The first folk poet, he wrote about the people and for the people, knowing their thoughts, needs, concerns and hopes. The connection with the people filled the life of Nekrasov with special meaning and was the main content of his poetry.

"On the way"

Nekrasov the poet is very sensitive to the changes that are taking place among the people. In his poems, people's life is depicted in a new way, not like that of his predecessors.

Through all the work of the poet passes the motive of the road - a through motive for Russian literature. The road is not just a segment connecting two geographical points, it is something more. “If you go to the right, you will lose your horse; if you go to the left, you yourself will not be alive; if you go straight, you will find your destiny.” The road is the choice life path, goals.

There were many poems for the plot chosen by Nekrasov, in which dashing troikas raced, bells rang under the arc, and coachmen's songs sounded. At the beginning of his poem, the poet reminds the reader of this:

Boring! boring! .. The remote coachman,
Disperse my boredom with something!
Song, or something, buddy, sing
About recruiting and separation ...

But immediately, abruptly, decisively, he breaks off the usual and familiar poetic course. What strikes us in this poem? Of course, the coachman's speech, completely devoid of the usual folk-song intonations. It seems as if bare prose unceremoniously burst into poetry: the coachman's speech is clumsy, rude, saturated with dialect words. What new opportunities does such a “mundane” approach to depicting a man from the people open up for Nekrasov the poet?

Note: in folk songs, as a rule, we are talking about “a daring coachman, a “good fellow” or a “red maiden”. Everything that happens to them is applicable to many people from the popular environment. The song reproduces events and characters of national significance and sound. Nekrasov is interested in something else: how people's joys or hardships are manifested in the fate of this particular hero. The poet depicts the general in peasant life through the individual, the unique. Later, in one of his poems, the poet joyfully greets his village friends:

All familiar people
Whatever a man, then a friend.

So after all, it happens in his poetry that no man is a unique personality, a one-of-a-kind character.

Perhaps none of Nekrasov's contemporaries dared to get so close, to get close to a peasant on the pages of a poetic work. Only he could then not only write about the people, but also "speak to the people"; letting in peasants, beggars, artisans with their different perceptions of the world, in different languages in verse.

With ardent love, the poet refers to nature - the only treasure of the world, which "strong and well-fed lands could not take away from the hungry poor." Subtly feeling nature, Nekrasov never shows it in isolation from man, his activities and condition. In the poems "Uncompressed Strip" (1854), "Village News" (1860), in the poem "Peasant Children" (1861), the image of Russian nature is closely intertwined with the disclosure of the soul of the Russian peasant, his difficult life fate. A peasant who lives in the midst of nature and deeply feels it rarely has the opportunity to admire it.

About whom in question in the poem "Uncompressed band"? As if about a sick peasant. And the trouble is comprehended from the peasant point of view: there is no one to clean the strip, the grown crop will be lost. Here, the land-breadwinner is also animated in a peasant way: “it seems that the ears of corn are whispering to each other.” I was going to die, but this rye, ”they said among the people. And with the onset of the hour of death, the peasant did not think about himself, but about the land, which would remain an orphan without him.

But you read the poem and more and more you feel that these are very personal, very lyrical poems, that the poet looks at himself through the eyes of a plowman. So it was. Nekrasov wrote the “uncompressed strip” to seriously ill patients before leaving abroad for treatment in 1855. The poet was overcome by sad thoughts; it seemed that the days were already numbered, that he might not return to Russia either. And here the courageous attitude of the people to troubles and misfortunes helped Nekrasov to withstand the blow of fate, to preserve his spiritual strength. The image of the “uncompressed lane”, like the image of the “road” in the previous poems, acquires a figurative, metaphorical meaning from Nekrasov: this is both a peasant field, but also a “field” of writing, the craving for which the sick poet has is stronger than death, as love is stronger than death a grain grower to work on the earth, to a labor field.

"Song to Eremushka" (1859)

Nekrasov condemns in this "Song" the "vulgar experience" of opportunists, crawling their way to the blessings of life, and calls on the younger generation to devote their lives to the struggle for the happiness of the people.

