Matryona Vasilievna - main character A.I. Solzhenitsyn's story " Matrenin yard". She was about sixty years old. She lived in the village of Talnovo, which was not far from the peat extraction.
I believe that Matrena Vasilievna was the right person in the village, because she always came to everyone's aid. And most importantly, there was some help from her help. After all, you can help without any result, just to show off. But Matrena Vasilievna is not like that. Her help is sincere, pure heart, which means it's useful.
best sides The character of Matrena Vasilievna is revealed by several episodes. First of all, this is the episode in which Thaddeus and his sons break down the upper room of Matryona Vasilievna, which she decided to give to Kira. The author says: “Matryona never spared her labor or her goodness.”
There are also such small, but important episodes for revealing the character of the heroine, such as the request of the chairman's wife to help the collective farm, the request of a neighbor to dig up potatoes. And in all the episodes, Matryona is asked to help in some way, to do something. But she does not refuse, she helps, even if she is sick, and does not take anything in return, she has not taken a single penny for all her work.
Matrena Vasilievna was "at odds with her conscience." Her soul was open to everyone, internally she was pure, like a child. The author said about such people that they "always have good faces", that is, they are kind, sincere, accessible to others.
And this kindness brought Matryona Vasilievna to her death. People couldn't understand her, her inner world, soul. They used her help, her desire for work to achieve their personal goals, without even trying to give anything in return. No, not money, not food, but understanding, respect - that's what Matryona Vasilievna was waiting for, but she didn't wait.
She did not tell anyone about her difficult life, afraid, I think, of appearing weak in front of people. All her children died, her husband disappeared in the war. She had no love, no one loved her. And she devoted herself to work, caring for others. And I believe that the author is right in calling Matryona a righteous man, because she "is ... the same righteous man without whom ... the village does not stand."
The meaning of the title of the story, I think, is that without Matryona Vasilievna, there will be no normal life in the village of Talnovo. She was the center of everything that happened, she added a particle of herself to the whole village life, work. She can rightfully be considered a hostess, because even the authorities, who, in fact, should help everyone, I turn to Matryona for help, “not a single plowing of the garden could do without Matryona,” nothing could do without Matryona.
And you can also say that Matryona's yard is her home, after the destruction of which her life is destroyed, the yard of selflessness, righteousness.
Without such people, Rus' will perish.
The story "Matryonin's Dvor" was written by Solzhenitsyn in 1959. The first title of the story is "There is no village without a righteous man" (Russian proverb). final version the names were invented by Tvardovsky, who at that time was the editor of the magazine " New world”, where the story was published in No. 1 for 1963. At the insistence of the editors, the beginning of the story was changed and the events were attributed not to 1956, but to 1953, that is, to the pre-Khrushchev era. This is a nod to Khrushchev, thanks to whose permission Solzhenitsyn's first story, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), was published.
The image of the narrator in the work "Matryonin Dvor" is autobiographical. After Stalin's death, Solzhenitsyn was rehabilitated, indeed he lived in the village of Miltsevo (Talnovo in the story) and rented a corner from Matryona Vasilievna Zakharova (Grigorieva in the story). Solzhenitsyn very accurately conveyed not only the details of the life of Marena's prototype, but also the features of life and even the local dialect of the village.
Literary direction and genre
Solzhenitsyn developed the Tolstoyan tradition of Russian prose in realistic direction. The story combines the features of an artistic essay, the story itself and elements of life. The life of the Russian village is reflected so objectively and diversely that the work approaches the genre of "novel type story". In this genre, the character of the hero is shown not only in crucial moment its development, but also illuminated the history of character, the stages of its formation. The fate of the hero reflects the fate of the entire era and the country (as Solzhenitsyn says, the land).
Issues
At the center of the story moral issues. Are many worth human lives a seized area or a decision dictated by human greed not to make a second trip by a tractor? Material values people are valued more than the person himself. Thaddeus lost his son and the once beloved woman, his son-in-law is threatened with prison, and his daughter is inconsolable. But the hero thinks about how to save the logs that the workers at the crossing did not have time to burn.
Mystical motifs are at the center of the problematic of the story. This is the motif of an unrecognized righteous man and the problem of cursing things that are touched by people with unclean hands pursuing selfish goals. So Thaddeus undertook to bring down Matryonin's room, thereby making her cursed.
Plot and composition
The story "Matryonin Dvor" has a time frame. In one paragraph, the author talks about how trains slow down at one of the crossings and 25 years after a certain event. That is, the frame refers to the beginning of the 80s, the rest of the story is an explanation of what happened at the crossing in 1956, the year of the Khrushchev thaw, when “something started to move”.
