Story " Garnet bracelet”, written in 1910, occupies a significant place in the writer’s work and in Russian literature. Paustovsky called the love story of a petty official to a married princess one of "the most fragrant and languishing stories about love." True, eternal love, which is a rare gift, is the theme of Kuprin's work.

In order to get acquainted with the plot and the characters of the story, we suggest reading summary"Pomegranate Bracelet" chapter by chapter. It will provide an opportunity to comprehend the work, to comprehend the charm and lightness of the writer's language and to penetrate into the idea.

Main characters

Vera Sheina- Princess, wife of the leader of the nobility Shein. She married for love, over time, love grew into friendship and respect. She began to receive letters from the official Zheltkov, who loved her, even before her marriage.

Zheltkov- official. Unrequitedly in love with Vera for many years.

Vasily Shein- Prince, provincial marshal of the nobility. Loves his wife.

Other characters

Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov- General, friend of the late Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, father of Vera, Anna and Nikolai.

Anna Friesse- sister of Vera and Nikolai.

Nikolay Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky- assistant prosecutor, brother of Vera and Anna.

Jenny Reiter- a friend of Princess Vera, a famous pianist.

Chapter 1

In mid-August, bad weather came to the Black Sea coast. Most of residents of coastal resorts began to hastily move to the city, leaving their dachas. Princess Vera Sheina was forced to stay at her dacha, as repairs were going on in her city house.

Along with the first days of September, it was warm, it became sunny and clear, and Vera was very happy wonderful days early autumn.

Chapter 2

On the day of her name day, September 17, Vera Nikolaevna was expecting guests. The husband left in the morning on business and had to bring guests for dinner.

Vera was glad that the name day fell on the summer season and there was no need to arrange a magnificent reception. The Shein family was on the verge of ruin, and the position of the prince obliged a lot, so the spouses had to live beyond their means. Vera Nikolaevna, whose love for her husband long ago degenerated into "a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship", supported him as much as she could, saved money, denied herself in many ways.

Her sister Anna Nikolaevna Friesse came to help Vera with the housework and to receive guests. Not similar in appearance or characters, the sisters were very attached to each other from childhood.

Chapter 3

Anna had not seen the sea for a long time, and the sisters briefly sat down on a bench above the cliff, “falling like a sheer wall deep into the sea” - to admire the lovely landscape.

Remembering the prepared gift, Anna gave her sister notebook in old binding.

Chapter 4

By evening, guests began to arrive. Among them was General Anosov, a friend of Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, the late father of Anna and Vera. He was very attached to his sisters, they, in turn, adored him and called him grandfather.

Chapter 5

Those gathered in the Sheins' house were entertained at the table by the host, Prince Vasily Lvovich. He had a special gift for storytelling: humorous stories were always based on an event that happened to someone he knew. But in his stories, he so "exaggerated", so bizarrely combined truth and fiction, and spoke with such a serious and businesslike look that all the listeners laughed non-stop. This time his story concerned the failed marriage of his brother, Nikolai Nikolaevich.

Rising from the table, Vera involuntarily counted the guests - there were thirteen of them. And, since the princess was superstitious, she became restless.

After dinner everyone except Vera sat down to play poker. She was about to go out onto the terrace when the maid called her. On the table in the office, where both women went, the servant laid out a small package tied with a ribbon, and explained that a messenger had brought it with a request to hand it over to Vera Nikolaevna personally.

Vera found a gold bracelet and a note in the bag. First, she began to examine the decoration. In the center of a low-grade gold bracelet stood out several magnificent garnets, each about the size of a pea. Looking at the stones, the birthday girl turned the bracelet, and the stones flared up like "charming dense red living lights." With anxiety, Vera realized that these fires looked like blood.

He congratulated Vera on Angel Day, asked him not to be angry with him for daring to write letters to her a few years ago and expect an answer. He asked to accept as a gift a bracelet, the stones of which belonged to his great-grandmother. From her silver bracelet, he, exactly repeating the location, transferred the stones to the gold one and drew Vera's attention to the fact that no one had yet worn the bracelet. He wrote: “however, I believe that there is no treasure in the whole world worthy of decorating you” and admitted that all that is now left in him is “only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion”, every minute desire for happiness to the Faith and joy if she is happy.

Vera pondered whether to show the gift to her husband.

Chapter 6

The evening passed smoothly and lively: they played cards, talked, listened to the singing of one of the guests. Prince Shein showed several guests a home album with his own drawings. This album was an addition to humorous stories Vasily Lvovich. Those looking at the album laughed so loudly and contagiously that the guests gradually moved towards them.

The last story in the drawings was called "Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love", and the text of the story itself, according to the prince, was still "prepared". Vera asked her husband: “It’s better not to,” but he either did not hear, or did not pay attention to her request and began his cheerful story about how Princess Vera received passionate messages from a telegraph operator in love.

Chapter 7

After tea, a few guests left, the rest settled on the terrace. General Anosov told stories from his army life, Anna and Vera listened to him with pleasure, as in childhood.

Before going to see off the old general, Vera invited her husband to read the letter she had received.

Chapter 8

On the way to the crew that was waiting for the general, Anosov talked with Vera and Anna about what he had not met in his life true love. According to him, “love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world."

The general asked Vera about what was true in the story told by her husband. And she gladly shared with him: "some madman" pursued her with his love and sent letters even before marriage. The princess also told about the parcel with the letter. In thought, the general noted that it was quite possible that Vera's life was crossed by "a single, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless" love that any woman dreams of.

Chapter 9

After seeing off the guests and returning to the house, Sheina joined in the conversation between her brother Nikolai and Vasily Lvovich. The brother believed that the "nonsense" of the fan should be stopped immediately - the story with the bracelet and letters could ruin the family's reputation.

After discussing what to do, it was decided that the next day Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai would find Vera's secret admirer and, demanding to leave her alone, would return the bracelet.

Chapter 10

Shein and Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, Vera's husband and brother, paid a visit to her admirer. It turned out to be an official Zheltkov, a man of thirty or thirty-five.

Nikolai immediately explained to him the reason for the arrival - with his gift, he crossed the line of patience of Vera's relatives. Zheltkov immediately agreed that he was to blame for the persecution of the princess.

Turning to the prince, Zheltkov spoke about the fact that he loves his wife and feels that he can never stop loving her, and all that remains for him is death, which he will accept "in any form". Before speaking further, Zheltkov asked permission to leave for a few minutes to call Vera.

During the official’s absence, in response to Nikolai’s reproaches that the prince was “limp” and sorry for his wife’s admirer, Vasily Lvovich explained to his brother-in-law what he felt. “This person is not capable of deceiving and lying knowingly. Is he to blame for love, and is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter for itself. The prince was not just sorry for this man, he realized that he had witnessed "some kind of enormous tragedy of the soul."

When he returned, Zheltkov asked permission to write a last letter to Vera and promised that the visitors would never hear or see him again. At the request of Vera Nikolaevna, he "as soon as possible" stops "this story."

In the evening, the prince gave his wife the details of the visit to Zheltkov. She was not surprised by what she heard, but was slightly agitated: the princess felt that "this man will kill himself."

