Peasant young lady. Belkin's stories. Pushkin A.S.
You, Darling, look good in all your outfits.
Bogdanovich
“In one of our remote provinces there was an estate of Ivan Petrovich Berestov.” After military service, he retired, lived as a gentleman, tripled his income, started a cloth factory and “began to consider himself the smartest man in the whole neighborhood.” His neighbors loved him, although they considered him proud. Only Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, “a real Russian gentleman,” did not get along with him.
Having squandered money in Moscow, he returned to his last village, where he started everything on English manner, “with all this, he was considered a not stupid person, for the first of the landowners of his province thought of mortgaging his estate to the Guardian Council” (an institution that issued secured loans). Thanks to the diligence of their neighbors, Berestov and Muromsky knew about the criticism against them, and this fueled their mutual hostility. Alexey Berestov came to his father’s village; he intended to enroll in military service, but my father was against it.
Alexey grew his mustache and lived as a master for now. The young ladies looked at him, but he paid little attention to them, “the reason for his insensitivity was believed to be a love affair.” The one who was most occupied with Alexei was the daughter of an Anglomaniac, Lisa. Their fathers were in a quarrel, and she did not see Alexei, meanwhile all the young neighbors were talking only about him. She is seventeen years old, she is the only spoiled child, with a rather attractive appearance.
Liza's maid was Nastya, older, but just as flighty as the young lady. One day Nastya was going to Tugilovo, to the Berestovs, for her friend’s name day. Lisa let her “friend” go so that Nastya would find out everything about Alexey, and then tell the young lady. The maid was absent all day, and when she returned, she told Lisa in detail what a cheerful and cheerful young man Alexey Berestov was. He played burners with the courtyard servants, he had a blush all over his cheek - this did not at all correspond to Lisa’s romantic idea of a hero, so she wanted to see Alexei herself.
The young lady decided, dressed in a peasant dress, to take a walk to the Tugilov grove, where Alexei hunts in the morning. “He won’t miss you,” Nastya told her. Soon the outfit was ready, and Lisa ran into the grove at dawn; met with Alexei, introducing herself as Akulina, the daughter of a blacksmith. When the young people parted, they agreed to meet the next morning. All day Lisa was thoughtful, she did not intend to continue dating, but then she imagined that, having waited for her in vain,
Alexei will come to the blacksmith, see the fat, pockmarked girl Akulina and guess about the young lady’s leprosy. This forced her to come to the grove the next morning, but she made Alexei promise that he would never ask about her, would not look for other dates except those that she herself would arrange. Alexey, in love, agreed to everything. Meanwhile, the young people became more and more attached to each other, although Alexei thought about the insurmountable obstacle that separated him from the poor peasant woman, and Lisa, knowing the mutual hostility of her fathers, did not dare to hope for their reconciliation. “In addition, her pride was secretly incited by the dark romantic hope of finally seeing the Tugilov landowner at the feet of the daughter of the Priluchinsky blacksmith.”
An unexpectedly important incident changed everything. Ivan Petrovich Berestov went hunting, at the same time Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky went to inspect his possessions. Once they were close, they greeted each other; a hare suddenly jumped out and scared Muromsky’s mare, she bolted and threw off her owner. Berestov helped his neighbor, took him to his place, and then gave him a droshky and escorted Grigory Ivanovich home. Muromsky made his neighbor promise that the Berestovs would come to dine with him the next day.
Having learned about what had happened, Lisa became agitated and refused to go out to the guests, but then warned her father not to show surprise at what he saw. The next day she dressed up in her late mother’s clothes, wore white hair and a dark face, and spoke only French. Of course, Alexey did not recognize his Akulina in this funny young lady. The next morning he cheerfully imitated Akulina's young lady. “However,” she said with a sigh, “even though the young lady may be funny, I’m still an ignorant fool in front of her.”
