Introduction
“Garnet bracelet” is one of the most famous stories of the Russian prose writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin. She was published in 1910, but for the domestic reader she still remains a symbol of selfless sincere love, the kind that girls dream about, and the one that we so often miss. Earlier we published a summary of this wonderful work. In the same publication, we will tell you about the main characters, analyze the work and talk about its problems.

The events of the story begin to unfold on the birthday of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. Celebrate at the dacha in the circle of the closest people. In the midst of fun, the hero of the occasion receives a gift - a garnet bracelet. The sender decided to remain unrecognized and signed a short note with only the initials of the GSG. However, everyone immediately guesses that this is a longtime admirer of Vera, some petty official who has been flooding her with love letters for many years now. The husband and brother of the princess quickly figure out the identity of the annoying boyfriend and the next day they go to his house.

In a miserable apartment they are met by a timid official named Zheltkov, he meekly agrees to take the gift and promises never to appear before the eyes of the respectable family, provided that he makes the last farewell call to Vera and makes sure that she does not want to know him. Vera Nikolaevna, of course, asks Zheltkov to leave her. The next morning, the newspapers will write that a certain official has committed suicide. In a farewell note, he wrote that he had squandered state property.

Main characters: characteristics of key images

Kuprin is a master of the portrait, moreover, through appearance, he draws the character of the characters. The author pays a lot of attention to each hero, devoting a good half of the story to portrait characteristics and memories that also reveal characters. The main characters of the story are:

• - princess, central female image;
• - her husband, prince, provincial marshal of the nobility;
• - a petty official of the control chamber, passionately in love with Vera Nikolaevna;
• Anna Nikolaevna Friesse- Vera's younger sister;
• Nikolai Nikolaevich Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovskiy- brother of Vera and Anna;
• Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov- General, military comrade of Vera's father, a close friend of the family.

Faith is an ideal representative of the high society both in appearance, and in manners, and in character.

“Vera took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall, flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands, and that charming sloping of the shoulders, which can be seen in old miniatures”

Princess Vera was married to Vasily Nikolaevich Shein. Their love has long ceased to be passionate and passed into that calm stage of mutual respect and tender friendship. Their union was happy. The couple did not have children, although Vera Nikolaevna passionately wanted a baby, and therefore she gave all her unspent feeling to the children of her younger sister.

Vera was royally calm, coldly kind to everyone, but at the same time very funny, open and sincere with close people. She was not inherent in such feminine tricks as affectation and coquetry. Despite her high status, Vera was very prudent, and knowing how unsuccessfully things were going for her husband, she sometimes tried to deprive herself so as not to put him in an uncomfortable position.

The husband of Vera Nikolaevna is a talented, pleasant, gallant, noble person. He has an amazing sense of humor and is a brilliant storyteller. Shein keeps a home journal, which contains non-fictional stories with pictures about the life of the family and its associates.

Vasily Lvovich loves his wife, perhaps not as passionately as in the first years of marriage, but who knows how long passion really lives? The husband deeply respects her opinion, feelings, personality. He is compassionate and merciful to others, even those who are much lower than him in status (his meeting with Zheltkov testifies to this). Shein is noble and endowed with the courage to admit mistakes and his own wrong.

We first meet Official Zheltkov near the end of the story. Up to this point, he is present in the work invisibly in the grotesque image of a klutz, an eccentric, a fool in love. When the long-awaited meeting finally takes place, we see a meek and shy person in front of us, it is customary to ignore such people and call them “little ones”:

“He was tall, thin, with long, fluffy, soft hair.”

His speeches, however, are devoid of the chaotic whim of a madman. He is fully accountable for his words and deeds. Despite the seeming cowardice, this man is very brave, he boldly tells the prince, the lawful spouse of Vera Nikolaevna, that he is in love with her and cannot do anything about it. Zheltkov does not fawn over the rank and position in society of his guests. He submits, but not to fate, but only to his beloved. And he knows how to love - selflessly and sincerely.

