What hero in Russian literature is cheerful? What and how did the heroes of Russian classics read? Review of works and their heroes
I continue the series “Literary Heroes” that I once started...
Heroes of Russian literature
Almost every literary character has its own prototype - a real person. Sometimes it is the author himself (Ostrovsky and Pavka Korchagin, Bulgakov and the Master), sometimes - historical figure, sometimes - an acquaintance or relative of the author.
This story is about the prototypes of Chatsky and Taras Bulba, Ostap Bender, Timur and other heroes of the books...
1.Chatsky "Woe from Wit"
The main character of Griboyedov's comedy - Chatsky- most often associated with a name Chaadaeva(in the first version of the comedy Griboyedov wrote “Chadsky”), although the image of Chatsky is in many ways social type era, "hero of the time."
Petr Yakovlevich Chaadaev(1796-1856) - participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, was on a campaign abroad. In 1814 he joined the Masonic lodge, and in 1821 he agreed to join a secret society.
From 1823 to 1826, Chaadaev traveled around Europe, comprehended the latest philosophical teachings. After returning to Russia in 1828-1830, he wrote and published a historical and philosophical treatise: “Philosophical Letters.” The views, ideas, and judgments of the thirty-six-year-old philosopher turned out to be so unacceptable for Nicholas Russia that the author of “Philosophical Letters” suffered an unprecedented punishment: by the highest decree he was declared crazy. It so happened that the literary character did not repeat the fate of his prototype, but predicted it...
2.Taras Bulba
Taras Bulba is written so organically and vividly that the reader cannot leave the feeling of his reality.
But there was a man whose fate was similar to the fate of Gogol’s hero. And this man also had the surname Gogol!
Ostap Gogol was born in early XVII century. On the eve of 1648, he was the captain of the “panzer” Cossacks in the Polish army stationed in Uman under the command of S. Kalinovsky. With the outbreak of the uprising, Gogol, along with his heavy cavalry, went over to the side of the Cossacks. 
In October 1657, Hetman Vygovsky with the general foreman, of which Ostap Gogol was a member, concluded the Korsun Treaty of Ukraine with Sweden.
In the summer of 1660, Ostap's regiment took part in the Chudnivsky campaign, after which the Slobodishchensky Treaty was signed. Gogol took the side of autonomy within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was made a gentry.
In 1664, an uprising broke out against the Poles and the hetman in Right Bank Ukraine Teteri. Gogol initially supported the rebels. However, he again went over to the enemy's side. The reason for this was his sons, whom Hetman Potocki held hostage in Lvov. When Doroshenko became hetman, Gogol came under his mace and helped him a lot. When he fought with the Turks near Ochakov, Doroshenko proposed at the Rada to recognize the supremacy of the Turkish Sultan, and it was accepted.
.
At the end of 1671, Crown Hetman Sobieski took Mogilev, Gogol's residence. One of Ostap’s sons died during the defense of the fortress. The colonel himself fled to Moldova and from there sent Sobieski a letter of his desire to submit.
As a reward for this, Ostap received the village of Vilkhovets. The certificate of the estate's salary served the grandfather of the writer Nikolai Gogol as evidence of his nobility.
Colonel Gogol became Hetman of Right Bank Ukraine on behalf of King John III Sobieski. He died in 1679 at his residence in Dymer and was buried in the Kiev-Mezhigorsky Monastery near Kyiv.
Analogy with the story is obvious: both heroes are Zaporozhye colonels, both had sons, one of whom died at the hands of the Poles, the other went over to the side of the enemy. Thus, a distant ancestor of the writer and was the prototype of Taras Bulba.
3.Plyushkin
Oryol landowner Spiridon Matsnev he was extremely stingy, walked around in a greasy robe and dirty clothes, so that few could recognize him as a rich gentleman.
The landowner had 8,000 peasant souls, but he starved not only them, but also himself. 
N.V. Gogol brought this stingy landowner to “ Dead souls"in the image of Plyushkin. “If Chichikov had met him, so dressed up, somewhere at the church door, he would probably have given him a copper penny”...
“This landowner had more than a thousand souls, and anyone else would try to find so much bread in grain, flour and simply in storerooms, whose storerooms, barns and drying rooms were cluttered with so many linens, cloth, dressed and rawhide sheepskins...” .
The image of Plyushkin became a household name.
4. Silvio
“Shot” A.S. Pushkin
Silvio's prototype is Ivan Petrovich Liprandi.
Pushkin's friend, the prototype of Silvio in "The Shot".
Author best memories about Pushkin's southern exile.
The son of a Russified Spanish grandee. Participant in the Napoleonic wars since 1807 (from the age of 17). Colleague and friend of the Decembrist Raevsky, member of the Union of Welfare. Arrested in the Decembrist case in January 1826, he was in a cell with Griboedov. 
“...His personality was of undoubted interest in his talents, fate and original image life. He was gloomy and gloomy, but he loved to gather officers at his place and entertain them widely. The sources of his income were shrouded in mystery to everyone. A book reader and book lover, he was famous for his brawling, and a rare duel took place without his participation."
Pushkin "Shot" 
At the same time, Liprandi turned out to be an employee of military intelligence and the secret police.
Since 1813, the head of the secret political police under Vorontsov's army in France. He communicated closely with the famous Vidocq. Together with the French gendarmerie, he participated in the disclosure of the anti-government “Pin Society”. Since 1820, the chief military intelligence officer at the headquarters of Russian troops in Bessarabia. At the same time, he became the main theorist and practitioner of military and political espionage.
Since 1828 - head of the Higher Secret Foreign Police. Since 1820 - directly subordinate to Benckendorf. Organizer of provocation in the Butashevich-Petrashevsky circle. Organizer of Ogarev's arrest in 1850. Author of a project to establish a spy school at universities...
5.Andrey Bolkonsky
Prototypes Andrey Bolkonsky there were several. His tragic death was “copied” by Leo Tolstoy from the biography of a real prince Dmitry Golitsyn.
Prince Dmitry Golitsyn was registered for service in the Moscow archive of the Ministry of Justice. Soon Emperor Alexander I granted him the rank of chamberlain cadet, and then actual chamberlain, which was equivalent to the rank of general. 
In 1805, Prince Golitsyn entered the military service and together with the army went through the campaigns of 1805-1807.
