Turgenev first love characters. The main character of the story

MOU "Secondary School No. 8" Saransk

Public lesson

AND. WITH.Turgenev "First Love". Heroes of the story and their prototypes. Sense education.

Teacher: Fedyaeva L.

Saransk 2011

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. The story of the first love. Heroes of the story and their prototypes. Sense education.

Lesson Objectives:

biography overview (history of family relationships);

analysis of episodes of the story.

Lesson equipment:

portraits of I.S. Turgenev, his father and mother, drawings by students, a poster with quotes from the works of I.S. Turgenev about love.

My friend, how terrible, how sweet to love!..

The word of the teacher about the study of the story by I.S. Turgenev "First Love" by students of the 9th grade. Appeal to the epigraph, which reflects Turgenev's ambivalent attitude to the problem of love.

We pay attention to Turgenev's quotes about love, which are written on the board or on the poster:

"An alien self has infiltrated yours... and your self has been mortified."

(I.S. Turgenev "Love".)

“Love is not even a feeling at all - it is a disease ... Usually it takes possession of a person without asking, suddenly, against his will - neither give nor take cholera or fever ...” (“Correspondence”, 1856)

"Love is a chain, and the heaviest ... At least I came to this conviction ... I bought this conviction at the cost of my life, because I am dying a slave." ("Correspondence", 1856)

“No, in love one person is a slave, and the other is a master ...”

("Correspondence", 1856)

Withdraw students, then teachers.

Quote summary:

Love seemed to the writer just like nature, spontaneous and

unconscious force, before the power of which a person is defenseless. love, by

Turgenev - a deadly force that turns a person into a "broken tree" and

doomed to certain death. Love against the will of a man captures his soul,

subjugates him to another person, making him weak and turning him into a slave.

You may be afraid of this feeling, as a dark and terrible force, but love in Turgenev's understanding has its flip side - light. And such a side of her is presented in "First Love", which will be discussed in today's lesson.

"First Love" - ​​"the only thing" that gave pleasure to the writer at the end of his journey, one of his most beloved works. And this is because he did not invent this story: “I did not invent this story; it was given to me entirely by life itself”, “First love is lived through,” Turgenev wrote in the year of his death. Thus, sending greetings to his father, whom he endlessly adored, outstanding, deeply sensual, the one with whom he always dreamed of being close ...

The students who received individual assignments talk about the father of I. S. Turgenev and their family relationships.

1 student: Ko At the time of his acquaintance with Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, there was nothing behind the shoulders of the twenty-year-old cavalry guard lieutenant Sergei Nikolayevich Turgenev, except for 140 serfs in his father's village, pedigree, coat of arms, knowledge of the language and rare beauty. There is a known case when, after the death of her husband, Varvara Petrovna met abroad with a sovereign German princess, and she, seeing a bracelet with a portrait of Sergei Nikolayevich, said: “You are Turgenev’s wife, I remember him; after the death of the emperor

Alexander 1, I have not seen anyone more beautiful than your husband. ”(The teacher draws the attention of the students to the portrait of S.N. Turgenev).

2 student: I.S. Turgenev's father belonged to a family in which there were stewards, governors, chiefs of orders, captains - police officers, zealously and faithfully serving the Fatherland. Sergei Nikolaevich participated in the Battle of Borodino, "bravely crashed into the enemy and struck him with fearlessness." Strong-willed, with a strong character, well-educated, aristocratic, he was on friendly terms with many famous people of his time - the writers M.N. Zagoskin and F.N. Glinka, poet I.I. Dmitriev, playwright A.A. Shakhovsky.

3 student. In 1816, Sergei Nikolaevich appeared in Spasskoye to buy horses from the Spassky stud farm for the regiment. The meeting with the hostess, ugly, round-shouldered, 6 years older than him, could not even linger in the mind of the young handsome man, if not for Varvara Petrovna's quickness. Fascinated by an unexpected guest, she at the same time understood that she had no chance of reciprocal sympathy. And then Varvara Petrovna, already aware of the financial situation of the lieutenant (Turgenev was located 18 miles from Spassky), decided to use her main trump card - wealth. Saying goodbye to Sergei Nikolaevich, she invited him to visit Spasskoye again. And feeling the evasiveness in the young handsome man's answer, she left his belt as a pledge. They say that old Turgenev on his knees asked his son to agree to a marriage with Lutovinova. (Portrait on the board).

