From the history of interpretation of the images of Onegin and Tatyana. Quotes. Contrast between Tatiana and Olga

Lonely, “she seemed like a stranger to the girl,” she did not like children’s games and could sit silently all day by the window, immersed in dreams. But outwardly motionless and cold, Tatyana lived a strong inner life. “The Nanny's Scary Stories” made her a dreamer, a child “out of this world.”

Shunning naive village entertainment, round dances and games, Tatyana devoted herself wholeheartedly to folk mysticism, her penchant for fantasy directly attracted her to this:

Tatyana believed the legends
Common folk antiquity:
And dreams, and card fortune-telling,
And the predictions of the moon.
She was worried about signs.
All objects are mysterious to her
They proclaimed something
Premonitions pressed in my chest.

Suddenly seeing
The young two-horned face of the moon
In the sky on the left side,
She trembled and turned pale.
Well? the beauty found the secret
And in the most horror she:
This is how nature created you,
Inclined to contradiction.

From her nanny's fairy tales, Tatyana switched early to novels.

They replaced everything for her
She fell in love with novels
And Richardson and Russo...

From a dreamer girl, Tatyana Larina became a “dreamy girl” who lived in her own special world: she surrounded herself with the heroes of her favorite novels and was alien to village reality.

Her imagination has long been
Burning with bliss and melancholy,
Hungry for fatal food.
Long-time heartache
Her young breasts were tight.
The soul was waiting for someone.

Tatyana Larina. Artist M. Klodt, 1886

Belinsky called the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” “the most sincere work” of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. And the author himself considered this novel his best creation. Pushkin worked on it with great passion, devoting his whole soul, all of himself to creativity. And, undoubtedly, the images of the main characters of the novel are very close to the author. In each of them he reflected some of his own characteristics. The images from the novel became almost familiar to Pushkin.

The image that is closest to the author is Tatyana, who, in essence, is the ideal of a Russian woman for Pushkin. This is exactly how he imagined a true Russian woman - sincere, fiery, trusting and, at the same time, possessing spiritual nobility, a sense of duty and a strong character.

In the portrait of Tatyana, Pushkin gives not an external appearance, but rather an internal portrait of her: “... Wild, sad, silent...”. This is an atypical image, attracting not with its beauty, but with its inner world.

Pushkin emphasizes the difference between Tatyana and Olga:

Not your sister's beauty,

Nor the freshness of her ruddy

She wouldn't attract the eye - he says about Tatyana and then repeats more than once that Tatyana is ugly. But the image of this meek, thoughtful girl attracts the reader and the author himself with its charm and unusualness.

In the second chapter of the novel, we meet a girl whose favorite circle of life consists of nature, books, the countryside with the stories and fairy tales of her nanny, with her warmth and cordiality.

Thoughtfulness, her friend

From the most lullabies of days,

The flow of rural leisure

Decorated her with dreams.

Reading the novel, you will notice that in those stanzas where Tatyana is discussed, there is always a description of nature. It is not for nothing that Pushkin many times conveys Tatyana’s state of mind through images of nature; he thereby emphasizes the deep connection that exists between the village girl and nature. For example, after Onegin’s stern sermon, “dear Tanya’s youth fades: this is how the shadow of a barely born day dresses the storm.”

Tatyana’s farewell to her native places, native fields, meadows is accompanied by a tragic description of autumn: “Nature is tremulous, pale, Like a sacrifice, magnificently decorated.” Tanya’s entire inner world is in tune with nature, with all its changes. Such closeness is one of the signs of a deep connection with the people, which Pushkin greatly valued and respected. The children’s song comforting Tanya, the attachment to “Filipovna grey”, fortune-telling - all this again tells us about Tanya’s living connection with the folk element.

Tatyana (Russian soul,

Without knowing why)

With her cold beauty

I loved Russian winter.

Loneliness, alienation from others, gullibility and naivety allow the “tender dreamer” to imagine Onegin as the hero of the novel, to appropriate for herself “someone else’s delight”, “someone else’s sadness”.

