Who is Ivan Timofeevich from the story Olesya. A.I
One of the highest values in human life, according to A.I. Kuprin, has always been love. Love, which collects into a single bouquet all the best, all that is healthy and bright, with which life rewards a person, which justifies any hardships and hardships that may come along his way. So in Oles. So in “Garnet Bracelet”. So in Shulamith. So in "Duel". Until the end of his life, he retained in his soul the romantic mood of his youth, and this is what makes his works strong.
Many events take place before us on the pages of the story “The Duel”. But the emotional culmination of the work was not the tragic Romashova, but the night of love he spent with the insidious and therefore even more captivating Shurochka; and what Romashov experienced on that pre-duel night is so great that it is this alone that is conveyed to the reader.
The story " Garnet bracelet"makes us think about the enormous power of unrequited love. And the modest, inconspicuous telegraph operator suddenly appears before us as significant, great! After all, he carried this throughout his life pure love, worship of a woman. And the words will always sound like a prayer: “!”
According to Kuprin, a person who is close to nature is truly capable of loving. He reveals this topic in an unusually interesting way in the story about the Polesie girl-witch. The main characters of the work are Ivan Timofeevich. Olesya’s integral and spontaneous nature stands out for its richness inner world. It is rare to find a person so generously gifted by nature, who would combine naivety and authority, femininity and proud independence, touching courage and delicacy, and spiritual generosity. Together with the heroes of the story, we experience the anxious period of the birth of love and happy moments of pure, complete, all-consuming delight. The world of jubilant nature merges with wonderful human feeling. The bright, fairy-tale atmosphere of the story does not fade even after the tragic ending. Gossip and gossip, vile persecution of the clerk fade into the background. Great love triumphs over everything insignificant and evil, which is remembered without bitterness, “easily and joyfully.”
A. I. Kuprin - idealist, dreamer, singer sublime feeling. He found special, exceptional conditions that allowed him to create romanticized images of women and their ideal love. In his environment, A. Kuprin saw a sad waste of beauty, a crushing of feelings, and delusion of thought. The writer’s ideal went back to the victory of the strength of the spirit over the strength of the body and to “love faithful to death.” For Kuprin, love is the most consistent form of affirmation and identification of the personal principle in a person.
Protesting against cynicism, corrupt feelings, and vulgarity, A. I. Kuprin created the story “Sulamith.” It was written based on the biblical “Song of Songs” by King Solomon. Solomon fell in love with a poor peasant girl, but because of the jealousy of Queen Astiz, whom he abandoned, she dies. Before her death, Shulamith says to her lover: “I thank you, my king, for everything: for your wisdom, to which you allowed me to cling to with my lips, as to a sweet source... There has never been and will never be a woman happier than me.” The main idea of this work: love is as strong as death, and it alone, eternal, protects humanity from the moral degeneration that modern society threatens it with.
A new return to the theme of great, all-consuming love took place in the story “The Garnet Bracelet.” The poor official Zheltkov, having once met Princess Vera Nikolaevna, fell in love with her with all his heart. This love leaves no room for other interests of the hero. Zheltkov kills himself so as not to interfere with the princess’s life, and, dying, thanks her for the fact that she was for him “the only joy in life, the only consolation, the only thought.” This story is not so much about love as it is a prayer to it. In his suicide letter, the hero blesses his beloved: “As I leave, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Thy name!”
Kuprin especially singled out the figure of the old General Anosov, who is confident that high love exists, but it “... must be a tragedy, the greatest secret in the world,” without compromise. Princess Vera, a woman, for all her aristocratic restraint, very impressionable, capable of understanding and appreciating beauty, felt that her life had come into contact with this great love sung by the best poets of the world. The love of the official Zheltkov is alien to that deep hiddenness in which noble modesty is intertwined with noble pride. “Be silent and perish”... This talent was not given to Zheltkov. But for him, too, the “magic shackles” turned out to be sweeter than life.
