The theme of love has been one of the most important in world and Russian literature since its inception. This feeling has the most different definitions, but perhaps the most comprehensive is the gospel definition: "This mystery is great." to understanding great mystery Kuprin and leads the reader through the whole system of images of the short story “Garnet Bracelet”.

The mystery of God's gift of love, pure and unique, high to self-sacrifice, creating a high atmosphere of morality, the author embodied in the image " little man” Zheltkova.

The novel opens with a description of the coming autumn based on the principle of contrast. In mid-August the weather is “disgusting”. It is accompanied by “dense fog, fine as water dust, rain, turning clay roads and paths into solid thick mud”, a ferocious hurricane, “the siren at the lighthouse roared like a mad bull” ... The trees swayed ..., “like waves in a storm”.

By the beginning of September, the weather changes dramatically. “Quiet cloudless days, so clear, sunny and warm, which were not even in July. On the dry, compressed fields, on the prickly yellow bristles, autumn cobwebs shone with a mica sheen. The calmed trees silently and obediently dropped their yellow leaves.

This contrasting landscape, depressing and joyful, seems to anticipate a natural change in the life of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina and the official of the control chamber Zheltkov, where Divine purity and tragedy, insight and faith in eternal, unearthly love will harmoniously merge together. The author gives the state of mind of Vera Nikolaevna through the prism of her attitude to natural beauty, dissolved in the vast world of being.

“She was very happy about the lovely days that had come, the silence, the solitude, clean air chirping on the telegraph wires of swallows…”.

Naturally sensitive, she has long since lost the feeling of love for her husband. They were friends and took care of each other.

Faith intuitively searches for an answer to the question of whether there is love and how it manifests itself.

The author explains the thirst for love and the naivete of married sisters as a stereotype that has developed in many generations, where love is replaced by habit and convenience. The author will lead his heroine together with the reader to true love on the throne, on the altar of which life is laid.

Throughout the story, Zheltkov is the secret lover of Vera Nikolaevna

Sheina, who rarely reminds of himself with letters. For Vera's relatives, he seems ridiculous, insignificant. Vasily Lvovich, Vera's husband, not stupid, merciful, devotes a lot of space to Zheltkov in his home humorous magazine, depicts his caricatured imaginary portrait. Either Zheltkov a chimney sweep, or a monk, or a village woman, or he sends Vera a bottle of perfume filled with tears. In such a reduced manner, Shein portrayed the inferiority of the “little man”, who dared to fall in love with a woman who was not of his circle.

Probably, Prince Shein, at the moment of meeting with Zheltkov, realized his clownishness, since even Nikolai Nikolaevich Tuganovsky instantly saw the nobility of Zheltkov. He peers into the unusual appearance of a man, sees in him inner work souls: "thin, nervous fingers, a pale, tender face, a childish chin."

These are the external features of a person who perceives the world with sophistication, complemented by touches of his psychological experiences before Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich. Zheltkov was at a loss, his lips turned dead, he jumped up, his trembling hands ran, and so on.

All this characterizes a lonely person who is not accustomed to such communication.

In the novel, the word "cliff" has direct meaning and acquires the meaning of an image - a symbol. Vera lives on a cliff in front of which the sea is raging. She's afraid to look off a cliff. Zheltkov is constantly mentally there, on the precipice.

His speech to the guests who came to deprive him of what he lives on was a jump into the abyss from a cliff. With childish directness, he will say what the soul is filled with: “Sending the bracelet was even more stupid. But ... I can never stop loving her ... Imprison me? But even there I will find a way to let her know about my existence. There is only one thing left - death ... "

Zheltkov rushes off the “cliff” into oblivion when he hears Vera on the phone: “Oh, if you only knew how tired I am of this story.”

The appearance of Zheltkov, speech, behavior stirred up Shein. He suddenly saw in front of him a living person “with unshed tears”, with “an enormous tragedy of the soul”. Shein realized that it's not crazy, but loving person for whom life without Faith did not exist.

Vera hears from the landlady full maternal love and mourn the words: "If you knew, pani, what a wonderful person he was." Vera learns from her that he asked to hang a garnet bracelet on an icon. Mother of God. And cold Vera takes from the hands of the landlady what was written for her last letter Zheltkova tenderly reads the lines addressed to her, the only one: “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me love for you as a great happiness. If you remember me, then play or ask to play the sonata D-dur No. 2. op. 2”.

So, Zheltkov's love, eternal and unique, selfless and selfless, is a gift from the Creator, for which he gladly goes to death. Love Zheltkova heals Vera and two men from pride, spiritual dryness, gives rise to mercy in the souls of these people.