But, soon seeing that the hero of her dreams is not at all what she imagined him to be, she tries to understand Onegin. The girl writes an ardent, passionate letter to Onegin and receives a stern sermon in response. But this coldness of Eugene does not kill Tanya’s love; the “stern conversation” in the garden only revealed to Tanya Onegin’s hard-heartedness, his ability to ruthlessly respond to sincere feelings. Probably, the birth of “that indifferent princess” who so amazed Onegin later begins here. But, meanwhile, even Lensky’s death did not destroy the deep feeling that Tatyana felt for Onegin:

And in cruel loneliness

Her passion burns more intensely,

And about distant Onegin

Her heart speaks louder.

Onegin left, and, it seems, irrevocably. But Tatyana, before visiting his house, continues to refuse when others woo her. Only after visiting the “young cell” and seeing how and how Evgeniy lived, she agrees to go to the “bride market” in Moscow, because she begins to suspect something terrible for herself and for her love:

What is he? Is it really imitation?

An insignificant ghost, or else -

Muscovite in Harold's cloak?

interpretation of other people's whims,

Fashion vocabulary words?

Isn't he a parody?

Although Evgeny’s inner world is not limited to the books he has read, Tanya does not understand this and, drawing erroneous conclusions, becomes disappointed in love and in her hero. Now she faces a boring road to Moscow and the noisy bustle of the capital.

In the “district young lady” Tatyana, “everything is outside, everything is free.” In the eighth chapter we meet the “indifferent princess” “legislator of the hall”. The old Tanya, in whom “everything was quiet, everything was simple,” has now become a model of “impeccable taste,” a “true ingot” of nobility and sophistication.

But it cannot be said that now she is truly an “indifferent princess”, incapable of experiencing sincere feelings, and that not a trace remains of the former naive and timid Tanya. The feelings are there, they’re just well and firmly hidden now. And that “careless charm” of Tatiana is a mask that she wears with art and naturalness. The light made its own adjustments, but only external ones; Tatiana’s soul remained the same. That trusting girl still lives inside her, loving the “Russian winter,” the hills, forests, the village, ready to give “all this glitter, and noise, and child for a shelf of books, for a wild garden...”. Now the impetuosity and recklessness of feelings have been replaced in her by self-control, which helps Tanya withstand the moment when the embarrassed, “awkward” Evgeniy is left alone with her. But still, Tatiana’s main advantage is her spiritual nobility, her truly Russian character. Tatyana has a high sense of duty and self-esteem, which is why she found the strength to suppress her feelings and tell Onegin:

I love you (why lie?)

But I was given to someone else;

And I will be faithful to him forever.

Pushkin admired the image so skillfully created by himself. He embodied in Tatyana the ideal of a real Russian woman.

The writer saw the wives of many Decembrists who, out of their love and sense of duty, went to Siberia to get their husbands. This is the kind of spiritual nobility he endowed his heroine with. The image of Tatyana is the deepest and most serious in the novel. The height, spirituality, and depth of Tatyana Larina allowed Belinsky to call her a “genius.”

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Women whose behavior and appearance differ from the generally accepted canons of the ideal have always attracted the attention of both literary figures and readers. The description of this type of people allows us to lift the curtain of unknown life quests and aspirations. Tatyana Larina's image is ideal for this role

Family and childhood memories

Tatyana Larina belongs to the nobility by origin, but all her life she was deprived of an extensive secular society - she always lived in the village and never strived for an active city life.

Tatyana's father Dmitry Larin was a foreman. At the time of the actions described in the novel, he is no longer alive. It is known that he died young. “He was a simple and kind gentleman.”

The girl's mother's name is Polina (Praskovya). She was extradited as a girl under duress. For some time she was depressed and tormented, experiencing a feeling of attachment to another person, but over time she found happiness in family life with Dmitry Larin.

Tatyana also has a sister, Olga. She is not at all similar in character to her sister: cheerfulness and coquetry are a natural state for Olga.

An important person for Tatyana’s development as a person was her nanny Filipyevna. This woman is a peasant by birth and, perhaps, this is her main charm - she knows many folk jokes and stories that so captivate the inquisitive Tatyana. The girl has a very reverent attitude towards the nanny, she sincerely loves her.

