"Natalia Boyarskaya Daughter", the work of Karamzin is a vivid example of a new trend that was used by writers of the late nineteenth century, including Karamzin. A new trend is sentimentalism, and if before that classicism was used, which depicted a worthy citizen of his homeland, his duty, honor, now it is depicted inner world a person, his feelings, experiences, and an example of this is the work of Karamzin “Natalia, boyar's daughter.

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What is this work about? Of course, about love, the most real. About the feeling that everyone wants to experience, about which everyone dreams, and Natalia, the main character, learned what love is, what love is. This work will tell us the love story of the daughter of Matvey Andreev Natalia and the son of the boyar Lyuboslavsky Alexei.

Natalia fell in love with Alexei so much that she even decided to run away from home. She leaves her father, just to be close to her husband. But she never forgot about her father, so their man always brought news about Natalya's father. We see the power of great love not only when Natalya leaves home for her husband, but also when the heroine goes on a military campaign with Alexei, because without him her life was unthinkable.

The work ends with a good ending, because the Tsar forgives Alexei, as Natalia's father forgives. The spouses go to Moscow and live there happily.

There are several main characters in Karamzin's work Natalia, the Boyar's Daughter. One can also single out Matvey, Natalya's father, who was honest and noble. It is possible to single out the nanny, who replaced Natalya's mother, and Alexei, Natalya's beloved, but still, the main character is Natalya, it was not for nothing that the author named his work after her. Natalia is an example of a real Russian woman who knows how to love and take care of her neighbors. Her world, both internal and external, is beautiful. She is modest, yet strong in spirit. Natalia is an example of devotion and fidelity, the image of a wife, lover and daughter is ideal.

It should be said about this work of N. M. Karamzin that it is not as well known to readers as "Poor Liza". We will try to convey the essence of this small piece.

The events of the work take place in the days of pre-Petrine Russia. The heroine, after whom the story is named, is the daughter of the rich boyar Matvey. Her mother died, the girl was brought up by a nanny. Natalia's life is subject to the rules of Domostroi.

According to Karamzin, Natalya, a boyar's daughter, goes to church every morning, accompanied by a nanny, and then gives alms to people in need. At home, the girl is engaged in needlework: she embroiders, weaves lace, sews.

The story "Natalia, the Boyar's Daughter" tells us that one of the girl's few entertainments is a walk with a nanny in the garden, after which she again does needlework.

In the evenings, she can communicate with her friends, of course, under the supervision of a nanny.

The girl's life is not rich in events, which, of course, makes Natalia dreamy. She is very kind, sincere, loves her loved ones. Considering the summary "Natalia, the boyar's daughter", we note that the young noblewoman is able to perceive the beauty of nature. She admires Moscow.

The girl has all the female virtues: she is obedient, loves to work. In a word, Natalia has absorbed all the rules of Domostroi.

However, as Karamzin notes, Natalya, the boyar's daughter, of course, could not help dreaming of love. The meeting with the beloved took place in the church. The girl fell in love with a complete stranger young man. The next day, she again goes to God's temple, but does not meet Him there. Natalia is really upset, she is yearning, cannot eat or drink. A new meeting with her lover makes her happy. The good nanny helps the girl to meet the young man, so Karamzin continues his story ("Natalia, the boyar's daughter"). The main characters, a young noblewoman and Alexei, decide to escape and get married in secret.

Karamzin shows us the girl's experiences. She experiences first love and blindly trusts Alexei, but this bright feeling darkens the feeling of guilt before her father, she is ashamed in front of him. However, Natalia, following the rules of Domostroi, is ready to obey her husband in everything, like a true wife. The girl finds true happiness with Alexei, but prays that her father will forgive her. Natalya's immense happiness was suddenly clouded by the fact that her husband had to go to war. Fate forces the girl to do the impossible for many very strong women: She hides her hair, puts on the clothes of a warrior and fights the enemy like a real man. Such a selfless act could not fail to force her father to forgive her.

