The recognized master of love prose is Alexander Kuprin, the author of the story “ Garnet bracelet". “Love is selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward, the one about which it is said “strong as death.” Love, for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not labor at all, but one joy, ”such love touched an ordinary middle-class official Zheltkov.

He once and for all fell in love with Vera. And not ordinary love, but the one that happens once in a lifetime, divine. Faith does not attach importance to the feelings of her admirer, lives full life. She marries a quiet, calm, good man from all sides, Prince Shein. And her quiet, calm life begins, not overshadowed by anything, neither sadness nor joy.

A special role is assigned to Vera's uncle, General Anosov. In his mouth, Kuprin puts the words that are the theme of the story: “... maybe your life path, Vera, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of. Thus, Kuprin in his story wants to show the story of love, albeit unrequited, but nevertheless, from this unrequitedness, it has not become less strong and has not turned into hatred. According to General Anosov, any person dreams of such love, but not everyone gets it. And Vera, in her family life there is no such love. There is another thing - respect, mutual, for each other. Kuprin, in his story, sought to show readers that such sublime love is already a thing of the past, there are only a few people left, such as the telegraph operator Zheltkov, who are capable of it. But many, the author emphasizes, are not at all able to understand the deep meaning of love.

And Vera herself does not understand that she is destined to be loved by fate. Of course, she is a lady of a certain position in society, a countess. Probably, such a love could not have a happy outcome. Kuprin probably himself understands that Vera is not able to connect her life with the "little" man Zheltkov. Although it still leaves her one chance to live the rest of her life in love. Vera missed her chance to be happy.

The idea of ​​the work

The idea of ​​the story "Garnet Bracelet" is faith in the power of a true, all-consuming feeling, which is not afraid of death itself. When they try to take away the only thing from Zheltkov - his love, when they want to deprive him of the opportunity to see his beloved, then he decides to die voluntarily. Thus, Kuprin is trying to say that life without love is meaningless. This is a feeling that does not know temporary, social and other barriers. No wonder the name of the main one is Vera. Kuprin believes that his readers will wake up and understand that a person is not only rich in material values, but also rich in inner world, soul. The words of Zheltkov “Let the your name", - this is the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe work. Every woman dreams of hearing such words, but great love is given only by the Lord and not to everyone.

A. I. Kuprin has one cherished theme. He touches her chastely, reverently and nervously. Otherwise, you can't touch her. This is the theme of love.

Sometimes it seems that everything has been said about love in world literature. What can be said about love after Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet, after Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin", after Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"? You can continue this list of creations that sang the tragedy of love. But love has a thousand shades, and each of its manifestations has its own luminosity, its own sadness, its own fracture and its own fragrance.

One of the most fragrant and languishing stories about love, and perhaps the saddest, is Kuprin's "Garnet Bracelet". In this story, the true romantic Kuprin deifies love. Each word here glows, shimmers, sparkling with a precious cut, but the story describes tragic love. As General Anosov, beloved grandfather of Anya and Vera, says in the story: “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world!"

This great love amazes the most ordinary person, bending his back at the clerical table, official Zheltkov. He was ready to adore Vera Nikolaevna from afar, he simply idolized her: “I mentally bow to the ground of the furniture on which you are sitting, the trees that you touch in passing, the servants with whom you speak. Beautiful, praise to you, passionate praise and quiet love. May your name be hallowed."

Zheltkov could not give his love to Vera Nikolaevna every day, every hour, every minute. Perhaps that is why he gave her his great-grandmother's garnet bracelet - the most expensive thing he had, in order to somehow connect himself with Vera. Zheltkov was insanely happy already with the fact that the hands of his goddess touched his gift.

Most striking is the inner energy with which Kuprin sings of love. It is truly a miracle, divine providence to meet in life just such a feeling, and here Vera Nikolaevna was lucky. Eternal, disinterested, sincere love shone in her fate, which every woman dreams of and which most men are not capable of.

Probably, it is simply impossible to describe in words the feeling of the deepest loss that Vera Nikolaevna experienced when she realized that such love had passed her by. The story is given special strength by the fact that love exists in it as an unexpected gift, suddenly illuminating life, dull everyday life, stirring up an established life.

