V.N. BUTidarova
In all the variety of topics raised in the works of A.I. Kuprin, whose work K. Paustovsky rightly called "an encyclopedia of life science", one cherished theme stands out, to which the writer addresses very carefully and reverently - the theme of love. “In the Dark”, “Holy Love”, “Agave”, “Olesya”, “Shulamith”, “Helen”, “Pomegranate Bracelet” and many more works by A.I. Kuprin raise the problem of love, this "greatest secret in the world."
In a letter to F.D. Batyushkov in the summer of 1906, Kuprin admitted: “Love is the brightest and most understandable reproduction of my “I”.
Individuality is expressed not in strength, not in dexterity, not in mind, not in talent, not in voice, not in colors, not in gait, not in creativity. But in love...
What is love? As women and as Christ, I will answer with the question: “What is truth? What is time? Space? Gravity?
In the words of the hero of the "Duel" of Nazansky, Kuprin idealizes the selfless platonic feeling: "... how many varied happiness and charming torments lie in ... hopeless love! When I was younger, I had one dream: to fall in love with an unattainable, extraordinary woman, such, you know, with whom I can never have anything in common. Fall in love and devote your whole life to her.
A rush to the ideal, purified from all worldly romantic feeling of A.I. Kuprin will keep for life. Already in his old age, in exile, for a number of years he retired and wrote tenderly and respectfully love letters to a woman whom he knew very little, but whom he loved with secret love.
And one more interesting piece of evidence. K. Paustovsky notes that Kuprin often said that he became a writer quite by accident and his own fame surprises him. The writer's biographers state that in 1894 lieutenant Kuprin retired from the army and settled in Kyiv. At first he was in poverty, but soon he began to work in Kyiv newspapers and write. Prior to this, Kuprin wrote very little.
What made the young officer retire and change his life so dramatically? Is it only the "lead abominations" of army reality, although they are probably in the first place. However, there was also a story in Kuprin's life in which love, young recklessness and a combination of tragic circumstances, the collapse of hopes, were closely intertwined.
We learn about this little-known episode from the life of Kuprin from the memoirs of Maria Karlovna Kuprina-Iordanskaya, the writer's first wife. We will also learn about the fatal role that Kyiv will play in its fate.
After graduating from the Alexander Military School in Moscow, Alexander Kuprin, with the rank of second lieutenant, was sent to the 46th Dnieper Infantry Regiment, stationed in the provincial towns of the Podolsk province - Proskurov and Volochisk. Kuprin served in Proskurov for the third year, when one day at a regimental ball in the officers' meeting he met a young 17-year-old girl Verochka and ... fell in love. Vera came from a wealthy aristocratic family, her parents died, and she lived with her sister, who was married to the captain. God knows how these people ended up in that backwater regiment. Kuprin began to meet with Verochka, who answered him with obvious sympathy, but the sister and the captain found out about their dates. Kuprin was summoned and an indispensable condition was set: the relatives would agree to this marriage if the young man graduated from the Academy of the General Staff and a military career, an “exit” to high society, acquaintances, and connections opened before him.
In the summer of 1883, Kuprin left Proskurov for St. Petersburg to take exams at the Academy. His path runs through Kyiv. There he meets former fellow students in the cadet corps, who persuade him to stay for two days to celebrate the meeting. On the day of departure, the young officers went to the banks of the Dnieper, where some businessman equipped a restaurant on an old barge moored to the shore. The officers settled down at a table when suddenly a police officer approached them with the words that the table was reserved for the bailiff, and a demand to immediately vacate the seats. Army officers have always disliked the gendarmerie, they considered it humiliating for themselves to know the police, and therefore did not pay attention to the police officer. The same one behaved impudently, began to shout, forbidding the owner of the establishment to serve gentlemen officers. And then something unimaginable happened. The officer flew overboard into the water. The audience laughed and applauded. Sent him to "cool down" none other than Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin. The police officer got up all covered in mud (the barge was standing near the shore in a shallow place) and began to draw up an act on "a utopia of a police rank in the line of duty."