In 1812, he submitted a report with a request to enlist in the army, became an Akhtyrsky hussar; Denis Davydov also served in the same regiment. Golitsin took part in border battles as part of the 2nd Russian army of General Bagration, fought at the Shevardinsky redoubt, and then found himself on the left flank of the Russian formations on the Borodino field.
In one of the skirmishes, Major Golitsyn was seriously wounded by a grenade fragment., he was carried from the battlefield. After the operation in the field hospital, it was decided to take the wounded man further east.
"Bolkonsky House" in Vladimir. 
They made a stop in Vladimir, Major Golitsyn was placed in one of the merchant houses on a steep hill on Klyazma. But, almost a month after the Battle of Borodino, Dmitry Golitsyn died in Vladimir...
.....................
Soviet literature
6. Assol
The gentle dreamer Assol had more than one prototype.
First prototype - Maria Sergeevna Alonkina, secretary of the House of Arts, almost everyone living and visiting this House was in love with her.
One day, while climbing the stairs to his office, Green saw a short, dark-skinned girl talking with Korney Chukovsky.
There was something unearthly in her appearance: flying gait, radiant look, ringing happy laugh. It seemed to him that she looked like Assol from the story “ Scarlet Sails", which he was working on at the time.
The image of 17-year-old Masha Alonkina occupied Green's imagination and was reflected in the extravaganza story. 
"I don't know how much years will pass, only in Kaperna will one fairy tale blossom, memorable for a long time. You will be big, Assol. One morning, in the sea distance, a scarlet sail will sparkle under the sun. The shining bulk of the scarlet sails of the white ship will move, cutting through the waves, straight towards you..."
And in 1921 Green met with Nina Nikolaevna Mironova, who worked for the Petrograd Echo newspaper. He, gloomy and lonely, was at ease with her, he was amused by her coquetry, he admired her love of life. Soon they got married.
The door is closed, the lamp is lit.
She will come to me in the evening
There are no more aimless, dull days -
I sit and think about her...
On this day she will give me her hand,
I trust quietly and completely.
A terrible world is raging around,
Come, beautiful, dear friend.
Come, I've been waiting for you for a long time.
It was so sad and dark
But the winter spring has come,
Light knock...My wife came.
Green dedicated the extravaganza “Scarlet Sails” and the novel “The Shining World” to her, his “winter spring.”
..................
7. Ostap Bender and the Children of Lieutenant Schmidt
The person who became the prototype of Ostap Bender is known.
This - Osip (Ostap) Veniaminovich Shor(1899 -1979). Shor was born in Odessa, was an employee of the UGRO, a football player, a traveler…. Was a friend E. Bagritsky, Y. Olesha, Ilf and Petrov. His brother was the futurist poet Nathan Fioletov.
The appearance, character and speech of Ostap Bender are taken from Osip Shor.
Almost all the famous “Bendery” phrases - “The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!”, “I will command the parade!”, “My dad was a Turkish subject...” and many others - were gleaned by the authors from Shor’s vocabulary.
In 1917, Shor entered the first year of Petrogradsky Institute of Technology, and in 1919 he left for his homeland. He got home almost two years, with many adventures, which I talked about the authors of "The Twelve Chairs".
The stories they told about how he, unable to draw, got a job as an artist on a propaganda ship, or about how he gave a simultaneous game in some remote town, introducing himself as an international grandmaster, were reflected in “12 Chairs” practically unchanged.
By the way, the famous leader of the Odessa bandits, Teddy Bear, which UGRO employee Shor fought, became the prototype Benny Krika, from " Odessa stories" by I. Babel.
And here is the episode that gave rise to the creation of the image "children of Lieutenant Schmidt."
In August 1925, a man with an oriental appearance, decently dressed, wearing American glasses, appeared at the Gomel Provincial Executive Committee and introduced himself Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Uzbek SSR Fayzula Khojaev. He told the chairman of the provincial executive committee, Egorov, that he was traveling from Crimea to Moscow, but his money and documents were stolen on the train. Instead of a passport, he presented a certificate that he was really Khodzhaev, signed by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Crimean Republic, Ibragimov.
He was received warmly, given money, and began to be taken to theaters and banquets. But one of the police chiefs decided to compare the Uzbek’s personality with the portraits of the chairmen of the Central Election Commission, which he found in an old magazine. Thus, the false Khojaev was exposed, who turned out to be a native of Kokand, traveling from Tbilisi, where he was serving his sentence...
In the same way, posing as a high-ranking official, ex-convict had fun in Yalta, Simferopol, Novorossiysk, Kharkov, Poltava, Minsk...
It was a fun time - the time of the NEP and such desperate people, adventurers as Shor and the false Khojaev.
Later I will write separately about Bender...
………
8.Timur
TIMUR is the hero of the film script and A. Gaidar’s story “Timur and His Team.” One of the most famous and popular heroes of Soviet children's literature of the 30s - 40s.
Under the influence of the story by A.P. Gaidar “Timur and his team” in the USSR arose among pioneers and schoolchildren in the early years. 1940s "Timurov movement". Timurovites provided assistance to military families, the elderly...
It is believed that the “prototype” of Timurov’s team for A. Gaidar was a group of scouts that operated back in the 10s in the dacha suburb of St. Petersburg.“Timurovites” and “scouts” really have a lot in common (especially in the ideology and practice of children’s “knightly” care for the people around them, the idea of committing good deeds"by secret").
The story Gaidar told turned out to be surprisingly consonant with the mood of a whole generation of guys: the fight for justice, an underground headquarters, a specific alarm system, the ability to quickly gather “in a chain,” etc. 
It is interesting that in the early edition the story was called "Duncan and his team" or “Duncan to the rescue” - the hero of the story was - Vovka Duncan. The influence of the work is obvious Jules Verne: yacht "Duncan""At the first alarm signal I went to the aid of Captain Grant.
In the spring of 1940, while working on a film based on an unfinished story, the name "Duncan" was rejected. The Cinematography Committee expressed bewilderment: “Good soviet boy. Pioneer. I came up with this useful game and suddenly - “Duncan”. We consulted with our comrades here - you need to change your name"
And then Gaidar gave the hero the name of his own son, whom he called “little commander” in life. According to another version - Timur- the name of the neighbor boy. Here's a girl Zhenya received the name from Gaidar’s adopted daughter from his second marriage.
The image of Timur embodies the ideal type of a teenage leader with his desire for noble deeds, secrets, and pure ideals.