In Vera's family, there was no love between the spouses, although they felt comfortable and confident. There was no demand for love, as evidenced by Vera's conversation with Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov.

People nowadays have forgotten how to love. I do not see true love. Yeah, I didn't see it at the time either.

— Well, how is it, grandfather? Why slander? You were married yourself. So, did you love it?

“It means absolutely nothing, dear Verochka.

“Take at least Vasya and me. Can we call our marriage unhappy? Anosov was silent for a long time. Then he drawled reluctantly:

- Well, well ... let's say - an exception ...

Clever Anosov, who loves both Vera and Anna, very doubtfully agrees with Vera's concept of happiness. Sister Anna could not stand her husband at all, although she gave birth to two children.

He alone among the heroes of the story smells roses this autumn evening: “How roses smell… I can hear from here.” Vera put two roses into the buttonhole of the general's overcoat. The first love of General Anosov is connected with a girl who sorted through dry rose petals.

The subtle scent of roses reminded him of a life story, both funny and sad. This is an insert story in the short story "Garnet Bracelet", with a beginning and an end.

“Here I am walking down the street in Bucharest. Suddenly, a strong pink smell blew over me... Between two soldiers stands a beautiful crystal bottle of rose oil. They oiled their boots and also the locks of weapons.

- What is it with you?

“Some kind of oil, Your Excellency, they put it in porridge, but it’s not good, it hurts your mouth, but it smells good.”

Consequently, the soldiers do not need a delicate fragrance, their horizons are not the same, there is no need for beauty. The path to the pinnacle of spirit, beauty, the pinnacle of nobility is difficult and long.

The image of a rose, a symbol of love and tragedy, permeates the fabric of the novella from beginning to end. Both in the form of dry petals and in the form of already made oil, they are undoubtedly a parallel to all those love stories that grandfather tells, those that the reader himself observes among the acting characters.

The image of a rose alive, red as blood, appears as an impossible phenomenon in autumn in the hands of Vera Nikolaevna. She laid it on the head of the deceased in recognition of his unearthly love. The same color is in the garnet bracelet, only it is a different symbol, a symbol of tragedy, “like blood”.

Realizing the power of Zheltkov's love, Vera is chained to Beethoven's music. And they whispered to her the magical sounds of the words of rapturous love: "Let your name shine." Conscious guilt dissolves in her copious tears. The soul is filled with sounds equivalent to words:

“Calm down, honey, calm down. Do you remember me? You are my one and only last love. Calm down, I'm with you."

And she felt his forgiveness. It was the music that united them on this mournful day of the first meeting and farewell, just as Vera and Zheltkova united all eight years when he first saw her at a concert where Beethoven's music sounded. Beethoven's music and Zheltkov's love is an artistic parallel to the short story, which is preceded by an epigraph to the short story.

L. Von Beethoven. 2 Son. (op.2, no. 2)
Largo Appassionato

So everything artistic means: live speech, insert narratives, psychological portraits, sounds and smells, details, symbols - make the author's narrative a vivid picture, where love is the main motive.

Kuprin convinces that everyone has their own love. Either it is like autumn roses, or it is like dry petals, or love has taken on vulgar forms and descended to worldly convenience and a little entertainment. The love that women dream of, Kuprin focused on the image of Zheltkov. His love is God's gift. His love will transform the world. Kuprin convinces the reader that a “little man” can have a rich soul capable of making a beneficial contribution to the improvement of human morality. How important it is to understand this before the onset of the tragedy.

Oct 26 2010

AI Kuprin has one cherished theme. He touches her chastely and reverently. This is the theme of love. He created many bright works of art, while remaining faithful to the heroes and high, romantic and boundless love. One of the most beautiful and sad stories about love is "Garnet Bracelet". The great gift of love will open in the most ordinary surroundings, in the heart of a simple, seemingly unremarkable person. And the world of well-fed complacency will be shaken by that wonderful and all-consuming, albeit unrequited feeling, which the poor official Zheltkov, the hero of this story, experienced as enormous.

The special power of the "Garnet Bracelet" is given by the fact that love exists in it as an unexpected gift among everyday life, among sober reality and settled life. An unprecedented gift of high and unrequited love became Zheltkov's "huge happiness". This raises him above other heroes: the rude Tuganovsky, the frivolous Anna, the conscientious Shein and the wise Anosov. The beautiful Vera Nikolaevna herself leads a habitual, as it were, drowsy existence, expressively shaded by the chilly autumn landscape of falling asleep nature. Faith is "independent and regally calm." This calm destroys Zheltkov. not about the emergence of Vera's love, but about her spiritual awakening, which proceeds first in the sphere of forebodings, and then - internal contradictions.

