The missing document

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The missing document , also The lost letter ( Russian Пропавшая грамота , Propawschaja gramota ), is a short story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol , which was written in 1829-1831 and published in 1831. The story was recorded in the first part of the evenings in the hamlet near Dikanka .

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In Ukraine : the blessed grandfather was chosen as the postman of the great hetman at a young age . Its certificate from the clerk of the Cossack regiments written, to grandfather sewn into the lining cap and make it his horses on the way to the Tsarina . It happens on the way to the Konotop fair . Grandfather befriends a Zaporozhian Cossack and swaps hats with him. The Zaporozhye is taken by the devil at night. Grandfather, who had sacredly promised the Zaporozhian protection from the devil, accidentally fell asleep before the critical moment. The hat is needed. How? Good advice is expensive. The grandfather consults in vain with Tschumaken, who are relaxing with their fishing boats in front of the inn that the devil had visited. The innkeeper, however, shows the way into the next deep forest to witches playing cards. If the grandfather wins one of three games of Schafkopf , he gets his horse and hat back. But if he is the sheep's head three times in a row, he must die. In the first game the cards are to run away. In the second, grandfather is smarter. He mixes and gives himself, but loses again. But he wins the third game thanks to a card trick under the gaming table and is fine. Bang! And bang again - Grandfather has his hat and horse back. He takes a new horse; rides day and night in one train to the ruler and hands her the certificate personally.

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Used edition

  • The missing document. German by Johannes von Guenther , pp. 203–222 in Johannes von Guenther (Ed.): Nikolai Gogol: Gesammelte Werke. Volume I. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mention of the Tschumaks (= Ukrainian carters / merchants) in the Internet archive
  2. ↑ Russian. The missing document
  3. ↑ Russian Брумберг, Валентина Семёновна - Brumberg, Walentina Semjonovna (1899–1975)
  4. ↑ Russian. The missing document
  5. ↑ Russian Ивченко, Борис Викторович - Iwtschenko, Boris Wiktorowitsch (1941–1990)