4 student. On January 14, 1816, in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, in the village of Spassky-Lutovinovo, the wedding of Sergei Nikolayevich and Varvara Petrovna took place. By choosing the place of the wedding, the bride made it clear what the distribution of roles in the future family would be. She is rich and therefore has the right to claim the management of all economic affairs and the distribution of income. Moreover, behind the groom, except for the pedigree and beauty, there was nothing. Having married Varvara Petrovna by calculation, he never could fall in love with her. She loved her husband infinitely and was very upset by her husband's numerous novels. Time later, each of the spouses began to live his own life: he - submissive to his loving nature, she - the imperious mistress of the estate.

5 student. But Sergei Nikolaevich never ignored his sons. He was especially thoughtful and exacting about their education. It is he who decides to send Ivan and Nikolai to the Weidenhammer boarding house, where they stayed until the summer of 1830. Already then seriously ill with cholelithiasis and having gone abroad for an operation in the spring of 1829, Sergei Nikolayevich returned to Russia in the autumn of the same year with the sole purpose of deciding the future fate of the boys, their final arrangement.

6 student: The father wrote letters to his boys, "Strict and sympathetic." He inspired them with high concepts of nobility, decency, the ability to be themselves, not to try to be original. Judging by the behavior of his father, he seemed to know that he had not long to stay with the children. Therefore, Sergei Nikolaevich tried as much as possible to participate in their growing up and at the same time "at least partially perpetuate himself in children." Being a deep, uncommon person, he is probably not content with the role of the "catcher of women's hearts" that has established itself in relation to himself. But Turgenev's father is often thought of in this way.

Teacher: We talked about Turgenev's father because he will also be discussed in the story "First Love". Let's start analyzing this story. - Name the characters in the story. Notebook entry.

Heroes Prototypes

Vladimir "Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

His father Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev

His mother Varvara Petrovna

Zinaida Poetess Ekaterina Shakhovskaya (In

marriage of Vladimirov)

Providing portraits by the teacher

1) Happiness:

- Premonition of love (reading the episode) Describe the inner state of the hero.

(Two feelings live in him, sadness and joy, but he is waiting for joy and realizes that they are connected with a woman).

Meeting a Girl (Episode Reading)

(Love came, both joy and happiness came, he rejoiced like a child, and was afraid that this was a dream).

Comment on the scene - woke up before morning...

Plot plot

Zinaida at the window (reading of the episode). Why does light accompany Turgenev's heroine?

(Volodya, a young man in love, a knight who deifies his ideal, sees a woman angel in front of him. Like a true knight, he bows at her feet, ready to caress every fold of her dress and apron. He is happy again, he feels a wonderful feeling, it is pure, sublime , he idolizes the girl, chivalrously dreaming of dying at her feet, all covered in blood, saving her from the hands of the enemy, rescuing her from the dungeon). "To give life, if only she did not grieve."

First kiss (comment) reading. (He is chivalrous, observing court etiquette, according to all the rules, he kisses the lady’s hand: he gets on one knee (two) - the kiss is awkward, but sincere and noble - in the end he is happy again - “But I felt ...”).

Second kiss (climax)- the peak of happiness - reading the episode. ("It seemed to me...")

Conclusion: love gives a person happiness, joy, delight, makes the world around us beautiful, and nature, and people, etc.

2) Heartache.

- But our hero in love is both happy and unhappy. For what reasons?

Jealousy (examples of quotes: “I suddenly felt very sad ... I tried not to cry ... I was jealous of the hussar ...”. Cold (“Zinaida’s treatment of me completely killed me”).

Jealousy for the one she loved.

- How does the hero feel about his father? ("He seemed to me a model of a man...").

What advice did the father give to his son?

(“Take what you can yourself, but don’t give into your hands; belong to yourself - this is the joke of life.” “Know how to want - and you will be free ...”. “My son, be afraid of woman's love, be afraid of this happiness, this poison ...").

What does Zinaida need?

Who does Zinaida love? - reading the episode "I sent Philip ..."

