First date between Asya and N. “The scene of the meeting between Mr. N. and Asya in the story by I.S. Turgenev “Asya” (episode analysis). How does the hero’s state of mind change?

The dynamic development of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” brings us to the scene of the heroine’s meeting with Mr. N. N. The meeting scene is an image of Turgenev’s psychologism. According to the writer, “the poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he must know and feel the roots of phenomena, but represents only the phenomena themselves - in their blossoming and fading.”

Like Pushkin's Tatiana, Asya herself makes the appointment. Like Tatyana, she is the first to confess her love to her chosen one. The spiritual world of Pushkin’s heroine and Asya coincide: “And I would like to be Tatyana...”. In the story we see many more references that connect Turgenev’s story with Pushkin’s novel. Slightly changing the lines from “Eugene Onegin,” Asya reads: “Where is the cross and the shadow of the branches above my poor mother today!”

Asya is the personification of a typically Russian female character. For Asya, Mr. N. is a hero of a lofty dream, an unusual, exceptional person. The adult and reasonable Gagin, her brother, remarks with surprise, turning to Mr. N.: “You are a very sweet person... but why she fell in love with you so much, I confess, I don’t understand.”

Asya is a girl with a pure and sincere heart, “her feelings are never half-hearted.” According to Gagin, Asya’s feeling for Mr. N.N. is “unexpected and as irresistible as a thunderstorm.” Her feeling is free, it is difficult to restrain it: “If you and I were birds, how we would soar, how we would fly...”

The meeting between N.N. and Asya takes place in a small, rather dark room, in the house of the burgomaster’s widow, Frau Louise. In this scene, the psychological incompatibility of N.N. and Asya is most clearly visible. The heroine's laconic remarks speak of her timidity, bashfulness and submission to fate. Her words are barely audible in the darkness of the room.

Mr. N.N., on the contrary, showing initiative in dialogue, is verbose; he hides his unpreparedness for reciprocal feelings, his inability to surrender to love behind reproaches and loud exclamations.

A reciprocal feeling, either by chance or by the fateful predetermination of fate, ignites in our hero later, but nothing can be changed. N.N. himself admits this: “When I met her in that fateful room, I did not yet have a clear consciousness of my love... it flared up with uncontrollable force only a few moments later, when, frightened by the possibility of misfortune, I became look for her and call her... but then it was already too late.”

The date scene, in which we meet the main character of the story for the last time, finally clarifies how complex and contradictory Asya’s character is. In the short time of the meeting, she experiences a whole range of feelings - timidity, a flash of happiness, complete dedication (“Yours ... - she whispered barely audibly”), shame and despair. We understand how strong she is in character, that she was able to stop the painful scene herself and, having overcome her weakness, “with the speed of lightning” disappeared, leaving Mr. N.N. in complete confusion.

According to the critic Yu. Lebedev, it is not the moral inferiority of Turgenev’s hero that is to blame, but the “wayward power of love”: a feeling for Asya flared up in the hero’s soul a few moments after the date, love was late - “happiness turned out to be unattainable, and life was broken”

A strange love story.“...I liked her soul,” notes N. after several days of meeting Asya. But this sympathy is not unconditional. N. finds it difficult to get used to the endless metamorphoses of the girl’s behavior. Sometimes he is indignant - “what kind of childish prank?”, sometimes he calls a new acquaintance “a capricious girl with a forced laugh.” And this is not just the irritation of an adult observing the whim of a child. Outwardly free, Mr. N. was accustomed to obeying the laws of the world. Like the “prim Englishmen” he met on a walk, who “as if on command, followed Asya with cold amazement with their glass eyes...”, he is shocked by the girl’s too free behavior.

Asya has to take the first step herself. She, like Tatyana, sends the young man a note inviting him on a date. Pushkin had to defend his heroine:

Why is Tatyana more guilty? Is it because in sweet simplicity She knows no deception And believes in her chosen dream? Is it because she loves without art, Obedient to the attraction of feeling, That she is so trusting, That she is gifted from heaven with a rebellious Imagination, A living mind and will, And a wayward head, And a fiery and tender heart?

These lines, written about Tatyana, characterize Asya as well as possible.