The hero-narrator finds the place of his teaching almost in a mystical way, having heard a special Russian dialect at the bazaar and settled in the "kondovoy Russia", in the village of Talnovo.
In the center of the plot is the life of Matryona. The narrator learns about her fate from herself (she tells how Thaddeus, who disappeared in the first war, wooed her, and how she married his brother, who disappeared in the second). But the hero finds out more about the silent Matryona from his own observations and from others.
The story describes in detail Matryona's hut, which stands in a picturesque place near the lake. The hut plays in the life and death of Matryona important role. To understand the meaning of the story, you need to imagine a traditional Russian hut. Matrona's hut was divided into two halves: the actual residential hut with a Russian stove and the upper room (it was built for the eldest son to separate him when he marries). It is this chamber that Thaddeus disassembles in order to build a hut for Matryona's niece and his own daughter Kira. The hut in the story is animated. The wallpaper left behind the wall is called its inner skin.
Ficuses in tubs are also endowed with living features, reminding the narrator of a silent, but lively crowd.
The development of the action in the story is a static state of harmonious coexistence of the narrator and Matryona, who "do not find the meaning of everyday existence in food." The culmination of the story is the moment of the destruction of the chamber, and the work ends with the main idea and a bitter omen.
Heroes of the story
The hero-narrator, whom Matryona calls Ignatich, from the first lines makes it clear that he came from places of detention. He is looking for a job as a teacher in the wilderness, in the Russian outback. Only the third village satisfies him. Both the first and the second turn out to be corrupted by civilization. Solzhenitsyn makes it clear to the reader that he condemns the attitude of Soviet bureaucrats towards man. The narrator despises the authorities, who do not assign a pension to Matryona, forcing her to work on the collective farm for sticks, not only not giving peat for the furnace, but also forbidding anyone to ask about it. He instantly decides not to extradite Matryona, who brewed moonshine, hides her crime, for which she faces prison.
Having experienced and seen a lot, the narrator, embodying the author's point of view, acquires the right to judge everything that he observes in the village of Talnovo - a miniature embodiment of Russia.
Matryona is the main character of the story. The author says about her: “Those people have good faces who are at odds with their conscience.” At the moment of acquaintance, Matryona's face is yellow, and her eyes are clouded with illness.
To survive, Matryona grows small potatoes, secretly brings forbidden peat from the forest (up to 6 sacks a day) and secretly cuts hay for her goat.
There was no woman's curiosity in Matryona, she was delicate, did not annoy with questions. Today's Matryona is a lost old woman. The author knows about her that she got married before the revolution, that she had 6 children, but they all died quickly, "so two did not live at once." Matryona's husband did not return from the war, but went missing. The hero suspected that he had new family somewhere abroad.
Matryona had a quality that distinguished her from the rest of the villagers: she selflessly helped everyone, even the collective farm, from which she was expelled due to illness. There is a lot of mysticism in her image. In her youth, she could lift sacks of any weight, stopped a galloping horse, foresaw her death, being afraid of locomotives. Another omen of her death is a pot of holy water that went missing on Epiphany.
Matryona's death seems to be an accident. But why on the night of her death, the mice rush about like crazy? The narrator suggests that it was 30 years later that the threat of Matryona's brother-in-law Thaddeus, who threatened to chop down Matryona and his own brother, who married her, struck.
After death, the holiness of Matryona is revealed. The mourners notice that she, completely crushed by the tractor, has only the right hand left to pray to God. And the narrator draws attention to her face, more alive than dead.
Fellow villagers speak of Matryona with disdain, not understanding her disinterestedness. The sister-in-law considers her unscrupulous, not careful, not inclined to accumulate good, Matryona did not seek her own benefit and helped others for free. Despised by fellow villagers was even Matryonina's cordiality and simplicity.
Only after her death did the narrator realize that Matryona, "not chasing after the factory", indifferent to food and clothing, is the foundation, the core of all of Russia. On such a righteous person stands a village, a city and a country ("all our land"). For the sake of one righteous man, as in the Bible, God can spare the earth, protect it from fire.
Artistic originality
Matryona appears before the hero as fabulous creature, similar to Baba Yaga, who reluctantly gets off the stove to feed the prince who is passing by. She, like a fairy grandmother, has helper animals. Shortly before the death of Matryona, the rickety cat leaves the house, the mice, anticipating the death of the old woman, rustle especially. But cockroaches are indifferent to the fate of the hostess. Following Matryona, her favorite ficuses, like a crowd, die: they do not represent practical value and taken out into the cold after the death of Matryona.
