Belkin is a brief biography
Before Boldin, he wrote almost exclusively poems, except for letters, several magazine articles and the unfinished “Arap of Peter the Great”. That autumn, prose for the first time almost prevailed. Pushkin and Mah wrote five Belkin's Tales. Pushkin appears in them as an excellent novelist who is equally available to a touching story, a short story with a sharp plot, and an essay on morals.
The ninth of September, Pushkin is rapidly preparing the “tomb”. The plot was inspired by the sign of the grave master Adrian Prokhorov next to the Goncharov house. Adrian's last belongings were lured to the funeral drogs, and the skinny couple dragged “from Basmann to Nikitskaya, where the tomb moved to the whole house.” Not far from the Basmannaya, the author was born, they recently sung for an uncle, Natalya Nikolaevna lived on Bolshaya Nikitskaya.
Under the text of the “coffin” in the notebook it is: “A letter from NAT. All demon with the resurrected customers of the protagonist is just dreams of the quarrel of Adrian. Morality comes out simple and extremely relevant for all times - you need to drink less. Rowing to loss of orientation in space and time is harmful to health. And zombies, and demons, and the gates of hell can loyal.
On the fourteenth of September, the “station caretaker” was completed, which was the wanderings of the author himself, expectations and overnight stays at postal stations. The existing martyr of the fourteenth grade, fenced by his rank from beating, and then not always ... The traveler takes all the annoyance accumulated during a boring ride. The weather is unbearable, the road is nasty, the coachman is stubborn, the horses are not being taken - but the caretaker is to blame ...
These people are so slandered by the essence of peaceful people, helpful, prone to hostel, modest in claims and not too hard -loving. ” Further, it would seem, a simple plot. Samson Surin himself did not understand how he allowed his fifteen -year -old Dun to leave with the hussar. There are a lot of them in St. Petersburg, young fools, today in the Atlas and velvet, and tomorrow, you look, the streets are throwing the streets with Golya Kabatskaya.
” And, it would seem, morality is also simple: even if it turns out to win the capital, like a Duna, cannot be forgotten by parents. She returned “in a carriage of six horses, with three small hoods and with a nurse, and with a black pug”, but already to the grave of his father who had lost his daughter. In literary criticism, it is rightly believed that it was in the “Station Carerin” that Pushkin outlined another new “ecological niche” of Russian prose: it is with Samson Virin that the literary story of the image of a “little man” will begin.
Although the Dostoevsky deep meaning of the story will see that there are no small people, and such an interpretation will put in the mouth of Makar Devil in “poor people”. Gershenzon saw a deeper meaning in the “station caretaker”: “This is an iteration of the parable of the prodigal son. The main thing is not the situation itself, but its perception by man, on the walls of the room of which Pushkin at the very beginning of the story hangs German pictures illustrating the parable of the prodigal son.
It was her who saw the unfortunate Samson in the disappearance of her daughter. ” Dunya, having fled with Minsk, went on the path of her happiness ... But the caretaker is unshakably convinced that the German pictures depicts a universal truth, that the officer who made Dunya will undoubtedly play it and abandon it, because he does not see things, falls into despair and drinks.
” In the "young-peasant" I am attracted, first of all, amazing generalizing female images and types. Raised in clean air, in the shadow of their garden apple trees, they learn from books knowledge of light and life. Soligence, freedom and reading early in them are developed by feelings and passions, unknown to our beauties scattered. For the young lady, the bell ringing is already an adventure, a trip to the nearest city is entitled to an era in life, and visiting the guest leaves a long, sometimes eternal memory.
In the capitals, women receive, perhaps, the best education; But the skill of light will soon smooth out character and makes the souls as monotonous as hats. ” But, imagine, - the type of migrant worker, governesses of Miss Zhakson: “A forty -year -old chopping girl who was whitening and converted for her eyebrows, re -read“ Pamela ”twice a year, received two thousand rubles for that and died from boredom in this barbaric Russia.” The key thoughts of the “young ladies”: “The fear accompanying our young leprosy is also their main charm.” And “is it possible to determine with accuracy what the seventeen -year -old young lady thinks about, one, in the grove, at the sixth hour of spring in the morning?
Which, "despite the fatal ring, on a mysterious correspondence and gloomy disappointment, there was a kind and ardent small one and had a pure heart, capable of feeling the pleasure of innocence." And who would have thought that the parents of the heroes would unexpectedly make peace, and all the tricks of Lisa with dressing would turn out to be unnecessary.
Another most important conclusion: never say. Even enmity is not eternal.Then, in the work on Belkin’s stories, Pushkin took a break, engaged in “Onegin” and other important texts that you will soon learn about. We will violate the chronology and transfer immediately on Sunday on October 12, when the novels continue and the first edition of the “shot” will be completed.
