The Station-Master (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- First Published: 1831
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1830's
- Setting: A country station and St. Petersburg
- Principal Characters: Samson Vyrin, Dunya, Minsky, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Parents and children, Marriage, Religion, Fathers, Ethics, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
The Story
After an irrelevant introduction about station-masters in general, the narrator tells about one in particular. Samson Vyrin, a widower, is the harried station-master at a remote location visited by the narrator. The operation runs smoothly because his beautiful fourteen-year-old daughter, Dunya, knows how to calm irritated customers, organize the business of the station, and keep her father on an even keel.
The weary narrator presents his papers to the station-master, who copies them in a log book, a bureaucratic necessity in czarist Russia. As the narrator...
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