Poor Lisa in a nutshell about what. Poor Lisa

“Poor Lisa” (a summary of the story-symbol of the era of sentimentalism in Russian literature will be presented in the article) is a story about a simple girl. Of course, it is impossible to convey the whole impression and the whole plot of a seemingly small work in such a concise form.

The author is an outstanding historian N. Karamzin. “Poor Lisa” (a summary can be read below) is a sentimental story that has become an example of this trend in Russian classics. So, the actions of the described events take place in the vicinity of Moscow ...

"Poor Lisa": a summary

Not far from the monastery there is a house where the main character lives. Her father was an honest peasant. After his death, Lisa and her mother had to rent out the land for little money. Despite this, the girl continued to work hard. Once Lisa went to the market to sell lilies of the valley. There, a pleasant young man named Erast approached her. He was handsome, handsome and rich. He led a rather free life. Erast offered the girl a ruble for a bouquet, but she, due to her modesty, took only 5 kopecks (this retelling of the text is a summary). Poor Liza picked up the bouquet again the next day, but Erast never came. But the next day the nobleman visited the girl in her house. Since then, they began to meet often.

Erast saw in a simple girl what he had always dreamed of: peace and love. He was tired of the world, of artificial relationships and a riotous lifestyle. With Lisa, he was calm and happy. During their next meeting, the girl admitted that they want to marry her to a rich peasant. Lisa threw herself into the arms of the young man, and "at this hour the chastity was to perish." Poor Lisa (a brief summary of the story should encourage reading the original) continued to hang out with her lover, but now Erast's attitude has changed: he no longer saw that pure angel in her. He later goes to war.

Two months later, Liza was again in the city, where she saw her lover in a rich carriage. The girl threw herself on his neck, but he rejected her hugs, brought her into the office and said that he would marry a rich widow, since he had lost almost all of his fortune. Erast gives the girl a hundred rubles and asks her to forget him. Lisa can't stand this insult. On the way home, she meets her neighbor, whom she gives money to and asks her to tell her mother that her loved one has deceived her. Lisa jumps into the water. Erast, having learned about the death of the girl, blames himself until the end of his days.

Nikolai Karamzin wrote a wonderful sentimental story "Poor Lisa" (the summary does not convey the full power of the work). This story became the basis of many women's novels, became the basis for the creation of films and simply a model of sentimentalism in Russian and world classical literature. The exciting love story of an ordinary peasant woman and a windy nobleman made the minds of that time stir and makes modern people read the story in one breath. This is the classic of the genre.

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

Here she lived with her old mother in a now collapsed hut not far from the monastery of Lisa. The house stood near a birch grove in a meadow 30 years ago. Her father was wealthy, sober and hardworking. When he died, Lisa was 15 years old. After his death, the land was leased out, 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 in order to die peacefully.

One spring, seventeen-year-old Liza 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 for her address.

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

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

The next day in the evening Liza was spinning by the window and singing. Suddenly she recoiled from the window, seeing the same young man. A young man who called himself Erast suggested that his mother buy Liza's products right at their house so that Liza would not go to the city. Mother was very glad, because she was always worried when Lisa left. She wishes her daughter the same groom. Lisa is embarrassed.

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

Lisa did not sleep well that night and even before dawn she came to the river bank. Nature gradually came to life, the shepherd drove his flock. Liza dreamed of what would happen if Erast was a peasant, a shepherd. Suddenly Erast came to her on a boat. He took her hand, kissed her and said 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 Liza always. He asked not to say anything to his mother, so that she would not think evil. 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 a 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 the request of Liza, often visited her mother and liked to listen to the old woman's stories about her tender relationship with her husband Ivan.

A few weeks later, Lisa came on a date unhappy. A wealthy groom from a neighboring village wooed her. Mother is upset by Liza's refusal. She does not know about the love of her daughter and Erast. Erast promises, after the death of his mother, to take Lisa to him and live with her in a village in the forest, because Liza's peasant origin is not important to him, but her soul is important. Lisa threw herself into his arms and lost her innocence.

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

On the next dates, Erast was already not enough manifestations of platonic love. He could not wish for anything 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.

Once Erast did not come for 5 days, and then said 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 will not sell her work to anyone else in his absence. The old woman wishes the good master a speedy return and dreams of inviting him to her daughter's wedding and making her grandchildren godfather.

