Small restaurant dictation in Russian. Mini dictations. Bird food

Exercise 1. Rewrite the text. Explain punctuation and spelling. Determine whether there is a parallel or serial connection between the sentences of this SSC.

1. I run, barefoot, to the window, jump onto a cold chair, and I am doused with a sparkle of green, blue ice. There are mountains of it everywhere, right up to the roofs of the barns, right up to the well - the whole yard is littered. And the blue doves are on it: they have nowhere to go! In the shade it is blue and snowy, leaden. And in the sun it is green and bright. Its sharp lumps shoot arrows at the eyes like sparks. And everyone is being delivered, all new woodsheds... (according to I. Shmelev). (64 words)

Task 2. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Underline the definitions in the text, state how they are expressed, what are the conditions for isolating definitions in the text.

A small convoy stretched along a narrow country track, like a peasant's sleigh, or, better said, a trail that seemed to have recently been laid across vast snowy deserts. The runners creaked and squealed shrilly and disgustingly to an unaccustomed ear (S. Aksakov). (31 words)

Exercise 3 . Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Determine which members of the sentence are connected by homogeneity relations.

The road to Siberia is immensely difficult, but comforting. The beauty and wonders of the earth are indescribable and innumerable: the mountains are a miracle, and the steppe is a miracle, and the forest, and the sky covering the firmament and living from the fruits of the earth and the life-giving heavenly light and rain (according to V. Bakhrevsky). (35 words)

Task 4. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Underline the definitions in the text. Name the conditions for their isolation.

At night, after a strong thunderstorm, the lilac - the pride of the estate - blossomed at once: low purple Persian, with sugary-fragrant, hanging inflorescences, tall Hungarian, with heavy faded purple tassels, and the most abundant, lush white, like a wedding dress, domestic lilac (Yu. Nagibin). (33 words)

Task 5. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Determine the frequency of all words in the text. Write down the text in transcription, describe the positional alternations of vowels in the first two words, note the positional alternations in the area of consonants.

The drivers run into each other, get tangled up with shafts and sleighs. Blue blocks fly, knock, slide, jump on each other, collide in flight and scatter into crystals and dust. Work is in full swing: blocks of ice are crashing into trays, baskets of snow are rolling down, crushed ice is clinking on the strong backfill.

By lunchtime - not a block of ice, only creaking heaps of fragments, slippery ones crunching into the snow (according to I. Shmelev). (55 words)

Task 6. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Name the dividing and emphasizing punctuation marks.

Meanwhile, the small figure, freed from its hood and coat, turned out to be a pale, very thin boy in a second-hand real school uniform. Realizing that they were talking about him, he stayed in his corner in an awkward, expectant position, not daring to come closer. The observant Tanya, casting a few furtive glances at him, immediately determined to herself that this boy was shy, poor and proud (A. Kuprin). (58 words)

Task 7. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Name the lexical means of connecting sentences in SSC.

The father was unusually affectionate with the children and often accompanied the mother to the city. They returned together and seemed joyful. And most importantly, both were calm in spirit, even-tempered and friendly, and when the mother glanced at her father in fits and starts, with a playful reproach, it seemed that she drew this world from his eyes, small and ugly, and poured it out with her own, large and beautiful, on children and others (B. Pasternak). (61 words)

Task 8. Copy the text. Explain punctuation marks. Determine whether the relationship between the STS sentences is parallel or serial.

It was still wet, but as warm and quiet as it can be on a nice May evening. Beetles flew around, humming faintly. The bushes are full of moisture, that light silver that falls in large drops onto those passing by. Olga Alexandrovna breathed deeply and freely.

“Still,” she said, the best thing God created was nature. You know, I divide people like this: anyone who doesn’t love nature and doesn’t understand it is nothing to me. He has an empty heart. I have noticed many times: you walk in the evening in a city, for example, in Moscow: there is hustle and bustle, noise. And suddenly you raise your head and see a star above Tverskoy Boulevard... how wonderful it is (B. Zaitsev). (88 words)

Task 9. Copy the text. Find and correct an error in the design of someone else’s speech.

- Wait! One more word,” Ivan asked, “have you found her?” Has she remained faithful to you?

“Here it is,” answered the master and pointed to the wall.

Dark Margarita separated from the white wall and approached the bed.<…>

– How beautiful, without envy, but with sadness and with some quiet tenderness, Ivan said, you see how well everything turned out for you (M. Bulgakov). (52 words)

Task 10. Write it down using punctuation marks.

And the sun was descending behind the forest, it cast several slightly warm rays that cut through the entire forest in a fiery stripe, brightly dousing the tops of the pines with gold. Then the rays went out one after another, the last ray remained for a long time, like a thin needle it pierced the thicket of trees, but that too went out.

The singing of the birds gradually weakened, soon they became completely silent, except for one stubborn one, which, as if in defiance of everyone, in the general silence, one chirped monotonously at intervals less and less often, and she finally whistled weakly, soundlessly, for the last time she perked up, slightly stirring the leaves around her and fell asleep (I. A. Goncharov). (90 words)

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it.
(V. G. Belinsky)

The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.
(M.V. Lomonosov).

Dictations in Russian for grades 1 - 8

Russian language belongs to the eastern group of Slavic languages, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is the eighth language in the world in terms of the number of native speakers and the fifth in the world in terms of total speakers. Russian is the national language of the Russian people, the main language of international communication in central Eurasia and Eastern Europe, one of the working languages of the UN. It is the most widespread Slavic language and the most widespread language in Europe - geographically and in terms of the number of native speakers. It ranks fourth among the most translated languages, and also seventh among the languages into which the most books are translated.
In 2013, Russian took second place among the most popular languages on the Internet.

In grade 11, students are focused on the Unified State Exam and solve tests. It would seem, why do they need dictations?

It is recommended to carry out diagnostic work at the beginning of the year; 3-4 control dictations can be carried out throughout the year. All the proposed dictations are different, there are texts with tasks. But this option is used at the request of the teacher.

Grade 11

Diagnostic dictation

There is no end to the world...

It is now the end of September, but the willows have not yet turned yellow. But from behind the houses, from the backyards, the tops of yellow and crimson-red trees can be seen.

