Essay “Favorite pages of the novel by L.N. Tolstoy.

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“I don’t know how to answer your question,” says Pierre. “I absolutely don’t know what kind of girl this is; I can't analyze it at all. She's charming. Why, I don’t know: that’s all that can be said about her.” This answer was heard by Marya Bolkonskaya, who asked him to tell him about Natasha Rostova. Tolstoy showed the secret of the charm of this heroine through the richness of her nature.

The common favorite of the family, Natasha, overflowing with love, affection and joy for the people around her, settles into the reader’s soul from the first pages of the novel. At first it is a “potion-girl”, a “Cossack”, then a “remarkably pretty girl”, at the end of the work it is not “just a person”, but “completely different, higher” (according to Pierre), an exemplary wife and mother who is “to the extreme conveys her love to her husband and children.”

One of the secrets of the heroine’s charm is that she has her own world, which Tolstoy gradually reveals to us.

Natasha is a noblewoman, an aristocrat. However, moving among the nobility, she is close to the people and their poetry with all her being. Folk music, songs and dances captivate her. In Mikhailovka, she freezes, listening to her uncle perform the Russian song “On the Pavement Street” on the guitar. The heroine is seized by a passionate desire to dance. “Well, well, darling, uncle,” Natasha moaned in a pleading voice.”

This episode captivated me the most. “Natasha threw off the scarf that was draped over her, ran ahead of her uncle and, putting her hands on her hips, made a movement with her shoulders and stood.”

I, along with Nikolai and those present there, were afraid for the heroine, worrying “that she would do the wrong thing.” “She did the exact same thing and so accurately that Anisya Fedorovna... burst into tears.”

Tolstoy portrays Natasha’s dance as an instinctive penetration into the innermost secrets of the people’s soul, which this “countess” was able to accomplish, who danced only salon dances with shawls and never danced folk dances.

Most of all, I, like Anisya Fedorovna and my uncle, am amazed at how Natasha “knew how to understand everything that was in Anisya, and in Anisya’s father, and in her aunt, and in her mother, and in every Russian person.” Together with Tolstoy, I never cease to wonder “where, how, when, from that Russian air that she breathed, this countess, raised by a French emigrant, sucked into herself this spirit, where did she get these techniques that should have been forced out a long time ago? But these spirits and techniques were the very same, inimitable, unstudied, Russian ones that her uncle expected from her.”

In the development of Natasha’s character, not only her family, upbringing and people close to her played a role, but also Russian customs, traditions, and mores of folk life, with which the life of the Rostovs was closely connected.

Natasha’s musical talent revealed itself in a new quality in Mikhailovka, where she wholeheartedly enjoyed the purely Russian, village life, the playing and singing of her uncle, who “sang as the people sing, with that complete and naive conviction that the whole meaning lies in the song.” in the words that the melody is only for the purpose.”

In the image of Natasha Rostova, folk elements that are still preserved in some places in the patriarchal noble environment are poeticized.

The girl is spontaneous and spontaneous, like nature itself. She is extremely characterized by a feeling of closeness to everything Russian, to everything folk - both to her native nature, and to ordinary Russian people, and to Moscow, and to Russian song and dance.

That is why the heroine is happy because she felt her closeness with the people. “You know,” she suddenly said, “I know that I will never be as happy and calm as I am now.”

Reading these pages, we admire Natasha Rostova, as Tolstoy admires her, showing her deep, sincere, poetic, active nature. She has an inner instinct that draws her to those, sometimes unconscious, selfless actions in which her spiritual impulses are revealed, directed towards life, towards people, she has the ability to always guess what needs to be done and how. The heroine brings joy to people because she believes in the possibility of happiness. Looking at Natasha, it is easier to learn to be a person who loves life.

A.M. Bitter.

The last page of the novel by L.N. has been turned. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”... Whenever you close a book you have just read, you are left with a feeling of deep regret. It’s like you’re losing something familiar and dear. And just like when you part with a person who has left a deep mark on your soul, you involuntarily hope for a new date. This happened to me too. The first time I heard the names of Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov was in childhood, so I was looking forward to the moment when we would study Tolstoy’s work at school. The work “War and Peace” became for me one of those books that amaze with life and creative discoveries. A reader of any age will find answers to any questions here, explain the incomprehensible to himself, “submit” to Tolstoy’s heroes, and perceive them as real people. What a phenomenal writer he is! Somewhere next to me, my favorite images exist and continue their path; you can see them and turn to them with painful problems. I re-read my dear pages again and again in order to once again feel their strength, tenderness, power, touchingness and desire to become better, purer, kinder.