The task

Reading and independent analysis or commentary of Nekrasov’s poems: “On the road”, “Is I driving at night”, “I don’t like your irony ...”, “Uncompressed band”, “Schoolboy”, “Yeremushka’s Song”, “Funeral”, “ Green Noise”, “Morning”, “Prayer”, fragments from the cycle “About the weather”.

The analysis of poems is carried out at three levels:
- figurative-linguistic (vocabulary, tropes);
- structural and compositional (composition, rhythm);
- ideological (ideological and aesthetic content).

In the poem "Yesterday at six o'clock" Nekrasov first introduced his Muse, the sister of the offended and oppressed. In his last poem, "O Muse, I am at the door of the coffin," the poet last time recalls "this pale, in blood, / Whip excised Muse." Not love for a woman, not the beauty of nature, but the suffering of the poor, tormented by poverty - this is the source of lyrical experiences in many of Nekrasov's poems.

The subject matter of Nekrasov's lyrics is varied.

The first of the artistic principles of Nekrasov-lyric can be called social. The second is social analytics. And this was new in Russian poetry, absent from Pushkin and Lermontov, especially from Tyutchev and Fet. This principle permeates two of Nekrasov's most famous poems: "Reflections at the front door" (1858) and " Railway» (1864).

"Reflections at the Front Door" (1858)

In "Reflections ..." a specific isolated case is the arrival of peasants with a request or complaint to a certain statesman.

This poem is built on contrast. The poet contrasts two worlds: the world of the rich and the idle, whose interests are reduced to "red tape, gluttony, play", "shameless flattery", and the world of the people, where "glaring sorrow" reigns. The poet depicts their relationship. The nobleman is full of contempt for the people, this is revealed with the utmost clarity in one line:

Drive!
Ours does not like ragged mob!

The feelings of the people are more difficult. Walkers from a distant province wandered "for a long time" in the hope of finding help or protection from a nobleman. But the door "slammed" in front of them, and they leave,

Repeating: "God judge him!",
Spreading hopelessly hands,
And as long as I could see them,
With their heads uncovered...

The poet is not limited to depicting the hopeless humility and endless groaning of the people. “Will you wake up, full of strength? ..” - he asks and leads the reader to answer this question with the whole poem: “The happy are deaf to good”, the people have nothing to expect salvation from the nobles, he must take care of his own fate.

Two principles of reflecting reality in Nekrasov's lyrics naturally lead to the third principle - revolutionary. The lyrical hero of Nekrasov's poetry is convinced that only folk, peasant revolution can change the life of Russia for the better. This side of the consciousness of the lyrical hero was especially strongly manifested in poems dedicated to Nekrasov's associates in the revolutionary-democratic camp: Belinsky, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, Pisarev.

Literature

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1. Russian people in the image of N.A. Nekrasov

Nekrasov is often called a folk poet, and this is true. He, like no one else, often turned to the topic of the Russian people.

Nekrasov still lived under serfdom and could personally observe pictures of the life of enslaved people who did not dare to raise their heads. The vast majority of Nekrasov's poems (especially famous ones) are dedicated to the Russian peasant. After all, wherever you look, there is suffering everywhere. If you ride the railroad, thousands of nameless people who put their lives on its construction invisibly stand outside the window. If you stand at the front door, you see the unfortunate, ragged, desperate, waiting for an answer to their petitions (and often they only waited for them to be pushed in the neck). Do you admire the beauties of the Volga - barge haulers pull a barge along it with a groan.

Neither in the city nor in the village is there a simple peasant who would be really happy. Although they are looking for happiness. Nekrasov talks about this in the poem “Who in Russia should live well”. The men came together with a seemingly simple goal: to find happiness, to find out who lives well and why. Yes, but it turns out that there is no man who would have a good life. He has no rights, he cannot resist the rudeness and arbitrariness of his superiors. It turns out that only gentlemen can live freely, who do not know how to do anything, but have unearned money and undeserved power.

The conclusion that Nekrasov comes to is simple and obvious. Happiness is in freedom. And freedom is still just glimmering in front of a dim light. It must be reached, but it will take many years.