Concept "Timurovets" firmly entered into everyday life. Until the end of the 80s, Timurites were children who provided selfless help to those in need.
....................
9. Captain Vrungel
From the story Andrey Nekrasov "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel"".
A book about the incredible sea adventures of the resourceful and resilient captain Vrungel, his senior mate Lom and sailor Fuchs. 
Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel- main character and the narrator on whose behalf the story is told. An experienced old sailor, with a solid and prudent character, not lacking in ingenuity.
The first part of the surname uses the word "liar". Vrungel, whose name has become a household name, is a naval analogue Baron Munchausen,
telling tall tales about his sailing adventures.
According to Nekrasov himself, the prototype of Vrungel was his acquaintance with the surname Vronsky, lover of telling maritime fables with his own participation. His last name was so suitable for the main character that the book was originally supposed to be called " The Adventures of Captain Vronsky", however, for fear of offending a friend, the author chose a different surname for the main character.
................
Once again, our editors decide to conduct field research on a book topic. This time we asked women, including from other countries, to answer the question: who are their favorite female literary characters? Who do they look up to, who inspired them to be who they are, or inspires them to develop themselves?
We got interesting results. Most of our respondents, and there were more than two dozen of them, named dramatic heroines classic novels like Jane Eyre, passionate, restless, not always happy. But our favorite movie heroines had a completely different character: the warrior princess Xena or Carrie Bradshaw. From this we made two conclusions: many film adaptations completely changed the personality of classic book heroines: for example, in the legend of Robin Hood, Lady Marion is a gentle lady who needs to be saved, and in the film with Costner, she is an ironic and strong-willed girl who deftly wields a sword. Secondly, for reasons beyond our control, we did not read the books on which many of our favorite films were based - for example, “Fantaghiro” by Italo Calvino, but everyone enjoyed watching the film about an adventurous princess in knightly armor.
Nevertheless, we present to you our heroines. Let's start with those who are dear to us since childhood.
Pippi Longstocking
Irina (30 years old, Ukraine, Social worker) : Pippi taught me that obedience is not always good, that manners and rules can be neglected for the sake of sincerity, honesty, friendship, that a girl can fight, be independent and force herself to be respected.
Peppi Dovgapanchokha
Astrid Lindgren, Swallowtail-Ukraine
It's actually a very, very funny book. It's funny how Pippi deals with hooligans: one on a tree, the other in a doll's stroller (the reader laughs to tears), how she makes clumsy police officers chase her, how she performs in the circus (the reader jumps on the sofa), how she fools thieves and tries to behave good in “decent” society (the reader dumps the sugar bowl on the floor). Pippi does everything exactly what children are NOT supposed to do, and this is what delights young readers. True, at the same time Pippi is kind, generous, noble girl. Don't forget to re-read this book with your children!
Ronya
Elena (27 years old, Ukraine, entrepreneur): It also seemed to me as a child that my parents didn’t understand me and I really wanted to run away into the forest and be on my own. Ronya made me feel that everything was within our power and there was no need to be afraid of anything, that we needed to look for and find like-minded people. The same adventurous boys, for example.
Ronya, the robber's daughter
Astrid Lindgren, Swallowtail-Ukraine
The quite happy and promising daughter of the robber Roni one fine day meets the son from a gang of competitors - the boy Birk. The children of sworn enemies, Roni and Birk either argue and compete, or save each other from danger - and finally become imbued with mutual sympathy. In secret from their parents, they decide to become sister and brother. But the irreconcilable enmity of the robber families interferes with their friendship. The children quarrel with their parents and run away from the castle into the forest. Here among the dangers wildlife And fairytale monsters they will have to test the strength of their friendship and live full of adventure summer. To get their children back, parents have to give up their feud. At the end of the story, the robber clans unite, and Roni and Birk, to the displeasure of their fathers, take an oath that they will never become robbers.
Anne Shirley
Miroslava (24 years old, journalist): I like the whole series, although I read these books when I was no longer a child or even a teenager. This is a story about an independent, hardworking and principled girl. Anne taught me to rely on myself and not wait for any princes.
Enn iz Zelenikh Dakhiv
Lucy-Maude Montgomery, Urbino
To begin with, Anne was supposed to be a boy. That is, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, single middle-aged brother and sister living in the village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, decided to adopt a boy from an orphanage who would help with the housework. And a girl arrived, Anne Shirley, smart. lively, kind, quick-tempered, red-haired. The character of Anne was very much loved by readers. In other books in the series, Anne grows up, learns, falls in love, and raises children. Little Anne became the prototype for Pippi Longstocking, and Mark Twain once called her “the most touching and charming child in literature since the immortal Alice.”
Pallas Athena and other Greek goddesses and nymphs
Kristina (35 years old, Ukraine, teacher): My dad was a sailor, so I really loved reading The Odyssey, of course, adapted for children, and then all the myths ancient Greece. Of course, my favorite heroine was Pallas Athena: wise, fair, brave. I will say now: not involved in “dubious” intrigues, like other nymphs, goddesses and princesses of Hellas. A real lady. But they were all beautiful, omnipotent, irresistible.
Myths of Ancient Greece
"Eksmo"
First of all, this is the basis Western culture. We cannot even imagine how much the plots, heroes and their adventures influenced everything that was written, invented and said after Homer. Without knowledge of myths a person cannot have any literary culture as such. Yes, this is the opinion of our editors.
Growing up, we began to read other books. About love. And they themselves began to want love “like in a book” and began to look for similarities with the heroines of their favorite novels. All the brave and passionate are in our thoughts: Larisa from “The Dowry”, hetaera Thais of Athens from novel of the same name Efremova and all the heroines of Dumas, and Consuelo Georges Sand.
Scarlett O'Hara
Let’s make a reservation right away that the majority of our respondents named this very heroine as the woman with whom they compare themselves and who they would like to be, of course, with regard to independence, perseverance, ingenuity and perseverance. Perhaps because we first saw the film and read the book at a time when a woman was supposed to be a Komsomol member and a mother-heroine at the same time.