Alexey undertook to teach Lisa to read and write and was very surprised by the girl’s ingenuity. Soon a correspondence began between them. “The post office was established in the hollow of an old oak tree. Nastya secretly corrected the postman’s position.” Meanwhile, Muromsky and Berestov began to think that it would be nice to become related through children. Having learned about his father’s plans, Alexey decided to go all the way. “...The romantic idea of marrying a peasant woman and living by his own labors came into his head...” He took a letter into a hollow oak tree in which he offered his hand and heart to Akulina, and the next day he went to Muromsky to openly explain to him. The master was not at home, Alexey decided to tell Liza everything. He entered the living room and was dumbfounded: Lisa, no, Akulina was sitting and reading his letter. Alexey rushed to her, Lisa wanted to run. At that moment Muromsky entered, he was glad that the young people “had everything completely coordinated...”
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PEASANT GIRL
You, Darling, look good in all your outfits.
Bogdanovich.
In one of our remote provinces there was an estate of Ivan Petrovich Berestov. In his youth he served in the guard, retired at the beginning of 1797, went to his village and since then he has not left there. He was married to a poor noblewoman who died in childbirth while he was away in the field. Household exercises soon consoled him. He built a house according to his own plan, started a cloth factory, established an income and began to consider himself the smartest man in the entire neighborhood, which his neighbors, who came to visit him with their families and dogs, did not contradict him about. On weekdays he wore a corduroy jacket, on holidays he wore a frock coat made of cloth. homework; I wrote down the expenses myself and read nothing except the Senate Gazette. In general, he was loved, although he was considered proud. Only Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, his closest neighbor, did not get along with him. This was a real Russian gentleman. Having squandered it in Moscow most of his estate, and at that time, having become a widower, he left for his last village, where he continued to play pranks, but in a new way. He cheated english garden, on which he spent almost all his other income. His grooms were dressed as English jockeys. His daughter had an English madam. He cultivated his fields according to the English method.
But Russian bread will not be born in someone else’s manner, and despite the significant reduction in expenses, Grigory Ivanovich’s income did not increase; Even in the village he found a way to enter into new debts; with all that, he was considered a not stupid person, for he was the first of the landowners of his province to think of mortgaging his estate in the Guardian Council: a move that seemed at that time extremely complex and bold. Of the people who condemned him, Berestov responded most severely. There was a hatred of innovation distinguishing feature his character. He could not speak indifferently about his neighbor's Anglomania, and every minute he found opportunities to criticize him. Did he show the guest his possessions, in response to praise for his economic management: “Yes, sir!” he spoke with a sly smile; “I don’t have the same thing as my neighbor Grigory Ivanovich. Where can we go broke in English! If only we were well-fed in Russian.” These and similar jokes, due to the diligence of the neighbors, were brought to the attention of Grigory Ivanovich with additions and explanations. The Angloman endured criticism as impatiently as our journalists. He got mad and called his zoil the provincial bear. Such were the relations between these two owners, how Berestov’s son came to his village. He was brought up at the *** University and intended to enter military service, but his father did not agree to this. The young man felt completely incapable of civil service. They were not inferior to each other, and young Alexey began to live for the time being as a master, growing a mustache just in case. Alexey was, in fact, a great guy. It would really be a pity if his slender figure was never pulled together by a military uniform, and if, instead of showing off on a horse, he spent his youth bent over stationery papers. Seeing how he always galloped first when hunting, without making out the way, the neighbors agreed that he would never make a good chief executive. The young ladies glanced at him, and others looked at him; but Alexey did little with them, and they believed that the reason for his insensitivity was a love affair. In fact, a list was circulating from hand to hand from the address of one of his letters: Akulina Petrovna Kurochkina, in Moscow, opposite the Alekseevsky Monastery, in the house of the coppersmith Savelyev, and I humbly ask you to deliver this letter to A. N. R. Those of my readers who They didn’t live in the villages, they can’t imagine what a charm these county young ladies are! Raised on clean air, in the shade of their garden apple trees, they draw knowledge of light and life from books. Solitude, freedom and reading early develop in them feelings and passions unknown to our