Yes, the life of the Russian people is hard. But after all, in any most hopeless existence there are bright glimpses. Nekrasov skillfully describes village holidays, when everyone, young and old, start dancing. After all, he who knows how to work, knows how to relax. Here reigns true, nothing marred fun. All worries and labors are forgotten. And going to mass is a whole ritual. The best outfits are taken from the chests, and the whole family, from children to the elderly, decorously goes to church.

In general, Nekrasov pays special attention to peasant religiosity. Religion has supported the Russian people from time immemorial. After all, it was impossible to count on anyone's help, except God's. Therefore, in case of illness and misfortune, they fled to miraculous icons. Every person has the right to hope, it is the last thing he has left even at the time of the most difficult trials. For the peasants, all hope, all light, was concentrated in Jesus Christ. Who else will save them, if not him?

Nekrasov created a whole galaxy of images of ordinary Russian women. Perhaps he romanticizes them somewhat, but one cannot but admit that he managed to show the appearance of a peasant woman in a way that no one else could. A serf woman for Nekrasov is a kind of symbol. A symbol of the revival of Russia, its disobedience to fate.

The most famous and memorable images of Russian women in the image of Nekrasov are, of course, Matrena Timofeevna in “Who Lives Well in Russia” and Daria in the poem “Frost, Red Nose”. What unites these two women is their main grief - they are serfs:

Three heavy shares had fate,

And the first share - to marry an Arab,

The second is to be the mother of the son of a slave,

And the third is to obey the slave to the grave,

And all these heavy shares fell

On the woman of the Russian land.

The peasant woman is doomed to suffer until death and keep silent about her suffering. No one will listen to her complaints, and she is too proud to confide her grief to anyone. In the poem “To whom it is good to live in Russia”, peasants come to Matryona Timofeevna looking for happiness. And what do they hear from her? The story of the life of a serf woman. She was happy, protected, loved by her parents before her marriage. But you won’t stay long in the girls, the groom is, and a hard life begins in a strange house. You have to work from morning to night, and you won’t hear a kind word from anyone. The husband is working, and his family does not favor his daughter-in-law. The first son of Matryona Timofeevna dies in infancy, the other was recruited. There is no light ahead, nothing to hope for. Matrena Timofeevna says to the peasants:

It's not a matter - between women

Happy searching!

One thing remains for a woman: to endure until the end of her days, to work and raise children, the same slaves as their father.

Daria also got a heavy share (“Frost, Red Nose”). Her family life at first it was more happy: the family was more friendly, and her husband was with her. They worked tirelessly, but did not complain about fate. And then grief falls upon the family - Daria's husband dies. For peasants, this is the loss of not only a loved one, but also a breadwinner. Without it, they will simply starve to death. No one else will be able to go to work. The family was left with old people, children and a single woman. Daria goes into the forest to get firewood (formerly a man's duty) and freezes there.

Nekrasov has another interesting peasant image. This is a Pear from the poem “On the Road”. She grew up in a manor house and was not trained in hard country work. But fate decreed that she married a simple man. The pear begins to languish, and its end is very near. Her soul languishes, but her husband, of course, is not able to understand her. Indeed, instead of working, she “looks at some rubbish and reads some book ...” Peasant labor is beyond her power. She would be happy to work, to help, but she is not accustomed. In order to endure all this hard labor, you need to get used to it from childhood. But many generations of peasants grew up in just such an environment. From childhood, they worked tirelessly. But all this did not go for the future: they worked for the masters, and they themselves were fed from hand to mouth, if only not to fall off their feet.

So humiliated, but proud, the people appear in the works of Nekrasov. The Russian peasant bends his neck, but does not break. And he is always supported by a woman, strong and patient. Nekrasov sees his destiny in describing the present of the Russian people without embellishment and giving them hope for a brighter future. The poet believes that it will come, and he will contribute to this great change.

The theme of the people and the problem of national character has become one of the main ones in Russian literature since the time of Griboyedov with his comedy Woe from Wit and Pushkin, who in the novels " Captain's daughter" and "Dubrovsky", in the lyrics and "Eugene Onegin" raises the question of what constitutes the basis of the Russian national character, how the noble culture and folk culture correlate.

Gogol's concept of a Russian person is complex and multifaceted. In the poem " Dead Souls"it consists of two layers: the ideal, where the people are heroes, brave and strong people, and real, where the peasants turn out to be no better than their masters, the landowners.