Two men, a brother and a lover, stop in confusion before a “fiery and tender heart.” They may be superior to Asya in “prudence,” but they are immeasurably inferior in vitality and uncompromisingness. Gagin laments in the tone of an old nanny: “...She’s crazy and will drive me crazy.” Mr. N. “sat down and thought” after receiving the note. His confusion is reinforced by Gagin’s direct, sincere question: “Maybe... who knows? “Do you like my sister?” “Yes, I like her,” N finally answers. But something in the tone of his voice makes Gagin say with conviction: “But we’re leaving tomorrow after all.”<…>, because you won’t marry Asa.” And he repeats with confidence: “Don’t get married.”

Turgenev inserts a symbolic episode into the plot development of the story. N. decided to wait for the time of the meeting in a small tavern. “A pretty maid with tear-stained eyes brought me a mug of beer; I looked into her face... “Yes, yes,” said a fat and red-cheeked citizen who was sitting right there, “Our Gankhen is very upset today: her fiancé has become a soldier.”<…>.” She pressed herself into the corner and rested her cheek on her hand; tears dripped one after another down her fingers..."

Gankhen... This is an affectionately diminutive form of the name “Anna” in German, like Asya in Russian. Thus, a double of the girl in love appears before us. But what can misfortune bring to Asya? There are no objective reasons, like the unfortunate German maid who is forced to come to terms with the fact that her fiancé is being recruited as a soldier. Asya and N. are both free, there are no external obstacles. Gagin himself offered his sister’s hand to his friend.

As if sensing silent condemnation, Asya moves the date to a more “decent” place, to the house of the old German woman Louise. We remember that the poetic vision of a young girl in an old woman’s house gave the writer the first impetus for the story. “The wrinkled face of the burgomaster’s widow” with a “sweetly sly smile” and “dull eyes” resembles a witch who is hiding a young princess behind bars. The hero must break the evil spell and free his beloved. He finds Asya hiding in the upper room. Her pose evokes a poetic comparison with a frightened bird. Direct feeling is best expressed in a glance. Now N. focuses on her eyes: “Oh, the look of a woman who has fallen in love - who can describe you? They begged, these eyes, they trusted, questioned, surrendered... I could not resist their charm.”

The impulse of immediate response did not last long. Like Onegin, the young man begins to read instructions to her. Asya has to justify herself in a “frightened whisper.” “The thought that now everything is lost, everything, everything<…>“that Gagin knows about our date, that everything is distorted, discovered - that’s how it rang in my head,” - this is how N. explains his condition. He clearly forgot that he himself considered it necessary to tell her brother about the fateful note with the invitation.

The meeting also reveals the difference between the two heroines, Pushkin’s and Turgenev’s. Like Tatyana Larina, Asya “became ashamed and scared” every minute. Subsequently, Tatiana the Princess’s “blood runs cold / As soon as I remember the cold look / And this sermon...” And yet “through tears, seeing nothing / Barely breathing, without objection, / Tatiana listened to him ( Onegin)". “So humbly / I listened to your lesson...” she reminds Evgeniy. On the contrary, Asya cannot endure such humiliation for even a minute. As soon as she realized that her love was rejected, Turgenev’s heroine quickly runs away. Disappears - to the great surprise of the simple-minded German woman, who did not expect (like us, by the way) such a development of events. The “Witch” suddenly turns into a kind-hearted, confused old woman.

Well, is the hero a “knight”? In fact, what motivated Mr. N.? Does N. seriously share secular prejudices regarding the girl’s “illegal” origin? And Turgenev descends into the very depths of his soul. There is rarely one reason for human actions. We are driven by a complex, contradictory tangle of high and low impulses. Perhaps the hero’s behavior was influenced by the already noted fear of the strength of Asya’s character. “To marry a seventeen-year-old girl with her temperament, how is that possible!” - N. thought, just getting ready to go on a date.

He was partly embarrassed by the intrusion of a stranger into the maturing world of love. Gagin's attempts, albeit delicate, to become a mediator between his friend and sister. To achieve a categorical answer in the sphere of feelings means to touch upon the elusive movements of the heart. The writer never allowed himself this, even on the pages of a novel, when communicating with fictional characters.