absent-minded beauties. For a young lady, the ringing of a bell is already an adventure, a trip to a nearby city is considered an era in life, and a visit to a guest leaves a long, sometimes eternal memory. Of course, everyone is free to laugh at some of their oddities; but the jokes of a superficial observer cannot destroy their essential merits, of which the main thing is character, originality (individuality), without which, according to Jean-Paul, human greatness does not exist. In the capitals, women get maybe better education; but the skill of light soon softens the character and makes souls as monotonous as hats. Let this be said not in court, and not in condemnation, but nota nostra manet, as one old commentator writes. It is easy to imagine what impression Alexey must have made among our young ladies. He was the first to appear before them, gloomy and disappointed, the first to tell them about lost joys and about his faded youth; Moreover, he wore a black ring with the image death's head . All this was extremely new in that province. The young ladies went crazy for him. But the one who was most occupied with him was my Anglomaniac daughter, Lisa (or Betsy, as Grigory Ivanovich usually called her). The fathers did not visit each other, she had not yet seen Alexei, while all the young neighbors were talking only about him. She was seventeen years old. Her dark eyes enlivened her dark and very pleasant face. She was the only and therefore spoiled child. Her agility and minute-by-minute pranks delighted her father and drove her Madame Miss Jackson, a forty-year-old prim girl, into despair, who bleached her hair and raised her eyebrows, re-read Pamela twice a year, received two thousand rubles for it, and died of boredom in this barbaric Russia. Nastya followed Liza; she was older, but just as flighty as her young lady. Lisa loved her very much, revealed all her secrets to her, and thought over her ideas with her; in a word, Nastya was a much more significant person in the village of Priluchina than any confidante in the French tragedy. “Let me go visit today,” Nastya said one day, dressing the young lady. "If you please; where to?" “In Tugilovo, to the Berestovs. The cook’s wife is their birthday girl, and yesterday she came to invite us to dinner.” "Here!" said Lisa, “The gentlemen are quarreling, and the servants are calming each other down.” “What do we care about gentlemen!” Nastya objected; “besides, I’m yours, not daddy’s. You haven’t fought with young Berestov yet; let the old people fight if it’s fun for them.” “Try, Nastya, to see Alexei Berestov, and tell me thoroughly what he is like and what kind of person he is.” Nastya promised, and Lisa eagerly awaited her return all day. In the evening Nastya appeared. “Well, Lizaveta Grigorievna,” she said, entering the room, “saw young Berestov: she had enough of a look; we were together all day.” - “How is this? Tell me, tell me in order.” “If you please, let’s go, me, Anisya Egorovna, Nenila, Dunka...” - “Okay, I know. Well then?” “Let me tell you everything in order. So we came just before dinner. The room was full of people. There were the Kolbinskys, the Zakharyevskys, the clerk with her daughters, the Khlupinskys...” - “Well! And the Berestovs?” “Wait, sir. So we sat down at the table, the clerk was in first place, I was next to her... and the daughters were sulking, but I don’t care about them...” - “Oh Nastya, how boring you are with your eternal details!” “How impatient you are! Well, we left the table... and we sat for three hours and the dinner was delicious; the blanc-mange cake was blue, red and striped... So we left the table and went into the garden to play burners, and the young master appeared here.” - “Well? Is it true that he is so good-looking?” “Surprisingly handsome, handsome, one might say. Slender, tall, blush all over his cheek...” - “Really? And I thought that his face was pale. Well? What did he look like to you? Sad, thoughtful?” “What are you talking about? I’ve never seen such a madman in my life. He decided to run into the burners with us.” - “Running into the burners with you! Impossible!” “Very possible! What else did you come up with! He’ll catch you and kiss you!” - “Your will, Nastya, you’re lying.” “It’s your choice, I’m not lying. I got rid of him by force. He messed around with us all day.” - “Why, they say, he’s in love and doesn’t look at anyone?” “I don’t know, sir, but he looked at me too much, and at Tanya, the clerk’s daughter, too; and at Pasha Kolbinskaya, but it’s a shame he didn’t offend anyone, such a spoiler!” - “This is amazing! What do you hear about him in the house?” "Master, tell me
Ivan Petrovich was a retired guardsman, lived on his estate Tugilovo and regularly ran the household. He was widowed early, and his son, Alexey, studied at the city university. The neighbors loved Berestov, although they considered him a little arrogant. Grigory Ivanovich lived in Priluchino and ran a household in the English manner. Even his daughter, Lisa (Betsy), was raised by the Englishwoman Madame Jackson. The landowners did not get along with each other. Berestov criticized his neighbor's Anglomania, and Muromsky considered him ignorant and too proud. So they lived in eternal conflict.