The letter and gift already sent by Zheltkov - a bracelet with five densely red ("like blood") grenades - cause an "unexpected" alarm in the heroine. From this moment, the expectation of misfortune, painful for her, grows, up to the foretaste of Zheltkov's death. At the request of Tuganovsky - to disappear, Zheltkov, indeed, cuts off his. Farewell Farewell to Ashes young man, their only "date" - a turning point in her internal state. On the face of the deceased, she read "the same peaceful expression" as "on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon." “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.”

The writer endowed his heroine with much more opportunities than just a person's disappointment in himself. In the finale, Vera's excitement reaches its limit. To the sounds of a Beethoven sonata - Zheltkov bequeathed to listen to it - Vera, in tears of pain, repentance, enlightenment, comprehends "a life that humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment ... and death." Now this life will forever remain with her and for her under the final refrain of the story: “Hallowed be thy name!” Kuprin wept over the manuscript of The Garnet Bracelet.

He said that he had never written anything more chaste. Surprisingly sensitively, the writer included a story about the tragic and the only love in the setting of southern seaside autumn. The brilliant and farewell state of nature, transparent days, the silent sea, dry corn stalks, the emptiness of cottages left for the winter - all this gives a special bitterness and strength to the story. And the gentle whisper of the trees, a light breeze enlightens the bitterness of the heroine, as if blessing her for the faithful memory of Zheltkov, for sensitivity to true beauty, imperishable love.

The theme of love never dried up in Kuprin's prose. He has many subtle and excellent stories about love, about the expectation of love, about its tragic outcomes, about its poetry, longing and eternal youth. Kuprin always and everywhere blessed love. He sent "great blessings to everything: earth, waters, trees, flowers, skies, smells, people, animals and eternal goodness and eternal beauty contained in a woman."

The theme of love in the story "Garnet Bracelet"

"Unrequited love does not humiliate a person, but elevates him." Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich

According to many researchers, “everything is masterfully written in this story, starting with its title. The title itself is surprisingly poetic and sonorous. It sounds like a line of a poem written in iambic trimeter.

The story is based on a real case. In a letter to the editor of the journal “The World of God” F. D. Batyushkov, Kuprin wrote in October 1910: “Do you remember this? - sad story the little telegraph official P.P. Zholtikov, who was hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with Lyubimov's wife (D.N. is now the governor in Vilna). So far, I just came up with an epigraph ... " (L. Van Beethoven. Son No. 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato). Although the work is based on real events, the ending of the story - Zheltkov's suicide - is the creative conjecture of the writer. Kuprin did not accidentally complete his story tragic ending, he needed such an ending to more strongly shade the power of Zheltkov's love for a woman almost unfamiliar to him - a love that happens "once in a thousand years."

The work on the story had a strong influence on state of mind Alexander Ivanovich. “Recently I told a good actress,” he wrote in a letter to F. D. Batyushkov in December 1910, “I’m crying about the plot of my work, I’ll say one thing that I haven’t written anything more chaste yet.”

The main character of the story is Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. The action of the story takes place in the Black Sea resort in the fall, namely on September 17 - the day of the name day of Vera Nikolaevna.

The first chapter is an introduction, whose task was to prepare the reader for the desired perception of subsequent events. Kuprin describes nature. In describing nature, Kuprin has many sounds, colors, and especially smells. landscape in the highest degree emotional and unlike anyone else. Thanks to the description of the autumn landscape with its deserted dachas and flower beds, you feel the inevitability of the withering of the surrounding nature, the withering of the world. Kuprin draws a parallel between the description autumn garden and the internal state of the main character: chilly autumn landscape fading nature is similar in essence to the mood of Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. According to him, we predict her calm, impregnable character. Nothing attracts her in this life, perhaps that is why the brightness of her being is enslaved by routine and dullness.

The author describes main character like this: “... went to her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather big hands, and that charming sloping of the shoulders, which can be seen in old miniatures ... ". Vera could not be imbued with a sense of beauty to the world around her. She was not a natural romantic. And, seeing something out of the ordinary, some peculiarity, I tried (albeit involuntarily) to ground it, to compare it with the outside world. Her life flowed slowly, measuredly, quietly, and, it would seem, satisfied life principles without going beyond them.