The story “Olesya” develops the theme of Kuprin’s creativity - love as a saving force that protects the “pure gold” of human nature from “degradation”, from the destructive influence of bourgeois civilization. It is no coincidence that Kuprin’s favorite hero was a man of strong-willed, courageous character and noble, kind heart, capable of enjoying all the diversity of the world. The work is built on a comparison of two heroes, two natures, two worldviews. On the one hand, an educated intellectual, a representative of urban culture, the rather humane Ivan Timofeevich, on the other, Olesya, a “child of nature” who has not been influenced by urban civilization. Compared to Ivan Timofeevich, a man of a kind but weak, “lazy” heart, Olesya rises with nobility, integrity, and proud confidence in her strength. Freely, without any special tricks, Kuprin draws the appearance of the Polesie beauty, forcing us to follow the richness of her shades spiritual world, always original, sincere and deep. “Olesya” is Kuprin’s artistic discovery. The writer showed us true beauty an innocent, almost childlike soul of a girl who grew up far from the noisy world of people, among animals, birds and forests. But along with this, Kuprin also highlights human malice, senseless superstition, fear of the unknown, the unknown. However, she triumphed over all this true love. A string of red beads is the last tribute from Olesya’s generous heart, “about her tender, generous love.”
A feature of A. I. Kuprin’s artistic talent is an increased interest in every human personality and skill psychological analysis- allowed him to fully master the realistic heritage. The value of his work lies in the artistic and convincing revelation of the soul of his contemporary. The writer considers love as a deep moral and psychological feeling. The stories of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin raise the eternal problems of humanity - the problems of love.
Ivan Timofeevich - main character stories by A.I. Kuprina. The story is told on his behalf. Ivan Timofeevich recalls everything that happened to him in Polesie, where he spent six months on duty.
The hero of the story was bored in Polesie. He read all his books quite quickly, tried to get acquainted with the intelligentsia, but nothing came of it. Therefore, his only hobby was hunting, which brightened up the hero’s quiet and lonely days.
Ivan Timofeevich is a nobleman who, however, is not pleased with slavish admiration before him. The hero is not used to sitting idle. Bored with the village, he decides to heal people by helping them. He looked at the activities of the non-commissioned clerk and the non-commissioned officer, who let women and men kiss their hands, and did not understand it. When people who came for treatment tried to kiss the hero’s hands, he immediately removed them. The narrator noted that when he just wanted to communicate with the common people, people tried to kiss his hands because they were subject to old traditions and customs.
As a representative noble society Ivan Timofeevich was an educated man. He knew how, unlike the servant Yarmola or Olesya, to read and write. The main character was a writer, so he was interested in various local traditions and legends.
Ivan Timofeevich - kind person. He talks with Yarmola with warmth and spends his free time with him. He even teaches Yarmol to read and write so that he can write his last name. In addition, the hero helps Yarmola in supporting his family.
The hero was part of high society, but he decides to marry Olesya, although he understood that she would not fit into the society in which he was.
Having met Olesya, Ivan Timofeevich showed her his disbelief in fortune telling and witchcraft. The hero tried to convince Olesya that she was taking this too seriously, but he failed. Over time, when everything that Olesya predicted began to come true, he believed in the existence of the inexplicable.
She gives a characterization of Ivan Timofeevich, and in her words the hero is revealed from a different side. The girl notes that the hero is a weak person who is “not master” of his word. Olesya saw that the man did not want to obey other people, but obeyed them. She also said that Ivan Timofeevich does not know how to save money, so he will never be a rich man.
The main character falls in love with Olesya and helps her and her grandmother Manuilikha so that they are not kicked out of the house. However, from Olesya’s prediction, which the girl gave even before their love relationship, the reader understands that Ivan Timofeevich did not truly love Olesya, because he could never love, since his heart is cold and lazy.
Thus, in Kuprin’s story “Olesya” the image of Ivan Timofeevich is shown ambiguously, since the description comes from the narrator himself and from the side of the sorceress Olesya, who talks about what the hero really is and what awaits him in the future.
A frequent hero of literature of the late 19th century is an intellectual who does not work out life path due to his passivity, indecisiveness, inability to find a place in life, laziness, fear of life and committing actions.
This is how the hero of Alexander Kuprin’s story “Olesya” - Ivan Timofeevich - appears before us, kind but weak, smart but inactive.