Name selection and prototypes

Pushkin emphasizes the unusualness of his image at the very beginning of the story, giving the girl the name Tatyana. The fact is that for the high society of that time the name Tatyana was not typical. This name at that time had a pronounced folk character. In Pushkin's drafts there is information that initially the heroine had the name Natalya, but later Pushkin changed his intention.

Alexander Sergeevich mentioned that this image is not without a prototype, but did not indicate who exactly played such a role for him.

Naturally, after such statements, both his contemporaries and researchers of later years actively analyzed Pushkin’s environment and tried to find the prototype of Tatyana.

Opinions on this issue are divided. It is possible that multiple prototypes were used for this image.

One of the most suitable candidates is Anna Petrovna Kern - her similarity in character with Tatyana Larina leaves no doubt.

The image of Maria Volkonskaya is ideal for describing the tenacity of Tatyana's character in the second part of the novel.

The next person who bears a resemblance to Tatyana Larina is Pushkin’s sister Olga. In terms of her temperament and character, she ideally matches the description of Tatyana in the first part of the novel.

Tatyana also has a certain similarity with Natalya Fonvizina. The woman herself found a great resemblance to this literary character and expressed the opinion that she was the prototype of Tatyana.

An unusual suggestion about the prototype was made by Pushkin’s lyceum friend Wilhelm Kuchelbecker. He found that the image of Tatiana was very similar to Pushkin himself. This similarity is especially evident in chapter 8 of the novel. Kuchelbecker states: “the feeling with which Pushkin is filled is noticeable, although he, like his Tatyana, does not want the world to know about this feeling.”

Question about the heroine's age

In the novel, we meet Tatyana Larina during her growing up period. She is a girl of marriageable age.
The opinions of researchers of the novel on the question of the girl’s year of birth differed.

Yuri Lotman claims that Tatyana was born in 1803. In this case, in the summer of 1820 she just turned 17 years old.

However, this opinion is not the only one. There is an assumption that Tatyana was much younger. Such thoughts are prompted by the nanny’s story that she was married off at the age of thirteen, as well as the mention that Tatyana, unlike most girls her age, did not play with dolls at that time.

V.S. Babaevsky puts forward another version about Tatyana’s age. He believes that the girl should be much older than Lotman’s supposed age. If the girl had been born in 1803, then the girl’s mother’s concern about the lack of options for her daughter’s marriage would not have been so pronounced. In this case, a trip to the so-called “bride fair” would not yet be necessary.

Appearance of Tatyana Larina

Pushkin does not go into a detailed description of Tatyana Larina’s appearance. The author is more interested in the heroine's inner world. We learn about Tatyana's appearance in contrast to the appearance of her sister Olga. The sister has a classic appearance - she has beautiful blond hair and a ruddy face. In contrast to this, Tatyana has dark hair, her face is excessively pale, devoid of color.

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Her look is full of despondency and sadness. Tatyana was too thin. Pushkin notes, “no one could call her beautiful.” Meanwhile, she was still an attractive girl, she had a special beauty.

Leisure and attitude towards needlework

It was generally accepted that the female half of society spent their free time doing needlework. The girls, in addition, also played with dolls or various active games (the most common was burners).

Tatiana does not like to do any of these activities. She loves listening to the nanny's scary stories and sitting by the window for hours.

Tatyana is very superstitious: “She was worried about omens.” The girl also believes in fortune telling and that dreams don’t just happen, they carry a certain meaning.

Tatyana is fascinated by novels - “they replaced everything for her.” She likes to feel like the heroine of such stories.

However, Tatyana Larina’s favorite book was not a love story, but a dream book “Martyn Zadeka became later / Tanya’s favorite.” Perhaps this is due to Tatyana’s great interest in mysticism and everything supernatural. It was in this book that she could find the answer to the question that interested her: “he gives her joy / in all her sorrows / and sleeps with her without leaving.”