It is impossible to read the end of the story without emotional excitement, these amazing words: “I remember your every step, smile, look, sound of your gait. Sweet melancholy, quiet, beautiful melancholy fanned my last memories. But I won't hurt you. I'm leaving alone, silently, it was so pleasing to God and fate. May your name be hallowed." These words are more like a prayer.

"Garnet Bracelet" is a song of love, and at the same time it is an eternal prayer for love...

Kuprin said about the “Garnet Bracelet” that he had never written anything more chaste. And his remark is correct. Kuprin has many subtle and excellent stories about love, about the expectation of love, about its tragic outcomes, about longing and eternal youth in the human soul. Kuprin always and everywhere blessed love. He sent a great blessing to all things: earth, waters, trees, flowers, heavens, people, animals, and eternal goodness, and eternal beauty contained in a woman.

The theme of love in the story of A. I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet"

(“The disease of love is incurable…”)

Love ... is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only it, only love keeps and moves life.

I.S. Turgenev.

Love... A word denoting the most reverent, tender, romantic and inspirational feeling inherent in a person. However, people often confuse love with falling in love. The real feeling takes possession of the whole being of a person, sets in motion all his forces, inspires the most incredible deeds, evokes the best motives, excites the creative imagination. But love is not always joy, mutual feeling, happiness given to two. It is also the disappointment of unrequited love. A person cannot fall out of love at will.

Every great artist has devoted many pages to this "eternal" theme. A. I. Kuprin did not bypass her either. The writer throughout his work showed great interest in everything beautiful, strong, sincere and natural. He attributed love to the great joys of life. His novels and stories "Olesya", "Shulamith", "Garnet Bracelet" tell about ideal love, pure, boundless, beautiful and powerful.

In Russian literature, perhaps, there is no work more powerful in terms of emotional impact on the reader than The Garnet Bracelet. Kuprin touches on the theme of love chastely, reverently and at the same time nervously. Otherwise, you can't touch her.

Sometimes it seems that everything has been said about love in world literature. Is it possible to talk about love after "Tristan and Isolde", after the sonnets of Petrarch and "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, after Pushkin's poem "For the shores of the distant homeland", Lermontov's "Do not laugh at my prophetic longing", after "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy and Chekhov's "Ladies with a Dog" But love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own joy, its own happiness, its own sadness and pain, and its own fragrance.

The story "Garnet Bracelet" is one of the saddest works about love. Kuprin admitted that he cried over the manuscript. And if the work makes the author and the reader cry, then this speaks of the deep vitality of what was created by the writer and of his great talent. Kuprin has many works about love, about the expectation of love, about its touching outcomes, about its poetry, longing and eternal youth. He always and everywhere blessed love. The theme of the story "Garnet Bracelet" is love to self-abasement, to self-denial. But it is interesting that love strikes the most ordinary person - the clerical official Zheltkov. Such love, it seems to me, was granted to him from above as a reward for a joyless existence. The hero of the story is no longer young, and his love for Princess Vera Sheina gave meaning to his life, filled it with inspiration and joy. This love was the meaning and happiness only for Zheltkov. Princess Vera considered him mad. She did not know his last name and had never seen the man. He only sent her greeting cards and wrote letters, signing G.S.Zh.

But one day, on the princess's name day, Zheltkov decided to be bold: he sent her an old-fashioned bracelet with beautiful garnets as a gift. Fearing that her name might be compromised, Vera's brother insists on returning the bracelet to its owner, and her husband and Vera agree.

In a fit of nervous excitement, Zheltkov confesses to Prince Shein his love for his wife. This confession touches to the depths of the soul: “I know that I can never stop loving her. What would you do to end this feeling? Send me to another city? All the same, I will love Vera Nikolaevna there as well as here. Jail me? But even there I will find a way to let her know about my existence. Only one thing remains - death ... "Love over the years has become a disease, incurable disease. She absorbed his entire essence without a trace. Zheltkov lived only for this love. Even though Princess Vera did not know him, even if he could not reveal his feelings to her, could not possess her ... This is not the main thing. The main thing is that he loved her with a sublime, platonic, pure love. It was enough for him just to see her sometimes and know that she was doing well.