Interchange.

Has your relationship with your father changed?

No. (“... I didn’t even grumble at my father ...”. “On the contrary: he seemed to have grown in my eyes ...”.

(Again, before us is a noble boy - a knight, with dignity experiencing pain

lost love.

To Zinaida?

No (“... I will love and adore you until the end of my days».

About both together? - reading.)

(For self-sacrifice, for courage, "I was not afraid to ruin my future").

The author loved his father and Zinaida, bowed before them, respected their love, considering it as an ideal a great, unfamiliar, beautiful, unknown feeling that could break such smart and strong people, making them cry, although they were waiting for him and were ready to fight him and defeat him, but ... The stronger the people, the stronger and more merciless love, and people are not at all to blame for this.

The first love was experienced by both the son, and Zinaida, and the father (At 40 years old!).

R.s. Zinaida - E. Shakhovskaya, exactly one year after the death of Sergei Nikolaevich, married a certain Vladimirov, and after 9 months and 11 days she died after giving birth. She was buried at the Volkov cemetery in St. Petersburg, not far from the grave of her father I.S. Turgenev. The inscription on the tombstone became the epigraph to our lesson.

Students' conclusions.

D / z: Landscape sketches in the story of I.S. Turgenev (find and read).

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a famous Russian writer, whose work is interesting to readers of many countries and generations.

Glory came to this greatest writer not only thanks to novels and short stories. Numerous stories, plays, poems in prose played an important role. He was a very versatile writer.

The author did not pursue quantity. It is known that he wrote his works slowly, nurturing the idea for a long time. Despite this, his works regularly appeared on the pages of magazines and in separate books.

The famous story "First Love" Turgenev wrote when he was already 42 years old. In his work, he tried to comprehend the past years, to understand his past. Therefore, the entire literary plot is saturated with autobiography.

The history of the creation and design of the story "First Love"

Turgenev's story with a beautiful and unusual title - "First Love" was written by the author at a time when he was in the city on the Neva. It is known that the events that once happened to the writer himself served as the basis for the author's plot. And so, being in St. Petersburg from January to March 1860, he takes on his new work, the idea of ​​​​which had long been born in his head.

According to the plot, the author tells about emotional experiences that caused new feelings in the main character. A small childhood love on the pages of Turgenev's story turns into adult love, filled with tragedy and sacrifice. It is known that almost every hero of this work had prototypes, since this story was written on the basis of the author's personal emotional experience and the events that once happened in his family.

As the writer himself later admitted, he tried to portray all events as they are, without hiding or embellishing anything.

"A real incident is described without the slightest embellishment."

The author believed that there was nothing wrong with telling the truth, he had nothing to hide, and someone would take his plot as a model and this would help to avoid many mistakes and tragedies. This Turgenev story was first published in Russia, the year of its publication is 1860.

The plot of Turgenev's story "First Love" is built as if it were memories. The story is told from the perspective of an elderly man who remembers his first love. The main character of his story, the author took the young man Vladimir, who was barely 16 years old.

According to the plot, the main character, along with his family, goes to rest in a family estate, which is located outside the city. In this rural peace and tranquility, he meets a young and beautiful girl. Zinaida at that time was already 21 years old. But Vladimir is not at all embarrassed by the age difference. So the main female character appears in Turgenev's story - Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasekina. Of course, she is young and beautiful, so it's hard not to fall in love. Yes, Vladimir fell in love with Zina, but it turns out that he is not the only one in love. Around a pretty girl there are constantly applicants for her location.

But the character of the girl is not the most diligent. Realizing that men really like her, Zina is not averse to sometimes cruelly making fun of them. So she doesn’t like Vladimir at all, but, seeing his suffering, she decides to play him a little, showing her capricious and playful disposition. Sometimes Zinaida Alexandrovna makes fun of him in front of everyone, because he is too young. But Turgenev's hero endures all this, as he is deeply in love. And only after some time Vladimir suddenly finds out that Zinaida is also very much in love and this object of her love is his father.

One day he witnesses a secret meeting between Zinaida Alexandrova and Pyotr Vasilyevich, his father. From everything he saw and said, he understood that his father left the girl forever, because the whole family was leaving back to the city from the village. And a week later, Vladimir's father has a completely unexpected stroke, and he dies. Zinaida is getting married very soon to some Mr. Dolsky. Four years later, the young woman dies in childbirth.

