Zheltkov's rank according to his social status. Characteristics of Zheltkov from "Garnet Bracelet": what is special about this hero? Description of the appearance of a fan of Vera

"Pomegranate bracelet", a petty official who is unrequitedly in love with the princess. Pursues the object of passion with letters, in the finale of the story he commits suicide.

History of creation

Alexander Kuprin worked on the "Garnet Bracelet" in Odessa in the autumn of 1910. The work was originally conceived as a story, but grew into a story. The work dragged on, and at the beginning of December, judging by Kuprin's letters, the story was not yet finished.

The plot was based on a real story that happened to the wife of a member of the State Council D.N. Lyubimova. The prototype of Zheltkov was a certain petty telegraph official Zheltikov, unrequitedly in love with this lady.

"Garnet bracelet"

Zheltkov is a minor official of the control chamber, 30-35 years old. A tall and thin man with soft and long hair. The appearance of Zheltkov reveals a fine mental organization - pale skin, a gentle "girlish" face, a child's chin with a dimple, blue eyes and nervous thin fingers. The hero's hands constantly betray his nervous state - they tremble, fiddle with buttons, "run" over his face and clothes.

Zheltkov - the protagonist of the story "Garnet Bracelet"

The hero earns little and considers himself a person devoid of fine taste, therefore he has neither the opportunity nor the right to present expensive gifts to the object of his own undivided passion - the princess. The hero saw the lady in the box of the circus and immediately fell in love with her. Eight years have passed since then, and all this time Zheltkov, who is in love, has been writing letters to Vera. At first, the hero was still waiting for reciprocity and thought that the young lady from the box would answer his letters, but Vera never paid attention to the unlucky admirer.

Over time, Zheltkov ceases to hope for reciprocity, but continues to write to Vera from time to time and secretly monitor her life. In his letters, Zheltkov describes exactly where and with whom he saw Vera, even in what dress she was. In addition to the object of his passion, the hero is not interested in anything - neither science, nor politics, nor the life of his own and other people.

The hero keeps the things of Vera. The scarf that the lady forgot at the ball, and the hero appropriated. The program of the exhibition, which Vera left on the chair, and so on in this spirit. Even a note written by Vera, in which she forbade the hero to write to her, became a relic for Zheltkov. Zheltkov sees in Vera the only meaning of his own life, but with all this he does not consider himself a maniac, but only a lover.

Vera Sheina from the story "Garnet Bracelet"

Once Zheltkov sends the princess a birthday present - a family garnet bracelet, which belonged to the hero's great-grandmother, and then to his late mother. The princess's brother, Nikolai, loses his temper because of this gift and decides to intervene in order to stop Zheltkov's "harassment" once and for all.

Nikolai finds where the hero lives and demands that he stop pursuing his sister, otherwise he threatens to take action. Vera herself also treats Zheltkov unfriendly and asks to leave her alone. That evening, the hero dies, committing suicide, but in the suicide note he does not blame Vera for his own death, but still writes about his love for that. Only at parting, Vera realized that the strong love that every woman dreams of was so close, but she refused it.

Zheltkov had a gentle and tactful character. The landlady called the hero a "wonderful person" and treated him like her own son. Zheltkov is sincere and incapable of lying, decent. The hero has a weak voice and calligraphic handwriting. A man loves music, especially. Of the relatives, the hero has one brother.

Illustration for the story "Garnet Bracelet"

The hero rented a room in a multi-storey building on Lutheranskaya Street. This is a poor house, where the stairwells are dark, smells of kerosene, mice and laundry. Zheltkov's room is badly lit, with a low ceiling, and poorly furnished. The hero has only a narrow bed, a shabby sofa and a table.

Yolkov is a controversial character who showed cowardice in love, but a fair amount of courage, deciding to shoot himself.

Screen adaptations

In 1964, a screen version of The Garnet Bracelet was released, directed by Abram Room. The image of Zheltkov in this film was embodied by the actor Igor Ozerov. Mr. Zheltkov, whose exact name is not indicated in the story, is named Georgy Stepanovich in the film. In the story, the hero signs himself with the initials G.S.Zh., and the landlady, from whom Zheltkov rented housing, called the hero "Pan Ezhiy", which corresponds to the Polish version of the name "George". However, it is impossible to say for sure what the hero's name was.