Chapter 11

The next morning, Vera learned from the newspapers that the official Zheltkov committed suicide due to the waste of state money. All day Sheina thought about the "unknown person", whom she never had a chance to see, not understanding why she foresaw the tragic denouement of his life. She also remembered the words of Anosov about true love, which may have met on her way.

The postman brought Farewell letter Zheltkov. He admitted that he regards love for Vera as a great happiness, that his whole life lies only in the princess. He asked for forgiveness for the fact that "an uncomfortable wedge crashed into Vera's life", thanked her simply for the fact that she lives in the world, and said goodbye forever. “I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something. Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be thy name,” he wrote.

After reading the message, Vera told her husband that she would like to go and see the man who loved her. The prince supported this decision.

Chapter 12

Vera found an apartment that Zheltkov rented. The landlady came out to meet her, and they started talking. At the request of the princess, the woman told about the last days of Zheltkov, then Vera went into the room where he was lying. The expression on the face of the deceased was so peaceful, as if this man "before parting with life, learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his whole human life."

In parting, the landlady told Vera that if she suddenly died and a woman came to say goodbye, Zheltkov asked me to tell her that best work Beethoven - his name he wrote down - "L. Van Beethoven. Son. No. 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato.

Vera wept, explaining her tears by the painful "impression of death."

Chapter 13

Vera Nikolaevna returned home late in the evening. At home, only Jenny Reiter was waiting for her, and the princess rushed to her friend with a request to play something. Without doubting that the pianist will perform “the very passage from the Second Sonata that this dead man asked for with funny last name Zheltkov ", the princess recognized the music from the first chords. Vera's soul seemed to be divided into two parts: at the same time she was thinking about the love that had passed by once in a thousand years, and why she should listen to this particular work.

“The words were forming in her mind. They so coincided in her thoughts with the music that they were like couplets that ended with the words: “Hallowed be thy name.” These words were about great love. Vera cried about the past feeling, and the music excited and calmed her at the same time. When the sounds of the sonata died down, the princess calmed down.

To Jenny's question why she was crying, Vera Nikolaevna answered only to her with an understandable phrase: “He has forgiven me now. Everything is fine" .

Conclusion

Telling the story of a sincere and pure, but unrequited love of the hero to married woman, Kuprin pushes the reader to think about what place a feeling occupies in a person’s life, what it gives the right to, how the inner world of someone who has the gift of love changes.

Acquaintance with the work of Kuprin can begin with a brief retelling of the "Garnet Bracelet". And then, already knowing storyline, having an idea of ​​​​the heroes, with pleasure to dive into the rest of the writer's story about wonderful world true love.

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In August, vacation on the suburban seaside resort was spoiled by bad weather. The deserted dachas were sadly soaked in the rain. But in September the weather changed again, the sunny days. Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina did not leave the dacha - repairs were underway in her house - and now she is enjoying the warm days.

The princess's birthday is coming. She is glad that it fell on the summer season - in the city they would have to give a ceremonial dinner, and the Sheins "barely made ends meet."

Princess Vera, whose former passionate love for her husband had long since turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship, tried with all her might to help the prince refrain from complete ruin.

Vera comes to her name day younger sister Anna Nikolaevna Friesse, wife of a very rich and very stupid person and brother Nicholas. Toward evening, Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein brings the rest of the guests.

A bundle with a small jewelry case in the name of Princess Vera Nikolaevna is brought in the midst of simple country entertainment. Inside the case is a gold, low-grade puffy bracelet covered with garnets that surround a small green pebble.

When Vera... turned the bracelet in front of the light of the electric bulb, deep under their smooth egg-shaped surface, lovely deep red living lights suddenly lit up in them.

In addition to the garnet bracelet, a letter is found in the case. An unknown donor congratulates Vera on the day of the angel and asks to accept a bracelet that belonged to his great-grandmother. The green pebble is a very rare green garnet that communicates the gift of providence and protects men from violent death. The author of the letter reminds the princess how he wrote her "stupid and wild letters" seven years ago. The letter ends with the words: “Your obedient servant G.S.Zh. before death and after death.”

Prince Vasily Lvovich demonstrates at this moment his humorous home album, opened on the "story" "Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love." “Better not,” Vera asks. But the husband nevertheless begins a commentary on his own drawings full of brilliant humor. Here the girl Vera receives a letter with kissing doves, signed by the telegraph operator P.P.Zh. Here the young Vasya Shein returns the wedding ring to Vera: “I dare not interfere with your happiness, and yet it is my duty to warn you: telegraphers are seductive, but insidious.” But Vera marries the handsome Vasya Shein, but the telegraph operator continues to persecute. Here he, disguised as a chimney sweep, enters the boudoir of Princess Vera. Here, having changed clothes, he enters their kitchen as a dishwasher. Here, at last, he is in a lunatic asylum.

After tea, the guests leave. Whispering to her husband to look at the case with the bracelet and read the letter, Vera sets off to see off General Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov. old general whom Vera and her sister Anna call grandfather, asks the princess to explain what is true in the prince's story.

G. S. J. pursued her with letters two years before her marriage. Obviously, he constantly watched her, knew where she was at the parties, how she was dressed. He served not at the telegraph office, but in "some government institution as a small official." When Vera, also in writing, asked not to disturb her with her persecution, he fell silent about love and limited himself to congratulations on holidays, as well as today, on her name day. inventing funny story, the prince replaced the initials of the unknown admirer with his own.

The old man suggests that the unknown may be a maniac.

Or maybe, Verochka, your life path crossed precisely the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of.

Vera finds her brother Nikolai very annoyed - he also read the letter and believes that his sister will get "in a ridiculous position" if she accepts this ridiculous gift. Together with Vasily Lvovich, he is going to find an admirer and return the bracelet.

The next day they find out the address of G.S.Zh. It turns out to be a blue-eyed man “with a gentle girlish face” about thirty or thirty-five years old named Zheltkov. Nikolai returns the bracelet to him. Zheltkov does not deny anything and recognizes the indecency of his behavior. Finding some understanding and even sympathy in the prince, he explains to him that he loves his wife, and this feeling will only kill death. Nikolai is outraged, but Vasily Lvovich treats him with pity.

Is he to blame for love, and is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter for itself.

Zheltkov admits that he squandered government money and is forced to flee the city, so that they will not hear from him again. He asks Vasily Lvovich for permission to write his last letter to his wife. Having heard from her husband a story about Zheltkov, Vera felt "that this man would kill himself."

In the morning, Vera learns from the newspaper about the suicide of G. S. Zheltkov, an official of the control chamber, and in the evening the postman brings his letter.

Zheltkov writes that for him all life consists only in her, in Vera Nikolaevna. It is the love that God rewarded him for something. As he leaves, he repeats in delight: "Hallowed be thy name." If she remembers him, then let her play the D major part of Beethoven's Sonata No. 2, he thanks her from the bottom of his heart for being his only joy in life.

Vera is going to say goodbye to this man. The husband fully understands her impulse and lets his wife go.

The coffin with Zheltkov stands in the middle of his poor room. His lips smile blissfully and serenely, as if he has learned a deep secret. Vera lifts his head, puts a big red rose under his neck and kisses him on the forehead. She understands that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by. In the evening, Vera asks a familiar pianist to play Beethoven's Appassionata for her, listens to music and cries. When the music ends, Vera feels that Zheltkov has forgiven her.