Saying goodbye at dawn, Lisa and Erast wept. When Erast left, Lisa lost her senses. Only the thought of her mother prompted her to return home. The girl hid her sadness from her mother.

Two months later, Lisa went to Moscow to get rose water for her mother. She saw Erast, who was getting out of a magnificent carriage. Lisa rushed to him. Erast took her by the hand, brought 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 Liza and gave her 100 rubles, asking the servant to escort her out of the yard.

Erast was indeed in the army, lost his fortune in cards and, upon his return, was going 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, being on the street, thought that Erast loved another. She fainted in confusion. When the girl approached the pond where she met with Erast, she saw the fifteen-year-old daughter of her neighbor Anyuta. Lisa gave her 10 imperials and asked her to take them to her mother and confess for Lisa in front of her, because she hid her love for the cruel man who cheated on her. Then Liza threw herself into the lake. Anyuta called people from the village who pulled Liza out, but she was already dead.

The direction of literature is most clearly visible in his story "Poor Liza" (see its full text and analysis on our website). This work was published in 1792 in " Moscow magazine».

The content of the story is simple. In the vicinity of Moscow, not far from the ancient walls of the Simonov Monastery, an old widow lived in a poor hut with her beautiful daughter Liza. “Father Lizin,” says Karamzin, “was a rather prosperous peasant, because he loved work, plowed the land well and always led a sober life. But soon after his death, his wife and daughter became impoverished. Note that Karamzin often calls the peasants "villagers", it sounds somehow more delicate. The "villages" of Karamzin are usually all virtuous, sensitive, and speak an elegant and rather sentimental language.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin. Portrait by Tropinin

Lisa's mother could not work, she was almost completely blind, "constantly shedding tears over the death of her husband - for peasant women know how to love!" - Lisa earned money by needlework, and in the summer she picked flowers, picked berries and wore them to sell to Moscow. When she was selling lilies of the valley one day, "a young, well-dressed, pleasant-looking man" drew attention to her; he bought flowers from her, talked to her, and, struck by her beauty, asked where she lived. Love broke out between young people. Soon Erast, that was the name of the young man, appeared in Lisa's poor hut. Going to the window, he asked the girl's mother if she had any fresh milk. The scene of this meeting is described in terms typical of a sentimentalist writer.

“The obliging Liza ran to the cellar, brought a clean pot covered with a clean wooden mug, wiped it off with a white towel, poured it out and served it out the window, but she herself looked at the ground. The stranger drank - and the nectar from the hands Hebe couldn't have tasted better. Everyone will guess that after that he thanked Lisa, and thanked not so much with words as with his eyes.

While the old woman was telling Erast all the circumstances of her life, he “listened with attention, but his eyes were - is it necessary to show where? And Liza, timid Liza, looked from time to time at the young man; but not so soon the lightning flashes and disappears into a cloud, as quickly her blue eyes turned to the earth, meeting his gaze. “Her cheeks burned like the dawn on a clear summer evening; she looked at her left sleeve and plucked it with her right hand ... ".

Karamzin. Poor Lisa. audiobook

Erast, a young, rich nobleman, was sincerely carried away by a simple peasant girl. He “read novels, idylls” and “it seemed to him that he had found in Lisa what his heart had long been looking for. “Nature calls me into its arms, to pure joys,” he thought.

An acquaintance began. Young people often meet either in the early morning or on a moonlit night not far from Liza's house. Their love flares up. Liza is surprised that Erast asks her not to tell her mother about these meetings, but she completely trusts her friend and gives herself up to a new feeling with her whole being. A few weeks later, Erast announces to her that they must part for a while, as he is going to war, to his regiment, where he is called by a duty of honor. The farewell of young people is described in the most touching and sad terms. "By saying goodbye to him (Erast), Lisa said goodbye to her soul."

She spends two months in anguish and tears. “One day Liza had to go to Moscow, then to buy rose water, with which her mother treated her eyes.” On one of the big streets she saw a magnificent carriage passing by, and Erast in it. Liza ran after the carriage, which soon stopped near a huge house. Erast came out, and Lisa rushed to him. Without answering her exclamations, he led her into his office, locked the door and told her that circumstances had changed and they should part forever, since he was engaged to marry. Having said this, he put a hundred rubles in her pocket and, calling the servant, ordered him to escort the girl out of the yard ... One can imagine in what position, in what state Liza found herself again on the street ...