Turgenev the heart specialist goes further. He reports that love, like everything else in the world, also has an age. The young man’s feeling is somewhat “younger”; it is delayed in comparison with the decisive rhythm of Asya’s love. Not for long - just a few hours. But this is enough for a fatal outcome. “When I met her in that fateful room,” N. explains, “I still did not have a clear consciousness of my love.” The hero tries to comprehend the bizarre logic of the development of feeling: “It<…>flared up with uncontrollable force only a few moments later, when, frightened by the possibility of misfortune, I began to look for and call her... but then it was too late.”

As if taking pity, fate gives Mr. N. one last chance. Having set out with his brother on a search, he did not find the girl. I just caught a glimpse of a figure flashing by the cross (You can imagine with what fervor Asya prayed there, remembering the “cross” over her mother’s grave!). Upon returning, N. finds out that Asya came home late at night. She is here, in this house. But the power of decency again dominates him: “I wanted to tell Gagin then that I was asking for his sister’s hand. But such matchmaking at such a time<…>. “See you tomorrow,” I thought...” The matured hero accompanies these words with a bitter comment: “Happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has a present - and that’s not a day - but a moment.”

The next day N. finds out that Asya and her brother have left. In Asya's farewell note, the hero finds confirmation of his guesses. Only he is to blame for the inglorious end of their relationship: “Yesterday, when I cried in front of you, if you had said one word to me, just one word, I would have stayed. You didn’t say it...” “Apparently, it’s better this way.”<…>. Goodbye forever! - the innocent and bitterly offended girl ends her letter. In her humility there is great strength of spirit.

Almost every famous Russian classic in his work turned to such a literary genre as a story; its main characteristics are an average volume between a novel and a short story, one developed plot line, a small number of characters. The famous prose writer of the 19th century, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, turned to this genre more than once throughout his literary career.

One of his most famous works, written in the genre of love lyrics, is the story “Asya”, which is also often classified as an elegiac genre of literature. Here readers find not only beautiful landscape sketches and a subtle, poetic description of feelings, but also some lyrical motifs that smoothly turn into plot ones. Even during the writer’s lifetime, the story was translated and published in many European countries and enjoyed great popularity among readers both in Russia and abroad.

History of writing

Turgenev began writing the story “Asya” in July 1857 in Germany, in the city of Sinzeg on the Rhine, where the events described in the book take place. Having finished the book in November of the same year (the writing of the story was a little delayed due to the author’s illness and overwork), Turgenev sent the work to the editors of the Russian magazine Sovremennik, in which it had long been awaited and published at the beginning of 1858.

According to Turgenev himself, he was inspired to write the story by a fleeting picture he saw in Germany: an elderly woman looks out from the window of a house on the first floor, and the silhouette of a young girl can be seen in the window of the second floor. The writer, thinking about what he saw, comes up with a possible fate for these people and thus creates the story “Asya”.

According to many literary critics, this story was of a personal nature for the author, since it was based on some events that took place in Turgenev’s real life, and the images of the main characters have a clear connection both with the author himself and with his immediate environment (prototype for Asya could be the fate of his illegitimate daughter Polina Brewer or his half-sister V.N. Zhitova, also born out of wedlock, Mr. N.N., on whose behalf the story is told in “Asa”, has character traits and a similar fate with the author himself) .

Analysis of the work

Plot development

The description of the events that took place in the story is written on behalf of a certain N.N., whose name the author leaves unknown. The narrator recalls his youth and his stay in Germany, where on the banks of the Rhine he meets his compatriot from Russia Gagin and his sister Anna, whom he takes care of and calls Asya. The young girl, with her eccentric actions, constantly changing disposition and amazing attractive appearance, impresses N.N. is very impressed and he wants to know as much as possible about her.

Gagin tells him the difficult fate of Asya: she is his illegitimate half-sister, born from his father’s relationship with the maid. After the death of her mother, her father took thirteen-year-old Asya to his place and raised her as befits a young lady from a good society. After the death of her father, Gagin becomes her guardian, first sends her to a boarding house, then they go to live abroad. Now N.N., knowing the unclear social status of the girl who was born to a serf mother and a landowner father, understands what caused Asya’s nervous tension and her slightly eccentric behavior. He feels deeply sorry for the unfortunate Asya, and he begins to experience tender feelings for the girl.