Soon young Berestov arrived in the village after graduating from university. He dreamed about military career, but Ivan Petrovich was categorically against it. That’s why the guy was forced to stay in the village and live as a “master.” They said that Alexey was handsome, and he quickly became an eligible bachelor among the romantic young ladies of the district. However, he remained cold to all signs of attention. They even began to say that he had a secret love affair. Muromsky's daughter Liza did not stand aside either. One day she asked the maid Nastya, with whom she shared all her secrets, to find out what kind of young master he was and what interested him. Nastya had just been invited to Tugilovo for the cook’s wife’s name day.
Returning from the Berestov estate, Nastya said that the master was really good, loved to chase “skirts”, knew how to cheer up the girls and paid due attention to everyone. It turned out that he was not a pale and sad knight at all, but a cheerful young man. Lisa then became even more interested in him and began to think about how to attract his attention. She was only 17 years old. She is naturally dark-skinned and has a pleasant complexion, with black and lively eyes. After some thought, Nastya and Lisa came up with a plan. They decided to dress the lady as a peasant and send her on a morning walk towards Tugilov, where Alexey Berestov hunted every day. That's what they did.
The next morning, Lisa put on a shirt and a sundress made of thick canvas, a pair of bast shoes and hit the road. Crossing the line of her father's property, the girl became seriously agitated. Once in the grove, she walked slowly, lost in thought. Suddenly, an angry cop dog ran out from behind the bushes and began barking at her desperately. Lisa was terribly scared and began to scream. A young hunter ran out to help, called the dog to him and began to calm the girl down. That's how they met. Lisa introduced herself as Akulina, the daughter of a Priluchinsky blacksmith. Trying to equal her in status, Alexey also wanted to introduce himself as a peasant, but she quickly stopped him and said that it was clear from him that he was a gentleman. So they quietly started talking. Every time he tried to hug her or come closer, Lisa assumed a cold and serious look. Having said goodbye, they decided to meet the next day, otherwise Alexey was going to visit Akulina’s father, Vasily the blacksmith.
Returning home, the girl repented of her action, but was even more afraid that the truth would be revealed. Therefore, the next day she was forced to go on another date. Alexei really liked the girl for her originality. Inspired by the acquaintance, he came to the date even earlier than the agreed time. And she came in a depressed state and asked to stop the meetings, because she was afraid of her father. Alexey still insists on further meetings and promises not to look for her in the village and not ask anyone about her. So they soon became friends and began to meet daily. Two months passed unnoticed.
One day an event occurred that changed the lives of several people at once. The landowners Muromsky and Berestov went out at the same time for a horse ride. Having accidentally collided while Berestov was hunting a hare, Muromsky fell from the horse that carried him. In this situation, the long-time neighbor and enemy showed himself in the best possible way. Ivan Petrovich helped Muromsky get up, asked if he had hurt himself, and even invited him to his place for breakfast. So the neighbors got into a pleasant conversation and parted as bosom friends. As a farewell, Grigory Ivanovich invited Berestov and his son to his place for lunch.
Lisa, having learned about this, was confused. She and Nastya came up with a plan to make sure that Alexey did not recognize Akulina in her. She prudently made her father promise that he would not be surprised at her antics. Then she came out to the guests all whitewashed and made up more miss Jackson. The prim Englishwoman guessed where Lisa got all this whitewash from and was privately angry. Muromsky, as promised, tried not to show it. The dinner took place in a quiet, peaceful atmosphere. The guests occasionally cast sidelong glances at the owner's daughter, but behaved with respect and restraint.
It never occurred to Alexei that this creature, whitened to the ears, could be his beloved Akulina. After the guests left, Grigory Ivanovich asked why she decided to put on makeup like that, but he himself, of course, had no idea about the reason for his daughter’s behavior. The next day, during a date, Alexey shared with Akulina his impressions of visiting the Muromskys, and told how he did not like the young lady. At the same time, he added that compared to Akulina, she is a freak. Meanwhile, the friendship of the old landowners only grew stronger, and they even began to think about how to unite their families. After all, the Muromskys and Berestovs were among the richest families in the area.
