Summary of Karamzin's story poor Lisa. "Poor Lisa

Not far from Moscow, near the Simonov Monastery, a girl named Lisa lived with her elderly mother. After the death of her father (a fairly rich villager), Lisa and her mother went broke. The mother became weaker and weaker every day, as a result of which she could not work. Only Liza, without sparing herself, worked for days - knitting, weaving, picking flowers and berries and selling them in Moscow.

One spring, a couple of years after her father’s death, Lisa went to sell flowers as usual.

A neat young man noticed her on the street and, learning that she was selling flowers, offered to pay her a ruble for them (instead of five kopecks), arguing that “beautiful lilies of the valley, plucked by the hands of a beautiful girl, are worth a ruble.” But she refused this price. The young man did not insist, but said that now he would buy flowers from her every day and would like his beloved to pick them just for him.

Returning home, Lisa told her mother everything, and the next day she picked the most beautiful flowers and went to the city again, but that day she never met the young man. Throwing lilies of the valley into the river, she went home in sadness. Another day, the young man himself appeared at Lisa’s house. As soon as she noticed him, Lisa immediately, worriedly, told her mother. Together they greeted Erast (that was his name), and they saw him as a good and very neat person. He agreed that in the future he would buy flowers from Lisa, and that he could come for them himself.

Erast was a fairly wealthy nobleman, with a kind soul and a good mind, but frivolous and weak. He led a reckless life, thinking only about the pleasures that he sought in secular amusements, and not finding them, he was sad and depressed about his fate. But Lisa, or rather her immaculate beauty, shocked him: he thought that he had found exactly what he had been trying to find all this time.

This is how their dates began. Every day they met in the grove or by the river, or under the oak trees. Their embrace was pure and virginal.

Weeks passed... It seemed that it was impossible to interfere with their happiness. But one day Lisa came to the meeting in sadness. The son of a rich peasant is going to marry her, and her mother asks her to marry him. Erast, trying to console her, said that after her mother died, he would take her and live with her inseparably. But he cannot become her husband: he is a nobleman, and she is of a peasant family, said Lisa. Don’t offend me, said Erast, for your comrade, the soul is more important, an innocent soul, so sensitive, you will always be the person closest to me. And she threw herself into his arms - the time for sin had come.

After a minute, her delusion passed, giving way to fear and amazement. Lisa began to cry as she said goodbye to him.

Their date continued, but everything changed. For Erast, Lisa was no longer that angel; feelings gave way to carnal love, which he was never “proud of.” But Lisa noticed this change, and it upset her.

One day, at their meeting, Erast told Lisa that he was being called to defend his homeland. After he returned, he promised her that they would never be separated again. It’s not hard to imagine how difficult it was for Lisa to experience separation from Erast. But she did not lose hope, and every day Lisa woke up with the thought of their happiness and his return.

After a couple of months. Lisa, walking to Moscow, noticed Erast on the street passing in a carriage that was approaching a luxurious house. As soon as Erast got out of the carriage and was about to leave, he found himself in Lisa’s arms. He turned pale and led her silently into the office. The order has changed, I’m engaged, he told Lisa.

Before Lisa had time to come to her senses, she found herself on the street. She walked away, unable to believe what she heard. Lisa came to the shore of the pond, where the surrounding oak trees had, a few weeks ago, witnessed her delight. Lisa thought and went into herself. Noticing a neighbor's child, she gave him all the money and asked him to give it to his mother, saying that she would forgive the poor daughter. After which Lisa jumped into the water, no one could save her...

Lisa's mother died on the spot after learning what happened to her daughter. Erast remained unhappy for the rest of his life. He did not lie to Lisa that he was leaving for the army, but instead of defending his homeland, he lost his entire fortune at cards. And he had to marry an old rich widow who had been in love with him for a long time. Having learned about Lisa's death, he could not forgive himself and considered himself a murderer. Maybe they have made peace now.

“Poor Liza” by Karamzin is a true masterpiece of Russian literature. In the 18th century, the writer first turned to describing the life of the lower classes - peasants. He introduces us to a sensitive, living soul, using the techniques of sentimentalism. The plot of the book helps to understand the problem of social inequality in Russia at that time. You will be able to remember the main events from the story thanks to a brief retelling prepared by the Literaguru team.