Maria (25 years old, Ukraine, fashion pastry chef): Scarlett knows no barriers, she is a master of flirting and all sorts of feminine tricks, she didn’t give a damn about the opinion of society, capable of love, but unable to recognize it in another person. Strong woman. And, of course, “I’ll think about it tomorrow!”
gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell, Eksmo
A novel about how a beautiful and ambitious girl loved the wrong man all her life, loved the image she invented herself, loved because she could not get him. She loved through war and poverty, marrying others “to spite the conductor” or to improve the financial condition of the family - after all Civil War between the southern and northern states walked right through her Georgia homestead. In general, she almost achieved her goal. And she realized that this hero of her dreams was not a hero at all, but the person who should have reciprocated, left and did not look back.
Margarita
Maria (37 years old, Ukraine, designer): I wanted to feel in myself the same mystical, “witchy” beginning as in Margarita. “Play with fire” a little, decide to change your destiny and win over to your side higher power, albeit not light. All for love.
Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov, Eksmo
This is one of the most beloved novels in our selection about. In the ordinary, even ordinary, vulgar and terrible life Satan and his servants suddenly enter some Muscovites. He has absolutely his own affairs in Moscow, but suddenly he comes across two people whose love needs to be helped, and then the power “which always wants evil and always does good” saves the Master and Margarita. The Kalvaria publishing house published this novel translated into Ukrainian.
Anna Karenina
Oksana (32 years old, Russia, actress): It was during this period of my life that I loved Anna Karenina. For the depth of feelings, for honesty, for courage.
Ramona (40 years old, Italy, editor): Fearless, non-conformist, passionate, luxurious. And I don't like the way Tolstoy dealt with her character in the finale.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, Eksmo
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful, smart Anna married to an unloved old husband. She visited high society, wore expensive clothes, and adored her son. And suddenly she fell in love with the young and handsome man, and he fell in love with her. It was possible to hide, hide and drag out the affair for years. But she decided to leave her husband, live openly with her beloved, gave birth to a daughter from him and came to terms with the fact that high society she was no longer called. A bold choice. Everything would be fine, but only young and beautiful life with a tarnished reputation was no longer suitable and he decided to marry a “decent” girl. What could Anna do?
Feride
Tatyana (36 years old, translator, journalist, writer): If we talk about girlish reading, I was a big fan of Feride, a girl who created problems for herself, and then with great effort, but also with rare dignity, got out of them. She relied on herself, knew how to make friends, love, be grateful, generous and proud. In love, it’s either everything or nothing. Over time, I realized that extremes, especially in love, are only good in books, but in life you need to be smarter. And more fun.
Kinglet - songbird
Reshad Nuri Guntekin
This is a book about the Turkish Jane Eyre. About a poor orphan who fell in love with her cousin and he was supposed to marry someone else. Therefore, Feride ran away from home and led a working life full of hardships in the teaching field: she sowed reasonable, kind, eternal things in remote Turkish villages. Of course, she had to fend off the advances of unsuitable men. A few years later, she returned to visit relatives and learned that her cousin (a handsome, green-eyed, mustachioed man) was widowed. But in fact, he generally always loved only her, and that wife, already deceased, this is so - it happens.
Hermione
Tatyana (26 years old, Ukraine, journalist, editor): I could name many book heroines that I liked, reading about which I imagined myself in their place. But my biggest influence was Hermione Granger. Everything that the heroine did in the book impressed me. For me she is the most interesting character, it is clear with what love J.K. Rowling wrote her character. I love her for her insight, intelligence, talent, devotion, ability to be good friend, ingenuity and coolness when necessary. The only thing that upsets me about Hermione is her choice of companion. And as Rowling herself recently admitted, Hermione and Harry are the ideal couple, but the writer had her own reasons for turning the character’s story in a different direction.
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA"
School of magic, spells, curses, prophecies, friends, enemies and monsters. Surprisingly, an entire generation not only had fun reading these books, but also found their own role models. Hermione is smart, proactive, not afraid of responsibility, a girl-comrade in arms.
Dagny Taggert 
Svetlana (36 years old, Ukraine, PR manager): Men call a woman a bitch who has not been made into a fool. And she is also a stylish beauty!
Atlas straightened his shoulders
Ayn Rand, "Our Format"
The “Atlanteans” in Ayn Rand’s novel are sentenced to carry the main driving forces humanity - production, creation and creativity. In her opinion, it is thanks to the “Atlanteans”, the heroes of the novel, that the existence of humanity is possible. According to public opinion polls conducted in 1991 by the Library of Congress and book club“Book of the Month Club”, in America “Atlas Shrugged” is the second book after the Bible that led to changes in the lives of American readers. In our country, the novel “Atlas Shrugged” was little known until 2008, but became popular in the next two years and is regularly included in the top twenty bestsellers of business literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
Aminata (32 years old, Senegal-Italy-France, anthropologist, writer): Honestly, I can't remember any iconic female character. My role model for honesty was Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, but he's a guy. But the woman whose life and philosophy is an example for me is Simone de Beauvoir.
Second gender
Simone de Beauvoir
Do you like reading banned books? Which were banned so that women would not consider themselves equal to men? So, this book is included by the Vatican in the “Index of Prohibited Books.” "The Second Sex" is one of the most famous works author, telling about the treatment of women throughout human history; often considered as one of the main philosophical works feminist direction and how a starting point second wave feminism.
Dubravka Ugresic
Olya (42 years old, Serbia-Italy, teacher, translator): I also used to love the Bronte sisters and Gone with the Wind. And recently, I have been translating books by Dubravka Ugresic, a Croatian writer, and I admire her and her heroines: strong, brave, principled, who do not compromise with the patriarchal world.
No need to read!
Dubravka Ugresic, O. Morozova Publishing House
“No need to read!” Dubravki Ugresic is a bold criticism modern literature. The book consists of critical essays, more like fascinating stories. And the sparkling rebellious novel “Baba Yaga Laid an Egg” was translated into Russian.
Frida
Julia (36 years old, Germany, project manager): Frida is both the author and protagonist of her works, main character their paintings and poems. I love her for her strength of spirit, her ability not to indulge in grief, to remain true to herself and at the same time not to betray love.
Frida Kahlo. Kind of ruthless
Gerard de Cortans, "Nora-Druk"
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has long been a cult, icon, film, pop art and inspiration for many people around the world. Frida's life was always about overcoming pain, its sublimation into art. She was born only because her parents' only son died. She was in a terrible accident that ruined her health forever. She fell in love with a poet who did not know how to be faithful. She painted herself, her life, her soul, her country. The greatest artist And greatest woman in the emotional book by Gerard de Cortanza, the presentation of which in Ukrainian took place quite recently.