“It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me life is only in you. I now feel that some uncomfortable wedge crashed into your life. If you can, forgive me for this.”

Analysis of the work

Kuprin got the idea for his story from real life. In fact, the story was more of an anecdotal character. A certain poor telegraph operator named Zheltikov was in love with the wife of one of the Russian generals. Once this eccentric was so brave that he sent his beloved a simple gold chain with a pendant in the form of easter egg. Scream and only! Everyone laughed at the stupid telegraph operator, but the inquisitive writer's mind decided to look beyond the anecdote, because real drama can always lurk behind a visible curiosity.

Also in the “Garnet Bracelet”, the Sheins and the guests first make fun of Zheltkov. Vasily Lvovich even has a funny story about this in his home magazine called “Princess Vera and the Telegraph Operator in Love”. People tend not to think about other people's feelings. Sheins were not bad, callous, soulless (this is proved by a metamorphosis in them after meeting Zheltkov), they simply did not believe that the love that the official confessed could exist ..

There are many symbolic elements in the work. For example, a garnet bracelet. Garnet is a stone of love, anger and blood. If a person in a fever takes it in his hand (a parallel with the expression “love fever”), then the stone will take on a more saturated shade. According to Zheltkov himself, this special kind pomegranate (green pomegranate) endows women with the gift of foresight, and protects men from violent death. Zheltkov, having parted with the charm bracelet, dies, and Vera unexpectedly predicts his death.

Another symbolic stone - pearls - also appears in the work. Vera receives pearl earrings as a gift from her husband on the morning of her name day. Pearls, despite their beauty and nobility, are an omen of bad news.
Something bad also tried to predict the weather. On the eve of the fateful day, a terrible storm broke out, but on the birthday everything calmed down, the sun came out and the weather was calm, like a calm before a deafening peal of thunder and an even stronger storm.

Problems of the story

The key problem of the work is the question “What is true love?” In order for the "experiment" to be pure, the author cites different types"love". This is the tender love-friendship of the Sheins, and the prudent, convenient love of Anna Friesse for her indecently rich old husband, who blindly adores his soul mate, and the long-forgotten ancient love of General Amosov, and the all-consuming love-worship of Zheltkov to Vera.

The main character herself for a long time cannot understand - this is love or madness, but looking into his face, even if hidden by the mask of death, she is convinced that it was love. Vasily Lvovich draws the same conclusions when he meets his wife's admirer. And if at first he was somewhat belligerent, then later he could not be angry with the unfortunate one, because, it seems, a secret was revealed to him, which neither he, nor Vera, nor their friends could comprehend.

People are inherently selfish and even in love, they first of all think about their feelings, masking their own egocentrism from the other half and even themselves. True love that between a man and a woman occurs once in a hundred years, puts the beloved in the first place. So Zheltkov calmly lets Vera go, because only in this way will she be happy. The only problem is that without it, he does not need life. In his world, suicide is a perfectly natural step.

Princess Sheina understands this. She sincerely mourns Zheltkov, a man whom she practically did not know, but, my God, perhaps true love passed by her, which occurs once in a hundred years.

“I am infinitely grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something ... Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Your name”

Place in literature: Literature of the 20th century → Russian literature of the 20th century → Works of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin → The story "Garnet Bracelet" (1910)

"GARNET BRACELET"

Another work that excited me, which is called “Garnet Bracelet”, also shows true love. In this work, Kuprin depicts the fragility and insecurity of high human feelings. G. S. Zheltkov - one of the employees in a government institution. He has been in love with Vera Nikolaevna Sheina for eight years now, but his feelings are unrequited. Zheltkov, even before Vera's marriage, wrote love letters to her. But no one knew who sent them, since Zheltkov signed with the initials “P. P. J.”. It was assumed that this was an abnormal, crazy, madman, “maniac”. But this was a man who truly loved. Zheltkov's love was selfless, selfless, not waiting for a reward, "love for which to accomplish any feat, to give one's life, to go to torment is not labor at all, but one joy." That's exactly what Zheltkov's love for Vera was like. In his life he loved only her and no one else. Faith for him was the only joy in life, the only consolation, "a single thought." And since his love had no future, it was hopeless, he committed suicide.