Irina Polyakova
Natalia Kritskaya

Irina Viktorovna POLYAKOVA (1967), Natalya Valerievna KRITSKAYA (1971) - teacher of the Russian language and literature of secondary school No. 32 in Astrakhan.

“Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward...”

The theme of love in the work of A.I. Kuprin. Based on the story "Garnet Bracelet"

Goals. To expand and deepen students' understanding of A.I. Kuprine - the master of the artistic word, who conveyed in the word the power of the rarest gift high love, the greatness of the experience common man; show how the writer depicts the process of awakening a person; help to compare what was read with the world of one's own soul, to think about oneself; to form aesthetic perception using various types of art - literature, music.

Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than her punishment,
nor happiness is higher than the pleasure of serving her.
W. Shakespeare

During the classes

I. Introduction

To the sounds of George Sviridov's music, the teacher recites the sonnet (130th) by William Shakespeare by heart.

Her eyes don't look like stars
You can’t call the mouth corals,
Not snow-white shoulders open skin,
And a strand twists like a black wire.

With a damask rose, scarlet or white,
You can not compare the shade of these cheeks.
And the body smells like the body smells,
Not like a violet delicate petal.

You won't find perfect lines in it
Special light on the forehead.
I don't know how goddesses walk
But the darling walks the earth.

And yet she will hardly yield to those
Whom in comparisons magnificent slandered.

Teacher. These words about love belong to the great Shakespeare. And here is how Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky reflects on this feeling.

Love, love is a mysterious word
Who could fully understand him?
Always in everything you are old or new,
Are you a languishing spirit or grace?

Irrecoverable loss
Or enrichment without end?
Hot day, no sunset
Or the night that devastated the hearts?

Or maybe you're just a reminder
About what inevitably awaits all of us?
Merging with nature, with unconsciousness
And the eternal world cycle?

Love is one of the most sublime, noble and beautiful human feelings. True love is always selfless and selfless. “Love,” wrote L.N. Tolstoy means to live the life of the one you love. And Aristotle spoke about this as follows: “To love means to wish for another what you consider good, and to wish, moreover, not for yourself, but for the sake of the one you love, and try as far as possible to deliver this good.”

It is precisely such love, amazing in beauty and strength, that is depicted in the story of A.I. Kuprin "Garnet bracelet".

II. Conversation on the content of the story

What is Kuprin's work about? Why is it called "Garnet Bracelet"?

(The story “Garnet Bracelet” sings of the disinterested holy feeling of the “little man”, the telegraph operator Zheltkov, for Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. The story is so named because the main events are connected with this decoration. And the grenades in the bracelet with their “bloody fires” trembling inside ”- a symbol of love and tragedy in the fate of the hero.)

The story, consisting of thirteen chapters, begins with landscape sketch. Read it. Why do you think the story opens with a landscape?

(The first chapter is an introduction, prepares the reader for the perception of further events. When reading the landscape, there is a feeling of a fading world. The description of nature recalls the transience of life. Life goes on: summer gives way to autumn, youth to old age, and the most beautiful flowers are doomed to wither and die. Akin nature, the cold, prudent existence of the heroine of the story - Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, the wife of the marshal of the nobility.)

Read the description autumn garden(second chapter). Why does it follow the description of Vera's feelings for her husband? What was the author's goal?

What can be said about her soul? Is she suffering from “heart failure”?

(It cannot be said that the princess is heartless. She loves her sister's children, wants to have her own ... She treats her husband like a friend - “the former passionate love is long gone”; she saves him from complete ruin.)

To better understand Vera Nikolaevna, you need to know the environment of the princess. That is why Kuprin describes in detail her relatives.

How did Kuprin portray the guests of Vera Nikolaevna?

(Students look for “characteristics” of the guests in the text: and “fat, ugly huge” Professor Sveshnikov; and with “ rotten teeth on the face of the skull” of Anna’s husband, a stupid man who “did absolutely nothing, but was registered with some charitable institution”; and Staff Colonel Ponomarev, “a prematurely aged, thin, bilious man, exhausted by excessive clerical work.”)

Which of the guests is depicted with sympathy? Why?

(This is General Anosov, a friend of the late father of Vera and Anna. He makes a pleasant impression of a simple, but noble, and most importantly, wise man. Kuprin endowed him with “Russian, peasant features”: “good-naturedly cheerful outlook on life”, “simply, naive faith "... It is he who owns the deadly characteristic of his contemporary society, in which interests have been reduced, vulgarized, and people have forgotten how to love. Anosov says: "Love among people has taken such vulgar forms and has descended to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment. The men are to blame , at twenty years of age, jaded, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, to heroic deeds to tenderness and adoration before love.” This is how the theme of true love begins in the story, love for which “to accomplish a feat, to give one’s life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy.”)

What “happily-wonderful” happened on the name day of Princess Vera?

(Vera is presented with a gift and a letter from Zheltkov.)

Let us dwell on Zheltkov's letter to Vera. Let's read it. What characterization can we give to its author? How to relate to Zheltkov? Sympathize, pity, admire or despise like a weak-minded person?

(We can treat the hero as we please, and it’s good if such a tragedy does not happen in the life of each of us, but it is important for us to determine the author’s position, to identify the attitude of the author himself towards his hero.)

Let us turn to the episode of the visit of Zheltkov by the husband and brother of Princess Vera Nikolaevna. How does Kuprin present his hero to us? How do the participants in the scene behave? Who wins the moral victory in this confrontation? Why?

(Zheltkov. Behind his nervousness, confusion lies a huge feeling that only death can kill. Tuganovsky can neither understand nor experience such feelings himself. Even Prince Shein uttered words that speak of the sensitivity and nobility of Zheltkov’s soul: “... love and is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpretation for itself ... I feel sorry for that person. And I not only feel sorry, but now I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul ... " )

Find in the words of the author, who depicts Zheltkov's behavior, evidence that his actions are driven by that very great feeling that can make a person either immensely happy or tragically unhappy. What is your impression of Zheltkov's last letter?

(The letter is beautiful, like poetry, convinces us of the sincerity and strength of his feelings. For Zheltkov, loving Vera even without reciprocity is “great happiness.” He is grateful to her for the fact that for eight years she was for him “the only joy in life, the only consolation , with a single thought." Saying goodbye to her, he writes: "Leaving, I say in delight:" Hallowed be thy name "").)

III. Reading by heart a poem by A.S. Pushkin "I loved you..."

How is Pushkin's poem in tune with Kuprin's story?

(In both works, both admiration for the beloved, and reverence, and self-sacrifice, and the pain of a suffering heart are expressed.)

Can Zheltkov's feelings for Vera Nikolaevna be called madness? (“What is it: love or madness?”.)

(Prince Shein: “I will say that he loved you, but was not crazy at all.”)

But why does Zheltkov commit suicide?

(Zheltkov loves for real, with passionate, disinterested love. He is grateful to the one who aroused this wonderful feeling in his heart, which exalted “ little man". He loves and that's why he's happy. Therefore, death does not frighten the hero.)

The turning point for Vera is the farewell to the deceased Zheltkov, their only date. Let us turn to this episode and read it from the words: “The room smelled of incense ...”