In world literature, there have been many images of female heroines who sank into the reader’s soul, fell in love, and began to be quoted.Some works of world literature are filmed and the viewer believes that the film is successful if the plot of the bookis fully revealed in the film, and the actors correspond to the beloved literary hero.
A woman is given a very important and extraordinary role in literature: she is an object of admiration,a source of inspiration, a longed-for dream and the personification of the most sublime in the world.
Undoubtedly, the beautiful women of world literature different fate: someone is an eternal ideal, like Juliet,some are fighters and simply beautiful women, like Scarlett O'Hara, while others are forgotten.How much heroine literary work will linger in the reader’s memory, is directly related to her appearance,character and actions. A literary heroine, as in life, must be self-sufficient, pretty,patient, purposeful, with a sense of humor and, of course, wise.
Our website decided to compile Rating of the most beautiful literary heroines. In some photos famous actresses or models who have not starred in the roles of the presented literary heroines, but, in our opinion, are very suitable for these roles. Descriptions of the appearance of the heroines are taken from books by authors of world literature in England, France, Australia, America, Turkey and Russia. Some books we love have not yet been filmed,but we sincerely believe that this time will not be long in coming.
15. TO Arla Saarnen ("Shantaram", Gregory David Roberts)
The main character meets Karla during his early days in Bombay.This marks the beginning of the protagonist's entry into Mafia circles. Karla Saaranen is characterized bythe main character as wise and mysterious beautiful woman. Carla brunette with green eyes, having eastern roots.Many philosophical considerations and sayings in the book belong to her.
14. Tess Durbeyfield (Tess of the Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy)
It was beautiful girl, perhaps no more beautiful than some others, but her moving scarlet mouth and large, innocent eyes emphasized her comeliness. She decorated her hair with a red ribbon and was the only one among the women dressed in white who could boast of such a bright decoration. There was still something childish in her face. And today, despite her bright femininity, her cheeks sometimes suggested a twelve-year-old girl, her shining eyes a nine-year-old, and the curve of her mouth a five-year-old baby.
You can guess the color of her face from a dark brown strand of hair escaping from under her cap... Her face is Oval face a beautiful young woman, deep dark eyes and long heavy braids that seem to cling pleadingly to everything they touch.
13. Helen Kuragina (Bezukhova) ("War and Peace", L. Tolstoy)
Helen Kuragina (Bezukhova) - outwardly ideal female beauty, the antipode of Natasha Rostova.Despite external beauty, in Helen all the vices characteristic of secular society are concentrated: arrogance, flattery, vanity.
12. Rebecca Sharp (Vanity Fair by William Thackeray)
“Rebecca was small, fragile, pale, with reddish hair; her green eyes were usually downcast, but when she raised them, they seemed unusually large, mysterious and alluring...”
11. Maggie Cleary (The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough)
Maggie's hair, like a true Cleary's, glowed like a beacon: all the children in the family, except Frank, got this punishment - they all had red curls, only in different shades.Maggie's eyes were like "molten pearls", silver-gray.Maggie Cleary had... Hair of a color that cannot be described in words - not copper-red, and not gold, some rare alloy of both... Silver - grey eyes, amazingly clean, shining, like melted pearls.... Maggie's gray eyes... They shimmer in all shades of blue, violet, and deep blue, the color of the sky on a clear sunny day, the velvety green of moss and even a slightly noticeable dark yellow. And they glow softly, as if matte gems, framed by long curled eyelashes, so shiny as if they had been washed with gold.
10. Tatyana Larina ("Eugene Onegin", A.S. Pushkin)
From the first meeting, the heroine captivates the reader with her spiritual beauty and lack of pretense.
So, she was called Tatyana.
Not your sister's beauty
Nor the freshness of her ruddy
She wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
Dick, sad, silent,
Like a forest deer is timid,
She is in her own family
The girl seemed like a stranger.
9. Lara (Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak)
She was a little over sixteen, but she was a fully formed girl. She was given eighteen years or more. She had a clear mind and easy character. She was very pretty.She moved silently and smoothly, and everything about her—the imperceptible speed of her movements, her height, her voice, her gray eyes, and her blond hair color—matched each other.
8. Christine Daae (The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux)
Christina Daae had blue eyes and golden curls.
7. Esmeralda ("Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris", Victor Hugo)
Esmeralda is a beautiful young girl who earns money by dancing and performing with her trained goat, Jalli.She is the embodiment of chastity and naivety, not at all like the others.Even the fact that she has to dance for a living does not corrupt her. She has a good heart.
“She was short in stature, but she seemed tall - her slim frame was so slender. She was dark, but it was not difficultguess that during the day her skin acquired a wonderful golden hue, characteristic of Andalusians and Romans. Smallthe leg was also the leg of an Andalusian woman - she walked so lightly in her narrow, graceful shoe. The girl danced, fluttered,spinning on an old Persian carpet carelessly thrown at her feet, and every time her radiant faceappeared in front of you, the gaze of her large black eyes blinded you like lightning. The crowd's eyes were fixed on her,all mouths are open. She danced to the rumble of a tambourine, which her round virgin hands raised high abovehead. Thin, fragile, with bare shoulders and slender legs occasionally flashing from under her skirt,black-haired, fast as a wasp, in a golden, tight-fittingher waist corsage, in a colorful billowing dress, shining eyes, she seemed like a truly unearthly creature..."
6. Mercedes (“The Count of Monte Cristo”, A. Dumas)
"A beautiful young girl, with jet-black hair, with velvet eyes like a gazelle...".
5. Carmen ("Carmen", Prosper Merimee)
She had a large bouquet of jasmine in her hair. She was dressed simply, perhaps even poorly, in all black... She dropped the mantilla that covered her head onto her shoulders, I saw that she was short, young, well-built and that she had huge eyes... Her skin, really , immaculately smooth, the color closely resembled copper. Her eyes were slanted, but wonderfully cut; the lips were a little full, but beautifully defined, behind them were visible teeth, whiter than peeled tonsils. Her hair, perhaps a little coarse, was black, with a blue tint like a raven's wing, long and shiny... She was wearing a very short red skirt, allowing you to see white silk stockings and pretty red morocco shoes tied with fiery-colored ribbons.
