Is the yolks a small man garnet bracelet. Is the image of Zheltkov real? The situation in the main character's room

« Garnet bracelet", unrequitedly in love with the princess, a petty official. He pursues the object of passion with letters, in the finale of the story he commits suicide.

History of creation

Alexander Kuprin worked on the "Garnet Bracelet" in Odessa in the autumn of 1910. The work was originally conceived as a story, but has grown into a story. The work dragged on, and at the beginning of December, judging by Kuprin's letters, the story had not yet been finished.

The plot was based real story that happened to the member's wife State Council D.N. Lyubimov. The prototype of Zheltkov was a certain petty telegraph official Zheltikov, unrequitedly in love with this lady.

"Garnet bracelet"

Zheltkov is a petty official of the control chamber, aged 30-35. Tall and thin man with soft and long hair. Zheltkov's appearance betrays a fine spiritual organization - pale skin, a gentle "girlish" face, a child's chin with a dimple, blue eyes and nervous thin fingers. The hero's hands constantly betray his nervous state - they tremble, pull on buttons, "run" over his face and clothes.

The hero earns little and considers himself a person devoid of fine taste, therefore he has neither the opportunity nor the right to present expensive gifts to the object of his own unrequited passion - the princess. The hero saw a lady in a circus box and immediately fell in love with her. Eight years have passed since then, and all this time the enamored Zheltkov has been writing letters to Vera. At first, the hero was still waiting for reciprocity and thought that the young lady from the box would answer his letters, but Vera never paid attention to the unlucky admirer.

Over time, Zheltkov ceases to hope for reciprocity, but continues to write to Vera from time to time and secretly follow her life. In his letters, Zheltkov accurately describes where and with whom he saw Vera, even what dress she was wearing. In addition to the object of his passion, the hero is not interested in anything - neither science, nor politics, nor the life of his own and other people.

The hero keeps the things of the Faith. The handkerchief that the lady forgot at the ball, but the hero appropriated. The program of the exhibition that Vera left on the chair, and so on. A relic for Zheltkov was even a note written by Vera, in which she forbade the hero to write to her. Zheltkov sees in Vera the only meaning own life, however, with all this, he does not consider himself a maniac, but only in love.

One day, Zheltkov sends the princess a gift for her name day - a family garnet bracelet, which belonged to the hero's great-grandmother, and then to his late mother. The princess's brother, Nikolai, loses his temper over this gift and decides to intervene in order to stop Zheltkov's "harassment" once and for all.

Nikolay finds where the hero lives and demands that he stop persecuting his sister, otherwise he threatens to take action. Vera herself also treats Zheltkov unfriendly and asks to be left alone. That same evening, the hero dies by committing suicide, but in his suicide note he does not blame Vera for own death, but still writes about love for that. Only at parting did Vera realize that she strong love, which every woman dreams of, was so close, but she refused it.

Zheltkov had a soft and tactful character. The landlady called the hero " wonderful person and treated him like his own son. Zheltkov is sincere and incapable of lying, decent. The hero has a weak voice and calligraphic handwriting. The man loves music, especially. Of the relatives, the hero has one brother.

The hero rented a room in a multi-storey building on Lutheran Street. This is a poor house where the stairwells are dark and smell of kerosene, mice and laundry. Zheltkov's room is badly lit, with a low ceiling, and poorly furnished. The hero has only a narrow bed, a shabby sofa and a table.

Zheltkov is a controversial character who showed cowardice in love, but a fair amount of courage, making the decision to shoot himself.

Screen adaptations

In 1964, the film adaptation of "Garnet Bracelet" was released, directed by Abram Room. The image of Zheltkov in this film was embodied by the actor Igor Ozerov. Mr. Zheltkov, whose exact name is not indicated in the story, is called Georgy Stepanovich in the film. In the story, the hero signs with the initials G.S.Zh., and the landlady, from whom Zheltkov rented a house, called the hero “pan Ezhy”, which corresponds to the Polish version of the name “George”. However, it is impossible to say for sure what the name of the hero was.

The film also starred actors Yuri Averin (in the role of Gustav Ivanovich von Friesse) and in the role of Prince Shein, husband main character Vera Sheina, whose role was played by the actress.

Quotes

“It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life is only in you.”

“Think about what I should have done? Run away to another city? All the same, the heart was always near you, at your feet, every moment of the day is filled with you, the thought of you, dreams of you ... "

"I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love."

