Glory came to this greatest writer not only thanks to novels and short stories. Numerous stories, plays, poems in prose played an important role. He was a very versatile writer.
The author did not pursue quantity. It is known that he wrote his works slowly, nurturing the idea for a long time. Despite this, his works regularly appeared on the pages of magazines and in separate books.
The famous story "First Love" Turgenev wrote when he was already 42 years old. In his work, he tried to comprehend the past years, to understand his past. Therefore, the entire literary plot is saturated with autobiography.
Turgenev's story with a beautiful and unusual title - "First Love" was written by the author at a time when he was in the city on the Neva. It is known that the events that once happened to the writer himself served as the basis for the author's plot. And so, being in St. Petersburg from January to March 1860, he takes on his new work, the idea of which had long been born in his head.
According to the plot, the author tells about emotional experiences that caused new feelings in the main character. A small childhood love on the pages of Turgenev's story turns into adult love, filled with tragedy and sacrifice. It is known that almost every hero of this work had prototypes, since this story was written on the basis of the author's personal emotional experience and the events that once happened in his family.
As the writer himself later admitted, he tried to portray all events as they are, without hiding or embellishing anything.
"A real incident is described without the slightest embellishment."
The plot of Turgenev's story "First Love" is built as if it were memories. The story is told from the perspective of an elderly man who remembers his first love. The author took as the main character of his story young man Vladimir, who was barely 16 years old.
According to the plot, the main character, along with his family, goes to rest in a family estate, which is located outside the city. In this rural peace and tranquility, he meets a young and beautiful girl. Zinaida at that time was already 21 years old. But Vladimir is not at all embarrassed by the age difference. So the main female character appears in Turgenev's story - Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasekina. Of course, she is young and beautiful, so it's hard not to fall in love. Yes, Vladimir fell in love with Zina, but it turns out that he is not the only one in love. Around a pretty girl there are constantly applicants for her location.
But the character of the girl is not the most diligent. Realizing that men really like her, Zina is not averse to sometimes cruelly making fun of them. So she doesn’t like Vladimir at all, but, seeing his suffering, she decides to play him a little, showing her capricious and playful disposition. Sometimes Zinaida Alexandrovna makes fun of him in front of everyone, because he is too young. But Turgenev's hero endures all this, as he is deeply in love. And only after some time Vladimir suddenly finds out that Zinaida is also very much in love and this object of her love is his father.
One day he witnesses a secret meeting between Zinaida Alexandrova and Pyotr Vasilyevich, his father. From everything he saw and said, he understood that his father left the girl forever, because the whole family was leaving back to the city from the village. And a week later, Vladimir's father has a completely unexpected stroke, and he dies. Zinaida is getting married very soon to some Mr. Dolsky. Four years later, the young woman dies in childbirth.
All Turgenev's heroes in his story "First Love" have fictitious names, but according to the memoirs of contemporaries, they all have prototypes. As soon as the story came out, everyone recognized real people in it: the writer himself, his mother, father and the girl with whom the author was in love. Let's take a closer look at their prototypes:
♦ Vladimir, Turgenev's main hero is the author himself, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.
♦ Zinaida Alexandrovna - Princess Ekaterina Lvovna Shakhovskaya, who was a poetess. It is known that the young author was deeply in love with her, but it soon became clear that she was his father's mistress. Her fate: marriage and death after childbirth, were in reality.
♦ Pyotr Vasilyevich, the father of the protagonist - Sergei Nikolayevich Turgenev, who married a woman for convenience. Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova was much older than him, and he did not love her at all. Hence his romances with other women.
The young man is passionately in love, and the girl flirts and jokes with him. Volodya completely forgets about his studies and thinks only about Zinochka. Therefore, so much in Turgenev's story is devoted to describing the experiences and feelings of a young man, which are constantly changing and in some ways even resemble a storm, a flash. It is worth noting that Volodya is still happy, although the girl just laughs at him. But still, the anxiety gradually grows, and soon the young man begins to understand that Zina is not so simple: she has a secret life and she is also in love with someone.
Soon, not only the hero, but also the readers begin to guess who Zinaida is in love with. The tone of the whole narrative of Turgenev's story changes greatly and the word "love", which before that was stormy and enthusiastic, becomes dark and tragic. The feelings of the girl are much deeper than that of the main character. And Vladimir understands that this is what it is real love. It's so different, everyone has their own, which is impossible to understand and explain. And as confirmation of this - the ending of the story, where the hero becomes a witness to the explanation of two people in love who cannot be together.