4. Irene Forsyth (The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy)
The gods gave Irene dark brown eyes and golden hair - a peculiar combination of shades that attracts the eyes of men and, as they say, indicates weakness of character. And the smooth, soft whiteness of her neck and shoulders, framed by a golden dress, gave her some kind of extraordinary charm.Golden-haired, dark-eyed Irene looks like a pagan goddess, she is full of charm, distinguished by sophistication of taste and manners.
3. Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind by Margarett Mitchell)
Scarlett O'Harane was a beauty, but men were hardly aware of this if they, like the Tarleton twins, became victims of her charms. The refined features of her mother, a local aristocrat, were very bizarrely combined in her face French origin- and large ones, expressive features father - a healthy Irishman. Scarlett's wide-cheeked, chiseled face involuntarily attracted the eye. Especially the eyes - slightly slanted, light green, transparent, framed by dark eyelashes. On a forehead as white as a magnolia petal - ah, this white skin that the women of the American South are so proud of, carefully protecting it with hats, veils and mittens from the hot Georgia sun! - two immaculately clear lines of eyebrows quickly flew up obliquely - from the bridge of the nose to the temples." Hergreen eyes - restless, bright (oh how much willfulness and fire there was in them!) - entered into an argument with polite, secular restraint of manners, betraying the true essence of this nature...
2. Feride ( "The Kinglet Songbird", Reshad Nuri Guntekin)
The legendary Turkish actress Aidan Sener starred in the role of Feride (biography, photo)
Feride was short in stature, but had an early formed figure. In her youth, her cheerful, carefree eyes...
Light blue... They seemed to consist of golden dust dancing in transparent light.When these eyes are not laughing, they seem large and deep, like living suffering. But once they sparkle with laughter,they become smaller, the light no longer fits into them, it seems that small diamonds are scattered across the cheeks.How beautiful, what fine features faces! In the paintings, such faces move you to tears. Even in its shortcomings...I saw some kind of charm... Eyebrows... They start out beautifully - beautifully, subtly, subtly, but then they go astray...Curved arrows stretched to the very temples. The upper lip was slightly short and slightly exposed a row of teeth.Therefore, it seemed that Feride always smiled a little. ... A young creature, fresh as an April rose,strewn with drops of dew, with a face as clear as the morning light.
1. Angelique ("Angelique", Anne and Serge Gollon)
French actress Michelle Mercier starred in the role of Angelica (biography, photo)
The literary fiction series tells the story of Angelique, a fictional beauty adventurer from the 17th century. The novel focuses on her golden hair and incredibly mesmerizing green eyes.Angelica is wise, adventurous, impressionable, always striving for love and happiness.
What and how did the heroes of Russian classics read?
Comedy by D. I. Fonvizin “The Minor.” Central theme the work was voiced by the undergrowth Mitrofan Prostakov:< Не хочу учиться, хочу жениться!» И пока Митрофан безрезультатно пытается по настоянию учителя Цыфиркина разделить 300 рублей на троих, его избранница Софья занимается самообразованием посредством чтения.
“Woe from Wit” by A. S. Griboyedov. Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov is very critical in his assessments. Having learned that his daughter Sophia “reads everything in French, out loud, locked up,” he says:
Tell me that it’s not good for her to spoil her eyes, And reading is of little use: French books make her sleepless, But Russian books make it painful for me to sleep.
And he sees the reason for Chatsky’s madness solely in his studies and books:
...If evil is to be stopped:
Take all the books and burn them!
Chatsky reads exclusively progressive Western literature and completely rejects authors respected in Moscow society.
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" the main character received an excellent education.
Vladimir Lensky brought the “fruits of learning” from Germany, where he was brought up on the works of representatives of German classical philosophy. Tatyana was brought up in the spirit of her time:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her;
She fell in love with deceptions
Both Richardson and Russo.
In the poem " Dead Souls“It is known about Manilov that “in his office there was always some kind of book, bookmarked on page fourteen, which he had been constantly reading for two years.”
The triumph and death of “Oblomovism” was illuminated in his novel by I. A. Goncharov. The difference between the two heroes leaves its mark on their attitude towards reading and books. Stolz showed an active desire to read and study even as a child: “From the age of eight, he sat with his father behind geographical map, sorted through the warehouses of Herder, Wieland, Bible verses and summed up the illiterate accounts of peasants, townspeople and factory workers, and read with his mother sacred history, learned Krylov’s fables and sorted Telemak into warehouses.” Process Oblomov's readings, as the main character, I. A. Goncharov pays special place in the novel:
“What was he doing at home? Read?
If he comes across a book or a newspaper, he will read it.
Will hear about some wonderful work- he will have a urge to get to know him; he searches, asks for books, and if they bring them soon, he will set to work on them, an idea about the subject begins to form in him; one more step - and he would have mastered it, but look, he is already lying, looking apathetically at the ceiling, and the book lies next to him, unread, misunderstood...
If he somehow managed to get through a book called statistics, history, political economy, he was completely satisfied. When Stolz brought him books that he still needed to read beyond what he had learned, Oblomov looked at him silently for a long time...
No matter how interesting the place where he stopped was, but if the hour of lunch or sleep found him at this place, he put the book down with the binding up and went to dinner or put out the candle and went to bed...
If they gave him the first volume, after reading it he did not ask for the second, but when they brought it, he read it slowly...
Serious reading tired him. Thinkers failed to stir up his thirst for speculative truths. But the poets touched him to the quick...”
The apogee of the erudition of the heroes of a literary work is, without a doubt, the novel by I. S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons.” The pages are simply full of names, surnames, titles. There are Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, whom Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov respects. Instead of Pushkin, the “children” give Nikolai Petrovich “Stoff und Kraft” by Ludwig Buchner. Matvey Ilyich Kolyazin, “...preparing to go to the evening with Mrs. Svechina, who then lived in St. Petersburg, read a page from Candillac in the morning.” And Evdoksiya Kukshina really shines with her erudition and erudition in her conversation with Bazarov.
It is impossible to cover the literary preferences of all the heroes of Russian classics. Some characters delight with their originality and exquisite taste; others are quite predictable and strictly follow book fashion. A book within a book helps to get a true idea of a particular hero, his education, his intelligence. The characters set a worthy example, drawing the reader’s attention to certain pillars of world literature, awakening interest and a desire to be sure to turn to them, to learn with their help throughout their lives.
Russian literature has given us a cavalcade of both positive and negative characters. Let's remember the second group.
Be careful, spoilers!)