The history of the creation of Solzhenitsyn's work "Matryonin Dvor"
In 1962, the Novy Mir magazine published the story "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", which made Solzhenitsyn's name known throughout the country and far beyond its borders. A year later, in the same journal, Solzhenitsyn published several stories, including “Matryona Dvor”. Postings have stopped at this point. None of the writer's works were allowed to be published in the USSR. And in 1970 Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Initially, the story "Matryona Dvor" was called "A village does not stand without the righteous." But, on the advice of A. Tvardovsky, in order to avoid censorship obstacles, the name was changed. For the same reasons, the year of action in the story from 1956 was replaced by the author with 1953. "Matrenin Dvor", as the author himself noted, "is completely autobiographical and reliable." In all the notes to the story, the prototype of the heroine is reported - Matryona Vasilievna Zakharova from the village of Miltsovo, Kurlovsky district, Vladimir region. The narrator, like the author himself, teaches in the Ryazan village, living with the heroine of the story, and the narrator's patronymic - Ignatich - is consonant with A. Solzhenitsyn's patronymic - Isaevich. The story, written in 1956, tells about the life of a Russian village in the fifties.
Critics praised the story. The essence of Solzhenitsyn's work was noted by A. Tvardovsky: “Why is the fate of the old peasant woman, told on a few pages, for us such big interest? This woman is unread, illiterate, a simple worker. And yet her spiritual world is endowed with such qualities that we talk with her as with Anna Karenina. After reading these words in Literaturnaya Gazeta, Solzhenitsyn immediately wrote to Tvardovsky: “Needless to say, the paragraph of your speech referring to Matryona means a lot to me. You pointed to the very essence - to a woman who loves and suffers, while all the criticism scoured all the time from above, comparing the Talnovsky collective farm and neighboring ones.
The first title of the story "A village is not worth without the righteous" contained deep meaning: the Russian village rests on people whose way of life is based on the universal values of kindness, labor, sympathy, help. Since a righteous person is called, firstly, a person who lives in accordance with religious rules; secondly, a person who does not sin in anything against the rules of morality (rules that determine mores, behavior, spiritual and spiritual qualities necessary for a person in society). The second name - "Matryona Dvor" - somewhat changed the angle of view: moral principles began to have clear boundaries only within the Matrenin Dvor. On a larger scale of the village, they are blurred, the people around the heroine are often different from her. Having titled the story "Matryona Dvor", Solzhenitsyn focused readers' attention on wonderful world Russian woman.
gender, genre, creative method analyzed work
Solzhenitsyn once remarked that he rarely turned to the short story genre, for “artistic pleasure”: “You can put a lot in a small form, and it is a great pleasure for an artist to work on a small form. Because in a small form you can hone the edges with great pleasure for yourself. In the story "Matryona Dvor" all facets are honed with brilliance, and meeting with the story becomes, in turn, a great pleasure for the reader. The story is usually based on a case that reveals the character of the protagonist.
Regarding the story "Matryona Dvor" in literary criticism, there were two points of view. One of them presented Solzhenitsyn's story as a phenomenon of "village prose". V. Astafiev, calling "Matryona Dvor" "the pinnacle of Russian short stories", believed that our " village prose came out of this story. Somewhat later, this idea was developed in literary criticism.
At the same time, the story "Matryona Dvor" was associated with the original genre monumental story. An example of this genre is M. Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man".
In the 1960s genre features"monumental story" are recognized in "Matryona yard" by A. Solzhenitsyn, "Mother of man" by V. Zakrutkin, "In the light of day" by E. Kazakevich. The main difference of this genre is the image common man, which is the custodian of universal values. Moreover, the image of a simple person is given in sublime colors, and the story itself is focused on high genre. So, in the story "The Fate of a Man" features of the epic are visible. And in the "Matryona Dvor" the emphasis is on the lives of the saints. Before us is the life of Matryona Vasilievna Grigorieva, the righteous and great martyr of the era " complete collectivization"and the tragic experiment on whole country. Matryona was portrayed by the author as a saint ("Only she had fewer sins than a rickety cat").
The subject of the work
The theme of the story is a description of the life of the patriarchal Russian village, which reflects how flourishing egoism and rapacity disfigure Russia and "destroy communications and meaning." The writer raises short story serious problems Russian village in the early 1950s (her life, customs and mores, the relationship between power and a working person). The author repeatedly emphasizes that the state needs only working hands, and not the person himself: “She was lonely all around, but since she began to get sick, she was released from the collective farm.” A person, according to the author, should mind his own business. So Matryona finds the meaning of life in work, she is angry with the unscrupulous attitude of others to business.