Prototypes of the heroes of Turgenev's story "First Love"

All Turgenev's heroes in his story "First Love" have fictitious names, but according to the memoirs of contemporaries, they all have prototypes. As soon as the story came out, everyone recognized real people in it: the writer himself, his mother, father and the girl with whom the author was in love. Let's take a closer look at their prototypes:

♦ Vladimir, Turgenev's main hero is the author himself, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.

♦ Zinaida Alexandrovna - Princess Ekaterina Lvovna Shakhovskaya, who was a poetess. It is known that the young author was deeply in love with her, but it soon became clear that she was his father's mistress. Her fate: marriage and death after childbirth, were in reality.

♦ Pyotr Vasilyevich, the father of the protagonist - Sergei Nikolayevich Turgenev, who married a woman for convenience. Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova was much older than him, and he did not love her at all. Hence his romances with other women.

It is known that due to the fact that the marriage of the writer's father was not for love, the novels of Sergei Nikolayevich were frequent. His wife, the mother of the writer, was engaged in housework, stood firmly on her feet. Therefore, the couple lived on their own. In the story, the author shows such a married couple, from the relationship of which their son suffers - a completely young creature. It is easy to recognize the author himself. This whole story takes place at the moment when Ivan Turgenev lives in a village, in the Moscow region, in order to prepare for exams for entering the university.

The young man is passionately in love, and the girl flirts and jokes with him. Volodya completely forgets about his studies and thinks only about Zinochka. Therefore, so much in Turgenev's story is devoted to describing the experiences and feelings of a young man, which are constantly changing and in some ways even resemble a storm, a flash. It is worth noting that Volodya is still happy, although the girl just laughs at him. But still, the anxiety gradually grows, and soon the young man begins to understand that Zina is not so simple: she has a secret life and she is also in love with someone.

Soon, not only the hero, but also the readers begin to guess who Zinaida is in love with. The tone of the whole narrative of Turgenev's story changes greatly and the word "love", which before that was stormy and enthusiastic, becomes dark and tragic. The feelings of the girl are much deeper than that of the main character. And Vladimir understands that this is what true love is. It's so different, everyone has their own, which is impossible to understand and explain. And as confirmation of this - the ending of the story, where the hero becomes a witness to the explanation of two people in love who cannot be together.

But Volodya is not offended by them, realizing that this love is real and he has no right to condemn or interfere with such true love. This love is multifaceted, beautiful, complex. The author himself tried to find it all his life.

Composition of Turgenev's story

In its composition, Turgenev's story "First Love" is a rather simple work, but deep and meaningful. It has twenty chapters. The narrative is built in the form of memories, so the presentation is sequential and in the first person, since the author is the main character himself, who talks about what happened to him in his youth. Although the name, of course, has been changed: Vladimir Petrovich.

Turgenev's story begins with a short prologue that shows the background to all these memories and introduces the reader to what they are about to learn. So, Vladimir, being at an age, in one of the companies tells the story of his first and tragic love. He does not want to tell his friends orally, as they did, but informs them that he will definitely write this story and read it to them at the next new meeting. And he keeps his word. After that, the story itself follows.

Detailed analysis of the twelfth chapter of Turgenev's story

A special place in the entire Turgenev story is occupied by the twelfth chapter, which is the culmination of the entire plot. It is here, in this chapter, that the hero's feelings reach their highest intensity. In it, the author describes that feeling, better than which he never had in his life. The plot of this chapter allows you to understand a girl who at first seems frivolous and not serious, but it turns out that she is capable of suffering and deep and serious feelings. But only these "illegal" feelings become a real tragedy for her, and, most likely, this pushes her to commit unpredictable, and sometimes cruel acts.

The author argued that what he had to endure at the age of 16 is simply bliss, which, unfortunately, will never happen again. The writer measured a lot of things in life through love, therefore, his heroes in Turgenev's story pass through the test of love. Ivan Sergeevich shows that his heroes must necessarily take place as individuals. Turgenev's psychologism is always secret, he does not give their open description, only general hints that helped readers plunge into the depths of sensuality. In this chapter, there are many experiences of Vladimir, which show his inner world, and this helps to understand the content of the entire work.