Characteristics
A man, somewhat satiated with life, not rich, but spoiled, finds himself in the wilderness, in the forests of Polesie. The boredom that haunts him in a remote village pushes him to the fact that “out of idleness” the hero begins to teach and treat ordinary people, and it seems that this boredom haunted him in the world from which he escaped. Fate brings him a meeting with a local savage and witch, the girl Olesya. The hero falls in love, led by the mystical charms of the girl, her exoticism in comparison with the hero’s usual surroundings, her beauty, naturalness, merging with nature. However, the hero can neither make a decision regarding marriage with the forest beauty, nor protect her from a hostile society; he unmistakably sees the impossibility of this union. As a result, the story ends tragically - Olesya is attacked by the villagers and she herself decides to disappear from the hero’s life. They will not see each other again, Olesya secretly leaves, leaving in the hero’s memory bright, unlike anything else memories of their dates and, as a symbol of this brightness, a scarlet thread of coral beads.
(Gennady Voropaev as Ivan Timofeevich, film "Olesya", USSR 1971)
The narration is told on behalf of Ivan Timofeevich, so the reader does not have a clear external portrait; the external image consists of fragmentary characteristics given by Olesya and other characters in the story. Ivan considers himself a “quiet and modest” person, prone to a “wandering” life, which means that we have before us a man without roots, without family and love. By the time Ivan arrived in Polesie, he was an aspiring writer who had managed to publish a story in a small newspaper (the way he speaks of the publication - “newspaper” - and the way he calls his work the word “emboss” indicates a low assessment of his opuses).
He is simple and quite cordial with people, helps the poor man Yarmola, saves his family from hunger and heals the surrounding peasants.
Main features and qualities, psychological portrait of the character
An outsider’s opinion about Ivan speaks much more honestly and with greater psychologism. And this is Olesya’s opinion when the girl tells fortunes for him: kind, but weak, but rather indifferent, conniving. That is, Ivan’s kindness is not an aspiration, but rather goodwill, following etiquette. His heart is lazy and cold, and he is not master of his word. He easily succumbs to the destructive influence of alcohol and passions, as a result of which, Olesya claims, there can be a lot of grief in his life. According to Olesya’s prediction, a “lazy” heart will not allow him to commit suicide in the future - Ivan will have great grief, but due to his tendency to indifference, he will be able to “survive it like this,” although he will be tempted to commit suicide.
The psychological portrait presented by Olesya is most likely correct, although the reader does not know how his life turned out after meeting the forest witch. Ivan really turned out to be greedy for beauty (he didn’t believe in any witchcraft, but became interested in the witch, came to her house and fell in love with the fatal forest princess, not thinking about the consequences at all), but he preferred not to think about the consequences, he quickly burst into flames with ideas, but quickly cooled down (attempts to get closer to the people, teach them, get to know them led nowhere), he did nothing to stop Olesya from going to the temple, as a result of which a tragedy occurred.
Image in the work
(Ivan - Gennady Voropaev and Yarmola - Borislav Borundukov on the hunt, frame from the film "Olesya", USSR 1971)
Ivan and Yarmola share one passion - hunting. There is a time when nothing interests or pleases him except forest landscapes; he feels a certain inseparability with forest paths. He feels the need to be as natural a person as Olesya was in her native forest. Only such naturalness seems beautiful to the hero, and Olesya’s words seem wise and accurate.
(Olesya - Lyudmila Chursina; Ivan - Gennady Voropaev, still from the film "Olesya", USSR 1971)
That is why there is a clear contrast between the images of Olesya and Ivan and the glorification of the image of a natural person. Ivan is an intellectual, an educated person and a writer, but there is no place for him either in the wilderness or in the world, since there are lies, human passions, vulgarity, narrow-mindedness or ignorance all around. Olesya, like a pure ray of light in a forest clearing, flashes in his life, but Ivan cannot grow up to her, morally he loses to her inimitable nobility, her mercy, selflessness, kindness, dedication. And this is the tragedy of the entire Russian intelligentsia of the 19th century - to start and quit, to fall in love and betray, to live, floating with the flow and not finding a place everywhere.
