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There are such literary works, in relation to which the words "summary" sound inappropriate. Bezhin Meadow by Turgenev is one of them. If we compare this story with a painting by the master, then you will not see there dense strokes of rich oil paint, carefully “written out” details. Everything is transparent, fleeting, like life itself.
It is no coincidence that Ivan Turgenev picked up such changing, maturing characters in his story. "Bezhin Meadow" is both freemen and a huge world of childhood for boys: Vanya (7 years old), Ilyusha (12 years old), Kostya (10 years old), Pavlusha (12 years old) and Fedya (14 years old). With individual strokes of the master, Ivan Sergeevich individualizes the guys: Fedya is a slender, handsome boy from a we althy family; Pavlusha - with an ordinary appearance, but with tangible inner strength; the blind-sighted and hook-nosed Ilyusha is notorious and driven by nature; Kostya is thoughtful and sad; Vanya, the smallest, tired, falls asleep without participating in the conversation.
The writer is certainly a fatalist, so he creates a romantic feeling of uniqueness and irreversibility of this summer evening by artistic means. After all, the boys will grow up, become different. Is it not in this grace of “drawing in the sand” that the story conceals its summary?! “Bezhin Meadow” by Turgenev captured with the words of a hunter who, by chance, overheard a children’s conversation around a campfire, that night, reflections of a flame, inspired faces of little storytellers, horses’ manes fluttering in the wind, stars burning out in their pupils. Later, the impression of transience, “watercolor”, will be intensified by the fact that, while reading the mini-epilogue of the story, we will find out that Pavel will soon be killed by falling from a horse.
Let's follow the idea of the story by presenting its summary. Turgenev's "Bezhin Meadow" begins with the fact that the narrator "from the author", while hunting near Tula in the Chernsky district, got lost and went out into the steppe expanse in the evening. He saw the above-mentioned guys who led the horses out to graze in the steppe at night (at night). The boys told various naive-mysterious stories. Ilyusha - about the brownie, whom he heard while spending the night at a paper mill. Kostya is about the meeting of the carpenter Gavrila with the mermaid. Ilyusha - infernal "horror stories" about the huntsman Yermila and about the woman Ulyana. Ilyusha - about Trishka, who appears during a solar eclipse. All this seems to the boys mysterious and significant. Already in the morning, having spoken the night, they are trying to determine the difference between the goblin and the water one. Kostya tells about a boy who was dragged away by a merman. Only in the morning guysfall asleep. Formally, the author determines the summary by the above sequence of stories. "Bezhin Meadow" by Turgenev, thus, appears as a kind of prose poem - about nature, about childhood, and in a broad sense - about the beauty of the Motherland.
Let's return to the analogy of Turgenev's story with watercolors - light, fleeting and therefore beautiful. The work does not contain any documentation. It does not contain analytical reasoning. But it certainly carries the mood. An adult reader will surely feel longing that childhood has passed, and he is already far from the simple and pure boyish dreams and fantasies, that he cannot hide at night with steppe feather grass, jump on a horse in the middle of the night and rush across the steppe towards wind after the boys. He will be sad that childhood is gone, like a night mist melted under the morning sun.
About Turgenev's story "Bezhin Meadow", one can probably say in the words of the great Pushkin that the "Russian spirit" is piercingly felt in it. And in the description of the night steppe, and in the muffled conversation of the boys, it is elusive and harmoniously in Turgenev’s way “It smells of Russia”. About the same about Turgenev, S altykov-Shchedrin wrote, noting that after getting acquainted with the works of Ivan Sergeevich "it is easy to believe", "breath easily", life seems more harmonious and perfect.
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