The husband of Vera Nikolaevna was Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein. He was the leader of the nobility. Vera Nikolaevna married the prince, an exemplary, quiet person like herself. Vera Nikolaevna's former passionate love for her husband turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship. The couple, despite their high position in society, barely making ends meet. Since she had to live above her means, Vera, imperceptibly for her husband, saved money, remaining worthy of her title.

On the day of the name day, her closest friends come to Vera. According to Kuprin, "Vera Nikolaevna Sheina always expected something happy, wonderful from the name day." She arrived first younger sister- Anna Nikolaevna Friesse. “She was half a head shorter, somewhat broad in the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mocker. Her face is of a strongly Mongolian type with rather noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes ... captivated by some elusive and incomprehensible charm ... ". She was the complete opposite of Vera Nikolaevna. The sisters loved each other very much. Anna was married to a very rich and very stupid person, who did absolutely nothing, but was listed at some charitable institution. She could not stand her husband, Gustav Ivanovich, but she gave birth to two children from him - a boy and a girl. Vera Nikolaevna really wanted to have children, but she did not have them. Anna constantly flirted in all the capitals and resorts of Europe, but she never cheated on her husband.

On the name day, the younger sister presented Vera with a little notebook in amazing binding. Vera Nikolaevna liked the gift very much. As for Vera's husband, he gave her earrings made of pear-shaped pearls. writer kuprin story love

The guests arrive in the evening. All actors, with the exception of Zheltkov, the main character in love with Princess Sheina, Kuprin gathers the Shein family at the dacha. The princess receives expensive gifts from the guests. The name day celebration was fun until Vera notices that there are thirteen guests. Since she was superstitious, this alarms her. But so far, there are no signs of trouble.

Among the guests, Kuprin singles out the old General Anosov, a comrade-in-arms of the father of Vera and Anna. The author describes him this way: “A fat, tall, silver old man, he was heavily climbing off the footboard ... He had a large, rough, red face with a fleshy nose and with that good-natured, majestic, slightly contemptuous expression in his narrowed eyes ... which is characteristic of courageous and ordinary people…”

Also present at the name day was Vera's brother, Nikolai Nikolaevich Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky. He always defended his opinion and was ready to stand up for his family.

Traditionally, the guests played poker. Vera did not join the game: she was called by the maid, who handed her a package.. Unfolding the package, Vera discovers a case containing a gold bracelet with stones and a note. “... a gold, low-grade, very thick ... on the outside, all completely covered ... with garnets” bracelet. He looks like a tasteless trinket next to the expensive elegant gifts that guests gave her. The note tells about the bracelet, that it is a family jewel that has magic power and what is the most expensive thing that the donor has. At the end of the letter were the initials G.S.Zh., and Vera realized that this was the secret admirer who had been writing to her for seven years. This bracelet becomes a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Thus, this person is somehow trying to connect himself with Vera Nikolaevna. It was enough for him only that her hands touched his gift.

Looking at the thick red grenades, Vera felt alarmed, she felt something unpleasant approaching, she saw some kind of omen in this bracelet. It is no coincidence that she immediately compares these red stones with blood: “Just like blood!” she exclaims. The tranquility of Vera Nikolaevna was disturbed. Vera considered Zheltkov "unfortunate", she could not understand the tragedy of this love. The expression "happy unhappy person" turned out to be somewhat contradictory. Indeed, in his feeling for Vera, Zheltkov experienced happiness.

Until the guests leave, Vera decides not to talk about the gift to her husband. Meanwhile, her husband entertains guests with stories in which there is very little truth. Among these stories is the story of an unfortunate lover in Vera Nikolaevna, who allegedly sent passionate letters to her every day, and then became a monk, after dying, bequeathed to Vera two buttons and a bottle of perfume with his tears.

And only now do we learn about Zheltkov, despite the fact that he main character. None of the guests has ever seen him, does not know his name, only it is known (judging by the letters) that he serves as a petty official and some kind of mysteriously always knows where he is and what Vera Nikolaevna is doing. Almost nothing is said about Zheltkov himself in the story. We learn about it thanks to small details. But even these minor details used by the author in his narrative testify to a lot. We understand that inner world this extraordinary person was very, very rich. This man was not like the others, he was not mired in a miserable and dull everyday life, his soul aspired to the beautiful and sublime.

Evening comes. Many guests are leaving, leaving General Anosov, who talks about his life. He tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which, in retelling, seems like just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. “I don’t see true love. And I didn’t see it in my time!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, obscene unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Love disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward? The one about which it is said - "strong as death"? .. Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.” It was Anosov who formulated the main idea of ​​the story: "Love must be ..." and to some extent expressed Kuprin's opinion.