With the help of his work, Turgenev himself was able to relive his youthful excitement, and show the reader all the versatility of love.

First love

"First love"- a story by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, which tells about the feelings and emotional experiences of a young hero associated with them, whose semi-childish love came into an insoluble clash with the drama and sacrifice of adult love. First published in 1860 in the Russian Empire.

History of creation

Written by Ivan Turgenev in January-March 1860 in St. Petersburg. Written on the basis of personal emotional experience and events in the writer's family. As Turgenev himself put it about the story: The real incident is described without the slightest embellishment ... I portrayed my father. Many condemned me for this, and in particular they condemned me for the fact that I never hid it. But I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have nothing to hide».

Artistically, the story is made as a recollection of an elderly man who talks about his first love. The protagonist of the work, sixteen-year-old Vladimir, arrives with his family at a country estate, where he meets the beautiful twenty-one-year-old Zinaida Aleksandrovna Zasekina. Vladimir falls in love with Zinaida, but besides him, there are a number of other young people around the heroine seeking her favor. The hero's feelings are not reciprocated, Zinaida, who has a capricious and playful character, plays the hero, sometimes mocks him, ridiculing his comparative youth. Later, Vladimir discovers that the true object of Zinaida's love is his own father, Pyotr Vasilyevich. Vladimir secretly observes the meeting between his father and Zinaida and realizes that his father is leaving her and leaves the estate. A little later, Pyotr Vasilyevich dies of a stroke. Some time later, Vladimir learns about the marriage of Zinaida with Mr. Dolsky and subsequent death during childbirth.

Heroes and prototypes

• Vladimir Petrovich - the author himself Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is the prototype.
• Zinaida Alexandrovna - the prototype is Princess Ekaterina Lvovna Shakhovskaya, a poetess, the writer's first love and his father's mistress. In September 1835, a year after the death of S. N. Turgenev, Shakhovskaya married Lev Kharitonovich Vladimirov. June 22, 1836 gave birth to a boy and died six days later.
• Pyotr Vasilievich - the prototype is the father of the writer Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev. Sergei Nikolaevich married a woman who was much older than him (the mother of the writer Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova). Liked by women. He had an affair with Ekaterina Lvovna Shakhovskaya, soon after parting with whom he died.

Screen adaptations

• First Love (1968) - director Vasily Ordynsky; Cast: Vadim Vlasov, Irina Pechernikova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky
• First Love (1995) - director Roman Balayan; with Anna Mikhalkova, Andrey Ishchenko, Marina Neyolova

Dedicated to P. V. Annenkov

The guests have long since left. The clock struck half past one. Only the owner remained in the room, yes, Sergei Nikolaevich, and Vladimir Petrovich.

The owner called and told me to take the rest of the dinner.

“So, this is a settled matter,” he said, sitting deeper in an armchair and lighting a cigar, “each of us is obliged to tell the story of his first love. It's your turn, Sergei Nikolaevich.

Sergei Nikolayevich, a round man with a plump blond face, looked first at his master, then raised his eyes to the ceiling.

“I didn’t have a first love,” he said at last, “I started right away with a second one.

– How is that?

- Very simple. I was eighteen years old when I first tagged along behind a very pretty young lady; but I courted her as if the matter were not new to me: just as I later courted others. As a matter of fact, the first and last time I fell in love with my nurse was about six years old; but this is a very long time ago. The details of our relationship have been erased from my memory, but if I remembered them, who could be interested in this?

- So how to be? the owner began. - There is not much interesting in my first love either: I did not fall in love with anyone before meeting Anna Ivanovna, my current wife, - and everything went like clockwork with us: our fathers betrothed us, we very soon fell in love with each other and got married without delay. My story is told in two words. I, gentlemen, I confess, raising the question of first love, I hoped for you, I will not say old, but not young bachelors. Can you amuse us with something, Vladimir Petrovich?

“My first love really belongs to the number of not quite ordinary ones,” Vladimir Petrovich answered with a slight hesitation, a man of about forty, black-haired, with gray hair.

