Tatyana's life is wonderful story cultivating a character in oneself, which was created in the lessons of life ("Eugene Onegin" by A. S. Pushkin)

Pushkin created a whole gallery of female types endowed with excellent qualities of character: loyalty, devotion, femininity (by the way, femininity is primarily a desire for self-sacrifice - someone gave her such a definition), the ability to deep, strong feelings. These are Marya Gavrilovna (“The Snowstorm”), Marya Mironova (“ Captain's daughter”), Marya Troekurova (“Dubrovsky”). Each of these women is charming in her own way, but Tatyana Larina is the brightest of the creations of Pushkin's genius. When they talk about her, they first of all mention two Pushkin definitions: "Tatiana is a sweet ideal" and "Tatiana is a Russian soul." This image, perhaps, causes the least controversy and disagreement (except between Belinsky and Dostoevsky - I have already mentioned their controversy).

Dostoevsky, certainly fascinated by Pushkin's heroine, noted that the author should have named his novel after Tatyana, and not Onegin: it was she who, according to the writer, was the main one in the novel. His phrase, said about Tatyana: "This is a type that stands firmly on its own soil," obviously reflects the truth and finds its confirmation in the text of the novel.

Tatiana was "born" in 1803. Tatiana's closeness to her native soil, to Russian culture, folk type consciousness is also expressed in the fact that she is close in spirit to Russian folk customs and traditions:

Tatyana believed the legends

common folk antiquity,

And dreams, and card fortune-telling,

And the predictions of the moon.

She was worried about signs ..,

and that she "loved the Russian winter." Tatyana did not think

about what this love is connected with. I think not only with the unique beauty of the Russian winter nature, its calmness and grandeur, fascination and secret expectation of awakening to a new life. The numbness of nature, frozen in anticipation of spring stormy flowering and summer holiday of life, could well correspond to the rich soul of Tatyana, which was like a bud that had not yet blossomed. It is also possible that winter for Tatyana is the mysterious time of Christmas and Christmas time, this is the only time of the year when it was possible to lift the veil over the unknown future (and her thoughts were most often focused on the future).

Generally speaking, this is not surprising, because Tatyana was raised by an old Russian nanny, perhaps the person closest to her, and the influence of the nanny cannot be underestimated. The author's remark is interesting: "She knew Russian poorly" (in which he seems to apologize for Tatyana, who wrote the letter in French). Doesn't this contradict the "Russian soul" of the heroine? Firstly, the author means that the heroine did not speak Russian written language (naturally, she could not help but speak everyday language). Secondly, one can hardly blame a young noble girl for this, because according to the norms of that time, she had to be fluent in French, be able to dance and behave in society, as well as sing and play musical instrument. The education of a noblewoman had the sole purpose of making her an attractive bride. The strangeness is not that “she knew Russian poorly”, but that she “knew French, because French she could only be taught by a French governess, whose presence Pushkin does not mention.

Tatyana is a spiritual nature, which means that, despite external isolation and secrecy, internally, on a subtle, spiritual level, she is open to the world /spirituality, simply put, is openness to the world/. Bound by a million invisible threads with native nature, culture, the Russian people, she at the same time feels like a particle of the infinite cosmos. Her genuine, sincere religiosity (“prayer delighted the anguish of an agitated soul”) is proof of this.

Spirituality and romanticism of Tatyana are closely interconnected.

Because, as Pushkin writes,

She liked novels early,

They replaced everything.

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Rousseau, -

impressionable and naive, with spiritual needs, Tatyana Larina could not help but endure literary images into your life. Grey, monotone country life was too faded. The world of illusions, the world of fictional literary heroes became a second reality for her - bright and interesting. Gifted with a "rebellious imagination" and a "flaming and tender heart," she expected her romantic hero, a premonition of love that can fill your whole life without a trace. Tatyana fell in love with Onegin, not knowing him at all, but feeling in his heart an unhappy, unsatisfied, suffering man in him. She waited and could love only such a person: uneasy, restless, searching. She would never be seduced by the boring, empty, ordinary Petushkovs, Flyanovs, Buyanovs. I think that the beginnings of love for Onegin arose in Tatyana's soul long before her meeting with him. She was already expecting him when she heard bad gossip about him. She was already interested in him when she realized that he was extraordinary.

