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In 1885, the famous Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko finished work on the work In Bad Society. A few years later, this story was somewhat modified, and it was published under the title "Children of the Underground". On the pages of the story, you will find many interesting characters, reasoning, descriptions, bright events and much more that can please even the most demanding reader.
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The childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Veno in the Southwestern Territory. Vasya - that was the name of the boy - was the son of a city judge. The child grew up “like a wild tree in a field”: the mother died when her son was only six years old, and the father, absorbed in his grief, paid little attention to the boy. Vasya wandered around the city for days on end, and the pictures of city life left a deep imprint in his soul.
The city was surrounded by ponds. In the middle of one of them on the island stood an ancient castle that once belonged to a count's family. There were legends that the island was filled with captured Turks, and the castle stands "on human bones." The owners left this gloomy dwelling a long time ago, and it gradually collapsed. Its inhabitants were urban beggars who had no other shelter. But there was a split among the poor. Old Janusz, one of the count's former servants, was given some sort of right to decide who could live in the castle and who could not. He left there only "aristocrats": Catholics and the former count's servants. The exiles found refuge in a dungeon under an old crypt near an abandoned Uniate chapel that stood on a mountain. However, no one knew their whereabouts.
Old Janusz, meeting Vasya, invites him to enter the castle, because there is now a “decent society”. But the boy prefers the "bad company" of the exiles from the castle: Vasya takes pity on them.
Many members of the "bad society" are well known in the city. This is a semi-mad elderly "professor" who always mutters something quietly and sadly; the ferocious and pugnacious bayonet Junker Zausailov; drunken retired official Lavrovsky, who tells everyone incredible tragic stories about his life. And the calling himself General Turkevich is famous for the fact that he “denounces” respectable citizens (the police officer, the secretary of the county court and others) right under their windows. He does this in order to get vodka, and achieves his goal: the "convicted" rush to pay him off.
The head of the entire community of "dark personalities" is Tyburtsy Drab. Its origin and past are unknown to anyone. Others suggest in him an aristocrat, but his appearance is of the common people. He is known for his extraordinary learning. At fairs, Tyburtius entertains the public with lengthy speeches from ancient authors. He is considered a sorcerer.
One day, Vasya and three friends come to the old chapel: he wants to look in there. Friends help Vasya get inside through a high window. But when they see that there is someone else in the chapel, the friends run away in horror, leaving Vasya to the mercy of fate. It turns out that the children of Tyburtsy are there: nine-year-old Valek and four-year-old Marusya. Vasya often comes to the mountain to his new friends, bringing them apples from his garden. But he walks only when Tyburtius cannot catch him. Vasya does not tell anyone about this acquaintance. He tells his cowardly friends that he saw devils.
Vasya has a sister, four-year-old Sonya. She, like her brother, is a cheerful and frisky child. Brother and sister love each other very much, but Sonya's nanny prevents their noisy games: she considers Vasya a bad, spoiled boy. The father is of the same opinion. He does not find in his soul a place for love for the boy. Father loves Sonya more because she looks like her late mother.
Once in a conversation, Valek and Marusya tell Vasya that Tyburtsy loves them very much. Vasya speaks of his father with resentment. But suddenly he learns from Valek that the judge is a very fair and honest person. Valek is a very serious and intelligent boy. Marusya, on the other hand, is not at all like the frisky Sonya, she is weak, thoughtful, “cheerless”. Valek says that "the gray stone sucked the life out of her."
Vasya learns that Valek is stealing food for his hungry sister. This discovery makes a heavy impression on Vasya, but still he does not condemn his friend.
Valek shows Vasya the dungeon where all the members of the "bad society" live. In the absence of adults, Vasya comes there, plays with his friends. During the game of hide and seek, Tyburtsy unexpectedly appears. The children are frightened - after all, they are friends without the knowledge of the formidable head of the "bad society". But Tyburtsiy allows Vasya to come, taking from him a promise not to tell anyone where they all live. Tyburtsy brings food, prepares dinner - according to him, Vasya understands that the food is stolen. This, of course, confuses the boy, but he sees that Marusya is so happy with the food ... Now Vasya comes to the mountain without hindrance, and the adult members of the "bad society" also get used to the boy, love him.