What does Vera Nikolaevna feel when she peers into the face of someone who passed away because of her?

(Looking at his face, Vera recalls the same peaceful expression on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon.)

Is this detail random? How does Zheltkov appear before us?

(Zheltkov is great in his suffering, in his love. Vera Nikolaevna also understood this, remembering the words of General Amosov: “Maybe your life path, Verochka, was crossed precisely by the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of.”)

Note: the story underlying this story is largely real. The prototype of Princess Sheina was L.I. Lyubimova, to whom a man in love with her wrote anonymous letters for several years. He had no hopes, he understood: between him, the "little man", and her - an insurmountable abyss.

The patience of the aristocratic relatives of Lyudmila Ivanovna ran out when the lover dared to send her a garnet bracelet as a gift. The indignant husband and brother of the princess sought out the anonymous person, and a decisive conversation took place. As a result, the gift was returned, and Yellow (the name of the lover) vowed not to write again. That is how it all ended.

Why did Kuprin comprehend the “curious case” in a different way and introduced into his story tragic ending?

(The tragic ending makes a great impression, gives extraordinary strength and weight to Zheltkov's feelings.)

What do you think is the climax of the story?

(The episode with the pianist: “... Excited by what she saw and heard, Vera rushed to her and, kissing her large lovely hands screamed…”)

The greatness experienced by a simple person is comprehended to the sounds of Beethoven's Sonata No. 2, as if conveying shocks, pain and happiness, and unexpectedly displaces everything vain, petty from Vera's soul, instills reciprocal ennobling suffering.

(Beethoven Sonata No. 2 sounds.)

Why does Zheltkov “force” Vera Nikolaevna to listen to this particular Beethoven work? Why were the words that were forming in her mind so consonant with the mood expressed in Beethoven's music?

(The words seem to come from Zheltkov. They really coincide with the music, really “it was like couplets that ended with the words: “Hallowed be thy name””).

Princess Vera is experiencing spiritual unity with a man who gave his soul and life to her. What do you think, did a reciprocal feeling of love arise in the soul of Vera?

(The reciprocal feeling took place, albeit for a moment, but forever awakening in her a thirst for beauty, the worship of spiritual harmony.)

What do you think is the power of love?

(In the transformation of the soul.)

So, the unfortunate Zheltkov is by no means pitiful, but the depth of his feelings, the ability to self-sacrifice deserve not only sympathy, but also admiration.

Why does Kuprin, putting his hero on such a height, introduces us to him only in the tenth chapter? Do the first chapters differ from the last ones in style?

(The language of the initial chapters is unhurried, calm, in them more descriptions, no anguish, more ordinary.)

Let's find not only stylistic, but also semantic opposition of the two parts of the story.

(The lyrical landscape, the festive evening are contrasted with “the spit on the stairs of the house in which Zheltkov lives, the wretched furnishings of his room, similar to the wardroom of a cargo ship.”)

Surnames are also a means of opposing the heroes: an insignificant and even some kind of belittled “Zheltkov” and an exaggeratedly loud, triple “Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky”. There are contrasts in the story as well. Which?

(An exquisite notebook embellished with “a filigree gold pattern of rare complexity, subtlety and beauty,” and a low-grade gold garnet bracelet with poorly polished garnets.)

What is the idea of ​​A.I. Kuprin? What is the meaning of contrasting the first and second parts of the story? What tradition of Russian literature of the 19th century was continued by the writer in this work?

(The meaning of the story is to show the nobility of the soul of a simple person, his ability to deep, sublime feelings by opposing the hero to high society. The author shows a psychological contrast: a strong, disinterested feeling cannot arise in a world where only well-being, tranquility, beautiful things and words are valued , but such concepts as the beauty of the soul, spirituality, sensitivity and sincerity have disappeared. The “little man” rises, becomes great with his sacrificial love.)

IV. Conclusion

K. Paustovsky said that “Kuprin wept over the manuscript of the Garnet Bracelet, wept with relieving tears ... he said that he did not write anything more chaste.” The same feeling of purification and enlightenment leaves Kuprin's story with us, readers. It helps to understand what we can lose if we don’t see, hear, and notice the big, real things in life in time.

V. Homework(answer in writing)

How do you understand Kuprin's words from a letter to F.D. Batyushkov (1906): “Individuality is expressed not in strength, not in dexterity, not in mind, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!”

Topic: "Is there an unhappy love?"

Goals:

Create conditions for penetration into art world master of the word, comprehending the secrets of his skill to draw a conclusion about the originality of his work

Continue work on the skills of meaningful reading of the text, on the formation of skills and abilities of image analysis; improve the skill of determining the topic and the main idea of ​​the story; create conditions for the development of the ability to express and argue one's own point of view

Cultivate a sense of responsibility for your own destiny and the destiny of people associated with you

Talk about the great and eternal spiritual value of man - love; show how writers depict the influence of love on a person; analysis of love stories based on the role of details in the work

Love is the most inexplicable feeling of a person, it is something that needs to be rediscovered every time. The relevance of the topic “Is there an unhappy love? (Based on the works of I.A. Bunin and A.I. Kuprin) ”is explained by the fact that love does not age, and today we can observe love as Bunin and Kuprin saw it. In preparation for our lesson, you studied the features of the works of I. Bunin and A. Kuprin about love, analyzed the similarities and differences of these works.

Many volumes of poetry and prose are devoted to love, but it is still not fully understood. Poets, writers and philosophers have been tirelessly saying for thousands of years: true love is more than we can understand; love is the kinship between our being and the stars burning in the sky.

Alyona

Love, love is a mysterious word
Who could fully understand?
Always in everything you are old or new,
Are you a languishing spirit or grace?
Irrecoverable loss
Or enrichment without end?
Hot day, no sunset
Or the night that devastated the hearts?
Or maybe you're just a reminder
About what inevitably awaits all of us?
Merging with nature, with unconsciousness
And eternalworld cycle?

Some philosopher once said that the experience of love is the most amazing experience of a person. Love is trying to understand, systematize, drive into the framework to respond to eternal question Why do people love. After all, a long time ago it became clear to people: love brings a person not only light, but also darkness, it not only raises, but also oppresses a person.

Anya

Love is not only uplifting.
Love sometimes destroys us.
Breaks destinies and hearts...
Beautiful in her desires
She can be so dangerous
Like an explosion, like nine grams of lead.
She bursts in suddenly.
And you can't tomorrow
Don't see a pretty face.
Love is not only uplifting.
Love rules and decides everything.
And we go into this captivity.
And we do not dream of freedom.
While the dawn in the soul rises,
The soul does not want change.

Here is about such different love we will talk today, and also try to answer problematic issue, which sounds in the topic of our lesson “Is there an unhappy love? (Based on the works of I.A. Bunin and A.I. Kuprin).