1. Alexey Molchalin (Alexander Griboyedov, “Woe from Wit”)
Molchalin is the hero “about nothing”, Famusov’s secretary. He is faithful to his father’s behest: “to please all people without exception - the owner, the boss, his servant, the janitor’s dog.” In a conversation with Chatsky, he sets out his life principles, consisting in the fact that “at my age I should not dare to have my own judgment.” Molchalin is sure that you need to think and act as is customary in “Famus” society, otherwise they will gossip about you, and, as you know, “ gossips scarier than pistols" He despises Sophia, but in order to please Famusov, he is ready to sit with her all night long, playing the role of a lover.
2. Grushnitsky (Mikhail Lermontov, “Hero of Our Time”)
Grushnitsky has no name in Lermontov's story. He is the “double” of the main character - Pechorin. According to Lermontov’s description, Grushnitsky is “... one of those people who have ready-made pompous phrases for all occasions, who are not touched by simply beautiful things and who are importantly draped in extraordinary feelings, sublime passions and exceptional suffering. Producing an effect is their pleasure...” Grushnitsky loves pathos very much. There is not an ounce of sincerity in him. Grushnitsky is in love with Princess Mary, and she initially answers him special attention, but then falls in love with Pechorin. The matter ends in a duel. Grushnitsky is so low that he conspires with his friends and they do not load Pechorin’s pistol. The hero cannot forgive such outright meanness. He reloads the pistol and kills Grushnitsky.
3. Afanasy Totsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Idiot”)
Afanasy Totsky, having taken Nastya Barashkova, the daughter of a deceased neighbor, as his upbringing and dependent, eventually “became close to her,” developing a suicidal complex in the girl and indirectly becoming one of the culprits of her death. Extremely averse to the female sex, at the age of 55 Totsky decided to connect his life with the daughter of General Epanchin Alexandra, deciding to marry Nastasya to Ganya Ivolgin. However, neither one nor the other case burned out. As a result, Totsky “was captivated by a visiting Frenchwoman, a marquise and a legitimist.”
4. Alena Ivanovna (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
The old pawnbroker is a character who has become a household name. Even those who have not read Dostoevsky’s novel have heard about it. Alena Ivanovna, by today’s standards, is not that old, she is “about 60 years old,” but the author describes her like this: “... a dry old woman with sharp and angry eyes with a small pointed nose... Her blond, slightly gray hair was greasy with oil. Some kind of flannel rag was wrapped around her thin and long neck, similar to a chicken leg...” The old woman pawnbroker is engaged in usury and makes money from people's misfortune. She takes valuable things at huge interest rates, abuses her younger sister Lizaveta, beats her.
5. Arkady Svidrigailov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
Svidrigailov is one of Raskolnikov’s doubles in Dostoevsky’s novel, a widower, at one time he was bought out of prison by his wife, he lived in the village for 7 years. A cynical and depraved person. On his conscience is the suicide of a servant, a 14-year-old girl, and possibly the poisoning of his wife. Due to Svidrigailov's harassment, Raskolnikov's sister lost her job. Having learned that Raskolnikov is a murderer, Luzhin blackmails Dunya. The girl shoots at Svidrigailov and misses. Svidrigailov is an ideological scoundrel, he does not experience moral torment and experiences “world boredom,” eternity seems to him like a “bathhouse with spiders.” As a result, he commits suicide with a revolver shot.
6. Kabanikha (Alexander Ostrovsky, “The Thunderstorm”)
In the image of Kabanikha, one of central characters Ostrovsky's play "The Thunderstorm" reflected the outgoing patriarchal, strict archaism. Kabanova Marfa Ignatievna, “a rich merchant’s wife, widow,” mother-in-law of Katerina, mother of Tikhon and Varvara. Kabanikha is very domineering and strong, she is religious, but more outwardly, since she does not believe in forgiveness or mercy. She is as practical as possible and lives by earthly interests. Kabanikha is sure that the family way of life can be maintained only through fear and orders: “After all, out of love your parents are strict with you, out of love they scold you, everyone thinks to teach you good.” She perceives the departure of the old order as a personal tragedy: “This is how the old times come to be... What will happen, how the elders will die... I don’t know.”
7. Lady (Ivan Turgenev, “Mumu”)
We all know sad story about the fact that Gerasim drowned Mumu, but not everyone remembers why he did it, but he did it because the despotic lady ordered him to do so. The same landowner had previously given the washerwoman Tatyana, with whom Gerasim was in love, to the drunken shoemaker Capiton, which ruined both of them. The lady, at her own discretion, decides the fate of her serfs, without regard at all to their wishes, and sometimes even to common sense.
8. Footman Yasha (Anton Chekhov, “ The Cherry Orchard»)
The footman Yasha in Anton Chekhov's play “The Cherry Orchard” is an unpleasant character. He openly worships everything foreign, but at the same time he is extremely ignorant, rude and even boorish. When his mother comes to him from the village and waits for him in the people’s room all day, Yasha dismissively declares: “It’s really necessary, she could come tomorrow.” Yasha tries to behave decently in public, tries to seem educated and well-mannered, but at the same time alone with Firs he says to the old man: “I'm tired of you, grandfather. I wish you would die soon.” Yasha is very proud that he lived abroad. With his foreign polish, he wins the heart of the maid Dunyasha, but uses her location for his own benefit. After the sale of the estate, the footman persuades Ranevskaya to take him with her to Paris again. It is impossible for him to stay in Russia: “the country is uneducated, the people are immoral, and, moreover, boredom...”.
9. Pavel Smerdyakov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
Smerdyakov is a character with a telling surname, according to rumors, the illegitimate son of Fyodor Karrmazov from the city holy fool Lizaveta Stinking. The surname Smerdyakov was given to him by Fyodor Pavlovich in honor of his mother. Smerdyakov serves as a cook in Karamazov’s house, and he cooks, apparently, quite well. However, this is a “foulbrood man.” This is evidenced at least by Smerdyakov’s reasoning about history: “In the twelfth year there was a great invasion of Russia by Emperor Napoleon of France the First, and it would be good if these same French had conquered us then, a smart nation would have conquered a very stupid one and annexed it to itself. There would even be completely different orders.” Smerdyakov is the killer of Karamazov's father.