Nekrasov's approach to the theme of the people is very different from its formulation in the works of his predecessors. The poet expressed in his work the ideals of the democratic movement in Russia in the middle of the 19th century, and therefore his concept of the people is distinguished by harmony and accuracy: it is all subordinated to his social and political positions.

One of the striking features of Nekrasov's work is that the people appear in him not as a kind of generalization, but as a multitude of living people with their own destinies, characters and concerns. All Nekrasov’s works are densely “populated”, even their names speak of this: “Grandfather”, “Schoolboy”, “Mother”, “Orina, Soldier’s Mother”, “Kalistrat”, “Peasant Children”, “Russian Women”, “Song Eremushka. All Nekrasov's heroes, even those who find it difficult now to find real prototypes, are very concrete and alive. The poet loves some of them with all his heart, sympathizes with them, hates others.

Already in early work for Nekrasov, the world is divided into two camps:

Two camps, as before, in God's world;

Slaves in one, rulers in the other.

Many of Nekrasov's poems are a kind of confrontation between the strong and the weak, the oppressed and the oppressors. For example, in the poem “Ballet”, Nekrasov, promising not to write satires, depicts luxurious boxes, a “diamond row”, and sketches portraits of their regulars with a few strokes:

I will not touch any military ranks,

Not in the service of a winged god

Sitting on the feet of civilian aces.

Starched dandy and dandy

(That is, the merchant is a reveler and a spendthrift)

And a mouse stallion (so Gogol

He calls the youthful elders),

Note supplier of feuilletons,

Officers of the Guards

And the impersonal bastard of salons -

I'm ready to pass everyone in silence!

And right there, before the curtain fell on the stage, where the French actress is dancing the trepak, the reader is confronted with scenes of a village recruitment. "Snowy-cold - haze and fog," and the gloomy trains of peasant carts drag on.

It cannot be said that the social contrast in the description of pictures of folk life was Nekrasov's discovery. Even in Pushkin's "The Village" a harmonious landscape of rural nature is intended to emphasize the disharmony and cruelty of human society, where there is oppression and serfdom. With Nekrasov, the social contrast has more definite features: these are rich loafers and a disenfranchised people who, with their labor, create all the blessings of life that the gentlemen use.

For example, in the poem “Hound Hunting”, the traditional fun of the nobles is presented from two points of view: the gentleman, for whom this is joy and pleasure, and the peasant, who is not able to share the fun of the masters, because for him their hunting often turns into trampled fields, bullied cattle and the which further complicates his already full of hardships.

Kory in the novels "The Captain's Daughter" and "Dubrovsky", in lyrics and "Eugenia Among such "face-to-face confrontations" of the oppressed and the oppressors special place occupies the poem "Railway", in which, according to K.I. Chukovsky, "precisely those most typical features of his (Nekrasov's) talent are concentrated, which in their totality form the only Nekrasov style in world literature."

In this poem, the ghosts of the peasants who died on the construction of the railway rise as an eternal reproach to the passengers passing by:

Chu! Terrible exclamations were heard!

Stomp and gnashing of teeth;

The shadow ran on the frosty glass

What's there? Crowd of the Dead!

Such works were perceived by the censorship as a violation of the official theory of social harmony, and by the democratic strata as a call for an immediate revolution. Of course, the position of the author is not so straightforward, but the fact that his poetry was very effective is confirmed by the testimony of contemporaries. So, according to the memoirs of one of the students of the military gymnasium, after reading the poem "Railway", his friend said: "Oh, I would take a gun and go to fight for the Russian people."

Nekrasov's poetry required certain actions from the reader. These are “poems - appeals, verses - commandments, verses - commands”, in any case, this is how they were perceived by the poet's contemporaries. Indeed, Nekrasov directly addresses the youth in them:

Bless the work of the people

And learn to respect the man!

In the same way he invokes the poet.

You may not be a poet

But you have to be a citizen.

Nekrasov even addresses those who do not care at all about the people and their problems:

Wake up! There is another pleasure:

Take them back! You are their salvation!