Personality characteristics

Tatyana is not like most girls of her era. This applies to external data, hobbies, and character. Tatyana was not a cheerful and active girl who was easily given to coquetry. “Wild, sad, silent” is Tatyana’s classic behavior, especially in society.

Tatyana loves to indulge in daydreams - she can fantasize for hours. The girl has difficulty understanding her native language, but is in no hurry to learn it; in addition, she rarely engages in self-education. Tatyana gives preference to novels that can disturb her soul, but at the same time she cannot be called stupid, rather the opposite. Tatyana's image is full of “perfections”. This fact is in sharp contrast to the rest of the characters in the novel, who do not possess such components.

Due to her age and inexperience, the girl is too trusting and naive. She trusts the impulse of emotions and feelings.

Tatyana Larina is capable of tender feelings not only in relation to Onegin. With her sister Olga, despite the striking difference between the girls in temperament and perception of the world, she is connected by the most devoted feelings. In addition, she develops a feeling of love and tenderness towards her nanny.

Tatiana and Onegin

New people coming to the village always arouse interest among the permanent residents of the area. Everyone wants to meet a newcomer, learn about him - life in the village is not distinguished by the variety of events, and new people bring with them new topics for conversation and discussion.

Onegin's arrival did not go unnoticed. Vladimir Lensky, who was lucky enough to become Evgeniy’s neighbor, introduces Onegin to the Larins. Evgeny is very different from all the inhabitants of village life. His manner of speaking, behaving in society, his education and ability to conduct a conversation pleasantly amaze Tatyana, and not only her.

However, “the feelings in him cooled down early,” Onegin “has completely lost interest in life,” he is already bored with beautiful girls and their attention, but Larina has no idea about this.

Onegin instantly becomes the hero of Tatiana's novel. She idealizes the young man; he seems to her like he came straight out of the pages of her books about love:

Tatiana loves seriously
And he surrenders unconditionally
Love like a sweet child.

Tatyana suffers for a long time in languor and decides to take a desperate step - she decides to confess to Onegin and tell him about her feelings. Tatyana writes a letter.

The letter carries a double meaning. On the one hand, the girl expresses indignation and grief associated with Onegin’s arrival and her love. She has lost the peace in which she lived before and this leads the girl to bewilderment:

Why did you visit us
In the wilderness of a forgotten village
I would never have known you.
I wouldn't know bitter torment.

On the other hand, the girl, having analyzed her position, sums up: Onegin’s arrival is salvation for her, it is fate. Due to her character and temperament, Tatyana could not become the wife of any of the local suitors. She is too alien and incomprehensible for them - Onegin is another matter, he is able to understand and accept her:

It is destined in the highest council...
That is the will of heaven: I am yours;
My whole life was a pledge
The faithful date with you.

However, Tatiana’s hopes were not justified - Onegin does not love her, but was just playing with the girl’s feelings. The next tragedy in the girl’s life is the news of the duel between Onegin and Lensky, and the death of Vladimir. Evgeniy is leaving.

Tatyana falls into a blues - she often comes to Onegin’s estate and reads his books. Over time, the girl begins to understand that the real Onegin is radically different from the Eugene she wanted to see. She just idealized the young man.

This is where her unfulfilled romance with Onegin ends.

Tatiana's dream

Unpleasant events in the girl’s life, associated with the lack of mutual feelings for the object of her love, and then death, two weeks before the wedding of Vladimir Lensky’s sister’s fiancé, were preceded by a strange dream.

Tatyana always attached great importance to dreams. This same dream is doubly important for her, because it is the result of Christmas fortune-telling. Tatyana was supposed to see her future husband in a dream. The dream becomes prophetic.

At first, the girl finds herself in a snowy clearing, she approaches a stream, but the passage through it is too fragile, Larina is afraid of falling and looks around for an assistant. A bear appears from under a snowdrift. The girl gets scared, but when she sees that the bear is not going to attack, but on the contrary, he offers her his help, extends his hand to him - the obstacle has been overcome. However, the bear is in no hurry to leave the girl; he follows her, which scares Tatyana even more.