The most important touch to understanding the image of Tatyana Larina - her letter to Onegin (1820). When sending a letter, Tatyana behaves according to the norms of behavior of the heroine of the novel, however, for a Russian young lady early XIX V. such an act was simply unthinkable. The fact that she entered into correspondence with an unfamiliar man and was the first to confess her love to him was a violation of all norms of decency. If Onegin had divulged the secret of his receipt of the letter, her reputation would have suffered irreparably. Tatyana's letter is replete with literary clichés. She, "imagining the heroine of her beloved creators," appropriates "someone else's delight, someone else's sadness" and builds her love according to the patterns of "Clarissa, Julia, Delphine." However, all this does not make her feeling less sincere and spontaneous.

Building her life according to her usual plot of novels, Tatyana suggests only two possible clues to Onegin's character: "guardian angel" (Grandison) or "treacherous tempter" (Lovelace). In the first case, her life was supposed to turn into an idyll, in the second, death awaited her (“I will die, Tanya says, but death from him is kind”). (By the way, the romantic Lensky also sees in people only a manifestation of two extremes: the guardian is the tempter). However, real life gave Tatiana an unexpected surprise: Onegin behaved unpredictably, he simply brought her down to earth. From now on, "proud patience" and quiet, selfless love became the meaning and content of her life.

The young, inexperienced Tatyana, of course, could not even think about what was forcing events too much. It would have been wiser to wait for Onegin's next visit, read in his eyes (which, as you know, more eloquent than any words) indifference or interest, and act accordingly. To confess your love to a person indifferent to you is absolutely meaningless! But this is from the point of view of the mind, Tatyana, as we know, was entirely under the influence of feelings, and feelings left her no other choice: it is unbearable to keep a seething passion in herself.

Tatyana's life is a wonderful story of character development, which was created in the lessons of life.

The first was a lesson learned from Onegin. It was like an icy shower for the pampered with warmth, like a powerful blow of real life, shattering romantic illusions to smithereens. He had to deal with it somehow. And the main thing that Tatyana heard and learned later was “learn to control yourself.”

Tatyana of the first part of the novel is sensitive, impressionable and impulsive (“Pensiveness, her friend...”, “She fell in love with the deceptions of both Richardson and Rousseau”, “She found charm in the very horror...”).

One of clear examples, showing her impressionability and complete inability to control herself - the scene of the birthday dinner. Unexpectedly, finding herself at the table directly against Onegin, she simply “given herself away with her head”:

There is a passionate heat in her; she is stuffy, bad;

....tears from the eyes

They want to drip; already ready

Poor thing faint...

All this Eugene classified as "tragi-nervous phenomena, girlish fainting, tears", which was the reason for his intention to take revenge on Lensky.

The second hard life lesson was the death of Lensky at the hands of the same Onegin, when for the first time the harsh word “duty” loomed before Tatiana:

She won't see him;

She must hate in him

The killer of his brother...

By the way, for Olga, nothing “proper” came from the death of Lensky: she calmly married the first lancer she met. Tatyana, an outsider for Lensky, saw in his death a certain debt for herself.

The third lesson was the knowledge of Onegin, which occurred in separation from him (for her consciousness - in separation "forever") through the study of his things, his books, notes on them, the whole situation of his life. So the titanic image of a romantic hero was replaced by the image of a secular egoist. Moreover, Tatyana, who herself largely imitated her beloved heroines, took Onegin as a parody of Western sufferers, victims of the spleen: “Isn’t he a parody?” However, the landing of Eugene did not help the girl stop loving him. Yes, it could not be otherwise! After all, she loved him for who he is, without delving into his virtues and shortcomings. I loved with my heart, not with my mind. She fell in love not because Onegin is good and handsome, but because her soul came into a state of love.

The fourth lesson was the way out of a lonely life in the countryside into the crowded life of Moscow, "studying" people ("Tatiana wants to listen to conversations, in a general conversation") and finding ways and means of adapting to them.

This was followed by the first test, a vital act: marrying without love, but on duty. What she prepared herself for in her girlish dreams failed. The place of love was replaced by duty to the mother: "My mother prayed for me with tears of spells." It is possible that from that moment Tatyana began to "have character."

But back to the definition of "Tatiana is a sweet ideal." Wholeness, harmony of nature, moral purity, fidelity to duty, given word, readiness for self-sacrifice, the ability for a deep, sincere feeling, naturalness, simplicity, etc. -features that most impress Pushkin in Tatyana Larina and which allowed him to call her "sweet ideal". The ideal for the author is not only "poor girl Tanya", but also Tatyana the princess, married woman. Pushkin reflected the image of a genuine secular lady in his heroine (he was looking for him in real life and found it in his wife):

She was slow

Not cold, not talkative

Without an arrogant look for everyone,

No claim to success

Without these little antics

No imitations...