With all his sympathy for the troubles of the people, his kind attitude towards him, the poet does not at all idealize the people, but accuses him of long-suffering and humility. One of the most striking incarnations of this accusation can be called the poem "Forgotten Village". Describing the endless peasant troubles, Nekrasov each time cites the answer of the peasants, which has become a saying: "When the master arrives, the master will judge us." In this description of the patriarchal faith of the peasants in a good master, a good king, notes of irony slip through. This reflects the position of the Russian social democracy, to which the poet belonged.

The accusation of long-suffering is also heard in the poem "Railway". But in it, perhaps, the most striking lines are devoted to something else: the theme of people's labor. Here a genuine hymn to the peasant-worker is created. No wonder the poem is built in the form of a dispute with the general, who claims that the road was built by Count Kleinmichel. This was the official opinion - it is reflected in the epigraph to the poem. Its main text contains a detailed refutation of this position. The poet shows that such a grandiose work is "not on the shoulder of one." He sings of the creative work of the people and, addressing the younger generation, says: “This noble habit of work / It would not be bad for us to adopt with you.”

But the author is not inclined to harbor illusions that some positive changes may occur in the near future: “To know only to live in this beautiful time / Neither I nor you will have to know.” Moreover, along with the glorification of the creative, noble labor of the people, the poet creates stunning in its strength and poignancy pictures of painful, difficult labor that brings death to people:

We tore ourselves under the heat, under the cold,

With an eternally bent back,

Lived in dugouts, fought hunger,

Frozen and wet, sick with scurvy, -

these words in the poem are pronounced by the dead - the peasants who died on the construction of the railway.

Such duality is present not only in this poem. Hard work, which caused suffering and death, is described in the poem "Frost, Red Nose", the poems "Strada", "On the Volga" and many others. Moreover, this is not only the work of forced peasants, but also barge haulers or children working in a factory:

cast iron wheel spinning

And buzzes, and blows with the wind,

Head is on fire and spinning

The heart is beating, everything is going around.

Such a concept of people's labor has already developed in the early work of Nekrasov. So, the hero of the poem “The Drunkard” (1845) dreams of freeing himself, throwing off the “yoke of heavy oppressive labor” and giving his whole soul to another work - free, joyful, creative: “And into another labor - refreshing - / I would have drooped with all my soul.

Nekrasov argues that labor is a natural state and an urgent need of the people, without it a person cannot be considered worthy, be respected by other people. So, about the heroine of the poem "Frost, Red Nose", the author writes: "She does not feel sorry for the miserable beggar: / It's free to walk without work." Peasant love for work was reflected in many of Nekrasov's poems: “Hey! Take me as a worker, / My hands itch to work! - exclaims the one for whom work has become a vital, natural need. No wonder one of the poet's poems is called "The Song of Labor."

An amazing image is created in the poem “The Uncompressed Strip”: the land itself calls the plowman, her worker. The tragedy is that a worker who loves and appreciates his work, who cares about the land, is not free, beaten down and crushed by hard forced labor.

