The story “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn” was written by the author in 1950. An excerpt from it with the subtitle “From the Kolya Diary” Nikolai Nosov published in the year 1949 in the almanac “All Year”. Below we will get acquainted with the fun story “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn”. The summary, we hope, will interest the young reader, and he will read it completely.
How Kolya started a diary
When the school year ended and Kolya had only five in the report card, he decided to keep a diary and write down in him everything interesting that would happen to him. But here's the bad luck - for the first three days nothing happened, and there was nothing to write about.
Link collection
The pioneer link gathered to decide what useful work can be done in the summer. Nobody could offer anything. Everyone went home to think about it. Only Kolya didn’t get any useful thoughts. The diary of Kolya Sinitsyn did not replenish with interesting and useful information. A summary of his thoughts is just unnecessary nonsense.
Meeting with a young man
Taking a walk, Kolya met a familiar young man who was going to occupy their circle. With nothing to do, Kolya went with him and learned a lot of interesting things from the life of bees. After that, he came to gather the link, and it turned out that no one had come up with an interesting and useful business for everyone. Suddenly, Grisha Yakushkin suggested making a hive. Everyone immediately became interested and went to find out how the hive is made and where the bees come from. It turns out that the hive is not very complicated, and you can make it yourself, but you have to buy bees in a swarm and settle in a new dwelling.
All this information was included in the diary of Kolya Sinitsyn. The summary below will show how the guys gathered to make the hive. Someone brought pincers, someone saw, someone nails, someone hammer. From school, the guys got boards. Everyone worked actively and amicably for two days, and the hive turned out to be glorious. Only the bees they did not have.
The search for the bee swarm
It turned out to be difficult. A wild swarm, as it turned out, must be sought in the forest. Kolya’s friend invited him to his cottage in Shishigino to his aunt Pole, where there is a forest, but his mother did not let go. In the end, dad allowed the trip. Three boys - Kolya, Seryozha and Pavlik - went to Shishigino. The summer cottage was closed, Aunt Paulie was gone, and the guys made themselves a hut to spend the night in it. At night, the hut collapsed, and in complete darkness had to rebuild it.
Bees have not yet flown into the trap. On the second day, the guys accidentally, after a series of adventures, fell into the apiary. All this is recorded in the diary of Kolya Sinitsyn. A summary of the further history is that the beekeeper pitied the pioneers and promised in the evening, when the heat subsides, to give them a young swarm, which is about to fly out of the hives. In the evening, the boys received not only a swarm, but also an explanation of how to care for bees, how to collect honey, how to make a smoke so that the bees did not fly apart, and many other useful knowledge.
They returned home, and it turned out that they did not live with Aunt Paulie, but made a hut in the forest. Each mother thoroughly scolded her son, and the boys forgot about the bees and found in the morning that their trap was open on the balcony, and the bees scattered. Yes, in addition, they still bit the guys. These bites hurt so much that the guys lost interest in beekeeping.
The package arrived
The bees arrived in the package, but the three boys refused to deal with them. The whole link went to plant the bees in the hive, and they stayed at home playing checkers and letting paper doves from the balcony. So they spent four days and were very bored. This idleness was described by Koli Sinitsyn's diary.
The author Nikolai Nosov, an active man and a great inventor, understands how boring it was for the guys alone, and why they still ran to school to look at the bees. Then they returned home and made nets for themselves so that the bees could not bite them, and there was no longer any boredom.
Experiences due to photography
A pioneer leader came to the apiary and photographed everyone. Kolya was very worried about how it would turn out, because in life he believed that he was beautiful, but the photo turned out badly. Two days passed in thought and excitement on this subject. Indeed, when he saw himself with his mouth open, he was very upset, and the guys began to rebuke him that he had ruined the card with a silly look. Only Galya consoled him and explained that Kolya was smiling beautifully. Kolya in his diary reflected on beauty, boasting and stupidity. Thoughts reassured him a little. Adult readers, when re-reading The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn, give the warmest reviews - they return to childhood.
Drinking bowl for bees and experiments with them
From the old barrel, the guys, diligently soaking it, made a drinker. Oh, and they put in an old barrel of water, until it swelled, probably a hundred buckets. And then they brought some honey on a glass and began to watch the bees fly up and take it to the hive. When they marked the bee with paint, it turned out that the same bee was flying all the time. But they were told that bees know how to transmit information to each other.
The guys took glasses of honey and laid them on multicolored pieces of paper. Then the bees began to fly very different. Now it became clear why the flowers have a different color. So that insects notice them and fly to them and pollinate. These experiments took several days. The guys over these days even learned how bees ventilate the hive on hot days.
More than a month has passed since the link began to engage in the hive. Everyone learned that since July has come, the bees will work, collecting honey from linden, and in addition, inside the hives there are working bees and guards who do not let bumblebees steal honey. And in order to properly learn the life of these insects, it is imperative to get a beehive with glass walls.
Bee Observations
Teacher Nina Sergeyevna pulled out a frame with honeycombs from the hive and showed everyone what the bee eggs look like, then as children, and said that later pupae and then bees form from children. An old swarm with a uterus, which is busy laying eggs, flies out of the hive. Here the beekeepers catch him and put him in a new hive.
In addition, directing the light of the mirror into the hive, the guys saw that the bees were dancing. The teacher explained that the dance means that the bee found a lot of honey and offered to see if the linden blossomed. The work of the bees in the apiary began to boil. They carried honey continuously and hummed loudly. All linden trees were covered with bees. The teacher said that about 100,000 bees can live in a swarm.
Fame
About the apiary at school printed in the newspaper. And then letters began to come to young beekeepers asking how to make a hive and how to care for a swarm. The guys wrote detailed answers.
New swarm
And then, like a black beard, a swarm flew out of the hive. The guys rushed to catch him, and then make a new hive for him. Caught bees were planted in it. So the apiary grew. Bees diligently collected honey for the winter, and the guys watched with enthusiasm. Suddenly the weather turned bad, and the work of the bees slowed down.
It was the end of July. It was necessary to prepare a place where the hives would stand in the winter. It was a deep hole. The guys dug it up and lit a fire in it to dry the walls well. Then they scooped up ash and began to dream how they would grow and begin to breed bees. It turned out upon reflection that the engineer, pilot, driver, driver would find time for this. Almost to the end, we read "The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn." A chapter summary should be completed with the latest information.
Letter from the collective farm guys
It was written what schoolchildren are doing on the collective farm, helping elders. But they have no apiaries. But now they will definitely lead her. Here, Kolya’s notebook diary was already completely written down, and Nikolay Nosov (author) finished the story on this.
“The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyna”: Reader Reviews
Readers are happy to plunge into a cloudless childhood. “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyn” (reviews of the book can be found the most enthusiastic) is a kind and naive work in which a common cause strengthens friendship. N. Nosov spoke about bees very interestingly.
The author (“The Diary of Kolya Sinitsyna”) received the best reviews thanks to the unobtrusive humor and warmth flowing from the pages. Some regret that now our guys do not have such a childhood, with fiction and entertaining affairs.