The last words of love for the one that was the meaning of his life for many years, Zheltkov wrote in his suicide letter. It is impossible to read this letter without heavy spiritual excitement, in which the refrain sounds hysterically and amazingly: “Hallowed be thy name!” The story is given special strength by the fact that love appears in it as an unexpected gift of fate, poeticized and illuminating life. Lyubov Zheltkova is like a ray of light in the midst of everyday life, in the midst of sober reality and settled life. There is no cure for such love, it is incurable. Only death can serve as salvation. This love is closed in one person and carries a destructive force. “It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor worries about the future happiness of people,” Zheltkov writes in a letter, “for me, all life lies in you.” This feeling displaces all other thoughts from the consciousness of the hero.

The autumn landscape, the silent sea, empty dachas, the grassy smell of the last flowers also give special strength and bitterness to the narration.

Love, according to Kuprin, is a passion, it is a strong and real feeling that elevates a person, awakens the best qualities of his soul; it is truthfulness and honesty in relationships. The writer put his thoughts about love into the mouth of General Anosov: “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world. No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.”

It seems to me that today it is almost impossible to meet such love. Lyubov Zheltkova - romantic worship of a woman, chivalrous service to her. Princess Vera realized that true love, which is given to a person only once in a lifetime and which every woman dreams of, passed her by.

(401 words) The work of A. I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet" tells about events and feelings that can radically change people's lives, destroy all foundations and erect something new, truly great. One of these feelings is love. Each hero has his own, but in all cases it is accompanied by deep feelings.

The author describes in detail inner world and the views of the characters so we can better understand them. So, Vera Sheina loves her husband more like a friend. She feels affection, respect for her husband, takes care of him. But here the course of events is disturbed by an admirer - a local official Zheltkov. For many years he has been writing passionate messages to his beloved. Before, Vera destroyed them, and Zheltkov's love was unrequited. He loved tenderly and passionately, sincerely and selflessly. The official turned out to be a disinterested person, ready for sacrifice. Yes, Vera Nikolaevna did not respond to his feelings, but it was not so important. The main thing for the hero was the opportunity to simply love and talk about his feelings. In the end, he decided on a bold act and sent a garnet bracelet as a gift to the lady of the heart. Princess Sheina, however, informed her husband about this. Zheltkov, thinking that the peace of his beloved was disturbed, committed suicide. This is how sacrificial, selfless, very strong, but destructive love for the person himself looks like. It is a pity that Vera Nikolaevna appreciated the actions of the official too late.

Vera's sister Anna is her complete opposite. She hates her husband and, without cheating on him, allows herself to flirt with men. Anna cheerfully says about herself: “I don’t care. I love everything!". Perhaps her life is easier than Vera Nikolaevna, but she is not a happy person either. Love in her life is something ephemeral, fleeting, not connected with a specific person.

General Anosov quite rightly speaks of a high feeling, who expresses the need for cordial love through the manifestation of tender feelings towards children. In his opinion, a feeling as strong as death is extremely rare. Often people get married or get married out of necessity, because the time has come. In fact, Vera Nikolaevna did not escape this fate. She could have responded to the feelings of a mysterious admirer, but thoughts about how society would perceive this did not allow her to even try, test herself, understand what true love is.

The story with Zheltkov became a cruel lesson for the heroine. She learned to distinguish the true from the false and wholeheartedly asked for forgiveness from the one who opened her eyes. Too bad he didn't exist anymore. Love in the work "Garnet Bracelet" has become a tragedy, but such is the fate of any sublime feeling - it cannot always be at the peak of passion and inevitably goes out like a spark.

The theme of love in the story "Garnet Bracelet"

"Unrequited love does not humiliate a person, but elevates him." Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich

According to many researchers, “everything is masterfully written in this story, starting with its title. The title itself is surprisingly poetic and sonorous. It sounds like a line of a poem written in iambic trimeter.