But Volodya is not offended by them, realizing that this love is real and he has no right to condemn or interfere with such true love. This love is multifaceted, beautiful, complex. The author himself tried to find it all his life.
In its composition, Turgenev's story "First Love" is a rather simple work, but deep and meaningful. It has twenty chapters. The narrative is built in the form of memories, so the presentation is sequential and in the first person, since the author is the main character himself, who talks about what happened to him in his youth. Although the name, of course, has been changed: Vladimir Petrovich.
Turgenev's story begins with a short prologue that shows the background to all these memories and introduces the reader to what they are about to learn. So, Vladimir, being at the age, in one of the companies tells the story of his first and tragic love. He does not want to tell his friends orally, as they did, but informs them that he will definitely write this story and read it to them at the next new meeting. And he keeps his word. After that, the story itself follows.
A special place in the entire Turgenev story is occupied by the twelfth chapter, which is the culmination of the entire plot. It is here, in this chapter, that the hero's feelings reach their highest intensity. In it, the author describes that feeling, better than which he never had in his life. The plot of this chapter allows you to understand a girl who at first seems frivolous and not serious, but it turns out that she is capable of suffering and deep and serious feelings. But only these "illegal" feelings become a real tragedy for her, and, most likely, this pushes her to commit unpredictable, and sometimes cruel acts.
The author argued that what he had to endure at the age of 16 is simply bliss, which, unfortunately, will never happen again. The writer measured a lot of things in life through love, therefore, his heroes in Turgenev's story pass through the test of love. Ivan Sergeevich shows that his heroes must necessarily take place as individuals. Turgenev's psychologism is always secret, he does not give them open description, only general hints that helped readers plunge into the depths of sensuality. This chapter contains many experiences of Vladimir, which show his inner world, and this helps to understand the content of the entire work.
With the help of his work, Turgenev himself was able to relive his youthful excitement, and show the reader all the versatility of love.
Vladimir Petrovich (Voldemar) - the hero of the story "First Love", on whose behalf the story is being told. This is an autobiographical image of the story-memories. A sixteen-year-old boy from a rich but not quite prosperous family(the father, who has married a woman ten years older than him, is cheating on her), standing on the threshold of adulthood and gradually beginning to recognize her. This is facilitated by love for a girl who struck him with her exclusivity.
It is very important for the author to "pass" the depicted story through the perception and experience of a teenager in love. First of all, this gives Turgenev the opportunity to give new meaning and a new sound for his traditional theme of love. Voldemar's love for Zinaida is still a youthful feeling that grows out of vague premonitions and expectations. It is almost disinterested - not connected with any practical intentions and, in essence, has no clear purpose. Love reveals in this Turgenev's story its own poetic essence, not overshadowed by worldly contradictions and disappointments. It is in this version of it that the secret potential of harmony inherent in love is revealed.
Talking about his experiences, Voldemar brings together seemingly incompatible states: he is ashamed and cheerful, pleasant and insulting, painful and sweet. Love is both happiness and suffering, a source of pride and humiliation, fear and hope. The theme “love-slavery” also sounds, also creating combinations of more and more new, previously incompatible meanings: heroic slavery, voluntary slavery, jubilant slavery. In earlier works, these heterogeneous shades of feeling either did not connect, or did not develop to the fullest extent, or collided in contrast and even conflict: now they tend to merge. In Turgenev's "First Love" for the first time, the harmonic unity of opposites is shown, which is not amenable to logical comprehension, but is clearly felt. Keeping in mind all the inconsistency of his previous states, the hero sees something valuable in each of them and does not find anything like them in his life, even the most painful of them are inseparable from the feeling of a holiday. All this unfolds against the background of a completely different, tragic, worldview, which constitutes the final wisdom of the life lived (it colors the hero's reflections in the epilogue of the story).