- A! - said the owner and Sergei Nikolaevich in one voice. – So much the better… Tell me.

- If you please ... or not: I will not tell; I am not a master of telling: it comes out dry and short or lengthy and false; and if you'll allow me, I'll write down everything I remember in a notebook and read it to you.

Friends at first did not agree, but Vladimir Petrovich insisted on his own. Two weeks later they got back together, and Vladimir Petrovich kept his promise.

Here is what was in his notebook:

I was then sixteen years old. It took place in the summer of 1833.

I lived in Moscow with my parents. They rented a dacha near the Kaluga outpost, opposite Neskuchny. I was preparing for university, but I worked very little and slowly.

Nobody hampered my freedom. I did what I wanted, especially since I parted from my last French tutor, who could never get used to the idea that he had fallen “like a bomb” (comme une bombe) into Russia, and with a fierce expression on his face lay on the bed all day long. My father treated me indifferently and affectionately; my mother paid almost no attention to me, although she had no children besides me: other worries absorbed her. My father, a man still young and very handsome, married her for convenience; she was ten years older than him. My mother led a sad life: she was constantly worried, jealous, angry - but not in the presence of her father; she was very afraid of him, but he behaved strictly, coldly, remotely ... I have not seen a man more exquisitely calm, self-confident and autocratic.

I will never forget the first weeks I spent at the dacha. The weather was wonderful; we moved out of the city on the ninth of May, on Nikolin's very day. I walked - now in the garden of our dacha, then along Neskuchny, then behind the outpost; he took some book with him - Kaidanov's course, for example - but rarely unfolded it, but rather read poems aloud, which he knew a lot from memory; my blood fermented in me, and my heart ached—so sweet and funny: I kept waiting, shy of something, marveled at everything, and was all ready; fantasy played and swept quickly around the same representations, like swifts around the bell tower at dawn; I thought, felt sad and even cried; but even through the tears and through the sadness, inspired now by the melodious verse, now by the beauty of the evening, the joyful feeling of a young, seething life stood out like spring grass.

I had a riding horse, I saddled it myself and rode off alone somewhere far away, started galloping and imagined myself a knight in a tournament - how merrily the wind blew in my ears! - or, turning his face to the sky, he received its shining light and azure into an open soul.

I remember that at that time the image of a woman, the phantom of female love, almost never appeared in definite outlines in my mind; but in everything I thought, in everything I felt, lurked a half-conscious, bashful foreboding of something new, inexpressibly sweet, feminine...

This foreboding, this expectation permeated my entire composition: I breathed it, it rolled through my veins in every drop of blood ... it was destined to come true soon.

Our dacha consisted of a wooden manor house with columns and two low outbuildings; in the wing to the left there was a tiny cheap wallpaper factory ... I often went there to watch how a dozen thin and disheveled boys in greasy dressing gowns and with exhausted faces every now and then jumped up on wooden levers that pressed the quadrangular stumps of the press, and in this way, with the weight of their frail bodies, squeezed out colorful wallpaper patterns. The wing to the right stood empty and was rented out. One day - about three weeks after the ninth of May - the shutters in the windows of this wing opened, women's faces appeared in them - some kind of family settled in it. I remember that on the same day at dinner, my mother asked the butler about who our new neighbors were, and, hearing the name of Princess Zasekina, at first she said, not without some respect: “Ah! princess ... - and then she added: - It must be some poor thing.

“They came in three cabs,” the butler remarked, respectfully serving the dish, “they don’t have their own carriage, sir, and the furniture is the most empty.

“Yes,” said the mother, “but it’s better.

Her father looked at her coldly: she fell silent.

Indeed, Princess Zasekina could not have been a rich woman: the wing she hired was so dilapidated, and small, and low, that people, although somewhat prosperous, would not have agreed to settle in it. However, I then missed it all on deaf ears. The princely title had little effect on me: I recently read Schiller's Robbers.

I had a habit of wandering every evening with a gun in our garden and watching for crows. I have long felt hatred for these cautious, predatory and crafty birds. On the day we are talking about, I also went to the garden - and, having wandered all the alleys in vain (the crows recognized me and only croaked abruptly from a distance), I accidentally approached the low fence that separated the our possessions from a narrow strip of garden, which stretched behind the outbuilding to the right and belonged to it. I walked with my head down. Suddenly I heard voices; I looked over the fence - and turned to stone ... I had a strange sight.