Ivan Timofeevich is the main character and narrator of the story “Olesya”. Very sincerely and lyrically, the writer managed to describe his hero to readers. The story shows the image of an ordinary intellectual of that time. From the story we see that these are not ordinary people, they are a special class of the population. These people are very subtle in soul and body, well-read and educated, but what is most interesting is that they go with the flow of their lives and do not want to influence or change anything. The main character belongs to the Russian intelligentsia of the century before last; he is very attentive to all people. Very picky.
The writer managed to show his hero to readers at the crossroads of two roads. When you read a story, a dual attitude towards the hero appears: on the one hand, we evaluate him as a positive character, but at the same time, negative traits. He is a very smart and educated person, but boredom overcomes this man; he does not know what to do with himself. At this time he is in Polesie, and his inaction leads to trouble.
The main character has never discussed people's personal lives, but with his stories and moralizing he is trying to teach society something useful. Ivan Timofeevich treated people, tutored people, and even wanted to cooperate with the local authorities. But he has such a subtle soul that all this is boring for him. Need more excitement and adrenaline. He is ready to go to extremes, he is going to meet the witch who lived in those parts.
Forest resident Olesya describes the hero very well. She said that his life was very unhappy, filled with grief and disappointment. But Olesya subtly noticed that Ivan Timofeevich, a very well-read person, knows many branches of science, but he wanted to connect the unconnected. He liked to give gifts to girls. One day the hero asked her. What does she want to receive as a gift, to which the girl asked to go to church with her. This would be the best thing for her. But he knew that girls should not go there. He ran after her, begged, fell to his knees, asked her not to go there. But it was not possible to convince the girl, for which she suffered retribution.
Our hero is a very gentle nature. He lacks willpower, is a weak-willed person, he does not like it when people kiss his hands or when people approach him very closely. Likes to keep people at a distance. They say that you cannot run away from fate, so Ivan Timofeevich did not try to run away from it, thereby destroying the young girl. The only good thing is that in this situation the hero does not justify himself and somewhere deep in his soul he even reproaches himself for this.
The story of Ivan Timofeevich
We all need a change of environment from time to time in order to relax and gain new impressions. So Ivan Timofeevich is going to Polesie. Ivan Timofeevich found himself in the Polesie outback on duty and with the hope of collecting folklore for his literary endeavors. In reality, everything turned out to be not so rosy: the Poleshuks did not make contact, he was a stranger to them, and it was also not possible to teach them to read and write.
The only entertainment was hunting. And then one day, getting lost in the forest, the master meets the beautiful Olesya. A beautiful, friendly girl with a velvety lively voice seemed to captivate Ivan Timofeevich. Meetings of lovers in the forest were like a balm for the soul for the master.
The girl, like her grandmother Manuilikha, knew how to tell fortunes well. Fortune telling for Olesya foreshadowed trouble from meetings with Ivan Timofeevich. The girl felt the master’s weak character, but even this did not stop her.
But the master really didn’t have the willpower: he didn’t know how to bring things to the end, he abandoned all his undertakings halfway (an attempt to teach the Poleshuks to read and write), his words were at odds with his actions, although he was not his master’s words.
Time passed. Relations with ordinary peasants did not improve, relations with Olesya continued. Although Ivan Timofeevich was smart, intelligent, kind, he couldn’t even sort out his thoughts.
And I couldn’t accept Olesya for who she was either. Ivan Timofeevich completely confronts the girl with a choice: either he or her witchcraft. It took him time to dare to propose marriage to Olesya.
By agreeing, the girl doomed herself to certain death. The master felt that Olesya’s trip to church was clearly not going to end well, but did nothing to save her from shame. Ivan Timofeevich dared to look at her after the incident. Humiliated, sick, frightened Olesya.
So the master’s cowardice, weakness, and fear were able to destroy the young girl. Kuprin does not condemn Ivan Timofeevich, but on the contrary sympathizes with him because, despite everything, the master understands his guilt and responsibility for what happened, but nothing can be corrected, the image of the amazing Olesya will remain only in memory.