The grass that covered the whole village, like the willows, would have been completely green if the old linden trees growing in the fence had not begun to shed yellowed leaves. And since there was a strong wind yesterday, there were enough leaves to dust the entire village, and now the green grass is visible through the fallen leaves. Among the yellow-green, a narrow road gleams brightly.

There is some strange combination of naive blue and dark, slate clouds in the sky. From time to time the clear sun peeks through, and then the clouds become even blacker, the clear parts of the sky become even bluer, the foliage is even yellower, the grass is even greener. And in the distance an old bell tower peeks through the half-fallen linden trees.

If from this bell tower, having climbed the half-decayed beams and stairs, you now look in all directions of the world, your horizons will immediately expand. We will take in the entire hill on which the village stands, we will see, perhaps, a river winding around the foot of the hill, villages along the river, a forest that covers the entire landscape like a horseshoe.

Imagination can lift us higher than the bell tower, then the horizons will be heard again, and the village that was just around us will seem to consist of toy houses, merging into a small flock in the middle of the earth, which has a noticeable planetary curvature.

We will see that the earth is intertwined with many paths and roads. Those that are brighter and fatter lead to cities that can now be seen from our height. (According to V. Soloukhin.)

Storm

Clouds appeared over the mountains - at first light and airy, then gray, with ragged edges. And the sea immediately changed colors - it began to get dark.

Clinging to the forested mountain peaks, the clouds sank lower and lower, captured gorges and hollows, and turned into heavy, impenetrable clouds. Only the mountains seemed to be holding them back now, but the mountains could not do anything: a gray veil was creeping from the mountains to the sea.

The clouds came from the mountains, sank lower and lower, towards the sea. They, as if reluctantly, covered the water with haze - from the shore and further. They crawled not only along the slopes where the houses of the upper streets were nestled, but also covered the lower, main street with fog. Drivers turned on their headlights and gave horns more and more often. And the trains were now moving, humming nervously, with their lanterns lit.

The sea darkened from the shore. Quiet, seemingly hidden, with a smooth surface and a barely audible surf, it began to appear in white, then black spots, or incomprehensible stains, as if other water had been thrown into it from the air.

The wait lasted an hour. Thunder struck in the mountains, and torrents of rain poured down, and the sea went wild. It flooded the shore, beat against the concrete embankment, against stairs and blocks of rocks, it thundered and shuddered, groaned and delighted, cried and roared.

The sky above the sea became neither gray nor black, but somehow unnaturally brown. Lightning cut the sky, now to the left, now to the right, now in front, now behind, now somewhere above the very shore. The sea swallowed them up, swallowed them up along with the brown sky and thunderclaps.

(232 words.)

For mushrooms

Early on Saturday morning, barely noticeable behind the gray veil of broad, calm rain, I went into the forest to pick mushrooms. There was also a comrade, a young officer, the son-in-law of the owner of the neighboring dacha, who called me either Volodya or Sasha, although my name is neither that nor that. His name was Valera. He provided me with a long officer's cape, he also covered himself with the same cape, only with a hood, and put on rubber fishing boots.

It was raining, just like yesterday, the small river Kashirka, which skirted the village, overflowed, and when we approached the ford, it turned out to be impossible for me to cross without flooding my boots. Then the companion kindly offered up his backbone, which I took advantage of not without secret joy: in the army I was just a soldier, and I could not even dream that I would ever be able to ride on the back of an officer. Having crossed the river, we climbed up the wet, steep slope of a hill and found ourselves in a birch forest.

Narrow paths, carved out by cattle, wound between the trees, intertwining and unbraiding; the village herd is usually driven through this forest. The long grass manes between the paths glittered, thickly sprinkled with raindrops; yellow trees, tasty and slimy, stuck out in the grass. There were so many Valuevs that it even became somehow unpleasant: completely harmless mushrooms, which were even salted, now evoked some kind of disgusting feeling. There were also a lot of russula - gray, pink, deep crimson.

I felt happy: I already knew, I had a presentiment that I would have mushrooms today. (235 words.)

Spring evening

The street, cleanly swept and still damp from recently melted snow, was deserted, but beautiful with a sustained, slightly heavy beauty. Large white houses with stucco decorations along the eaves and in the walls between the windows, painted in a subtle pinkish tint by the spring rays of the setting sun, looked at the light of God with concentration and importance. The melting snow washed away the dust from them, and they stood almost close to each other, so clean, fresh, and well-fed. And the sky shone above them just as solidly, lightly and contentedly.

Pavel walked and, feeling in complete harmony with his surroundings, lazily thought about how well one can live if one does not demand much from life, and how arrogant and stupid are those people who, having pennies, demand rubles from life.

Thinking this way, he did not notice how he came out onto the embankment of the street. Below him stood a whole sea of water, shining coldly in the rays of the sun, far on the horizon, slowly sinking into it. The river, like the sky reflected in it, was solemnly calm. Neither waves nor a frequent network of ripples were visible on its polished, cold surface. Swinging widely, she, as if tired from this swing, calmly fell asleep. And on it the purple-golden velvet stripe of sunset rays languidly melted. In the distance, already shrouded in the gray haze of the evening, a narrow strip of land could be seen, separating the water from the sky, cloudless and deserted, like the river it covered. It would be nice to float like a free bird between them, powerfully cutting through the blue fresh air with your wing! (223 words.)

Fire

No one knows exactly when man first mastered fire. Perhaps lightning set the tree on fire near his original home? Or did the hot lava erupted by a volcano at the dawn of mankind give our ancient ancestors the first thought about fire?

But man has needed fire for a long time. And it is not without reason that one of the most beautiful and proud legends of antiquity is dedicated to the one who discovered for man the secret of fire, protected by the gods. It was, as the legend says, the fearless and independent Prometheus. He himself came from a family of celestial gods, but, contrary to their strict prohibition, he brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth - people. The angry gods cast Prometheus to the ground and doomed him to eternal torment.

Since time immemorial, fire has become a constant, true sign of man. A traveler caught on the road at night, seeing a fire in the distance, probably knew: there were people there!

Man needed fire for light, for strength: it illuminated and heated the home, and helped prepare food. And then man learned to use its heat to extract powerful steam from water that moves cars.