The story is based on real case. In a letter to the editor of the journal “The World of God” F. D. Batyushkov, Kuprin wrote in October 1910: “Do you remember this? - sad story the little telegraph official P.P. Zholtikov, who was hopelessly, touchingly and selflessly in love with Lyubimov's wife (D.N. is now the governor in Vilna). So far, I just came up with an epigraph ... " (L. van Beethoven. Son No. 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato). Although the work is based on real events, the ending of the story - Zheltkov's suicide - is the writer's creative conjecture. It was not by chance that Kuprin ended his story with a tragic ending, he needed such a ending to more strongly emphasize the power of Zheltkov's love for a woman almost unfamiliar to him - a love that happens "once in a thousand years."

Work on the story greatly influenced the state of mind of Alexander Ivanovich. “Recently I told a good actress,” he wrote in a letter to F. D. Batyushkov in December 1910, “I’m crying about the plot of my work, I’ll say one thing that I haven’t written anything more chaste yet.”

The main character of the story is Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. The action of the story takes place in the Black Sea resort in the fall, namely on September 17 - the day of the name day of Vera Nikolaevna.

The first chapter is an introduction, whose task was to prepare the reader for the desired perception of subsequent events. Kuprin describes nature. In describing nature, Kuprin has many sounds, colors, and especially smells. The landscape is highly emotional and unlike anyone else's. Thanks to the description of the autumn landscape with its deserted dachas and flower beds, you feel the inevitability of the withering of the surrounding nature, the withering of the world. Kuprin draws a parallel between the description of the autumn garden and the inner state of the main character: the chilly autumn landscape of fading nature is similar in essence to the mood of Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. According to him, we predict her calm, impregnable character. Nothing attracts her in this life, perhaps that is why the brightness of her being is enslaved by routine and dullness.

The author describes main character like this: “... she went to her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall, flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands, and that charming sloping of her shoulders, which can be seen in old miniatures ... ". Vera could not be imbued with a sense of beauty to the world around her. She was not a natural romantic. And, seeing something out of the ordinary, some peculiarity, I tried (albeit involuntarily) to ground it, to compare it with the outside world. Her life flowed slowly, measuredly, quietly, and, it would seem, satisfied life principles without going beyond them.

The husband of Vera Nikolaevna was Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein. He was the leader of the nobility. Vera Nikolaevna married the prince, who was just as exemplary, quiet person like herself. Vera Nikolaevna's former passionate love for her husband turned into a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship. Spouses, despite their high position in society, barely made ends meet. Since she had to live above her means, Vera, imperceptibly for her husband, saved money, remaining worthy of her title.

On the day of the name day, her closest friends come to Vera. According to Kuprin, "Vera Nikolaevna Sheina always expected something happy, wonderful from the name day." Her younger sister, Anna Nikolaevna Friesse, arrived first. “She was half a head shorter, somewhat broad in the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mocker. Her face is of a strongly Mongolian type with rather noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes ... captivated by some elusive and incomprehensible charm ... ". She was the complete opposite of Vera Nikolaevna. The sisters loved each other very much. Anna was married to a very rich and very stupid man who did absolutely nothing, but was registered with some charitable institution. She could not stand her husband, Gustav Ivanovich, but she gave birth to two children from him - a boy and a girl. Vera Nikolaevna really wanted to have children, but she did not have them. Anna constantly flirted in all the capitals and resorts of Europe, but she never cheated on her husband.

On the name day, the younger sister presented Vera with a small notebook in an amazing binding as a gift. Vera Nikolaevna liked the gift very much. As for Vera's husband, he gave her earrings made of pear-shaped pearls. writer kuprin story love

The guests arrive in the evening. All the characters, with the exception of Zheltkov, the main character in love with Princess Sheina, Kuprin gathers the Shein family at the dacha. The princess receives expensive gifts from the guests. The name day celebration was fun until Vera notices that there are thirteen guests. Since she was superstitious, this alarms her. But so far, there are no signs of trouble.