Zasekina Zinaida Alexandrovna (Zinaida) - the main character of the story "First Love" by Turgenev. Comes from an impoverished aristocratic family. At first glance, much in her character and life is explained by the inconsistency of her social position. But the narrator's observations, and later the story of Zinaida's love for Vladimir's father, reveal an immeasurably deeper content of her image. Behind the eccentric actions of 3inaida one can guess an unsatisfied, inquisitive and passionate soul (these features bring the heroine closer to Asya). But her spiritual impulses have nothing to do with moral and even more so with social problems. All the intense and varied aspirations of this extraordinary nature are focused on love. From here, psychological surprises are born: selflessness and lust for power, cruelty and kindness coexist in the soul of the heroine. 3inaida can enjoy the suffering of others, finding compensation for her own pain in it, but she is almost instantly able to feel tenderness for her victim. The heroine can be cruel and from consciousness own strength(it is the desire to feel omnipotent that prompts her to torment her fans). However, it is not for nothing that this triumphant force is called playing: power over people for Zinaida is an end in itself and, in essence, disinterested. Therefore, the desire to rule and enslave is often mixed with cheerful carelessness and is always marked by a special grace that reconciles even with the most insidious whims of this extraordinary creature.
Zinaida is the first heroine of Turgenev, endowed with a sharp skeptical mind. The brighter is the charm of femininity inherent in her, surrounding the heroine with an aura of not only human, but also purely feminine exclusivity. Love breaks the whole habitual structure of her inner life. She bursts into the spiritual world of Zinaida as a fatal, elemental and formidable irrational force. The heroine of the story “First Love” by Turgenev feels that she is losing independence and the ability to rule over people so dear to her, she tries to resist passion, but passion still wins. The proud 3inaida endures humiliation and recklessly sacrifices herself. But this is no ordinary love-bondage situation; the goal of her victims is pleasure and happiness, sacrifices are inseparable from demands, and it turns out that in the depths of voluntary submission to a loved one lies a “fateful duel” of two strong natures.
The denouement brings an invasion of the love story of the rough and simple prose of life. The extreme tension of feeling, the catastrophic nature of its development coexist with the everyday life of an "illegal" love affair - with squabbles, quarrels, anonymous letters, family scandals, dubious monetary settlements, the need to somehow get out of a shameful "story" and hide its consequences, precisely in these trials tragic passion burns out. At the end of the story, the reader learns that Zinaida, having gone through the strongest mental upheavals, freed herself from the yoke of passion and successfully married. But Turgenev, apparently, cannot allow his heroine to enter into one of the usual life paths. The report of her sudden death interrupts the story about her.
Peter Vasilyevich (Father) - the father of the narrator. It is still young and very beautiful person strong-willed, bold, passionate, self-confident and despotic overbearing. The prototype was the father of the writer. A consistent egocentrist of the Pechorin type, he seeks in life pleasures and power over people, guided by the principle: “Take what you can yourself, but don’t give into your hands, belong to yourself - this is the whole thing of life.” In seeking the love of Zinaida, at first he seems to be fulfilling his life principle, subordinating her to his will. But in the future, something else becomes clear - the one who looks like a ruler, to whom sacrifices are made, in the end he himself turns out to be a victim of passion - acts as a humiliated petitioner, cries from the consciousness of his weakness and dies, bequeathing to his son: “Be afraid female love be afraid of this happiness, this poison...”.
Autobiographical works are special works, because they provide an opportunity to touch the personal life of the writer and his family. Such a work is Turgenev's story First Love, which we have to fulfill.
He wrote his work First Love at the age of forty-two, where, from the height of the decades he had lived, the writer could look back into the past and convey everything on a piece of paper.
Thanks to the work First Love and its analysis, we understand how different this first feeling can be. And most importantly, we observe how this feeling changes people who first encounter first love. On the example of the main character Volodya and his strong feelings, we follow their violent manifestations and how thoughts become beyond the control of the hero. When I first saw the beautiful girl Zina, it was no longer possible to think about preparing for university entrance and exams. Young blood is playing, fantasy is awakened.
Reading the chapters, we see how the mood of the characters changes, how their experiences change. Here Volodya is happy, but some anxiety is growing, and not just like that. The guy feels that Zinaida has a different life and she loves someone. And suddenly, Volodya's father turns out to be her chosen one. The girl has a deep feeling of love for Pyotr Vasilyevich, not like the romantic feeling of Volodya. This love is more serious and piercing. In the end, Volodya comes to the realization that it is precisely the feelings of Zina and her father that are the manifestation of true love, which, as it turned out, can be different.
The ending is not at all happy. Volodin's father died of a stroke, and Zina is married to another person, and four years after the wedding, she dies in childbirth. Volodya became a student, he wanted to meet Zina, but he turned around, and when he arrived at the address, Zina had already died.