Asya, like Pushkin’s Tatyana, writes a letter to Mr. N.N. asking for a date, he, unsure of his feelings, hesitates and makes a promise to Gagin not to accept his sister’s love, because he is afraid to marry her. The meeting between Asya and the narrator is chaotic, Mr. N.N. reproaches her for confessing her feelings for him to her brother and now they cannot be together. Asya runs away in confusion, N.N. realizes that he really loves the girl and wants to return her, but cannot find her. The next day, having come to the Gagins' house with the firm intention of asking for the girl's hand in marriage, he learns that Gagin and Asya have left the city, he tries to find them, but all his efforts are in vain. Never again in his life N.N. does not meet Asya and her brother, and at the end of his life's journey he realizes that although he had other hobbies, he truly loved only Asya and he still keeps the dried flower that she once gave him.

Main characters

The main character of the story, Anna, whom her brother calls Asya, is a young girl with an unusual attractive appearance (a thin boyish figure, short curly hair, wide-open eyes bordered by long and fluffy eyelashes), a spontaneous and noble character, distinguished by an ardent temperament and a difficult, tragic fate. Born from an extramarital affair between a maid and a landowner, and raised by her mother in severity and obedience, after her death she cannot get used to her new role as a lady for a long time. She perfectly understands her false position, therefore she does not know how to behave in society, she is shy and shy of everyone, and at the same time she proudly wants no one to pay attention to her origin. Left early alone without parental attention and left to her own devices, Asya begins to think about the contradictions in life that surround her.

The main character of the story, like other female characters in Turgenev’s works, is distinguished by amazing purity of soul, morality, sincerity and openness of feelings, a craving for strong feelings and experiences, a desire to perform feats and great deeds for the benefit of people. It is on the pages of this story that the concept of Turgenev’s young lady and Turgenev’s feeling of love, common to all heroines, appears, which for the author is akin to a revolution invading the lives of the heroes, testing their feelings for perseverance and ability to survive in difficult living conditions.

Mr. N.N.

The main male character and narrator of the story, Mr. N.N., has the features of a new literary type, which in Turgenev replaced the “extra people” type. This hero completely lacks the typical “superfluous person” conflict with the outside world. He is an absolutely calm and prosperous person with a balanced and harmonious self-organization, easily susceptible to vivid impressions and feelings, all his experiences are simple and natural, without falsehood or pretense. In his love experiences, this hero strives for mental balance, which would be intertwined with their aesthetic completeness.

After meeting Asya, his love becomes more intense and contradictory; at the last moment, the hero cannot fully surrender to his feelings, because they are overshadowed by the disclosure of the secrets of his feelings. Later, he cannot immediately tell Asya’s brother that he is ready to marry her, because he does not want to disturb his overwhelming feeling of happiness, and also fearing future changes and the responsibility that he will have to take for someone else’s life. All this leads to a tragic outcome: after his betrayal, he loses Asya forever and it is too late to correct the mistakes he made. He has lost his love, rejected the future and the very life he could have had, and pays for it throughout his entire joyless and loveless existence.

Features of compositional construction

The genre of this work refers to an elegiac story, the basis of which is a description of love experiences and melancholic reflections on the meaning of life, regret about unfulfilled dreams and sadness about the future. The work is based on a beautiful love story that ended in tragic separation. The composition of the story is built according to the classical model: the beginning of the plot is a meeting with the Gagin family, the development of the plot is the rapprochement of the main characters, the emergence of love, the climax is a conversation between Gagin and N.N. about Asya’s feelings, denouement - a date with Asya, explanation of the main characters, the Gagin family leaves Germany, epilogue - Mr. N.N. reflects on the past, regrets unfulfilled love. The highlight of this work is Turgenev’s use of the ancient literary device of plot framing, when a narrator is introduced into the narrative and the motivation for his actions is given. Thus, the reader receives a “story within a story” designed to enhance the meaning of the story being told.

In his critical article “Russian Man at a Rendezvous,” Chernyshevsky sharply condemns the indecision and petty timid egoism of Mr. N.N., whose image is slightly softened by the author in the epilogue of the work. Chernyshevsky, on the contrary, without choosing expressions, sharply condemns the act of Mr. N.N. and pronounces his verdict on those who are the same as him. The story “Asya”, thanks to the depth of its content, has become a real pearl in the literary heritage of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The great writer, like no one else, was able to convey his philosophical reflections and thoughts about the destinies of people, about that time in the life of every person when his actions and words can forever change it for the better or for the worse.