In Kyiv, Kuprin spent all his savings, and upon arrival in St. Petersburg, he had a "hard time". New officer friends called him to "spree", but Kuprin hid his deplorable lack of money from them, saying that he was invited to dinner with his rich aunt, and he himself ate only black bread, which he carefully cut into portions and did not allow himself to immediately eat more than one parts. Sometimes, unable to stand it, he went into a sausage shop and asked the hostess to give fatter sausage scraps for his aunt's beloved cat. In fact, both the aunt and the cat were fictitious, and the lieutenant himself, secluded and hiding, greedily pounced on food.
Kuprin brilliantly passed the exams to the Academy of the General Staff. The head of the Academy himself praised him. Kuprin already saw himself in his dreams as a brilliant officer of the General Staff and in the near future Verochka's husband.
But suddenly from Kyiv, from the commander of the Kyiv military district, General Dragomirov, a paper arrives, in which it was reported that Lieutenant Kuprin of such and such a date, of such and such a year, had committed an offense discrediting the honor of an officer. This was followed by an order: to prohibit admission to the Academy of the General Staff for a period of 5 years. It was a disappointment, a disaster. Verochka was lost forever...
Kuprin even wanted to shoot himself, but the revolver was sold to pay off debts. Kuprin immediately submits a report on his dismissal from the army and retires. He ended his military career forever... He returned to Kyiv, which was ill-fated for him, where, in need and hardship, he tried many professions: he would work as a loader on a river pier, at one time even act as a light weight wrestler in a circus, he would try many more jobs, but all of them will be temporary, not bringing significant earnings. Sometimes, in moments of the most severe lack of money, he could be seen sleeping in the open air among the beggars and vagabonds on the slopes of the Mariinsky Park. Finally, Kuprin manages to get a job as a typesetter in a printing house, and from time to time he brings notes about street incidents to the editorial office of the newspaper printed there. According to Kuprin himself: "...gradually I got involved in newspaper work, and a year later I became a real newspaperman and briskly scribbled feuilletons on various topics." Collected material for essays "Kyiv types". Thus, it was precisely the complex combination of circumstances in which love intertwined, the incident in Kyiv and disappointment, unfulfilled dreams that largely contributed to the decision to change one's own life and devote it to creativity, where works about love occupy a special place.
In 1910 A.I. Kuprin decided to create a "sad story", a "very sweet" thing, as he said, for him. “I don’t know what will happen, but when I think about her, I cry. Recently I told one good actress - I cry. I will say one thing, that I have not yet written anything more chaste. Kuprin creates the Garnet Bracelet. Many characters had their life prototypes. “This is ... the sad story of a small telegraph official P.P. Zholtikov, who was so hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with Lyubimov's wife. Once, while visiting, the writer heard from a major official of the State Chancellery Lyubimov an ironically told story about the persecution of his wife Lyudmila Ivanovna (nee Tugan-Baranovsky) with vulgar letters written by a certain telegraph operator, as well as about a gift sent to her on Easter Day - a bracelet in the form of a thick gilded blown chain, to which was suspended a small red enamel egg with engraved words: “Christ is risen, dear Lima. P.P.Zh.” The indignant husband - in the "Garnet Bracelet" Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein and his brother-in-law - prudish Nikolai Nikolaevich Tugan-Baranovsky (the name in the story has not been changed) tracked down the telegraph operator Pyotr Petrovich Zholtikov (poor official Zheltkov in the "Garnet Bracelet") and demanded to stop persecution. Zholtikov was transferred to the province, where he soon married. Kuprin will change this somewhat "rough" story, give it a different content, comprehend the events in his own way and create one of the most poetic and sad stories about the tragic and only love.
In The Pomegranate Bracelet, the writer touches on various aspects of the problem of love, and above all, the problem of true love, "one, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless", one that occurs "only once in a thousand years" and the problem of "visibility » love.