Among the guests, Kuprin singles out the old General Anosov, a comrade-in-arms of the father of Vera and Anna. The author describes him like this: “A fat, tall, silver old man, he was heavily climbing off the footboard ... He had a large, rough, red face with a fleshy nose and with that good-naturedly majestic, slightly contemptuous expression in his narrowed eyes ... which is characteristic of courageous and ordinary people…”

Also present at the name day was Vera's brother, Nikolai Nikolaevich Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovsky. He always defended his opinion and was ready to stand up for his family.

Traditionally, the guests played poker. Vera did not join the game: she was called by the maid, who handed her a package.. Unfolding the package, Vera discovers a case containing a gold bracelet with stones and a note. “... a gold, low-grade, very thick ... on the outside, all completely covered ... with garnets” bracelet. He looks like a tasteless trinket next to the expensive elegant gifts that guests gave her. The note tells about the bracelet, that it is a family heirloom with magical powers, and that it is the most expensive thing the donor has. At the end of the letter were the initials G.S.Zh., and Vera realized that this was the secret admirer who had been writing to her for seven years. This bracelet becomes a symbol of his hopeless, enthusiastic, selfless, reverent love. Thus, this person is somehow trying to connect himself with Vera Nikolaevna. It was enough for him only that her hands touched his gift.

Looking at the thick red grenades, Vera felt alarmed, she felt something unpleasant approaching, she saw some kind of omen in this bracelet. It is no coincidence that she immediately compares these red stones with blood: “Just like blood!” she exclaims. The tranquility of Vera Nikolaevna was disturbed. Vera considered Zheltkov "unfortunate", she could not understand the tragedy of this love. The expression "happy unhappy person" turned out to be somewhat contradictory. Indeed, in his feeling for Vera, Zheltkov experienced happiness.

Until the guests leave, Vera decides not to talk about the gift to her husband. Meanwhile, her husband entertains guests with stories in which there is very little truth. Among these stories is the story of an unfortunate lover in Vera Nikolaevna, who allegedly sent passionate letters to her every day, and then became a monk, after dying, bequeathed to Vera two buttons and a bottle of perfume with his tears.

And only now do we learn about Zheltkov, despite the fact that he main character. None of the guests has ever seen him, does not know his name, only it is known (judging by the letters) that he serves as a petty official and in some mysterious way always knows where he is and what Vera Nikolaevna is doing. Almost nothing is said about Zheltkov himself in the story. We learn about it thanks to small details. But even these minor details used by the author in his narrative testify to a lot. We understand that the inner world of this extraordinary person was very, very rich. This man was not like the others, he was not mired in a miserable and dull everyday life, his soul aspired to the beautiful and sublime.

Evening comes. Many guests are leaving, leaving General Anosov, who talks about his life. He tells his love story, which he will remember forever - short and simple, which, in retelling, seems like just a vulgar adventure of an army officer. "I do not see true love. And I didn’t see it in my time!” - says the general and gives examples of ordinary, obscene unions of people concluded for one reason or another. “Where is the love? Love disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward? The one about which it is said - "strong as death"? .. Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.” It was Anosov who formulated the main idea of ​​the story: "Love must be ..." and to some extent expressed Kuprin's opinion.

Anosov talks about tragic cases similar to such love. The conversation about love led Anosov to the story of a telegraph operator. At first he suggested that Zheltkov was a maniac, and only then he decided that Zheltkov’s love was real: “... maybe your life path, Verochka, crossed exactly the kind of love that women dream of and that men are no longer capable of.”

When only Vera's husband and brother remained in the house, she spoke about Zheltkov's gift. Vasily Lvovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich treated Zheltkov's gift extremely dismissively, laughed at his letters, mocked his feelings. The garnet bracelet causes stormy indignation in Nikolai Nikolaevich, it is worth noting that he was extremely annoyed by the act of the young official, and Vasily Lvovich, by virtue of his character, took it more calmly.