Autumn comes, and Marusya falls ill. In order to somehow entertain the sick girl, Vasya decides to ask Sonya for a while for a big beautiful doll, a gift from her late mother. Sonya agrees. Marusya is delighted with the doll, and she even gets better.
Old Janusz comes to the judge several times with denunciations of members of the "bad society". He says that Vasya communicates with them. The nanny notices the absence of the doll. Vasya is not allowed out of the house, and a few days later he runs away secretly.
Marcus is getting worse. The inhabitants of the dungeon decide that the doll needs to be returned, but the girl will not notice this. But seeing that they want to take the doll away, Marusya cries bitterly... Vasya leaves the doll to her.
And again Vasya is not allowed out of the house. The father is trying to get his son to confess where he went and where the doll went. Vasya admits that he took the doll, but says nothing more. The father is angry... And at the most critical moment, Tyburtsy appears. He is carrying a doll.
Tyburtsy tells the judge about Vasya's friendship with his children. That one is smitten. The father feels guilty before Vasya. It was as if a wall had collapsed that had separated father and son for a long time, and they felt like close people. Tyburtsy says that Marusya is dead. The father lets Vasya say goodbye to her, while he passes through Vasya money for Tyburtsy and a warning: it is better for the head of the "bad society" to hide from the city.
Soon, almost all the "dark personalities" disappear somewhere. Only the old "professor" and Turkevich remain, to whom the judge sometimes gives work. Marusya is buried in the old cemetery near the collapsed chapel. Vasya and his sister take care of her grave. Sometimes they come to the cemetery with their father. When the time comes for Vasya and Sonya to leave their native city, they pronounce their vows over this grave.
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V.G.KOROLENKO
IN BAD SOCIETY
From childhood memories of my friend
Preparation of the text and notes: S.L. KOROLENKO and N.V. KOROLENKO-LYAKHOVICH
I. RUINS
My mother died when I was six years old. Father, completely surrendering to his grief, seemed to have completely forgotten about my existence. Sometimes he caressed my little sister and took care of her in his own way, because she had the features of a mother. I grew up like a wild tree in a field - no one surrounded me with special care, but no one hampered my freedom.
The place where we lived was called Knyazhye-Veno, or, more simply, Prince-Gorodok. It belonged to a seedy but proud Polish family and represented all the typical features of any of the small towns of the Southwestern Territory, where, amid the quietly flowing life of hard work and petty fussy Jewish gesheft, the miserable remnants of the proud panorama grandeur live out their sad days.
If you drive up to the town from the east, the first thing that catches your eye is the prison, the best architectural decoration of the city. The city itself is spread out below, over sleepy, moldy ponds, and you have to go down to it along a sloping highway, blocked by a traditional "outpost". A sleepy invalid, a red-haired figure in the sun, the personification of serene slumber, lazily raises the barrier, and you are in the city, although, perhaps, you do not notice it right away. Gray fences, wastelands with heaps of all sorts of rubbish are gradually interspersed with blind-eyed huts that have sunk into the ground. Further on, the wide square yawns in different places with the dark gates of Jewish "visiting houses", state institutions are depressing with their white walls and barracks-smooth lines. The wooden bridge thrown over a narrow stream grunts, shuddering under the wheels, and staggers like a decrepit old man. Behind the bridge stretched a Jewish street with shops, benches, shops, tables of Jewish money changers sitting under umbrellas on the sidewalks, and with awnings of kalachniks. Stink, dirt, heaps of kids crawling in the street dust. But here's another minute and - you're out of town. The birch trees whisper softly over the graves of the cemetery, and the wind agitates the grain in the fields and rings a dull, endless song in the wires of the roadside telegraph.
The river, over which the said bridge was thrown, flowed out of the pond and flowed into another. Thus, from the north and south, the town was fenced off by wide expanses of water and swamps. The ponds grew shallow from year to year, overgrown with greenery, and tall, thick reeds rippled like the sea in the vast swamps. In the middle of one of the ponds is an island. On the island - an old, dilapidated castle.