Everything is quiet, it was just in it,

She seemed like a sure shot

De come il faut.

Tatyana, modest, silent, turned into a "Stateful and careless legislator of the hall." She transformed the "soulless world", she brought her simplicity and naturalness into the "masquerade" of St. Petersburg.

A reasonable question arises: why elite, which we used to consider a false and hypocritical world, and there are good reasons for this, is far from disgusting Tatyana? Why did she fit in so well with him? Is there a contradiction here? The heroine of Pushkin reflects his own view of the high society, and he, like everything in Pushkin, is multidimensional. On the one hand, this is really the realm of masks and dummies, on the other hand, this is the sphere in which Russian culture develops, and its bearers are primarily representatives of the educated class, the nobles, this environment from which the Decembrists emerged.

Second life test- a meeting with Onegin - Tatyana found herself already a person with a well-established character.

Tatiana VIII heads - the embodiment of restraint, poise, calmness, self-control.

The first meeting with Onegin after the separation was given by Pushkin as a contrast to the last meeting before the separation:

The princess looks at him...

Nothing troubled her soul

No matter how hard she

Surprised, amazed

But nothing changed her...

Is it the same Tatyana ...

So indifferent, so bold?

Next date: Onegin is embarrassed, "awkward", and she "sits calm and free." Further meetings:

She doesn't notice him

No matter how he fights, even die,

Accepts freely at home

Away with him says three words,

Sometimes he will meet with one bow,

Sometimes you don't even notice...

And finally, after Onegin's letters:

Wu! as now surrounded

Epiphany cold she! ..

Where, where is confusion, compassion?

Where are the stains of tears?.. They are not, they are not!

Only when last meeting with Onegin shows Pushkin inner world this new Tatyana and makes it clear what that "baptismal cold" cost her, that inaccessibility, that ease of treatment that so struck Onegin.

Oh, who would mute her misery

I didn't read it in this quick moment!

Who is the former Tanya, poor Tanya

Now I wouldn't recognize the princess!

She loves Onegin, but she must not love him, and this “must not” determines all her behavior, everything down to the smallest nuances of her look and attitude, determines irrevocably and forever.

I love you (why lie?),

But I am given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

“I will be faithful to him for a century” - an act also done “out of duty” - a duty to her husband, but rather, even to the principle of marital duty.

But if Tatyana's sacrifice and her fidelity to her conjugal duty are quite obvious here, then something else is not at all obvious. Tatyana's final explanation with Onegin puts the ellipsis in dramatic history love of the main characters. And since this is an ellipsis, probably, any reader asks himself the question: “What would have happened if Tatiana had not refused Onegin? And what will happen next? and so on." Dostoevsky argued: “If Tatyana even became free, if she died old husband and she was a widow, then even then she would not marry Onegin. This is the essence of her character!” At first glance, this statement is strange: who refuses family happiness when mutual love? But I think Dostoevsky's point of view has many grounds. Tatyana, having fallen in love with a man who was looking for, could not marry a man who did not find. After all, stability and constancy are important in marriage, and Onegin is an “eternal wanderer” who is “not created for bliss.” Tatyana, of course, could not force herself to stop loving Onegin, but she could well order herself not to marry him, knowing that such a marriage would bring her disappointment.

As practice shows, dreams of family happiness too often turn out to be much more beautiful than reality. We draw dreams for ourselves, we draw with bright, unusual colors - real life fate is preparing for us, and she has mostly gray and black paints in stock. Maybe the state when there is still something to dream about is much better than that when everything is there and there is nothing to dream about?

So the dramatic ending of the novel was predetermined. But still, is Tatyana unhappy? At first glance, yes. She is married to an unloved person, and happiness with her beloved is not available to her in principle. But this is only partly true.

Tatyana does not refuse love, but, as we see, having avoided the temptation to surrender to her feelings, she prefers to crucify love on the tree of duty. Mature Tatyana ceases to be impulsive, her feeling is more calm, restrained, reasonable. She consciously makes her choice and most importantly - remains in harmony with herself. Being married, she no longer wants, as before, that “love lay down on her life like a tombstone” (to paraphrase A. Akhmatova). So is it bad luck? But “does it mean to distort your life?” (W. Somerset Maugham). Would Tatyana have become happier if the fate of Katerina from Thunderstorm awaited her? Doubtful.

