The action begins with a symbolic picture: Peter the Great stands on the banks of the Neva and dreams that in a few years a new European city will rise here, that it will be the capital Russian Empire. A hundred years pass, and now this city - the creation of Peter - is a symbol of Russia. The summary of “The Bronze Horseman” allows you to find out the concise plot of the poem and helps you plunge into the atmosphere of the autumn city. It's November. A young man named Evgeniy is walking along the streets. He is a petty official who is afraid of noble people and embarrassed by his position. Evgeny walks and dreams of his prosperous life, he thinks that he misses his beloved girl Parasha, whom he has not seen for several days. This thought gives rise to calm dreams of family and happiness. The young man comes home and falls asleep to the “sound” of these thoughts. The next day brings terrible news: a terrible storm broke out in the city, and a severe flood claimed the lives of many people. Natural force did not spare anyone: the violent wind, the fierce Neva - all this frightened Evgeniy. He sits with his back to the “bronze idol”. This is a monument. He notices that on the opposite bank, where his beloved Parasha lived, there is nothing.
He rushes headlong there and discovers that the elements did not spare him, a poor petty official, he sees that yesterday’s dreams will not come true. Evgeniy, not understanding what he is doing, not understanding where his feet are leading, goes there, to his “bronze idol”. Bronze Horseman proudly rises on the It seems that here it is - steadfastness, but you can’t argue with nature... The young man blames Peter the Great for all his troubles, he even reproaches him for the fact that he built this city, erected it on the wild Neva. But then an insight occurs: the young man seems to wake up and look with fear at the Bronze Horseman. He runs, runs as fast as he can, no one knows where, no one knows why. He hears the clatter of hooves and the neighing of horses behind him, he turns around and sees that the “bronze idol” is rushing after him.
A summary of “The Bronze Horseman” - a story by A.S. Pushkin - helps to recognize the plot and evaluate the sequence of actions. Despite all the gloomy range of events described, this work is symbolic for the city on the Neva. It is not for nothing that the lines “Beauty, city of Petrov...” forever became the epigraph to the city. The work exalts Peter the Great and history, which poor Eugene could not come to terms with...
“On the shore of the desert waves” of the Neva Peter stands and thinks about the city that will be built here and which will become Russia’s window to Europe. A hundred years passed, and the city “from the darkness of the forests, from the swamps of blat / Ascended magnificently, proudly.” Peter's creation is beautiful, it is a triumph of harmony and light, replacing chaos and darkness.
November in St. Petersburg breathed cold, the Neva splashed and made noise. Late in the evening, a petty official named Evgeniy returns home to his closet in a poor district of St. Petersburg called Kolomna. Once upon a time his family was noble, but now even the memory of this has been erased, and Eugene himself shuns noble people. He lies down, but cannot fall asleep, distracted by thoughts about his situation, that the bridges have been removed from the rising river and that this will separate him for two or three days from his beloved, Parasha, who lives on the other bank. The thought of Parasha gives rise to dreams of marriage and a future happy and modest life in the family circle, with a loving and beloved wife and children. Finally, lulled by sweet thoughts, Evgeniy falls asleep.
“The darkness of the stormy night is thinning / And the pale day is already coming...” The coming day brings terrible misfortune. The Neva, unable to overcome the force of the wind that blocked its path into the bay, surged into the city and flooded it. The weather became more and more ferocious, and soon the whole of St. Petersburg was under water. The raging waves behave like soldiers of an enemy army that has taken the city by storm. The people see God's wrath in this and await execution. The Tsar, who ruled Russia that year, goes out onto the balcony of the palace and says that “Tsars cannot cope with God’s elements.”
At this time, on Petrovaya Square, riding on a marble statue of a lion at the porch of a new luxurious house, Evgeniy sits motionless, not feeling how the wind tore off his hat, how the rising water wets his soles, how the rain whips in his face. He looks at the opposite bank of the Neva, where his beloved and her mother live in their poor house very close to the water. As if bewitched by gloomy thoughts, Eugene cannot move from his place, and with his back to him, towering above the elements, “an idol on a bronze horse stands with his outstretched hand.”
But finally the Neva entered the banks, the water subsided, and Evgeny, heartbroken, hurries to the river, finds the boatman and crosses to the other bank. He runs down the street and cannot recognize familiar places. Everything was destroyed by the flood, everything around looked like a battlefield, bodies were lying around. Evgeniy hurries to where the familiar house stood, but does not find it. He sees a willow tree growing near the gate, but there is no gate itself. Unable to bear the shock, Eugene burst into laughter, losing his mind.