I remember with what fear I always looked at this majestic decrepit building. There were legends and stories about him, one more terrible than the other. It was said that the island was built artificially, by the hands of captured Turks. “An old castle stands on human bones,” the old-timers used to say, and my childish frightened imagination drew thousands of Turkish skeletons underground, supporting the island with its bony hands with its tall pyramidal poplars and the old castle. This, of course, made the castle seem even more terrifying, and even on clear days, when, encouraged by the light and the loud voices of birds, we would come closer to it, it often inspired fits of panic horror in us - the black cavities of the long-beaten out windows; a mysterious rustle went around in the empty halls: pebbles and plaster, breaking off, fell down, waking up a booming echo, and we ran without looking back, and behind us for a long time there was a knock, and a clatter, and a cackle.
And on stormy autumn nights, when the giant poplars swayed and hummed from the wind blowing from behind the ponds, horror spread from the old castle and reigned over the whole city. "Oh-wey-peace!" [Woe to me (Heb.)] - the Jews shyly pronounced; God-fearing old philistine women were baptized, and even our closest neighbor, a blacksmith, who denied the very existence of demonic power, going out into his courtyard at these hours, made the sign of the cross and whispered to himself a prayer for the repose of the dead.
Old, gray-bearded Janusz, who, for lack of an apartment, sheltered in one of the basements of the castle, told us more than once that on such nights he clearly heard screams coming from under the ground. The Turks began to tinker under the island, banged their bones and loudly reproached the pans for their cruelty. Then, in the halls of the old castle and around it on the island, weapons rattled, and the pans called the haiduks with loud cries. Janusz heard quite clearly, under the roar and howl of the storm, the clatter of horses, the tinkling of sabers, the words of command. Once he even heard how the late great-grandfather of the current counts, glorified for eternity by his bloody exploits, rode out, clattering with the hooves of his argamak, to the middle of the island and cursed furiously:
"Be silent there, laydaks [Idlers (Polish)], dog vyara!"
The descendants of this count have long since left the dwelling of their ancestors. Most of the ducats and all sorts of treasures, from which the chests of the counts used to burst, crossed over the bridge, into Jewish shacks, and the last representatives of a glorious family built a prosaic white building for themselves on a mountain, away from the city. There they passed their boring, but nevertheless solemn existence in contemptuously majestic solitude.
Occasionally only the old earl, as gloomy a ruin as the castle on the island, appeared in the city on his old English horse. Next to him, in a black Amazon, majestic and dry, his daughter rode through the city streets, and the master of the horse respectfully followed behind. The majestic countess was destined to remain a virgin forever. Grooms equal to her in origin, in pursuit of money from merchant daughters abroad, cowardly scattered around the world, leaving family castles or selling them for scrapping to the Jews, and in the town, spread out at the foot of her palace, there was no young man who would dare to raise his eyes to beautiful countess. Seeing these three horsemen, we little guys, like a flock of birds, took off from the soft street dust and, quickly dispersing through the yards, followed the gloomy owners of the terrible castle with frightened and curious eyes.
On the western side, on the mountain, among decayed crosses and collapsed graves, stood a long-abandoned Uniate chapel. It was the native daughter of a philistine city proper spread out in the valley. Once upon a time, at the ringing of a bell, townspeople gathered in it in clean, although not luxurious kuntush, with sticks in their hands, instead of sabers, with which the small gentry rattled, who also appeared at the call of the ringing Uniate bell from the surrounding villages and farms.
Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich
The work "In Bad Society"
The childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Veno in the Southwestern Territory. Vasya - that was the name of the boy - was the son of a city judge. The child grew up: the mother died when the son was only six years old, and the father, absorbed in his grief, paid little attention to the boy. Vasya wandered around the city for days on end, and the pictures of city life left a deep imprint in his soul.
The city was surrounded by ponds. In the middle of one of them on the island stood an ancient castle that once belonged to
Count family. There were legends that the island was filled with captured Turks, and the castle was standing. The owners left this gloomy dwelling a long time ago, and it gradually collapsed. Its inhabitants were urban beggars who had no other shelter. But there was a split among the poor. Old Janusz, one of the count's former servants, was given some sort of right to decide who could live in the castle and who could not. He left there only: Catholics and the former count's servants. The exiles found refuge in a dungeon under an old crypt near an abandoned Uniate chapel that stood on a mountain. However, no one knew their whereabouts.
Old Janusz, meeting Vasya, invites him to enter the castle, because there now. But the boy prefers the exiles from the castle: Vasya takes pity on them.