Fire has long been considered a calling sign of cordiality and friendship. The fire scared the beast away from human habitation, but called man to man. And people still say when inviting them to visit: “Come in for a light!”

But, like many other benefits that man obtained for himself by taking from nature, good fire became evil and misfortune for many. The fire was taken over by greedy, predatory people, who forced others to give them all their strength. Fire gave birth to weapons, which became known as firearms. (According to L. Cassil.)

Control dictation based on the results of the 1st half of the year

Child education

To continue yourself in your child is great happiness. You will look at your child as the only, unique miracle in the world. You will be ready to give everything to make your son feel good. But do not forget that he must first of all be a person. And the most important thing in a person is a sense of duty to those who do good to you. For the good that you give to the child, he will experience a feeling of gratitude, gratitude only when he himself does good for you - father, mother, in general for people of older generations.

Remember that children's happiness is selfish in nature: the good and blessings created for the child by elders, he perceives as something self-evident. Until he felt and experienced from his own experience that the source of his joys is the work and sweat of his elders, he will be convinced that his father and mother exist only to bring him happiness. It may turn out that in an honest working family, where parents dote on their children, giving them all the strength of their hearts, the children will grow up to be heartless egoists.

How can you ensure that the grains of gold that you give to your son turn into gold placers for other people? The most important thing is to teach a child to understand and feel that for every spark of his joys and benefits, someone burns his strength, his mind; Every day of his serene and carefree childhood adds more worries and gray hairs to someone. When your child is born, teach him to see, understand, feel people - this is the most difficult thing. (According to G. Sukhomlinsky.)

Grammar task

1 option

1. From paragraph 1, write down the word(s) that are formed: by prefix; 2. in a complex suffix way.

2. From paragraph 1 of sentence 3, write out a subordinating phrase with an adjacency connection; 2. from 1 paragraph 6 sentences with coordination connection.

3. Among the sentences of paragraph 2, find one that has a separate definition; 2. isolated circumstance. Write his number.

4. Among the sentences of paragraph 2, find a complex sentence with an explanatory clause; 2. with a subordinate clause. Write his number.

Option 2

1. From paragraph 2, write down all the possessive pronouns; 2. from paragraph 3 all attributive pronouns.

2. Among the sentences of paragraph 1, find complex sentences that include a one-part impersonal; 2. from 2 paragraphs. Write the numbers of these complex sentences.

3. Among the sentences of paragraph 3, find a complex sentence with sequential subordination of subordinate clauses; 2. from 1 paragraph with parallel subordination of subordinate clauses. Write the number of this complex sentence.

4. Write out phraseological units from paragraph 2; 2. write down contextual antonyms from paragraph 3.

Orlik

Orlik in the past was a large craft settlement. Skilled shoemakers, fur coat makers, coopers, blacksmiths, and tailors lived and worked here. Women and girls embroidered, crocheted, knitted, bobbin, and wove carpets and runners.

Crocheting is a bright, unique phenomenon of national culture. Its history takes us to the distant past. At first, knitting was an exclusively male craft, and the hook looked like an even, smooth stick. Then we made a protrusion at the end so that the thread would not slip, so it became much easier to work. As time passed, this occupation completely passed into the hands of women. With the help of a simple tool - a hook - products of extraordinary beauty and grace are created.

In Orlik and the surrounding villages, from time immemorial, very beautiful things have been crocheted: window curtains and tablecloths, bedspreads and pillow covers, lace for sheets, pillowcases, and towels.

There are so many lace makers, so many patterns. They shared with each other, omitted something, added something of their own, and the result was something new and individual. From under sensitive, nimble hands comes a magical canvas, a thin openwork miracle. How much soul, how many feelings are put into it!

The constant companion of the craftswomen was the Russian song, lively and cheerful, drawn-out and sad. It flows freely from the cramped hut, and the cherished dream, desire, and hope ring and beat in it.

Grammar task

1 option

1. Determine the method of forming the word past (2 paragraph, 2 sentence); 2. companion (5 paragraph, 1 sentence).

2. From paragraph 5 of the last sentence, write out a subordinating phrase with an adjacency connection; 2. from 1 paragraph 2 sentences with coordination connection.

3. Among the sentences in paragraph 5, find one that has a separate definition; 2. Among the sentences of paragraph 1-2, find one that has a separate application. Write his number.

4. Write out the grammatical basis from 1 paragraph 1 sentence; 2. write down the grammatical basis from paragraph 2, sentence 1.

Option 2

1. From paragraph 4, write down all the prepositions; 2. from paragraph 2 all adverbs.

2. Among the sentences of paragraph 2, find a complex sentence that includes a one-part impersonal; 2. Among the sentences of paragraph 2, find the indefinitely personal. Write the number of this complex sentence.

3. Among the sentences of paragraph 1-2, find one that includes a subordinate clause of purpose; 2. Among the sentences of paragraph 3-4, find a sentence with homogeneous members and
a general word. Write the number of this offer.

4. determine the lexical meaning of the word “cooper” (2nd sentence of 1st paragraph); 2. determine the lexical meaning of the word “lacemaker” (4 paragraphs, 1 sentence).

Samovar

The samovar is designed to heat water for tea. The first samovar factory opened in Tula in one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, so the coal samovars in the museum collection are probably more than two hundred years old.

Inside the samovar there is a firebox where coals are placed, which burn and give off their heat to the water poured into the samovar. Charcoal is an irreplaceable fuel, and they stocked it up in advance. If the coals in the firebox suddenly went out, then an ordinary boot, old, worn, no longer useful, came to the rescue. Its boot was put on the upper part of the firebox, and the boot in the hands of a person performed the same work as the blacksmith’s bellows in the furnace.

The hostess kept an eye on how the coals were burning: whether they were smoldering, flaring up well or barely. Sometimes he doesn’t notice and the water in the samovar boils away. We need to install a new one as soon as possible, in case someone accidentally comes in. Hardworking housewives polished their samovar so much that it was like looking at it in a mirror. The hostess will admire herself and smile. And a smile, as you know, makes everyone beautiful.

Previously, in any hut, the samovar on the table was given the most prominent and honorable place. The family had to move to a new hut - first of all the samovar was transported, and then everything else. If in late autumn or cold winter someone was equipped for a long journey, then a hot samovar was often placed in the sleigh. Near it, like a stove, you can warm up on the road and drink boiling water if you want. What makes a coal samovar so remarkable is that until the coals in it burn out, the water remains hot.

