Composition: Yolkov in the piece "Garnet Bracelet" (A. Kuprin)

Realism- the creative method, which involves the recreation and cognition of reality, the heroes of realistic works are "typical characters in typical circumstances" (F. Engels). The question naturally arises: is the image of Zheltkov typical?

The plot of the story The "garnet bracelet" is absolutely real. The family chronicle of the Lyubimovs, good friends of A.I. Kuprin, presented the author with prototypes of Vera Nikolaevna, Prince Shein and the main character of the story, an official Zheltkov. However, the tragicomic story of the real “P. P. Zh. ”, The lofty vulgarity of his letters with rare power, nobility, enlightened love for the hero were rethought by AI Kuprin.

The writer creates an image of a person who is sharply different from those around him. “It’s not my fault, Vera Nikolaevna, that God was pleased to send me love to you as a great happiness,” - this is how Zheltkov began his letter. Of course, love is happiness, but for ordinary people this happiness is associated with the need for reciprocal feelings, with reciprocity. Otherwise, great happiness turns into great sorrow.

For Zheltkov but it is precisely hopeless love that is happiness. And he is absolutely sincere when he writes to Vera Nikolaevna before his death: "From the depths of my soul I thank you for the fact that you were my only joy in life, the only consolation, a single thought."

Indeed, the protagonist of the story is an unusual person. He is also unusual in that love became the only content of his life, supplanted all other interests. He writes to Vera Nikolaevna that he “is not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science,

neither philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me all life is only in you. " Usually people live in a completely different way, finding their role, their business, attachments in life, not focusing on one single, even very strong

feeling. Any other person, realizing the doom of his love, would try to get rid of this feeling: to go somewhere, set a distant goal and plunge headlong into work. Zheltkov realizes the doom of his feelings, but his decision is completely different: “Think, what should I have done? 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, the thought of you, the dreams of you ... sweet delirium. "

No, the image of Zheltkov not typical. His love is the love of an unusual person, it is the love of a knight and a romantic, an all-consuming love and conquering death. Zheltkov leaves this life without complaint, without reproach, saying like a prayer: "Hallowed be thy name."

The image of Zheltkov- the image of an ideal person, a selfless hero. This, of course, anyone can be, but such love, unfortunately, is far from always.

Love theme- one of the central themes in the work of A.I. Kuprin. In his stories - love is disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward, one for which one can accomplish any feat, go to torment and even death.

G.S. Zheltkov (apparently, Georgy - "Pan Ezhiy")- appears in the story only towards the end: “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. " Along with Princess Vera, she can be called the main character of the story. The beginning of the conflict was the receipt by Princess Vera on September 17, on the day of her name day, a letter signed with the initials “G. S. Zh. ”, And a garnet bracelet in a red case.

It was a gift from a then unknown Vera J., who seven years ago fell in love with her, wrote letters, then, at her request, stopped bothering her, but now again confessed his love. In the letter, J. explained that the old silver bracelet once belonged to his grandmother, then all the stones were transferred to a new, gold bracelet. J. regrets that before "he dared to write stupid and impudent letters" and adds: "Now in me there is only reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion." For the sake of entertainment, one of the guests at the name day presents the love story of a telegraph operator, P.P.Zh. (distorted by G. S. Zh.), To Vera in a comic, tabloid novel stylized form. Another guest, a person close to the family, old General Anosov, suggests: “Maybe this is just an abnormal fellow, a manak<...>maybe your life path, Vera, has crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream about and which men are no longer capable of. "

Under the influence of his brother-in-law, Vera's husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein, decides to return the bracelet and cut off the correspondence. J. struck Shein at the meeting with his sincerity. Zh., Having asked Shein's permission, speaks on the phone with Vera, but she also asks to stop “this story”. Shein felt that he was present "at some tremendous tragedy of the soul." When he informs Vera about this, she predicts that J. will kill himself. Later, from the newspaper, she accidentally learned about the suicide of J., who referred to the embezzlement of state money in his suicide note. In the evening of the same day, she receives a farewell letter from J. He calls his love for Vera "tremendous happiness" sent to him by God. It is admitted that he "is not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people." All life lies in love for Vera: “May I be ridiculous in your eyes and in the eyes of your brother<...>As I leave, I say in ecstasy: Hallowed be Thy name. " Prince Shein confesses: J. was not crazy and loved Vera very much and therefore was doomed to die. He allows Vera to say goodbye to J. Looking at the deceased, she "realized that the love that every woman dreams of had passed her by." In the face of the dead ^ K. she noticed "deep importance", "deep and sweet secret", "pacified expression" that "she saw on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and Napoleon."