Anosov talks about similar to such love tragic cases. The conversation about love led Anosov to the story of a telegraph operator. At first he suggested that Zheltkov was a maniac, and only then he decided that Zheltkov’s love was real: “... maybe your life path, Vera, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of.

When only Vera's husband and brother remained in the house, she spoke about Zheltkov's gift. Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich treated Zheltkov's gift extremely dismissively, laughed at his letters, mocked his feelings. The garnet bracelet causes stormy indignation in Nikolai Nikolaevich, it is worth noting that he was extremely annoyed by the act of the young official, and Vasily Lvovich, by virtue of his character, took it more calmly.

Nikolai Nikolaevich is worried about Vera. He does not believe in Zheltkov's pure, platonic love, suspecting him of the most vulgar adultery. If she accepted the gift, Zheltkov would brag to his friends, he could hope for something more, he would give her expensive gifts: "... a diamond ring, a pearl necklace ...", wasting government money, and subsequently everything could have ended court, where the Sheins would be called as witnesses. The Shein family would have fallen into a ridiculous position, their name would have been disgraced.

Vera herself did not give letters special meaning, did not have feelings for her mysterious admirer. She was somewhat flattered by his attention. Vera thought that Zheltkov's letters were just an innocent joke. She does not attach the same importance to them that her brother Nikolai Nikolayevich does.

Husband and brother of Vera Nikolaevna decide to give a gift secret admirer and ask him never to write to Vera again, to forget about her forever. But how to do this if they did not know either the name, or the surname, or the address of the admirer of the Faith? Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich find a fan by their initials in the lists of city employees. Now they become aware that the mysterious G.S.Zh. is a petty official Georgy Zheltkov. Vera's brother and husband go to his house for an important conversation with Zheltkov, who subsequently decides the whole fate of Georgy.

Zheltkov lived under a roof in one poor house: “The spit-stained staircase smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry ... The room was very low, but very wide and long, almost square in shape. Two round windows, quite similar to ship portholes, barely illuminated her. Yes, and all of it was similar to the wardroom of a cargo steamer. Along one wall stood a narrow bed, along the other a very large and wide sofa, covered with a beautiful tattered Teke carpet, in the middle - a table covered with a colored Little Russian tablecloth. Such an accurate detailed description of the atmosphere in which Zheltkov lives, Kuprin notes for a reason, the author shows the inequality between Princess Vera and the petty official Zheltkov. Between them there are insurmountable social barriers and barriers of class inequality. It is different social status and Vera's marriage do unrequited love Zheltkov.

Kuprin develops the theme of the “little man”, traditional for Russian literature. Official with funny last name Yolks, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into tragic hero, he, by the power of his love, rises above petty fuss, life's conveniences, decency. He turns out to be a man in no way inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love lifted him up. Love gives Zheltkov "tremendous happiness." Love has become suffering, the only meaning of life. Zheltkov did not demand anything for his love, his letters to the princess were just a desire to speak out, to convey his feelings to his beloved being.

Once in Zheltkov's room, finally, Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich see Vera's admirer. The author describes him as follows: “... he was tall, thin, with long fluffy, soft hair ... very pale, with a gentle girlish face, with blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must have been about thirty, thirty-five…” Zheltkov, as soon as Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich introduced themselves, became very nervous and frightened, but after a while he calmed down. The men return Zheltkov his bracelet with a request not to repeat such things again. Zheltkov himself understands and admits that he did something stupid by sending Vera a garnet bracelet.

Zheltkov confesses to Vasily Lvovich that he has been in love with his wife for seven years. Vera Nikolaevna, by some whim of fate, once seemed to Zheltkov an amazing, completely unearthly creature. And a strong, vivid feeling flared up in his heart. He was always at some distance from his beloved, and, obviously, this distance contributed to the strength of his passion. He couldn't forget beautiful image princess, and he was not at all stopped by the indifference on the part of his beloved.

Nikolai Nikolayevich gives Zheltkov two options further action: either he forever forgets Vera and never writes to her again, or, if he does not give up the persecution, measures will be taken against him. Zheltkov asks to call Vera to say goodbye to her. Although Nikolai Nikolaevich was against the call, Prince Shein allowed it to be done. But the conversation did not go well: Vera Nikolaevna did not want to talk to Zheltkov. Returning to the room, Zheltkov looked upset, his eyes were filled with tears. He asked permission to write to Vera Farewell letter, after which he will disappear from their lives forever, and again Prince Shein allows this to be done.

Relatives of Princess Vera recognized in Zheltkovo noble man: brother Nikolai Nikolaevich: “I immediately guessed a noble person in you”; husband Prince Vasily Lvovich: "this man is incapable of deceiving and lying knowingly."

