Essays on literature: I love my dear Tatiana so much!

Tatiana, dear Tatiana...

I love so much

My dear Tatiana!..

For... that in sweet simplicity

She knows no deception

And he believes in his chosen dream.

Because... he loves without art,

Obedient to the attraction of feeling,

Why is she so trusting?

What is gifted from heaven

With a rebellious imagination,

Alive in mind and will,

And wayward head,

And with a fiery and tender heart.

A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin"

Pushkin... We meet his name for the first time in early childhood. My mother sits by my pillow and quietly whispers: “Lukomorye has a green oak tree...” Then I dream of heroes, mermaids, the terrible Kashchei and the kind storyteller cat.

Pushkin's fairy tales... My childhood... "...If Pushkin comes to us from childhood, we truly come to him only over the years" (A. Tvardovsky). And the years go by. Whatever

No matter how old you turn to Pushkin’s work, you will always find in it answers to exciting questions.

Questions for you, an example to follow.

And here is the new Pushkin. Pushkin is a patriot, Pushkin, calling us to heroism in the name of the Motherland.

While we are burning with freedom,

While hearts are alive for honor,

My friend, let's dedicate it to the Fatherland

Souls have wonderful impulses.

Youth is spring time human life, the time of the greatest freshness and sharpness of impressions, the time of surprises and discoveries, when the whole world is revealed to a person in all its diversity, complexity and beauty. It’s time for the formation of characters, assessments and ideals, questions to which answers need to be found, it’s time for friendship and first love. Youth has its own Pushkin. You read the novel “Eugene Onegin”, in which, on the threshold of growing up, a new, unknown life, you find consonance with your feelings and experiences.

In the novel, I am especially attracted to Tatyana, the significance and depth of her spiritual world, the beauty and poetry of her soul, sincerity and purity. This is one of the best heroines in Russian literature, in which A. S. Pushkin “poetically reproduced the Russian woman...”

The poet loves Tatyana immensely, who

In your own family

The girl seemed like a stranger.

She is characterized by daydreaming, isolation, and a desire for solitude. to his moral character, she differed in spiritual interests from the people around her.

The poet is already manifested in the fact that he gives his heroine a popular name, thereby

Emphasizing her closeness to the people, to the customs and “traditions of common folk antiquity,”

The national system of its concepts and feelings, which are nurtured by the surrounding nature,

Village life. "Tatiana is Russian at heart." Everything simple, Russian, folk is truly dear to her. In this, Tatyana is close to the heroine of Zhukovsky’s ballad “Svetlana”. With great warmth, Pushkin shows Tatyana’s kind attitude towards the serfs, towards the nanny,

Which she truly loves. The poet admitted that he portrayed Arina Rodionovna as Tatiana’s nanny. This is a wonderful fact. Only with Tatyana Pushkin could imagine

I'm kind to my nanny. This once again confirms that the poet loves “Dear Tatyana” very much. Gently and subtly, with deep insight into the secrets of the girl’s soul, Pushkin talks about the awakening of the feeling of love in Tatyana, her hopes and dreams. She is one of those integral poetic natures who can love only once.

Long-time heartache

Her young breasts were tight;

The soul was waiting... for someone.

Tatyana could not fall in love with any of the young people around her. But Onegin was immediately noticed and singled out by her:

You barely walked in, I instantly recognized

Everything was stupefied, on fire

And in my thoughts I said: here he is!

Pushkin sympathizes with Tatyana’s love and experiences it with her.

Tatiana, dear Tatiana!

Now I'm shedding tears with you...

Her love for Onegin is a pure, deep feeling.

Tatyana loves in earnest.

And he surrenders unconditionally

Love like a sweet child.

Only Tatyana could be the first to confess her love to Onegin. You had to love him very much to decide to write to him. What mental anguish she went through before she sent the letter to Eugene! This letter is imbued with “a living mind and will,” “and a fiery and tender heart.”

I am writing to you - what more?

What more can I say?

Many girls repeated these lines to themselves. Unrequited love. Probably through her

All gone.