The film also stars actors Yuri Averin (in the role of Gustav Ivanovich von Friesse) and in the role of Prince Shein, husband of the main character Vera Sheina, played by the actress.

Quotes

"It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me all life is only in you."

“Think what I needed to do? Run away to another city? All the same, the heart was always near you, at your feet, every moment of the day is filled with you, with thoughts of you, dreams of you ... "

"I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love."

Sections: Literature

Lesson type: lesson in learning new material.

Lesson type: conversation lesson.

The purpose of the lesson: to reveal the originality of the solution to the love theme in the work of A.I. Kuprin.

Educational:

• to deepen the students' ideas about the artistic originality of A. I. Kuprin's prose;
• to acquaint students with the history of the creation of the story "Pomegranate Bracelet";
• on the basis of direct impressions from reading the story, conduct a comprehensive analysis of the work, considering the problems of the story, its plot and compositional features, the originality of artistic images.

Developing:

• improve students' skills in analyzing a work of art, developing the ability to highlight the main, significant moments in the development of an action, to determine their role in revealing the theme and idea of ​​a work, to draw independent conclusions; develop the skills of researching literary text; comparative analysis, detailed answers to questions; enrichment of the vocabulary of students;
• to form students' own attitude to the events and heroes of the story, thereby contributing to the development of an active life position, the ability to defend their own point of view.

Educational:

• to educate the moral qualities of students on the example of the heroes of the story (inner beauty, nobility);
• to form aesthetic perception using various types of art: literature, music, fine arts, cinema;
• cultivate an attentive attitude to the word.

Preparatory stage: students are divided into 4 groups.

Course of the lesson

I. Organizational moment. Explanation of the goals and objectives of the lesson.

II. Introductory remarks by the teacher.

"Kuprin has one cherished theme. He touches it chastely, reverently and nervously. Otherwise, you cannot touch it. This is the theme of love ..."

"Great power of love!" - this is exactly what the topic of our lesson sounds like. The theme of love has always been, is and will be one of the most pressing topics for all mankind.

One of the most fragrant and painful stories about love - and the saddest - is Kuprin's "Garnet Bracelet"

"Love has a thousand subjects, and each of them has its own light, its own sorrow, its own happiness and its own fragrance."
(K.G. Paustovsky)

One of these “plots” will become the subject of our attention today.

We will focus on the analysis of the story of AI Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet".

III. Analysis of Kuprin's story “Garnet Bracelet”.

Teacher:

V. Lvov-Rogachevsky: “Life in all its infinite diversity is reflected in Kuprin's work, not so much life as a whole, but in fragments, in a whirlwind of accidents ... He has the greed of a collector, only he collects not rare coins, but rare occasions”. To be convinced of the reliability of the words of V. Lvov-Rogachevsky, we will get acquainted with the history of the creation of this work.

1.The message of the student "The history of the creation of the story of A. I. Kuprin"(individual student homework).

Teacher:

2. “Garnet Bracelet” has an unusual creative history. Work on the story was in the fall of 1910 in Odessa. At this time Kuprin often visited the family of the Odessa doctor L. Ya. Maisels and listened to Beethoven's Second Sonata performed by his wife. The musical work so captivated Alexander Ivanovich that the work on the story began with the fact that he wrote down the epigraph. “L. van Beethoven. 2 Son. (op. 2, no. 2). Largo Appassionato ”. Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata, one of the most tense, painful, passionate creations of human genius in music, awakened Kuprin to literary creativity. The sounds of the sonata combined in his imagination with the story of light love that he witnessed.

(Listening to the fragment "Appassionata")

3. Analytical conversation of a comparative nature.

How did Kuprin artistically transform the real story he heard? (Kuprin embodied in his creation the ideal of beautiful, omnipotent, but not mutual love, showed that a “small man” is capable of a large, all-embracing feeling. , empathize with what she hasn't done before.)

Why do you think Kuprin artistically transformed real history?

Do you think the writer has achieved his plan?