A few steps away from me, in a clearing, between bushes of green raspberries, stood a tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress and with a white handkerchief on her head; four young men crowded around her, and she slapped them in turn on the forehead with those small gray flowers, whose name I do not know, but which are well known to children: these flowers form small bags and burst with a bang when you slap them on something hard. Young people so willingly offered their foreheads - and in the movements of the girl (I saw her from the side) there was something so charming, imperious, caressing, mocking and sweet that I almost screamed with surprise and pleasure and, it seems, would have immediately given everything in the world, so that only these lovely fingers would slap me on the forehead. My gun slipped onto the grass, I forgot everything, I devoured with my eyes this slender frame, and the neck, and beautiful hands, and slightly disheveled blond hair under a white handkerchief, and this half-closed, intelligent eye, and these eyelashes, and the tender cheek under them ...

"First love"- a story by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, which tells about the feelings and emotional experiences of a young hero associated with them, whose semi-childish love came into an insoluble clash with the drama and sacrifice of adult love. First published in 1860 in the Russian Empire.

History of creation

Written by Ivan Turgenev in January-March 1860 in St. Petersburg. Written on the basis of personal emotional experience and events in the writer's family. As Turgenev himself put it about the story: The real incident is described without the slightest embellishment ... I portrayed my father. Many condemned me for this, and in particular they condemned me for the fact that I never hid it. But I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have nothing to hide» .

Summary

Artistically, the story is made as a recollection of an elderly man who talks about his first love. The protagonist of the work, sixteen-year-old Vladimir, arrives with his family at a country estate, where he meets the beautiful twenty-one-year-old Zinaida Aleksandrovna Zasekina. Vladimir falls in love with Zinaida, but besides him, there are a number of other young people around the heroine seeking her favor. The hero's feelings are not reciprocated, Zinaida, who has a capricious and playful character, plays the hero, sometimes mocks him, ridiculing his comparative youth. Later, Vladimir discovers that the true object of Zinaida's love is his own father, Pyotr Vasilyevich. Vladimir secretly observes the meeting between his father and Zinaida and realizes that his father is leaving her and leaves the estate. A little later, Pyotr Vasilievich dies of a stroke. Some time later, Vladimir learns about the marriage of Zinaida with Mr. Dolsky and subsequent death during childbirth.

Heroes and prototypes

Screen adaptations

• First Love (1968) - directed by Vasily Ordynsky; Cast: Vadim Vlasov, Irina Pechernikova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky
• First Love (1995) - directed by Roman Balayan; with Anna Mikhalkova, Andrey Ishchenko, Marina Neyolova

Notes

Literature

N. V. Bogoslovsky. Life of wonderful people. Turgenev. - Moscow: Komsomol Central Committee "Young Guard", 1964.

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- (film) several films of the same name. First love (story) literary work of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev ... Wikipedia

story- epic genre; in terms of the nature of the development of the action, it is more complicated than a story, but less developed than a novel. Heading: types and genres of literature Type: urban story Example: I. Turgenev. Spring Waters V. Belov. Habitual business The story is the same novel, only in ... ... Terminological dictionary-thesaurus on literary criticism

Date of birth: 1906 Date of death: 1976 Citizenship: USSR Occupation: writer Genre: historical novel Works on the site Lib ... Wikipedia

Lyubov Voronkova Date of birth: 1906 Date of death: 1976 Citizenship: USSR Occupation: writer Genre: historical novel Works on the site Lib ... Wikipedia

- "THE STORY ABOUT A REAL MAN", USSR, MOSFILM, 1948, b/w, 94 min. Heroic drama. Based on the story of the same name by Boris Polevoy. Screen adaptation of Boris Polevoy's story, popular in the post-war years, about the pilot Alexei Maresyev, who lost in battle with ... ... Cinema Encyclopedia

This term has other meanings, see Spring waters. Spring waters Genre: Short story

Ghosts Cover of the collection of mystical stories by I.S. Turgenev (2011) Genre: short story