An analysis of the work shows that the problems raised in it are subordinated to one goal: to reveal the beauty of the Christian Orthodox worldview of the heroine. On the example of the fate of a village woman, to show that life's losses and suffering only more clearly show the measure of the human in each of the people. But Matryona dies - and this world collapses: her house is pulled apart by a log, her modest belongings are greedily divided. And there is no one to protect Matryona's yard, no one even thinks that with the departure of Matryona, something very valuable and important, not amenable to division and primitive everyday assessment, passes away. “We all lived next to her and did not understand that she is the same righteous man, without whom, according to the proverb, the village does not stand. No city. Not all our land." Last phrases expand the boundaries of the Matrona Court (as the personal world of the heroine) to the scale of humanity.
The main characters of the work
The main character of the story, as indicated in the title, is Matrena Vasilievna Grigorieva. Matrena is a lonely destitute peasant woman with a generous and disinterested soul. She lost her husband in the war, buried six of her own and raised other people's children. Matryona gave her pupil the most precious thing in her life - the house: "... she did not feel sorry for the upper room, which stood idle, as well as neither her labor nor her goodness ...".
The heroine has endured many hardships in life, but has not lost the ability to empathize with others, joy and sorrow. She is disinterested: she sincerely rejoices in someone else's good harvest, although she never has it on the sand herself. All the wealth of Matrena is a dirty white goat, a lame cat and large flowers in tubs.
Matrena - concentration best features national character: shy, understands the "education" of the narrator, respects him for it. The author appreciates in Matryona her delicacy, the absence of annoying curiosity about the life of another person, hard work. For a quarter of a century she worked on a collective farm, but because she was not at a factory, she was not entitled to a pension for herself, and she could only get it for her husband, that is, for the breadwinner. As a result, she never received a pension. Life was extremely difficult. She got grass for a goat, peat for warmth, collected old stumps turned out by a tractor, soaked lingonberries for the winter, grew potatoes, helping those who were nearby to survive.
Analysis of the work says that the image of Matryona and individual details in the story are symbolic. Solzhenitsyn's Matryona is the embodiment of the ideal of a Russian woman. As noted in critical literature, the appearance of the heroine is like an icon, and life is like the lives of saints. Her house, as it were, symbolizes the ark of the biblical Noah, in which he is saved from global flood. The death of Matryona symbolizes the cruelty and meaninglessness of the world in which she lived.
The heroine lives according to the laws of Christianity, although her actions are not always clear to others. Therefore, the attitude towards it is different. Matryona is surrounded by sisters, sister-in-law, stepdaughter Kira, the only friend in the village, Thaddeus. However, no one appreciated it. She lived in poverty, wretchedly, lonely - a "lost old woman", exhausted by work and illness. Relatives almost did not appear in her house, everyone condemned Matryona in chorus that she was funny and stupid, she worked for others for free all her life. Everyone mercilessly took advantage of Matryona's kindness and innocence - and unanimously judged her for it. Among the people around her, the author treats her heroine with great sympathy; both her son Thaddeus and her pupil Kira love her.
The image of Matryona is contrasted in the story with the image of the cruel and greedy Thaddeus, who seeks to get Matryona's house during her lifetime.
Matrena's yard is one of key images story. The description of the courtyard, the house is detailed, with a lot of details, devoid of bright colors Matryona lives "in the wilderness." It is important for the author to emphasize the inseparability of the house and the person: if the house is destroyed, its mistress will also die. This unity is already stated in the very title of the story. The hut for Matryona is filled with a special spirit and light, the life of a woman is connected with the "life" of the house. Therefore, for a long time she did not agree to break the hut.
Plot and composition
The story consists of three parts. In the first part we are talking about how fate threw the hero-narrator to the station with a strange name for Russian places - Peat product. Former prisoner, now school teacher, longing to find peace in some remote and quiet corner of Russia, finds shelter and warmth in the house of the elderly and knowing life Matrena. “Maybe, to someone from the village, who is richer, Matryona’s hut didn’t seem well-lived, but we were quite good with her that autumn and winter: it didn’t leak from the rains and the cold winds blew the furnace heat out of it not immediately, only in the morning , especially when the wind was blowing from the leaky side. In addition to Matryona and me, they also lived in the hut - a cat, mice and cockroaches. They immediately find mutual language. Next to Matryona, the hero calms down with his soul.
In the second part of the story, Matrena recalls her youth, the terrible ordeal that befell her. Her fiancé Thaddeus went missing in World War I. Wooed her younger brother missing husband, Yefim, left alone after death with younger children in his arms. She took pity on Matryona Efim, married an unloved one. And here, after three years of absence, Thaddeus himself unexpectedly returned, whom Matryona continued to love. The hard life did not harden Matrena's heart. In worries about daily bread, she went her way to the end. And even death overtook a woman in labor worries. Matryona dies helping Thaddeus and his sons to drag across railway on a sleigh, part of his own hut, bequeathed to Kira. Thaddeus did not want to wait for the death of Matryona and decided to take the inheritance for the young during her lifetime. Thus, he unwittingly provoked her death.