4. Quiz by product.

Before proceeding directly to the discussion of the story, to the disclosure of the main topics, to the discussion of the characters of the heroes, we will conduct a special quiz. Her questions will help you remember the details of the work, and your answers will show how carefully you read the story "Garnet Bracelet" and how well you remember its contents:

1. What time of year does the story take place? (Autumn, September.)
2. Where does the story take place? (Black Sea town.)
3. What is the name of the main character? (Princess Vera Sheina.)
4. Last name of Princess Sheina before marriage? (Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovskaya.)
5. Who was Vera Sheina's ancestor? (Tamerlane.)
6. What is the name of Vera's sister? (Anna Friesse.)
7. What is the name of Princess Vera's husband? (Prince Vasily Lvovich.)
8. What is his position? (The leader of the nobility.)
9. What date were Princess Vera Sheina's birthday? (September 17th.)
10. What did her husband give her? (Pear-shaped pearl earrings.)
11. What did your sister give Vera? (Notebook with an “amazing binding”.)
12. What was the name of the famous pianist, Vera's friend? (Zhenya Reuters.)
13. Who donated the garnet bracelet? (Yolkov.)
14. To what does faith compare the deep red pomegranates? (Like blood.)
15. Who is Zheltkov? (A telegraph operator in love with faith.)
16. What calls Zheltkov his mistress? (“Pan Hedgehog.)
17. What is Zheltkov's real name? (George.)
18. About whom Kuprin wrote: "... went to her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands, and that charming slope of the shoulders, which can be seen on old miniatures ..." (about the princess faith).
19. What was the name of Anna's husband, Vera's sister? (Gustav Ivanovich.)
20. Whose portrait is this? “She was half a head shorter, somewhat broad at the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mockery. Her face was of a strongly Mongolian type with quite noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes ... captivated by some elusive and incomprehensible charm ... ”(Anna)
21. About whom Kuprin writes: “... very pale, with a gentle girlish face, with blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must have been about thirty, thirty-five years old ”? (about Zheltkov.)
22. What kind of music does the piece sound like? (Beethoven's Second Sonata.)
23. Whose portrait is this? “A fat, tall, silver old man, he was getting off the footboard with difficulty ... He had a large, rough, red face with a fleshy nose and with that good-natured, stately, slightly contemptuous expression in his narrowed eyes ... which is characteristic of courageous and common people ...” ( General Anosov).
24. About whom does the author write: “... hugged the trunk of an acacia, clung to it and cried ...”? (about Vera Sheina.)
25. Who owns the following words: “Where is love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not expecting a reward? The one about which it is said - "strong as death"?

5. Work in groups.

What is a group? This is a song, a song that is only sung in a choir.

Where eyes and hands are always together, truth is born in a creative argument!

Exercise 1.

Let's talk about what is in your understanding of love as it can be.

First group: What positive feelings can LOVE evoke?

(Love is a sublime feeling, beautiful, extraordinary, love is capable of conquering everything, is capable of raising a person to the peak of bliss, making a person work on himself. You cannot live without love.)

Second group: What negative feelings can LOVE evoke?

(love is a feeling that brings pain, disappointment, self-doubt, love can destroy a person, make him commit madness, love throws a person into the abyss of grief. It is better to live without love.)

Third group: Find epithets for the word LOVE .

(Love is kind, soft, mutual, creative, joyful, happy, tragic, fatal, painful, unrequited, destructive.)

Fourth group: Working with dictionaries

Let's turn to the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language and see what definition is given by “LOVE” linguists.

Love is:

Love is an intimate and deep feeling, striving for another person, human community or idea. (Big Encyclopedic Dictionary.)

Love is 1) deep emotional attraction, strong heart feeling; 2) a sense of deep affection, selfless and sincere affection; 3) constant, strong tendency, passion for something; 4) an object of love (one or one whom someone loves, to whom he feels attraction, disposition); 5) addiction, taste for something. (Explanatory Dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov.)

Love - 1) a feeling of affection based on a community of interests, ideals, on the readiness to devote oneself to a common cause. 2) Addiction, disposition or attraction to something. (Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, edited by D.N. Ushakov.)

Teacher:

We see that in each definition there are words: deep feeling; strong heart feeling; feeling of affection; inclination, disposition.

Kuprin himself spoke about love this way: "A feeling that has not yet found its interpretation."

But in no definition is there a precise indication of whether happiness is love or trouble.

How can this be determined? Let us turn to the story of A.I. Kuprin "Garnet bracelet" and we will try to find out

Task 2.

The first group: How does the princess appear before the readers in the first chapters of the story? (Coldness, indifference, regal calm, a sense of superiority.)

Second group: Is she capable of ardent, passionate love? (In her youth and early youth, the princess was capable of a strong, all-consuming feeling, but now she has changed, and “the former passionate love for her husband has long since passed into a feeling of strong, faithful, true friendship.”)