10. Pyotr Luzhin (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
Luzhin is another of Rodion Raskolnikov’s doubles, business man 45 years old, “with a cautious and grumpy face.” Having made it “from rags to riches,” Luzhin is proud of his pseudo-education and behaves arrogantly and primly. Having proposed to Dunya, he anticipates that she will be grateful to him all her life for the fact that he “brought her into the public eye.” He also wooes Duna out of convenience, believing that she will be useful to him for his career. Luzhin hates Raskolnikov because he opposes his alliance with Dunya. Luzhin puts one hundred rubles in Sonya Marmeladova's pocket at her father's funeral, accusing her of theft.
11. Kirila Troekurov (Alexander Pushkin, “Dubrovsky”)
Troekurov is an example of a Russian master spoiled by his power and environment. He spends his time in idleness, drunkenness, and voluptuousness. Troekurov sincerely believes in his impunity and limitless possibilities (“This is the power to take away property without any right”). The master loves his daughter Masha, but marries her to an old man she doesn’t love. Troekurov's serfs are similar to their master - Troekurov's hound is insolent to Dubrovsky Sr. - and thereby quarrels old friends.
12. Sergei Talberg (Mikhail Bulgakov, “ White Guard»)
Sergei Talberg is the husband of Elena Turbina, a traitor and an opportunist. He easily changes his principles, beliefs, without special effort and remorse. Talberg is always where it is easier to live, so he runs abroad. He leaves his family and friends. Even Talberg’s eyes (which, as we know, are the “mirror of the soul”) are “two-story”; he is the complete opposite of Turbin. Thalberg was the first to wear the red bandage at the military school in March 1917 and, as a member of the military committee, arrested the famous General Petrov.
13. Alexey Shvabrin (Alexander Pushkin, “ Captain's daughter»)
Shvabrin is the antipode of the main character of Pushkin’s story “The Captain’s Daughter” by Pyotr Grinev. IN Belogorsk fortress he was exiled for murder in a duel. Shvabrin is undoubtedly smart, but at the same time he is cunning, impudent, cynical, and mocking. Having received Masha Mironova’s refusal, he spreads dirty rumors about her, wounds him in the back in a duel with Grinev, goes over to Pugachev’s side, and, having been captured by government troops, spreads rumors that Grinev is a traitor. In general, he is a rubbish person.
14. Vasilisa Kostyleva (Maxim Gorky, “At the Depths”)
In Gorky's play "At the Bottom" everything is sad and sad. This atmosphere is diligently maintained by the owners of the shelter where the action takes place - the Kostylevs. The husband is a nasty, cowardly and greedy old man, Vasilisa’s wife is a calculating, resourceful opportunist who forces her lover Vaska Pepel to steal for her sake. When she finds out that he himself is in love with her sister, he promises to give her up in exchange for killing her husband.
15. Mazepa (Alexander Pushkin, “Poltava”)
Mazepa is a historical character, but if in history Mazepa’s role is ambiguous, then in Pushkin’s poem Mazepa is unambiguous negative character. Mazepa appears in the poem as an absolutely immoral, dishonest, vindictive, evil person, as a treacherous hypocrite for whom nothing is sacred (he “does not know the sacred,” “does not remember charity”), a person accustomed to achieving his goal at any cost. Seducer of his young goddaughter Maria, he betrays public execution her father Kochubey and - already sentenced to death - is subjected to cruel torture in order to find out where he hid his treasures. Without equivocation, Pushkin denounces and political activity Mazepa, which is determined only by the lust for power and thirst for revenge on Peter.
16. Foma Opiskin (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Village of Stepanchikovo and its Inhabitants”)
Foma Opiskin is an extremely negative character. A hanger-on, a hypocrite, a liar. He diligently pretends to be pious and educated, tells everyone about his supposedly ascetic experience and sparkles with quotes from books... When he gets power into his hands, he shows his true essence. “A low soul, having come out from under oppression, oppresses itself. Thomas was oppressed - and he immediately felt the need to oppress himself; They broke down over him - and he himself began to break down over others. He was a jester and immediately felt the need to have his own jesters. He boasted to the point of absurdity, broke down to the point of impossibility, demanded bird's milk, tyrannized beyond measure, and it got to the point where good people, not having yet witnessed all these tricks, but listening only to tales, they considered it all a miracle, an obsession, crossed themselves and spat on it...”
17. Viktor Komarovsky (Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago)
Lawyer Komarovsky is a negative character in Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago. In the destinies of the main characters - Zhivago and Lara, Komarovsky is " evil genius" and "gray eminence". He is guilty of the ruin of the Zhivago family and the death of the protagonist's father; he cohabits with Lara's mother and Lara herself. Finally, Komarovsky tricks Zhivago into separating him from his wife. Komarovsky is smart, calculating, greedy, cynical. Overall, bad person. He understands this himself, but this suits him quite well.
18. Judushka Golovlev (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, “The Golovlev Lords”)
Porfiry Vladimirovich Golovlev, nicknamed Judas and Blood Drinker, is “the last representative of an escapist family.” He is hypocritical, greedy, cowardly, calculating. He spends his life in endless slander and litigation, drives his son to suicide, and at the same time imitates extreme religiosity, reading prayers “without the participation of the heart.” Towards the end of his dark life, Golovlev gets drunk and runs wild, and goes into the March snowstorm. In the morning, his frozen corpse is found.
19. Andriy (Nikolai Gogol, “Taras Bulba”)
Andriy - younger son Taras Bulba, the hero of the story of the same name by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Andriy, as Gogol writes, from early youth began to feel the “need for love.” This need fails him. He falls in love with the lady, betrays his homeland, his friends, and his father. Andriy admits: “Who said that my homeland is Ukraine? Who gave it to me in my homeland? The Fatherland is what our soul is looking for, what is dearer to it than anything else. My fatherland is you!... and I will sell, give away, and destroy everything that I have for such a fatherland!” Andriy is a traitor. He is killed by his own father.
20. Fyodor Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”)
In first place in our ranking is Karamazov the Father. Fyodor Pavlovich does not live long in Dostoevsky’s novel, but the description of his “exploits” elevates this character to the anti-pedestal of heroism. He is voluptuous, greedy, envious, stupid. By maturity, he became flabby, began to drink a lot, opened several taverns, made many fellow countrymen his debtors... He began to compete with his eldest son Dmitry for the heart of Grushenka Svetlova, which paved the way for the crime - Karamazov was killed by his illegitimate son Pyotr Smerdyakov.