Poem by N.A. Nekrasov “Who should live well in Russia” plunges us into the world of Russian peasant life. The author, who saw as his main artistic task the depiction of the “bitter lot of the people,” gives in the poem a complete and multifaceted picture of the Russian peasantry. That is why in “To whom it is good to live in Russia” we meet such a variety of peasant types, learn about the worldview, lifestyle, traditions, and problems of the Russian people.
It must be said that Nekrasov's depiction of the peasantry is most closely connected with the problem of happiness. It is for the search for happy seven men who set off on their journey through Russia, which gives us the opportunity to get acquainted with all aspects of Russian life on an epic scale.
It is important that the answer to the question “Who is living well in Russia?” does not form immediately. The author uses in his work the "principle of the spiral", where on each "coil" appears new character with their understanding of happiness. It is this representation that reveals the hero - shows us his character and essence.
So, it seems to the men-truth-seekers themselves that for happiness it is enough just to be well-fed: “If we only have bread Half a pood a day ...” However, they soon begin to understand that a person does not live by bread alone. At a rural fair, “folk” heroes appear before them, each of whom has his own idea of \u200b\u200bhappiness. So, for many characters, the main thing in life is health and strength - physical and moral. Otherwise, you simply won’t survive, you won’t stretch your bitter strap.
This is evidenced, for example, by a skinny sexton who has lost his job. He is convinced that a person is happy "not in sables, not in gold, not in expensive stones", but only in "complacency" and faith in God. Only this, according to the hero, can strengthen and give strength for earthly life.
In contrast to this opinion, another heroine speaks out - an old woman who has “up to a thousand rep” born in her garden. This is the happiness of this woman, who is glad that she will be full, that mother earth took care of her and did not leave her hungry.
Then we meet a soldier who is happy that he was in twenty battles, and not killed, was beaten with sticks and starved, and not died. Another hero - a stonemason - is convinced that his happiness lies in great strength, because thanks to her he earns his living, feeds his family.
With the appearance of Yakim Nagogo in the poem, the work includes the idea of higher, moral values that are incommensurable with material goods(Remember that the Yakima family first of all takes out icons and “pictures” from the burning hut).
On the next "coil" in the work, Ermila Girin appears. With his "help" in the poem, the image of a people's intercessor is outlined and another condition for happiness appears - respect for the people:
Honor enviable, true,
Not bought by money
Not fear: strict truth,
Mind and kindness!
Old man Savely "complements" this image: he is a people's avenger and hero. Freedom-loving and proud, this man is able to fight for his happiness (the murder of a German manager). However, his strength does not bring any positive results (hard labor, unhappy old age in his son's house, guilt in the death of his great-grandson), nor happiness to the hero. As a result, at the end of his life, Savely is completely immersed in faith in God, in which he finds consolation. The powerful personality of this character is too contradictory to be considered happy.
Matrena Timofeevna is on the next “coil” - she is a kind of female version of the “happy” with her own interpretation of the problem: “It’s not a matter of looking for a happy woman among women.”
This one is beautiful clever woman She has endured and suffered so much that no man can bear. She suffered humiliation and beatings in her husband's family, from the authorities, who considered a serf woman not a person, but a powerless beast. Matryona survived a terrible famine, the loss of her husband-breadwinner, the loss of children. However, despite all the hardships, this heroine retained her strength - physical and moral. Perhaps that is why the people consider her happy.
At the end of the poem, another hero appears, who, according to Nekrasov, is the undeniable "lucky one." This is the “peasant son” Grisha Dobrosklonov, who “for fifteen years ... already knew for sure that he would live for the happiness of a wretched and dark native corner.” This character is ready to give his life in the name of the triumph of "honest cause", so that "his fellow countrymen and every peasant live freely, cheerfully in all of holy Russia."
Thus, in the poem “To whom it is good to live in Russia,” Nekrasov presents us with a wide range of peasant types - he shows men and women different ages, with different characters, different views on life, different problems. The question about happiness, which men-truth-seekers ask all of them, reveals each of them, allows you to understand the essence of each character.
The poet shows that, despite all the differences and diversity of peasant types, they all have one thing in common - the disorder of life, downtroddenness, poverty and lack of rights.

Like Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin", called by Belinsky "an encyclopedia of Russian life", and Nekrasov's poem "Who should live well in Russia" can be with good reason considered an encyclopedia of Russian folk life in the middle of the last century. The author called the poem "his favorite brainchild", and collected material for it, as he himself put it, "word by word for twenty years." It embraces the people's life with an unusually wide scope, raises the most important questions of its time and includes the treasures of the people's speech.
In that