When Ivan Petrovich announced his decision to marry Alexei to Lisa Muromskaya, he flatly refused. Berestov threatened to deprive his son of his inheritance, but he agreed to this too, just so as not to lose his beloved Akulina. Desperate, he went to Priluchino without warning to talk with Muromsky. Not finding him there, Alexey decided to talk to Lisa herself and explain that she loved someone else. Entering the room, he found an incredible picture. Akulina herself sat there and wrote him a letter. How happy he was to learn that Akulina was Liza Grigorievna. This is how this little misunderstanding was resolved.
Brestov, a retired guardsman, lives on an estate he owns called Tugilov, in his remote province. Ivan Petrovich has been a widower for a long time and has never left the province. He is busy with housework and is proud that he considers himself the most smart person in the surrounding area, but he is not interested in any news or books, only the Senate Gazette. Everyone loves him, but at the same time they consider him very proud, although there is one neighbor with whom they have been in conflict for a long time. The neighbor's name is Muromsky Grigory Ivanovich. He has an estate in Priluchina, which he runs in the English manner. Brestov does not like anything new and is dissatisfied with his neighbor’s innovation.
Alexey, the son of a guardsman, had just graduated from university and came to visit his father. The local young ladies, seeing the young man, became very interested in him, but most of all he was noticed by Lisa, the daughter of Grigory of Muromsky. Alexey did not show his feelings for the beauty in any way and people began to say that he was very shy. One day, serf Anastasia went to the Brestovs’ house, where her relatives lived. Elizabeth really asked to look at the young master who was in love with her.
Nastya told Elizabeth that the master flirted with all the peasant girls he noticed. Elizaveta dresses up as a simple girl and heads to the Brestovs’ house. Not far from the province of Brest, she is attacked by a dog, a young hunter scolds the dog and calls him to him, calming the frightened Elizabeth. She learns that the hunter is the valet of Brestov's son. Elizabeth instantly realizes that the man is lying to her and recognizes him as Alexei.
Elizaveta introduces herself as the daughter of a blacksmith named Akulina. The man likes the peasant woman, and he offers to pick her up at home tomorrow, and at the same time meet her father, but Lisa, greatly frightened of exposure, changes the meeting place and offers to meet again where they met today.
Elizabeth is at a loss: she has long since repented that she deceived Brestov. But she is even more afraid that Brestov will visit the blacksmith and see that his daughter is not the most beautiful girl in appearance. Alexey arrives at the appointed place on time, he was amazed to meet such a noble peasant woman, but Lisa, approaching in a very upset state, explains that she will no longer be able to see him. Alexey is very glad to meet you and his plans do not include such a quick separation. Elizabeth forces Alexei to promise her that he will never seek a meeting with her and seek goodwill towards himself, and if she wants to see him, then she herself will let him know when this time comes. Their secret meetings last for another two months, until one unpleasant circumstance happened that almost destroyed their fairy tale.
One day, Ivan Brestov accidentally meets Muromsky at the place where Muromsky prefers to hunt and ends up in the house of his hater, as he falls from his horse. Finally, the men talked and came to a certain sympathy in relation to each other. They arrange a meeting. Anastasia and Elizabeth come up with a plan that can save the situation, since their acquaintance threatens to expose them. Anastasia heavily disguises Lisa's face with powder, makeup and an unnatural hairstyle.
In the morning, Lisa gets ready to meet Alexey again. He talks about how the master’s daughter is extremely ugly.
The parents decide to marry their children. Alexey is very dissatisfied with this and goes to the Muromskys with a refusal to marry, but meets Elizabeth. In the end, everything is resolved and they come to satisfaction. Next, the author decides not to go into details and completes his work.
A short retelling of “The Peasant Young Lady” was prepared by Oleg Nikov for the reader’s diary.