The new day rising over St. Petersburg no longer finds traces of the previous destruction, everything is put in order, the city has begun to live its usual life. Only Eugene could not resist the shocks. He wanders around the city, full of gloomy thoughts, and the sound of a storm is constantly heard in his ears. So he spends a week, a month wandering, wandering, eating alms, sleeping on the pier. Angry children throw stones after him, and the coachman lashes with whips, but he seems not to notice any of this. He's still stunned internal alarm. One day, closer to autumn, in inclement weather, Evgeniy wakes up and vividly remembers last year's horror. He gets up, wanders hastily and suddenly sees a house, in front of the porch of which there are marble sculptures of lions with raised paws, and “above the fenced rock” a rider sits on a bronze horse with his arm outstretched. Eugene’s thoughts suddenly become clearer, he recognizes this place and the one “by whose fatal will / The city was founded under the sea...”. Eugene walks around the foot of the monument, looking wildly at the statue, he feels extraordinary excitement and anger and in anger threatens the monument, but suddenly it seemed to him that the face of the formidable king was turning to him, and anger sparkled in his eyes, and Eugene rushes away, hearing behind a heavy clatter of copper hooves. And all night the unfortunate man rushes around the city and it seems to him that the horseman with a heavy stomp is galloping after him everywhere. And from that time on, if he happened to walk across the square where the statue stood, he embarrassedly took off his cap in front of it and pressed his hand to his heart, as if asking for forgiveness from the formidable idol.
On the seashore you can see a small deserted island where fishermen sometimes land. The flood brought an empty, dilapidated house here, at the threshold of which they found the corpse of poor Eugene and immediately “buried it for God’s sake.”
We bring to your attention summary Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman".
Peter stands on the banks of the Neva and, looking at the dark, swampy lands around, at the miserable black huts scattered across them, decides to found a city on this place, which will mark the beginning new era in Russia. A hundred years passed, and the city on the banks of the Neva grew, was built up with magnificent buildings, and acquired piers and ships. Moscow pales next to the beauties of St. Petersburg; everyone flocks to this city. But the story will be about one of the sad pages of the history of St. Petersburg (note - as Pushkin himself notes in the preface to the story, this flood really took place).
It's cold November, and the Neva is noisy and more agitated than ever. The main character, poor official Evgeniy, returns home and thinks that because of bad weather, bridges are being removed from the Neva - which means he won’t be able to see his beloved girl Parasha for two or three days. Trying unsuccessfully to fall asleep, Evgeniy begins to think about marriage. Why not? He earns a little, but at first it will be enough for the two of them to live - and then, you see, good place he will receive it in the service, and the children will appear... with these thoughts the hero falls asleep.
At night, the raging Neva overflows its banks, washing away streets, courtyards, and houses in waves. Concerned people crowd over the river, the autocrat of Russia throws up his hands: the tsars cannot control the elements. Eugene, having climbed onto the back of a marble lion, looks at only one point - to where Parasha and his widow-mother live (as luck would have it, right on the shore!). He does not notice how the water, rising, touches his feet, how the wind tears his hat off - he only waits with horror and impatience for the moment when he can cross to the other side. And in front, with its back turned to him, stands a huge statue of Peter on horseback, stretching out his hand to the waves.
Soon the Neva calms down and the water leaves its banks. Eugene finds a boatman, who takes him across the still troubled waters. Evgeny rushes to his beloved’s house, but instead finds destruction. Unable to cope with the shock, Evgeny laughs madly and loses his mind.
After some time, not a trace remains of the flood - everything has been restored, the Neva is calm, people live as before. But main character he was never able to recover from grief - he does not return to his apartment and wanders around the city, eating alms, falling asleep right on the street and not paying attention to the evil boys throwing stones at him. He lives like this for a year, and at the beginning of the next autumn, alarmed by the inclement autumn weather, he suddenly remembers the terrible events that happened a year ago. The hero wanders to the very place from where he tried to see Parasha’s house, and finds himself at the statue of Peter. Eugene’s crazy mind connects the monument with flood and destruction, and he mutters threats towards it in an angry whisper. But suddenly it seems to him that copper Peter is looking straight into his eyes, and runs away in horror. All night he tries to hide from the bronze horseman - he still imagines the heavy clatter of hooves behind him. From that time on, Evgeniy, passing by the monument, each time takes off his cap from his head, as if apologizing to Peter, and cannot raise his embarrassed eyes at him.