Grammar task

1 option

1. From sentence 3 of paragraph 2, write down the word(s) that are formed: by prefix; 2. from 1 paragraph, 1 sentence in a suffix way.

2. From sentence 1 of paragraph 4, write out a subordinating phrase with an adjacency connection; 2. from 1 sentence 3 paragraphs with coordination connection.

3. Among the sentences of paragraph 1, find one that contains separate definitions; 2. Find introductory words in the text. Write down their numbers.

4. Among the sentences of paragraph 4, find a complex sentence with sequential subordination of subordinate clauses; 2. from 2 paragraphs with sequential subordination of subordinate clauses. Write the number of this complex sentence.

Option 2

1. From paragraph 3, write down all subordinating conjunctions; 2. from paragraph 3 all coordinating conjunctions.

2. Among the sentences of paragraph 3, find complex sentences that include a one-part impersonal; 2. from 4 paragraphs. Write the numbers of these complex sentences.

3. Among the sentences in paragraph 1, find one that includes a subordinate clause; 2. Among the sentences of paragraph 2, find the attributive clause. Write the number of this complex sentence.

4. Write down a colloquial word from paragraph 3; 2. write down the term from 2 paragraphs.

Capercaillie song

1) In spring, it’s good to be in the forest: the air is especially fresh and fragrant, the smell of rotten leaves and thawed earth spreads everywhere. 2) The impressions associated with the spring hunt for wood grouse are indelible in my memory. 3) It has not yet dawned at all, and a transparent night silence floats over the sleeping forest, in which every rustle and whisper can be clearly heard. 4) A branch will crunch under your foot, the ice crust will crack, covering the shallow but wide swamp, and again there will be silence.

5) When you walk through the forest, you stop from time to time and listen. 6) I would like to get to the current site on time, when the capercaillie has not yet started his song. 7) You listen carefully, and suddenly a sharp, abrupt cry is heard in the air. 8) Soon another one answers him - and a ringing roll call begins in the swamp.

9) You peer intensely into the forest darkness, constantly glancing at the hands of the clock. 10) In the east, in the depths of the forest, between the tops of the trees, an almost imperceptible light glimmers, and the darkness of the night begins to gradually dissipate. 11) But now, in the distance of the forest, the sounds of a capercaillie song, elusive to an inexperienced hunter, are heard. 12) A characteristic clicking and chirping sound is heard from a distant thicket and fills the pre-dawn forest silence, shimmering in the air with mysterious and exciting sounds. 13) As soon as the wood grouse is silent, you freeze in place and stand motionless. 14) In the scarlet light of dawn, the capercaillie appears as a massive, chiseled figure made of ebony. 15) Only a slightly noticeable movement of this figure indicates that this is not a dead object. (According to V. Astafiev.)

Tasks

Option I

AT 2. Among the sentences, find a compound one with a qualifying circumstance. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 7-15, find a simple definite-personal one. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 4, write down the 3rd declension noun.

AT 5. Among sentences 1-3, find a complex one with a non-union connection. Enter its number.

AT 7. From sentence 12, write down a word that has two prefixes.

AT 8. Indicate the way the word is formed tensely (sentence 9).

AT 9. From sentences 13-15, write down a verbal adjective.

Option II

AT 2. Among the sentences, find a simple one with a separate definition. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 5-8, find a complex one with an impersonal part. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 11, write down the 3rd declension noun.

AT 5. Among sentences 1-4, find a sentence with a coordinating and subordinating connection. Enter its number.

AT 6. Write out the adverb from sentence 15.

AT 7. From sentence 2, write down a word that has two prefixes.

AT 8. Indicate the way to form the word little by little (sentence 10).

AT 9. Write short adjectives from sentences 1-5.

Joy

1) There was an inexplicable joy, incomprehensible only to an avid city dweller, to wake up as a child in his cozy bedroom in a light reed bed at dawn from the sound of a shepherd’s horn. 2) The first ray of sun through the closed shutters gilded the tiled stove, freshly painted floors, newly painted walls, hung with pictures on themes from children's fairy tales. 3) What colors shimmering in the sun played here! 4) The dewy freshness of early cherry blossoms rushes through the old window, which is wide open. 5) A low house, hunched over, goes into the ground, lilacs bloom wildly above it, as if rushing to cover up its squalor with its white-purple luxury.

6) Along the wooden steps of the balcony, also rotten from time and swaying under your feet, you go down to swim to the river located near the house. 7) The closed sluices of a small mill raised the waters of the river, forming a narrow but deep backwater. 8) In the greenish transparent water, schools of silver fish slowly pass, and on an old dilapidated barrel, which is missing several boards, a huge green frog sits, watching the sunbeams playing on the ash-gray plank walls of the bathhouse - the favorite place of the frog couple.

9) Touching a branch of a thick hazel tree, a chatty magpie sits on the top of a young blue-green Christmas tree. 10)What is she talking about! 11) A ringing chirping rushes towards her, and, growing, gradually the polyphonic hubbub of birds fills the garden. 12) The glass door leading from the terrace is open. (According to D. Rosenthal.)

Tasks

Option I

IN 1. Find a sentence in the text that reflects the main idea of the text. Enter its number.

AT 2. Among sentences 1-5, find a sentence with homogeneous additions and a separate definition. Write his number.

AT 3. Among sentences 4-7, find the non-union complex. Enter its number.

AT 4. Write a preposition from sentence 11.

AT 5. From sentence 2, write out the 3rd declension noun.

AT 6. Write out the adverb from sentence 4.

AT 7. Indicate how the word rotten is formed (sentence 6).

AT 8. Write down a phrase (sentence 12) based on management.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical basis of sentence 1.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. Among sentences 7-12, find a simple sentence with a separate definition. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 6-8, find a complex one with different types of connections. Enter its number.

AT 4. Write out the particle from sentence 1.

AT 5. From sentence 5, write down the masculine noun.

AT 6. Write out the adverb from sentence 8.

AT 7. Indicate how the word blue-green is formed (sentence 9).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 3) built on the basis of agreement.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 8.