Third group: What role does Beethoven's music play in the work? (Music surprisingly harmonizes with the experiences of Vera, in whose soul the words: “Hallowed be thy name.” In these gentle sounds is life that “humbly and joyfully doomed itself to torment, suffering and death.” Zheltkov's last memories are fanned with sweet sadness, moments of happiness become eternity for him) Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 is "an exceptional work, unique in its depth."

Fourth group : “Love” and “being in love”: how are these concepts different?

Task 3.

The person who fell in love with Vera Nikolaevna so much was an ordinary person, an official of the Control Chamber, G.S. Yolkov.

First group: How do we know about Zheltkov's love? Who is talking about her? (We learn about Zheltkov's love for the first time from the stories of Prince Shein. The prince's truth is intertwined with fiction. For him, this is a funny story. after death will bequeath.)

Second group: How did Zheltkov's gift differ from all the others? Why did Vera Nikolaevna feel anxious? (The garnet bracelet is a symbol of love, reverent, endless and hopeless, and a tragedy in the fate of the hero.)

The third group: Love without reciprocity: happiness or tragedy? (Zheltkov admits that he “cut into an uncomfortable wedge” in Vera's life and is infinitely grateful to her only for the fact that she exists. His love is not a disease, not a manic idea, but a reward sent by God. His tragedy is hopeless, he is a dead man.)

The fourth group: How does Zheltkov appear in the suicide letter?

Task 4.

First group: When do you first talk about true love? (In conversation with Anosov. He believes that in his time they forgot how to love.)

Second group: To love and be loved? What's better?

Third group: What is the story of General Anosov? Why is it given in such detail?

Anosov knows what love is at first sight. But his wife left him. “People in our time have forgotten how to love,” the general says. “I don’t see true love. And in my time, I haven’t. Anosov discusses why people get married. For women - "the desire to be a mistress, the main in the house, independent ... In addition, the need for motherhood, and to start building their own nest." Men have other motives - "fatigue from single life, from disorder in rooms ... from debts, from unceremonious comrades ... You feel that living as a family is more profitable, healthier and more economical ... you think: here the kids will go, - I something I will die, but a part of me will still remain in the world ... sometimes there are thoughts of a dowry. " As we can see, the motives for the marriage of people who lived at the beginning of the 20th century differ little from the aspirations of our contemporaries ... Through the lips of his hero, Kuprin exclaims: “Where is love? about which it is said - “strong as death. Every woman dreams of love“ one, all-forgiving, ready for everything, modest and selfless. ”This is the ideal of love according to Kuprin. But achieving the ideal is difficult, almost impossible. If there is no love, women take revenge. They take revenge on themselves and others.

Fourth group: Is there ideal love?

The old general Anosov, who is sure that high love exists, but it "... must be a tragedy, the greatest secret in the world," which knows no compromises.

Kuprin: true love is the foundation of everything earthly. She should not be isolated, undivided, she should be based on high sincere feelings, strive for the ideal. Love is stronger than death, it elevates a person.

What is the fate of the garnet bracelet? (The unhappy lover asked to hang a bracelet - a symbol of holy love - on the icon.)

6. Working with the statements of the heroes of the story.

The heroes of the story express their opinion about love. Before you are the statements of the heroes of the story. Whose point of view is closer to you and why?

Anosov: “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No life comforts, calculations and compromises should concern her. "

Vera Nikolaevna: "And what is it: love or madness?"

Yolks: “… This is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God wanted to reward me for something…“ Hallowed be thy name… ”

Shein: "... is it possible to control such a feeling as love - a feeling that has not yet found an interpretation for itself"

IV. Summing up the lesson.

A small bundle contained a case.
For Princess Vera Nikolaevna,
In it a pomegranate bracelet lay,
Stone gift for birthday ...

Surrounded by gold frames
Let it be cheap, of low standard,
The pebble is green, like a count,
I amazed with a special glow ...

He hid a living fire in himself -
Protected from death and deception,
Called the owner: "Just touch your finger,
The future will come out of the fog ... "

Beethoven's motive will sound
The third part of "Appationata",
And the words: "I love, as long as I'm alive!" -
They will repeat the grenades for a long time ...