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The writing

And the heart will no longer respond

It's all over... And my song rushes

In an empty night where you are no more.

A. Akhmatova

A. I. Kuprin is an original writer of the 20th century, in whose work the precepts of Russian classical literature with its democratism, passionate desire to solve the problems of social life, humanism, deep interest in the life of the people. Loyalty to traditions, influence of L. N. Tolstoy and A. P. Chekhov, impact creative ideas M. Gorky identified originality fiction Kuprin, his place in literary process beginning of the century.

The theme of "enlightenment" of a simple Russian person, eagerly seeking truth in social life, was especially close to the writers, whose work was formed during the years of the revolutionary upsurge. Therefore, the center of the works invariably turns out to be a small person, an average intellectual truth seeker, and the main theme is bourgeois civilization, devouring thousands of human lives and entailing the vulgarization of people's relationships "It is natural in such a situation to turn to one of the eternal themes - the theme of love. A. Kuprin also refers to the theme of love as one of the mysteries of being.

Following "Olesya" (1898) and "Duel" (1905), in the 1910s, a kind of "trilogy" about love came out from under his pen, which is formed by the works "Shulamith", "Garnet Bracelet" and "Pit" ( the latter depicts anti-love). Love for Kuprin is a saving force that protects the human soul from the destructive influence of civilization; a phenomenon of life, an unexpected gift that illuminates life in the midst of everyday reality and established life. But love in his works is associated with the idea of ​​death.

The heroes of Kuprin most often die when faced with the world of cruelty, lack of spirituality and the generally accepted philistine morality of the modern world.

The meaning and content of the life of the protagonist of the story "Garnet Bracelet" was a great, but, unfortunately, unrequited love. G. S. Zheltkov is a young man of pleasant appearance, an employee of the control chamber. He is musical, endowed with a sense of beauty, subtly feels and knows how to understand people. Despite his poverty, Zheltkov has a "pedigree", his sofa is covered with a "worn beautiful Teke carpet."

But its main value is "seven years of hopeless and polite love." The object of his worship eldest daughter the late Prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, the wife of the marshal of the nobility in the city of K., Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. She married for love a childhood friend, but now she feels for her husband "a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship." Both Vera Nikolaevna herself and those around her consider her marriage a happy one. Vera Nikolaevna is endowed with "aristocratic" beauty. She attracts "with her tall, flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather big hands and that charming sloping of the shoulders, which can be seen in old miniatures.

The heroine is a sensitive, subtle nature with many talents. But Vera does not respond to Zheltkov's feelings. She perceives his attention, his letters and the gift of a garnet bracelet as something unnecessary, besides breaking the usual measured course of life. The princess is accustomed to take life seriously. She soberly assesses the financial situation of the family and tries to "help the prince refrain from complete ruin", denying herself a lot and saving on household chores. At the Sheins wide circle acquaintances, and reputation is very important for Princess Vera, she is afraid to look ridiculous or ridiculous. She considers the fan himself "with the funny surname Zheltkov" a "madman" who "haunts her with his love", and even once asks him in writing "not to bother her anymore with his love outpourings." The love of our hero is incomprehensible to the princess and seems burdensome.

For Zheltkov, the whole life lies in Vera Nikolaevna. He is no longer interested in anything: "neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people." Zheltkov's heart is always near her beloved, at her feet, "every moment of the day is filled" with Vera Nikolaevna, thoughts and dreams about her. But Zheltkov's love is "not a disease, not a manic idea." He fell in love with Vera "because there is nothing in the world like her, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no man more beautiful ... and more tender." This great love is a gift from heaven, "great happiness." This is love, “which God was pleased to reward me for something,” he writes, experiencing “reverence, eternal admiration” for the woman he loves, and boundless gratitude for the mere fact that she exists. The princess, unknowingly herself, painfully injures Zheltkov, pushes him to suicide with the words: "Oh, if you only knew how tired I am of this whole story. Please stop it as soon as possible." But he asked for such a small thing: "to stay in the city, so that at least occasionally to see her, of course, without showing her eyes."