In the third part, the tenant learns about the death of the mistress of the house. Description of the funeral and commemoration showed true attitude to Matryona of people close to her. When relatives bury Matryona, they cry more out of duty than from the heart, and think only about the final division of Matryona's property. And Thaddeus doesn't even come to the wake.
Artistic features of the analyzed story
The artistic world in the story is built linearly - in accordance with the life story of the heroine. In the first part of the work, the whole story about Matryona is given through the perception of the author, a person who has endured a lot in his lifetime, who dreamed of "getting lost and getting lost in the very interior of Russia." The narrator evaluates her life from the outside, compares it with the environment, becomes an authoritative witness of righteousness. In the second part, the heroine talks about herself. The combination of lyrical and epic pages, the chaining of episodes according to the principle of emotional contrast allows the author to change the rhythm of the narrative, its tone. In this way the author is coming to recreate layered picture life. Already the first pages of the story serve as a convincing example. It is opened by the beginning, which tells about the tragedy at the railway siding. We learn the details of this tragedy at the end of the story.
Solzhenitsyn in his work does not give a detailed, specific description of the heroine. Only one portrait detail constantly emphasized by the author - "radiant", "kind", "apologetic" smile of Matryona. Nevertheless, by the end of the story, the reader imagines the appearance of the heroine. Already in the very tonality of the phrase, the selection of "colors" is felt author's attitude to Matryona: “From red frosty sun the frozen window of the passage, now shortened, filled with a little pink, and Matrena's face was warmed by this reflection. And further - already straight author's characteristic: "Those people always have good faces, who are at odds with their conscience." Even after terrible death the heroine of her "face remained intact, calm, more alive than dead."
Embodied in Matryona folk character, which is primarily manifested in her speech. Expressiveness, bright individuality gives her language an abundance of colloquial, dialectal vocabulary (sweep, kuzhotkamu, summer, lightning). The manner of her speech is also deeply folk, the way she pronounces her words: “They began with some kind of low warm murmur, like grandmothers in fairy tales.” “Matryonin Dvor” minimally includes the landscape, he pays more attention to the interior, which appears not by itself, but in a lively interweaving with the “inhabitants” and with sounds - from the rustling of mice and cockroaches to the state of ficuses and a rickety cat. Every detail here characterizes not only the peasant life, Matryonin's yard, but also the storyteller. The voice of the narrator reveals in him a psychologist, a moralist, even a poet - in the way he observes Matryona, her neighbors and relatives, how he evaluates them and her. The poetic feeling is manifested in the author's emotions: "Only she had fewer sins than a cat ..."; “But Matryona rewarded me ...”. The lyrical pathos is especially obvious at the very end of the story, where even the syntactic structure changes, including paragraphs, translating the speech into blank verse:
“The Veems lived next to her / and did not understand / that she is the same righteous man, / without whom, according to the proverb, / the village does not stand. /Nor the city./Nor all our land.
The writer was looking for a new word. An example of this is his convincing articles on language in Literaturnaya Gazeta, Dahl's fantastic commitment (the researchers note that about 40% of the vocabulary in the story Solzhenitsyn borrowed from Dahl's dictionary), ingenuity in vocabulary. In the story "Matryona's Dvor" Solzhenitsyn came to the language of preaching.
The meaning of the work
“There are such born angels,” Solzhenitsyn wrote in the article “Repentance and Self-Restriction”, as if characterizing Matryona, “they seem to be weightless, they seem to glide over this slurry, without drowning in it at all, even touching its surface with their feet? Each of us met such people, there are not ten or a hundred of them in Russia, they are the righteous, we saw them, we were surprised (“eccentrics”), we used their goodness, in good moments we answered them the same, they dispose, - and immediately sank back to our doomed depths."
What is the essence of Matrona's righteousness? In life, not by lies, we will now say in the words of the writer himself, uttered much later. Creating this character, Solzhenitsyn places him in the most ordinary circumstances of rural collective farm life in the 1950s. The righteousness of Matrena lies in her ability to preserve her humanness even in such inaccessible conditions for this. As N.S. Leskov wrote, righteousness is the ability to live “without lying, without deceit, without condemning one’s neighbor and without condemning a biased enemy.”
The story was called "brilliant", "a truly brilliant work." In reviews of him, it was noted that even among Solzhenitsyn's stories he stands out for his strict artistry, the integrity of the poetic embodiment, and the consistency of artistic taste.