Returning home, Vasily Lvovich tells Vera in detail about the meeting with Zheltkov. She was alarmed and uttered the following phrase: "I know that this man will kill himself." Vera already had a premonition of the tragic outcome of this situation.

The next morning, Vera Nikolaevna reads in the newspaper that Zheltkov committed suicide. The newspaper wrote that the death occurred due to the waste of public money. So the suicide wrote in a posthumous letter.

Throughout the story, Kuprin is trying to inspire readers with “the concept of love on the verge of life”, and he does this through Zheltkov, for him love is life, therefore, there is no love - there is no life. And when Vera's husband persistently asks to stop love, his life also stops. But is love worthy of losing life, losing everything that can be in the world? Everyone must answer this question for himself - does he want this, what is more precious to him - life or love? Zheltkov answered: love. Well, what about the price of life, because life is the most precious thing we have, it is we who are so afraid of losing it, and on the other hand, love is the meaning of our life, without which it will not be life, but will be an empty sound. I involuntarily recall the words of I. S. Turgenev: “Love ... stronger than death and fear of death.

Zheltkov complied with Vera's request to "stop this whole story" in the only way possible for him. That same evening, Vera receives a letter from Zheltkov.

Here is what the letter said: “... It so happened that nothing interests me in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life lies only in you ... My love is not illness, not a manic idea, it is a reward from God... If you ever think of me, then play the L. van Beethoven sonata. Son No. 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato ... "Zheltkov also deified his beloved in a letter, his prayer was addressed to her:" May your name". However, with all this, Princess Vera was an ordinary earthly woman. So her deification is a figment of the imagination of poor Zheltkov.

It is a pity that in life he was not interested in anything but her. I think you can’t live like this, you can’t just suffer and dream about your beloved, but inaccessible. Life is a game, and each of us is obliged to play our role, to have time to do it in such a short period of time, to have time to become positive or villain, but in no case remain indifferent to everything except her, the only, beautiful one.

Zheltkov thinks that this is his destiny - to love madly, but unrequitedly, that it is impossible to escape from fate. If not for this latter, then he would undoubtedly have tried to do something, to escape from a feeling doomed to death.

Yes, I think I should have run. Run without looking back. Set yourself a long-term goal and plunge headlong into work. I had to force myself to forget my crazy love. It was necessary to at least try to avoid its tragic outcome.

With all his desire, he could not be in control of his soul, in which too great place took the form of a princess. Zheltkov idealized his beloved, he did not know anything about her, therefore he painted in his imagination a completely unearthly image. And this also shows the eccentricity of his nature. His love could not be tarnished, stained precisely because it was too far from real life. Zheltkov never met his beloved, his feelings remained a mirage, they were not connected with reality. And in this regard, the enamored Zheltkov appears before the reader as a dreamer, romantic and idealist out of touch with life.

He endowed best qualities a woman about whom he knew absolutely nothing. Perhaps if fate had given Zheltkov at least one meeting with the princess, he would have changed his mind about her. At the very least, she would not seem to him an ideal being, absolutely devoid of flaws. But, alas, the meeting was impossible.

Anosov said: "Love must be a tragedy ...", if you approach love with just such a yardstick, then it becomes clear - Zheltkov's love is just that. He easily puts his feelings for the beautiful princess above all else. In essence, life itself has no special value for Zheltkov. And, probably, the reason for this is the lack of demand for his love, because the life of Mr. Zheltkov is not decorated with anything other than feelings for the princess. At the same time, the princess herself lives a completely different life, in which there is no place for the enamored Zheltkov. And she does not want the flow of these letters to continue. The princess is not interested in her unknown admirer, she is fine without him. All the more surprising and even strange is Zheltkov, who consciously cultivates his passion for Vera Nikolaevna.

Can Zheltkov be called a sufferer who lived his life uselessly, giving himself up as a victim of some amazing soulless love? On the one hand, he appears to be just that. He was ready to give his life to his beloved, but no one needed such a sacrifice. The garnet bracelet itself is a detail that even more clearly emphasizes the entire tragedy of this man. He is ready to part with family heirloom, an ornament passed down by women of his family. Zheltkov is ready to give the only jewel to a completely stranger woman, and she did not need this gift at all.

Can Zheltkov's feelings for Vera Nikolaevna be called madness? Prince Shein answers this question in the book: “... I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I cannot play around here ... I will say that he loved you, but was not at all crazy ... ". And I agree with his opinion.

