Biography Akakia Akakievich Bashmachkina

Akaki Akakievich - "little man", perhaps the smallest in all Russian literature, you can’t think of less. Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin - “the official cannot be said that very wonderful, low growth, somewhat rippled, slightly reddish, somewhat even in appearance to a blind -looking, with a small bald eye on the forehead and complexion, which is called hemorrheidal.” In the appearance of the hero there is not a single bright detail, it is invisible, it is all “somewhat”, as if something is missing for a complete portrait.

Akakiya Akakievich Bashmachkina - over 50 years. He is a man at the age of: “Akakia Akakievich has already taken away in fifty years, he was renting a room from the old woman -mistress:“ The old woman, the mistress of his apartment, hearing a terrible knock on the door, hastily jumped out of bed in the story in detail how Akaki Akakievich received his name and why he was so piled up.

Parents chose his name according to the calendar, according to the tradition: “The puerpet was given to the choice of any of the three that she wants to choose: Mokkia, the session, or to name the child in the name of the martyr Hozdazat.

To please her, the calendar was deployed in another place; again three names were released: Trifilia, Bulletin and Varahasiy. Let Varadat or Varukh, otherwise the trifles and Varahasiy. ” They also turned the page - they went out: Pavsikakhiy and Vakhtisiy. Well, if so, let him be called better, like his father. Father was akaki, so let his son be akaki. ”He is not a creator, but just a scribe.

Akaki Akakievich serves in one of the departments in St. Petersburg. In which one - the author deliberately is silent. Receives rubles rubles a year, as well as "award" payments for the holidays rub. So, he receives 60 rubles of "award" and puts them on a new overcoat. To accumulate on the overcoat, Akaki Akakievich has been living in strict savings for a year. He denies himself the most necessary, he is starving in the evenings, etc.

The department did not find any respect for him. The watchman not only did not get up from the places when he passed, but did not even look at him, as if this “pleasant world” flew through the reception room and there is the inner world of the hero, primitive, extremely closed. He can never be found at the evenings or in the theater, or just walking through the streets, or playing cards with comrades.

He has no friends, no family, nor affection. Of all the entertainment, he left himself only one thing - rewriting. Just like that. For yourself. Akaki Akakievich is fenced off from reality with letters, among which “he had favorites”, and does not notice the intervention of the outside world, only occasionally asks not to offend him, but such requests can turn his eyes to the world of another person “...

and in these penetrating words other words rang:“ I am your brother ”. And the poor young man covered himself with his hand, and then he shuddered many times over his century, seeing how much inhuman man is in a man, how much fierce rudeness in sophisticated educated security ... ” So next to the caustic irony, a deep author’s sympathy appears, because, ironizing over the squalor of the spiritual world of his hero, the author does not forget for a minute that in front of him, a person who received by nature equal rights with others.