The story of A.I. Solzhenitsyn "Matryona Dvor" - for all time. It is especially relevant today, when questions moral values And life priorities are acute in modern Russian society.
Point of view
Anna Akhmatova
When his big thing came out (“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”), I said: all 200 million should read this. And when I read Matrenin Dvor, I cried, and I rarely cry.
V. Surganov
After all, it’s not so much the appearance of Solzhenitsyn’s Matryona that evokes an internal rebuff in us, but the author’s frank admiration for beggarly disinterestedness and no less frank desire to exalt and oppose it to the rapacity of the owner, nesting in those around her, close to her.
(From the book The Word Makes Its Way.
Collection of articles and documents about A.I. Solzhenitsyn.
1962-1974. - M.: Russian way, 1978.)
This is interesting
On August 20, 1956, Solzhenitsyn left for his place of work. There were many such names as "Peat product" in the Vladimir region. Peat product (the local youth called it "Tyr-pyr") - was a railway station 180 kilometers and a four-hour drive from Moscow along the Kazan road. The school was located in the nearby village of Mezinovsky, and Solzhenitsyn had a chance to live two kilometers from the school - in the Meshchera village of Miltsevo.
Only three years will pass, and Solzhenitsyn will write a story that will immortalize these places: a station with a clumsy name, a village with a tiny bazaar, the house of the landlady Matryona Vasilievna Zakharova, and Matryona herself, a righteous woman and a sufferer. A photograph of the corner of the hut, where the guest will put a cot and, having pushed aside the master's ficuses, will arrange a table with a lamp, will go around the whole world.
The teaching staff of Mezinovka consisted of about fifty members that year and significantly influenced the life of the village. There were four schools here: primary, seven-year, secondary and evening for working youth. Solzhenitsyn received a referral to high school She was in an old one-story building. The academic year began with the August teachers' conference, so that, having arrived in Torfoprodukt, the teacher of mathematics and electrical engineering of grades 8-10 managed to go to the Kurlovsky district for a traditional meeting. "Isaich", as his colleagues dubbed him, could, if desired, refer to serious illness but no, he didn't talk about her to anyone. We only saw how he was looking for a birch chaga mushroom and some herbs in the forest, and briefly answered questions: “I make medicinal drinks.” He was considered shy: after all, a person suffered ... But that was not the point at all: “I came with my goal, with my past. What could they know, what could u tell them? I sat with Matryona and wrote a novel every free minute. Why am I talking to myself? I didn't have that style. I was a conspirator to the end." Then everyone will get used to the fact that this thin, pale, a tall man in a suit and tie, wearing, like all teachers, a hat, coat or raincoat, keeps his distance and does not get close to anyone. He will remain silent when a document on rehabilitation comes in six months - just the school head teacher B.S. Protserov will receive a notification from the village council and send a teacher for help. No talking when the wife starts arriving. “What is it to whom? I live with Matryona and I live. Many were alarmed (isn't it a spy?) that he goes everywhere with a Zorkiy camera and shoots something completely different from what amateurs usually shoot: instead of relatives and friends - houses, wrecked farms, boring landscapes.
Coming to school at the beginning school year, he proposed his own methodology - giving all classes a control, according to the results he divided the students into strong and mediocre, and then worked individually.
In the lessons, everyone received a separate task, so there was neither the possibility nor the desire to write off. Not only the solution of the problem was valued, but also the method of solution. The introductory part of the lesson was shortened as much as possible: the teacher spared time for "trifles". He knew exactly who and when to call to the board, who to ask more often, who to trust independent work. The teacher never sat at the teacher's table. He did not enter the class, but burst into it. He ignited everyone with his energy, knew how to build a lesson in such a way that there was no time to be bored or doze off. He respected his students. Never shouted, never even raised his voice.
And only outside the class Solzhenitsyn was silent and withdrawn. He went home after school, ate the “cardboard” soup prepared by Matryona and sat down to work. The neighbors remembered for a long time how inconspicuously the guest lodged, did not arrange parties, did not participate in fun, but read and wrote everything. “She loved Matryona Isaich,” used to say Shura Romanova, the adopted daughter of Matryona (in the story she is Kira). - Sometimes, she will come to me in Cherusti, I persuade her to stay longer. "No," he says. “I have Isaich - he needs to cook, heat the stove.” And back home."
The lodger also became attached to the lost old woman, cherishing her disinterestedness, conscientiousness, cordial simplicity, a smile that he tried in vain to catch in the camera lens. “So Matryona got used to me, and I to her, and we lived easily. She did not interfere with my long evening classes, did not annoy me with any questions. There was absolutely no woman's curiosity in her, and the lodger did not stir her soul either, but it turned out that they opened up to each other.