Not every girl in our time will decide to be the first to confess her love. What was it like for Tatiana? Confess and hear words that reject her love, taking away hope for reciprocity and happiness. Love became for Tatyana “the greatest disaster of life,” because she combined all the best impulses of her soul with this love. How he worries about

Tatyana Pushkin, seeing that

Love's mad suffering

Haven't stopped worrying

Young soul...

How the poet sympathizes with her!

And dear Tanya’s youth fades...

Alas, Tatyana is fading,

It turns pale, goes dark and is silent!

The duel between Onegin and Lensky, Lensky's death, Onegin's departure... Tatyana is alone.

And in cruel loneliness

Her passion burns more intensely,

And about distant Onegin

Her heart speaks louder.

We see how dear Pushkin is to Tatyana’s desire to visit Onegin’s house, thanks to which she realized that “there are interests for a person, there are sufferings and sorrows, besides the interest of suffering and the sorrow of love.” But this understanding did not change anything. For Tatyana, love for Onegin is the greatest treasure, because Eugene is spiritually close to her.

It’s hard for Tatyana, and in difficult times for her, the poet does not leave her for a minute: he, together with

Larin goes to Moscow, together with Tatyana he is in Moscow.

Pushkin is worried about Tatyana’s fate (“Not noticed by anyone...”), rejoices for her (“...with

Let us congratulate my dear Tatyana on her victory." The poet is proud of Tatyana, who, having become

Unapproachable goddess

The luxurious royal Neva, did not change herself, remained true to her life principles. Depth of feeling, striving for ideal, moral purity, integrity

Nature, noble simplicity of character, fidelity to duty - all this attracts

Forgive me: I love you so much

My dear Tatiana!

And it’s impossible not to love Tatiana! This is the most captivating image of our literature,

Which begins a gallery of beautiful characters of Russian women looking for

Integrity of nature, the ability to love devotedly and feel deeply. These are Olga

Ilyinskaya from Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”, “Turgenev girls” who see meaning

Lives in service to people, truth, are truly “saints”, the wives of the Decembrists from the poem

Nekrasova "Russian Women", Natasha Rostova.

For Pushkin, Tatyana is the ideal of a Russian woman (“my true ideal”). She becomes a “sweet ideal” for everyone who read the novel, just as she became the ideal woman for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who expressed Tatiana’s poetic nature in music. She became an ideal for me too.

I’m seventeen years old, and I really want to be like Tatyana with a serious attitude towards life and people, deep feeling responsibility, enormous moral strength.

Thanks to Pushkin for Tatyana, his “sweet ideal”, over whom time has no power. This eternal image, because chaste purity, sincerity and depth of feelings, readiness for self-sacrifice, high spiritual

Nobility.

"Eugene Onegin" is Pushkin's most sincere work, his most beloved child

His fantasies... Here is all his life, all his soul, all his love; here are his feelings, concepts,

Ideals,” wrote Belinsky. And indeed, this time the poet reveals to us his soul, himself, not only in the author’s digressions, but also in the characteristics of his favorite heroes, generously endowing them with the treasures of his thoughts and feelings. Sometimes they look at

The world is through his eyes, and sometimes he is through theirs.

Onegin - main character the novel is a “good friend” of the author, but there is no sign of equality between them, they are similar, but that’s all. Pushkin sympathizes with something in Onegin, and rejects something. Another thing is Tatyana, whose love the poet confesses and with whom he tries to be close in difficult times for her: “... I shed tears with you.” Moreover, for Pushkin, who said goodbye to youthful romance and free and involuntary travel, the ideal is now “a housewife, ... peace, a pot of cabbage soup, and a big one.” And his muse transforms into a district young lady, in whom we can easily

Let's get to know Tatyana Larina.

“So, she was called Tatyana,” Pushkin sums up his thoughts about the choice of the heroine’s name, which, at that time, could belong to antiquity or a girl’s name, thereby emphasizing the nationality of the image. And indeed, Tatyana "is in her family

The girl seemed like a stranger to her own family,” so she didn’t look like a “kind fellow,” but

A narrow-minded man - a father, a mother who shared the fate of many Russian women -

A calm but loveless marriage, for a carefree sister.

Tatyana decorated her endless rural leisure time with her imagination, reading novels, but dolls and games did not attract her:

And there were children's pranks

Alien to her: scary stories

In winter in the dark of nights

They captivated her heart more.