Yes, she undoubtedly prefers rural peace to secular bustle, but the peculiarity of Tatiana is that she manages to live in harmony with everything that surrounds her, and this harmony is woven from chaos by her heart. The world with which she comes into contact ceases to be dirty and disgusting, she ennobles it, bringing purity and calm grandeur into it. So perhaps her sister, who never knew true love?

Now to the question of Tatyana's prototype. Pushkin's phrase "And the one with which Tatyana's dear ideal was formed ..." for decades misled both Pushkin's acquaintances and researchers of his work. It was considered certain that the prototype of Tatyana exists, it only needs to be found. One of the most authoritative researchers of Pushkin - Y. Lotman believed that the image of Tatyana is collective, i.e. it contains the features of many women Pushkin knew: Elizaveta Ksavelievna Vorontsova, Natalia Dmitrievna Fonvizina, and others. The latter, the wife of a Decembrist, shared with her husband all the hardships of Siberian exile, and interesting detail- after the death of her husband and after the amnesty, she became the wife of Pushkin's "first friend, priceless friend" Ivan Ivanovich Pushchin. The fact that, after reading the novel, Natalya Dmitrievna began to call herself Tanya, testifies, rather, not that she is the only prototype of Tatyana, but that the image and fate of the heroine are typical, that her features are inherent in many wonderful Russian women. A. Raevsky, in correspondence with Pushkin, called Princess E. Vorontsova Tatyana, and Pushkin understood who in question. Most likely, the allusion to the real and only prototype of Tatyana is a hoax by the author, associated with the desire to evoke in the reader the illusion of the authenticity of events.

When you talk about Tatyana, you want to draw an analogy with ancient myth: Pushkin, like Pygmalion, sculpted beautiful Galatea, created the image of Tatyana, capturing in her the eternal, enduring standard of beauty ...

One of the problems associated with the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" is the problem of the incompleteness of the novel, but it would be more accurate to say - the suddenness, the unexpectedness of its end. But after all, death at a young age, in the midst of life's feast, is just as unexpected, and the author, considering this bliss (“Blessed is he who left the holiday of life early ...”), apparently even terribly afraid of death, prefers an untimely death to a miserable, decrepit old age .

Pushkin parted with his beloved brainchild, saying goodbye to the times of youth, to the "celebration of life":

O my light youth! Thanks for the pleasure

For sadness, for sweet torment,

For noise, for storms, for feasts,

For everything, for all your gifts.

In 1830, in the life of Pushkin, his spiritual path, his creative destiny a fundamental fracture has occurred. He made it almost impossible to return to the novel. Pushkin became different.

Other cold dreams

Other, strict worries And in the noise of light, and in silence

They disturb the sleep of my soul.

What does the poet mean here? Anticipation and anticipation of death, "a sense of passing time", global philosophical problems- these are his creative priorities in the last years of his life, called "apocalyptic" by one of the researchers of his work. Interesting vision of Pushkin recent years of his life: "Village, love, religion, death."

In conclusion, I will cite the words of the censor Nikitenko, uttered during Pushkin's funeral: "The Russians mourn the man who honored them with his existence."

Tatyana Larina is the heroine of the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". This is a girl from the provinces, who grew up on the rural estate of her parents, surrounded by nature and ordinary peasants.

“So, she was called Tatyana.

Nor the beauty of his sister,

Nor the freshness of her ruddy

She would not attract eyes.

Dika, sad, silent,

Like a forest doe is timid,

She is in her family

Seemed like a stranger girl.

She couldn't caress

To my father, not to my mother;

A child by herself, in a crowd of children

Didn't want to play and jump

And often all day alone

Sitting silently at the window ... "

Tatyana's character is thoughtful, dreamy. Since childhood, she loves to read books, listen to the stories of the nanny - instead of doing needlework, preening, spinning at the mirror - that is, doing what other girls do.

"Reverie, her friend

From the most lullaby days

Rural Leisure Current

Decorated her with dreams.

And there were childish pranks

She is alien to: scary stories

In winter in the dark of nights

captivated more heart to her…"

Young Tatyana naively believes in everything written in books. romantic love, with which novels are full, captivates her. She herself is capable of falling in love as deeply, as passionately, as written in books.

