Quiet family happiness ... They dedicated their lives to each other. They looked at each other and could not take a closer look.

Loving spouses, Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna, are farming in a tiny village located on the plains of the fertile Little Russia.

The husband and wife are only thinking about how to please them with a kind word, and with a tasty treat.

A cozy house bursts with bottles of liquid and jars of jam and pickles. Home chores are occupied by the spouses all the time, but they always greet, feed the guest and affectionately talk with him.

And they themselves eat enough, sleep long and hard. In the house - peace and order. Every day they look like the other.

It would seem - a peaceful idyll. But it happened sorrow - it got sick and soon the wife died, before she died asking the housekeeper to take care of her husband.

Yearning for her beloved broke her husband. Without his wife, his life is not sweet. He is so lonely!

Insolent courtyard people are completely lazy and bloomed, they only steal the old man.

A touching story written by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol with a huge heartfelt affection for his heroes.

Can he survive without a dearly beloved wife?