The extraordinary strength and sincerity of feeling are characteristic of the heroes of their works. Kuprin firmly believed in love. In his work, the high system of feelings that created inspired hymns of love is resurrected. Bunin also always succeeded in stories about a high feeling, I think, because they came from the depths of the heart. Love captures all the thoughts of a person, all his strength. But something always goes wrong, and the lovers are forced to leave. Reading the works of these writers, one can assume that love is something that causes people only suffering and misfortune. Indeed, the ending of Alexander Kuprin's Garnet Bracelet is tragic: the protagonist commits suicide. Yes, and in the "Dark Alleys" Ivan Bunin is not happy ending. All "in love" writers live in anticipation of love, looking for it, and most often, scorched by it, they die. But still, let's try to figure out whether the love of the main characters in the works of Bunin and Kuprin was unhappy.

Love is something that needs to be rediscovered every time. To the question of what love is, it is impossible to give a single answer that would be suitable for all times and all people. And no matter how many poets, philosophers, psychologists, lovers give beautiful and complete answers, the generations following them will seek and find new ones.

Vocabulary work.
Vocabulary: What is love? (students' opinions) Students answer what they think love means. Questions about love

What is love according to students

Subject is relevant also because love is a high, pure, wonderful feeling that people have sung about since ancient times. Love, as you know, does not age, and today we can observe love as Bunin and Kuprin saw it.

Does every person know how to love?

Features of the works of I. A. Bunin about love

Every love is a great happiness,
even if it is not divided.
I. Bunin*

Bunin's concept images of love

“Having fallen in love, we die ...” *, - I think that these words of K. Balmont reveal the attitude of I. Bunin to love in the best possible way. Bunin has his own, special approach to the "traditional" topic. Many writers of the 19th century tried to answer the questions: is love destructive or saving? Can you carry it through your whole life? And how is this theme revealed in the works of Bunin? He simply does not have “saving” love - in not a single story will he give his heroes the opportunity to “stagnate in warmth and comfort”, mix love and life. What is it connected with? Obviously, with Bunin's worldview. How does the writer perceive the world and the person in it?

What is love? What is love like? What kind of love does I.A. Bunin in his stories? Can unrequited love bring happiness?

Vlada

It's been a wonderful spring!
They were sitting on the beach
The river was quiet, clear
The sun was rising, the birds were singing;
Stretched for the river dol,
Quietly, luxuriantly green;
Near the wild rose scarlet blossomed,
There was an alley of dark lindens.

It's been a wonderful spring!
They were sitting on the beach
She was in her prime,
His mustache was barely black.
Oh, if anyone could see them
Then, at their morning meeting,
And I would look out for their faces
Or eavesdrop on their speeches -
How sweet his tongue would be,
The original love language!
He would surely b himself, at this moment,
Blossomed at the bottom of a sad soul! ..
I met them in the light later:
She was the wife of another
He was married, and about the past
There was not a word in sight;
There was peace on their faces.
Their life flowed lightly and evenly,
They meet each other
Could laugh in cold blood...
And there, along the river,
Where the scarlet rose hips then bloomed,
Some simple fishermen
Went to the dilapidated boat
And they sang songs - and it's dark
The rest is closed to people
What was said there
And how much has been forgotten.

What do these titles of stories from the collection "Dark Alleys" say?

Based on these names, answer the question, what is love?

Which of these stories can be translated as "the art of loving", or

"textbook of love"? What understanding of love is embodied in the work of I.A. Bunin?

Prove with an example from one of the stories

Love is the greatest happiness bestowed on a person, but eternal fate always hangs over it.

Love is always associated with tragedy happy ending

true love doesn't exist...

Loneliness becomes the inevitable fate of man,

unable to see in another close soul…

Love is a great value, It is always pure and chaste.

Love is the highest gift of fate, and the more beautiful this gift,

the faster it is.

Love is something elusive and natural

blinding a person, acting on him as sunstroke

Presentation shades of love

According to Bunin: "All love is a great happiness, even if it is not divided" *. (Entry in a notebook) In thirty-eight short stories of "Dark Alleys" amazing female types pass before readers.

Heroes of Bunin about love

Here is Hope from the story "Dark Alleys". She carried through her whole life love for the master, who had once seduced her. The lovers had not seen each other for thirty years and accidentally met at the inn, where Nadezhda is the hostess, and Nikolai Alekseevich is a random traveler. He is not able to rise to her high feelings, to understand why Nadezhda did not marry "with such beauty that ... she had."

How can you love only one person all your life?

Meanwhile, for Nadezhda, Nikolenka remained an ideal for the rest of her life, the one and only: “No matter how much time passed, everyone lived alone. I knew that you were gone for a long time, that it was as if there was nothing for you, but ... It’s too late to reproach now, but it’s true, you left me very heartlessly. It was to her that he once read poetry

"about all sorts" dark alleys»»…

Nikolai Alekseevich is a nobleman. Disdainful of the lower class.
A military man with a good career.

In their youth, Nikolai Alekseevich and Nadezhda loved each other.
Nikolai Alekseevich "very heartlessly" abandoned Nadezhda, she even wanted to "lay hands on herself."

Having changed horses, Nikolai Alekseevich leaves, and Nadezhda remains forever at the inn. For one - an accidental hobby of youth, for another - love for life. Yes, perhaps Nadezhda is not happy now, after many years, but how strong that feeling was, how much joy and happiness it brought, that it is impossible to forget about it. Hope continues to love, but cannot forgive betrayal.
In the heart of the heroine there is no forgiveness for the evil and misfortune that she experienced so many years ago.

Nikolai Alekseevich about love: "Everything passes. Everything is forgotten"

Hope: "Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten" "No matter how much time passes,

all one lived ... "

That is Love For main character – happiness .

Then what causes the separation of the heroes:

The reason for the separation of heroes is public opinion: elite I would never accept a former serf peasant woman into my circle.

Is there such an opinion now?

Nikolai Alekseevich - weak person. Prejudices were able to defeat love in him. Considers relationship with hope "the history of a vulgar, ordinary", but at the same time he understands that it is Hope "gave him the best moments of life", in losing her, he lost the most precious thing in his life.

Love in Bunin's works is dramatic, even tragic, it is something elusive and natural, blinding a person, acting on him like a sunstroke.
Love is a great abyss, mysterious and inexplicable, strong and painful.

Love in his works is a passion that captures all the thoughts of a person, his whole being, spiritual and physical.

The main features of love in the works of Bunin. (love, often mutual, a flash of feelings, passion, physical intimacy, then the separation of the heroes, or the death of one of them, Bunin does not have a happy ending, love never ends in marriage, the creation of a family, the birth of a child)

Features of the works of A. I. Kuprin about love

…is he to blame for love and is it possible
to control such a feeling as love.
A. Kuprin*

The tragedy of love in the works of Kuprin

Paul

Love, love, says the legend,
The union of the soul with the soul of the native.
Their unity, combination
And their fatal merger,
And the duel is fatal.
And than one of them is more tender
In the struggle of unequal two hearts,
The more inevitable and more certain
Loving, suffering, passionately mleya,
It wears out at last

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With no less reason, Kuprin can be called a singer of sublime love. Today in the lesson we will remember the story of Kuprin "Olesya", we will walk through the wilderness of Polesie, where the heroine of the story lives, we will look into the closet of a poor official in the story "Pomegranate to look at amazing beauty and strength examples of ideal love.