"...I love my dear Tatyana so much"

Exemplarytextessays

Every great artist strives to capture in his works the ideal of a woman in which they would be embodied best qualities of his people. Pushkin's ideal was the image of Tatyana Larina in the novel "Eugene Onegin".

From the very first acquaintance with this heroine, we see her originality, her difference from others. Even as a child, she stands out from the usual provincial environment.

Dick, sad, silent,

Like a forest deer is timid,

She is in her own family

The girl seemed like a stranger.

To strengthen this impression, the author gives here a contrasting image of her sister Olga, all of whose charm was concentrated in “flaxen curls,” “light waist,” “eyes like the blue sky.” It is interesting that the gaze of the skeptic Onegin sees Olga completely differently: “She is round and red in face, like this stupid moon on this stupid horizon.” This characteristic immediately reveals her inner emptiness, which is contrasted with wealth inner world Tatiana. Since childhood, she shunned noisy children's games, conversations “about the news of the city, about fashion.” What filled her life?

She loved on the balcony

Warn the dawn,

When on a pale sky

The round dance of the stars disappears...

She liked novels early on;

They replaced everything for her;

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

Tatyana believed the legends

Of common folk antiquity,

And dreams, and card fortune-telling,

And the predictions of the moon.

So, nature, books, the village world with the nanny's fairy tales, folk beliefs and customs make up Tatyana’s favorite circle of life and shape her personality.

At the beginning of the novel, Tatyana is a “tender dreamer”, immersed in mysterious world books with fictitious passions, a sincere and trusting girl who “does not know deception and believes in her chosen dream.” She cannot hide her feelings for Onegin, which overwhelmed her, and writes him a tender, touching message, breathing love, which even the cold egoist Onegin could not leave indifferent. But he suppressed his excitement, since he did not want to take advantage of the girl’s naivety and inexperience, nor to tie himself to family ties.

Could Eugene’s edifying, moralizing rebuke kill Tatyana’s love for him? No. Pushkin speaks directly about this:

What was the consequence of the date?

Alas, it’s not hard to guess!

Love's mad suffering

Haven't stopped worrying

Young soul, greedy sadness;

No, more than a joyless passion

Poor Tatyana is burning.

Love for Onegin continues to live in Tatiana’s soul even after his murder of Lensky, and after his departure, and after she, disappointed in him, calls him “the Muscovite in Harold’s cloak,” and after her marriage. Tatyana also loves him at the end of the novel, when she meets Evgeny again in her own magnificent living room. This depth and strength of feeling speaks of the integrity, height, and spirituality of her nature. It is Tatyana’s originality and originality that give her the opportunity to decisively change and rapidly transform. In the 8th chapter of the novel, we see the amazing transformation of the “strange, provincial and cutesy” young lady (this is how her Moscow cousins ​​perceive her) into an “indifferent princess”, “a careless legislator of the hall”. What kind of person does the author paint Tatiana from St. Petersburg?

She was leisurely

Not cold, not talkative,

Without an insolent look for everyone,

Without pretensions to success,

Without these little antics,

No imitative ideas...

Everything was quiet, it was just there.

Pushkin’s characterization of Tatyana suggests that even in a magnificent social life, she managed to preserve her personality, dignity, naturalness, noble simplicity, which captivates even the prim, arrogant nobility.

Sweet with carefree charm,

She was sitting at the table

With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,

This Cleopatra of the Neva.

Tatiana's "careless charm" is a mask that she wears with amazing naturalness, for this is required by the harsh laws of the world. Openness of feelings, external manifestations of passions and experiences are inappropriate here. Tatyana understands this very well with her smart and sensitive heart. By accepting the rules of the game, she becomes a model of “impeccable taste,” ennobling even empty social conversation with her presence.

Light nonsense before the hostess

Sparkled without stupid affectation,

And meanwhile interrupted him

Reasonable talk without vulgar topics...

At first it may seem that Tatyana is satisfied with her luxurious life, her social success. But a frank conversation with Onegin convinces us that this is not so. In the magnificent princess lives the old Tatiana, yearning for a sweet country house, green oak groves, free fields. She calls social life“masquerade rags,” which I would gladly give “for a shelf of books, for a wild garden.” But Tatyana understands perfectly well that her desire is unrealistic, for she herself has bound herself with a promise given to her unloved husband. And she must pay for this mistake herself, strictly fulfilling the role of a faithful wife and mistress of the house, suppressing her feelings for her loved one.