Zheltkov was a young man who had long since fallen in love with Vera Nikolaevna. At first he dared to write letters to her. But when she asked him not to do this anymore, he immediately stopped, since his love was above his own desires. At first he dreamed of meeting and wanted an answer, but realizing that he would not succeed, he still continued to love the princess. For him, her happiness and calmness were in the first place. He was a sensitive young man, capable of deep feeling. For him Vera Nikolaevna was the ideal and perfection of beauty. He was not crazy, because he understood everything that was happening perfectly. He wanted to see Vera, but he had no right to do so, so he did it secretly. He understood that he could not give her gifts, but he sent her a bracelet, hoping that at least she would see it and take it in her hands for a second.

In addition, Zheltkov was a very honest and noble young man, he did not persecute Vera Nikolaevna after her marriage and after she wrote him a note asking him never to write to her again. He only sometimes sent her congratulations on big holidays, such as New Year, Christmas, birthday. Zheltkov was noble, since he did not try to upset Vera Nikolaevna's barque, and when he realized that he had already gone far and was interfering with his manifestations, he decided to simply get out of the way. But since he could not live without her, he committed suicide, because for him it was the only way to keep himself from not seeing her, not sending gifts, letters, not making himself felt. He was morally strong enough to draw this conclusion for himself, but he was not strong enough to live without his love.

Composition

And the heart will no longer respond

It's all over ... and my song rushes

On an empty night where you are no more

A. Akhmatova

A.I. Kuprin is an original writer of the 20th century, in whose work the precepts of Russian classical literature with its democracy, passionate desire to solve the problems of social life, humanism, and a deep interest in the life of the people were uniquely refracted. Fidelity to traditions, the influence of L.N. Tolstoy and A.P. Chekhov, the influence of M. Gorky's creative ideas determined the originality of Kuprin's fiction, its place in the literary process of the beginning of the century.

The writers, whose work took shape during the years of the revolutionary upsurge, was especially close to the theme of the "insight" of the common Russian person, eagerly seeking the truth in social life. Therefore, the center of the works invariably turns out to be a small person, an average intellectual-truth-seeker, and the main theme is bourgeois civilization, devouring thousands of human lives and entailing the vulgarization of human relationships. "It is natural in such a situation to address one of the eternal themes - the theme of love. love as one of the mysteries of life, and A. Kuprin.

Following "Olesya" (1898) and "Duel" (1905) in the 1910s, he wrote a kind of "trilogy" about love, which was formed by the works "Shulamith", "Pomegranate Bracelet" and "Pit" ( the latter depicts anti-love). Love for Kuprin is a saving force that protects the human soul from the destructive influence of civilization; a phenomenon of life, an unexpected gift that illuminates life in the midst of everyday reality and settled life. But love in his works is associated with the idea of ​​death.

Kuprin's heroes most often perish when faced with the world of cruelty, lack of spirituality and the generally accepted philistine morality of the modern world.

Great, but, unfortunately, unrequited love became the meaning and content of the life of the protagonist of the story "Garnet Bracelet". GS Zheltkov is a handsome-looking young man, an employee of the control ward. He is musical, endowed with a sense of beauty, he feels fine and knows how to understand people. Despite his poverty, Zheltkov has a "pedigree", his sofa is covered with a "worn beautiful Tekin carpet."

But his main value is "seven years of hopeless and polite love." The object of his admiration is the eldest daughter of the late prince Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky, the wife of the leader of the nobility in the city of K., Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. She married for love to a childhood friend, but now she feels for her husband "a feeling of strong, faithful, true friendship." Both Vera Nikolaevna herself and those around her consider her marriage to be happy. Vera Nikolaevna is endowed with "aristocratic" beauty. She attracts with "her tall, flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands and that charming slope of the shoulders, which can be seen on old miniatures."

The heroine is a sensitive, subtle nature with many talents. But Vera does not respond to Zheltkov's feelings. She perceives his attention, his letters and the gift of a garnet bracelet as something unnecessary, moreover, violating the usual measured course of life. The princess was used to taking life seriously. She soberly assesses the financial situation of the family and tries to "help the prince to keep from complete ruin", in many respects denies herself and saves in the household. The Sheins have a wide circle of acquaintances, and for Princess Vera, reputation is very important, she is afraid to look funny or ridiculous. The very same admirer "with a funny surname Zheltkov" she considers a "madman" who "pursues her with his love", and even once in writing asks him "not to bother her anymore with his love outpourings." The love of our hero is incomprehensible to the princess and seems burdensome.