The heroine is married, but she loves her husband, and on the contrary, she does not feel any feelings towards Mr. Zheltkov, except for annoyance. And Zheltkov himself seems to us at first just a vulgar boyfriend. This is how Vera and her family perceive him. But in the story of the calm and happy life disturbing notes flicker: this is the fatal love of brother Vera's husband; the love-adoration that the husband has for Vera's sister; the failed love of grandfather Vera, it is this general who says that true love should be a tragedy, but in life it is trivialized, everyday life and all sorts of conventions interfere. He tells two stories (one of them even somewhat resembles the plot of the “Duel”), where true love turns into a farce. Listening to this story, Vera has already received a garnet bracelet with a bloody stone, which should save her from misfortune, and could save her former owner from a violent death. It is from this gift that the reader's attitude towards Zheltkov changes. He sacrifices everything for his love: career, money, peace of mind. And asks for nothing in return.

But again, empty secular conventions ruin even this illusory happiness. Nikolai, Vera's brother-in-law, who himself once succumbed to his love for these prejudices, now demands the same from Zheltkov, he threatens with prison, a court of society, and his connections. But Zheltkov reasonably objects: what can all these threats do to his love? Unlike Nikolai (and Romashov), he is ready to fight and defend his feelings. The barriers put up by society mean nothing to him. Only for the peace of his beloved, he is ready to give up love, but along with life: he commits suicide.

Now Vera understands what she has lost. If Shurochka gave up feelings for the sake of well-being and did it consciously, then Vera simply did not see a great feeling. But after all, in the final analysis, she did not want to see him, she preferred peace and familiar life (although nothing was demanded of her), and by this, as it were, she betrayed the person who loved her. But true love is generous - it has been forgiven.

By definition of Kuprin himself, “Garnet Bracelet” is his most “chaste” thing. Kuprin turned the traditional story about a small official and a woman of secular society into a poem about unrequited love, sublime, disinterested, selfless.

The owner of spiritual wealth, the beauty of feeling in the story is a poor man - the official Zheltkov, who sincerely loved Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina for seven years. “For him there was no life without you,” said the husband of the princess, Prince Vasily, about Zheltkov. Zheltkov loved Sheina without the slightest hope of reciprocity. Happiness for him was already the fact that she read his letters. Zheltkov was dear to all the little things associated with her. He kept the handkerchief she had forgotten, the program she kept, the note in which the princess forbade writing to her. He worshiped these things as believers worship holy relics. “I mentally bow to the ground of the furniture you sit on, the parquet floor you walk on, the trees you touch in passing, the servants you talk to.” Zheltkov deified the princess, even dying: “Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be thy name.” In the boring life of a petty official, in the constant struggle for life, work for a piece of bread, this sudden feeling was, in the words of the hero himself, “... tremendous happiness ... love that God was pleased to reward me for something.”

Zheltkov was not able to understand the brother of Princess Vera, but her husband, Prince Vasily Lvovich, appreciated the feeling of this person, although he was forced by the laws of decency to stop this story. He foresaw a tragic end: “It seemed to me that I was present at the enormous suffering from which people die,” he admits to Vera.

Princess Vera at first treated with some contempt the letters and gifts of G.S.Zh., then pity for the unfortunate lover stirred in her soul. After Zheltkov's death, "... she realized that the love that every woman dreams of has passed her by."

After the death of Zheltkov, Vera came to agreement with herself only after she listened to “ best work Beethoven" - Second Sonata. The music, as it were, was telling her on behalf of Zheltkov’s soul: “You and I love each other for only one moment, but forever.” And Vera feels that neither anger, nor hatred, nor even resentment really stirred in the soul of a poor person at the hour of death. to her, the culprit of great happiness and great tragedy of Zheltkov's life, and that he died loving and blessing his beloved.