(349 words) The main actions of the work take place near the Simonov Monastery. It is there, in a small hut, that a poor peasant family lives: an old woman with her seventeen-year-old daughter Lisa. Two years ago they lost their breadwinner: a hardworking and honest man. It was hard for the widow; she fell ill with melancholy. From that moment on, young Lisa took on all the work. She wove canvas, knitted stockings, picked flowers and berries and went to Moscow to sell all this. Lisa met there Erast, a wealthy nobleman. He liked the purity and sincerity of the girl, he demanded that she pick lilies of the valley only for his day. The young man was open and affectionate, but frivolous by nature. He was tired of secular society, from Lisa he wanted to get that calm, peace that the bustle of Moscow life could not give. He visited the girl every day and met her mother. The peasant woman immediately fell in love with him; in him she saw the whole meaning of her existence. Their relationship lasted for several weeks, consisting of immaculate walks and conversations in the grove. The heroine even refused the son of a wealthy peasant, disappointing his mother. Erast promised Lisa his hand and heart as soon as the old woman passed away, but this was not destined to come true.

Sincere love overshadowed the girl’s mind: she trusted the young man with her innocence. From that day on, the hero’s attitude gradually changed. He no longer saw in her the purity that he valued so much. Erast soon became bored with carnal pleasures. And so he said that he was leaving to serve in the army, leaving his chosen one with the hope of a quick return.

Two months later, a peasant woman saw a young man by chance in Moscow and rushed to hug her lover. But he only coldly announced his engagement. The hero gave one hundred rubles as a farewell and ordered the servant to escort the girl out. For Lisa, everything lost its meaning at that moment. She could not bear the betrayal and threw herself into the pond. Soon after learning of her daughter's death, the mother died.

Erast squandered his entire fortune in the service, so he preferred a marriage of convenience to life in poverty. He hoped that Lisa would take this calmly, but, having learned about the tragedy, he considered himself the culprit and was tormented by remorse.

Poor Lisa (story)

History of creation and publication

Plot

After the death of her father, a “prosperous villager,” young Lisa is forced to work tirelessly to feed herself and her mother. In the spring, she sells lilies of the valley in Moscow and there she meets the young nobleman Erast, who falls in love with her and is even ready to leave the world for the sake of his love. The lovers spend all evenings together, sharing a bed. However, with the loss of innocence, Lisa lost her attractiveness for Erast. One day he reports that he must go on a campaign with the regiment and they will have to part. A few days later, Erast leaves.

Several months pass. Liza, once in Moscow, accidentally sees Erast in a magnificent carriage and finds out that he is engaged (he lost his estate at cards and is now forced to marry a rich widow). In despair, Lisa throws herself into the pond.

Artistic originality

Simonov Monastery

The plot of the story was borrowed by Karamzin from European love literature, but transferred to “Russian” soil. The author hints that he is personally acquainted with Erast (“I met him a year before his death. He himself told me this story and led me to Lisa’s grave”) and emphasizes that the action takes place in Moscow and its environs, describes, for example , Simonov and Danilov monasteries, Vorobyovy Gory, creating the illusion of authenticity. This was an innovation for Russian literature of that time: usually the action of works took place “in one city.” The first readers of the story perceived Lisa's story as a real tragedy of a contemporary - it is no coincidence that the pond under the walls of the Simonov Monastery was named Liza's Pond, and the fate of Karamzin's heroine received a lot of imitations. The oak trees growing around the pond were covered with inscriptions - touching ( “In these streams, poor Lisa passed away her days; If you are sensitive, passer-by, sigh!”) and caustic ( “Here Erast’s bride threw herself into the pond. Drown yourself, girls: there’s plenty of room in the pond!”) .

However, despite the apparent plausibility, the world depicted in the story is idyllic: the peasant woman Liza and her mother have sophistication of feelings and perceptions, their speech is literate, literary and no different from the speech of the nobleman Erast. The life of poor villagers resembles a pastoral:

Meanwhile, a young shepherd was driving his flock along the river bank, playing the pipe. Lisa fixed her gaze on him and thought: “If the one who now occupies my thoughts was born a simple peasant, a shepherd, - and if he were now driving his flock past me: ah! I would bow to him with a smile and say affably: “Hello, dear shepherd!” Where are you driving your flock? And here green grass grows for your sheep, and here flowers grow red, from which you can weave a wreath for your hat.” He would look at me with an affectionate look - maybe he would take my hand... A dream! A shepherd, playing the flute, passed by and disappeared with his motley flock behind a nearby hill.

The story became an example of Russian sentimental literature. In contrast to classicism with its cult of reason, Karamzin affirmed the cult of feelings, sensitivity, compassion: “Ah! I love those objects that touch my heart and make me shed tears of tender sorrow!” . Heroes are important first of all for their ability to love and surrender to feelings. There is no class conflict in the story: Karamzin sympathizes equally with both Erast and Lisa. In addition, unlike the works of classicism, “Poor Liza” is devoid of morality, didacticism, and edification: the author does not teach, but tries to evoke empathy for the characters in the reader.

