Plot Summary

A young serf Jeremiah Mizgir for their mischievous antics for rent by the lady soldiers. Mizgir falls in the Petersburg guards regiment. Quick-witted, sprightly, cheerful, it is easy to cope with their duties and, although leprosy he often gets from the Sergeant, never discouraged. But then came the sad news from the village: the elderly fell the cow, and the bride Jeremiah Dunya haunt the clerk. Felt sad soldier. Standing on the watch of the rich, adorned with diamonds of the Kazan icon of the mother of God and thinking about how to help the elderly and the bride, a spider decided to take a desperate step. He breaks the glass of the icon and pop out of the halo of the virgin a large stone-a gem. When it is discovered missing, a spider without batting an eye, announces that the stone gave him God's own mother.