Peter proudly stands on the banks of the Neva and reflects on the majestic city that he wants to build in order to become one step closer to Europe. After a hundred years, a beautiful, mighty city was built in a deserted place. Solemnly elevated, he replaced the darkness and chaos of this ruined place.
It was November, it was quite cold, and the beautiful Neva River was still playing with its waves. Evgeniy, a minor official, returns home very late in the evening; a quiet closet awaited him, far from the richest district of St. Petersburg, called Kolomna. His family was once rich and noble, but no one remembers this, and he, in turn, long ago stopped communicating with the nobility.
Evgeniy is nervously tossing around and cannot fall asleep; he is very worried about the situation in society and the fact that, due to the opening of bridges, he cannot see his beloved, whose name is Parasha, for several days, since she lives on the other side of the river. He goes into dreams of a wedding, about children, oh happy life And loving family, where he will be loved and valued and where peace will come. And with this he falls asleep in his beautiful dreams...
The new day did not bring anything good. The river, raged by the wind, flooded the entire city. The waves, similar to an army that captured everything in its path, washed away houses, people, trees and everything that came in their way. People say that this is God's punishment and even the king resigns himself to his fate, and accepts that he is weak before the Lord and he is not in the power to change anything.
On Peter's Square, high up, Eugene is sitting on a marble lion; he has long ceased to feel anything, and meanwhile the wind tears his hat off and quickly rising streams of water tickle the soles of his shoes. It rains cats and dogs. Evgeny examines the other side of the river, because there she lives, very close to the water, the most beautiful and beloved woman. He is so absorbed in his thoughts that he does not see what is happening next to him at all.
And now the Neva enters its banks again, the raging water subsides. He runs to the river and negotiates a crossing to the other bank with a boatman sitting on the bank. After the crossing, he does not recognize the places he visited very often, everything was destroyed by the elements, fallen trees, demolished houses, dead people everywhere - this terrifies him. He quickly approaches the house where his beloved lives, but does not find it.
The new day gives all residents peace of mind, all the destruction is slowly being put in order, and only Evgeniy cannot come to terms with it. He wanders around the city, in deep thought, and yesterday's storm is still in his eyes. And so he wanders month after month, living on what, as they say, “God will provide.”
Evgeniy absolutely does not notice anything happening around him, neither the children throwing stones at him, nor the coachmen whipping him with whips. Lonely at night, in his dream, he again finds himself in that terrifying day. He wakes up and begins to nervously wander around the city, suddenly he notices a house in front of which those same lions stand. Evgeny circles around the monument and begins to feel very excited. Anger overwhelms him, but suddenly he notices that the face of the formidable king is trying to turn to him, and runs away from him in horror.
He hides all night in all the courtyards and basements of the city, since it still seems to him that the clatter of hooves is looking for him. And in the future, when he passed this monument several times, he took off his cap and, pressing his hand to his heart, asked for forgiveness for his thoughts, for the anger that he felt then.
Not far away there was an empty, long-dilapidated house, and it was at its threshold that the dead, lifeless body of the poor official Eugene was found.
A short retelling of “The Bronze Horseman” in abbreviation was prepared by Oleg Nikov for the reader’s diary.
Peter the Great- an extraordinary ruler, a genius of his time, who managed to bring his original plan into reality: to expand the borders, strengthen the fleet and build a new capital in an area that no one else would dare to dream of. In the poem he appears in two images: alive and dreaming, and as a monument preserving the image of a powerful king.
Evgeniy- a young man, poor military man by status, who dreamed of a good life with his beloved girl. Because of the tragedy that happened, he lost his mind.
The poem “The Bronze Horseman” is majestic and tragic. After the solemn dithyramb in honor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin shows the other side of this splendor - the cost of sacrifices made and hidden under the waters of the Neva and history. And yet, the masterpiece created by Peter’s mighty mind forces one to humble oneself and accept as a given that beauty and greatness require sacrifice.
Introduction. Ode
“Nature here destined us to cut a window into Europe.”
A. S. Pushkin begins his poem with a dream. From the dream of the Great Russian Emperor, who became for Russia a symbol of change and the revival of greatness. Standing on the banks of the Neva, seeing only a deserted, swampy bank and a dark forest, Peter saw a dream, new city V new empire. The foundation of the new capital will be laid on grandiose victories over the Swedes and over northern nature. WITH last fight will not be easy and long-lasting, but still the dream of Great Peter will be stronger. “Window to Europe” - this is what St. Petersburg will be called when the Tsar expands the borders of Russia, strengthening its power navy.