She learned about the prison, and about the serious illness of the guest, and about his loneliness. And there was no worse loss for him in those days than the ridiculous death of Matryona on February 21, 1957 under the wheels of a freight train at the crossing of one hundred and eighty-four kilometers from Moscow along the branch that goes to Murom from Kazan, exactly six months after the day he settled in her hut.
(From the book of Lyudmila Saraskina "Alexander Solzhenitsyn")
Matrenin yard is poor, as before
Solzhenitsyn's acquaintance with "condo", "interior" Russia, in which he so wanted to be after the Ekibastuz exile, a few years later was embodied in the received world fame story "Matryona yard". This year marks 40 years since its inception. As it turned out, in Mezinovsky itself, this work by Solzhenitsyn became a second-hand rarity. This book is not even available at Matrenin Dvor itself, where Lyuba, the niece of the heroine of Solzhenitsyn's story, now lives. “I had pages from a magazine, the neighbors once asked when they began to study it at school, and they didn’t return it,” complains Lyuba, who today brings up her grandson on disability benefits in the “historical” walls. Matryona's hut was inherited from her mother - herself younger sister Matryona. The hut was moved to Mezinovsky from the neighboring village of Miltsevo (in Solzhenitsyn's story - Talnovo), where Matryona Zakharova (Solzhenitsyn - Matryona Grigorieva) and lodged future writer. In the village of Miltsevo, for the visit of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1994, a similar, but much more solid house was hastily erected. Shortly after the memorable arrival of Solzhenitsyn, the countrymen uprooted window frames and floorboards from this unguarded building of Matrenina, standing on the outskirts of the village.
The "new" Mezin school, built in 1957, now has 240 students. In the unpreserved building of the old one, in which Solzhenitsyn taught lessons, about a thousand studied. For half a century, not only has the Miltsevskaya river become shallow and peat reserves in the surrounding swamps have become scarce, but they have also become empty. neighboring villages. And at the same time, Solzhenitsyn's Thaddeus did not disappear, calling the good of the people "ours" and considering that losing it is "shameful and stupid."
The crumbling house of Matryona, rearranged to a new place without a foundation, has grown into the ground for two crowns, buckets are put under a thin roof in the rain. Like Matryona, cockroaches are in full swing here, but there are no mice: there are four cats in the house, two of our own and two that have nailed it. Lyuba, a former foundry worker at a local factory, like Matryona, who once straightened out her pension for months, goes to the authorities to extend her disability allowance. “No one but Solzhenitsyn helps,” she complains. “Somehow one came in a jeep, called himself Alexei, examined the house and gave money.” Behind the house, like Matryona, there is a garden of 15 acres, on which Lyuba plants potatoes. As before, mint potatoes, mushrooms and cabbage are the main products for her life. In addition to cats, she doesn’t even have a goat in her courtyard, which Matryona had.
So lived and live many Mezinovsky righteous. Local historians write books about the stay of the great writer in Mezinovsky, local poets compose poems, new pioneers write essays “On difficult fate Alexandra Solzhenitsyn, Nobel laureate", as they once wrote essays about Brezhnev's "Virgin Land" and "Small Land". They are thinking of resurrecting the museum hut of Matrena on the outskirts of the deserted village of Miltsevo. And the old Matrenin yard lives the same life as it did half a century ago.
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Grigorieva Matrena Vasilievna- a peasant woman, a lonely woman of sixty years old, released from the collective farm due to illness. The story documented the life of Matryona Timofeevna Zakharova, a resident of the village of Miltsevo (near Solzhenitsyn Talnovo) in the Kurlovsky district of the Vladimir region. original name"There is no village without a righteous man" was changed at the suggestion of Tvardovsky, who believed that it was too straightforward to reveal the meaning central image and the whole story. M., according to the words of fellow villagers, “did not chase after the equipment”, dressed somehow, “helped strangers for free.”
The house is old, in the door corner by the stove - Matryona's bed, the best window-side part of the hut is lined with stools and benches, on which tubs and pots with her favorite ficuses are her main wealth. From living creatures - a rickety old cat, which M. took pity on and picked up on the street, a dirty-white goat with crooked horns, mice and cockroaches.
Married M. even before the revolution, because "their mother died ... they did not have enough hands." She married Yefim, the younger, and loved the elder, Thaddeus, but he went to war and disappeared. She waited for him for three years - "no news, no bones." On Peter's Day, they married Yefim, and Thaddeus returned from the Hungarian captivity to Mykola in winter and almost chopped them both with an ax. She gave birth to six children, but they "did not stand" - they did not live up to three months. During World War II Yefim disappeared and M. was left alone. Eleven post-war years(the action takes place in 1956) M. decided that he was no longer alive, Thaddeus also had six children, all were alive, and M. took the youngest girl, Kira, to her and raised her.