For Zheltkov, the whole life is in Vera Nikolaevna. He is no longer interested in anything: "neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people." Zheltkov's heart is always near his beloved, at her feet, "every moment of the day is filled" with Vera Nikolaevna, with thoughts and dreams about her. But Zheltkov's love is "not a disease, not a manic idea." He fell in love with Vera "because there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no man more beautiful ... and more tender." This great love is a gift from heaven, "tremendous happiness." This is love, "with which God was pleased to reward me for something," he writes, feeling "reverence, eternal admiration" for his beloved woman and boundless gratitude for the mere fact that she exists. The princess, unaware of it herself, painfully wounds Zheltkov, pushes him to commit suicide with the words: "Oh, if you knew how tired I am of this whole story. Please stop it as soon as possible." But he asked for such a little: "to stay in the city, so that although occasionally to see her, of course, without showing her eyes."

Farewell to Vera Nikolaevna for the hero is tantamount to farewell to life. But, knowing full well about the inseparability of his feelings, Zheltkov hopes and "even is sure" that Vera Nikolaevna will someday remember him. And indeed, after the death of Zheltkov, saying goodbye to him, she realizes that she has lost something important and very valuable, that “great love that repeats only once in a thousand years”, “that love that every woman dreams of has passed past her. " Shocked by this realization, Vera asks the pianist to play something, not doubting that Jenny will play the same passage from the Second Sonata that Zheltkov asked for. And when she listened to "this exceptional, unique in depth work", "her soul seemed to split in two." It was filled with music and poetry, which ended with the words from the farewell letter of a loving person: "Hallowed be Thy name" ...

The musical theme "Appassionata" affirms the high power of love. Music in the story generally plays a very important role, it is no coincidence that the title of Beethoven's second sonata is included in the epigraph. It serves as the key to understanding the entire work. "Prayer for Love" runs as a leitmotif throughout the work and sounds powerful in its finale. The music of the great composer "told" what the enamored official of the Control Chamber could not express in words. As you can see, mutual, perfect love did not take place, but this lofty and poetic feeling, even if concentrated in one soul, opened the way to a beautiful rebirth of another. After all, every woman in the depths of her heart dreams of such a love - "one, all-forgiving, ready for anything, modest and selfless."

Just a few pages, a few lines from the letter, and a person's life passed before us. Is life real? Is the image of the protagonist real?

According to the memoirs of L. Arsenyeva, a younger contemporary of the writer, in the late 1920s in Paris, the aging A. Kuprin challenged his interlocutor to a duel, who allowed himself to doubt the credibility of the plot of the "Garnet Bracelet". Kuprin rarely resorted to pure fiction in his work. All his works are realistic, based on real events, personal impressions from meetings with people, from conversations. The story of love, which formed the basis of the story, the writer heard in the summer of 1906 while visiting a member of the State Council Dmitry Nikolayevich Lyubimov. The Lyubimovs showed Kuprin a family album. There were illustrations to the letters that Lyubimov's wife received from a person signing with the initials P.P.Zh. (it turned out to be a petty postal official Pyotr Petrovich Zheltikov). Kuprin creatively rethought what he heard and, by the power of his talent, turned an ordinary episode into a love story about which "the best minds and souls of mankind - poets, novelists, musicians, artists" have dreamed and yearned for centuries. Unlike the hero of Kuprin's story, Zheltikov did not shoot himself, but was transferred to the province, where he later married. But he served as a real prototype for the creation of a hero who conquered our hearts with the strength and purity of his feelings.

The image of Zheltkov is real. It is real because in the world, contrary to the opinion of General Anosov, there is still love that is not touched by "any life comforts, calculations and compromises", and there are men capable of "strong desires, heroic deeds, tenderness and adoration." I would like to believe that in the modern world a bright, humane feeling, reckless, "hopeless and polite", chivalrous, heroic love is possible; strong and pure love, the love that God sends to the elect, "like tremendous happiness." Such love, "for which to accomplish any feat, to give up one's life, to go to torment is not labor at all, but one joy." But such love cannot, must not end in a fatal outcome. Why die? You need to live knowing that you are just nearby, in the same city, in the same country, on the same planet with the person you love, and from this life is filled with meaning and becomes beautiful.