Essay 3
Ivan Timofeevich is an intelligent man, born in the city, and he also begins to write stories. Finding himself in one area called Polesie, he tries to find various epics in order to begin his work.
Discussing the personal lives of other people never evoked positive emotions in Ivan Timofeevich. But throughout the entire story, one cannot argue only because he is trying to teach everyone something. He combined what was impossible: he treated sick people, tutored and tried to give people at least some kind of education. But he is very bored doing all this, he wants to get the maximum adrenaline and unforgettable feelings from life.
One day the master learns about the existence of a witch whose name is Manuilikha. According to stories, she lives near the swamps. Ivan Timofeevich became interested in this case. Of course, he did not believe in any phenomena that could occur not from this world, but he wanted to get to know her. Such a meeting soon happened. While on a hunt, the main character got lost and came across the house of that same witch. The old woman looked like a real witch. She received the uninvited guest very poorly, but promised to tell fortunes for a coin. As it turned out after some time, the villainess also had a granddaughter with the same abilities. Her name was Alena, but they nicknamed her Olesya for her actions. The girl was incredibly beautiful, Ivan could not stop looking at her. He remembered her so much that he could not forget her image.
Ivan was a kind man, but this kindness did not come from a pure heart. Olesya understood this immediately, but she could no longer do anything. The master was not responsible and did not bring a single matter to fruition. The only example can be given, from which everything will become clear: Ivan Timofeevich tried to teach the peasants to read and write, but he quickly finished due to the fact that they did not shine with their intelligence. Olesya was going to church, and trouble was inevitable, but the main character did not dare to prevent it. Although this man was frank and responsive, his heart still did not allow him to open up to people.
The hero of this story is a very gentle nature, as a result of which he shows his weak character. He killed the poor girl without even trying to do anything to correct the terrible situation that happened at the end of the story. But the reader can understand that Ivan does not justify himself and even scolds himself for what happened, because he himself understands that everything depended only on him.
Option 4
Kuprin is a Russian writer who grew up without a father and began his creative career in Moscow. After his father died, he and his mother moved there. There he graduated from a military school and began translating foreign works. Later he became interested in writing his own works, which ended up in local magazines. Thanks to this, the writer gained popularity among local residents, and this gave impetus to writing the story “Olesya”.
The most striking character of this work was Ivan Timofeevich. This intelligent man had bright character traits and the right mindset. Despite this, the hero of the story is pessimistic about the current life, in his calmness, such people are not able to become a ruler in society, and change something in themselves or those around them. Even the activity of tutoring, which he sometimes loved to do most, tired him. He even tried to heal people, but this did not console his nature towards everything that was happening. The character's soul wanted grandiose changes in life. His attempts to find mutual friends in the government ended in boredom, and this pushed him to take a decisive step - to change his life with a trip to Polesie.
Thanks to this move, the author was able to show the image main character Olesya, whom Ivan Timofeevich met when he got lost in the forest one day. Olesya was beautiful and attractive. The origins of this acquaintance come from the character’s hobbies for hunting. While hunting, Ivan Timofeevich was able to be alone with nature and with himself.
In these events, the affection of the main characters for each other is born. Despite the fact that Olesya had the ability to tell fortunes and control extraterrestrial forces, she decided to become the wife of Ivan Timofeevich. The heroine’s mother explained in every possible way that she did not need this marriage. The hero of the story himself, without having a “firm” word, somehow influenced the girl and disappointed her fragile heart. In such events, Olesya is left alone, and her ex-husband, due to his sluggish mentality, cannot change anything. His indifference to life destroyed everything in its path. The author even feels sorry for the character to some extent. Having decorated his image with kindness and responsiveness to people, he never tries to complete his work. As a result, he remains a complete loser. Deep down, he scolds himself, and understands that he cannot change anything, his indifference has dragged him into a pool of failures, from which he can no longer get out.
This work by the author clearly expresses the actions of people who are not the “masters” of their word. Kuprin very beautifully expressed the self-esteem of the protagonist, which had an instructive effect on society. Only thanks to this work, many readers saw the essence of pessimism in a person, what it leads to, and what comes of it.