One of the heroes of the story says that people have forgotten how to love, love has taken on vulgar forms and condescended to everyday convenience and little entertainment. "Why do people get married?" - argues a man of the older generation, wise in life, General Anosov. And he names several reasons: women because of the “shame” of remaining in girls, unwillingness to be an extra mouth in the family, the desire to be a mistress. Men mainly because of everyday amenities: tired of a single life, from disorder, bad dinners, "from dirt, cigarette butts, torn ... linen, from debts, from unceremonious comrades ...". Not in last place is the benefit: “it is more profitable, healthier and more economical to live with a family.” Anosov names a few more reasons and draws a disappointing conclusion: “I don’t see true love. Yes, and in my time I did not see. He tells two cases that only resemble real feelings, both ending tragically, dictated by stupidity and causing only pity.
There is no love between husband and wife Friesse either: Anna cannot stand her stupid but rich chamber junker Gustav Ivanovich, while she gave birth to two children from him. He adores her, who attracted the attention of many men, but adores her smugly, so that "it becomes embarrassing for him."
In the family of Princess Vera, as it seems to her, an atmosphere of love and strong, faithful, true friendship reigns. Twice in a conversation with the general, Vera Nikolaevna cites her marriage as an exceptional example of happy love: “Take at least Vasya and me. Is it possible to call our marriage unhappy? But in the first case, the general hesitates to answer: “... he was silent for quite a long time. Then he drawled reluctantly: - Well, well ... let's say - an exception ... ", And for the second time he interrupts Vera's words, saying that he had in mind a completely different - true love:" Who knows, maybe the future will show it love in the light of great beauty. But you understand ... No life's conveniences, calculations and compromises should concern her. Kuprin introduces many strokes that reveal the nature of relationships in the Shein family. The family retains the appearance of prosperity, the prince occupies a prominent position in society, and he himself barely makes ends meet. He lives above his means, because, according to the situation, he has to make receptions, do charity, dress well, keep horses, etc. And he does not notice that Vera, trying to help the prince avoid ruin, saves on herself, denying herself a lot.
On Vera's birthday, the prince promises to bring a few and only his closest acquaintances to dinner, but among the guests is the local vice-governor von Seck, the secular young rich varmint and reveler Vasyuchok, Professor Speshnikov, staff colonel Ponomarev - those people with whom Vera is barely familiar , but which are included in the St. Petersburg world. Moreover, Vera is seized by superstitious fear - "a bad feeling", because there are thirteen guests. Prince Vasily is inattentive to Vera. At the birthday party, oi presents to the guests the illustrated poem "Princess Vera and the telegraph operator in love", and at his wife's request to stop it, he pretends that he did not hear her words or did not attach any importance to them, and will continue his, as it seems to him, witty narration, in which will present itself in a noble light, Vera - in a funny one, and P.P.Zh. in the pitiful and vulgar; He will not even bother to remember the real initials G.S.Zh., with which the letters addressed to Vera were signed, this poor man is so petty and insignificant for Prince Shein. But when Vasily Lvovich finds out about the gift - a garnet bracelet, he is indignant that the story can get publicity in society and put him in a ridiculous and disadvantageous position, since the addressee is not a person of their circle .; Together with a prim, pompous brother-in-law, Prince Vasily is going to "take action." They are looking for Zheltkov and during the conversation they emphasize their disdain for him: they do not respond to the greeting - Zheltkov's outstretched hand, they neglect the invitation to sit down and drink a glass of tea, pretending that they did not hear the offer. Nikolai Nikolaevich impudently even threatens Zheltkov with the opportunity to turn to the authorities for help, and Vasily Lvovich responds with arrogant silence to Zheltkov's readiness to satisfy the prince's claims with the help of a duel. Perhaps he considers it shameful for himself to condescend to a duel with a man of the lower class, perhaps, besides, he values \u200b\u200bhis life too much. In all their behavior, an arrogant pose is visible - unnatural and false.
Kuprin shows that people, with rare exceptions, have forgotten how not only to love, but also to be sincere. There is a substitution of natural artificial, conditional. Spirituality disappears, replaced by its appearance. In this regard, an artistic detail is interesting - a gift received by Princess Vera on her birthday from Anna: an old prayer book, converted into an elegant ladies' notebook.
