# Paushinsky's piggy bank. A story

Henry de Overwood

MMMDCCLXIX. Paushinsky's piggy bank. A story. - February 21, 2026.

Paushinsky's piggy bank. A story.


Lunch is coming to an end at the Literary Sanatorium. This Sanatorium was recently built near the Museum of Paushinsky.


Soon, visitors, from the Sanatorium, will come to the Museum - a group of students from the Literary Institute.


Theo Skachkov put a clay piggy bank on a shelf next to the exit from the Museum. The clay piggy bank was made in the style of folk art and depicted a cute pig.


Theo has just moved from the position of the cashier-controller of the Museum of Paushinsky to the position of a tour guide.


Theo returned from the district center last evening with a new document - the Certificate of the Master of Excursions. Theo managed to show this Certificate to the head of the Museum before the end of the working day and to get permission from the boss to conduct excursions.


From now on, Theo is not a cashier-controller, but a tour guide.


The position of a tour guide is much more prestigious than the position of a cashier-controller. More positive emotions and less negative ones. Many Museum visitors were crumpling the tickets they had bought - during the short period of time that separated the moment of purchase of the ticket (from the cashier) to the moment when the visitor handed over the ticket to the controller.


Lunch at the Literary Sanatorium was over. A group of visitors, students of the Literary Institute, came to the Museum of Paushinsky.


Theo showed the students the personal belongings of the writer Paushinsky: a coat, a desk, a chair, shelves with books, a fishing rod, a walking stick.


Theo told the students that the writer Paushinsky came to this rural wilderness every autumn, immersed himself in the silence and beauty of nature. Paushinsky, every day, walked, wrote, and made creative plans. Paushinsky was spending in silence and solitude the late autumn and winter, and he was returning to the bustling city in the spring.


The visiting of this wonderful corner of rural Russia was filling Paushinsky with creative energy. Such immersings gave excellent creative results: every year the writer Paushinsky published several new magnificent literary works.


The excursion has come to an end.


The students were pleased: it means that they did not come here in vain. They, just like Paushinsky, will be charged with creative energy and will publish new, excellent literary works.


- And this is Paushinsky's piggy bank! Theo said.- Paushinsky had this sign (omen): every time when he passed by this piggy bank, he put some money in it. This produced results. He was writing and publishing, soon, a new work, which gave him a significant honorarium. You know that Paushinsky married three times, and each time he married an actresses from the capital.


The students, as one, reached into their pockets and put coins and banknotes in the piggy bank.


The excursion is over. The students headed back to the Literary Sanatorium to devote the time remaining before dinner to the creative literary activities.


Teo took down Paushinsky's piggy bank from the shelf. This valuable exhibit, a source of inspiration, requires a careful attitude.


February 21, 2026 06:03


Translation from Russian into English: February 21, 2026, 08:58

Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Копилка Паушинского. Рассказ. '


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