Many members are well known in the city. This is a half-mad old man who always mutters something quietly and sadly; the ferocious and pugnacious bayonet Junker Zausailov; drunken retired official Lavrovsky, who tells everyone incredible tragic stories about his life. And calling himself General Turkevich is famous for the fact that respectable citizens (the police officer, the secretary of the county court and others) are right under their windows. He does this in order to get vodka, and achieves his goal: they rush to pay him off.
The head of the entire community is Tyburtsy Drab. Its origin and past are unknown to anyone. Others suggest in him an aristocrat, but his appearance is common people. He is known for his extraordinary learning. At fairs, Tyburtius entertains the public with lengthy speeches from ancient authors. He is considered a sorcerer.
One day, Vasya and three friends come to the old chapel: he wants to look in there. Friends help Vasya get inside through a high window. But when they see that there is still someone in the chapel, the friends run away in horror, leaving Vasya to the mercy of fate. It turns out that the children of Tyburtsy are there: nine-year-old Valek and four-year-old Marusya. Vasya often comes to the mountain to his new friends, bringing them apples from his garden. But he walks only when Tyburtius cannot catch him. Vasya does not tell anyone about this acquaintance. He tells his cowardly friends that he saw devils.
Vasya has a sister, four-year-old Sonya. She, like her brother, is a cheerful and frisky child. Brother and sister love each other very much, but Sonya's nanny prevents their noisy games: she considers Vasya a bad, spoiled boy. The father is of the same opinion. He does not find in his soul a place for love for the boy. Father loves Sonya more because she looks like her late mother.
Once in a conversation, Valek and Marusya tell Vasya that Tyburtsy loves them very much. Vasya speaks of his father with resentment. But suddenly he learns from Valek that the judge is a very fair and honest person. Valek is a very serious and intelligent boy. Marusya is not at all like the frisky Sonya, she is weak, thoughtful,. Valek says that.
Vasya learns that Valek is stealing food for his hungry sister. This discovery makes a heavy impression on Vasya, but still he does not condemn his friend.
Valek shows Vasya the dungeon where all the members live. In the absence of adults, Vasya comes there, plays with his friends. During the game of hide and seek, Tyburtsy unexpectedly appears. The children are frightened - after all, they are friends without the knowledge of the formidable head. But Tyburtsiy allows Vasya to come, taking from him a promise not to tell anyone where they all live. Tyburtsy brings food, prepares dinner - according to him, Vasya understands that the food is stolen. This, of course, confuses the boy, but he sees that Marusya is so happy with the food: Now Vasya comes to the mountain without hindrance, and the adult members also get used to the boy, love him.
Autumn comes, and Marusya falls ill. In order to somehow entertain the sick girl, Vasya decides to ask Sonya for a while for a big beautiful doll, a gift from her late mother. Sonya agrees. Marusya is delighted with the doll, and she even gets better.
Old Janusz comes to the judge several times with denunciations about members. He says that Vasya communicates with them. The nanny notices the absence of the doll. Vasya is not allowed out of the house, and a few days later he runs away secretly.
Marcus is getting worse. The inhabitants of the dungeon decide that the doll needs to be returned, but the girl will not notice this. But seeing that they want to take the doll away, Marusya cries bitterly: Vasya leaves the doll to her.
And again Vasya is not allowed out of the house. The father is trying to get his son to confess where he went and where the doll went. Vasya admits that he took the doll, but says nothing more. Father in anger: And at the most critical moment, Tyburtsy appears. He is carrying a doll.
Tyburtsy tells the judge about Vasya's friendship with his children. He is amazed. The father feels guilty before Vasya. It was as if a wall had collapsed that had separated father and son for a long time, and they felt like close people. Tyburtsy says that Marusya is dead. The father lets Vasya say goodbye to her, while he sends through Vasya money for Tyburtsy and a warning: it is better for the head to hide from the city.
Soon almost everyone disappears somewhere. Only the old man and Turkevich remain, to whom the judge sometimes gives work. Marusya is buried in the old cemetery near the collapsed chapel. Vasya and his sister take care of her grave. Sometimes they come to the cemetery with their father. When the time comes for Vasya and Sonya to leave their native city, they pronounce their vows over this grave.