The girl tries to escape from her pursuer - she goes into the forest. Tree branches catch her clothes, take off her earrings, tear off her scarf, but Tatyana, gripped by fear, runs forward. The deep snow does not allow her to escape and the girl falls. At this time, a bear overtakes her; he does not attack her, but picks her up and carries her further.

A hut appears ahead. The bear says that his godfather lives here and Tatyana can warm up. Once in the hallway, Larina hears the sound of fun, but it reminds her of a wake. Strange guests - monsters - are sitting at the table. The girl is overcome with both fear and curiosity; she quietly opens the door - the owner of the hut turns out to be Onegin. He notices Tatyana and heads towards her. Larina wants to run away, but she can’t - the door opens and all the guests see her:

... Fierce laughter
It sounded wild; everyone's eyes
Hooves, trunks are crooked,
Tufted tails, fangs,
Mustaches, bloody tongues,
Horns and fingers are bone,
Everything points to her
And everyone shouts: mine! my!

The imperious owner calms the guests - the guests disappear, and Tatyana is invited to the table. Olga and Lensky immediately appear in the hut, causing a storm of indignation on the part of Onegin. Tatyana is horrified by what is happening, but does not dare to intervene. In a fit of anger, Onegin takes a knife and kills Vladimir. The dream ends, it’s morning already.

Tatyana's marriage

A year later, Tatiana’s mother comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to take her daughter to Moscow - Tatiana has every chance of remaining a virgin:
At Kharitonya's alley
Cart in front of the house at the gate
Has stopped. To the old aunt
The patient has been suffering from consumption for four years,
They have arrived now.

Aunt Alina joyfully received the guests. She herself was unable to get married at one time and lived alone all her life.

Here, in Moscow, Tatiana is noticed by an important, fat general. He was struck by Larina’s beauty and “meanwhile he couldn’t take his eyes off her.”

Pushkin does not reveal the general’s age, as well as his exact name, in the novel. Alexander Sergeevich calls Larina’s admirer General N. It is known that he took part in military events, which means that his career advancement could occur at an accelerated pace, in other words, he received the rank of general without being at an advanced age.

Tatyana does not feel even a shadow of love towards this man, but still agrees to the marriage.

The details of their relationship with her husband are not known - Tatyana came to terms with her role, but she did not have a feeling of love for her husband - it was replaced by affection and a sense of duty.

Love for Onegin, despite the debunking of his idealistic image, still did not leave Tatyana’s heart.

Meeting with Onegin

Two years later, Evgeny Onegin returns from his journey. He does not go to his village, but visits his relative in St. Petersburg. As it turned out, during these two years, changes occurred in the life of his relative:

“So you're married! I didn’t know before!
How long ago?” - About two years. -
"On whom?" - On Larina. - “Tatyana!”

Onegin, who always knows how to restrain himself, succumbs to excitement and feelings - he is overcome by anxiety: “Is it really her? But definitely... No...".

Tatyana Larina has changed a lot since their last meeting - they no longer look at her as a strange provincial girl:

The ladies moved closer to her;
The old women smiled at her;
The men bowed lower
The girls walked by more quietly.

Tatyana learned to behave like all secular women. She knows how to hide her emotions, is tactful towards other people, there is a certain amount of coolness in her behavior - all this surprises Onegin.

Tatyana, it seems, was not at all stunned, unlike Evgeny, by their meeting:
Her eyebrow didn't move;
She didn't even press her lips together.

Always so brave and lively, Onegin was at a loss for the first time and did not know how to speak to her. Tatyana, on the contrary, asked him with the most indifferent expression on her face about the trip and the date of his return.

Since then, Evgeniy has lost peace. He realizes that he loves a girl. He comes to them every day, but feels awkward in front of the girl. All his thoughts are occupied only with her - from the very morning he jumps out of bed and counts the hours remaining until they meet.

But the meetings do not bring relief either - Tatyana does not notice his feelings, she behaves with restraint, proudly, in a word, just like Onegin himself towards her two years ago. Consumed by excitement, Onegin decides to write a letter.