“She liked novels early on;

They replaced everything for her;

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Rousseau…”

When a new neighbor, Eugene Onegin, appears in the county, he becomes the hero of Tatyana's novel. Onegin is smart, knows how to present himself, and besides, he is well-groomed and good-looking. He came from the capital and clearly stands out for his way of thinking, eccentricity of personality among boring and standard landowner neighbors. Tatyana falls in love with him.

"For a long time her imagination,

Burning with grief and longing,

Alkalo fatal food;

Long hearted languor

It pressed her young breast;

The soul was waiting ... for someone ... "

Tatyana writes a letter to Onegin confessing her feelings. She has no idea to play, to flirt, to lure her chosen one with some tricks:

“Why is Tatyana more guilty?

For the fact that in sweet simplicity

She knows no lies

And believes the chosen dream?

For what loves without art,

Obedient to the attraction of feelings,

How trusting she is

What is gifted from heaven

rebellious imagination,

Mind and will alive,

And wayward head

And with a fiery and tender heart? ... "

“... The coquette judges in cold blood.

Tatyana loves not jokingly

And surrender unconditionally

Love like a sweet child.

She does not say: postpone -

We will multiply the price of love,

Rather, we will start the network ... "

Tatyana's love fails: the chosen one does not respond to her feelings, but tries to give advice “in a friendly way”. Then the tragedy plays out, Onegin kills Lensky in a duel and leaves. Tatyana begins to better understand the personality of her lover. But she has to change her life. There are no suitable suitors in the village, and it is high time for Tanya to get married. She is brought to Moscow, to high society:

“... They find something strange,

Provincial and cutesy

And something pale and thin,

However, it is very ugly…”

A few years later, Onegin unexpectedly meets Tatyana in St. Petersburg. She is married to a general and became the queen of high society, but she did not change herself:

“... She was leisurely,

Not cold, not talkative

Without an arrogant look for everyone,

No claim to success

Without these little antics

No imitations...

Everything is quiet, it was just in it,

She seemed like a sure shot

Du comme il faut...»

“... How Tatyana has changed!

How firmly she entered her role! ...

Who would dare to look for a tender girl

In this majestic, in this careless

Legislator Hall?...”

Tatyana remained the same in her soul. Successes in the world did not overshadow her mind:

“And to me, Onegin, this splendor,

Hateful life tinsel,

My progress in a whirlwind of light

My fashion house and evenings

What's in them? Now I'm happy to give

All this rags of masquerade

All this brilliance, and noise, and fumes

For a shelf of books, for a wild garden,

For our poor dwelling...

Tatyana's love for Onegin is as alive as in old days when she was a shy country girl. But Tatyana has the honor and dignity of a woman. Being married, she refuses an affair with Onegin, even if now her love has become mutual. Onegin fell in love with her, but she will not deceive her husband:

“... I love you (why dissemble?),

But I am given to another;

In Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin", of course, Tatyana Larina is the main female character. The love story of this girl was later sung by playwrights and composers. In our article, the characterization of Tatyana Larina is built from the point of view of her assessment by the author and in comparison with her sister Olga. Both of these characters in the work are shown as completely opposite natures. Of course, we must not forget about love line novel. In relation to Onegin, the heroine also shows us certain aspects of her character. We will analyze all these aspects further so that the characterization of Tatyana Larina is the most complete. First, let's get to know her sister and herself.

You can talk about the main character of the novel for a very long time and a lot. But the image of her sister - Olga Larina - Pushkin showed quite succinctly. The poet considers modesty, obedience, innocence and gaiety to be her virtues. The author saw the same character traits in almost every village young lady, therefore he makes it clear to the reader that he is bored of describing her. Olga possesses a banal village girl. But the author presents the image of Tatyana Larina as more mysterious and complex. If we talk about Olga, then main value for her is a cheerful carefree life. In her, of course, there is Lensky's love, but she does not understand his feelings. Here Pushkin is trying to show her pride, which is absent if we consider the character of Tatyana Larina. Olga, this simple-hearted girl, is unfamiliar with complex mental work, therefore she reacted lightly to the death of her fiancé, quickly replacing him with the “love flattery” of another man.

Comparative analysis of the image of Tatyana Larina

Against the backdrop of the rustic simplicity of her sister, Tatyana seems to us and the author to be a perfect woman. Pushkin declares this quite bluntly, calling the heroine of his work "a sweet ideal." a brief description of Tatyana Larina is out of place here. This is a multifaceted character, the girl understands the reasons for her feelings and actions, and even analyzes them. This once again proves that Tatyana and Olga Larina are absolute opposites, although they are sisters and were brought up in the same cultural environment.