Erast was indeed in the army for some time; but then, having lost a lot at cards, he upset his condition and decided to marry a rich widow in order to improve his affairs.

Left alone on the street, Lisa fainted. Recovering herself, she got up and went, she did not know where. Leaving the city, she soon found herself “on the shore of a deep pond, under the shade of ancient oaks,” at the very place where, a few weeks before, her meetings with Erast had taken place. "Memories shook her soul." Unable to withstand the heartache, Liza threw herself into the water... "People gathered and pulled Liza out, but she was already dead."

“Thus ended her beautiful life in soul and body,” writes Karamzin. “When we are THERE, in a new life, see you, I will recognize you, gentle Liza.”

“She was buried near the pond, under a gloomy oak, and a wooden cross was placed on her grave.” “Lizina's mother heard about the terrible death of her daughter, and her blood cooled with horror, her eyes closed forever. The hut is empty. The wind howls in it, and superstitious villagers, hearing this noise at night; they say: a dead man is groaning there, poor Liza is groaning there!

Title of the work: Poor Lisa

Year of writing: 1792

Genre: story

Main characters: Liza- peasant woman Erast- young nobleman

Plot

Liza lived with her mother on the outskirts of the city and they were fed by the fact that the girl collected and sold flowers. Once a young nobleman drew attention to her, he began to court the girl and eventually won her love. She conquered the young man with purity and innocence, modesty and good manners, and, most importantly, with her untouched beauty. The inexperienced village woman responded to the young man's love. Young people made plans for a simple life together, in solitude, without noise and fuss. And it seemed that the young rake also wanted to unite fate with the poor girl, just as she did with him.

But after some time, Erast told the girl that he was leaving for a long time, maybe forever. Lisa suffered, but believed that her lover would one day return and they would be together. But soon she found out about his terrible deceit, the young man was going to marry a rich girl because of her money.

Unable to bear such a blow, Lisa committed suicide.

Conclusion (my opinion)

This is one of the first sentimental stories in Russian literature, where the true love of a girl from the people is drawn. The author wanted to show that the class position of a person is not important, but only his human qualities are important.

In the outskirts of Moscow, not far from the Simonov Monastery, once a young girl Liza lived with her old mother. After the death of Lisa's father, a rather prosperous peasant, his wife and daughter became impoverished. The widow grew weaker day by day and could not work. Only Liza, not sparing her tender youth and rare beauty, worked day and night - weaving canvases, knitting stockings, picking flowers in the spring, and selling berries in the summer in Moscow.

One spring, two years after her father's death, Liza came to Moscow with lilies of the valley. A young, well-dressed man met her on the street. Upon learning that she was selling flowers, he offered her a ruble instead of five kopecks, saying that "beautiful lilies of the valley plucked by the hands of a beautiful girl are worth a ruble." But Lisa refused the offered amount. He did not insist, but said that from now on he would always buy flowers from her and would like her to pick them only for him.

Arriving home, Liza told her mother everything, and the next day she picked the best lilies of the valley and again came to the city, but this time she did not meet the young man. Throwing flowers into the river, she returned home with sadness in her soul. The next evening, a stranger himself came to her house. As soon as she saw him, Liza rushed to her mother and excitedly announced who was coming to them. The old woman met the guest, and he seemed to her a very kind and pleasant person. Erast - that was the name of the young man - confirmed that he was going to buy flowers from Lisa in the future, and she did not have to go to the city: he himself could call on them.

Erast was a rather wealthy nobleman, with a fair mind and a naturally kind heart, but weak and windy. He led a distracted life, thinking only about his own pleasure, looking for it in secular amusements, and not finding it, he got bored and complained about his fate. The immaculate beauty of Liza at the first meeting shocked him: it seemed to him that in her he found exactly what he had been looking for for a long time.

This was the start of their long relationship. Every evening they saw each other either on the banks of the river, or in a birch grove, or under the shade of hundred-year-old oaks. They embraced, but their embrace was pure and innocent.