“I love you, Peter’s creation, I love your strict, slender appearance, the Neva’s sovereign current, its coastal granite.”
Yes, beautiful Petersburg was entirely the creation of Peter, his plan, his brainchild. A hundred years passed, and with its beauty, bridges, gardens, palaces it eclipsed its sister Moscow, becoming the capital. Pushkin says that the evening view of the city and deserted streets inspires him to write, compose, gives rise to memories in him have fun days and pride in the triumph and steadfastness of Russia.
An ode to the city is just an introduction to the main story. The author warns that his story will be sad.
Part one. Flood.
Petrograd is darkened by November bad weather. It was stormy and the Neva was restless. Against the backdrop of these bad weather, Evgeny appears - a young man and the main character. Evgeny is a military man, he serves. And that evening, along with bad weather, he is besieged by unrest. What was he thinking about? He was poor, it was difficult for him to obtain both “independence and honor.” The young man also thought that there are people who are luckier in life. Then his thoughts flow into a more pleasant channel of matters of the heart: his beloved girl Parasha, marriage, his home, children - he falls asleep to these sweet thoughts and the sounds of rain.
The night storm intensified, the willful Neva overflowed its banks and with its uncontrollable flow it drowned and penetrated into every house, taking away the property of the rich and the belongings of the poor.
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The Russian Tsar is watching the unfolding disaster. He is sad and embarrassed, following the scale of the disaster and already foreseeing its consequences. His generals are already in action, saving everything they can. Evgeny is stunned, fear has paralyzed him, there is water and debris around him, and somewhere there is a dilapidated house and his Parasha.
Part two. Madness
The author compares the departure of the water with the return of robbers with stolen loot. Her “voices” have not yet died down, and our Eugene is already rushing to the other side. In this he is helped by the carrier, who fearlessly fights the stormy waves, rowing, relying on his experience.
All around Evgeniy sees terrible destruction.
“Everything is piled up in front of him;
What has been dropped, what has been demolished;
The houses were crooked, others
Completely collapsed, others
Shifted by waves; all around
As if in a battlefield,
Bodies are lying around."
What he sees ahead is like a “sealed letter” that he wants to open as soon as possible and at the same time the unknown frightens him. Only one willow... a witness to the terrible tragedy told Evgeniy, distraught with grief, about how he lost his Parasha.
"...Morning ray
Because of the tired, pale clouds
Flashed over the quiet capital
And I haven’t found any traces
Yesterday's troubles; purple
The evil was already covered up.
Everything returned to the same order.
The streets are already free
With your cold insensibility
There were people walking around."
And only Evgeniy could not return to old life. In his confused mind the storm continues to howl and the water boils. He became a vagabond, an eternal wanderer. He slept on the pavement and ate alms. Eugene became the ghost of that storm, that bad weather that overnight destroyed his life. Wandering unconscious through the streets of St. Petersburg, he returns to where disaster overtook him. Two bronze lions and he is a monument to the creator of this harsh northern city - the Bronze Horseman.
For a moment, everything becomes clear in his mind, he remembers that day and the storm, and the flood, and the Bronze Horseman with his outstretched hand. Once again, wild fantastic pictures cloud his mind. He's to blame for everything Great Peter...he even threatens him. But even in his crazy visions, the autocrat remains a formidable ruler, and the ghost of the Bronze Horseman haunts the poor fellow everywhere. One day he will overtake him, the one who dared to doubt the greatness of the plan and treat his brainchild with contempt.
“The house is dilapidated.
Above the water
He remained like a black bush.
His last spring
They brought me on a barge. It was empty
And everything is destroyed. At the threshold
They found my madman,
And then his cold corpse
Buried for God's sake."
Analysis of the work: who is to blame?
The image of Evgeny is complex and contradictory, although it can be understood, because the main character lost his beloved girl, Parasha. In his enormous misfortune, he is looking for someone to blame - and gradually the image of Peter the Great emerges in his inflamed consciousness, whose sculpture disturbs the gaze of the sufferer. Alas, little by little Evgeniy is losing his mind. He wants to hide from the imaginary pursuit of the Bronze Horseman, and, in the end, the young man dies. Alas, he could not come to terms with his difficult fate, with the loss of his beloved. But who is to blame for this? Is it really the king? No! Or is it the unreasonableness of Evgeny himself, who allowed despair to take over him so much? A thoughtful reader will be able to answer these questions himself and not judge strictly the main character of the poem, who has suffered such severe grief.