One of my favorite episodes of the first volume was meeting Natasha Rostova. A thin, fragile girl, almost a child, in her family she was an outlet, a joy, a guardian angel for everyone, without making any effort. Lively, cheerful, with a constant sparkle in her eyes and a genuine interest in everything that surrounded her, she knew how to infect everyone with her optimism. Her every word and movement is dictated by sincerity and special intuition, unique only to her. She only does what she loves. Sings - and loves, dances - and loves again. She cries if dear Sonya cries, laughs and laughs if she wants it. Despite her ugliness in childhood and adolescence, Natasha attracts people.
Let us remember the episode when her brother Nikolai, having lost to Dolokhov, returns home detached and disappointed. But he hears Natasha’s singing, and gloomy thoughts leave him: “All this: misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - all nonsense, but here it is real...”

The brightest, most touching pages of the novel, in my opinion, are dedicated to the love of Natasha and Prince Andrei.

With the soul of Pushkin's Tatiana,
Like a mountain stream, it’s bright,
To his fate from the lines of a novel
You came in as a fragile girl.

For the heroine, love is life itself, part of her soul. Andrei Bolkonsky’s feelings arise when he involuntarily overhears Natasha’s night conversation with Sonya in Otradnoye: “After all, such a lovely night has never happened!” For Prince Andrei, the miracle that nature conceals opens up. He, surprising himself, suddenly notices that he can no longer remain indifferent to this girl. She awakened something in him, touched the innermost strings of his soul. A sudden unity of feelings and thoughts arises at the ball: “Sitting next to her, talking with her about the simplest and most insignificant subjects, Prince Andrei admired the joyful sparkle of her eyes and smile, which related not to the spoken words, but to her inner happiness.”

Leo Tolstoy's novel, as the title suggests, is not only about war, but also about peace. Peace is not war; The world is a community of people, a people.

In the novel, the family is also revealed as part of the world. The family follows the wedding, the wedding follows the matchmaking ceremony.

There are several such rituals in the work: the matchmaking of Pierre and Helen, Anatole and Princess Marya. It is the rite of marriage proposal

The Kuragin family of Nikolai Bolkonsky's daughter is my favorite episode of the first volume.

The Kuragin family again brings doubts into the minds and hearts of the heroes. Prince N. Bolkonsky constantly frowns at the first meeting,

with all his appearance he tries to show that he is dissatisfied with the groom, since Anatole spends all his time in amusements, and

“listed” in the army. For Bolkonsky Sr., serving the fatherland is the duty of every man.

He is unhappy with the current situation.

Before the arrival of the future groom, he sincerely rejoices at the fallen snow and demands that the road be covered. Nikolai laughs at Marya in front of

guests, calls her a fool. At the same time, Tolstoy clearly makes it clear that Bolkonsky loves his daughter, albeit in his own way.

His fatherly feelings and emotions are different from those of Ilya Rostov, Nikolai is tougher and more insightful, he is in pain

for his daughter and her misfortunes, perhaps somewhere deep down in his soul he feels guilty towards her and repents.

Before meeting with Anatol, Marya is dressed up by her friends. Everyone understands that the princess is bad-looking and is trying to brighten her up.

can be modified with any decoration. Marya, excited and confused, comes out to the guests. Blinded by the beauty of the guest,

forgets about her father and his grumbling: “She couldn’t see him (Anatole), she only saw something big, bright and beautiful.”

Anatole is silent and feels pleasure, seeing his influence on others. Kuragin sees Mademoiselle Bourrienne and notes that

he won't be bored. This confirms Tolstoy’s words that Anatole is “simple and with carnal inclinations.”

It is interesting that Tolstoy portrays Marya as excited and sad: “eyes full of sadness and thoughts.” She worries

about her future, she is ashamed of herself in front of her father and others. Despite the fact that the author disfigures the heroine outwardly, he

loves. It is through his eyes that he shows his attitude towards the character; Marya’s are “radiant”. She radiates light and goodness, she knows how

worry. Even after seeing the scene between Anatole and Burien in the garden, the princess understands everything, does not feel

offended and sacrifices her capabilities for the sake of the happiness of others.