Despite the tragic ending, "Kuprin's story is optimistic, life-affirming, because in the" Pomegranate Bracelet "the author, probably stronger and brighter than in other works, praises the eternal values ​​of life, spiritual strength and purity, nobility and the ability to sacrifice in the name of love. And, of course, love itself is the most sublime and beautiful of all human feelings.

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Yes, I foresee suffering, blood and death. And I think that it is difficult for the body to part with the soul, but, Beautiful, praise to you, passionate praise and quiet love. "Hallowed be Thy name" ...

In the dying hour of sadness, I pray only to you. Life could be wonderful for me too. Do not grumble, poor heart, do not grumble. In my soul I call for death, but in my heart I am full of praise to you: "Hallowed be Thy name" ...

A. Kuprin

In the 20th century, in an era of cataclysms, in a period of political and social instability, when a new attitude towards universal human values ​​began to form, love often became the only moral category that survived in a crumbling and dying world. The theme of love has become central in the work of many writers at the beginning of the century. She became one of the central themes in the work of A. I. Kuprin. Love in his works is always disinterested, selfless, it is not touched by "any life comforts, calculations and compromises." But this love is always tragic, deliberately doomed to suffering. Heroes die. But their feelings are stronger than death. Their feelings don't die. Is this why the images of "Olesya", "Duel", "Sulamith", "Garnet Bracelet" remain in the memory for so long?

In the story "Shulamith" (1908), written based on the biblical Song of Songs, Kuprin's ideal of love is presented. He describes such "tender and fiery, devoted and beautiful love, which is one dearer than wealth, glory and wisdom, which is dearer than life itself, because even life it does not value and is not afraid of death." The story "Pomegranate Bracelet" (1911) was intended to prove that such love exists in the modern world, and to refute the opinion expressed in the work by General Anosov, the grandfather of the main character: "... love among people has taken ... vulgar forms and condescended simply to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment. " And the men are to blame for this, "at twenty, jaded, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, heroic deeds, tenderness and adoration before love ..."

Kuprin presented a story that others perceive as an anecdote about a telegraph operator who fell in love, as a touching and sublime Song of Songs about true love.

The hero of the story - GS Zheltkov Pan Ezhiy - is an official of the control chamber, a young man of pleasant appearance, "about thirty, thirty-five years old." He is "tall, thin, with long fluffy, soft hair", "very pale, with a delicate girlish face, with blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle." We learn that Zheltkov is musical and endowed with a sense of beauty. The hero's spiritual image is revealed in his letters to Princess Vera Nikolayevna Sheina, in a conversation with her husband on the eve of suicide, but he is most fully characterized by "seven years of hopeless and polite love."

Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, with whom the hero is in love, attracts with her "aristocratic" beauty inherited from her mother, "with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands and that charming slope of the shoulders, which can be seen on old miniatures ". Zheltkov considers her to be extraordinary, sophisticated and musical. He "began to persecute her with his love" two years before marriage. When he first saw the princess in the circus in a box, he said to himself: "I love her because there is nothing like her in the world, there is nothing better, there is no beast, no plant, no star, no man more beautiful ... and more tender. ". He admits that since then he "has not been interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people." For Zheltkov, Vera Nikolaevna "seemed to embody all the beauty of the earth." It is no coincidence that he constantly says about God: "God was pleased to send me, as a tremendous happiness, love to you," "the love with which God was pleased to reward me for something."

At first, Zheltkov's letters to Princess Vera were "vulgar and curiously fervent" in nature, "although they were quite chaste." But over time, he began to reveal his feelings in a more restrained and delicate manner: "I blush at the memory of my insolence seven years ago, when I dared to write stupid and wild letters to you, young lady ... Now in me there is only reverence, eternal admiration. and slavish devotion. " "For me, the whole life is only in you," writes Zheltkov to Vera Nikolaevna. In this life, every moment is dear to him when he sees the princess or watches her with excitement at a ball or in a theater. Leaving this life, he burns everything that is most dear to his heart: Vera's handkerchief, which she forgot at the ball in the Noble Assembly, her note with a request "not to bother her with my outpouring of love anymore," the program of an art exhibition that the princess held in her hand, and then forgot on the chair when leaving.

