The pilgrims

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Lev Tolstoy
portrayed by Ilya Repin in 1887

The pilgrims , even the two old men , two old men and the two old men ( Russian Два старика , Dwa starika ), a tale of is Leo Tolstoy , which was created in 1885, the same year in the fourth Russian reader of the anthology Tales from the New Alphabet published has been.

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Two old farmers make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . One of them - the wealthy Yefim Tarasytsch Shevelev - had been a village mayor for several years and had to entrust the construction of the new house to his unwanted son during the pilgrimage. The other - the less well-off Jelissei Bodrow - used to work as a carpenter and is now raising bees when he is old. During the hundreds of werst long walk to Odessa , Jelissei forgets all domestic worries and whispers prayers as she walks. Jefim, on the other hand, cannot get rid of a fatal thought: the son fails to build a house.

After five weeks, seven hundred versts are completed, the first pair of bast shoes must be thrown away, the pilgrims come behind Little Russia by a strip of land where the farmers from hunger chaff and reporting eat. Eating grass made people sick. Jefim marches on towards Odessa, but Jelissei stays in the cottage of a peasant family and buys millet , salt, flour and butter for his little travel money . He chops wood, makes a fire, cooks and feeds strangers. After nurturing the farming family, he redeems their pledged land, buys them a horse, a wagon and a scythe and goes home to his family. Because he no longer has the forty rubles for the passage from Odessa to the Holy Land and back.

Jefim, on the other hand, reaches Odessa, sets out to sea, looks at the temple of St. Sophia in Constantinople , looks at Smyrna and Alexandria , goes ashore in Jaffa and covers the seventy wersts to Jerusalem on foot. From his quarters, the Russian Hospice, he visits the Patriarchal Monastery , the Resurrection Church , the Lord's tomb , the cell of the Egyptian Mary and the Abrahamic monastery within six weeks . Those places where Abraham wanted to sacrifice his son to the Lord and where Christ appeared to Mary Magdalene are also under scrutiny, as is the Church of Jacob , the Holy Door, that place where Christ was taken from the cross and anointed, the cleft where the earth is had opened up to the underworld, the place where Christ was nailed to the cross and Adam's tomb . Also, Bethlehem , Bethany and Jordan can not Yefim. He went to Jaffa on foot, reached Odessa and from there - again on foot - after exactly one year he arrived safely at home. The fear has come true: the unwary son spent the twelve months in the village pub.

When Jefim visits his comrade Jelissei with the bees and has his story told in great detail, he does not understand why he had seen the comrade three times at the holy grave . The rich Jefim comes to the conclusion: “He has overtaken me.” Jefim sees the pilgrimage as a sacrifice and sums it up: “Whether my sacrifice has been accepted in heaven ... I don't know; but the Lord has certainly accepted Jelissei's sacrifice. "

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  1. ↑ Russian Четвертая русская книга для чтения
  2. ↑ Russian Рассказы из «Новой азбуки»
  3. ↑ Russian LN Tolstoy: Collected works in 22 volumes, Vol. 10 , Powesti and stories 1872–1886 . Artistic Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1982
  4. ↑ Russian Ефим Тарасыч Шевелев
  5. ↑ Russian Елисей Бодров
  6. ↑ Russian Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)
  7. ↑ Russian Русское подворье в Иерусалиме
  8. ↑ Russian Новоиерусалимский монастырь
  9. ↑ Russian Монастырь святого Авраама