IN last conversation with Evgeniy, Tatyana does not stoop to lie, she is still honest with him, but she cannot accept his love, since she is not capable of betraying her husband, who was “mutilated in battle” and who surrounded her with attention and care. It is impossible not to admire Tatiana’s nobility, her courage and fortitude, which force her to say famous words:

I love you (why lie?),

But I was given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

Why, after this conversation, Evgeny stands “as if struck by thunder”? Probably because only now he discovered the real Tatyana, saw her for the first time moral strength, her spiritual beauty and immediately lost forever.

This means that, despite Tatyana’s spiritual evolution, she retained her individuality, her best qualities, but at the same time she forever lost the features of a naive girl who learned the world from books. Now she acquired a real, critical outlook on life, which revealed to her the emptiness and aimlessness of secular Petersburg, taught her to control her feelings, gave her the strength to love and hide her love and be faithful to marital duty. The great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky wonderfully said this when discussing the motives of Tatiana’s action: “Can a person base his happiness on the misfortune of another? Happiness is not in the pleasures of love alone, but in the harmony of the spirit.” It is this “harmony of spirit” that constitutes the essence of Tatyana’s character and makes Pushkin’s heroine a “sweet ideal”, one of the most attractive and bright female images Russian and world literature.

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In the work of A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”, the author’s admiring attitude towards the main character of the novel becomes obvious to the reader. It is not without reason that he calls her a “sweet ideal” and admires her natural simplicity and natural tact.

Reflecting on who Tatyana Larina is and what characteristic features it is endowed, we come to two, at first glance, different images.

At the beginning of the novel, she is a young naive young lady who allowed herself to be bewitched by a “young rake.” At the end of it is a secular married lady who has linked her fate with a wise and mature man. Although the heroine does not change internally throughout the novel.

Pushkin describes Tatyana with tenderness coming from the depths of the soul, from the very heart. He finds immaculate and sublime words for his beloved heroine. Suffice it to recall the first mention of it:

Her sister's name was Tatyana.

For the first time with such a name

Tender pages of the novel

We willfully sanctify.

In one word, “we will sanctify” - the author clearly defines his attitude towards the heroine. The closeness of Pushkin and Tatyana can be traced throughout the entire work. Comparing her childhood with her own, the lines are born: “She seemed like a stranger in her own family.”

There is nothing superficial about Tatyana, she is natural and poetic. Her own philosophy and her perception of the world around her make her so similar to the poet himself:

Thoughtfulness, her friend

From the most lullabies of days

The flow of social leisure

Decorated her with dreams.

V. G. Belinsky noted that Pushkin was the first to glorify the true Russian woman in the person of Tatyana. Tatyana looks at the world with wide-open, enchanted eyes, everything seems to her in a rainbow light. Her inner world is characterized by harmony and moral purity. Her innocent heart was capable of the most subtle and sincere feelings. A fleeting infatuation turned into love. She gave her affection to the first, in her opinion, worthy applicant. Once having fallen in love, the young maiden does not doubt her own feelings for a second. She writes her famous letter, which amazes the reader with its open simplicity and penetration. It is Tatyana’s courage that delights the author; it is not for nothing that he repeats: “I love my dear Tatyana so much!”

The heroine is trying, to the best of her modest capabilities, to change the course of everyday life that is familiar to a rural girl, to break free from her ordinary surroundings. And the poet loves her for her sincerity and absence of falsehood, for her “Russian soul.” It is not surprising if Pushkin imagined the ideal of a woman to be exactly like this.

Even in the world, with its pretense and falseness, Tatyana stands out strikingly from the crowd. She did not have all these social antics and antics inherent in most girls of that time. “Everything was quiet, it was just in her...” Thus, Tatyana earned respect in society.

Pushkin never tires of emphasizing the ease and simplicity of the main character, admiring her inner beauty. Through it, the poet expresses his own feelings and views on the surrounding reality. Its closeness to the people and native nature.