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Year of publication of the book: 1885
Korolenko's story "In Bad Society" was first published in 1885 in one of the Moscow periodicals. The work was written by the author in exile, but he finalized it already in St. Petersburg. The work is based on the author's memories of his childhood spent in the city of Rivne. The plot of the story "In Bad Society" became the basis for the feature film "Among the Gray Stones", which was released in 1983.
The story "In bad society" summary
In a small town called Knyazhie-Veno, there were a large number of ponds. Near one of them, on a small island, there was a beautiful old castle, which once belonged to a local count. For several years now, there have been rumors that the castle is supposedly placed on the bones of dead prisoners from Turkey. The owners of the building left it too long ago, so the appearance of the castle left much to be desired. Its walls were gradually collapsing, and the roof was leaking. This made the place unsuitable for living.
However, from the story “In Bad Society” we learn that there was a category of people in the city who were happy to live in the ruins of the castle - local beggars who had no place to live. For a long time they all lived in this haven until a conflict occurred between them. It was all the fault of a former servant of the count named Janusz. He arrogated to himself the right to decide who deserves to live in the castle and who should get out. Thus, only those beggars who were of aristocratic origin remained in the walls of the building: Catholics, servants and close associates of the count. Many of those who were expelled could not find a home for a long time and received a cruel nickname from the locals - bad society. By the way, that's why the story "In Bad Society" is so named. After some time, they settled in a dungeon near an old abandoned chapel that stood on a mountain. None of the inhabitants of the city knew about their whereabouts. Chief among the exiles is a certain Tyburtius Drab. Nobody knew anything about his origin. Some suggest that once upon a time he was an aristocrat, because the man was quite literate and even knew the speeches of some ancient authors by memory.
In the same city of Knyazhye-Veno, the main characters of the story “In Bad Society” live - the family of a local judge. Having lost his wife a few years ago, the man himself raised his two children: an older boy named Vasya and a younger daughter Sonya. Since the judge's wife had passed away, he had been overwhelmed with great grief. He often thought about his wife, could not concentrate on work and on his children. Vasya, as the main character, grew up as a rather active and courageous child, he loved to walk around the city all day, looking at the locals and colorful landscapes. Once he passed near the old castle. Janusz, who came out to him, said that now only decent people live in it, so the boy can go inside. However, Vasya refused, saying that he prefers to spend time in that "bad society." He felt sorry for the exiles and sincerely wanted to help them. 
And then one day Vasya and his three friends passed by an abandoned old chapel. The children really wanted to look inside, and Vasya, being the most courageous, decides to be the first to enter the chapel through the window. Since it was located quite high, the children decide to help their friend and give him a lift. As soon as the boy climbed inside, voices were heard from the chapel. Those who were waiting for their friend on the street became frightened and began to run away. Vasya had nowhere to run, so he decided to see who was screaming there. The strangers turned out to be two adopted children of Tyburtsy - a nine-year-old boy named Valek and his younger four-year-old sister Marusya. The guys quickly found a common language. Valek told Vasya that he could visit them here whenever he wanted. However, it is important to see each other in such a way that Tyburtius does not know about the friendship of the children. Vasya promises that he will never tell anyone about the whereabouts of the exiles. He understands that the exiles need help and support, which becomes the main idea of the story "In Bad Society" . Returning home, he told his comrades that then in the old chapel he saw devils.
Vasya's sister, little Sonya, was the same cheerful and active girl. She really wanted to go out with her brother, but the nanny strictly forbade her to do this, considering Vasya a spoiled child. The woman does not even allow children to play loudly and run around the house. The boy's father is of the same opinion. He does not feel strong love and care towards his son. All his heart is given to Sonya, because she is very similar to her late mother. The boy is very worried because his father pays little attention to him, especially when, during a meeting with his new friends, Valek tells him that their adoptive dad loves them madly and takes care of them. Then Vasya breaks down and says that he is very offended by his father. When Valek finds out that Vasya is talking about the city judge, he admits that he has heard about the man only as a fair person.
Children talk a lot and have fun, spending together almost every day. One day, Vasya begins to notice that, unlike the active Sonya, Marusya looks rather weak and sad. Valek says that his sister's health has deteriorated greatly due to the fact that they live in the dungeon.