Steppe

1) In spring the steppe is like a green sea. 2) And in the summer, when the white feather grass thickens, the steppe will become a white sea. 3) Humpbacked waves of mother-of-pearl will roll across the sea, pearly ripples will turn silver. 4) Feather grasses bend, creep, rustle. 5) And the wind, like a golden eagle, falls on open wings, whistling freely and dashingly. 6) Otherwise the steppe will suddenly seem like a bare snowy plain, and it’s as if drifting snow is sweeping, curling and spreading over it.

7) At sunrise, the feather grass is like moon ripples on the water: the steppe trembles, fragments, glistens. 8) At noon, it is like a huge flock of curly sheep: the sheep huddle one against the other, trample little and endlessly flow and flow to the edge of the earth.

9) But a wonderful miracle - the steppe at sunset! 10) Iridescent fluffy panicles spread towards the setting sun, like pink tongues of cold ghostly fire. 11)And until the sun sinks behind the earth, these icy flashes will rush and sparkle throughout the steppe. 12)Then the moon will rise above the gloomy steppe - like an air bubble from the water! - and the stacks of feather grass hay will seem to be covered with frost. 13) The steppe is beautiful both day and night! (According to N. Sladkov.)

Tasks

Option I

IN 1. Find a sentence in the text that reflects the main idea of the text. Enter its number.

AT 2. Among sentences 1-5, find a sentence with a comparative phrase. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 3-6, find a simple, uncommon one. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 8, write out the reflexive verb.

AT 5. Indicate how the word will emerge (sentence 12).

AT 6. Among sentences 1-10, find a compound with a subordinate clause. Enter its number.

AT 7. From sentences 1-5, write down words with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 6) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical basis of sentence 7.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. Among sentences 9−11, find a sentence with a comparative turnover. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 7-10, find a complex sentence with a simple unexpanded part. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentences 9-13, write down the derived preposition.

AT 5. Indicate how the word icy is formed (sentence 11).

AT 6. Among sentences 11-13, find a compound with a subordinate clause. Enter its number.

AT 7. From sentences 6-8, write down words with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 7) built on the basis of agreement.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 11.

Balaclava

1) At the end of October, when the days are still tender in autumn, Balaklava begins to live a unique life. 2) The last holidaymakers, who spent the long local summer enjoying the sun and sea, leave, burdened with suitcases and trunks, and it immediately becomes spacious, fresh and homely, businesslike, as if after the departure of sensational uninvited guests. 3) Fishing nets are spread across the embankment, and on the polished cobblestones of the pavement they seem delicate and thin, like a spider’s web.

4) Fishermen, these workers of the sea, as they are called, crawl along the spread nets, like gray-black spiders straightening a torn veil of air. 5) The captains of the fishing longboats sharpen the worn-out beluga hooks, and at the stone wells, where the water babbles in a continuous silver stream, dark-faced women - local residents - chatter, gathering here in their free moments.

6) Sinking over the sea, the sun sets, and soon the starry night, replacing the short evening dawn, envelops the earth. 7) The whole city falls into deep sleep, and the hour comes when not a sound comes from anywhere. 8)Only occasionally does the water squish against the coastal stone, and this lonely sound further emphasizes the undisturbed silence. 9) You feel how night and silence merged in one black embrace. 10) Nowhere, in my opinion, will you hear such perfect, such ideal silence as in the night Balaclava. (According to A. Kuprin.)

Tasks

Option I

AT 2. From sentences 1-3, write out a separate agreed definition.

AT 3. Among sentences 6−10, find a simple definite-personal one. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 7, write down all the pronouns.

AT 5. Among sentences 1−5, find a sentence with an introductory construction. Enter its number.

AT 6. From sentence 5, write down the word with an alternating vowel in the root.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word fishing (sentence 5).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 3) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 9. Among sentences 5−10, find complex ones with attributive clauses. Indicate their numbers.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. From sentences 4−5, write down a separate circumstance.

AT 3. Among sentences 1-3, find a complex one with a single-component impersonal part. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 8, write down all the particles.

AT 5. Among sentences 6−10, find a sentence with an introductory word. Enter its number.

AT 6. From sentences 1−3, write down words with an alternating vowel in the root.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word coastal (sentence 8).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 1) built on the basis of agreement.

Q9. Among sentences 1−4, find a compound with a subordinate clause. Enter its number.

Maslenitsa

1) Maslenitsa... 2) Thaws are becoming more frequent, the snow is getting oily. 3) On the sunny side, icicles hang with a glass fringe, melt, and clink on the ice. 4) You jump on one skate, and you feel how it gently cuts, as if on thick skin. 5) Goodbye winter!

6) This can be seen from the jackdaws: they circle in huge “wedding” flocks, and the chattering hubbub of them beckons somewhere. 7) You sit on a bench, dangle your skate and watch the black flock of them in the sky for a long time. 8) They disappeared somewhere.

9)And then the stars appear. 10) The breeze is damp, soft, smells of baked bread, delicious birch smoke, pancakes. 11) On Saturday, after pancakes, we go skiing from the mountains. 12) The zoological garden, where our mountains are built (they are wooden, filled with shiny ice), is littered with blue snow, only paths have been cleared in the snowdrifts. 13) Neither birds nor animals are visible. 14) Tall mountains on ponds. 15) Colorful flags flutter over the fresh plank pavilions on the mountains.

16) Tall sleds with velvet benches rush from the mountains along icy paths, between banks of snow with fir trees stuck in them. 17) We climb to the top of the mountain and slide down. 18) Christmas trees, glass and multi-colored balls hanging on wires flash by. 19) Snow dust flies, a Christmas tree falls on us, the sleigh runners are up, and we are in a snowdrift. (According to I. Shmelev.)

Tasks

Option I

IN 1. State the main idea of the text in one or two sentences.

AT 2. Among sentences 10-16, find a sentence with a clarifying circumstance. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 7-14, find a sentence with an insertion construction. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentences 17-19, write out the participle.

AT 5. Among sentences 9-13, find the simple impersonal. Enter its number.

AT 6. From sentences 9-15, write down a word with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word damp (sentence 10).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 4) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 9. From sentence 6, write down the first grammatical basis.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. Among sentences 16−19, find a simple sentence with a separate definition. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 1-6, find a sentence with an appeal. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentences 9-15, write down a verbal adjective.