M. did not receive a pension. She was ill, but was not considered disabled, a quarter of a century she worked on a collective farm "for sticks." True, later on they nevertheless began to pay her eighty rubles, and she also received more than a hundred from the school and the guest teacher. She did not start "good", did not rejoice at the chance to get a lodger, did not complain about illnesses, although her illness brought down her illness twice a month. On the other hand, she unquestioningly went to work when the chairman's wife came running for her, or when a neighbor asked for help digging potatoes - M. never refused anyone and did not take money from anyone, for which they considered her stupid. “She always interfered in men's affairs. And the horse once almost knocked her down under the ice hole in the lake, ”and finally, when they took away her upper room, they could do without her - no,“ Matryona suffered between the tractor and the sleigh. That is, she was always ready to help another, ready to neglect herself, to give the last. So she gave the upper room to the pupil Kira, which means that she will have to break the house, halve it - an impossible, wild act, from the point of view of the owner. Yes, she rushed to help transport.
I got up at four or five o'clock, there was enough to do before the evening, a plan was made in my mind what to do, but no matter how tired, I was always friendly.
M. was characterized by innate delicacy - she was afraid to burden herself, and therefore, when she was sick, she did not complain, did not moan, she was embarrassed to call a doctor from the village first-aid post. She believed in God, but not devoutly, although she began every business - “With God!”. Rescuing the property of Thaddeus, stuck on a sleigh on railway crossing, M. was hit by a train and died. Her absence on this earth affects immediately: who will now go sixth to harness to the plow? Who to contact for help?
Against the background of M.'s death, the characters of her greedy sisters, Thaddeus - her former lover, Masha's friend, all those who take part in the division of her impoverished belongings, appear. Weeping rushes over the coffin, which turns into "politics", into a dialogue between applicants for Matrenino's "property", which is just a dirty white goat, a rickety cat and ficuses. Matrenin, the guest, observing all this, remembering the living M., suddenly clearly understands that all these people, including him, lived next to her and did not understand that she is the same righteous man, without whom “the village does not stand”.
/ / / The image of Matryona in Solzhenitsyn's story "Matryonin Dvor"
Very touching work Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author was a humanist, so it is not surprising that a pure kind character appears in the story. female image the main character.
The narration is conducted on behalf of the narrator, through the prism of attitudes of which we recognize the images of other characters, including the main character.
Matrena Vasilievna Grigorieva - central. By the will of fate, a former prisoner Ignatich settles in her house. It is he who tells us about the life of Matryona.
The woman did not immediately agree to accept a tenant in her yard, advised to find a place cleaner and more comfortable. But Ignatich was not looking for comfort, it was enough for him to have his own corner. He wanted to live quiet life so I chose the village.
Matryona is a modest resident of the village, simple-hearted and friendly. She was already about sixty years old. She lived alone, as she was a widow and lost all her children. To some extent, the guest diversified her lonely life. After all, now Matryona had someone to get up early for, cook food, there was someone to talk to in the evenings.
The narrator notes that Matryona's round face looked sick because of the yellowness and cloudy eyes. She sometimes had bouts of some kind of illness. And although she was not considered an invalid, the disease knocked her down for several days. Learning about difficult fate woman, Ignatich realized that her illness was quite understandable.
In her youth, Matrena loved Thaddeus and wanted to marry him. However, the war separated the lovers. The news came that he was missing. Matryona was sad for a long time, but at the insistence of her relatives, she married the brother of her former lover. After some time, a miracle happened - Thaddeus returned home alive. He was upset when he learned about the marriage of Matryona. But later he also marries and has many children. Since the children of Matryona did not live long, she takes on the upbringing of one child of Thaddeus and his wife. But her adopted daughter leaves her. After the loss of her husband, Matryona is left completely alone.
The image of Matryona is very light and at the same time tragic. She has always lived more for others than for herself. Despite the pain, Matryona did not shy away from hard work for the benefit of society. However, the narrator notes that the woman did not receive her pension for a long time.
Matrena never refused to help her neighbors. But her disinterested deeds, innocence caused more misunderstanding from the side of her fellow villagers than gratitude.
The woman endured all the trials steadfastly, did not become an embittered person. They say about such people that they have an inner core.
The end of Matryona's life is very tragic. Thaddeus, beloved by her, played a special role in this. He turned out to be a rotten man and insisted that Matryona give him the inheritance of her daughter Kira. Even then, the old woman did not defend her rights, but even helped to dismantle her hut, which led to her sad end.
The image of Matryona is the image of an ingenuous woman misunderstood by others.