This subject detail is a sign of the loss of spirituality and its replacement with only visible beauty. After all, Anna was famous for her "piety", even secretly converted to Catholicism, and herself, as will be said, willingly indulged in the most risky flirting in all the capitals and all the resorts of Europe. She wore a sackcloth, but she was exposed much more than the limits allowed by decency.
Another gift that the princess received on her birthday from her husband also seems significant - earrings made of pear-shaped pearls. As you know, pearls belong to the category of so-called "cold" jewelry, and therefore, in terms of association, this gift may be correlated with cold - the absence of true love between Prince Vasily and Vera. In addition, the pear-shaped shape of the earrings resembles, albeit remotely, tears - a sign of the coming insight and disappointment of Vera in her own marriage, devoid of true love. The motif of cold also unfolds in the landscape: “Dahlias, peonies and asters bloomed magnificently with their cold, arrogant beauty, spreading ... a sad smell”, “cold evenings”, “night coolness”, etc. It should be noted that the landscape in the story A.I. Kuprin is the surest indicator of the inner human life. The idea of the absence of love is also reinforced by the motive of emptiness in the depiction of a sad picture of autumn: “It was even sadder to see the abandoned dachas with their sudden spaciousness, emptiness and bareness ...”, “compressed fields”, “trees silently and obediently dropping yellow leaves” , "empty flower beds", etc.
The landscape seems to emphasize the loneliness of Vera. K. Paustovsky remarked: "It's hard to say why, but the brilliant and parting damage to nature ... imparts special bitterness and strength to the narrative."
Vera admits to her sister that the sea, when she gets used to it, begins to crush her "with her flat emptiness ... I miss ...". And now, in her measured, calm, happy everyday family life (Vera was “strictly simple, coldly and condescendingly kind to everyone, independent and royally calm”), an exceptional circumstance bursts in, an unexpected third gift - a garnet bracelet and a letter sent by an unknown young man . Vera at first perceives this gift as an annoying vulgar claim. And the bracelet itself seems to her rude and vulgar: "... base, very thick, ... puffy and with poorly polished grenades ...". However, when Vera accidentally turns the bracelet in the light, the grenades "suddenly lit up lovely thick red lights." From the letter, Vera learns about that omnipotent, selfless feeling of love, which does not hope for anything and does not pretend, a feeling of reverence, loyalty, ready to sacrifice everything, even life. From this moment on, the motive of true love begins to sound in the story. And this gift, and this letter, as if they begin to highlight everything in a different light. What seemed vulgar, suddenly turns out to be sincere and genuine. And what was seen as true, suddenly appears false.
In comparison with this letter, Vasily Lvovich's "satirical" poem, which parodies genuine feeling, seems vulgar and blasphemous. The heroes of Kuprin seem to be tested by love. According to the writer, in love, a person is most clearly manifested.
There is another interesting detail associated with the garnet bracelet; Zheltkov's letter will say that, according to an old family tradition, the bracelet endows the women wearing it with the gift of foresight and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while protecting men from violent death. As soon as Zheltkov parted with the garnet bracelet, this prophetic and tragic predestination came true. We can say that by giving this bracelet to Vera Nikolaevna, the young man brings her not only his love, but also his life as a gift. The garnet bracelet endows Vera with the ability of a special vision - not only to anticipate the subsequent course of events (“I know he will kill himself”), but also more broadly - the garnet bracelet as an unexpected gift - love-enlightenment, as a result endows Vera Nikolaevna with understanding the essence of true love. Previously “blinded” by only “visible” love (cf. also: thick fog, impassable landscape), Princess Vera suddenly begins to see clearly and understands that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.
For true love is "the greatest mystery in the world." According to Kuprin, love is "the whole meaning of life - the whole universe." The convergence of concepts, the convergence of the “love-life” semantics can also be traced in the color symbolism of the stones of the garnet bracelet: in the center is green, traditionally associated with life, framed by red garnets, ascending in their conditional semantics to the meaning of love. However, the traditional symbolism of red is also associated with the meanings of blood and tragedy (“Just like blood!” Vera thought with unexpected anxiety and then could not take her eyes off the “bloody fires trembling inside the grenades”).