The psychological culmination of the story is Vera's farewell to the deceased Zheltkov, their only "date" - a turning point in her inner state. On the face of the deceased, she read “deep importance, ... as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his whole human life”, “blissful and serene” smile, “peace”. “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.”

You can immediately ask the question: - did Vera love anyone at all. Or the word love in its understanding is nothing but the concept of marital duty, marital fidelity, and not feelings for another person. Vera probably loved only one person: her sister, who was everything to her. She did not love her husband, not to mention Zheltkov, whom she had never seen alive.

But was it necessary for Vera to go look at the dead Zheltkov? Perhaps it was an attempt to somehow assert herself, not to torment herself for the rest of her life with remorse, to look at the one she refused. To understand that in her life there will be nothing like this. From what we pushed off, we came to that - before he was looking for meetings with her, and now she came to him. And who is to blame for what happened - he himself or his love.

Love dried him up, took away all the best that was in his nature. But she gave nothing in return. Therefore, the unfortunate person has nothing else to do. Obviously, by the death of the hero, Kuprin wanted to express his attitude towards his love. Zheltkov, of course, is a unique person, very special. Therefore, it is very difficult for him to live among ordinary people. It turns out that there is no place for him on this earth. And this is his tragedy, and not his fault at all.

Of course, his love can be called a unique, wonderful, amazingly beautiful phenomenon. Yes, such a disinterested and amazing pure love is very rare. But still, it's good that it happens this way. After all, such love is coming hand in hand with tragedy, it breaks a person's life. And the beauty of the soul remains unclaimed, no one knows about it and does not notice it.

When Princess Sheina came home, she fulfills Zheltkov's last wish. She asks her pianist friend Jenny Reiter to play something for her. Vera has no doubt that the pianist will perform exactly the place in the sonata that Zheltkov asked for. Her thoughts and music merged into one, and she heard as if the verses ended with the words: "Hallowed be thy name."

"Hallowed be Thy name" - sounds like a refrain in the last part of the "Garnet Bracelet". A man has passed away, but love has not gone away. It seemed to dissipate in the surrounding world, merging with Beethoven's sonata No. 2 Largo Appassionato. Under passionate sounds music, the heroine feels the painful and beautiful birth of a new world in her soul, feels a sense of deep gratitude to the person who has placed love for her above everything in his life, even above life itself. She understands that he has forgiven her. In this tragic note the story ends.

However, despite the sad denouement, Kuprin's hero is happy. He believes that the love that illuminated his life is a truly wonderful feeling. And I no longer know if this love is so naive and reckless. And maybe she really is worth it to give her life and desire for life for her. After all, she is beautiful like the moon, pure like the sky, bright like the sun, constant like nature. Such is the knightly romantic love Zheltkov to Princess Vera Nikolaevna, who swallowed up his whole being. Zheltkov passes away without complaints, without reproaches, saying, as a prayer: "Hallowed be thy name." It is impossible to read these lines without tears. And it is not clear why tears roll from the eyes. Either this is just pity for the unfortunate Zheltkov (after all, life could be beautiful for him too), or admiration for the magnificence of the great feeling of a small person.

I so wish that this fairy tale about the all-forgiving and strong love, created by I. A. Kuprin. I wish that I never harsh reality could not overcome our sincere feelings, our love. We must multiply it, be proud of it. Love, true love, must be studied diligently, as the most painstaking science. However, love does not come if you wait for its appearance every minute, and at the same time, it does not flare up from nothing.

Composition-reasoning "Garnet bracelet: love or madness." Love in Kuprin's story

Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet" reveals secret riches human soul, so it is traditionally loved by young readers. She shows what power can do sincere feeling, and each of us hopes that he, too, is able to feel so nobly. However, the most valuable quality of this book lies in main topic, which the author masterfully illuminates from work to work. This is the theme of love between a man and a woman, a dangerous and slippery road for a writer. It's hard not to be banal, describing the same thing for the thousandth time. However, Kuprin invariably manages to surprise and touch even the most sophisticated reader.

In this story, the author tells the story of an undivided and forbidden love: Zheltkov loves Vera, but cannot be with her, if only because she does not love him. In addition, all circumstances are against this couple. Firstly, their position differs significantly, he is too poor and is a representative of a different class. Secondly, Vera is married. Thirdly, she is attached to her husband and would never agree to cheat on him. These are just the main reasons why heroes cannot be together. It would seem that with such hopelessness one can hardly continue to believe in something. And if you do not believe, how to feed the feeling of love, devoid of even hope for reciprocity? Zheltkov could. His feeling was phenomenal, it demanded nothing in return, but gave everything of itself.

