distance from Akakiy Akakievich.
Soon Akakiy Akakievich felt that he
was one too many in this company.
– Brother, they… they
stole my new overcoat…
– Brother, who should I… address?..
Superintendent?.. Police constable of the quarter?..
It is known that the Person of consequence
used to be a Person of no consequence.
But which merits made of him a
Person of consequence is not known.
– A clerk is waiting for
you in the anteroom.
– Ah! He can wait, I haven’t time now.
– A clerk is waiting for you
over there… Shall I call him?
– Your Excellency, I came to ask you…
– What next, dear sir! Don’t
you know how to proceed?
You should have addressed
the secretary first…
– Secretaries, your Excellency, are
people… er… you can’t depend on…
– What? What?! What! Where did you
get hold of such spirit, young man?
– How dare you, young man?!
In an instant it had blown
a quinsy into his throat.
– You had better lose
no time, my good woman,
order him now a deal coffin - an
oak one will be too dear for him.
Apparitions, each stranger than the
one before, were haunting him.
UNDER THIS REFERENCE NUMBER IT IS
REPORTED THAT A TITULAR COUNSELOR,
AKAKIY AKAKIEVICH BASHMACHKIN,
IS WITHDRAWN FROM THE RECORDS…
…BY REASON OF DEATH.
A. BASHMACHKIN
THE ENDTHE OVERCOAT
CINEMATOGRAPHIC PIECE IN GOGOL’S MANNER
Leningradkino. 1926
Screenplay by
YURI TYNYANOV
Directors:
GRIGORI KOZINTSEV, LEONID TRAUBERG
Cinematographers:
ANDREI MOSKVIN, YEVGENI MIKHAYLOV
Cast: ANDREI KOSTRICHKIN,
ANTONINA YEREMEYEVA, ALEKSEI KAPLER
There is nothing better than Nevsky
Prospect, at least not in Petersburg.
Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin, a clerk of whom
it cannot be said that he was very remarkable.
A. GERMANN CAFE
What strange characters are met on the
Prospect!.. Cheats are part of it too!
The young clerk chasing the girl was so far a person
of no consequence, and yet - rather impetuous.
THE FOREIGNER IVAN
FEDOROV’S ROOMS
Pyotr Petrovich Ptitsyn - a landowner coming
to Petersburg to burke one old matter.
– The person who has connections in the
well-known department has arrived.
You may consider your case as settled.
Bashmachkin’s flat was on the third story, one
little room without any pretentions to style.
…RETIRED MAJOR FEDUL
KARPOVICH FERDYSCHEK…
…HEAVENLY CREATURE RETIRED MAJOR…
In the Rooms of the
Foreigner Ivan Fedorov.
– As a man of education, would you
give us a co-operation, so to say?
– The thing is not tricky: where it is written
“Pyotr” - work a bit with a knife and a pen...
... and you’ll get “Prov” instead of “Pyotr”.
– He is not a general but is equal to one. He’s
got such an education and excellent deeds.
A lot of drafts and white paper were
circulating in a certain department…
The Person of no consequence
came by the rooms again.
– Your case is rotten.
Bashmachkin has your case.
– Isn’t it Bashmachkin over there?
– Send for Bashmachkin, and as he
comes, beckon him, and beckon him well.
Then keep after him about the case…
Dreaming of a heavenly creature.
– The lady you saw yesterday on the prospect has
sent a carriage for you and asks you to come.
– Sign please!
– The lady you saw the other
day asks you to come.
…FOMA FOMICH VEDENYAPIN REPORTS
ON PYOTR PETROVICH PTITSYN…
…WITH REFERENCE TO THE
FOLLOWING POINTS:
1. ON THE 26TH OF MARCH 1830 THE
AFOREMENTIONED LANDOWNER PYOTR…
…PETROVICH PTITSYN WAS VISITING
ME, FOMA FOMICH VEDENYAPIN,
AS MY WARM-HEARTED FRIEND…
– Foma Fomich, exchange
your maid for my brown pig.
Be sure it will bear piglets next year.
– You’re yourself a brown pig, Pyotr
Petrovich! A swine can’t do what a maid can.
– If I’m a brown pig, then you are
a rebel and a Turkish spy, Foma Fomich!
…HAVING BEEN REFUSED TO EXCHANGE
MY HOUSE MAID AGRAFENA,
HE TRIED TO LAY
VIOLENT HANDS ON ME,
AND WAS CHASED BY FORCE FROM
THE HOUSE BY MY KENNELMEN…
…REPORTS ON PROV
PETROVICH PTITSYN…
The cream of the cultured society
gathered at night in the