The story is also distinguished by its “smooth” language: Karamzin abandoned Old Slavonicisms and pomposity, which made the work easy to read.

Criticism about the story

“Poor Liza” was received by the Russian public with such enthusiasm because in this work Karamzin was the first to express the “new word” that Goethe said to the Germans in his “Werther.” The heroine’s suicide was such a “new word” in the story. The Russian public, accustomed in old novels to consoling endings in the form of weddings, who believed that virtue is always rewarded and vice is punished, for the first time in this story met the bitter truth of life.

"Poor Lisa" in art

In painting

Literary reminiscences

Dramatizations

Film adaptations

• 1967 - “Poor Liza” (television play), directed by Natalya Barinova, David Livnev, starring: Anastasia Voznesenskaya, Andrei Myagkov.
• - “Poor Lisa”, director Idea Garanina, composer Alexey Rybnikov
• - “Poor Lisa”, directed by Slava Tsukerman, starring Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Ulyanov.

Literature

• Toporov V. N.“Poor Liza” by Karamzin: Reading experience: To the bicentenary of its publication. - Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 1995.

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The surroundings of Moscow are described. Not far from the monastery wall there is a hut in which Lisa and her mother lived thirty years ago. Her father was “a fairly prosperous villager, because he loved work, plowed the land well and always led a sober life.” But he died. His widow and daughter could not cultivate the land themselves and were forced to rent it out for little money. Lisa, “not sparing her tender youth, worked day and night - weaving canvases, knitting stockings, picking flowers in the spring, and in the summer she took berries and sold them in Moscow.”

"Poor Lisa." Painting by artist O. Kiprensky. 1827

Two years have passed since my father's death. Lisa came to sell lilies of the valley in Moscow. On the street she met a young, pleasant-looking man. It was Erast - “a fairly rich nobleman, with a fair amount of intelligence and a kind heart, but weak and flighty. He led an absent-minded life, thought only about his own pleasure, looked for it in secular amusements, but often did not find it: he was bored and complained about his fate.” Erast offered the girl a ruble for the flowers, but she only took five kopecks. Then the young man asked her not to sell flowers to anyone except him, and found out where she lived. Lisa told her mother about this meeting. The old woman approved of the fact that her daughter did not take extra money: “It is better to feed yourself by your own labors and not take anything for nothing. You don’t know yet, my friend, how evil people can offend a poor girl!”

The next day, Lisa picked up lilies of the valley again and went into town with them. Many people wanted to buy flowers from her, but the girl refused to sell them. She herself looked for Erast, but did not meet him. She threw the flowers into the Moscow River with the words: “So no one can own you!”

The next evening, Erast came to visit Lisa at her house. It seemed to him that in this girl he had found exactly what his heart had long been looking for and what his soul had long been striving for. They began to meet often. Lisa regretted that her lover was not born a simple peasant or shepherd. At first, Erast dreamed of always living happily with Lisa, like brother and sister. All the brilliant amusements of the great world seemed insignificant to him in comparison with the pleasures with which the passionate friendship of an innocent soul nourished his heart. With disgust he thought about the contemptuous voluptuousness with which his feelings had previously reveled. “I will live with Liza, like brother and sister,” he thought, “I will not use her love for evil and I will always be happy!” But gradually platonic love gave way to other feelings. One evening, Lisa told Erast that her mother wanted to marry her to the son of a rich peasant. “She threw herself into his arms, and at that very hour her integrity was destined to perish.” Their dates continued, but now everything has changed. “For Erast, Lisa was no longer that angel of purity that previously inflamed his imagination and delighted his soul.” They didn't meet for five days. Then Erast appeared and said that his regiment, where he was serving, was going to war.

About two months passed. One day Lisa came to Moscow for rose water, which her mother used to treat her eyes. On one of the big streets she met a magnificent carriage, in which she saw Erast. Lisa rushed to Erast, but his carriage drove past and turned into the courtyard. Erast came out and was about to go to the porch of the huge house, when he suddenly felt himself in Lisa’s arms. Without answering her exclamations, he led her into his office and told her that he was getting married, so she needed to forget him. He put one hundred rubles in Liza’s pocket and ordered the servant to escort the girl out of the yard.

It turned out that Erast played cards during the war, spending almost all his fortune on it, and now he was forced to marry an elderly rich widow who had long been in love with him.

Shocked, Lisa walked without making out the way, and finally went out of the city, to the shore of the pond. On the road she met Anyuta, the daughter of a neighbor. Lisa gave her money for her mother and asked her to tell her that she had been deceived by a cruel man with whom she was in love. After these words, Lisa threw herself into the water. Anyuta rushed to call people for help, but it was too late. The girl was pulled out dead. Lisa's mother died of grief.