Zheltkov's love for Vera was precisely a Christian feeling. The hero resigned himself to his fate, did not grumble at her and did not rebel. He did not expect a reward for his love in the form of a response, this feeling is selfless, not tied to selfish motives. Zheltkov renounces himself, his neighbor has become more important and dear to him. He loved Vera as himself, and even more. In addition, the hero turned out to be extremely honest in relation to the personal life of his chosen one. In response to the claims of her relatives, he humbly laid down his arms, did not persist and impose his right to feelings on them. He recognized the rights of Prince Vasily, understood that his passion was in some sense sinful. Not once in all these years did he cross the line and dare not come to Vera with an offer or somehow compromise her. That is, he cared about her and her well-being more than about himself, and this spiritual feat- self-denial.

The greatness of this feeling is that the hero managed to let go of his beloved so that she would not feel the slightest discomfort from his existence. He did it at the cost of his life. After all, he knew what he would do with himself after spending state money, but he went for it consciously. At the same time, Zheltkov did not give Vera a single reason to consider himself guilty of what had happened. The official committed suicide because of his crime. Desperate debtors in those days shot themselves to wash away their shame and not shift material obligations onto relatives. His act seemed to everyone logical and in no way connected with a feeling for Vera. This fact speaks of the unusual trepidation of the relationship to the beloved, which is the rarest treasure of the soul. Zheltkov proved that love is stronger than death.

In conclusion, I want to say that the noble feeling of Zheltkov is not depicted by the author by chance. Here are my thoughts on this: in a world where comfort and routine obligations crowd out true and sublime passion, it is necessary to sober up and not take the loved one for granted and everyday. Must be able to appreciate loved one on a par with himself, as Zheltkov did. It is this reverent attitude that the story “Garnet Bracelet” teaches.

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A. I. Kuprin has one cherished theme. He touches her chastely, reverently and nervously. Otherwise, you can't touch her. This is the theme of love.

Sometimes it seems that everything has been said about love in world literature. What can you say about love after Shakespeare story Romeo and Juliet, after Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, after Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? You can continue this list of creations that sang the tragedy of love. But love has a thousand shades, and each of its manifestations has its own luminosity, its own sadness, its own fracture and its own fragrance.

One of the most fragrant and languishing stories about love, and perhaps the saddest, is Kuprin's "Garnet Bracelet". In this story, the true romantic Kuprin deifies love. Each word here glows, shimmers, sparkling with a precious cut, but the story describes tragic love. As General Anosov, beloved grandfather of Anya and Vera, says in the story: “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world!"

This great love strikes the most ordinary person, bending his back at the clerical table, official Zheltkov. He was ready to adore Vera Nikolaevna from afar, he simply idolized her: “I mentally bow to the ground of the furniture on which you are sitting, the trees that you touch in passing, the servants with whom you speak. Beautiful, praise to you, passionate praise and quiet love. May your name be hallowed."

Zheltkov could not give his love to Vera Nikolaevna every day, every hour, every minute. Perhaps that is why he gave her his great-grandmother's garnet bracelet - the most expensive thing he had, in order to somehow connect himself with Vera. Zheltkov was insanely happy already with the fact that the hands of his goddess touched his gift.

Most striking is the inner energy with which Kuprin sings of love. It is truly a miracle, divine providence to meet in life just such a feeling, and here Vera Nikolaevna was lucky. Eternal, disinterested, sincere love shone in her fate, which every woman dreams of and which most men are not capable of.

Probably, it is simply impossible to describe in words the feeling of the deepest loss that Vera Nikolaevna experienced when she realized that such love had passed her by. The story is given special strength by the fact that love exists in it as an unexpected gift, suddenly illuminating life, dull everyday life, stirring up an established life.

It is impossible to read the end of the story without emotional excitement, these amazing words: “I remember your every step, smile, look, sound of your gait. Sweet melancholy, quiet, beautiful melancholy fanned my last memories. But I won't hurt you. I'm leaving alone, silently, it was so pleasing to God and fate. May your name be hallowed." These words are more like a prayer.

"Garnet Bracelet" is a song of love, and at the same time it is an eternal prayer for love...

Kuprin said about the “Garnet Bracelet” that he had never written anything more chaste. And his remark is correct. Kuprin has many subtle and excellent stories about love, about the expectation of love, about its tragic outcomes, about longing and eternal youth in the human soul. Kuprin always and everywhere blessed love. He sent a great blessing to all things: earth, waters, trees, flowers, heavens, people, animals, and eternal goodness, and eternal beauty contained in a woman.