So several weeks passed. It seemed that nothing could interfere with their happiness. But one evening Lisa came to the meeting sad. It turned out that the groom, the son of a rich peasant, was wooing her, and the mother wanted her to marry him. Erast, comforting Lisa, said that after the death of his mother, he would take her to him and would live with her inseparably. But Liza reminded the young man that he could never be her husband: she is a peasant woman, and he is of a noble family. You offend me, said Erast, for your friend, your soul is most important, sensitive, innocent soul, you will always be closest to my heart. Liza threw herself into his arms - and at this hour chastity was to perish.

The delusion passed in one minute, giving way to surprise and fear. Liza cried, saying goodbye to Erast.

Their dates continued, but how everything had changed! Liza was no longer an angel of purity for Erast; platonic love gave way to feelings that he could not be "proud of" and which were not new to him. Liza noticed a change in him, and it saddened her.

Once, during a date, Erast told Lisa that he was being drafted into the army; they will have to part for a while, but he promises to love her and hopes to never part with her upon his return. It is not difficult to imagine how hard Liza felt the separation from her beloved. However, hope did not leave her, and every morning she woke up with the thought of Erast and their happiness upon his return.

So it took about two months. Once Lisa went to Moscow and on one of the big streets she saw Erast passing by in a magnificent carriage, which stopped near a huge house. Erast went out and was about to go to the porch, when he suddenly felt himself in Liza's arms. He turned pale, then, without saying a word, led her into the study and locked the door. Circumstances have changed, he announced to the girl, he is engaged.

Before Lisa could come to her senses, he led her out of the study and told the servant to escort her out of the yard.

Finding herself on the street, Liza went aimlessly, unable to believe what she heard. She left the city and wandered for a long time, until suddenly she found herself on the shore of a deep pond, under the shade of ancient oaks, which, a few weeks before, had been silent witnesses of her delights. This memory shocked Lisa, but after a few minutes she fell into deep thought. Seeing a neighbor girl walking along the road, she called her, took all the money out of her pocket and gave it to her, asking her to give it to her mother, kiss her and ask her to forgive the poor daughter. Then she threw herself into the water, and they could not save her.

Liza's mother, having learned about the terrible death of her daughter, could not stand the blow and died on the spot. Erast was unhappy until the end of his life. He did not deceive Lisa when he told her that he was going to the army, but instead of fighting the enemy, he played cards and lost all his fortune. He had to marry an elderly rich widow who had been in love with him for a long time. Upon learning of Liza's fate, he could not console himself and considered himself a murderer. Now, perhaps, they have already reconciled.

Once there lived a young and sweet girl Lisa. Her prosperous father died, and Lisa was left with her mother to live in poverty. The unfortunate widow grew weaker every day and could no longer work. Liza wove canvases day and night, knitted stockings, went for flowers in the spring, and picked berries in the summer, after which she sold them in Moscow.

Two years after the death of her father, the girl went to the city to sell lilies of the valley and met a young man on the street. He offered a whole ruble instead of five kopecks for her goods, but the girl refused. The guy asked to always sell him flowers plucked only for him.

When Lisa returned home, she told her mother about the stranger. In the morning she picked the most beautiful lilies of the valley, but she did not meet a guy. Frustrated, Liza threw the flowers into the river, and in the evening of the next day the young man came to her house himself.

Lisa and her mother greeted the guest. He seemed very nice and kind to them. The guy called himself Erast and said that from now on he would become the only buyer of Liza, and that the girl would no longer go to the city.

Erast was rich, smart, kind, but weak and fickle in character. The beauty of Lisa sunk deep into the soul of a nobleman. Thus began their meetings and long dates. A few weeks passed and everything was fine, but one day Lisa came with a sad look on her face. A rich groom began to woo her, and her mother decided to give her in marriage. Erast promised the girl to take her to him after the death of her mother, despite the fact that a peasant woman and a nobleman cannot be together. Another moment and the couple would have drowned in depravity, but delusion was replaced by reason.

After some time, Erast went into the army, but promised to return and love the girl forever. But two months later, Lisa met Erast in the city and found out that he was engaged. Lisa was beside herself with grief. She walked down the street and reached the local deep pond. She stood for a long time, immersed in her thoughts. I saw a girl passing by, and gave her all the money to give it to her mother, and then threw herself into the water.

Upon learning of the death of her daughter, the old woman died on the spot. And Erast was unhappy until the end of his days. In the army, he played cards and lost his entire fortune, after which he had to marry an elderly rich widow in order to pay off the debt. He learned about the fate of Lisa and felt guilty.