“Poor Lisa” (a summary of the story-symbol of the era of sentimentalism of Russian literature will be presented in the article) is a story about a simple girl. Of course, to convey the whole impression and the whole plot of a seemingly small work is impossible in such a concise form.
The author is an outstanding historian N. Karamzin. “Poor Lisa” (a brief summary can be read below) is a sentimental story that has become an example of this trend in Russian classics. So, the actions of the events described take place in the vicinity of Moscow ...
"Poor Lisa": a summary
Not far from the monastery is the house where the main character lives. Her father was an honest peasant. After his death, Lisa and her mother had to give land for rent for little money. Despite this, the girl continued to work hard. Once Lisa went to the market to sell lilies of the valley. There, a pleasant young man called Erast approached her. He was handsome, handsome and rich. He led a fairly free lifestyle. Erast offered the girl a ruble for the bouquet, but she, because of her modesty, took only 5 kopecks (this retelling of the text is a summary). Poor Lisa picked up the bouquet again the next day, but Erast never came. But the next day, the nobleman visited the girl in her house. Since then, they began to meet frequently.
Erast saw in a simple girl what he had always dreamed of: peace and love. He is tired of the light, of artificial relationships and a loose lifestyle. With Lisa, he was calm and happy. During their next meeting, the girl admitted that they want to marry her to a wealthy peasant. Lisa threw herself into the arms of a young man, and "at this hour the integrity of the integrity was to perish." Poor Lisa (the summary of the story should prompt her to read the original) continued to meet her lover, but now Erast’s attitude has changed: he no longer saw that pure angel in her. He later goes to war.
Two months later, Lisa was again in the city, where she saw her lover in a rich carriage. The girl threw herself on his neck, but he rejected her embrace, brought him to the office and announced that he would marry a rich widow, since he had lost almost all his fortune. Erast gives the girl a hundred rubles, asks to forget him. Lisa can’t stand such a grudge. On the way home, she meets her neighbor, who gives money and asks to tell her mother that she was deceived by her beloved. Lisa rushes into the water. Erast, learning about the death of a girl, blames himself for the rest of his days.
Nikolai Karamzin wrote a wonderful sentimental novel “Poor Liza” (the summary does not convey the full power of the work). This story became the basis of many women's novels, became the basis for creating films and just an example of sentimentalism in Russian and world classical literature. The exciting love story of an ordinary peasant woman and a windy nobleman caused the minds of that time to stir and makes modern people read the story in one breath. This is a classic of the genre.