The writer interprets love as the greatest happiness and the greatest tragedy.
Already the landscape, which begins the story, gives rise to a premonition of tragedy. The description of the raging elements is built on the principle of growth: thick fog - fine as water dust, rain - a ferocious hurricane - a raging sea that claims the lives of people. The foreboding of the tragedy is enhanced by the roar - thunder - howl: “... a huge siren roared day and night, like a mad bull”, “iron roofs rumbled”, “wildly howled in ... pipes”. And suddenly the storm is replaced by a picture of a calm, clear, bright nature.
Such a sharp change in the states of nature even more intensifies the premonition of some huge event that will soon happen and in which light and darkness, happiness and sorrow, life and death will unite.
The premonition of the tragedy thickens the motif of death, which can be traced in the “satirical” poem by Vasya Shein (the telegraph operator dies at the end of the poem), in Anosov’s stories about two cases of unrequited love, in the landscape (“... the sunset burned out. The last crimson ... strip that glowed on the very the edge of the horizon"), in the portrait of Zheltkov (mortal pallor and lips "white ... like those of the dead"), in his message ("Your obedient servant before death and after death"), etc.
Kuprin interprets love as the greatest tragedy, since the social aspect intervenes, the social division of people, due to the conventions of which the idea of love between a princess and a poor official is impossible.
In addition, love-tragedy and love-happiness are understood as selfless love, one, all-forgiving, ready for anything: “such love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one’s life, to endure torment is not labor at all, but one joy.” This is exactly what Zheltkov's unrequited love is. In his last suicide letter, he speaks of his love, as of enormous happiness, joy and consolation, of love, as of God's reward, thanks Vera only for the fact that she exists, idolizes her: “Leaving, I say in delight:“ Yes hallowed be thy name." This love is "strong as death" and stronger than death.
Love is a tragedy, for it is an eternally uplifting and purifying feeling, equal in inspiration to great art. Zheltkov's last note and his last letter contain a request for a Beethoven sonata. This sonata Kuprin takes out as an epigraph to the whole story, arguing that love, like art, is the highest form of beauty.
Thanks to selfless love, Zheltkova Vera Nikolaevna finally understood what true love is, and at this moment of insight, she seems to acquire the great power of love that unites souls.
L-ra: Russian language and literature in educational institutions. - 2000. - No. 6. - S. 1-6.
Composition on the theme "Love in the work of Kuprin"
One of the primary themes in Kuprin's work is love. The characters of his creations, "illumined" by a real strong feeling, open up deeper. In the works of this remarkable writer, love is like a pattern, disinterested and selfless. Having analyzed a considerable number of his works, one can comprehend that in him it is invariably tragic and doomed to torment in advance. One of the highest values in human life, according to AI Kuprin, has always been love. Love, which collects in a single bouquet all the best, everything healthy and bright, than life rewards a person, which justifies any hardships and hardships that may be encountered on his way. So in Oles. So in the "Garnet Bracelet". So in Shulamith. So in "Duel". Until the end of his life, the writer retained in his soul the romantic mood of youth, and this is the strength of his works.
Many events take place before us on the pages of the story "Duel". But the emotional culmination of the work was not the tragic fate of Romashov, but the night of love he spent with the insidious and therefore even more captivating Shurochka; and the happiness experienced by Romashov on this night before the duel is so great that it is precisely this alone that is conveyed to the reader.
In this vein, the poetic and tragic story of a young girl in the story "Olesya" sounds. Olesya's world is a world of spiritual harmony, a world of nature. He is alien to Ivan Timofeevich, a representative of a cruel, big city. Olesya attracts him with her “unusualness”, “there was nothing like local girls in her”, naturalness, simplicity and some kind of elusive inner freedom inherent in her image attracted him like a magnet.
Olesya grew up in the forest. She could not read or write, but she had great spiritual wealth and a strong character. Ivan Timofeevich is educated, but indecisive, and his kindness is more like cowardice. These two completely different people fell in love with each other, but this love does not bring happiness to the heroes, its outcome is tragic.