- The main characters in this work Several characters appear at once. First of all, this is the young lady herself Lisa, dressing up as a peasant woman to meet the neighbor's son of a landowner. The girl was only seventeen years old and like all girls, she was a little spoiled, playful and loved to play pranks.
- Second main character, this is the subject of her love languor, Alexey, a young man who has graduated from university and wants to go into military service. His father, a successful business executive, conservative, owner of the estate, Ivan Petrovich Berestov. Lisa's father, Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, is an Anglomaniac and lover of innovation.
Enemy neighbors
The widower Berestov lives on one estate. He has a house built according to his plans, a factory and lands that bring in a constant income. He considers himself a smart person, often receives guests, but is known among his neighbors as a proud man. The only master with whom he does not get along is Grigory Ivanovich Muromsky, who settled in the village after squandering most of his fortune.
On his estate, he arranged everything in the English way. He even hired an English madam for his daughter. But he has no income, and even gets into new debts. These two neighbors speak extremely negatively about each other, criticizing their opponent’s lifestyle.
Alexey's arrival
After studying at the university, his son Alexey came to Berestov’s village. He was an attractive, slender young man who did not want to spend all his days doing paperwork. His appearance became big event in the lives of bored local young ladies.
Many girls looked at him, but he did not show any special sympathy for anyone. From its apparent gloom, invented by the unlucky love story, the young ladies were greatly impressed and lost their heads.
Lisa's interest
If everyone had already seen the young master, then Liza, Muromsky’s daughter, went crazy with curiosity. She had heard rumors about him, but seeing Alexei was not possible for a girl whose father was strongly at enmity with his father. But Nastya, Lisa’s personal maid, her confidante and friend, went to a nearby estate for her name day with the local cook.
In the evening, she enthusiastically told her young lady her impressions of her meeting with Alexei. According to her, the master was cheerful, but a spoiler who loved to chase girls. Lisa wanted to see him, and she figured out how to do this so as not to seem intrusive or flighty.
First meeting
Having purchased suitable material, Lisa, with the help of Nastya, sewed for herself peasant clothes and even straightened her bast shoes. Early in the morning, after changing clothes, she ran across the field to the neighboring estate. In the grove she encountered a young gentleman who had gone out to hunt.
She pretended to be Akulina, the daughter of the blacksmith Vasily. Her inaccessibility and severity won over Alexei, who was accustomed to not stand on ceremony with village women. And Lisa diligently played the role of an illiterate peasant woman, but with a sense of her own dignity.
The master liked her so much that he wanted to visit her father, Vasily. Frightened of being exposed, Lisa-Akulina promised to meet with the master again.
Secret dates
The next morning, they took place new meeting, although before this Lisa was tormented by doubts about the correctness and morality of such an act. But Alexei was already obsessed with thoughts only of the beautiful Akulina, so unlike other peasant women.
Tormented by her conscience, she wanted to stop their dates, but the master managed to dissuade her, promising to never look for her in the village. After two months of such secret meetings, both were already madly in love, without thinking about the future.
On the verge of exposure
It so happened that having met by chance on a walk, Berestov helped Muromsky, who had fallen from the saddle to the ground. He invited his neighbor to visit, followed by a return visit. Having learned that the Berestovs would come to them for lunch, Lisa came up with a way to avoid detection.
She put on fluffed, fake curls, whitened and darkened her face, put on a lot of jewelry and an absurd outfit, and spoke coyly and flirtatiously. The trick was a success, and Alexey left their house with full confidence that his Akulina was much better than this unnatural dandy, young lady Liza.
Denouement
Lisa-Akulina asked Alexey to teach her to read and write. Apparently, having quickly learned the alphabet, she was already able to correspond with him, leaving notes in the hollow of an oak tree. And their parents became such strong friends that they agreed to marry their children, having their own reasons for this.
Having learned about his imminent marriage and his father’s intention to deprive him of his inheritance if he decided to oppose this, Alexei realized how much he loved Akulina. He was even capable of becoming a beggar for her sake and living as a peasant labor. He went to the Muromskys to urge them to prudence.
The owner was not at home, but in the living room he saw his Akulina, sitting by the window in a young lady’s dress. When he kissed her hands, Muromsky saw them, realizing that the matter had worked out.