Noticing a spark of tenderness in you,
“I didn’t dare believe her,” he writes about the events of two years ago.
Evgeniy confesses his love to a woman. “I was punished,” he says, explaining his past recklessness.

Like Tatyana, Onegin entrusts her with the solution to the problem that has arisen:
Everything is decided: I am in your will
And I surrender to my fate.

However, there was no response. The first letter is followed by another and another, but they remain unanswered. Days pass - Evgeniy cannot lose his anxiety and confusion. He comes to Tatyana again and finds her sobbing over his letter. She was very similar to the girl he met two years ago. Excited Onegin falls at her feet, but

Tatyana is categorical - her love for Onegin has not yet faded, but Eugene himself ruined their happiness - he neglected her when she was unknown to anyone in society, not rich and not “favored by the court.” Evgeny was rude to her, he played with her feelings. Now she is the wife of another man. Tatyana does not love her husband, but she will “be faithful to him forever,” because it cannot be any other way. Another scenario is contrary to the girl’s life principles.

Tatyana Larina as assessed by critics

Roman A.S. Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” has become the subject of active research and scientific-critical activity for several generations. The image of the main character Tatyana Larina became the cause of repeated controversy and analysis.

• Yu. Lotman in his works he actively analyzed the essence and principle of writing Tatiana’s letter to Onegin. He came to the conclusion that the girl, having read novels, recreated “a chain of reminiscences primarily from the texts of French literature.”
• V.G. Belinsky, says that for Pushkin’s contemporaries the release of the third chapter of the novel became a sensation. The reason for this was Tatyana’s letter. According to the critic, Pushkin himself until that moment did not realize the power produced by the letter - he calmly read it, just like any other text.
  The writing style is a little childish, romantic - this touches, because Tatyana was not yet aware of the feelings of love “the language of passions was so new and inaccessible to the morally dumb Tatyana: she would not have been able to understand or express her own feelings if she had not resorted to to the help of the impressions left on her.”
• D. Pisarev I wasn’t so inspired by Tatyana’s image. He believes that the girl’s feelings are fake - she inspires them herself and thinks that it is the truth. While analyzing the letter to Tatiana, the critic notes that Tatiana is still aware of Onegin’s lack of interest in her person, because she suggests that Onegin’s visits will not be regular; this state of affairs does not allow the girl to become a “virtuous mother.” “And now, by your grace, I, a cruel man, must disappear,” writes Pisarev. In general, the image of a girl in his concept is not the most positive and borders on the definition of a “hillbilly”.
• F. Dostoevsky believes that Pushkin should have named his novel not after Evgeniy, but after Tatiana. Since this heroine is the main character in the novel. In addition, the writer notes that Tatyana has a much greater intelligence than Evgeniy. She knows how to act correctly in current situations. Her image is noticeably firm. “A firm type, standing firmly on its own soil,” Dostoevsky says about her.
• V. Nabokov notes that Tatyana Larina has become one of her favorite characters. As a result, her image turned “into the ‘national type’ of the Russian woman.” However, over time, this character was forgotten - with the beginning of the October Revolution, Tatyana Larina lost her significance. For Tatyana, according to the writer, there was another unfavorable period. During Soviet rule, the younger sister Olga occupied a much more advantageous position in relation to her sister.

Tatyana Larina symbolizes the image of a Russian girl. It is difficult to understand the soul of a Russian without being a Russian. It is Tatyana who appears before us as a symbol of the mysterious Russian soul.

From childhood she was distinguished by her difference from others. Her originality, sometimes wildness, seems to some like pride, affectation. But that's not true. A gentle disposition, but strength of character is manifested and even more emphasized against the background of his sister Olga. It would seem that a young girl in a noble family could be worried. Are deep thoughts, the ability to reason and analyze inherent in such a greenhouse environment? Lightness and carelessness should have become her companions, but everything turned out differently. The desire for study and self-development made the girls strong in character, deeply thinking, and empathetic. Frequent solitudes contributed to deep immersion and self-knowledge.

The first feeling that washed over Tatyana absorbed her completely. She was ready to meet love. Reading novels contributed to this. And so, the image of a person who corresponded to her fictional hero appeared in reality.

