The story "the stationmaster" tells the story of a minor civil servant S. Virina. The plot is taken from the life of a poor man who does not take into account their harsh living conditions and plebeian labor. On the way he is happy and never complains about his fate, Verin never received gifts from her. In this novel Pushkin affects the age-old problem of relations between "fathers and children".
Samson has a fourteen-year-old daughter he is raising alone. Works Virin stationmaster. His work is very difficult, because all the complaints and abuse he gets. The anger that builds up over a long journey, from passing out on the caretaker, sometimes even escalate to physical violence.
The only ray of light in his life is his beloved daughter. Dunya tries to help his father, settling disputes with visitors. Once in the rhythmic life of the family breaks traveling the Minsk hussars who fell in love with the Dunya and kidnapped her father.
She lives in St. Petersburg, and her father is very upset about the incident and soon falls ill. Samson longs for the Dunya and realizes his guilt in front of her, he couldn't protect the girl. Then Samson decides to find and return the Dunya. Finding daughter, he was convinced that her daughter lives quite normally. The living conditions at Dooney good, but dad is convinced that the hussars still rather throw it, because they are from different classes. With grief the caretaker was a lot to drink and soon becomes an inveterate drunkard and die. The writer doesn't blame the main character for his views, but only trying to understand his behavior.
Pushkin reveals the theme of gratitude towards their parents. Tender love Virina to his only daughter, and her misbehavior in response, was a tragedy for him, leading to death. Shower girl loved parent, but still left one, and never to it not visited. The writer wants us to be humane, not to forget loved ones, after all, human duty is to protect each other, regardless of the situation.