After some time, Vasya, the hero of the story “In Bad Society,” learns that Valek steals food every day in order to feed his sister. It is hard for the boy to accept this, but he understands that he has no right to condemn his friend, since his intentions are noble. Once, while the children were playing, Tyburtius entered the chapel. The heroes of the story "In Bad Society" were very frightened, because no one should know about their friendship. However, the head of the "dark personalities" was not against the appearance of Vasya in their shelter. The only thing he asks the boy is not to tell anyone about where the exiles live. Since then, Vasya began to come under the old crypt even more often. All members of the “bad society”, young and old, are already beginning to get used to the little guest and love him.
With the onset of autumn, in the short story "In Bad Society" we learn that Marusya became very ill. Vasya does not know how he can help his girlfriend. Then he decides to ask his sister for a while for her favorite big doll, which the late mother gave the girl. Sonya doesn't mind at all. She gives the toy to her brother, and he brings it to Marusya the same evening. From such a gift, the girl even becomes a little better.
Janusz begins to visit the judge, who constantly informs on members of the "bad society". Once he tells that he saw how little Vasya comes to visit them. Then the children's nanny notices that Sonya has lost her doll. The father was very angry with Vasya and ordered not to let him out of the house. However, after a few days, the boy was still able to run away to see his friends. Meanwhile, the health of Marusya from the story "In Bad Society" deteriorated even more. The inhabitants of the chapel believe that the time has come to return the doll to its owner, because they think that the little girl will not notice the loss of the gift. However, this is not at all the case - as soon as Marusya saw that they wanted to take the toy away, she burst into tears. Vasya still decides to leave her a doll in order to somehow distract the girl from her illness. 
Returning home, Vasya again receives a punishment, because of which he is forbidden to go outside. The father talks to his son for a long time, trying to force him to confess that he communicates with the exiles. However, the only thing Vasya admits is that the doll disappeared through his fault. Hearing nothing more than this, the judge becomes angry. The conversation is interrupted by Tyburtsy, who returns the toy to Vasya. He says that his little daughter has recently died, and tells the judge that his adopted children and little Vasya have become good friends. The man begins to feel terribly guilty towards his son. He understands that Vasya, like the main character, is not a spoiled child. He is a kind and noble person who wanted to help people - this is the idea of the story "In Bad Society". The judge releases the boy to see Marusya on his last journey, and gives him the money that he was supposed to hand over to Tyburtsy. In addition, the judge asks his son to tell the exiles that it is better for them to leave the city because of the constant denunciations of Janos.
After some time, the short story "In Bad Society" tells that after the funeral, the entire "bad society" abruptly disappeared from the city. Little Marusya was buried not far from the old abandoned chapel. A judge often visits her grave along with his children. Vasya and Sonya took care of the girl's burial place for a long time. A few years later, having matured, the brother and sister decide to leave the city. Before that, they visit the grave of Marusya for the last time, near which they pronounce a vow.
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Title of the work: In a bad society
Year of writing: 1885
Genre: story
Main characters: Vasya- Judge's son Sonya Vasya's sister Outrigger- son of Tyburtius, Marusya- Valek's sister, Tyburtium- the head of the "bad society", Vasya's father- city judge.
A penetrating and very adult story, which you can get acquainted with through the summary of the story "In Bad Society" for the reader's diary.
Plot
When his mother died, Vaska was left homeless. The father, stricken with grief, does not devote time to his son and is immersed in work. Near the city there is a chapel and a dungeon in which the homeless live, the so-called "bad society". Vaska climbs into the chapel and meets Valek and Marusya there. Children are friendly. One day Valek says that his father loves them very much. Vaska replies that he cannot say the same about his father, who, on the contrary, does not like him. Valek notes that his father is fair and honest. Mary is sick. Vasya brings her a Sonya doll. The girl is happy. Rumors reach the judge about his son's dealings with bad society. Vaska is locked up, but he runs away. Tyburtsy comes to the judge with a doll and talks about the friendship of children. Judge and son grow closer. Marusya is dying. Children often visit her grave.
Conclusion (my opinion)
Vasya made friends with the children of Tyburtsy despite the labels hung on the inhabitants of the dungeon. He does not care about the attitude of the environment towards them. He is a very humane and kind boy, not spoiled by prejudices and cruelty. Thanks to his generosity, he causes shame in the callous heart of his father and draws closer to him. Marusya becomes a memory for everyone and a sad example and a victim of human inequality.