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Dramatically, but, above all, lyrically, Alexander Kuprin managed to show the fate of an ordinary Russian intellectual. These are people of a special kind, sensitive, searching, knowing a lot, but at the same time never interfering in anything and not wanting to really change anything in their lives. The Russian intellectual of the century before last is an ironic person, at the same time attentive, understanding that his life could be more productive, but he is not able to make it meaningful.
Such heroes in Russian literature began with the light hand of Goncharov. His Oblomov revolutionized ideas about the intelligentsia of Russia in the 19th century. And Ivan Timofeevich from Kuprin’s “Olesya” is no better. He, of course, does not lie on the sofa, but his passive desires have the same destructive power as the laziness of Vasily Oblomov. When you need to act decisively, Ivan Timofeevich only asks: “What about me? You don’t even want to think about me!”. But it’s much harder for the woman to whom this question is addressed and whom he sincerely and passionately loves than it was for him at that moment.
Alexander Kuprin somehow managed to draw his hero for the reader on the line between a positive attitude towards him and contempt. A competent, intelligent man who treats the word “noble” and its derivatives as something unpleasant and shameful: “In all her movements, in her words... there is something noble (of course, in in the best sense this is a rather vulgar word)...", out of boredom, he doesn’t know what to do during his forced stay in Polesie. This is what leads to trouble.
Without judging or ridiculing anyone, Ivan Timofeevich tries to heal people, write stories, give lessons, and even makes attempts to establish relationships with representatives of local society. However, a person of fine mental organization wants something real, interesting and exciting. He is ready, ignoring recommendations, to meet the local witch. Why he needs this, he himself cannot say. And here the Russian intellectual is fully visible in every action and gesture, the description of which was so accurately and vividly given by the forest resident Olesya: “You are not master of your word. You love to have the upper hand over people, but although you don’t want to, you submit to them.”.
Olesya turned out to be right in everything. And the fate of the hero Kuprin is not happy, and he could not or did not want to change it. But the most important thing is that Ivan Timofeevich, smart and well-read, subtly noticing the smallest details, suddenly wanted to combine the incompatible. How was it possible to receive such a gift from Olesya as her desire to go to church? How could it be possible, after communicating with her for so long and already starting to feel like her, not to listen to yourself! “Suddenly a sudden horror of foreboding seized me. I uncontrollably wanted to run after Olesya, catch up with her and ask, beg, even demand, if necessary, that she not go to church.”. But Ivan Timofeevich did not do this. And the innocent Olesya paid for everything in full.
Such softness of nature, weak character and some eternal feeling of the Russian man of submission to fate are complemented by Alexander Kuprin with subtle remarks about how his hero does not like it when his hand is kissed. Moreover, he himself writes: “... I was only surprised by the same clerk from the non-commissioned officers and the sergeant, looking with what imperturbable importance they thrust their huge red paws into the lips of the peasants...”. The author notes that Ivan Timofeevich pities the first drunkard in Perebrod, Yarmola, or rather, not even himself, but his large family: “The only thing that stopped me was a feeling of pity for his huge, poor family, for whom Yarmolov’s four ruble salary helped not to die of hunger.”.
Without running away from fate, he actually destroys the poor girl, indirectly being the cause of her trials. However, in fairness, it is worth noting that he does not justify himself in this situation. The entire narrative, written in a light, sometimes ironic style, is told from the perspective of the main character. Ivan Timofeevich colorfully conveys his emotions and thoughts. Sincerely loving Olesya, he admits that conventions are still more important to him. In this situation, the opinion of the world: “...I didn’t even dare to imagine what Olesya would be like, dressed in a fashionable dress, talking in the living room with the wives of my colleagues, torn from this charming frame of the old forest...”.
How I would like Ivan Timofeevich’s romance with Olesya to end like Vladimir Vysotsky’s with Marina Vladi, who became famous after playing the main character in the film of the same name based on Kuprin’s story:
Let the bird cherry trees dry like laundry in the wind,
Let the lilacs fall like rain,
I'll take you away from here anyway
To the palace where pipes are played.