The image of the boyar Matvey

So, the summary of "Natalia, the boyar's daughter" was quite able to convey the plot of the story. However, we did not say a word about the girl's father, Matvey Andreev. His image is by no means the personification of a meaningful statesman how it should be, according to the plot. Karamzin endows him with many virtues, but the image remains pale. This person is capable of shedding tears in grief and joy. However, such a faded image was not created by Karamzin by chance, it helps to understand the ideological orientation of the work.

Picture of an "ideal" monarchy

Perhaps such a remark is superfluous if our task is to convey a summary. "Natalia, Boyar's Daughter" is a work in which the image of an "ideal" monarchy is created. In such a state, the king's only concern is the well-being of his own environment. The monarch is condescending to his subjects. The ease of handling described in the work is completely different from the licentious morals that reigned under Catherine. The king's close associate is a faithful advisor who never took advantage of his position. In his work, Karamzin exposes the vicious aspects of the reign of Catherine the Great.

The attitude of the people to the king's entourage

In his work, Karamzin indicates that the boyar Matvey is a royal servant who, like the sovereign, is endowed with many human virtues. He is smart, rich, hospitable. Matvey is an intercessor for his neighbors, their patron. However, the author does not say a word about how the boyar carries out his service. He only tells about the people's love for this statesman.

In reality, the people hated the tsar's close associates, which is an absolute contrast to the picture created by Karamzin.

Historical era

The historical events described in the work are most likely related to the second half of the seventeenth century. Presumably, this is the era of the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. The sovereign in the work is portrayed as very pious and sensitive. He consoles his associates, and only violation of the principles of justice can make him angry.

This work quite openly indicates what the order should be in the state, how the monarch and his entourage should look like.

The historical background helps to understand that such a love story could have a happy ending only in conditions of state harmony.

True portrait of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich

The romantic plot of the story did not find a place to tell about other aspects of the government and character traits of this sovereign.

Under him denunciations were accepted, and the "peaceful" tsar was actually quite quick-tempered, allowed himself to scold, and also resorted sometimes to assault. In particular, the fact is known that at a meeting of the Boyar Duma, the sovereign beat and expelled the boyar Miloslavsky, who was his father-in-law.

Boyar Matvey prototype

There are suggestions that the image of Natalya's father is "copied" from a real historical character. Most likely, it was the boyar A.S. Matveev, who was subjected to a violent death during the palace coup in 1682.

We have finished the presentation summary works "Natalia, the boyar's daughter", the main idea of ​​which is that with correct and just government, all people can be happy. In conclusion, I would like to add that Karamzin turned to the history of the Russian state in order to show how the past of our land is different from the modern worship of everything foreign. Such condemnation of "foreign ravages" is also intended to appeal to the patriotic feelings of compatriots.

Karamzinsky's narrator in Natalia, the Boyar's Daughter not only reveals for us the history of the heroes, empathizing with what is being discussed, he is free in his conversation with the reader, often cheerful and ironic.

The correlation with the genre canon of the ode returns again in the first, and main, characteristic, preceding the appearance of the virtuous boyar Matvey, Natalya's father. His main skills are the ability to be “a friend of humanity”, to take the blows of fate and without fear of going towards death; how easy it is to imagine a portrait of such a person, reading the lines of philosophical odes of the poets - predecessors of Karamzin: A.P. Sumarokova, M.M. Kheraskov or V.I. Maikova.

“Such was the boyar Matvey, the loyal servant of the king, the loyal friend of mankind. He was already sixty years old, and his blood was already circulating more slowly in his veins.<...>but is it good for the good to fear this thick impenetrable darkness in which the days of men are lost?<...>He walks forward, fearlessly, enjoys the last rays of the setting luminary, turns his deceased gaze on the past and with a joyful - albeit dark, but no less joyful foreboding, brings his foot into this unknown ”.