Pushkin admitted that his nanny Arina Rodionovna became the prototype for nanny Tatyana. This suggests that only next to Tatyana could he imagine, perhaps, his closest and dearest person.

Tatiana, dear Tatiana!

Now I'm shedding tears with you...

...You will die, dear...

In the eighth chapter of the novel, instead of the “district young lady” in whom “everything was outside, everything was free,” we meet the “legislator of the hall,” unapproachable and majestic. But for the author himself, she is still the same: “...A simple maiden, With dreams in the heart of former days..”, which he contrasts with the arrogant high society. Tatyana shows high morality, directness and the true essence of her soul in climax scene novel, explaining to Onegin for the last time:

I love you (why lie?)

But I was given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

This is not an expression of submission to external circumstances and women's fate, not humility and not weakness. After all, Tatyana is quite proud and strong, but at the same time she is endowed with healthy morality and honesty, and a lack of selfishness. It is these qualities that the poet glorifies in the lines of the novel, making it clear to the reader why he loves main character and what, in his opinion, should be the true ideal of a woman.

Sample essay text

Every great artist strives to capture in his works the ideal of a woman in which the best qualities of his people would be embodied. Pushkin's ideal was the image of Tatyana Larina in the novel "Eugene Onegin".

From the very first acquaintance with this heroine, we see her originality, her difference from others. Even as a child, she stands out from the usual provincial environment.

Dick, sad, silent,

Like a forest deer is timid,

She is in her own family

The girl seemed like a stranger.

To strengthen this impression, the author gives here a contrasting image of her sister Olga, all of whose charm was concentrated in “flaxen curls,” “light waist,” “eyes like the blue sky.” It is interesting that the gaze of the skeptic Onegin sees Olga completely differently: “She is round and red in face, like this stupid moon on this stupid horizon.” This characterization immediately reveals her inner emptiness, which is contrasted with the richness of Tatyana’s inner world. Since childhood, she shunned noisy children's games, conversations “about the news of the city, about fashion.” What filled her life?

She loved on the balcony

Warn the dawn,

When on a pale sky

The round dance of the stars disappears...

She liked novels early on;

They replaced everything for her;

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

Tatyana believed the legends

Of common folk antiquity,

And dreams, and card fortune-telling,

And the predictions of the moon.

This means that nature, books, the village world with the nanny’s fairy tales, folk beliefs and customs constitute Tatyana’s favorite circle of life and shape her personality.

At the beginning of the novel, Tatyana is a “tender dreamer”, immersed in the mysterious world of books with imaginary passions, a sincere and trusting girl who “does not know deception and believes in her chosen dream.” She cannot hide her feelings for Onegin, which overwhelmed her, and writes him a tender, touching message, breathing love, which even the cold egoist Onegin could not leave indifferent. But he suppressed his excitement, since he did not want to take advantage of the girl’s naivety and inexperience, nor to tie himself to family ties.

Could Eugene’s edifying, moralizing rebuke kill Tatyana’s love for him? No. Pushkin speaks directly about this:

What was the consequence of the date?

Alas, it’s not hard to guess!

Love's mad suffering

Haven't stopped worrying

Young soul, greedy sadness;

No, more than a joyless passion

Poor Tatyana is burning.

Love for Onegin continues to live in Tatiana’s soul even after his murder of Lensky, and after his departure, and after she, disappointed in him, calls him “the Muscovite in Harold’s cloak,” and after her marriage. Tatyana also loves him at the end of the novel, when she meets Evgeny again in her own magnificent living room. This depth and strength of feeling speaks of the integrity, height, and spirituality of her nature. It is Tatyana’s originality and originality that give her the opportunity to decisively change and rapidly transform. In the 8th chapter of the novel, we see the amazing transformation of the “strange, provincial and cutesy” young lady (this is how her Moscow cousins ​​perceive her) into an “indifferent princess”, “a careless legislator of the hall”. What kind of person does the author paint Tatiana from St. Petersburg?

She was leisurely

Not cold, not talkative,

Without an insolent look for everyone,

Without pretensions to success,

Without these little antics,

No imitative ideas...

Everything was quiet, it was just there.