Kuprin showed in his story "Garnet Bracelet" bright human feelings, opposed to the callousness of the surrounding world.

In the story "Garnet Bracelet" Kuprin, with all the strength of his skill, develops the idea of ​​​​true love. He does not want to put up with vulgar, practical views on love and marriage, drawing our attention to these problems quite in an unusual way, equaling the perfect feeling. Through the mouth of General Anosov, he says: “... People in our time have forgotten how to love! I don't see true love. I haven't seen it in my time either." What is this? Call? Isn't what we feel the truth? We have calm moderate happiness with the person we need. What more? According to Kuprin, “Love must be a tragedy. The greatest secret in the world! No comforts of life, calculations and compromises should concern her.” Only then can love be called a real feeling, completely true and moral.

I still cannot forget the impression Zheltkov's feelings made on me. How much he loved Vera Nikolaevna that he could commit suicide! This is madness! Loving Princess Sheina "seven years of hopeless and polite love," he, never meeting her, talking about his love only in letters, suddenly commits suicide! Not because the brother of Vera Nikolaevna is going to turn to power, and not because they returned his gift - a garnet bracelet. (He is a symbol of deep fiery love and at the same time a terrible bloody sign of death.) And, probably, not because he squandered government money. For Zheltkov, there was simply no other way out. He loved a married woman so much that he could not stop thinking about her even for a minute, to exist without remembering her smile, her look, the sound of her gait. He himself says to Vera's husband: "There is only one thing left - death ... You want, I will accept it in any form." The terrible thing is that Vera Nikolaevna's brother and husband, who came to demand that their family be left alone, pushed him to this decision. They turned out to be, as it were, indirect culprits of his death. They had the right to demand peace, but on the part of Nikolai Nikolaevich it was unacceptable, even a ridiculous threat to appeal to the authorities. How can power forbid a person to love!

Kuprin's ideal is “love is disinterested, selfless, not waiting for a reward”, one for which you can give your life and endure anything. It was this kind of love, which happens once in a thousand years, that Zheltkov loved. This was his need, the meaning of life, and he proved this: “I didn’t know any complaint, no reproach, no pain of pride, I have only one prayer before you: “Hallowed be thy name.” These words, with which his soul was filled, are felt by Princess Vera in the sounds of Beethoven's immortal sonata. They cannot leave us indifferent and instill in us an unbridled desire to strive for the same incomparably pure feeling. Its roots go back to morality and spiritual harmony in a person ... Princess Vera did not regret that this love, "of which every woman dreams, passed her by." She cries because her soul is overwhelmed with admiration for sublime, almost unearthly feelings.

A person who could love so much must have some special worldview. Although Zheltkov was only a small official, he turned out to be above social norms and standards. Such people as they are elevated by human rumor to the rank of saints, and a bright memory lives about them for a long time.

Introduction
"Garnet Bracelet" is one of the most famous stories of the Russian prose writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin. She was published in 1910, but for the domestic reader she still remains a symbol of selfless sincere love, the kind that girls dream about, and the one that we so often miss. Earlier we published this wonderful work. In the same publication, we will tell you about the main characters, analyze the work and talk about its problems.

The events of the story begin to unfold on the birthday of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. Celebrate at the dacha in the circle of the closest people. In the midst of fun, the hero of the occasion receives a gift - a garnet bracelet. The sender decided to remain unrecognized and signed a short note with only the initials of the GSG. However, everyone immediately guesses that this is a longtime admirer of Vera, some petty official who has been flooding her with love letters for many years now. The husband and brother of the princess quickly figure out the identity of the annoying boyfriend and the next day they go to his house.

In a miserable apartment they are met by a timid official named Zheltkov, he meekly agrees to take the gift and promises never to appear before the eyes of the respectable family, provided that he makes the last farewell call to Vera and makes sure that she does not want to know him. Vera Nikolaevna, of course, asks Zheltkov to leave her. The next morning, the newspapers will write that a certain official has committed suicide. In a farewell note, he wrote that he had squandered state property.