The matchmaking day of Anatoly and Marya reveals to us the attitudes towards life and others of such wonderful characters as

Anatoly, Nikolai Bolkonsky and Marya. What a pity that Leo Tolstoy devoted so little attention and episodes to these characters.

My favorite pages of L.N. Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace".

War and Peace is a multifaceted work, but every reader has his favorite pages. For me, perhaps the most interesting thing is the reflection of historical events, their creative interpretation.

The Battle of Borodino occupies a central place in the military-historical events of 1812. Tolstoy called the Battle of Borodino a mirror of the novel War and Peace. He attached exceptional importance to this battle. The Battle of Borodino is portrayed as a people's battle. The battle reveals the true beauty of the Russian man. L.N. Tolstoy claims that the Russians won a moral victory, which convinces the enemy of the moral superiority of his enemy and of his powerlessness. In this battle, the hand of the strongest enemy was laid upon Napoleonic France.

Tolstoy depicts the greatness of the feat of a fighting people and at the same time the hardships, disasters, and torment that war brings. Cities and villages are dying in the fires. It’s painful to look at the broken rye, knocked out like hail, at the road laid by artillery across the arable land. What heavy hardships the Russian army and Russian peasants endured on their shoulders. The writer truthfully depicts people with faces disfigured by suffering, frightened and distraught soldiers, the misfortunes of the people and the army. But he calls all this a terrible necessity and speaks with love, pride and delight about those who endured difficult trials in the name of liberating their native land. Kutuzov's words: Wonderful, incomparable people, these are the words of the author himself.

But from the soldiers’ fires the writer leads us to the hut where the generals have gathered. Here the conversations are different. Everyone boasts, lies, attributing unprecedented feats to themselves, emphasizing their role in the battle.

Heroism and cowardice, simplicity and vanity were contradictorily intertwined in the thoughts and actions of the participants in the battle of Shengraben. Participants in military events appear before us on the pages of War and Peace as bearers of the highest moral values.

Tolstoy considers the outbreak of war to be the greatest manifestation of evil: The war began, that is, an event contrary to human reason and all human nature took place. War is always a terrible thing. Individualism, immense lust for power, thirst for fame and honor, combined with stupid indifference to people over whose corpses one can calmly walk to power, this is what Tolstoy condemns from the position of a purely moral feeling.

What is dearest to Tolstoy is the love union of people whose lives are subordinated to a common goal. The author praises the war of 1812 as a fair one, aimed at protecting the Fatherland, but at the same time sharply condemns its inhumanity, like any war. He emphasizes that living life does not stop even during the war, people continue to be guided by the personal interests of the present. The events of 1812 are depicted in the epic novel as a cruel, but necessary and ultimately good hardening of the Russian people. That is why many of the characters in this work experience a kind of spiritual uplift in moments of danger. For example, the departure of the Rostov family from Moscow is marked by a premonition of changes and disasters: .. they were cheerful because the war was near Moscow, that they would fight at the outpost... that in general something extraordinary was happening, which is always joyful for a person, especially for a young man, Pierre Bezukhov remained in fear and together in joy. in Moscow, which was deserted before the arrival of the French. This joyful revival in the face of danger is filled with deep moral meaning in the novel. The war changes the lives of the heroes, frees them from many delusions, and enriches their inner world. The war, forcing them to leave their usual path, unites the destinies of Nikolai and Marya, Pierre and Natasha.

about almost all the characters, provide development of the action. So, for example, Andrei Bolkonsky experiences almost his first huge moral shock on the field of Austerlitz, and his life ends during the Battle of Borodino.

Gradually, the novel increases attention to the depiction of the people and historical episodes themselves. The description of events reflected the author's worldview. L. N. Tolstoy’s views on the role of the individual in history led to the denial of the importance of military science, politics, and the inability to explain the causes of such historical events as the Peace of Tilsit or the beginning of the War of 1812.

