Larin family
The description of the Larin family should begin with a description of the parents. These are simple people who, although they live poorly, are very hospitable. They try to adhere to old traditions and sing ritual songs.
Dmitry and Polina (Praskovya)
The father of the family, Dmitry Larin, was a kind man and a good master for his peasants. He loved his wife and trusted her in everything. He completed his career with the rank of foreman:
The Lord's servant and foreman.
In the village, the hero lived a measured life, delegating all the housework to his wife. He was satisfied with this way of life. Larin died before meeting Evgeny Onegin. It is known that he left the world of the living at an old age.
The novel does not indicate exactly what the name of Tatyana Larina’s mother was. Everyone called her Pachette. We can assume that her name is Polina or Praskovya.
In her youth, the heroine was partial to the sergeant, but her parents married her to Dmitry Larin. After the wedding, the couple moved to the village. At first she did not love her husband, but soon their relationship improved. The woman learned to manage her good-natured husband and began to be content with what she had, forgetting about social life and becoming a landowner. She meets Onegin in her old age:
Larina is simple,
But a very sweet old lady.
Nanny, Princess Alina and relatives
Filipyevna was a kind nanny and an old peasant woman. She got married when she was only thirteen years old. As was customary in those days, they gave her away not out of love, but by force:
These summers
We haven't heard about love.
Princess Alina is Polina's relative. The Larin family was visiting her in Moscow when they came to the “bride fair”.
Arriving in Moscow, Tatyana and Praskovya come to visit their countless relatives who remembered the girl when she was little.
Olga and Tatiana
Olga is the younger sister of Tatyana Larina. She was the bride of Vladimir Lensky. In their youth, they were perceived as a couple as they loved to play together when they were children. Vladimir even sat on Dmitry Larin’s lap:
He shared her fun
And crowns were predicted for the children
Friends and neighbors, their fathers.
Olga was cheerful, obedient, modest, but loved to flirt. She differed from her sister in her sociability and simplicity. Pushkin described the appearance of Larina Jr. as follows:
- blonde;
- blue eyed;
- loud-voiced;
- plump;
- with blush on the cheeks;
- with beautiful shoulders and chest.
Pushkin's heroine Tatyana is Olga's older sister. Those around her consider it a country, but a pretty one, although it does not shine with beauty. The girl has a special appearance.
In society, Tatyana behaves modestly and is mostly silent. He prefers places where silence reigns over noisy companies:
Dick, sad, silent.
Has a great imagination and loves to dream. She likes to read books. The girl dreams of finding true love, which is described in novels. Several character traits can be identified:
- smart;
- wayward;
- sincere;
- trusting;
- simple;
- stubborn.
Tatyana knows French and speaks Russian poorly. He is on good terms with his sister Olga. She doesn’t particularly like handicrafts or playing with dolls, but she enthusiastically listens to fairy tales and scary stories that her nanny tells her.
Larina's sisters in the novel "Eugene Onegin"
The complete opposite of Tatyana is her younger sister Olga. If from childhood Tatyana was “wild, sad, silent, like a forest deer, timid, then Olga is “always as cheerful as the morning, as simple-minded as the life of a poet.” Olga has a lot of cheerfulness, playfulness, vitality flows through her. She is always “with a light smile on her lips”; in Larina’s house her “ringing voice” can be heard everywhere.
But Olga’s external attractiveness and charming cheerfulness cannot hide the poverty of her spiritual world. Her nature is devoid of the originality and depth that characterize Tatyana. Olga lives thoughtlessly, guided in her life by the views and habits established in the noble local life. “Always modest, always obedient,” she, without thinking deeply, follows the life rules accepted among the nobility. She cannot understand Tatyana, Lensky’s behavior and mood on the evening before the duel does not make her think.
Her feelings are not as deep and stable as Tatyana’s. “She cried for a short time” about Lensky and soon got married, “repeating her mother, with minor changes that time required” (Belinsky). Pushkin himself points out the prevalence of this type of woman both in life and in the literature of that time:
- ...any novel
- Take it and you will find it, right,
- Her portrait...