The plot of the story is based on the principle of recollection, where the hero tells his friends about his first love. Many biographers who have studied Turgenev's biography claim that all of the above was in the life of the writer and his family. The heroes of the work are the prototype of the writer, his mother and father. And Zinaida was the prototype of the first and unrequited love of the writer Ekaterina Shakhovskaya.
1. Stories of guests about first love
2. Volodya is preparing for admission
3. Zasekin's neighbors at the dacha of Volodya's parents
4. Meeting with Zina and meeting the Zasekin family
5. Volodya at a dinner party at the Zasekins, meeting other cavaliers of Zina
6. Vova's conversation with his father
7. Zina is in love, but with whom?
8. Vova received an answer to a question. Zina is in love with his father
8. Vladimir's parents quarrel
10. Moving to the city, Vova sees the last meeting of his father in love and Zina
11. Father's death
12. Vova is a student. The news of the wedding of Zinaida
13. Vladimir wants to meet Zina. Zina's death
I.S. Turgenev had a huge influence not only on literature, but also on the perception of the world among his readers, it is not for nothing that the term "Turgenev's girl" tightly entered the speech of educated people and became common name for canonical female image in national culture. This author has created a wide variety of works, but they are united by deep poetry in every word. She is also imbued with his "First Love".
In 1844, I.S. Turgenev met French singer Pauline Viardot and fell in love. As it turned out, forever. They quarreled, reconciled, the writer followed his beloved everywhere. But this love was doomed, and at the same time selfless. It was this feeling that gave rise to a number of lyric-philosophical stories with a tragic love story, among which "First Love", published in 1860. In these works, feeling is a disease, striking a person and depriving him of will and reason.
The book was written in January-March 1860. At the core plot collision lay real story the writer's family: a love triangle between the young writer, his father and Princess Ekaterina Shakhovskaya. The author noticed that he had nothing to hide, and as for the condemnation of Turgenev's frankness by acquaintances, he did not care.
A story is a small prose work that has a single storyline, one conflict and reflecting a separate episode of the life of the characters. The story is an epic genre, standing between the novel and the short story in terms of volume, has a more complex and branched plot, and the conflict is a chain of episodes.
“First Love” can be called a story, since there are several main characters (in a story, most often one or two). The work depicts not a single episode, but a chain of events connected with the development of a love conflict. Also, the genre feature of the story can be called the fact that it is a story within a story. The narrator, who is also the main character, recalls episodes of his youth, so the introduction talks about the situation that led the narrator to memories: he talked with friends on the topic of first love, and his story turned out to be the most entertaining.
In the company of friends, the narrator recalls his youth, his first love. As a 16-year-old boy, Vladimir was fascinated by his neighbor in the country, 21-year-old Zinaida. The girl enjoyed the attention of young people, but did not take anyone seriously, but spent the evenings with them in fun and games. The heroine laughed at all admirers, including Vladimir, and did not take life seriously at all. But once…
Main character noticed a change in his beloved, it soon dawned on him: she fell in love! But who is the rival? The truth turned out to be terrible, this is the father of the protagonist, Pyotr Vasilyevich, who married his mother by calculation, treats both her and his son with disdain. Pyotr Vasilievich is not interested in the scandal, because love ends quickly. Soon he dies of a stroke, Zinaida marries and also dies in childbirth.
The description of the heroes of the story "First Love" is dramatic and in itself gives rise to a conflict of interest. In a family where there is no harmony, love was perceived by men as a means to forget, or to feel needed. However, in pursuit of personal happiness, they did not delve into the hidden depths of Zinaida's personality, and did not discern her essence. She poured out all the heat of her heart into an ice vessel and destroyed herself. Thus, the main characters of the work became victims of their own blindness, inspired by passion.
Moral problems are revealed in the work in several aspects. Firstly, does Zinaida's life deserve understanding, the crowd of admirers around her, with whom she plays like pawns? Secondly, can forbidden love, transgressing all moral norms, be happy? The plot development of events answers these questions in the negative: the main character is punished for her neglect of her admirers by the disregard of her beloved, and their relationship inevitably leads to a break. And indirectly led to the death of both. However, the reader sympathizes with Zinaida, she is full of a thirst for life, this causes involuntary sympathy. In addition, she is capable of a deep feeling that commands respect.