Composition

Let us first determine the compositional and substantive significance of this episode, in which a decisive explanation of the characters takes place, their relationships are finally clarified, moreover, the behavior of Mr. N.N. in the meeting scene, it influences both Asya’s fate and his own fate. Having parted with Asya after an unsuccessful explanation, Mr. N.N. does not yet know what awaits him in the future “the loneliness of a familyless little guy”, he hopes for “tomorrow’s happiness”, not knowing that “happiness has no tomorrow... it has a present - and that’s not a day, but a moment " The date scene is prepared by all the previous dynamic plot development of the story: the random acquaintance of the characters, their meetings and conversations. The date is arranged by Asya herself, acting in this case like Pushkin’s Tatyana - like her, being the first to confess her love to the chosen one of her heart. The text of the story contains many reminiscences (mentions) connecting Turgenev’s story with Pushkin’s novel. They are most noticeable in the scene of Asya reading a slightly modified line from Eugene Onegin:

Where is the cross and the canopy of branches today?

Over my poor mother! – she said in a low voice.

Having fallen in love with Mr. N.N., Asya sees in him an unusual, exceptional person, the hero of her lofty dreams, while her half-brother Gagin, a more mature and sensible man, remarks with surprise: “You are a very nice person, but why she I fell in love with you so much - I admit, I don’t understand this.”

Asya's feeling for Mr. N.N. deep and irresistible, it is “unexpected and as irresistible as a thunderstorm,” according to Gagin. Let's pay attention to the artistic space of the episode. Meeting Mr. N.N. and Asi takes place in a small, rather dark room, in the house of the burgomaster's widow, Frau Louise.

The closedness and seclusion of the space in which the meeting scene takes place emphasizes Asya’s secrecy and the depth of her feelings for Mr. N.N. Most of the characters' other encounters take place in open natural spaces. Detailed descriptions of natural objects - mountains, valleys, powerful river flows - symbolize the free, unrestrained development of the heroine’s feelings.

It is no coincidence that at the moment of awakening the feeling of love, Asya imagines that she is flying, that she has grown wings. What is the psychological state of the characters participating in the analyzed fragment?

The meeting scene most clearly reflects the psychological contradiction, the discrepancy between the psychological rhythms of Mr. N.N. and Asi. The fullness of feeling experienced by Asya, her timidity, bashfulness and submission to fate are embodied in her laconic remarks, barely audible in the silence of the dark room. On the contrary, Mr. N.N., who takes the initiative in the dialogue, is verbose; he seems to be trying to hide behind reproaches and loud exclamations his unpreparedness for reciprocal feelings, his inability to surrender to love, which so slowly matures in his contemplative nature. Love Mr. N.N. to Asa, obeying the whimsical play of chance or the fatal predetermination of fate, will flare up later, when nothing can be corrected.

The hero himself admits this: “When I met her in that fateful room, I did not yet have a clear consciousness of my love... it flared up with uncontrollable force only a few moments later, when, frightened by the possibility of misfortune, I began to look for and call her ... but then it was too late.” In conclusion, let us summarize the results of our analysis. The date scene, in which the reader meets the title character of the story for the last time, finally clarifies the complex, contradictory character of the heroine.

Having experienced a whole range of feelings in the short time of their meeting - from timidity, an instant flash of happiness and complete dedication (“Yours...” she whispered barely audibly”) to shame and despair, Asya finds the strength to end the painful scene herself and, having conquered her weakness , “with the speed of lightning” disappears, leaving Mr. N.N. in complete confusion.

Other works on this work

Lesson based on the story by I.S. Turgenev "Asya"

Subject: “And happiness was so possible...” based on the story by I.S. Turgenev "Asya"

Type: generalization and systematization of the studied material

Equipment: computer presentation, board decorated in the form of a window, task cards, geranium flower. Dried geranium branch, musical accompaniment (L. Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata”, romance “Foggy Morning”).

Goals:

Generalization of information about the characters, issues and artistic means used by the author in the story “Asya”;

Improving expressive reading skills;

Developing the ability to give a reasoned answer to a question;

Development of the ability to analyze an episode, lexical means, compare, generalize, and compile a table.

Progress of the lesson.

Organizational moment.

Teacher's opening speech.

You have read the wonderful story by I.S. Turgenev's "Asya", felt its extraordinary beauty and subtle lyricism, talked about the heroes, their characters and destinies, about the complexity of human relationships.