The peculiarity of Karamzin's first historical story lies in the fact that it shows the past not from the ceremonial, official side, but in its domestic appearance. The heroine of the story Natalya is the only daughter of an elderly widower boyar Matvey Andreev. The secluded terem life of a young girl is depicted, her modest amusements together with her neighbors-friends. The main content of the story is the heroine's love experiences, starting with anxious longings incomprehensible to her herself and ending with an all-consuming passion that seized her when she met the chosen one of her heart. Natalia was allowed to appear outside the house only in the church and then under the supervision of her mother. It was here that her acquaintance with Alexei Lyuboslavsky, the son of the disgraced boyar, who was forced to hide in the forests near Moscow, takes place. According to A. Starchevsky's convincing guess, the starting point for the creation of the story was "the marriage of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich with Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina, a pupil of the boyar Matveyev." But from this historical basis in the story, except for the names, nothing remained. The historicism of the work is still superficial and is limited to household items, clothing, weapons of the 17th century.

In the story of Karamzin, the facts of the biography of A.S. Matveev (educator of the mother of Peter I, boyar Artamon Sergeevich Matveev) are divided between two heroes. The first, prosperous part of his life served as material for the image of Natalia's father - boyar Matvey Andreev. The history of the disgrace and exile of A.S. Matveev, together with his young son Andrei, was reflected in the fate of the boyar Lyuboslavsky and his son Alexei. The Karamzin boyar Matvey is presented as a wise and impartial mentor of the tsar, the protector of all the offended. He acts as a mediator between the people and the supreme power. Without fear of disgrace, he says to the tsar everything he thinks, justly resolves legal disputes, always stands only for the truth. A special place is given to the hospitality and poverty of Natalya's father; philanthropy has always been one of the cornerstones of Karamzin's public program. Family, domestic virtues serve as a reliable support for the public in Karamzin. Boyarin Matvey is an ideal father and an equally ideal citizen. Alexey Lyuboslavsky is a gentle son, an exemplary husband and at the same time a brave warrior. Even in Natalya, love for her husband awakens military fervor, and together with Alexei she goes to the battlefield. Of course, this work should not be seen as a faithful reflection of social and family relations XVII century. Before us is a typical utopia of a noble enlightener of the late 18th century, who transferred to the past his idea of ​​an ideal estate-monarchical state and opposed this ideal to the social relations of his time.

The story "Natalia, the boyar's daughter" by N.M. Karamzin became the first artistic reproduction of the Russian historical past. Later, the critic Rezanov would describe the "Karamzin trend" as "a tendency to process a plot taken from the same Russian antiquity in a much less intricate way, simply and with the observance of fidelity or even historical probability possible for that time."
The story "Natalia, the boyar's daughter" takes place in the past, during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. At that time, according to the author, "the Russians were Russians." People of that time lived in an idyllic time of sensitivity, which had not yet been lost by people. Basic storyline is the development of love relationships between the daughter of the virtuous Matvey Andreev Natalia and Andrei, the son of the disgraced boyar Lyuboslavsky.
Karamzin introduces the reader to his lyrical heroine Natalia, starting with a detailed description of her appearance. To create a more complete and realistic portrait, the writer uses various artistic techniques. So, for example, the description uses the means of an oral folk tale: "there are many flowers in the field, in groves, in green meadows, but there is no such thing as a rose ...". Also noteworthy are the contrasting visual epithets: a white face and black fluffy eyelashes, "hair like dark coffee velvet", etc.