But under the pen of Pushkin, this image, although sketchily given, acquired such artistic expressiveness that it influenced the creation of a number of female images in the works of later writers (for example, Marfinka in Goncharov’s novel “The Cliff”). Next to the heroes, the author appears not only as narrator, but also as a character in the novel. He is a friend of Onegin, whom he met and became friends in St. Petersburg. He loves Tatyana, “sacredly cherishes” her letter to Onegin. He “preserved for emergencies” Lensky’s poems “Where, where have you gone.” Talking about his friends and acquaintances, the author is not an indifferent contemplator of the events of their lives, a calm observer. He takes a lively part in their fate, responds to their experiences, speaks about them with love, with sympathy, and sometimes ironically, and sometimes strictly condemns the behavior of his hero (for example, Onegin for accepting Lensky’s challenge). In some stanzas (lyrical digressions), the author already appears as one of the main characters of the novel: he talks about his lyceum years, about exile, about life in the village, shares with readers his plans}!, thoughts, speaks out on social and everyday issues, about literature, about theater, etc. Considering the trends that dominated Russian and Western European literature in his time, Pushkin has a negative attitude towards both sentimentalism and romanticism for their inherent one-sidedness in depicting reality. Pushkin himself strives for a realistic depiction of life, to comprehend it, to create typical characters, and dreams of writing a novel in prose (Chapter 3, XI-XIII). A lover and connoisseur of the theater, Pushkin gives expressive characteristics of playwrights whose plays were staged in his time at Siena (Chapter 1, XVIII). Individual remarks generously scattered throughout the novel reflect Pushkin’s interests, his love of freedom, and patriotism. The image of the poet appears before us not only in lyrical digressions. It is reflected in the very tone of the narrative, the assessment of the phenomenon of life. A critical attitude towards the serfdom way of life, which has a destructive effect on the human personality, a satirical depiction of the nobility, condemnation of the noble intelligentsia for its separation from the national, popular soil - all this characterizes Pushkin as a like-minded Decembrist, as the best representative of the noble intelligentsia, who managed to rise high above the selfish interests of his class.
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The sisters' relationship with Onegin and Lensky
The work compares several heroes. Evgeny Onegin and Vladimir Lensky differed from each other in character, like Tatyana and Olga. Evgeniy is indifferent to many things. Vladimir, on the contrary, is quick-tempered and easily vulnerable.
Olga smiles and unquestioningly obeys her mother, goes with the flow, without thinking about anything. Tatyana is unsociable, hides within herself, does not recognize the rules that reign in society. She is looking for her prince charming and believes that he is Eugene, whom she met by chance. Onegin ended up visiting the Larins after his friend Lensky brought him to their house. Vladimir wanted to introduce Evgeny to his beloved.
Sincere love lives in Tatiana's heart for life. Her feelings are not the same as Olga's. She considers Evgeny her soul mate, without whom there will be no happiness.
Olga lost her love. Because of Larina Jr.’s frivolity, the young man who was supposed to become her husband was killed. But the girl does not grieve for long and finds herself a lancer.
Tatyana cannot do this, she loves until the very end. Even after getting married, the girl does not stop thinking about Onegin. But when they meet, she refuses him, just as he once refused her, trampling on her feelings, leaving a wound deep in her soul. What did Tatyana become years later? Of course, the girl’s lifestyle has changed, she has become stronger, more beautiful, more self-confident, richer. Pushkin portrayed in her image a woman who was his ideal.