Main characters: characteristics of key images

Kuprin is a master of the portrait, moreover, through appearance, he draws the character of the characters. The author pays a lot of attention to each hero, devoting a good half of the story to portrait characteristics and memories, which are also revealed by the characters. The main characters of the story are:

• - princess, central female image;
• - her husband, prince, provincial marshal of the nobility;
• - a petty official of the control chamber, passionately in love with Vera Nikolaevna;
• Anna Nikolaevna Friesse- Vera's younger sister;
• Nikolai Nikolaevich Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovskiy- brother of Vera and Anna;
• Yakov Mikhailovich Anosov- General, military comrade of Vera's father, a close friend of the family.

Faith is an ideal representative of the high society both in appearance, and in manners, and in character.

“Vera took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall, flexible figure, gentle, but cold and proud face, beautiful, albeit rather large hands, and that charming sloping of the shoulders, which can be seen in old miniatures”

Princess Vera was married to Vasily Nikolaevich Shein. Their love has long ceased to be passionate and passed into that calm stage of mutual respect and tender friendship. Their union was happy. The couple did not have children, although Vera Nikolaevna passionately wanted a baby, and therefore she gave all her unspent feeling to the children of her younger sister.

Vera was royally calm, coldly kind to everyone, but at the same time very funny, open and sincere with close people. She was not inherent in such feminine tricks as affectation and coquetry. Despite her high status, Vera was very prudent, and knowing how unsuccessfully things were going for her husband, she sometimes tried to deprive herself so as not to put him in an uncomfortable position.

The husband of Vera Nikolaevna is a talented, pleasant, gallant, noble person. He has an amazing sense of humor and is a brilliant storyteller. Shein keeps a home journal, which contains non-fictional stories with pictures about the life of the family and its associates.

Vasily Lvovich loves his wife, perhaps not as passionately as in the first years of marriage, but who knows how long passion really lives? The husband deeply respects her opinion, feelings, personality. He is compassionate and merciful to others, even those who are much lower than him in status (his meeting with Zheltkov testifies to this). Shein is noble and endowed with the courage to admit mistakes and his own wrong.

We first meet Official Zheltkov near the end of the story. Up to this point, he is present in the work invisibly in the grotesque image of a klutz, an eccentric, a fool in love. When the long-awaited meeting finally takes place, we see a meek and shy person in front of us, it is customary to ignore such people and call them “little ones”:

“He was tall, thin, with long, fluffy, soft hair.”

His speeches, however, are devoid of the chaotic whim of a madman. He is fully accountable for his words and deeds. Despite the seeming cowardice, this man is very brave, he boldly tells the prince, the lawful spouse of Vera Nikolaevna, that he is in love with her and cannot do anything about it. Zheltkov does not fawn over the rank and position in society of his guests. He submits, but not to fate, but only to his beloved. And he knows how to love - selflessly and sincerely.

“It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me life is only in you. I now feel that some uncomfortable wedge crashed into your life. If you can, forgive me for this.”

Analysis of the work

Kuprin got the idea for his story from real life. In fact, the story was more of an anecdotal character. A certain poor telegraph operator named Zheltikov was in love with the wife of one of the Russian generals. Once this eccentric was so brave that he sent his beloved a simple gold chain with a pendant in the form of an Easter egg. Scream and only! Everyone laughed at the stupid telegraph operator, but the inquisitive writer's mind decided to look beyond the anecdote, because real drama can always lurk behind a visible curiosity.

Also in the “Garnet Bracelet”, the Sheins and the guests first make fun of Zheltkov. Vasily Lvovich even has a funny story about this in his home magazine called “Princess Vera and the Telegraph Operator in Love”. People tend not to think about other people's feelings. Sheins were not bad, callous, soulless (this is proved by a metamorphosis in them after meeting Zheltkov), they simply did not believe that the love that the official confessed could exist ..