The author created a work of art, and therefore, rethought or even completely distorted some facts of history. The author himself admitted the presence of such errors. However, it is necessary to take into account that for L.N. Tolstoy the main meaning was important; in accordance with his views, he gave preference to the general over the particular. That is why such inaccuracies that amazed his contemporaries and continue to amaze historians are insignificant for him. So, for example, after Bagration was wounded, Kutuzov sends a new commander to take command of the first army. However, it is known that the first army was commanded by Barclay, while Bagration led the second army. For L. Tolstoy, the troops that took the first blow from the French and occupied the key left flank were the first in importance.

and the patriotic pathos of the pages of the epic novel, dedicated to the description of the era, the wars of 1805, 1807 and 1812. The author shows real people and events that actually happened through the eyes of fictional characters in order to capture a human perspective on history. L.N. Tolstoy brought together and combined specific facts and fiction, which allowed him to create truly unforgettable pictures of Russia’s past.

“I don’t know how to answer your question,” says Pierre. “I absolutely don’t know what kind of girl this is; I can't analyze it at all. She's charming. Why, I don’t know: that’s all that can be said about her.” This answer was heard by Marya Bolkonskaya, who asked him to tell him about Natasha Rostova. Tolstoy showed the secret of the charm of this heroine through the richness of her nature.

The common favorite of the family, Natasha, overflowing with love, affection and joy for the people around her, settles into the reader’s soul from the first pages of the novel. At first it is a “potion-girl”, a “Cossack”, then a “remarkably pretty girl”, at the end of the work it is not “just a person”, but “completely different, higher” (according to Pierre), an exemplary wife and mother who is “to the extreme conveys her love to her husband and children.”

One of the secrets of the heroine’s charm is that she has her own world, which Tolstoy gradually reveals to us.

Natasha is a noblewoman, an aristocrat. However, moving among the nobility, she is close to the people and their poetry with all her being. Folk music, songs and dances captivate her. In Mikhailovka, she freezes, listening to her uncle perform the Russian song “On the Pavement Street” on the guitar. The heroine is seized by a passionate desire to dance. “Well, well, darling, uncle,” Natasha moaned in a pleading voice.”

This episode captivated me the most. “Natasha threw off the scarf that was draped over her, ran ahead of her uncle and, putting her hands on her hips, made a movement with her shoulders and stood.”

I, along with Nikolai and those present there, were afraid for the heroine, worrying “that she would do the wrong thing.” “She did the exact same thing and so accurately that Anisya Fedorovna... burst into tears.”

Tolstoy portrays Natasha’s dance as an instinctive penetration into the innermost secrets of the people’s soul, which this “countess” was able to accomplish, who danced only salon dances with shawls and never danced folk dances.

Most of all, I, like Anisya Fedorovna and my uncle, am amazed at how Natasha “knew how to understand everything that was in Anisya, and in Anisya’s father, and in her aunt, and in her mother, and in every Russian person.”

Together with Tolstoy, I never cease to wonder “where, how, when, from that Russian air that she breathed, this countess, raised by a French emigrant, sucked into herself this spirit, where did she get these techniques that should have long been were forced out? But these spirits and techniques were the very same, inimitable, unstudied, Russian ones that her uncle expected from her.”

In the development of Natasha’s character, not only her family, upbringing and people close to her played a role, but also Russian customs, traditions, and mores of folk life, with which the life of the Rostovs was closely connected.

Natasha’s musical talent revealed itself in a new quality in Mikhailovka, where she wholeheartedly enjoyed the purely Russian, village life, the playing and singing of her uncle, who “sang as the people sing, with that complete and naive conviction that the whole meaning lies in the song.” in the words that the melody is only for the purpose.”

In the image of Natasha Rostova, folk elements that are still preserved in some places in the patriarchal noble environment are poeticized.

The girl is spontaneous and spontaneous, like nature itself. She is extremely characterized by a feeling of closeness to everything Russian, to everything folk - both to her native nature, and to ordinary Russian people, and to Moscow, and to Russian song and dance.

That is why the heroine is happy because she felt her closeness with the people. “You know,” she suddenly said, “I know that I will never be as happy and calm as I am now.”

Reading these pages, we admire Natasha Rostova, as Tolstoy admires her, showing her deep, sincere, poetic, active nature. She has an inner instinct that draws her to those, sometimes unconscious, selfless actions in which her spiritual impulses are revealed, directed towards life, towards people, she has the ability to always guess what needs to be done and how. The heroine brings joy to people because she believes in the possibility of happiness. Looking at Natasha, it is easier to learn to be a person who loves life.