At home, Vera found a familiar pianist, Jenny Reiter, who played to her exactly that passage from Beethoven's second sonata, which J. seemed to be the most perfect - “Largo Appassionato”. And this music became an afterlife declaration of love addressed to Vera. Vera's thoughts that "a great love passed by her" coincided with the music, each "verse" of which ended with the words: "Hallowed be Thy name." At the very end of the story, Vera says only she understands the words: “... he has forgiven me now. Things are good".

All the heroes of the story, not excluding J., had real prototypes. Critics pointed out, however, a connection between the "Garnet Bracelet" and the prose of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun.

"Garnet Bracelet" was created to prove the existence of true, pure love in the modern world. For this, he created a story, some perceive it as an anecdote about a telegraph operator who fell in love, while others - as a touching "Love Song" - touching, pure.

The hero of the story is G.S. Zheltkov. He was an official of the Control Chamber. The writer portrays him as a young man "about thirty-five years old", rather good-looking: tall, rather thin, with long soft hair. Constantly pale, the face is so gentle, as if a girl's, with a childish chin and blue eyes. Zheltkov is endowed with a sense of beauty, namely musical.

Our hero is in love with Vera Nikolaevna Sheina, a woman of "aristocratic" appearance. Zheltkov believes that she is extraordinary, refined. At first, Zheltkov wrote letters of a vulgar and, at the same time, wise character. But after a while, he began to reveal his feelings in a more restrained, delicate manner. Every moment that he sees the princess is dear to him like nothing else.

Zheltkov - he is the chosen one. That selflessness, selflessness of his love is really strong as death. She does not expect a reward, for her sake you can give your life. All women dream of such "eternal, holy" love.

Vera Nikolaevna can be considered the chosen one, since it was true, selfless love that passed through her life. Unfortunately, unlike women, in the modern world men are completely impoverished both in spirit and in body; But Zheltkov is far from being such. And this is proved by the scene of the date. As he feels well and understands people, he immediately stopped paying attention to threats from Nikolai Nikolaevich.

Then, when this difficult conversation took place, Zheltkov was returned to his own gift - an amazing pomegranate bracelet, a family heirloom, the hero showed a strong will. He decides that the only way out is to leave life, since he does not want to cause any inconvenience to his beloved. It was a goodbye to life for him. His last words of gratitude to the princess for the fact that she is his only joy, the only consolation, were a wish for happiness for his beloved.

All this proves that Zheltkov is endowed with Kuprin's nobility. This is not an image of a “little” person, poor in spirit, who was defeated by love. Saying goodbye to life, he turns out to be loving and strong selflessly.

Thus, an official, an "inconspicuous" person of a rather ridiculous surname Zheltkov, for the sake of the happiness of his beloved, gave his life to God. Of course, the fact that he was possessed is true, but what? High feeling! This cannot be considered a "disease". This love is great, the one that fills life with meaning and keeps a person from the degeneration of morals. This is the love that only a select few deserve.

"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.

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.

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.

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."

Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet" was published in 1907. It is based on real events from the family chronicles of the Tugan-Baranovsky princes. This story has become one of the most famous and profound works of love in Russian literature.
In the center of it is a story about the feelings of a petty official Zheltkov for the cold beauty princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. Sheins are typical representatives of the Russian aristocracy of the early 20th century. The author notes that all members of this family bore, to one degree or another, the imprint of degeneration.
So, Vera Nikolaevna's sister, Anna Nikolaevna, was unhappy in her marriage. An elderly and ugly husband did not attract her, and this still young woman sought solace in numerous novels, from which, however, she also did not get what she wanted. From her unloved husband, Anna Nikolaevna gave birth to weak and ugly children, who also had a trace of degeneration.
Vera Nikolaevna's brother, Nikolai, was never married. He mockingly and contemptuously treated marriage and love, considering all this to be fictions and romantic fairy tales. And Vera Nikolaevna herself felt any noble and lofty feelings for her husband, but not love.
Kuprin shows us that people have forgotten how to love. "... love among people took on such vulgar forms and condescended simply to some kind of everyday convenience, to a little entertainment", - with these words of General Anosov Kuprin conveys the state of affairs contemporary to him.
And in this wretched and gray, in fact, reality, a bright ray of light appears - the love of a petty official Zheltkov for Princess Vera. At first, this feeling is perceived by the heroine's family completely negatively - not seriously, contemptuously and derisively. Nikolai Nikolaevich is seething with indignation - how dare this plebeian bother his sister! Vasily Lvovich, the princess's husband, sees in this story just an amusing incident, an incident.
So what is the love story of a petty official Zheltkov? Kuprin expounds it in sufficient detail to us in the story. First, we hear this story in a distorted, mockingly mocking form from Prince Shein, and Vera Nikolaevna's husband prophetically speaks of the death of a little official. Then, gradually, in the course of the action, we learn about the real course of things.
G.S. Zheltkov served as an official of the control chamber. Once in his life (on grief or joy?) There was a fatal meeting - Zheltkov saw Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. He did not even talk to this young lady, who was still unmarried at that time. And how dare he - their social position was too unequal. But a person is not subject to feelings of such strength, he is not able to control the life of his heart. Love captured Zheltkov so much that it became the meaning of his entire existence. From this man's farewell letter, we learn that his feeling is "reverence, eternal admiration and slavish devotion."
In addition, we learn that the official watched Vera Nikolaevna, tried to be where she was in order to see the object of his adoration again, breathe the same air with her, touch her things: “I mentally bow down to the ground of furniture, on where you sit, the parquet you walk on, the trees that you touch in passing, the servant you talk to. "
Vera Nikolaevna, and we are following her, are beginning to wonder - is this Zheltkov crazy? Maybe his passionate and deep infatuation was the result of mental illness: "And what was it: love or madness?" But the hero himself answers this question in the last letter to the princess. He tested himself and concluded that his feeling was a gift from heaven, not a disease. After all, Zheltkov does not claim the attention of his beloved, he felt good only from the realization that Vera Nikolaevna exists.
As a token of his love, the official gives the princess the most valuable thing he has - a family jewel in the form of a garnet bracelet. Perhaps materially this bracelet was not of great value - unsightly, exaggerated, roughly worked. Its main decoration was five blood-red garnets, "diluted" with one green, located in the middle. “According to an old legend preserved in our family, it tends to impart the gift of foresight to women wearing it and drives away heavy thoughts from them, while it protects men from violent death,” Zheltkov wrote in an accompanying letter to this gift.
The official gave Vera Nikolaevna the most precious thing he had. I think that the princess, even forgiving her will, appreciated this gesture.
But the sacrificial and sublime love of Zheltkov ended tragically - he left this life of his own free will so as not to interfere with Princess Sheina. This man even put his physical existence on the altar of lofty feeling. It is important that the hero did not tell anyone about love, did not seek the location or attention of Vera Nikolaevna. He just lived, enjoying what fate gave him. And he passed away with a feeling of great gratitude for what he had experienced.
Kuprin shows that love of such strength and sacrifice could not but leave a mark on the souls of the people involved in this story. In Vera Nikolaevna Zheltkov awakened longing and light sadness for love, helped to reveal her true needs. No wonder at the end of the story, listening to Beethoven's sonata, the heroine cries: "Princess Vera hugged the trunk of the acacia, pressed against it and cried." It seems to me that these tears are the heroine's longing for true love, which people so often forget.
Even Vera Nikolaevna's husband, Prince Shein, felt an involuntary respect for Zheltkov's feelings: “I feel sorry for this man. And I not only feel sorry for that, but now I feel that I am present at some tremendous tragedy of my soul, and I cannot clown around here. "
Thus, the love presented to the little official Zheltkov from above filled his life with meaning, became a source of light not only for this person, but also for those around him. The story of Zheltkov's feelings for Princess Vera once again confirmed that love is the main thing in a person's life. Without this feeling, life turns into a meaningless and empty existence, inevitably leading to death. Death of the soul and the divine spirit in us.