Pushkin’s characterization of Tatyana suggests that even in a magnificent social life, she managed to preserve her personality, dignity, naturalness, noble simplicity, which captivates even the prim, arrogant nobility.

Sweet with carefree charm,

She was sitting at the table

With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,

This Cleopatra of the Neva.

Tatiana's "careless charm" is a mask that she wears with amazing naturalness, because the harsh laws of the world require this. Openness of feelings, external manifestations of passions and experiences are inappropriate here. Tatyana understands this very well with her smart and sensitive heart. By accepting the rules of the game, she becomes a model of “impeccable taste,” ennobling even empty social conversation with her presence.

Light nonsense before the hostess

Sparkled without stupid affectation,

And meanwhile interrupted him

Reasonable talk without vulgar topics...

At first it may seem that Tatyana is satisfied with her luxurious life, her social success. But a frank conversation with Onegin convinces us that this is not so. In the magnificent princess lives the old Tatiana, yearning for a sweet country house, green oak groves, free fields. She calls social life “the rags of a masquerade,” which she would gladly give “for a shelf of books, for a wild garden.” But Tatyana understands perfectly well that her desire is unrealistic, for she herself has bound herself with a promise given to her unloved husband. And she must pay for this mistake herself, strictly fulfilling the role of a faithful wife and mistress of the house, suppressing her feelings for her loved one.

In her last conversation with Evgeniy, Tatyana does not stoop to lie, she is still honest with him, but she cannot accept his love, since she is not capable of betraying her husband, who was “mutilated in battle” and who surrounded her with attention and care. It is impossible not to admire Tatiana’s nobility, her courage and fortitude, which force her to utter the famous words:

I love you (why lie?),

But I was given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

Why, after this conversation, Evgeny stands “as if struck by thunder”? Probably because only now did he discover the real Tatyana, for the first time saw her moral strength, her spiritual beauty, and then lost her forever.

This means that, despite Tatyana’s spiritual evolution, she retained her individuality, her best qualities, but at the same time she forever lost the features of a naive girl who learned the world from books. Now she acquired a real, critical outlook on life, which revealed to her the emptiness and aimlessness of secular Petersburg, taught her to control her feelings, gave her the strength to love and hide her love and be faithful to marital duty. The great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky wonderfully said this when discussing the motives of Tatiana’s action: “Can a person base his happiness on the misfortune of another? Happiness is not in the pleasures of love alone, but in the harmony of the spirit.” It is this “harmony of spirit” that constitutes the essence of Tatyana’s character and makes Pushkin’s heroine a “sweet ideal”, one of the most attractive and bright female images of Russian and world literature.

"...I love my dear Tatyana so much"

Sample essay text

Every great artist strives to capture in his works the ideal of a woman in which the best qualities of his people would be embodied. Pushkin's ideal was the image of Tatyana Larina in the novel "Eugene Onegin".

From the very first acquaintance with this heroine, we see her originality, her difference from others. Even as a child, she stands out from the usual provincial environment.

Dick, sad, silent,

Like a forest deer is timid,

She is in her own family

The girl seemed like a stranger.

To strengthen this impression, the author gives here a contrasting image of her sister Olga, all of whose charm was concentrated in “flaxen curls,” “light waist,” “eyes like the blue sky.” It is interesting that the gaze of the skeptic Onegin sees Olga completely differently: “She is round and red in face, like this stupid moon on this stupid horizon.” This characterization immediately reveals her inner emptiness, which is contrasted with the richness of Tatyana’s inner world. Since childhood, she shunned noisy children's games, conversations “about the news of the city, about fashion.” What filled her life?

She loved on the balcony

Warn the dawn,

When on a pale sky

The round dance of the stars disappears...

She liked novels early on;

They replaced everything for her;

She fell in love with deceptions

And Richardson and Russo.

Tatyana believed the legends

Of common folk antiquity,

And dreams, and card fortune-telling,

And the predictions of the moon.

This means that nature, books, the village world with the nanny’s fairy tales, folk beliefs and customs constitute Tatyana’s favorite circle of life and shape her personality.