Nikolai Nikolaevich is worried about Vera. He does not believe in Zheltkov's pure, platonic love, suspecting him of the most vulgar adultery. If she accepted the gift, Zheltkov would brag to his friends, he could hope for something more, he would give her expensive gifts: "... a diamond ring, a pearl necklace ...", wasting government money, and subsequently everything could have ended court, where the Sheins would be called as witnesses. The Shein family would have fallen into a ridiculous position, their name would have been disgraced.

Vera herself did not attach special importance to the letters, she did not have feelings for her mysterious admirer. She was somewhat flattered by his attention. Vera thought that Zheltkov's letters were just an innocent joke. She does not attach the same importance to them that her brother Nikolai Nikolayevich does.

The husband and brother of Vera Nikolaevna decide to give a gift to a secret admirer and ask him to never write to Vera again, to forget about her forever. But how to do this if they did not know either the name, or the surname, or the address of the admirer of the Faith? Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich find a fan by their initials in the lists of city employees. Now they become aware that the mysterious G.S.Zh. is a petty official Georgy Zheltkov. Vera's brother and husband go to his house for an important conversation with Zheltkov, who subsequently decides the whole fate of Georgy.

Zheltkov lived under a roof in a poor house: “The spit-stained staircase smelled of mice, cats, kerosene and laundry… The room was very low, but very wide and long, almost square in shape. Two round windows, quite similar to ship portholes, barely illuminated her. Yes, and all of it was similar to the wardroom of a cargo steamer. Along one wall stood a narrow bed, along the other a very large and wide sofa, covered with a tattered beautiful Teke carpet, in the middle - a table covered with a colored Little Russian tablecloth. Such an accurate detailed description of the atmosphere in which Zheltkov lives, Kuprin notes for a reason, the author shows the inequality between Princess Vera and the petty official Zheltkov. Between them there are insurmountable social barriers and barriers of class inequality. It is the different social status and Vera's marriage that make Zheltkov's love unrequited.

Kuprin develops the theme of the “little man”, traditional for Russian literature. An official with a funny surname Zheltkov, quiet and inconspicuous, not only grows into a tragic hero, he rises above petty fuss, life's conveniences, decency by the power of his love. He turns out to be a man in no way inferior in nobility to aristocrats. Love lifted him up. Love gives Zheltkov "tremendous happiness." Love has become suffering, the only meaning of life. Zheltkov did not demand anything for his love, his letters to the princess were just a desire to speak out, to convey his feelings to his beloved being.

Once in Zheltkov's room, finally, Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich see Vera's admirer. The author describes him as follows: “... he was tall, thin, with long fluffy, soft hair ... very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must have been about thirty, thirty-five…” Zheltkov, as soon as Nikolai Nikolaevich and Vasily Lvovich introduced themselves, became very nervous and frightened, but after a while he calmed down. The men return Zheltkov his bracelet with a request not to repeat such things again. Zheltkov himself understands and admits that he did something stupid by sending Vera a garnet bracelet.

Zheltkov confesses to Vasily Lvovich that he has been in love with his wife for seven years. Vera Nikolaevna, by some whim of fate, once seemed to Zheltkov an amazing, completely unearthly creature. And a strong, vivid feeling flared up in his heart. He was always at some distance from his beloved, and, obviously, this distance contributed to the strength of his passion. He could not forget the beautiful image of the princess, and he was not at all stopped by the indifference on the part of his beloved.

Nikolai Nikolaevich gives Zheltkov two options for further action: either he forever forgets Vera and never writes to her again, or, if he does not give up the persecution, measures will be taken against him. Zheltkov asks to call Vera to say goodbye to her. Although Nikolai Nikolaevich was against the call, Prince Shein allowed it to be done. But the conversation did not go well: Vera Nikolaevna did not want to talk to Zheltkov. Returning to the room, Zheltkov looked upset, his eyes were filled with tears. He asked permission to write a farewell letter to Vera, after which he will disappear from their lives forever, and again Prince Shein allows this to be done.

The close princesses of Vera recognized Zheltkovo as a noble person: brother Nikolai Nikolaevich: “I immediately guessed a noble person in you”; husband Prince Vasily Lvovich: "this man is incapable of deceiving and lying knowingly."