Knowing full well about the inseparability of his feelings, Zheltkov hopes and "even is sure" that someday Vera Nikolaevna will remember him. She herself, unaware of this, painfully wounds him, pushes him to commit suicide, saying in a telephone conversation the phrase: "Oh, if you knew how tired I am of this whole story. Please stop it as soon as possible." Nevertheless, in his farewell letter, the hero "from the depths of his soul" thanks Vera Nikolaevna for the fact that she was his "only joy in life, the only consolation." He wishes her happiness and that "nothing temporary and worldly would disturb" her "beautiful soul."

Yolkov is the chosen one. His love is "disinterested, selfless, not expecting a reward ...". The one about which it is said - "strong as death" ... such a love, "for which to accomplish any feat, to give up life, to go to torment is not labor at all, but one joy ...". In his own words, this love was sent to him by God. He loves, and his feeling "contains the whole meaning of life - the whole universe!" Every woman in the depths of her heart dreams of such a love - "holy, pure, eternal ... unearthly", "one, all-forgiving, ready for anything."

And Vera Nikolaevna is also chosen, because it was her life's path that was "crossed" by true, "modest and selfless" true love. And if "almost every woman is capable of the highest heroism in love," then men in the modern world, unfortunately, have become impoverished in spirit and body; But Zheltkov is not like that. The date scene reveals many aspects of this person's character. At first he gets lost ("jumped up, ran to the window, fingering his hair"), admits that now "the most difficult moment" in his life has come, and his whole appearance testifies to an indescribable mental anguish: with Shein and Tuganovsky he speaks with "jaws alone" , and his lips are "white ... like a dead man's." But self-control quickly returns to him, Zheltkov again regains the gift of speech and the ability to reason sensibly. As a person with a keen feeling and knowing how to understand people, he immediately rebuffed Nikolai Nikolayevich, stopped paying attention to his stupid threats, in Vasily Lvovich he guessed a smart person, understanding, able to listen to his confession. During this meeting, when a difficult conversation took place with the husband and brother of his beloved and Zheltkov was returned his gift - a wonderful pomegranate bracelet, a family heirloom, which he calls "a modest loyal offering", the hero demonstrated a strong will.

After calling Vera Nikolaevna, he decided that he had only one way out - to leave this life so that he would no longer cause inconvenience to his beloved. This step was the only possible one, because his whole life was centered around his beloved, and now he is denied even the last little thing: to stay in the city, "to see her occasionally, of course, without showing her eyes." Zheltkov understands that life away from Vera Nikolaevna will not bring deliverance from "sweet delirium", because wherever he is, his heart will remain at the feet of his beloved, "every moment of the day" will be filled with Her, with the thought of Her, with dreams of Her. Having made this difficult decision, Zheltkov finds the strength to explain himself. His excitement is betrayed by his behavior ("he stopped behaving like a gentleman") and his speech, which becomes businesslike, categorical and harsh. "That's all," said Zheltkov, smiling haughtily.

Farewell to Vera Nikolaevna for the hero is a farewell to life. It is no coincidence that Princess Vera, bending over the deceased to lay a rose, notices that "deep importance" is hidden in his closed eyes, and his lips smile "blissfully and serenely, as if he had learned some deep and sweet secret before parting with life. all his human life. " The last words of Zheltkov are words of gratitude for the fact that the princess was his "only joy in life, the only consolation, a single thought", wishes for the happiness of his beloved and the hope that she will fulfill his last request: to perform sonata D-dur No. 2, op. 2.

All of the above convinces us that the image of Zheltkov, painted by Kuprin with such nobility and enlightened love, is not an image of a "small", pitiful, defeated by love, poor in spirit person. No, leaving this life, Zheltkov remains strong and selflessly loving. He reserves the right to choose, defends his human dignity. Even Vera Nikolaevna's husband understood how deeply this man's feeling was, and treated him with respect: "I will say that he loved you and was not crazy at all," Shein reports after meeting with Zheltkov. and saw every movement, every change in his face. And for him there was no life without you. It seemed to me that I was present at the enormous suffering from which people are dying. "

An inconspicuous official, a "little man" with a funny surname Zheltkov, performed a feat of self-sacrifice in the name of the happiness and peace of his beloved woman. Yes, he was possessed, but possessed by a high feeling. It was "not a disease, not a manic idea." It was love - great and poetic, filling life with meaning and content, saving man and humanity itself from moral degeneration. Love that only a select few are capable of. Love "that every woman dreams of ... love that repeats only once in a thousand years" ...