AT 5. Among sentences 6-10, find a simple definitely-personal one. Enter its number.

AT 6. From sentences 16 - 19, write down a word with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 7. Indicate how the word Maslenitsa is formed (sentence 1).

AT 8. Write down a phrase (sentence 18) based on management.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 4.

Old poplar

1) The old poplar has seen a lot in its lifetime! 2) A long time ago, a thunderstorm split the top of the poplar, but the tree did not die, it coped with the disease, throwing up two trunks instead of one. 3) The spreading branches, like the hooked fingers of an old man, stretched to the ridge of the plank roof, as if they were about to grab the house in an armful. 4) In the summer, ropey shoots of hops curled densely on the branches.

5) The poplar was majestic and huge, nicknamed the Holy Tree by the Old Believers. 6) The winds bent it, it was mercilessly whipped by hail, winter blizzards twisted it, covering the fragile shoots of juveniles on mature branches with a crust of ice. 7) And then he, all gray with frost, tapping the branches like bones, stood silent, completely swept by the fierce wind. 8) And rarely did any of the people keep their gaze on him, as if he was not even on earth. 9) Was it only the crows, flying from the village to the floodplain, resting on its double-headed peak, turning black in clumps?

10) But when spring came and the old man, coming to life, blossomed the brown juices of sticky buds, being the first to meet the southern greenhouse, and his roots, penetrating deep into the earth, carried life-giving juices into a powerful trunk, he somehow immediately dressed up in fragrant greenery. 11) And he made noise, he made noise! 12) Quiet, peaceful. 13) Then everyone saw him, and everyone needed him: the men who sat under his shadow on hot days, rubbing their difficult lives in their calloused palms, and random travelers, and children. 14) He greeted everyone with coolness and the gentle trembling of leaves. (According to A. Cherkasov.)

Tasks

Option I

IN 1. State the main idea of the text in one or two sentences.

AT 2. Among sentences 1-5, find a sentence with a comparative phrase. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 1-7, find a compound one. Enter its number.

AT 4. Write out the adjective from sentence 2.

AT 5. From sentence 5, write down a word that has two roots.

AT 6. From sentences 1 - 4, write down a word with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word living-being (sentence 13).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 8) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical basis of sentence 3.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. Among sentences 6-9, find a sentence with a comparative turnover. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 10-14, find a complex one with a generalizing word. Enter its number.

AT 4. Write out the active participle from sentence 7.

AT 5. From sentence 9, write down a word that has two roots.

AT 6. From sentences 10-14, write down a word with an alternating unstressed vowel at the root.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word hooked (sentence 3).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 14) built on the basis of agreement.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 13.

Spring in the mountains

1) Spring in the mountains sometimes makes you wait a long time, but when it appears, it goes quickly. 2) Below, in the valleys, the seedlings are already turning green, the young trees are firmly on their feet, and the blossoming foliage is beginning to cast a shadow. 3) Then spring surrenders its affairs to summer, and itself, picking up a bright green, flowery hem dragging along the ground, rushes into the mountains.

4) In the mountainous zone, spring has its own laws and its own unique charms. 5) In the morning it will snow, in the afternoon the sun will appear, the snow will move, float, evaporate, ephemeral flowers will bloom, and by evening the ground will have dried out. 6) Ice will freeze in rivers and streams overnight. 7) And the next morning you look from the top - and it will take your breath away how pure and unimaginable the spring is in the mountains. 8) The sky is clear, blue, not a speck. 9) The earth is like a young girl in a new outfit, green, washed with dew, and, it seems, laughing shyly... 10) And if you shout, your voice will be heard for a long time in the high altitude distance above the mountain ranges, in the clear air it flies far away -far...

11) No amount of snow, fog, rain or wind can hold back spring; it, like a green fire, blazes from mountain to mountain, from peak to peak, higher and higher, under the most eternal ice. (According to Ch. Aitmatov.)

Tasks

Option I

IN 1. State the main idea of the text in one or two sentences.

AT 2. Among sentences 1-5, find a sentence with a clarifying circumstance. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 3-7, find a simple one with homogeneous complements. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 3, write out the participle.

AT 5. Among sentences 1-3, find a complex one with a non-conjunctive and coordinating connection. Write the number of this offer.

AT 6. From sentences 1-4, write down the word with the prefix -z, -s.

AT 7. Indicate the method of forming the word namerznet (sentence 6).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 9) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 9. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 7.

Option II

IN 1. How else could the text be titled? Write down 2 of your headings for the text.

AT 2. Among sentences 8-11, find a sentence with a clarifying circumstance. Enter its number.

AT 3. Among sentences 6-10, find a sentence with a comparative turnover. Enter its number.

AT 4. From sentence 3, write down all the pronouns.

AT 5. Among sentences 4-8, find a complex one with a non-conjunctive and coordinating connection. Write the number of this offer.

AT 6. From sentences 5-10, write down words with the prefix -z, -s.

AT 7. Indicate how the word far, far is formed (sentence 10).

AT 8. Write down the phrase (sentence 11) built on the basis of adjacency.

AT 8. Write down the grammatical bases of sentence 2.

Final control dictation for the academic year

bird home

Nikolai Sergeevich and his wife came to Abkhazia from Moscow for the first time in their lives and lived at the summer dacha of the artist Andrei Tarkilov, who rarely visited here.

Under the roofs of peasant houses, past which they passed towards the sea, there were swallows' nests. Strange, but there was not a single nest under the roof of the dacha, although the house was built more than ten years ago. An old village teacher explained it this way:

Andrey rarely comes here, and swallows build nests under the roof of a human house because they seek his protection.

And Nikolai Sergeevich’s wife once said that it would be happiness for her to wake up to the chirping of swallows. And he suddenly replied that this could be arranged: we must ask the old teacher for permission to move one swallow’s nest from under the roof of his house to his place. Superstitious horror flashed in the teacher’s eyes, but he was a very patriarchal person: the guest must be given what he asks for.

The watchman guarding the store noticed Nikolai Sergeevich walking somewhere with a stepladder in the dead of night, but soon lost sight of him. When Nikolai Sergeevich removed the nest, it seemed to him that he would not maintain his balance and would fall down. And every time, imagining his fall, he mentally stretched his arms up so as not to crush the swallows.