The hitherto calm girlish life of Natalya is alarmed by the fact that the heroine felt "a certain languor, a certain sadness in her soul." Soon, in winter, at mass, Natalya meets her love - Alexei Lyuboslovsky. After the first meeting, Natalia feels a desire to see the stranger again. And soon they meet again, and then, Alexey, having bribed the nanny, comes to the house of the beautiful Natalia. The idyllic calm of the beginning of the story is broken, further events develop rapidly. Natalya and her lover secretly leave their parental home and get married. Karamzin great attention pays Natalia's internal struggle between love for Alexei and daughter's duty. Realizing that she will commit a great sin, the heroine escapes from her father's house without a blessing. But the feeling of guilt that has appeared does not allow Natalya to enjoy the happiness. In order to emphasize the confusion in the heroine's heart, the writer uses words such as sin, church, image, blessing.
For a long time, Natalya and her lover hide in the forest, then the disgraced Alexei and Natalya, dressed in a man's dress, fight in the war, earning their forgiveness. At the end of the story, calm reigns again: the heroes return to the arms of Natalia's father, the boyar Matvey.
Such novels were very popular with Russian readers in the middle and in the second half of the 18th century. What distinguishes Karamzin's story from works of this kind is the presence of a deep moral meaning, the author's desire to awaken sympathy in the reader for the heroes depicted, empathy for their misfortunes, joy about the virtuous and regret about erroneous actions.

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The main character of Karamzin's story is Natalya, daughter of the boyar Matvey Andreev. I believe that this heroine is the ideal of the author. The image of Natalia Karamzin showed what a real woman should be like.
Natalia Andreeva is a 17-year-old girl. She is very beautiful: "Natalia was the most charming of all." Nothing could compare with the whiteness of her face and the scarletness of her cheeks. Natalia's black eyes, thick dark blond hair, the tenderness of the girl's skin evoked general admiration. Boyarin Andreev doted on his beloved daughter.
But Natalya's soul was the most beautiful of all: "... our charming Natalya had a lovely soul, she was tender as a turtle dove, innocent like a lamb, sweet as the month of May: in a word, she had all the properties of a well-bred girl ..."
Natalia loved her native Moscow very much, adored her father, was sincerely attached to her nanny. The heroine spent the whole day in business: she embroidered, prayed to God. But she was no stranger to entertainment. Natalya often went to visit her friends, where they had fun, but under the strict supervision of their elders. So peacefully and happily Natalia lived to be 17 years old.
But soon one sadness began to gnaw at the soul of the heroine. She began to yearn for love, for a loved one. And when he appeared in her life, Natalya did not hesitate to follow her beloved to the end of the world. Alexei, the heroine's beloved, suggested that she flee from her parents' house and secretly get married. Despite her great affection and gratitude to her father, Natalia chose her love. It seems to me that Karamzin admires his heroine. The author believes that this is exactly what a real woman should do.
In this serious situation, the heroine's strong and firm character was manifested. When she decided to flee, then nothing could turn the heroine off the intended path. Natalia unconditionally believed her lover. Alexey brought his wife to the forest house. But she did not even think to be scared, because her beloved gave his word that everything would be fine.
In marriage, the heroine also spent all her days at work. She did not forget her father and was very worried, leaving him alone in complete ignorance. Therefore, Alexei sent his man, who every week brought news about the boyar Andreev.
So the couple lived in peace and harmony. But when they learned that the Lithuanians had attacked Moscow, they could not sit idly by. Natalia immediately decided to go on a military campaign with her husband. The heroine could not imagine life without Alexei. As a faithful wife, she followed her betrothed everywhere. In order to be close to Alexei, Natalya disguised herself as a youth, not being afraid to change traditions.
In the end, everything ended well. Moscow was repulsed, Alexei was forgiven by the sovereign and boyar Andreev. The newlyweds happily healed in Moscow.
Natalia is the perfect heroine. She is beautiful both externally and internally. Modest and clean, she at the same time has a strong and lively character. Natalia is a faithful and devoted wife. Her happiness lies in the happiness of her husband, after whom the heroine will go to the ends of the world. Natalia unconditionally trusts her Alexei. It seems to me that it is in the character of his heroine that Karamzin sees the secret of her happiness.


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