantjuchin from Kraskovo (30 kilometers southeast of Moscow ). Tolstoy appreciated the text. During Chekhov's lifetime, the story was translated into Bulgarian, Hungarian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Czech.

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  • Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in single volumes : The evildoer. P. 348–353 in: Gerhard Dick (ed.): Anton Chekhov: From rain to eaves. Short stories. Translated from Russian by Ada Knipper and Gerhard Dick. With a foreword by Wolf Düwel. 630 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1964 (1st edition)

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  1. ↑ Russian theater et cetera
  2. ↑ Russian Смешные люди!
  3. ↑ Russian Швейцер, Михаил Абрамович
  4. ↑ Russian Никита Пантюхин
  5. ↑ See under remarks (russ. Примечания) at the end of the Lib.ru literature mentioned under web links (russian)
  6. ↑ Entry in WorldCat