Ivan Timofeevich feels that he has fallen in love with Olesya, he would even like to marry her, but he is stopped by doubt: “I did not even dare to imagine what Olesya would be like, dressed in a fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of my colleagues, torn out of the charming frame of an old forest full of legends and mysterious powers." He realizes that Olesya cannot change, become different, and he himself does not want her to change. After all, to become different means to become like everyone else, and this is impossible.
The story "Olesya" develops the theme of Kuprin's creativity - love as a saving force that protects the "pure gold" of human nature from "degradation", from the destructive influence of bourgeois civilization. It is no coincidence that Kuprin's favorite hero was a man of a strong-willed, courageous character and a noble, kind heart, able to enjoy all the diversity of the world. The work is built on a comparison of two heroes, two natures, two worldviews. On the one hand, an educated intellectual, a representative of urban culture, rather humane Ivan Timofeevich, on the other hand, Olesya, a "child of nature" who was not influenced by urban civilization. Compared to Ivan Timofeevich, a man of a kind, but weak, "lazy" heart, Olesya rises with nobility, integrity, and proud confidence in his strength. Freely, without any special tricks, Kuprin draws the appearance of a Polissya beauty, forcing us to follow the richness of the shades of her spiritual world, always original, sincere and deep. "Olesya" - the artistic discovery of Kuprin. The writer showed us the true beauty of the innocent, almost childish soul of a girl who grew up far from the noisy world of people, among animals, birds and forests. But along with this, Kuprin also highlights human malice, senseless superstition, fear of the unknown, the unknown. However, true love prevailed over all this. A string of red beads is the last tribute to Olesya's generous heart, the memory of "her tender, generous love."
Poetizing life, not limited by modern social and cultural boundaries, Kuprin sought to show the obvious advantages of a "natural" person, in whom he saw spiritual qualities lost in a civilized society. The meaning of the story is to affirm the high standard of man. Kuprin is looking for people in real, everyday life, obsessed with a high feeling of love, able to rise at least in dreams above the prose of life. As always, he turns his gaze to the "little" man. This is how the story "Garnet Bracelet" arises, which tells about refined all-encompassing love. This story is about hopeless and touching love. Kuprin himself understands love as a miracle, as a wonderful gift. The death of an official revived a woman who did not believe in love, which means that love still conquers death.
In general, the story is devoted to the inner awakening of Vera, her gradual realization of the true role of love. To the sound of music, the soul of the heroine is reborn. From cold contemplation to a hot, quivering feeling of oneself, of a person in general, of the world - such is the path of the heroine, who once came into contact with a rare guest of the earth - love.
For Kuprin, love is a hopeless platonic feeling, and a tragic one at that. Moreover, there is something hysterical in the chastity of Kuprin's heroes, and in relation to a loved one, it is striking that a man and a woman seem to have changed their roles. This is characteristic of the energetic, strong-willed "Polesye sorceress" Olesya in relations with the "kind, but only weak Ivan Timofeevich" and the smart, prudent Shurochka - with the "pure and kind Romashov" ("Duel"). Underestimation of oneself, disbelief in one's right to possess a woman, a convulsive desire to withdraw - these features complete the Kuprin hero with a fragile soul that has fallen into a cruel world.
An increased predilection for any human personality and the mastery of psychological analysis are the specifics of AI Kuprin's artistic talent, which allowed him to study the realistic heritage to an absolute extent. The importance of his work lies in the artistically convincing discovery of the soul of his contemporary. The author analyzes love as a perfect moral and psychological feeling. The works of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin awaken the original questions of humanity - the questions of love.
The stories created by Kuprin, despite the complexity of circumstances and often a tragic end, are full of love of life and optimism. You close the book you read with his stories, and in your soul for a long time the feeling from touching something bright and clear remains.
AI Kuprin traveled a lot around Russia, tried many professions, and reflected all his life impressions in wonderful works. Kuprin's work is loved by readers. Truly national recognition was received by his works: "Moloch", "Olesya", "In the Circus", "Duel", "Garnet Bracelet", "Gambrinus", "Junkers" and others.