Returning home, Vasily Lvovich tells Vera in detail about the meeting with Zheltkov. She was alarmed and uttered the following phrase: "I know that this man will kill himself." Vera already had a premonition of the tragic outcome of this situation.

The next morning, Vera Nikolaevna reads in the newspaper that Zheltkov committed suicide. The newspaper wrote that the death occurred due to the waste of public money. So the suicide wrote in a posthumous letter.

Throughout the story, Kuprin is trying to inspire readers with “the concept of love on the verge of life”, and he does this through Zheltkov, for him love is life, therefore, there is no love - there is no life. And when Vera's husband persistently asks to stop love, his life also stops. But is love worthy of losing life, losing everything that can be in the world? Everyone must answer this question for himself - does he want this, what is more precious to him - life or love? Zheltkov answered: love. Well, what about the price of life, because life is the most precious thing we have, it is we who are so afraid of losing it, and on the other hand, love is the meaning of our life, without which it will not be life, but will be an empty sound. I involuntarily recall the words of I. S. Turgenev: “Love ... is stronger than death and the fear of death.”

Zheltkov complied with Vera's request to "stop this whole story" in the only way possible for him. That same evening, Vera receives a letter from Zheltkov.

Here is what the letter said: “... It so happened that nothing interests me in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life lies only in you ... My love is not illness, not a manic idea, it is a reward from God... If you ever think of me, then play the L. van Beethoven sonata. Son No. 2, op. 2. Largo Appassionato…” Zheltkov also deified his beloved in a letter, his prayer was addressed to her: “Hallowed be thy name.” However, with all this, Princess Vera was an ordinary earthly woman. So her deification is a figment of the imagination of poor Zheltkov.

It is a pity that in life he was not interested in anything but her. I think you can’t live like this, you can’t just suffer and dream about your beloved, but inaccessible. Life is a game, and each of us is obliged to play our role, to have time to do it in such a short period of time, to have time to become positive or villain, but in no case remain indifferent to everything except her, the only, beautiful one.

Zheltkov thinks that this is his destiny - to love madly, but unrequitedly, that it is impossible to escape from fate. If not for this latter, then he would undoubtedly have tried to do something, to escape from a feeling doomed to death.

Yes, I think I should have run. Run without looking back. Set yourself a long-term goal and plunge headlong into work. I had to force myself to forget my crazy love. It was necessary to at least try to avoid its tragic outcome.

With all his desire, he could not be in control of his soul, in which the image of the princess occupied too much place. Zheltkov idealized his beloved, he did not know anything about her, therefore he painted in his imagination a completely unearthly image. And this also shows the eccentricity of his nature. His love could not be discredited, stained precisely because it was too far from real life. Zheltkov never met his beloved, his feelings remained a mirage, they were not connected with reality. And in this regard, the enamored Zheltkov appears before the reader as a dreamer, romantic and idealist out of touch with life.

He endowed best qualities a woman about whom he knew absolutely nothing. Perhaps if fate had given Zheltkov at least one meeting with the princess, he would have changed his mind about her. At the very least, she would not seem to him an ideal being, absolutely devoid of flaws. But, alas, the meeting was impossible.

Anosov said: "Love must be a tragedy ...", if you approach love with just such a yardstick, then it becomes clear - Zheltkov's love is just that. He easily puts his feelings for the beautiful princess above all else. In essence, life itself has no special value for Zheltkov. And, probably, the reason for this is the lack of demand for his love, because the life of Mr. Zheltkov is not decorated with anything other than feelings for the princess. At the same time, the princess herself lives a completely different life, in which there is no place for the enamored Zheltkov. And she does not want the flow of these letters to continue. The princess is not interested in her unknown admirer, she is fine without him. All the more surprising and even strange is Zheltkov, who consciously cultivates his passion for Vera Nikolaevna.

Can Zheltkov be called a sufferer who lived his life uselessly, giving himself up as a victim of some amazing soulless love? On the one hand, he appears to be just that. He was ready to give his life to his beloved, but no one needed such a sacrifice. The garnet bracelet itself is a detail that even more clearly emphasizes the entire tragedy of this man. He is ready to part with a family heirloom, an ornament that is inherited by the women of his family. Zheltkov is ready to give the only jewel to a completely stranger woman, and she did not need this gift at all.