Author's assessment of Tatyana's character

How does Pushkin present the main character to us? Tatyana is characterized by simplicity, slowness, thoughtfulness. The poet pays special attention to such a quality of her character as faith in mysticism. Signs, legends, changes in the phases of the moon - she notices and analyzes all this. The girl loves to guess, and also attaches great importance dreams. Pushkin did not ignore Tatyana's love of reading. Brought up on typical women's fashionable novels, the heroine sees her love as if through a bookish prism, idealizing her. She loves winter with all its shortcomings: darkness, twilight, cold and snow. Pushkin also emphasizes that the heroine of the novel has a "Russian soul" - this important point so that the characterization of Tatyana Larina is the most complete and understandable to the reader.

The influence of village customs on the character of the heroine

Pay attention to the time in which the subject of our conversation lives. This is the first half of the 19th century, which means that Tatyana Larina's characterization is, in fact, a characterization of Pushkin's contemporaries. The character of the heroine is closed and modest, and reading her description given to us by the poet, it can be noted that we learn practically nothing about the girl's appearance. Thus, Pushkin makes it clear that it is not external beauty that is important, but internal features character. Tatyana is young, but looks like an adult and established personality. She did not like children's fun and playing with dolls, she was attracted mystery stories and love suffering. After all, the heroines of your favorite novels always go through a series of difficulties and suffer. The image of Tatyana Larina is harmonious, dim, but surprisingly sensual. Such people are often found in real life.

Tatyana Larina in a love relationship with Eugene Onegin

How do we see the main character when it comes to love? She meets Eugene Onegin, already being ready for a relationship internally. She is "waiting ... for someone," Alexander Pushkin carefully points out to us. But do not forget where Tatyana Larina lives. Characteristics of her love relationship depends on strange village customs. This is manifested in the fact that Eugene Onegin visits the girl's family only once, but people around are already talking about engagement and marriage. In response to these rumors, Tatyana begins to consider the main character as the object of her sighs. From this we can conclude that Tatyana's experiences are far-fetched, artificial. She carries all her thoughts in herself, longing and sadness live in her loving soul.

The famous message of Tatyana, its motives and consequences

And the feelings turn out to be so strong that there is a need to express them, continuing the relationship with Eugene, but he no longer comes. It was impossible for a girl to take the first step according to the requirements of etiquette of those times, it was considered a frivolous and ugly act. But Tatyana finds a way - she writes love letter Onegin. Reading it, we see that Tatyana is a very noble, pure person, high thoughts reign in her soul, she is strict with herself. Evgeny's refusal to accept her love for the girl, of course, discourages, but the feeling in his heart does not go out. She tries to understand his act, and she succeeds.

Tatyana after unsuccessful love

Realizing that Onegin prefers fast hobbies, Tatyana goes to Moscow. Here we already see a completely different person in her. She overcame a blind unrequited feeling.

But in Tatyana she feels like a stranger, she is far from his fuss, brilliance, gossip and attends dinners most often in the company of her mother. Unsuccessful made her indifferent to all subsequent hobbies of the opposite sex. That whole character, which we observed at the beginning of the novel "Eugene Onegin", by the end of the work is shown by Pushkin broken and destroyed. As a result, Tatyana Larina remained a “black sheep” in high society, but her inner purity and pride could help others see in her true lady. Her detached behavior and at the same time an unmistakable knowledge of the rules of etiquette, politeness and hospitality attracted attention, but at the same time they forced her to remain at a distance, so Tatyana was above gossip.

The final choice of the heroine

At the end of the novel "Eugene Onegin", Pushkin, completing the plot, gives his "sweet ideal" a happy family life. Tatyana Larina has grown spiritually, but even in the last lines of the novel she confesses her love to Eugene Onegin. At the same time, this feeling no longer dominates her, she makes a conscious choice in favor of fidelity to her lawful husband and virtue.

Onegin also draws attention to the "new" for him Tatyana. He does not even suspect that she has not changed, she simply "outgrew" him and "got sick" with her former painful love. Therefore, she rejected his advances. This is what is before us main character"Eugene Onegin". Her main character traits are strong will, self confidence, good character. Unfortunately, Pushkin showed in his work how such people can be unhappy, because they see that the world is not at all the way they would like. Tatyana difficult fate, but her craving for personal happiness helps her overcome all adversity.