At the beginning of the novel, Tatyana is a “tender dreamer”, immersed in the mysterious world of books with imaginary passions, a sincere and trusting girl who “does not know deception and believes in her chosen dream.” She cannot hide her feelings for Onegin, which overwhelmed her, and writes him a tender, touching message, breathing love, which even the cold egoist Onegin could not leave indifferent. But he suppressed his excitement, since he did not want to take advantage of the girl’s naivety and inexperience, nor to tie himself to family ties.

Could Eugene’s edifying, moralizing rebuke kill Tatyana’s love for him? No. Pushkin speaks directly about this:

What was the consequence of the date?

Alas, it’s not hard to guess!

Love's mad suffering

Haven't stopped worrying

Young soul, greedy sadness;

No, more than a joyless passion

Poor Tatyana is burning.

Love for Onegin continues to live in Tatiana’s soul even after his murder of Lensky, and after his departure, and after she, disappointed in him, calls him “the Muscovite in Harold’s cloak,” and after her marriage. Tatyana also loves him at the end of the novel, when she meets Evgeny again in her own magnificent living room. This depth and strength of feeling speaks of the integrity, height, and spirituality of her nature. It is Tatyana’s originality and originality that give her the opportunity to decisively change and rapidly transform. In the 8th chapter of the novel, we see the amazing transformation of the “strange, provincial and cutesy” young lady (this is how her Moscow cousins ​​perceive her) into an “indifferent princess”, “a careless legislator of the hall”. What kind of person does the author paint Tatiana from St. Petersburg?

She was leisurely

Not cold, not talkative,

Without an insolent look for everyone,

Without pretensions to success,

Without these little antics,

No imitative ideas...

Everything was quiet, it was just there.

Pushkin’s characterization of Tatyana suggests that even in a magnificent social life, she managed to preserve her personality, dignity, naturalness, noble simplicity, which captivates even the prim, arrogant nobility.

Sweet with carefree charm,

She was sitting at the table

With the brilliant Nina Voronskaya,

This Cleopatra of the Neva.

Tatiana's "careless charm" is a mask that she wears with amazing naturalness, because the harsh laws of the world require this. Openness of feelings, external manifestations of passions and experiences are inappropriate here. Tatyana understands this very well with her smart and sensitive heart. By accepting the rules of the game, she becomes a model of “impeccable taste,” ennobling even empty social conversation with her presence.

Light nonsense before the hostess

Sparkled without stupid affectation,

And meanwhile interrupted him

Reasonable talk without vulgar topics...

At first it may seem that Tatyana is satisfied with her luxurious life, her social success. But a frank conversation with Onegin convinces us that this is not so. In the magnificent princess lives the old Tatiana, yearning for a sweet country house, green oak groves, free fields. She calls social life “the rags of a masquerade,” which she would gladly give “for a shelf of books, for a wild garden.” But Tatyana understands perfectly well that her desire is unrealistic, for she herself has bound herself with a promise given to her unloved husband. And she must pay for this mistake herself, strictly fulfilling the role of a faithful wife and mistress of the house, suppressing her feelings for her loved one.

In her last conversation with Evgeniy, Tatyana does not stoop to lie, she is still honest with him, but she cannot accept his love, since she is not capable of betraying her husband, who was “mutilated in battle” and who surrounded her with attention and care. It is impossible not to admire Tatiana’s nobility, her courage and fortitude, which force her to utter the famous words:

I love you (why lie?),

But I was given to another;

I will be faithful to him forever.

Why, after this conversation, Evgeny stands “as if struck by thunder”? Probably because only now did he discover the real Tatyana, for the first time saw her moral strength, her spiritual beauty, and then lost her forever.

This means that, despite Tatyana’s spiritual evolution, she retained her individuality, her best qualities, but at the same time she forever lost the features of a naive girl who learned the world from books. Now she acquired a real, critical outlook on life, which revealed to her the emptiness and aimlessness of secular Petersburg, taught her to control her feelings, gave her the strength to love and hide her love and be faithful to marital duty. The great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky wonderfully said this when discussing the motives of Tatiana’s action: “Can a person base his happiness on the misfortune of another? Happiness is not in the pleasures of love alone, but in the harmony of the spirit.” It is this “harmony of spirit” that constitutes the essence of Tatyana’s character and makes Pushkin’s heroine a “sweet ideal”, one of the most attractive and bright female images of Russian and world literature.