Tatyana, a pure and open person, went towards the feeling. She accepted it and decided to take a difficult but necessary step - recognition.

Having overcome her maiden pride, she dared to take the first step. What did she get in return? Condescension on the part of the brilliant Onegin towards a provincial girl, a humane act of refusal. First love often breaks young hearts. But this defeat made Tatyana stronger. The feeling did not fade away, but only hid somewhere in the depths of my soul. Nothing could stop her from loving Evgeniy, neither his indifference, nor cruelty, nor cynicism, nor the murder of Lensky. You cannot love for something, you can love in spite of it. Only then is it love.

Tatyana is a sensual but proud person. She did not humiliate herself and ask for Onegin’s love. She tried to move away and forget. Only she herself knows what was going on in her soul, what kind of struggle was raging between her mind and her heart. Reason allowed a provincial savage girl to turn into a sedate lady, the owner of a salon. An unloved husband cannot doubt his wife’s tenderness and fidelity even for a second.

The power of love, its beauty is most colorfully revealed in tragedy. Tatyana is not destined to be with Onegin. Love is alive in her heart, and perhaps has only intensified over time. But, alas. A sacrifice of love for the sake of honor and the promised oath at the altar.

Composition:

Every great artist strives to capture in his works the ideal of a heroine, in which the best qualities of his people and time were expressed. Pushkin's ideal was the image of Tatyana Larina in the novel "Eugene Onegin"

The reader first meets Tatyana in the second chapter; the heroine appears to us as a girl from a provincial Russian family, a simple county young lady. Her late father, a brigadier general, was “a kind fellow, belated in the last century,” and her patriarchal family kept “the habits of dear old times,” celebrating traditional Russian holidays: Maslenitsa, Trinity Day. The life of the young heroine passes slowly, she reads the romantic works of Richardson and Rousseau, wonders about her betrothed, believes in omens and Epiphany fears, interprets prophetic dreams based on an old book by Martyn Zadeka and loves to talk with the peasant nanny. However, from the very beginning, the author distinguishes Tatyana from an ordinary provincial family: She is in her own family
Seemed like a stranger to the girl
The girl does not engage in traditional girlish activities - she does not embroider, does not play with dolls,
she is not attracted to playing burners and outdoor games with her peers, it is boring for her, but she loves listening to the scary stories of nanny Filipyevna. Tatyana often spends the whole day sitting silently by the window, she is thoughtful and prefers solitude: She loved on the balcony
Warn the dawn of the sunrise

In order to enhance the impression, the author gives a contrasting image of Tatyana’s younger sister, Olga:
Eyes like the sky are blue,
Smile, flaxen curls,
Movements, voice, light frame,
It's all about Olga...
Olga is certainly pretty: modest, obedient, always cheerful, “sweet as love’s kiss.”
Tatyana, on the contrary, was not distinguished by either her sister’s beauty or her ruddy freshness, and could not attract attention.
However, the younger sister is internally colorless, as Eugene Onegin himself notes:
I would choose another
If only I were like you, a poet.
Olga has no life in her features
The inner emptiness is contrasted with the wealth of Tatyana’s inner world, her spiritual beauty,
kindness, moral strength and faith.