V. G. Belinsky called "Eugene Onegin" "an encyclopedia of Russian life", since it reflected the whole life of the Russian nobility of that era as in a mirror. The focus of the poet's life, way of life, manners, deeds young man Eugene Onegin. Eugene Onegin is the first literary hero, opening a gallery of so-called " extra people"He is educated, intelligent, noble, honest, but secular life in St. Petersburg killed all his feelings, aspirations, desires in him. He" matured before the time ", became a young old man. He is not interested in living. In this image, Pushkin showed the disease of the century -" blues." Onegin is really seriously ill with the social disease of his time. Even sincere feeling, love is not able to resurrect his soul.

The image of Tatyana Larina is a counterbalance to the image of Onegin. For the first time in Russian literature, the female character is opposed to the male, moreover, the female character is stronger and more sublime than the male. Pushkin draws the image of Tatyana with great warmth, embodying in her best features Russian woman. Pushkin in his novel wanted to show an ordinary Russian girl. The author emphasizes the absence of extraordinary, out of the ordinary traits in Tatyana. But the heroine is surprisingly poetic and attractive at the same time. It is no coincidence that Pushkin gives his heroine the common name Tatyana. By this he emphasizes the simplicity of the girl, her closeness to the people.

Tatyana is brought up in a manor estate in the Larin family, faithful to the "habits of sweet old times", Tatyana's character is formed under the influence of a nanny, the prototype of which was the wonderful Arina Rodionovna. Tatyana grew up as a lonely, unkind girl. She did not like to play with her friends, she was immersed in her feelings and experiences. She tried early to understand the world, but the elders did not find answers to their questions. And then she turned to books that she believed undividedly: She liked novels early, They replaced everything for her: She fell in love with the deceptions of Both Rtardson and Rousseau. The surrounding life did little to satisfy her demanding soul. She saw in the books interesting people whom I dreamed of meeting in my life. Communicating with the yard girls and listening to the stories of the nanny, Tatyana gets acquainted with folk poetry, is imbued with love for her.

Proximity to the people, to nature develops her in Tatiana moral qualities: spiritual simplicity, sincerity, artlessness. Tatyana is smart, unique. original. By nature, she is gifted: With a rebellious imagination, With a living mind and will, And with a wayward head, And with a fiery and necessary heart. With her mind, the originality of nature, she stands out among the landlord environment and secular society. She understands the vulgarity, idleness, emptiness of life in rural society. She dreams of a man who would bring high content into her life, who would be like the heroes of her favorite novels. Onegin seemed to her like that - a secular young man who came from St. Petersburg, smart and noble. Tatyana, with all sincerity and simplicity, falls in love with Onegin: "... Everything is full of him; everything is sweet to the maiden incessantly magic power keeps talking about him. "She decides to write a love confession to Onegin. Evgeny's sharp refusal is complete surprise For a girl. Tatyana ceases to understand Onegin and his actions. Tatyana is in a hopeless position: she cannot stop loving Onegin and at the same time is convinced that he is not worthy of her love. Onegin did not understand the full strength of her feelings, did not guess her nature, since he valued "freedom and peace" above all, was an egoist and selfish. Love brings Tatyana only suffering, her moral rules firm and permanent.

In Petersburg, she becomes a princess; gains universal respect and admiration in the "high society". During this time, she changes a lot. "An indifferent princess, an impregnable goddess of the luxurious, regal Neva," Pushkin draws her in the last chapter. But still, she's adorable. Obviously, this charm was not in her external beauty, but in her spiritual nobility, simplicity, intelligence, richness of spiritual content. But in the "high society" she is lonely. And here she does not find what her lofty soul longed for. Your attitude towards secular life she expresses in the words addressed to Onegin, who returned after wandering around Russia to the capital: ... Now I'm glad to give, All this rags of a masquerade. All this brilliance and noise and fumes For a shelf of books, for a wild garden, For our poor dwelling...

In the scene last date Tatyana and Onegin reveal her even deeper spiritual qualities: moral impeccability, fidelity to duty, decisiveness, truthfulness. She rejects Onegin's love, remembering that at the heart of his feelings for her lies selfishness, selfishness. Tatyana's main character traits are strongly developed sense duty, which takes precedence over other feelings, and spiritual nobility. This is what makes her soulful appearance so attractive. Tatyana Larina opens a gallery beautiful images Russian woman, morally impeccable, seeking deep content in life. The poet himself considered the image of Tatyana "ideal" in a positive way Russian woman.

