PPT: The Beggar

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Notable awards Pushkin Prize
Poet Name Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Born 29 January 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Died 15 July 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Books
The Lady with the Dog, Stories of Anton 
Chekhov
Short 
stories
The Chameleon, Misery, Gooseberries
Occupation Physician, short story 
writer, playwright
Nationality Russian
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Notable awards Pushkin Prize
Poet Name Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Born 29 January 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Died 15 July 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Books
The Lady with the Dog, Stories of Anton 
Chekhov
Short 
stories
The Chameleon, Misery, Gooseberries
Occupation Physician, short story 
writer, playwright
Nationality Russian
?HE STUDIED IN GREEK SCHOOL AT 
TAGANROG
?HE COMPLETED THE M,EDICINE AT 
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY 
?BECOME A PHYSICIAN AT 1884.
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Notable awards Pushkin Prize
Poet Name Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Born 29 January 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Died 15 July 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Books
The Lady with the Dog, Stories of Anton 
Chekhov
Short 
stories
The Chameleon, Misery, Gooseberries
Occupation Physician, short story 
writer, playwright
Nationality Russian
?HE STUDIED IN GREEK SCHOOL AT 
TAGANROG
?HE COMPLETED THE M,EDICINE AT 
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY 
?BECOME A PHYSICIAN AT 1884.
? MAIN CHARACTER OF THIS STORY:
• Lushkoff (beggar): Lushkoff is the main character in the story. He is a beggar, with a 
different style. . He tells different lies, to gain money from people. He is an alcoholic 
and his clothes are dirty and untidy. Due to the alcohol, his physical and mental health 
is also poor. But he also possess some positive sides, like his willingness to accept his 
mistake and change, bear patiently the scolding of Olga and firmness to stop drinking
• Sergi:(The advocate) Sergi is a famous and prosperous advocate. He is a man 
of high principles. He is strict, straight forward. His keen eyes identify Lushkoff as 
a liar. He believes in hard work and gives Lushkoff a job. This shows his kindness 
and helping tendency. He is also happy to know that Lushkoff had reformed.
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• Olga(His Cook ): Olga is the lady servant of Sergi. She appears to be cold at heart, 
but her kindness is revealed in the way she helps Lushkoff. Though she 
scolds Lushkoff, she has pity on him and helps him. Although she is not 
physically strong, she is mentally strong which makes her chop the woods for 
Lushkoff. She is humble and does not brag about it. The truth is revealed, only 
by Lushkoff later.
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Notable awards Pushkin Prize
Poet Name Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Born 29 January 1860, Taganrog, Russia
Died 15 July 1904, Badenweiler, Germany
Books
The Lady with the Dog, Stories of Anton 
Chekhov
Short 
stories
The Chameleon, Misery, Gooseberries
Occupation Physician, short story 
writer, playwright
Nationality Russian
?HE STUDIED IN GREEK SCHOOL AT 
TAGANROG
?HE COMPLETED THE M,EDICINE AT 
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY 
?BECOME A PHYSICIAN AT 1884.
? MAIN CHARACTER OF THIS STORY:
• Lushkoff (beggar): Lushkoff is the main character in the story. He is a beggar, with a 
different style. . He tells different lies, to gain money from people. He is an alcoholic 
and his clothes are dirty and untidy. Due to the alcohol, his physical and mental health 
is also poor. But he also possess some positive sides, like his willingness to accept his 
mistake and change, bear patiently the scolding of Olga and firmness to stop drinking
• Sergi:(The advocate) Sergi is a famous and prosperous advocate. He is a man 
of high principles. He is strict, straight forward. His keen eyes identify Lushkoff as 
a liar. He believes in hard work and gives Lushkoff a job. This shows his kindness 
and helping tendency. He is also happy to know that Lushkoff had reformed.
•
• Olga(His Cook ): Olga is the lady servant of Sergi. She appears to be cold at heart, 
but her kindness is revealed in the way she helps Lushkoff. Though she 
scolds Lushkoff, she has pity on him and helps him. Although she is not 
physically strong, she is mentally strong which makes her chop the woods for 
Lushkoff. She is humble and does not brag about it. The truth is revealed, only 
by Lushkoff later.
Advocate Sergei is detained:
Advocate Sergei was detained by a beggar one day. The beggar was crying to have pity on him. He said that he 
had nothing to eat. He had been a school teacher for eight years. But he lost the place.
The beggar is described:
The beggar was in rags. He had dull and drunken eyes. He had the red spot on either cheek. He wore one high 
and one low shoe.
Sergei recognizes the beggar:
Sergei recognized the beggar. He told him that he had met him in Sadovya street. Then he had called himself a 
student. Sergei warned him that he would send for the police. The beggar admitted and told the truth.
Sergei puts him to work:
The beggar asked Sergei for work. Sergei asked the beggar to chop wood for him when he asked for work. The 
beggar agreed to do that work, though unwillingly. The beggar was s taken by Sergei’s servant Olga to the shed. 
He had to chop woods there. Sergei could see Olga and the beggar in the shed.
The beggar readies for work:
Olga gave the beggar an axe. But seeing the expression on his face, she scolded him. The beggar put a billet of 
wood between his feet, Then he struck it feebly with his axe. The billet fell down. Meanwhile, Sergei went away. 
He had set a drunken and spoiled man at work in the cold. He began to feel sorry for it.
The beggar is given various kinds of work:
Sergei found work for the beggar. The beggar would cut the wood on the first of every month. He would also 
shovel snow. He would . beat dust out of the rugs and mattresses. He would put the wood-shed in order. Sergei ’ 
moved into another house. The beggar packed and carried the furniture.
Lushkoff, the beggar, offered other employment:
Lushkoff, the beggar, was now offered other employment. Sergei asked him to go to his friend. There he would 
be given some copying work as he could write. Sergei was happy as he had put a man on the right path.
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