The plot is based on the memories of the ancient Chisinau friend - a fearless duelist and a combat officer, Colonel Liprandi. But Pushkin was also an intended duelist, so the “shot” is certainly autobiographical. He himself was seen, like his hero Silvio, a bullet in a map. He walked with a cast -iron cane in his hand, throwing it into the air, - the brush trained.
Pushkinist Arnold Ilyich Gessen assured: “In the story“ Shot ”, we meet with the episode of Pushkin’s personal life - a description of his duel in Chisinau, in the year, with the Zubov officer. Pushkin came to the duel with cherries in a cap and, while the enemy aimed at him, calmly had breakfast with them, spitting out the bone in his direction with an extremely serious “shot” puts an unresolved moral dilemma: whether it is necessary to defend his honor or idea of it to the end, risking his life, or considering it proud and do a condescending and making condescending.
The story is sharp, like the steel of the blade, like its blade, on which the main characters walk in the gambling game of honor and pride with death. To ask at the end as the count: - Will you shoot or not? And in response to hear from Silvio: - I will not, I am satisfied: I saw your confusion, your timidity; I made you shoot me, enough with me. You will remember me.
I betray you your conscience. Pushkin’s moralizing: “The lack of courage is least apologized by young people who usually see the top of human virtues and an apology of all kinds of vices in courage.” And almost immediately, Pushkin begins the “snowstorm” with her happy end, completing the story on October 20. A romantic and ironic story, where a snowstorm acts as a power of fate. First, she makes herself get lost of Vladimir, late for a secret wedding with Maria Gavrilovna.
And then the same snowstorm leads Burmin to meet her. It turned out that they were narrowed, destined for each other, as it will be discovered three years later, when Burmin returned from the front. Gershenzon believed that “here Pushkin portrayed life - a blizzard not only as an imperious element over a person, but as an element, a smart, wisest man himself. People, like children, are mistaken in their plans and desires, - the blizzard will pick up, dull, stun them, and in a muddy darkness with a firm hand will lead to the right path, where, in addition to their knowledge, it was necessary to get.
She knows their genuine, their hidden will - better than themselves. ” And here, in the "snowstorm", the amazing, emerging from Pushkin’s memory a picture of the return of the winners of the Patriotic War to his homeland: “The people fled to meet them. Music played the conquered songs: Vive Henry-Quatre Fr. The officers, who went on a hike almost with youth, returned, maturing in the swearing air, hung with crosses.
The soldiers cheerfully spoke among themselves, interfering in the German and French words in everyday life. The time is unforgettable! Time of glory and delight! How much the Russian heart was beating in the word of the Fatherland! How sweet were the tears of a date! With what unanimity we combined the feelings of folk pride and love for the sovereign! And for him what a minute was!
Women, Russian women were then incomparable. The ordinary coldness disappeared. Their delight was truly delighted when, meeting the winners, they shouted: Hurray! And they threw caps into the air. Which of the then officers does not confess that he owed a Russian woman the best, most precious reward? The same syllable, but the scale of the described object is very smaller.
There are many colorful observations about the life and morals of the “village of Goryukhina”, which has been belonging to the perceptible Kelkin family for centuries. Goryukhinsky language is decisively Slavic, but it differs as much as Russian. It is fulfilled by abbreviations and truncations - some letters are completely destroyed in it or replaced by others.
However, the Great Russians is easy to understand the Goryukhin, and back. ” The novels were almost assembled. Only Belkin himself was missing now. He was born on Sunday November 16, when the author graduated from writing the preface “From the publisher” to “Brief Tales of the late I. Belkin” and gave a common epigraph to them from “undergrowth”. In this preface, Pushkin came up with Belkin's full -fledged “legend”: “Ivan Petrovich Belkin was born from honest and noble parents in the year in the village of Goryukhin.
He died in my hands in a year from birth and was buried in the church of the village of Goryukhina near his deceased parents. Ivan Petrovich would have an average growth, his eyes had gray, blond hair, a straight nose; The face was white and thin. ” Pushkin, published them anonymously, is believed to be "not hoping for success, they were so different from the then popular romantic and didactic prose." He did not deceive his forebodings.The novels were published at the end of October, according to Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, "coldly accepted by the public and even colder by magazines." The writer Nikolai Alekseevich Poleva responded to Belkin's Tales as "about the farms covered in a corset of simplicity, without any mercy." But Pushkin himself was satisfied.
In the Tsarskoye Selo Park, he then met with the young lyceum student Pavel Ivanovich Miller, who asked: “Who is this Belkin?” To which Pushkin, laughing, replied: - Whoever he is, but it is necessary to write like that - simply, briefly, clear. Well, today the reader and writer can give the same advice that Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy gave the historian and writer Pavel Dmitrievich Golokhvastov in April of the year: “Have you re -read Pushkin's prose for a long time?
Make me friendship - read all the "Tales of Belkin" first. They must be studied and studied by each writer.