There are many symbolic elements in the work. For example, a garnet bracelet. Garnet is a stone of love, anger and blood. If a person in a fever takes it in his hand (a parallel with the expression “love fever”), then the stone will take on a more saturated shade. According to Zheltkov himself, this special type of pomegranate (green pomegranate) endows women with the gift of foresight, and protects men from violent death. Zheltkov, having parted with the charm bracelet, dies, and Vera unexpectedly predicts his death.

Another symbolic stone - pearls - also appears in the work. Vera receives pearl earrings as a gift from her husband on the morning of her name day. Pearls, despite their beauty and nobility, are an omen of bad news.
Something bad also tried to predict the weather. On the eve of the fateful day, a terrible storm broke out, but on the birthday everything calmed down, the sun came out and the weather was calm, like a calm before a deafening peal of thunder and an even stronger storm.

Problems of the story

The key problem of the work is the question “What is true love?” In order for the “experiment” to be pure, the author cites different types of “loves”. This is the tender love-friendship of the Sheins, and the prudent, convenient love of Anna Friesse for her indecently rich old husband, who blindly adores his soul mate, and the long-forgotten ancient love of General Amosov, and the all-consuming love-worship of Zheltkov to Vera.

The main character herself for a long time cannot understand - this is love or madness, but looking into his face, even if hidden by the mask of death, she is convinced that it was love. Vasily Lvovich draws the same conclusions when he meets his wife's admirer. And if at first he was somewhat belligerent, then later he could not be angry with the unfortunate one, because, it seems, a secret was revealed to him, which neither he, nor Vera, nor their friends could comprehend.

People are inherently selfish and even in love, they first of all think about their feelings, masking their own egocentrism from the other half and even themselves. True love, which occurs between a man and a woman once in a hundred years, puts the beloved in the first place. So Zheltkov calmly lets Vera go, because only in this way will she be happy. The only problem is that without it, he does not need life. In his world, suicide is a perfectly natural step.

Princess Sheina understands this. She sincerely mourns Zheltkov, a man whom she practically did not know, but, my God, perhaps true love passed by her, which occurs once in a hundred years.

“I am infinitely grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love, which God was pleased to reward me for something ... Leaving, I say in delight: “Hallowed be Your name”

Place in literature: Literature of the 20th century → Russian literature of the 20th century → Works of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin → The story "Garnet Bracelet" (1910)

"Garnet Bracelet", a petty official who is unrequitedly in love with the princess. He pursues the object of passion with letters, in the finale of the story he commits suicide.

History of creation

Alexander Kuprin worked on the "Garnet Bracelet" in Odessa in the autumn of 1910. The work was originally conceived as a story, but has grown into a story. The work dragged on, and at the beginning of December, judging by Kuprin's letters, the story had not yet been finished.

The plot was based real story, which happened to the wife of a member of the State Council D.N. Lyubimov. The prototype of Zheltkov was a certain petty telegraph official Zheltikov, unrequitedly in love with this lady.

"Garnet bracelet"

Zheltkov is a petty official of the control chamber, aged 30-35. A tall and thin man with soft and long hair. The appearance of Zheltkov betrays a fine spiritual organization - pale skin, a delicate “girlish” face, a childish chin with a dimple, blue eyes and nervous thin fingers. The hero's hands constantly betray his nervous state - they tremble, pull on buttons, "run" over his face and clothes.

The hero earns little and considers himself a person devoid of fine taste, therefore he has neither the opportunity nor the right to present expensive gifts to the object of his own unrequited passion - the princess. The hero saw a lady in a circus box and immediately fell in love with her. Eight years have passed since then, and all this time the enamored Zheltkov has been writing letters to Vera. At first, the hero was still waiting for reciprocity and thought that the young lady from the box would answer his letters, but Vera never paid attention to the unlucky admirer.