Today I would like you and I to take another look together with I.S. Turgenev and his heroes to the world, tried to understand, or maybe just touch, very complex and at the same time important issues - issues of love and happiness.

Just imagine. That maybe this is exactly the window (board) from which Asya looked out, laughing. Teasing Mr. N. By the way, why do you think there are geraniums on the windowsill?

Answer

It was a branch of geranium that Asya’s mischievous palm threw to Mr. N. at the beginning of their acquaintance. If the hero managed to catch her, perhaps. She would become for him a kind of pass to a happy life.

But here we also see a dried geranium branch and several yellowed notes. Why?

Answer

Between a blooming geranium and a withered branch - a love story. And today we will talk to you about how this love was born, how it developed, why did not it bring happiness to the heroes? Who is to blame for this?

Slide:

Why didn’t the mutual love of Asya and Mr. N. bring happiness to the heroes?

Why is the hero doomed to loneliness?

So, the topic of our lesson is “And happiness was so possible...” (slide)

Epigraph: “Happiness has no tomorrow;.. it has a present - and that’s not a day, but a moment” (I.S. Turgenev) (slide)

How did Mr. N. live before meeting Asya? (chapter 1)

He was young, happy, his money was not transferred, he travels to see the world.

What does “living without looking back” mean?

He did not think about the consequences of his actions, did not take responsibility for the fate of his neighbors.

Did he have real feelings?

He even invented feelings for himself (the story with the “hard-hearted” widow).

What impression did Asya make on Mr. N. during the first meeting? (key word "something special")

The first meeting comes to an end, Asya leaves an indelible mark on the hero’s soul. Mr. N. is crossing the Rhine by boat to his home on a beautiful summer night. This is one of the most poetic episodes of the story (chapter 2). I asked to prepare an expressive reading of this passage. Listen and try to answer the question: “What themes are simultaneously heard and intertwined in this episode? Why?"

So, let's plunge into the atmosphere of this magical night. And wonderful music will help us - “Moonlight Sonata” by L. Beethoven. The sounds of this work convey the splash of the Rhine wave, the shimmer of moonlight, and some kind of sadness...

Slide - picture of a moonlit night, music, expressive reading.

Let's return to our question - what 3 themes sound very powerful in this episode?

Music, nature and love, not yet named.

What feeling does this moonlit night fill the hero’s soul with?

Happiness.

This is no coincidence. After all, it is art, nature and love that are the components of beauty and happiness, according to I.S. Turgenev.

Slide: Art - nature - love.

But already in this beautiful picture there is an element of anxiety. Who noticed the disturbing motive?

The river is a symbol of life, the lunar path is fate. When Asya shouts that the hero broke the moon pillar, we can say that we hear the voice of fate. But did the hero hear him? Do you understand?

The relationships between the characters are not easy. Asya turned out to be an unusual girl. What are the oddities of her character?

She is constantly changing: now uncontrollably cheerful, now sad, now desperate and mischievous, now a prim young lady...

What is the reason for this strangeness?

The story of Asya, told by Gagin.

The image has several prototypes, women very close to Turgenev. One is the illegitimate daughter of the writer and his serf mother. Subsequently I.S. gave his daughter to be raised by P. Viardot. The second prototype is Turgenev’s sister, V.P. Zhitova, the illegitimate daughter of his mother and Bers. Family doctor. The second woman is especially interesting to us, since her life is closely connected with the history of our city.

A short message about Zhitova. Slide - photo.

Varvara Nikolaevna Zhitova.

In 1830, in connection with the illness of the head of the family, Sergei Nikolaevich (father of Ivan Sergeevich), a new person appeared in the Turgenev house - the house doctor Andrei Evstafievich Bers.

The relationship between the writer's parents was far from perfect. Varvara Petrovna (Ivan Sergeevich’s mother) became interested in the young doctor. The romance began. And as a result, little Varenka was born. Since she was an illegitimate child, she was given the surname not of her own, but of the godfather of the neighboring landowner Nikolai Bogdanovich. Varvara was listed in her mother’s house as a pupil. Ivan Sergeevich was very friendly with his younger sister. Subsequently, Varvara Nikolaevna recalled: “We were in the greatest friendship with Ivan Sergeevich. He loved me very much, played with me, ran around the huge hall, carried me in his arms and was still so young that he was not averse not only for my amusement, but also for his own pleasure, to run and laugh.”