Can Zheltkov's feelings for Vera Nikolaevna be called madness? Prince Shein answers this question in the book: “... I feel that I am present at some huge tragedy of the soul, and I cannot play around here ... I will say that he loved you, but was not at all crazy ... ". And I agree with his opinion.

The psychological culmination of the story is Vera's farewell to the deceased Zheltkov, their only "date" - a turning point in her inner state. On the face of the deceased, she read “deep importance, ... as if, before parting with life, he had learned some deep and sweet secret that resolved his entire human life”, “blissful and serene” smile, “peace”. “At that moment, she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by.”

You can immediately ask the question: - did Vera love anyone at all. Or the word love in its understanding is nothing but the concept of marital duty, marital fidelity, and not feelings for another person. Vera probably loved only one person: her sister, who was everything to her. She did not love her husband, not to mention Zheltkov, whom she had never seen alive.

But was it necessary for Vera to go look at the dead Zheltkov? Perhaps it was an attempt to somehow assert herself, not to torment herself for the rest of her life with remorse, to look at the one she refused. To understand that in her life there will be nothing like this. From what we pushed off, we came to that - before he was looking for meetings with her, and now she came to him. And who is to blame for what happened - he himself or his love.

Love dried him up, took away all the best that was in his nature. But she gave nothing in return. Therefore, the unfortunate person has nothing else to do. Obviously, by the death of the hero, Kuprin wanted to express his attitude towards his love. Zheltkov, of course, is a unique person, very special. Therefore, it is very difficult for him to live among ordinary people. It turns out that there is no place for him on this earth. And this is his tragedy, and not his fault at all.

Of course, his love can be called a unique, wonderful, amazingly beautiful phenomenon. Yes, such unselfish and surprisingly pure love is very rare. But still, it's good that it happens this way. After all, such love goes hand in hand with tragedy, it breaks a person's life. And the beauty of the soul remains unclaimed, no one knows about it and does not notice it.

When Princess Sheina came home, she fulfills Zheltkov's last wish. She asks her pianist friend Jenny Reiter to play something for her. Vera has no doubt that the pianist will perform exactly the place in the sonata that Zheltkov asked for. Her thoughts and music merged into one, and she heard as if the verses ended with the words: "Hallowed be thy name."

"Hallowed be Thy name" - sounds like a refrain in the last part of the "Garnet Bracelet". A man has passed away, but love has not gone away. It seemed to dissipate in the surrounding world, merging with Beethoven's sonata No. 2 Largo Appassionato. Under the passionate sounds of music, the heroine feels the painful and beautiful birth of a new world in her soul, she feels a deep gratitude to the person who put love for her above everything in his life, even above life itself. She understands that he has forgiven her. The story ends on this tragic note.

However, despite the sad denouement, Kuprin's hero is happy. He believes that the love that illuminated his life is a truly wonderful feeling. And I no longer know if this love is so naive and reckless. And maybe she really is worth it to give her life and desire for life for her. After all, she is beautiful like the moon, pure like the sky, bright like the sun, constant like nature. Such is Zheltkov's chivalrous, romantic love for Princess Vera Nikolaevna, which swallowed up his whole being. Zheltkov passes away without complaints, without reproaches, saying, as a prayer: "Hallowed be thy name." It is impossible to read these lines without tears. And it is not clear why tears roll from the eyes. Either this is just pity for the unfortunate Zheltkov (after all, life could be beautiful for him too), or admiration for the magnificence of the great feeling of a small person.

I so wish that this tale of forgiving and strong love, created by I. A. Kuprin, penetrated into our monotonous life. I so wish that cruel reality could never defeat our sincere feelings, our love. We must multiply it, be proud of it. Love, true love, must be studied diligently, as the most painstaking science. However, love does not come if you wait for its appearance every minute, and at the same time, it does not flare up from nothing.