Let's once again look into the wilderness of Polesye and recall the main points of the story.
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First, let's take a look at the plot of the story. (Student's story) In the wilderness of the forest, in Polissya, grandmother Manuilikha lived with her granddaughter Olesya. The villagers considered Manuilikha a witch, and Olesya was also called a witch. Olesya's mother was burned, thinking that she was a sorceress, the grandmother miraculously saved Olesya and hid with her far into the forest. One day panych Ivan Timofeevich comes to the Polesye forests to hunt. Happened in the forest unexpected meeting him and Olesya. Ivan Timofeevich sincerely fell in love with the romantic Olesya. The girl also reciprocated. Ivan Timofeevich heard what they said locals about Olesya and her grandmother. But he did not believe that Olesya was a witch. At his request, Olesya goes to church in the village, where the villagers beat her. Ivan Timofeevich feels guilty about this. One day he makes Olesya an offer to go with him to the city, i.e. marry him. The girl would have to choose between him and her grandmother. Naturally, Olesya could not leave old Manuilikha alone. She refuses the panych, although she sincerely loves him, she realizes that she will be a stranger in the city, but here in the Pole forests she feels good and comfortable. There is a parting of lovers.
Olesya was considered a witch.

What does the word witch mean?

Dictionary work: The sorceress means not only a witch, but a sorceress, enchantress, sorceress.

The name Olesya is melodious, poetic, it corresponds to this very meaning.
-What attracts the reader to Olesya? (She is distinguished by the desire for goodness, purity, love as the main meaning human existence. Olesya is not afraid to live in harmony with her heart, so she is destined to see further, to feel more subtle than her cautious chosen one.
Olesya is a child of nature, inextricably linked with it. She firmly grasped the wisdom: that it is impossible to do evil to a living being, be it a man, an animal, a bird.

About the peasants who regularly attend church, consider themselves respectable, but in whose soul anger and hatred lurk, Olesya says: “We don’t even need people. People who carry anger and cruelty.
For Olesya, kindness is the most important quality in a person. (Her phrase addressed to the young master is filled with deep meaning: “Well, come in, perhaps, if you really a kind person»)

What attracts Olesya I.T.? (the master is surprised at the grace, delicacy, nobility of Olesya. “He was captivated by Olesya’s flexible, mobile mind”) Olesya charmed, bewitched the master Ivan Timofeevich - the song “Enchanted, bewitched”

Did Oles I. Timofeevich sincerely fall in love? (Olesya's feelings are always sincere, she does not know how to deceive either others or herself) Olesya plunged into the magic of love.

Does Ivan Timofeevich sincerely love Olesya? (His love is sincere, like a fairy tale, it attracts attention because it is pure and selfless, but in I.T. his egoism is alive, which he acquired while living in the city, and Olesya is alien)

Why, despite the sincerity of feelings, everything ends with the parting of the heroes? (Despite mutual love, Olesya and her lover stand on opposite sides. Ivan Timofeevich grew up in civilization and suffers from the diseases of society. “A kind man, but weak,” he is not capable of true love, understands the impossibility of joint happiness. Kuprin claims that only in unity with nature, a person retains his naturalness, is able to achieve spiritual purity and nobility.)
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How does the story end?

(The story ends with a bright detail - I.T. finds a string of red beads. This is not so much a memory of Olesya's "tender, generous love", but a symbol of her pure feeling, a symbol of her unquenchable love. Each bead is like a spark of this love.)

But not only a string of coral beads remains after Olesya, but also painful thoughts that had no place in the life of a person with a “cold and lazy heart” before.

Conclusion: So, in the story "Olesya" we saw an example of omnipotent, sincere love, pure and tender love, and most importantly mutual love, but this love did not give the heroes happiness, because. these are people from different worlds, from different civilizations.
Coral beads are a symbol of Olesya's unburned love. In another work, Kuprin used a symbol - pomegranate - a symbol of the eternal, sincere, omnipotent, unrequited and endless love of a petty official Zheltkov for a secular lady.

"Let it be holy your name»

The plot of the story. 1 min

In the autumn of 1910, while working on the Garnet Bracelet, Kuprin wrote from Odessa to Batyushkov: “I don’t know what will happen, but when ... I think, I cry; I recently told one good actress - crying. I will say one thing, that I have not yet written anything more chaste.

About creating a story

The story was published in 1911. At the heart of his story is real event(the love of the telegraph official Yellow P.P. for the wife of an important dignitary, a member State Council Lyubimov).

In life, everything turned out differently - the official accepted the bracelet and stopped writing letters; nothing more is known about him. In the Lyubimov family, this case was perceived as strange and curious.

(Vocabulary curious)

III Work on the story.

This is the kind of love that General Anosov spoke of that took possession of the soul of the poor official Zheltkov. He needed only she alone - Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. And now let's try to capaciously convey the plot of the story. (student says)
A petty official, a lonely and timid dreamer, falls in love with a young secular lady. Eight years lasts unrequited love. Letters from a lover are the subject of ridicule by members of the family clan of the princes Shein and Bulat-Tuganovskiy. Princess Vera Nikolaevna, the addressee of these love revelations, does not take them seriously either. A gift sent to unknown lovers - pomegranate - causes a storm of indignation of the brother of the princess. He is ready to destroy the "plebeian" who dared to show signs of attention to a hereditary noblewoman. Close people consider the telegraph operator abnormal. The love of the "little man" ends tragically, he dies, unable to withstand the collision with the world of cruelty and indifference, with the embitterment of hardened people.

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Analytical conversation comparative nature. 1 min

How artistically transformed Kuprin real story heard by him? (Kuprin embodied in his creation the ideal of a beautiful, omnipotent, but not mutual love, showed that a “little man” is capable of a great, all-encompassing feeling. Kuprin ended the story with the death of a hero that made Vera Nikolaevna think about love, about feeling, made her worry , sympathize with what she didn't do before)

What social barriers (and are they the only ones?) push the hero's love into the sphere of inaccessible love? (different social status - the princess is a petty official (telegraph operator); Vera Nikolaevna is married, therefore she cannot reciprocate Zheltkov, Vera Nikolaevna grew up and was brought up in a completely different world - secular society which sometimes deprives a person of sincerity, the beauty of feelings and thoughts)

5) Dialogue on the story "Pomegranate " 1 min
The story "Garnet Bracelet" is not just about love, but about such love that "will never pass and will not be forgotten", for the sake of which one sacrifices one's life. No wonder K. Paustovsky called "Garnet Bracelet" "one of the most fragrant, languid ... and saddest" stories about love.

The image of the protagonist of the story of the petty official Zheltkov does not leave anyone indifferent. He committed suicide because of unrequited love. It can be stupid to commit suicide. It may be more correct to take the motto: if you love, then you have to fight for love. And if there is no reciprocity, then you need to drown out this feeling in yourself. Maybe Zheltkov is a weak person? And what about women? What woman does not dream of devoted, selfless love?

So how does it relate to Zheltkov? Sympathize? regret? Admire or despise?
Selecting a topic for discussion:

First idea Second idea

Zheltkov is a weak, weak-willed person, therefore he committed suicide, he could not survive unrequited love Zheltkov - great person, he had the talent to love, but by the will of fate, love did not find reciprocity. His feeling makes me proud. He passed away so as not to interfere with the life of his beloved woman, not to be an obstacle.
Weak or great Zheltkov. What was Zheltkov's talent for love?