Tatyana’s main activity is reading:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her
Books have a strong influence on her behavior, Tatyana herself imagines herself as the heroine of a romantic story, and most of her actions are a copy of the relationships that appeared before her on the pages of French literature.
However, in the sweet heroine of the novel there is nothing artificial, insincere, there is no flirtatious pose and a set of banal phrases of a society girl of marriageable age. Pushkin constantly emphasizes that Tatyana “loves without art,” “loves in earnest.” With what amazing frankness and courage this modest district young lady writes to her lover, the hero of her dreams, Eugene Onegin! In the 19th century, it was not customary for young ladies to be the first to admit their
feelings. Tatyana understands that she is overstepping moral prohibitions, everything she was taught:
Now I know it's in your will
Punish me with contempt...
Her pride suffers, her ideas about what is right and what is wrong. In a letter written in French,
her characteristic romanticism and determination appear. She does not want to suffer in silence, but is ready to act and change the situation that does not suit her. At the same time, she believes in the nobility of Onegin: “You will not leave me.”
The famous critic Belinsky wrote in his article: “Tatyana suddenly decides to write to Onegin: the impulse is naive and noble; but its source is not in consciousness, but in unconsciousness: the poor girl did not know what she was doing.”
“Everything in Tatiana’s letter is true, but everything is simple. The combination of simplicity with truth constitutes the highest beauty of both feelings, deeds, and expressions...”, however, the critic is sure that she would not be able to understand or express her own feelings if she would not have resorted to the impressions left on her memory by the novels she read uselessly and indiscriminately.
Be that as it may, the poems at the end of the letter are beautiful: they are imbued with pure feeling, and are a combination of sincerity and simplicity:
...My destiny
From now on I give it to you.
I shed tears before you,
I beg your protection...
Despite all the honesty and courage of the message, Onegin refuses Tatyana:
Your perfections are in vain:
I am not worthy of them at all.
All the poor girl’s hopes were destroyed, but Eugene’s edifying, moralizing rebuke could not kill Tatyana’s love for him, the destroyed hope did not extinguish the flame that was devouring her:
it began to burn the more stubbornly and intensely the duller and more hopeless it became. Misfortune gave new energy to passion.
And even after Tatyana visited Onegin’s village house and read his favorite books, where “Onegin’s soul involuntarily expressed itself,”
When the girl realized who fate had sent her, the heroine continues to love this person.

But now, after several years, we can see Tatyana in high society. Drawing the image of St. Petersburg Tatiana, the author writes:
She was leisurely
Not cold, not talkative,
Without an insolent look for everyone,
No pretensions to success...
Everything was quiet, it was just there
Married lady Tatyana is growing up and changing radically:
No one could make her beautiful
Name; but from head to toe
No one could find it in it
That autocratic fashion
In high London circle
Called vulgar
Now she is an indifferent princess, an unapproachable goddess of the luxurious royal Neva, but Tatyana is indifferent to social life,
she sees the falsehood reigning in high society in St. Petersburg.

In the famous scene of Tatiana’s decisive explanation with Onegin, we see how much this trusting girl “from the wilderness of the steppe villages” felt, changed her mind, and suffered, ultimately becoming a woman wise in mind and heart. She has retained the best of the timid and simple Tanya, remembers the past, her rural house, her old nanny, her meeting with Onegin, her
“love of insane suffering”, about such possible and close happiness.
In this explanation, Tatyana’s whole being was fully expressed. Tatyana's speech begins with a reproach, in which she expresses her desire
revenge for wounded pride:
Onegin, do you remember that hour,
When in the garden, in the alley we
Fate brought us together, and so humbly
I listened to your lesson!
Today it's my turn.
The main idea of ​​​​Tatyana's reproaches is the conviction that Onegin did not love her then because
that for him there was no charm of temptation in this; and now the thirst for glory brings her to her feet.
All this expresses fear for one’s virtue, and perhaps the most important thing in Tatyana’s character and behavior is an understanding of duty and responsibility to people. These feelings take precedence over love. She cannot be happy if she brings misfortune to another person, her husband, who is “maimed in battle,” is proud of her, trusts her. She will never make a deal with her conscience.
Tatyana finds the strength to calmly and with dignity say to the person she loves and loves her the famous words of recognition and farewell:
I love you (why lie?),
But I was given to someone else;
I will be faithful to him forever.

Tatyana's fate is tragic. Life brought her a lot of disappointments, she did not find in life what she was striving for, but she did not change herself. This is a very integral, strong, strong-willed female character. Tatyana's main qualities are spiritual nobility, sincerity and a sense of duty.
Tatyana is the ideal woman for the poet, and he does not hide it: “Forgive me: I love my dear Tatyana so much...”
“Harmony of spirit” constitutes the essence of her character and makes Pushkin’s heroine a “sweet ideal”, one of the attractive and vivid images of Russian and world literature.