Farewell to Vera Nikolaevna for the hero is tantamount to saying goodbye to life. But, knowing perfectly well that his feelings are not shared, Zheltkov hopes and is “even sure” that Vera Nikolaevna will remember him someday. And indeed, after Zheltkov’s death, saying goodbye to him, she realizes that she has lost something important and very valuable, that “a great love that repeats only once in a thousand years”, “that love that every woman dreams of has passed past her." Shocked by this realization, Vera asks the pianist to play something, not doubting that Jenny will play the very passage from the Second Sonata that Zheltkov asked for. And when she listened to "this exceptional work, unique in its depth," "her soul seemed to split in two." She was filled with music and poems that ended with words from farewell letter loving person: "Hallowed be thy name" ...

The musical theme "Appassionata" claims high strength love. Music in the story generally plays a very important role, it is not by chance that the title of Beethoven's second sonata is included in the epigraph. It serves as the key to understanding the whole work. "Prayer for Love" runs like a leitmotif throughout the work and sounds powerfully in its finale. What the enamored official of the control chamber was unable to put into words was "told" by the music of the great composer. As you can see, mutual, perfect love did not take place, but this high and poetic feeling, albeit concentrated in one soul, opened the way to a beautiful rebirth of another. After all, every woman in the depths of her heart dreams of such love - "one, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless."

Just a few pages, a few lines from a letter, and before us was the life of a man. Is it real life? Is the main character real?

According to the memoirs of L. Arsenyeva, a younger contemporary of the writer, in the late 1920s in Paris, the aging A. Kuprin challenged an interlocutor to a duel, who allowed himself to doubt the plausibility of the plot of the "Garnet Bracelet". Kuprin rarely resorted to pure fiction in his work. All his works are realistic, based on real events, personal impressions from meetings with people, from conversations. The story of love, which formed the basis of the story, the writer heard in the summer of 1906 while visiting a member of the State Council, Dmitry Nikolaevich Lyubimov. The Lyubimovs showed Kuprin a family album. There were illustrations for letters that Lyubimov's wife received from a person signing the initials P.P.Zh. (it turned out to be petty postal official Pyotr Petrovich Zheltikov). Kuprin creatively rethought what he heard and, with the power of his talent, turned an ordinary episode into a love story that has been dreamed of and yearned for for centuries " the best minds and the souls of mankind - poets, novelists, musicians, artists. "Unlike the hero of the story Kuprin, Zheltikov did not shoot himself, but was transferred to the province, where he then married. But he served real prototype to create a hero who won our hearts with the power and purity of his feelings.

The image of Zheltkov is real. It is real because in the world, contrary to the opinion of General Anosov, there is still love, which is not affected by "any comforts of life, calculations and compromises", and there are men capable of "to strong desires, to heroic deeds, to tenderness and adoration. "I would like to believe that in modern world perhaps a bright, humane feeling, reckless, "hopeless and polite", chivalrous, heroic love; love is strong and pure, the love that God sends to the elect, "like great happiness." Such love, "for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment, is not labor at all, but one joy." But such love cannot, must not end in a fatal outcome. Why die? You need to live, knowing that you are just nearby, in the same city, in the same country, on the same planet with the person you love, and from this life is filled with meaning and becomes beautiful.

Despite the tragic ending, "Kuprin's story is optimistic, life-affirming, because in the "Garnet Bracelet" the author, probably stronger and brighter than in other works, sings Eternal values life, spiritual strength and purity, nobility and the ability to sacrifice in the name of love. And, of course, love itself - the most sublime and beautiful of all human feelings.

Other writings on this work

Topic unrequited love is always dramatic, and often tragic artwork. One of the characters in the story "Garnet Bracelet" General Anosov says: "Love should be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life's conveniences, calculations and compromises should touch it." Kuprin affirms love as the highest form of beauty, but does not ignore the fact that social relations break and pervert it.

The story "Garnet Bracelet" tells the story of the love of the telegrapher Zheltkov to the aristocrat Vera Sheina. The writer shows the spiritual limitations of aristocrats who do not allow the idea that a poor official is capable of great love. Who could cause such a tragically hopeless love? Kuprin describes Vera's appearance in detail, comparing her with her sister Anna. Unlike the lively and mocking Anna, Vera "was strictly simple, coldly and a little condescendingly kind to everyone, independently and regally calm." Truly exceptional circumstances are needed for it to escape from the absorbed secular conventions.