Appearance, habits of the heroine

Tatyana Larina - chief female image novel "Eugene Onegin". Belinsky called the novel "an encyclopedia of Russian life." The image of Tatyana, like the images of other heroes, was typical for Russia in the 20-30s. 19th century But Tatiana - living woman, which has a unique strong character. Her actions dictated internal logic and circumstances, are unexpected even for the author: "My Tatyana has done it".

Tatyana is not like younger sister Olga, a cheerful beauty. The older sister does not attract the eyes either by beauty or freshness. In addition, she is unsociable, unkind: "Dika, sad, silent, like a doe forest timid".

Tatyana does not resemble a traditional folklore hardworking girl: she does not embroider, does not play with dolls, is not interested in fashion and outfits. The girl does not like "in the crowd of children to play and jump", run into burners (an outdoor game), does not play pranks and does not play pranks.

Tatyana loves scary stories, is thoughtful, meets the dawn on the balcony. Since childhood, she has been inclined to move away from reality into the world of dreams, imagining herself the heroine of the novels of Richardson and Rousseau: "She fell in love with deceptions".

Character and its origins, character development

Tatyana grew up in the village, was a neighbor on the estate of Eugene Onegin. Her parents kept the old patriarchal way. It is said about the father that he was late in the last century. This is probably why Tatyana received such exotic name with whom it is inseparable "memories of antiquity or maiden". Tatyana's mother in her youth was fond of the same novels that her eldest daughter later read. In the village of her husband, for whom Tatyana's mother was not given for love, she, in the end, "I got used to it and became satisfied" forgetting romantic hobbies. The couple lived keeping "habits of dear old times".

Tatyana is cut off from her environment. On the one hand, she "Russian soul, without knowing why". Pushkin, according to the laws of realism, discovers why Tatyana is like that. She lived in "backwoods of the forgotten village", raised by a nanny, "cordial friend", in the atmosphere "traditions of common antiquity". But the nanny, whose prototype was Pushkin's nanny, does not understand Tatyana's feelings.

On the other hand, Tatyana was brought up on foreign novels, "I didn't know Russian very well". She writes a letter to Onegin in French because "explained with difficulty in her native language".

The novel traces the change in the life of Tanya, brought by her mother to the capital and liked "important general". Everything that happens in St. Petersburg is alien to her: “The excitement of the world hates; it’s stuffy here ... she strives with a dream for field life ”.

Onegin fell in love with a completely different Tatyana, not a timid girl, in love, poor and simple, but an indifferent princess, an impregnable goddess of the luxurious, regal Neva, "legislator hall". But internally Tatyana remains the same: "Everything is quiet, it was just in her". Dignity and nobility were added to simplicity. The appearance of the heroine also changes. No one would call her beautiful, but her sophistication could not be overshadowed by the first beauty of St. Petersburg.

Onegin does not recognize the former Tatyana. She is indifferent, bold, calm, free, severe. There is no coquetry in Tatyana, which "does not tolerate the upper world", confusion and compassion. She doesn't look like the girl who wrote "a letter where the heart speaks, where everything is outside, everything is free".

The relationship between Tatyana and Onegin is the main storyline of the novel

After Onegin, who arrived in his village, visited the Larins, they began to read him to Tatyana as a suitor. She fell in love with Onegin simply because "time has come". But, brought up in a healthy folk atmosphere, Tatyana is waiting Great love, the only betrothed.

Onegin taught Tatyana the most important lesson in life, which she learned well: "Learn to control yourself". He acted nobly, but Pushkin sympathizes with Tatyana: "With you now I shed tears"- and foresees her death at the hands of "fashion tyrant"(Onegin).

The lesson that Tatyana gives Onegin, having become a secular lady, in turn, consists in the same wisdom: you can’t be "feelings of a petty slave". This should be preferred "cold, stern talk". But the motives of Onegin and Tatyana are different. He never could become "natural person", which Tatiana has always been. For her, life in the world is hateful, this "rags of masquerade". Tatyana deliberately doomed herself to such a life, because when she got married, for her "all were equal lot". And although the first love still lives in the heroine, she sincerely and with conviction remains faithful to her husband. Onegin, on the other hand, does not fully realize that his love is excited by the desire to be noticed in society, to have "seductive honor".

• "Eugene Onegin", a summary of the chapters of Pushkin's novel
• "Eugene Onegin", analysis of the novel by Alexander Pushkin