Essay on the theme of Larina's sister
LARINA'S SISTERS IN THE NOVEL "EVGENY ONEGIN" BY A. S. PUSHKIN The novel is based on the love story of Evgeny Onegin and Tatyana Larina. The image of Tatyana as the main character of the novel is the most perfect among other female images. Tatyana is Pushkin’s favorite heroine, his “dear ideal” (“...I love my dear Tatyana so much”). In the image of Tatyana, Pushkin reflected all those features of a Russian girl, the totality of which represents a perfect ideal for the author. These are the special character traits that make Tatyana truly Russian. The formation of these traits in Tatiana occurs on the basis of “legends of the common people of antiquity,” beliefs, and tales. Her passion for romance novels has a noticeable influence on her character. They played a big role in the birth of her love. This is evidenced by her reaction to the appearance of Onegin in their house, whom she immediately makes the subject of her romantic dreams. In Onegin, Tatyana sees a combination of all those qualities of the hero that she read about in novels. She gives herself over to her feelings completely and completely. Her letter to Onegin speaks about the depth of Tatiana’s feelings. In it, Tatyana, acting against all rules of decency, opens her soul and completely puts herself “into the hands” of Onegin, relying on his honor and nobility (“But your honor is my guarantee...”). The depth of Tatyana's feelings is especially clearly manifested at the moment of Onegin's arrival at the Larins' estate after receiving the letter. A whole storm arises in her soul, but she courageously accepts Onegin’s rebuke. After such a moral blow, Tatyana’s love not only does not go out, but flares up even more. And this already suggests that love turned out to be not superficial, not inspired by sensitive novels, but very real. An inexperienced girl could have been offended and hated the cold Onegin, but the opposite happened, love only strengthened even more, and Tatyana does not lose hope. Tatyana believed in the legends of the common folk, Menam, and card fortune-telling, And the predictions of the moon. She was worried about signs; Mysteriously, all objects proclaimed something to her. Therefore, in order to find out her future fate, Tatyana resorts to fortune telling. As a result, she has a dream that partially determines the further development of events. But then, after Lensky’s death and Onegin’s departure, Tatyana begins to often visit Onegin’s house. There she, studying the environment in which Onegin lived, the range of his interests, comes to the conclusion that Onegin is only a “poetic ghost.” After some time, Tatyana goes to Moscow, where her aunties take her to balls and evenings in search of a good groom. The decor of Moscow living rooms and the order reigning in them inspire Tatyana only with disgust and boredom. Raised in the countryside, her soul strives for nature... To the village, to the poor villagers, To a secluded corner, Where a bright stream flows... Tatyana gets a rich general as her husband and becomes a society lady. This is how Onegin finds her, returning to St. Petersburg a few years later. Onegin's love story for Tatiana takes on a mirror image of Tatiana's love story for him. Having become a society lady, Tatyana gradually changes, takes on a new look for herself, so as not to stand out in the society in which she has to constantly be. She outwardly becomes an “indifferent princess”, “an unapproachable goddess”. After reading Onegin’s letter with declarations of love, Tatyana gives a direct and unconditional answer: But I was given to another; I will be faithful to him forever. These words contain all the strength of Tatyana’s character, her essence. After all, she still loves Onegin, perhaps even stronger than before, but she cannot break the vow she made to her husband before God, she cannot sacrifice moral principles. The complete opposite of Tatyana is her sister Olga. Her cheerful disposition, simplicity, and carefree character were, according to the author himself, an integral part of the image of the heroine of any novel of that time. Pushkin, as a true connoisseur of the female soul, gives Olga an unflattering description through the mouth of Onegin: She is round and red in face, Like this stupid moon On this stupid horizon. Olga's carefree disposition is evidenced by her attitude towards love. She doesn’t seem to notice the fullness and depth of Lensky’s feelings, who is ready to do anything for her. It is because of her that he shoots himself in a duel with Onegin and dies. The duel occurs due to Olga's frivolous and dismissive attitude towards Lensky at the ball. She has fun and dances with Onegin, not noticing the pain she causes Lensky with her behavior. At their last meeting, Lensky is embarrassed and confused by the “tender simplicity” and naivety with which Olga appears before him: ...Like a windy hope, Playful, carefree, cheerful, Well, exactly the same as she was. In the last hours of his life, Lensky was absorbed in thoughts of Olga. In his heart, he dreams of Olga’s loyalty and devotion, but he is greatly mistaken in Olga’s feelings. And in fact, “she didn’t cry for long,” very quickly the image of a man who loved her boundlessly and selflessly was erased from her memory and his place was taken by a visiting young uhlan, with whom Olga connected her future life. The life story of the mother of Olga and Tatyana Larin is a sad story about the fate of a young girl from secular society. Without asking her consent, she was married to a local nobleman, Dmitry Larin, and sent to the village. At first it was quite difficult for her to get used to the environment of village life. But over time, she reconciled herself and became an exemplary lady from the circle of the local nobility. Her former hobbies and habits were replaced by everyday activities and chores around the house: She went to work, Pickled mushrooms for the winter, Maintained expenses, shaved her foreheads, Went to the bathhouse on Saturdays, Beat the maids in anger... A. S. Pushkin in the novel “Eugene Onegin” created a whole gallery of female images, each of which is both typical and individual, embodying some kind of character trait. But the most perfect among all the female images in Eugene Onegin is the image of Tatyana, in which Pushkin displayed all the features of a truly Russian woman.