Varenka’s own father subsequently married and had a daughter, Sophia, who would later become L.N.’s wife. Tolstoy. Thus, on her mother’s side, Varvara Nikolaevna was Turgenev’s sister. And on her father's side - her sister S.A. Bers, wife of L. Tolstoy.

At the age of 17, Varvara Nikolaevna married the Yegoryevsk landowner D.P. Zhitova and settled in Yegoryevsk. They lived very modestly. Varvara Nikolaevna earned her living by giving private lessons, in recent years she taught at a girls’ gymnasium, and was considered one of the most educated women in our city.

Living in Yegoryevsk, V.N. corresponded with I.S. Turgenev. Here is an excerpt from Turgenev’s letter, which came to Yegoryevsk in 1882 from Paris a year before the writer’s death: “Dear Varvara Nikolaevna, I am indebted to you for two letters (in one you congratulate me on my birthday) ... It would hurt me, if you attributed my silence to a lack of friendly feelings and memories... Believe me, I am sincerely attached to you and grateful to you for remembering me.”

After the death of I.S. Turgeneva Varvara Nikolaevna wrote “Memories of the family of I.S. Turgenev", which were published in 1884 in the magazine "Bulletin of Europe"

What is the second reason for the heroine’s strangeness?

A feeling that frightens Asya with its novelty

A very complex process is taking place in Mr. N.’s soul. He experiences a whole range of the most contradictory experiences. To understand this, let's do a little practical work.

Practical work. Cards with an excerpt from the story. Underline words in the text that mean feelings.

Card.

Underline the words that mean “feelings.”

1.Her movements were very cute, but I still felt annoying at her, although I involuntarily admired her lightness and dexterity. At one dangerous place she deliberately screamed and then started laughing... I felt more annoying.

2. I remember I walked home without thinking about anything. But with a strange heavy heart...

I came home completelydifferent moodthan the day before. I felt almost angry and for a long time I could not calm down. Incomprehensible to me I was overcome with frustration.

I smiled rubbed my hands, marveled at the incident that suddenly confirmed my guesses, and yetmy heart was very sad.

Seeing the familiar vineyard and the white house on the top of the mountain, I felt somesweetness - exactly sweetness in my heart, as if honey had been poured there. I felt very easily after Gagin's story.

What attracted Mr. N. to Asa?

In the world of artificial feelings and passions, he encountered something real for the first time.

First date. How do the characters reveal themselves, how do they behave, what do they say, what do they feel?

Filling out 1 column of the table (see below). Slide.

Who takes the first step forward? How do you evaluate Asya's action?

Why did Mr. N. tell Gagin about Asya’s note? Is he right?

Betrayal, someone else's secret.

Let's analyze the episode of the 2nd date. Turgenev is a secret psychologist. What details help to imagine the hero’s internal state?

How does N. behave? Your rating.

Filling out column 2 of the table.

Table analysis. In the first case, there are all the components of beauty and happiness: nature, art, love; in the second - no. The hero missed his bird of happiness.

When does true love awaken in the soul of Mr. N.? (chapter 18)

Did the hero have the opportunity to return happiness? Referring to the epigraph for the lesson.

- “I found that fate was good in not uniting me with Asya...” Is the hero right? How did his life turn out?

At the end of our lesson today we will hear the famous romance “Foggy Morning” based on the poem by I.S. Turgenev "On the Road". It was written in 1843, when I.S. was still a very young man, but there is much in common between this romance and the story “Asya”. Try to determine what thoughts, feelings and moods the romance has in common with the story. Which of the heroes of the story experiences the same feelings as the lyrical hero of the poem “On the Road”?

Return to the main questions of the lesson, voiced at the beginning of the conversation. Slide

The conclusion is that happiness is unattainable for people because they often, especially in their youth, do not appreciate what they receive. And happiness and true love are a great gift that is given to a person once in a lifetime. If a person fails to understand this, he is doomed to loneliness.

Homework. Answer the question in writing. How do the words of I.S. help us understand the narrator’s drama? Turgenev: “Young people eat gilded gingerbread, and they think that this is their daily bread. And when the time comes, you’ll ask for some bread...”?