The work reflected the contemporary life of the poet. It solved the problems that worried the minds of progressive people: in what direction would historical development country, what role the peasantry is destined to play in history, what are the fates of the Russian people.
Nekrasov creates a whole gallery of pictures of village life, and in this sense the poem has something in common with Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter. But, as a realist, a writer of everyday life, Nekrasov goes further than Turgenev, showing them with encyclopedic completeness, delving into not only the thoughts and moods of his heroes, but also into the social and economic way of their life.
Nekrasov's poem "Who Lives Well in Russia" begins with the question: "In what year - calculate, in what land - guess." But it is not difficult to understand what period Nekrasov is talking about. The poet is referring to the reform of 1861, according to which the peasants, not having their own land, fell into even greater bondage.
Through the whole poem passes the thought of the impossibility of living like this, of the heavy peasant lot, of the peasant ruin. This moment of the hungry life of the peasantry, whom “longing-trouble exhausted”, sounds with particular force in the song called “Hungry” by Nekrasov. Moreover, the poet does not exaggerate, showing poverty, poverty of morals, religious prejudice and drunkenness in peasant life.
The situation of the people is drawn with the utmost distinctness by the names of the places where the truth-seeking peasants come from: Terpigorev district, Pustoporozhnaya volost, Tightened province, the villages of Zaplatovo, Dyryavino, Znobishino, Razutovo, Gorelovo, Neyolovo, Neurozhayka. The poem very vividly depicts the bleak, powerless, hungry life of the people. “Men's happiness,” the poet exclaims bitterly, “leaky with patches, humpbacked with calluses!” Peasants are people who “have not eaten their fill, slurped unsalted food”.
With undisguised sympathy, the author treats those peasants who do not put up with their hungry, disenfranchised existence. Unlike the world of exploiters and moral freaks, serfs like Yakov, Gleb, Ipat, the best of the peasants in the poem retained true humanity, the ability to sacrifice, spiritual nobility. These are Matrena Timofeevna, the bogatyr Saveliy, Yakim Nagoi, Yermil Girin, Agap Petrov, seven truth-seekers and others. Each of them has his own task in life, his own reason to “search for the truth”, but all of them together testify that peasant Russia has already awakened, come to life. Truth seekers see such happiness for the Russian people:
I don't need any silver
No gold, but God forbid
So that my countrymen
And every peasant
Life was easy, fun
All over holy Russia!
In Yakima NagoM, the peculiar character of the people's truth-seeker, the peasant "righteous man" is presented. Yakim is hardworking, he is ready to stand up for his rights, an honest worker with great self-esteem. The hard life did not kill his love for beauty. During a fire, he saves not money, but “pictures”, having lost his accumulated wealth over the whole century - “thirty-five rubles”. This is what he says about the people:
Every peasant has
Soul that black cloud -
Angry, formidable - and it would be necessary
Thunders rumble from there,
pouring bloody rains,
And everything ends with wine.
Yermil Girin is also remarkable. A literate peasant, he served as a clerk, became famous throughout the district for his justice, intelligence and disinterested devotion to the people. Yermil showed himself to be an exemplary headman when the people chose him for this position. However, Nekrasov does not make a righteous man out of him. Ermil, taking pity on his younger brother, appoints Vlasyevna's son as a recruit and then, in a fit of repentance, almost commits suicide. The story of Ermil ends sadly. He is imprisoned for his performance during the riot. The image of Yermila testifies to the spiritual forces lurking in Russian people, the richness of the moral qualities of the peasantry. But only in the chapter “Savelius, Hero of the Holy Russians” does the peasant protest turn into a revolt, culminating in the murder of the oppressor. True, the reprisal against the German manager was still spontaneous, but such was the reality of serf society. Serf riots arose spontaneously as a response to the cruel oppression of the landlords and those who managed their estates. Nekrasov shows the difficult and difficult path that the growth of rebellious moods and the formation of Savely's consciousness went on: from silent patience to passive resistance, from passive resistance to open protest and struggle.
Saveliy is a consistent fighter for the interests of the people, despite the rods and hard labor, he did not resign himself to his fate, he remained a spiritually free person. “Branded, but not a slave!” - he answers the people who called him "branded". Savely embodies the best features of the Russian character: love for the motherland and the people, hatred for the oppressors, a clear understanding of the irreconcilability of the interests of the landowners and peasants, the courageous ability to overcome any difficulties, physical and moral strength, self-esteem. The poet sees in him a true fighter for the cause of the people.
Not meek and submissive are close to the poet, but recalcitrant and courageous rebels, such as Savely, Yakim Nagoi, whose behavior speaks of the awakening consciousness of the peasantry, of its boiling protest against oppression. Nekrasov wrote about the oppressed people of his country with anger and pain. But the poet was able to notice the “hidden spark” of the mighty internal forces inherent in the people, and looked ahead with hope and faith:
Rat rises -
innumerable,
The strength will affect her
Invincible!

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