The narrator tells about the surroundings of the Sinov Monastery, beautiful at any time of the year. He observes and represents the monks living in their cells, historical events associated with the monastery.

Here she lived with her old mother in a now collapsed hut not far from the monastery. The house stood near a birch grove in a meadow about 30 years ago. Her father was wealthy, sober and hard-working. When he died, Lisa was 15 years old. After his death, the land was given for rent, the mother grew weaker, yearning for her beloved husband. Lisa wove linen, knitted stockings, picked flowers and berries and sold them in Moscow. Her mother dreamed of marrying off her daughter so she could die in peace.

One spring, seventeen-year-old Lisa went to sell lilies of the valley. The young man wanted to pay a whole ruble for them, but Lisa did not take the ruble, because the flowers cost 5 kopecks. The young man said that he would like her to pick flowers just for him. He asked Liza's address.

Lisa told everything to her mother, who praised the girl for not taking extra money.

The next day Lisa picked lilies of the valley. She waited until the evening, and then threw the flowers into the Moscow River, not wanting to sell them to others.

The next day in the evening Lisa was spinning by the window and singing. Suddenly she pulled back from the window, seeing that same young man. A young man who called himself Erast suggested that his mother buy Liza’s products directly from their home so that Liza would not go into the city. Mother was very happy, because she was always worried when Lisa left. She wishes her daughter the same groom. Lisa is confused.

Erast was a rich nobleman, smart and kind, but weak and flighty. He became disillusioned with secular amusements and sought the naturalness described in idylls. Seeing Lisa, he thought that he had found his ideal.

Lisa slept poorly that night and came to the river bank before dawn. Nature gradually came to life, the shepherd drove his flock. Lisa dreamed of what would happen if Erast was a peasant, a shepherd. Suddenly Erast sailed to her on a boat. He took her hand, kissed her and said that he loved her. Lisa also confessed her love. For two hours they sat on the grass, looking into each other's eyes. Erast promised to love Lisa always. He asked not to say anything to his mother so that she would not think anything bad. Lisa reluctantly agreed.

Lisa and Erast saw each other every evening when Lisa's mother went to bed. Their embrace was chaste. Erast decided to retire from secular amusements for a passionate friendship with the shepherdess (as he called Lisa). He would like to love her all his life like a brother. But did he know his heart?

Erast, at Lisa’s request, often visited her mother and loved to listen to the old woman’s stories about her tender relationship with her husband Ivan.

A few weeks later, Lisa showed up on a date looking sad. A rich groom from a neighboring village wooed her. Mother is upset by Lisa’s refusal. She doesn’t know about the love of her daughter and Erast. Erast promises, after his mother’s death, to take Liza with him and live with her in a village in the forest, because Liza’s peasant origins are not important to him, but her soul is important. Lisa rushed into his arms and lost her virginity.

A thunderstorm began, Lisa was afraid of God's punishment. Erast accompanied her home, promising to love her as before.

On subsequent dates, Erast no longer had enough manifestations of platonic love. He could desire nothing more and could not be proud of his feelings. Lisa lived only for Erast, and he was no longer ready to see her every evening.

One day Erast did not come for 5 days, and then announced that he was going to war with his regiment. He asks the girl not to cry and take care of herself.

The young man leaves money to Lisa’s mother so that Lisa does not sell her work to anyone else in his absence. The old woman wishes the good master a quick return and dreams of inviting him to her daughter’s wedding and making him godfather of her grandchildren.

Saying goodbye at dawn, Lisa and Erast cried. When Erast left, Lisa fainted. Only the thought of her mother prompted her to return home. The girl hid her melancholy from her mother.

Two months later, Lisa went to Moscow to get rose water for her mother. She saw Erast getting out of a magnificent carriage. Lisa rushed to him. Erast took her hand, led her to his office and said that circumstances had changed, he was engaged and asked Lisa to leave him alone. Erast said that he loved Lisa and gave her 100 rubles, asking the servant to escort her from the yard.

Erast was actually in the army, lost his fortune at cards, and upon his return planned to marry an elderly rich widow, who had long been in love with him, in order to improve his affairs. The author cannot justify Erast.

Lisa, finding herself on the street, thought that Erast loved someone else. In confusion, she fainted. When the girl approached the pond where she met Erast, she saw the neighbor’s fifteen-year-old daughter Anyuta. Lisa gave her 10 imperials and asked her to take them to her mother and apologize for Lisa to her, because she had hidden her love for the cruel man who cheated on her. Then Lisa threw herself into the lake. Anyuta called people from the village who pulled Lisa out, but she was already dead.