The problem of power in love is most fully expressed in the relationship between Zinaida and Pyotr Vasilyevich. The girl ruled over her past gentlemen and felt very cheerful. But true love came, and with it suffering. And even suffering from a loved one is sweet. And no power is needed. Pyotr Vasilyevich hit her with a whip, and she gently raised the reddened place to her lips, because this was a trace from him.
The main idea of the story is the all-consuming power of love. Whatever it is, happy or tragic, it is like a fever that suddenly seizes and does not let go, and if it goes away, it leaves devastation. Love is powerful and sometimes destructive, but this feeling is wonderful, you cannot live without it. You can only exist. The protagonist remembered his youthful emotions forever, his first love revealed to him the meaning and charm of being, even if distorted by suffering.
And the writer himself was unhappy in love, and his hero too, but even the most tragic passion is the best discovery in human life, because for the sake of those moments when you are in seventh heaven with happiness, it is worth enduring the bitterness of loss. In suffering, people are cleansed, revealing new facets of their souls. Taking into account the autobiographical nature of the story, we can say that the author, without his fatal and sad muse, as well as the pain caused by her, could not have penetrated so deeply into the essence of romantic relationships. The main idea of "First Love" would be far from him, and it is necessary to suffer and learn it on own experience, since only those who experienced it will write convincingly about the tragedy of love.
The moral lessons in Turgenev's story consist of several points:
"First Love" has been around for over 150 years. However, this work does not lose its relevance. How many people it was the first feelings that broke their hearts forever! But, nevertheless, everyone carefully keeps these emotions in the soul. And the beauty with which this book is written makes you re-read it many times.
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According to the story by I.S. Turgenev "First Love"
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev wrote the story "First Love". It's about two young
people in love. The main characters are Zinaida and Voldemar. In this story, I liked its good and touching title "First Love". By its name alone, it attracts young people.
The story is very rich in content. When I started reading, I didn’t even take my eyes off the book, I was so interested in all the moments.
Most of all I liked their beautiful and wonderful love. The brightest moment I remember in this story is their love at first sight, it just struck me. Now in our time there are very few people who fall in love at first sight. I was very sorry at the end of the story of the main characters who fought so hard for mutual love. And their love did not take place only because Zina was poor, and earlier the time was such that the rich married only the rich. Parents could not allow an unequal marriage. I believe that the most beautiful thing in the world is love.
Istomina Nadia, 9th grade.
Essay - review
based on the story by I.S. Turgenev "First Love"
I read Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's story "First Love", which I liked very much. This story tells about a boy who fell in love, but they were not destined to be together. Vladimir was 16 years old, and Zinaida was 4 years older than him, but, as they say: "All ages are submissive to love." After reading “First Love”, including other stories, I realized that in the time of great writers, love was real, strong, for the sake of love they threw everything, overcame various obstacles, just to be closer to their love. But the most important thing that struck me in this story is that the author himself experienced this story, and then wrote this work, in which he could tell everything about the experience, called "First Love"
Turgenev said that: "Love is experienced." "First Love" is one of my favorites.
Guselnikova Alena, 9th grade.
Essay - review
This story just blew me away. It is very surprising that first love really happens. And it is so unique and unforgettable. So many years have passed
and he still remembers her. This love was great, and in this love there was no equal. Unfortunately, they could not be together. Zinaida died, although, I think, their marriage with Voldemar would not have taken place anyway, because. the young man's parents would not have allowed this, because Zinaida was not rich.
Bobrovnikova A, 9th grade.
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I really liked the story "First Love". I read it with great pleasure. I pondered every meaning of these feelings conveyed by Turgenev, he was so able to convey his feelings, his sincerity in this story. I didn't just read, I ate the pages with my eyes, I couldn't part with the book until the last page. I was more and more fascinated by reading, well, what will happen next. You can't stop reading this story. Once you start reading it, you can't put it down. This wonderful writer, one might say, put his whole soul into this story.
I was very worried when I read the conclusion of the story. I was very sorry that Zinaida and Vladimir, the main characters, did not work out. Ah, if not for Vladimir's father, if not for his antics, they would have succeeded, I'm sure of it. I
I think they would make a wonderful, beautiful couple. Well, what can you do, because life is so complicated, and sometimes it is very difficult to fix something. In our time, I think, such stories are very necessary, because our young people really do not understand this yet, and such works will teach us how to act.
Baranova Nastya, 9th grade.