When he turned towards the house, the watchman recognized him again and also noticed that now this man without a stepladder was clutching something to himself - most likely a precious thing. Having called out to him, the watchman realized that the man had walked faster, and was convinced that he was a criminal.

It seemed to Nikolai Sergeevich that he was falling, and he stretched his arms forward so as not to damage the nest. The swallows flew out of the nest, and the chicks crawled to the grassy slope of the ditch. With his last dying movement, Nikolai Sergeevich threw his hand towards the swallow’s nest, and it, already dead, fell onto the nest. (According to F. Iskander.)

Uncle Sasha

We drove fast. Uncle Sasha, having unbuttoned his cloak, from under which a red medal star sparkled on his jacket, still continued to look detachedly at the road running towards him. A giant truck rushed past with a dull roar, like a prehistoric beast, and grayish-yellow beets could be seen in its back. Twin dump trucks rushed by next, they were also carrying beets: people were in a hurry to finish the harvest.

The plain in these Kursk fields began to gradually hill, and the height mark probably exceeded two hundred meters. In ancient times, this land could not be overcome by a glacier advancing from the north; splitting in two, he crawled further, skirting the hills to the right and left. This means that it is no coincidence that at these heights, which were never overcome by the ice shell, an unprecedented battle broke out, from which, as Uncle Sasha thought, the saved peoples could begin a new reckoning. The enemies who threatened Russia with a new glaciation were stopped and thrown from the heights. You will never forget those days, you will never confuse those events with anything.

In August 1943, Sasha, then a young artillery lieutenant, dropped by for half a day in his native village, Prokhorovka. Mutilated tanks left over from an unprecedented battle were brought here from the surrounding fields, and they formed a monstrous cemetery, among which it was not difficult to get lost. But the defeated tanks seemed to still, like people, hate each other. Now this tank cemetery does not exist: it has been plowed up and sown with grain, and the iron scrap of the war has long been absorbed by open-hearth furnaces. People leveled and smoothed out the trenches, and only on the hills there remained carefully guarded mass graves on Kursk land. (According to E. Nosov.)

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Walk

Early in the morning, when everyone was asleep, I tiptoed out of the stuffy hut and it was as if I was not in the front garden, but stepped out into quiet, inexplicably transparent water.

Tall, untouched grass was rampant just beyond the gate. I ran off the embankment to the left and walked along the river towards its flow. There was nothing remarkable around. A car stopped at a distance, and the noisy company that had arrived in it sat down to rest, pulling a linen sheet like an awning.

The path went around the sand pit and led me out onto a spacious meadow along which trees grew alone and in groups.

The still air, which has not yet become sultry, pleasantly refreshes the larynx and chest. The sun, which has not yet come into full force, warms gently and gently. After about half an hour, a mature pine forest surrounded me. Near the road there were unusually well-groomed, marked paths. From time to time, here and there we came across neatly laid light chocolate rugs of cuckoo flax - this indispensable inhabitant of pine forests.

A bird was darting up and down the aspen tree trunk with the agility of a mouse.

We came across a swamp with coffee-brown, but not at all muddy water. I got over it, jumping onto a slippery log, and from the log onto a log thrown by someone. And here is a small river with water so cold, despite the hot days.

The lodge, which I wanted to find at all costs, turned out to be a log cabin. On one side it adjoined the forest, on the other side there was a vast meadow. (According to V. Soloukhin.)

Turgenev's works

The evening wind barely rustles in the thick foliage of the Turgenev oak; in the park, deserted after the day's activity, bird voices fall silent. The gradually approaching light shadows of the summer night give a ghostliness, light and imperceptible, to the outlines of the trees, the silhouette of a silent house visible in the spaces between the linden trees...

This was probably how it was many, many years ago in the estate, empty after the death of the owner: not a single light in the long row of closed windows, no one on the grassy alleys...

It’s not hard to imagine the owner, still a young man, thinking on a bench under his favorite oak tree, with dreams and plans swarming in his head. He had only then begun to carry out the work destined for him by fate, which firmly formed the foundation of the Russian literary heritage. A century has passed without the writer, but his “Notes of a Hunter” are still fresh and fragrant, their poetry and humanity are timeless. And from the pages of “The Noble Nest”, “Fathers and Sons”, “On the Eve”, “First Love”, “Asia”, and his other novels and stories, captivating, unfading images of Russian girls emerge, whom we call “Turgenev’s”.

Meanwhile, we live in a world separated by an immeasurable abyss from the heroines of Turgenev and his time: ideas and assessments have shifted, sometimes the feelings and hopes that excited them seem petty and vain to us, naive ideas. But the incomparable artistic height of Turgenev’s works made them immortal: his books will be read by our distant descendants, the literary taste and merits of the style and language of the works of our compatriots will be verified by them, as long as “our great, powerful and free Russian language” will live! (According to O. Volkov.)

Russian language knowledge test - a selection of several wonderful dictations that will help you make fun of your colleagues and friends and test your own knowledge of the great and mighty Russian language :)

A frivolous little sparrow fluttered from pebble to pebble, and on the diligently plastered terrace, skillfully draped with tapestries depicting the defensive Kronstadt infantry battalion, which once panicked the Bolivian unmanned cavalry, under an artificial antique lampshade camouflaged as an eccentric Moroccan minaret, the freckled sister-in-law of widowhood Archpriest Agrippina Savvichna, absentmindedly listening to the tirades of the not at all surprised provincial propagandist, she suddenly treated the collegiate assessor, the local police officer and the indifferent womanizer Thaddei Apollinaryevich Parashutov with a vinaigrette with smelt and chocolate-covered blancmange stuffed with anchovies.

Freckled, flighty Vanechka, an amateur driver by profession, a lover of dancing and having fun, fearing appendicitis and catarrh, decided to become a vegetarian. One day, putting on his Kolomyanka suit and skillfully combing a tuft of hair on the crown of his head, he went to visit his sister-in-law Appolinaria Nikitichna. Having passed the terrace with a balustrade, all filled with clay and aluminum pots, he, like a privileged guest, went straight to the kitchenette. The hostess, seeing that it was none other than her friend, applauded so much that she dropped the burner of the samovar, and then began to treat him with a vinaigrette with smoked meats, and for dessert served a monpensier with other dishes.