Students' opinions.

But is suicide the way out?
Discussion of the problem of suicide in modern world?
Life is one, we must appreciate it, accept it as it is, overcome difficulties, obstacles and continue to live. According to the law of God, suicide is a grave sin, earlier suicides were buried outside the cemetery, they are not buried in the church.
We can relate to the hero as we please, and it’s good if such a tragedy does not happen in the life of each of us, but it is important for us to determine the author’s position, to identify the attitude of the author himself towards his hero.

Name day of Vera Nikolaevna 9 min
plot
- How does the story begin (description of nature)
- Read the description of nature in the text
- What mood does nature create (Sadness, sadness, expectation of something tragic)

It was to her that the enamored Zheltkov sent letters.
September 17 - name day Faith, Hope, Love. On this day, Vera celebrated a name day. There were guests at her house. How many? (13)

What does high society do? (Guests harmlessly have fun: they play cards, listen to the singing of the secular varmint and reveler Vasyuchka, make fun of the inventions of Prince Shein.) Illustration

How do they treat Zheltkov's messages in the family of princes? (laugh, scoff, his messages are an occasion for jokes)

What episode of the name day made an unpleasant impression on you? (How Prince Shein demonstrated his handwritten album, where the love story Princess Vera and a telegraph operator in love. In this fictional story, a telegraph operator in love bombards Vera with love letters written contrary to all the rules of spelling, disguises himself as a chimney sweep, penetrates into the boudoir, leaves traces of soot everywhere, gets into crazy house, having lost his mind from love and before his death sends his beloved two telegraph buttons and a bottle of perfume - filled with his tears)

What conclusion can be drawn about high society? (the upper world is immoral, the lofty love feelings small official, people of the highest circle mock and mock true feelings, contemptuous of people of lower origin, proud of their social status) - entry in a notebook.

What does Vera Nikolaevna expect from the name day and what happens on this day?
According to Kuprin, "Vera Nikolaevna Sheina always expected something happily-wonderful from the name day"

What gifts did Vera receive on this birthday, September 17?
The princess receives expensive, lovingly chosen gifts:
From the husband - "beautiful from pear-shaped pearls"
From the sister - "a small notebook in an amazing binding"
From a fan of Zheltkov - a garnet bracelet. Write in a notebook

How did Zheltkov's gift look like against the background of expensive gifts? What is its value?
Zheltkov's gift - "gold, low-grade, very thick, but puffy and covered on the outside with small old, poorly polished grenades", looks like a tasteless trinket. But its meaning and value are different. Densely - red grenades under electric light light up with live fires.

What does Vera compare thick red pomegranates to? (with blood) In the story "Olesya" remember - the coral beads that Olesya gave to Ivan Timofeevich at parting - a symbol of love.

Grenades - burn like Zheltkov's heart burning with love. After all, he gave the most precious thing that he had - a family jewel.

What does pomegranate mean for Zheltkov himself? for him - not only a symbol of reverent, endless and hopeless love, he also has a certain magical power like any family heirloom. Zheltkov writes about this in a letter: “According to an old legend that has been preserved in our family, he has the ability to communicate the gift of foresight to women who wear it and drives away heavy thoughts from them.” Write down the answer to the question in your notebook

Why did Zheltkov give Vera the most valuable thing?

This is a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless love. For Vera Nikolaevna, he does not feel sorry for anything. He wanted to bring her joy

How was Zheltkov's gift received by Vera and her family? (Vera - alarmed, agitated, for her husband - this is a reason for ridicule, Vera's brother is indignant, shows contempt for a person of the lower circle, Anosov - says that true love passed by Vera)

It is Anosov who thinks about true love. Who is Anosov?

This is a friend of the late father of Vera and Anna, General Anosov, whom they called grandfather. He gives the impression of a simple, but noble, and most importantly, wise man. Kuprin endowed him with Russian muzhik features: "a good-natured, cheerful outlook on life", "an ingenuous, naive faith."

How does Anosov feel about love? (“Love among people has taken such vulgar forms and has descended to some kind of worldly convenience, to a little entertainment. The men are to blame, satiated at twenty years old, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, to heroic deeds, to tenderness and adoration before love”)

This is how the theme of true love began in the story, love, for which, according to Anosov, "to accomplish a feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not work at all, but one joy."
Next topic for discussion:

First idea Second idea

Love, like Zheltkov's, happens once in a thousand years. Strong, passionate eternal love Zheltkova is love at a distance, love is the admiration and admiration of the beloved.

But, if he became a husband, then love would turn into everyday life and soon become a habit.

Does true love exist? What is it.
Students' opinions are heard.

Love is a noble feeling that elevates a person, makes his soul purer, better. Of course, we don’t know what would have happened to Zheltkov’s love if he lived daily near Vera Nikolaevna, but in the story it is talent that is shown to us, that is, the ability to love.

Yes, indeed, true love passes by Vera Nikolaevna, love that happens once in a thousand years.

Tragic ending. 8 min
The denouement came soon, namely, the tragic finale (referring to the lesson plan) - the death of Zheltkov. He did not know that love would play a cruel joke on him, that it would be cruel, but you can’t command a feeling.

The tragedy happened, but before the last letter was written. Reading a letter. (reading) Cyril
Now I will show you gentle sounds a life that humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death. I knew no complaint, no reproach, no pain of pride. I am before you - one prayer: "Hallowed be thy name."

Yes, I foresee suffering, blood and death. And I think that it is difficult for the body to part with the soul, but, Beautiful, praise to you, passionate praise and silent love. "Hallowed be thy name."

I remember your every step, smile, look, the sound of your gait. Sweet sadness, quiet, beautiful sadness are wrapped around my last memories. But I won't hurt you. I'm leaving alone, silently, as it was pleasing to God and fate. "Hallowed be thy name."

In the dying sad hour, I pray only to you. Life could be great for me too. Do not grumble, poor heart, do not grumble. In my soul I call for death, but in my heart I am full of praise to you: "Hallowed be your name."

You, you and the people around you, all of you don't know how beautiful you were. The clock strikes. Time. And, dying, I still sing in the mournful hour of parting with life - glory to Thee.

Here she comes, all pacifying death, and I say - glory to Thee! ..

Calm down, darling, calm down, calm down. Do you remember me? Do you remember? You are my one and only love. Calm down, I'm with you. Think of me and I will be with you, because you and I have only loved each other for a moment, but forever. Do you remember me? Do you remember? Do you remember? Here I feel your tears. Calm down. I sleep so sweet, sweet, sweet.

- What is your impression of Zheltkov's last letter?
For Zheltkov, to love Vera Nikolaevna even without reciprocity is a great happiness. He is grateful to her that for eight years she was for him the only joy in life, the only consolation, a single thought.

When Vera found out about Zheltkov's death, she goes to say goodbye to the dead, of course she feels guilty. (illustration)

The third topic for discussion

First idea Second idea
Zheltkov committed suicide because he had no way out There is always a way out, and committing suicide is stupid
Did Zheltkov need to die?
Student opinions

Let's read the episode of Vera's farewell to Zheltkov. What does she feel when she looks into the face of the one who passed away because of her?
(12 chapter)

She realized that Zheltkov was a great person. It was J. who had the talent of love.
What is the mood of the finale of the story?