Most of the story is devoted to the depiction of the family of Prince Shein and his entourage. Main character appears only at the end of the work. Kuprin slowly recreates the atmosphere of a rich and noble house, describes in detail the behavior and way of thinking of the characters. Guests come to Vera's name day, and as they arrive, the writer characterizes them. With sympathy, the image of General Anosov is drawn - "a gigantic and unusually picturesque figure", "a fragment of antiquity". In it, Kuprin, in the Tolstoy tradition, embodied best features Russian man of the older generation - "features that consisted of an ingenuous, naive faith, a clear, good-natured and cheerful outlook on life, cold and businesslike courage, humility in the face of death, pity for the defeated, endless patience and amazing physical and moral endurance." It is Anosov who expresses the thoughts of the writer himself that one cannot pass by the rarest gift of great selfless love.

Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein, Vera's husband, is shown as a man of his environment with her disdain for people lower classes. He sneers at the love messages of the "poor telegrapher", parodying them. Vera's brother Nikolai Bulat-Tuganovsky is an arrogant, cruel man who emphasizes his superiority over people from the people. He takes it as a personal insult that some petty official dared to fall in love with his sister.

The image of the protagonist Zheltkov emerges from his letter. Love, which is "strong as death", breathes every line of the letter. Its author appears to be a noble man, capable of high inspiration and self-denial, of selfless admiration for a woman. Zheltkov appears only in the last part of the story, when Vera's husband and her brother come to him. This is "very pale, with a gentle girlish face, with blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle "a young man. Kuprin creates the appearance of a shy and gentle person, but the stubborn chin allows us to suspect a strong-willed nature in Zheltkov. He feels guilty for disturbing the peace of his beloved woman. For now we are talking about the dignity and honor of his beloved, he does not even try to make excuses. But when Bulat-Tuganovsky speaks of his intention to turn to the authorities, a feeling of spiritual superiority suddenly awakens in Zheltkov: in his love, as it were, he rises above the vanity of life. The last letter of the hero is filled with the highest tragedy, which could not but affect Vera. indifferent to ordinary people, the aristocratic Vera comes to the poor dwelling of the already dead Zheltkov. His suicide was the last argument for the authenticity of feeling for the one that was "the only joy in life, the only consolation, the only thought." Zheltkov's last note mentions a Beethoven sonata. pathetic, romantic theme love-tragedy is associated in the story with musical theme six measures of "Appassionata". This is a musical prayer for love. The prayerful, almost religious nature of such high and disinterested love is fixed next to symbolic images: an old prayer book presented to Vera by her sister; a garnet bracelet sent by Zheltkov and then given as a gift to the Madonna; the transformation of six musical phrases into six lines of a poem in prose, reminiscent of an akathist of love, with a refrain of a line from a prayer that the hero quotes in his last letter to Vera: “Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be thy name.”

Kuprin develops the theme of the "little man" traditional for Russian literature. But this little man is elevated by love, becomes tragic hero. The face of the dead Zheltkov reminds Vera of the death masks of Pushkin and Napoleon. By this, Kuprin equates the talent of love with the talents of geniuses.

"Garnet Bracelet" is a hymn of great unrequited love that overcomes any conventions and prejudices.

Zheltkov was a young man who had long since fallen in love with Vera Nikolaevna. At first he dared to write letters to her. But when she asked him not to do it again, he immediately stopped, since his love was higher than his own desires. At first he dreamed of a meeting and wanted an answer, but, realizing that he would not succeed, he still continued to love the princess.For him, her happiness and peace were in the first place. He was a sensitive young man, capable of deep feeling. For him, Vera Nikolaevna was the ideal and perfection of beauty. He was not crazy because he understood everything that was going on perfectly. He wanted to see Vera, but did not have the right to do so, so he did it secretly.He understood that he could not give her gifts, but he sent her a bracelet, in the hope that she would at least see it and pick it up for a second.

In addition, Zheltkov was a very honest and noble young man, he did not pursue Vera Nikolaevna after her marriage and after she wrote him a note asking him never to write to her again. He only occasionally sent her congratulations on big holidays, such as New Year, Christmas, Birthday. Zheltkov was noble, since he did not try to upset Vera Nikolaevna's barque, and when he realized that he had already gone far and was interfering with his manifestations, he decided to simply get out of the way. But since he could not live without her, he committed suicide, because for him it was the only way keep yourself from not seeing her, not sending gifts, letters, not making yourself known. He was mentally strong enough to draw this conclusion for himself, but he was not strong enough to live without his love.