1. On the sunny plank terrace near the hemp plant, freckled Agrippina Savvishna treated the collegiate assessor Apollo Sigismundovich with vinaigrette and other dishes.

2. On a plank terrace near an asymmetrical hemp bush, the well-known widow of a clerk, Agrippina Savvichna, secretly treated the collegiate assessor Apollo Filippovich with a vinaigrette with shellfish and various other dishes to the accompaniment of an accordion and cello.

3. A sparrow fluttered from pebble to pebble, and on the terrace, skillfully draped with tapestries with the defensive of the Kronstadt infantry battalion, under an artificial lampshade camouflaged as a Moroccan minaret, the freckled sister-in-law of the dowager archpriest Agrippina Savvichna treated the collegiate assessor, the police officer and the entnogo ladies' man Faddey Apollinarievich vinaigrette with smelts.

4. On the plank veranda near the hemp plant, to the accompaniment of a cello, freckled Agrippina Savvishna secretly treated collegiate assessor Apollo Faddeich with vinaigrette and dumplings.

5. On a colossal plank terrace near a hemp tree with honeysuckle, to the skillful cacophonous accompaniment of a cello and the causeless cry of a wolverine, the notorious clerk’s widow, freckled Agrippina Savvishna Filippova, secretly served juniper jam, Californian vinaigrette with shellfish and other tongueless delicacies collegiate assessor Thaddeus Apollonovich, sitting on the veranda, unbuttoning his blue -a black frock coat, with the fingers of the left hand spread out and the ring finger of the right hand tucked under the armpit.

6. On the colossal plank terrace, sitting on an ottoman, the freckled Agrippina Savvichna secretly treated the collegiate assessor Philip Apollinarievich with vinaigrette, dumplings and other dishes.

7. On the plank terrace near the hemp plant, the indifferent, freckled stepdaughter Agrippina Savvishna secretly treated herself to a vinaigrette with ham, shellfish and other dishes to the accompaniment of the cello of the collegiate assessor Apollon Ippolitovich.

Hunting

Already the morning frosts were binding the earth, wetted by autumn rains.

The tops of the forest, which at the end of August were still green islands between black fields and stubble, became golden and bright red fancy islands among the bright green winter fields.

The brown hare was already halfway through its molt, the fox litters were beginning to disperse, and the young wolves were already larger than the dogs. It was the best hunting time.

In the morning Rostov looked out the living room window, looked into the distance and saw such a morning that nothing could be better for hunting. The sky seemed to melt and descend to the ground without wind. The only movement that was in the air was the quiet movement from top to bottom of microscopic drops of fog descending. Transparent drops hung like pearls on the bare branches of the garden and slowly fell onto the recently fallen leaves. The windmill froze half asleep.

Not a sound anywhere. The soil in the garden turned glossy and wet black and, at a short distance, merged with the dull and damp cover of fog. In the distance, hazy and unclear, sandy paths disappeared.

It smelled of withering leaves and dogs.

Everyone was already seized by an irresistible hunting feeling. The horses walked across the field as if walking on a fluffy carpet, occasionally splashing through puddles as they crossed unpaved clay roads. The foggy sky continued to descend imperceptibly and evenly to the ground. The windless air was quiet, warm and soundless. From time to time you can hear the snoring of a horse, the blow of a whip, or the unexpected yelp of a dog that was not walking in its place.

When they rode about a mile away, five more horsemen with dogs suddenly appeared out of the fog to meet the hunt. Everyone wanted to catch the wolf at all costs, but he walked through the bushes, and not a single hunter intercepted him. The dogs were also unable to detain him.

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Examination dictation for grade 11.

One summer, everyone in the house of a poor but noble landowner got up at dawn. Only Alexander, the only son of Anna Pavlovna, slept like a heroic sleep, as a twenty-two-year-old spoiled youth should sleep. People walked on tiptoe and spoke in whispers so as not to wake the young master. As soon as someone knocked or spoke loudly at the wrong time - immediately, like an irritated lioness, Anna Pavlovna appeared and immediately punished the careless person with a reprimand, a nickname, and sometimes a push.

In the kitchen they cooked tirelessly, as if for ten people, despite the fact that the master's family consisted of Anna Pavlovna and Alexander. In the barn they wiped and greased the cart. Everyone was busy and worked tirelessly. Barbos, however, only did nothing, but still took part in the movement in his own way. When a footman passed by him without speaking to anyone or a girl skipped, he would wave his tail and carefully sniff the passerby.

And the turmoil was because Anna Pavlovna reluctantly let her son go to St. Petersburg for service, or, as she said, to see people and show herself off. This made her so sad and upset. She will open her mouth to order something, and suddenly stop mid-sentence, her voice will change, she will turn away and, sobbing, will wipe away a tear if she has time, but if she doesn’t have time, she will drop it into the suitcase in which she put Sashenka’s underwear in the bedroom and which had not been removed from the closet since her wedding. Tears have long been ready to splash into three streams, but she constantly wipes them away.

She was not the only one mourning the separation. The valet Yevsey also grieved greatly: when he set off with the master, he left the warm corner of the house in the little room of the clever Agrafena, the first minister in the household and, most importantly for Yevsey, the first housekeeper.

Meanwhile, a cabman with three horses appeared at the gate. The gilded bell, tied to an arc, moved its tongue dully and unfreely, like a drunken man thrown into a guardhouse.

The departing blond young man walked slowly towards Anna Pavlovna. He cheerfully greeted his mother, but when he suddenly saw the suitcases, he became embarrassed, silently went to the window and began to draw with his finger on the glass, deliberately peering into the distance.

The sun was shining dazzlingly brightly. The room smelled fresh from the balcony. Far, far away lay a garden of old linden trees, thick rose hips, bird cherry trees, and lilac bushes. And even further away, fields spread like an amphitheater with waving multi-colored grains and peasant houses adjoin the blue-dark forest.

“Look,” said the mother, “what beauty God has endowed our places with! Why leave?

Alexander thoughtfully pointed his hand into the distance. There, in the middle of the fields, the road to the promised land - to St. Petersburg - wound like a snake and ran away behind the forest and windmill.

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