The end of the story is filled with a sense of light sadness. Zheltkov dies, but Vera Nikolaevna awakens to life, something that was previously inaccessible was revealed to her. In the awakening of the soul of Faith great importance has music.

Beethoven's second sonata. Why Zheltkov forced the woman he loved to listen to this immortal work?

After Zheltkov's death, pianist Zhenya Reiter plays for Vera Nikolaevna the immortal Beethoven sonata, the same one he wrote to her about in last letter. Apparently this music revealed to Vera the beauty of his love and helped her to understand everything and feel forgiven.

Music "Second Sonata" by Beethoven. Under its sounds, I read that place in the chapter where the writer conveys the words that form in the mind of Vera under the influence of music, which, as it were, come from Zheltkov

Student opinions

So, the unfortunate Zheltkov is by no means pitiful, but the depth of his feelings, the ability to self-sacrifice deserves not only sympathy, but also admiration

What do you think love is?

Love elevates a person, transforms his soul. Love blossoms in Zheltkov's heart and gives him great happiness. He limited his life only to this feeling, refusing the rest. This ideal pure love elevates a small person, makes him significant in his own and other people's eyes.

Formulate views on love according to Kuprin? (sublime, beautiful, sometimes mutual, but often unrequited, tragic ending)

Comparison of the works of I. A. Bunin and A. I. Kuprin about love

Differences in approaches to the theme of love

Make a comparative table: "Views of love according to Kuprin and Bunin"
Love in the works of Kuprin Love in the works of Bunin
An exalted, beautiful feeling, the deification of the beloved, the admiration of the beloved, love that does not require rewards, love is self-sacrifice, but it all ends with the parting or death of the hero. Sublime feeling, reciprocity, passion, physical intimacy, parting of heroes, tragic ending.

There is no unhappy love
Maybe she is bitter, difficult,
Irresponsible and reckless
Could be deadly
But unhappy love does not happen,
Even if she kills
The one who doesn't get it
AND happy love not worth it.

7. Reflection

What did today's lesson give us? What conclusions will we draw for ourselves? What helped to understand, to realize the lesson?

8. The final word of the teacher. 1 min

Kuprin and Bunin poeticized love, described examples of beauty and nobility in their works

1) At home you write a little reflection about how you understand these words.
Write a short essay on one of the following topics:

"Love, love is a mysterious word,

Who could fully understand him?

“Which of the heroes of I.A. I remember Bunin the most"

« Every love is a great happiness

Summary of the lesson. 1 min
So our lesson has come to an end. I thank you for your work and I want to mark your activity with ratings. (grading). Today we took a trip to magical land love and learned for themselves that there really is a talent to love, and it is given not to everyone, but to the chosen ones, people who are sensitive, ready for self-sacrifice in the name of love. We were convinced that Kuprin and Bunin are masters in depicting human feelings, they managed to deeply show human experiences, open the soul of a person who loves and suffers. We are convinced that love is a beautiful, ennobling feeling.

The day would fade in the soul, and the darkness would come again,
Whenever on earth we banished love.
Only he knew bliss, who did not live with passion in his heart,
And who did not know love, he does not care,
What did not live .... (Molière)

... I love - I will love forever.
Curse my passion
pitiless souls,
Cruel hearts!
N. M. Karamzin.
What does a person value in the modern world? Money, power... These base goals are pursued by society. When pronouncing the word "love", they mean only animal instincts, physical need. People have become robots, and the slightest manifestation of feelings and emotions seems ridiculous and naive. The spiritual values ​​of society are dying... But there are still people who have not lost the ability to have high feelings. And glory to those who are loved or have ever loved, because love is a feeling that raises to the heights of life, elevates to heaven ...
Which of the heroes of A. I. Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet" believes in true love? Anna Nikolaevna? No, not likely. She married a very rich man, gave birth to two children ... But she cannot stand her husband, makes fun of him contemptuously and is sincerely glad when someone distracts Gusilav Ivanovich from her. Anna does not love her husband, she is simply satisfied with her own position: beautiful, rich ... And she can flirt without any special consequences.
Or, for example, the brother of Anna Nikolaevna, Nikolai. He almost married a rich and beautiful lady. But "the lady's husband did not want to give her a divorce." Most likely, Nikolai Nikolaevich did not believe in a real feeling, because otherwise he would not have broken up the family. Nikolai Nikolaevich is cold and his attitude towards Zheltkov, the way he treats him, proves that Bulash-Tugomovsky is not able to understand the high feeling.
Unlike Nikolai, Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein, the husband of Vera Nikolaevna, understands and even accepts the telegraph operator's love for his wife. If at first Vasily Lvovich tracks down the manifestation of any feelings, then after meeting with G.S.Zh., after Shein realized that Zheltkov really truly, disinterestedly, selflessly loved Vera Nikolaevna, he begins to believe that sincere feeling exists: "... is he to blame for love, and is it possible to control such a feeling as love ..."
General Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov was once married. But he himself admits that this marriage was not built on true love. “... People in our time have forgotten how to love,” he says to Vera Nikolaevna. “I don’t see true love. Yes, and I didn’t see it in my time!” Another story from the life of the general, which he tells, is about a Bulgarian woman. As soon as they met, passion flared up instantly, and, as the general himself says, he "fell in love immediately - passionately and irrevocably." And when he had to leave those places, they swore to each other in "eternal mutual love." Was there love? No, and Anosov does not deny it. He says: "Love must be a tragedy. The greatest mystery in the world. No life's comforts, calculations and compromises should touch it." And, perhaps, if Anosov truly loved the Bulgarian, he would do everything just to stay close to her.
Anosov told a couple of stories about a feeling more like devotion than true love. And these are just two cases of "true love" that Anosov has known throughout his long life.
He believes that every woman dreams of "one, all-forgiving, ready for everything, modest and self-sacrificing" love. And women are not at all to blame for the fact that "people's love has taken such vulgar forms and descended simply to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment."
General Anosov believes that women (probably as stronger and more romantic beings) are capable, unlike men, of "strong desires, heroic deeds, tenderness and adoration before love."
Apparently, Princess Vera Nikolaevna was mistaken about the fact that there is a real feeling. She is sure that she loves Vasily as before, but her "former passionate love for her husband has long since turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship." It's certainly a good feeling, but it's not true love.
The only hero of the story who has a sincere feeling is Zheltkov. His beloved is tall, with a gentle, but cold and proud face, the beautiful Vera Nikolaevna. He loves the princess with a disinterested, pure, perhaps slavish love. This love is real. She is eternal: “I know,” says Zheltkov, “that I can never stop loving her ...” His love is hopeless. “I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, my whole life revolves only in you,” writes Zheltkov to Vera Nikolaevna. For Zheltkov, there is no one more beautiful than Sheina.
Maybe Vera's life path was crossed by the love that women dream about. Having lost Zheltkov, the princess realized that "the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by."
Quite often, people around do not accept and even condemn those who believe in love. “Fools,” they say, “why love, suffer, worry, if you can live calmly and carefree.” They believe that the one who sincerely loves sacrifices himself. Perhaps these people are right. But they will never experience those happy moments of love, as they are cold and insensitive ...