The story "Garnet Bracelet" tells about hopeless and touching love. The writer in real life is looking for people who are obsessed with this high feeling. For Kuprin himself, love is a miracle, it is a wonderful gift. The death of an official revived a woman who did not believe in love. To the sound of music, the soul of the heroine is reborn.
- But where is love? Love disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward? The one about which it is said - "strong as death"? You see, such love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment, is not work at all, but one joy.
- Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.
- From a letter: “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me love for you as an enormous happiness. It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life is only in you.
I am infinitely grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something ...
I don't know how to finish the letter. From the bottom of my heart I thank you for being my only joy in life, my only consolation, my only thought. May God grant you happiness and may nothing temporary and worldly disturb your beautiful soul. I kiss your hands. G.S.Zh.”
- Well, tell me, my dear, in all conscience, doesn’t every woman in the depths of her heart dream of such love - the only all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless?
- Finally, he dies, but before his death, he bequeaths to give Vera two telegraph buttons and a perfume bottle filled with his tears ...
- Every woman who loves is a queen.
- Almost every woman is capable of the highest heroism in love. For her, if she loves, love contains the whole meaning of life - the whole universe!
- You cannot leave a good impression of yourself by coming to a woman empty-handed.
- Individuality is expressed not in strength, not in dexterity, not in mind, not in talent, not in creativity. But in love!
- The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.
- Language is the history of a people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Every person has experienced love at least once in his life - whether it is love for a mother or father, a man or a woman, his child or a friend. Thanks to this all-consuming feeling, people become kinder, sincere. The theme of love is touched upon in the works of many great writers and poets, it was she who inspired them to create their immortal works.
The great Russian writer A. I. Kuprin wrote a number of works in which he sang pure, ideal, sublime love. Under the pen of A.I. Kuprin, such wonderful works were born as the stories Garnet Bracelet, Shulamith, Olesya, Duel and many others that are dedicated to this bright feeling. In these works, the writer showed love of a different nature and different people, but its essence is unchanged - it is limitless.
In the story "Olesya", written by A.I. Kuprin in 1898, the all-consuming love of Olesya, a girl from a remote Polissya village, for the master Ivan Timofeevich is shown. While hunting, Ivan Timofeevich meets Olesya, the granddaughter of the witch Manuilikha. The girl fascinates him with her beauty, delights with pride and self-confidence. And Ivan Timofeevich attracts Olesya with his kindness and intelligence. The main characters fall in love with each other, completely surrendering to their feelings.
Olesya in love shows her best qualities - sensitivity, delicacy, observation, innate intelligence and subconscious knowledge of life's secrets. For the sake of her love, she is ready for anything. But this feeling made Olesya defenseless, leading her to death. In comparison with Olesya's love, Ivan Timofeevich's feeling for her is more like a fleeting attraction.
Having offered the girl a hand and a heart, the main character implies that Olesya, who cannot live away from nature, will move to his city. Vanya does not even think of abandoning civilization for the sake of Olesya. He turned out to be weak, resigned to the circumstances and did not take any action to be with his beloved.
In the story "Garnet Bracelet" love is presented as an unrequited, disinterested, romantic feeling experienced by the main character Zheltkov, a petty employee, for Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina.
The meaning of Zheltkov's life was his letters to his beloved woman, full of pure, selfless love. The husband of the princess, a fair and kind person, sympathizes with Zheltkov and, having cast aside all prejudices, shows respect for his feelings. However, Zheltkov, realizing the unfulfillment of his dream and having lost all hope for reciprocity, commits suicide.
At the same time, even in the last minutes of his life, he thinks only of his beloved. And only after the death of the main character does Vera Nikolaevna realize that "the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by." This work is deeply tragic and speaks of how important it is to understand the love of another person in time and reciprocate.
In his works, A.I. Kuprin demonstrated love as a sincere, devoted and disinterested feeling. This feeling is the dream of every person, for which everything can be sacrificed. This is an eternal all-conquering love that will make people happy and kind, and the world around us beautiful.