Over time, Zheltkov ceases to hope for reciprocity, but continues to write to Vera from time to time and secretly follow her life. In his letters, Zheltkov accurately describes where and with whom he saw Vera, even what dress she was wearing. In addition to the object of his passion, the hero is not interested in anything - neither science, nor politics, nor the life of his own and other people.

The hero keeps the things of the Faith. The handkerchief that the lady forgot at the ball, but the hero appropriated. The program of the exhibition that Vera left on the chair, and so on. A relic for Zheltkov was even a note written by Vera, in which she forbade the hero to write to her. Zheltkov sees in Vera the only meaning own life, however, with all this, he does not consider himself a maniac, but only in love.

One day, Zheltkov sends the princess a gift for her name day - a family garnet bracelet, which belonged to the hero's great-grandmother, and then to his late mother. The princess's brother, Nikolai, loses his temper over this gift and decides to intervene in order to stop Zheltkov's "harassment" once and for all.

Nikolay finds where the hero lives and demands that he stop persecuting his sister, otherwise he threatens to take action. Vera herself also treats Zheltkov unfriendly and asks to be left alone. That same evening, the hero dies by committing suicide, but in his suicide note he does not blame Vera for his own death, but still writes about his love for her. Only at parting did Vera realize that she strong love, which every woman dreams of, was so close, but she refused it.

Zheltkov had a soft and tactful character. The landlady called the hero a "wonderful person" and treated him like her own son. Zheltkov is sincere and incapable of lying, decent. The hero has a weak voice and calligraphic handwriting. The man loves music, especially. Of the relatives, the hero has one brother.

The hero rented a room in high-rise building on Lutheran street. This is a poor house where the stairwells are dark and smell of kerosene, mice and laundry. Zheltkov's room is badly lit, with a low ceiling, and poorly furnished. The hero has only a narrow bed, a shabby sofa and a table.

Zheltkov is a controversial character who showed cowardice in love, but a fair amount of courage, making the decision to shoot himself.

Screen adaptations

In 1964, the film adaptation of "Garnet Bracelet" was released, directed by Abram Room. The image of Zheltkov in this film was embodied by the actor Igor Ozerov. Mr. Zheltkov, whose exact name is not indicated in the story, is called Georgy Stepanovich in the film. In the story, the hero signs with the initials G.S.Zh., and the landlady, from whom Zheltkov rented a house, called the hero “pan Ezhy”, which corresponds to the Polish version of the name “George”. However, it is impossible to say for sure what the name of the hero was.

The film also starred actors Yuri Averin (in the role of Gustav Ivanovich von Friesse) and in the role of Prince Shein, husband main character Vera Sheina, whose role was played by the actress.

Quotes

“It so happened that I am not interested in anything in life: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people - for me, all life is only in you.”

“Think about what I should have done? Run away to another city? All the same, the heart was always near you, at your feet, every moment of the day is filled with you, the thought of you, dreams of you ... "

"I tested myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love."

The story of unhappy love for a married woman became the plot of the story "Garnet Bracelet". Zheltkov G. S. - her main character. The man's name remains unknown. We can only assume that his name is George. Only the surname - Zheltkov - sounds in the text. The appearance of a man in love also does not cause bright sympathy or negativity. He is tall, thin and pale. Other features of appearance: trembling hands, nervous fingers, reddish mustache, childish chin, long soft hair. Zheltkov in the story is about 35 years old.

A poor official of some state institution saw Vera Nikolaevna in the circus and fell in love. It was love at first sight and for years to come. A man begins to follow a woman, gets acquainted with society, her environment and hobbies. Zheltkov is happy. He loves for real, the man realizes what a "tremendous happiness" has visited him. The official is not interested in anything: "neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy." He is absorbed by a woman, she becomes the meaning of his life.

Zheltkov thanks God for giving him a great feeling. He checked to see if it was a disease or an obsession. I realized that no. His love is "not a manic idea". Even Vera's husband is sure that G.S. was not crazy, but was in love. There is some irony in the words of the author when he lists how a man burns the most precious thing he had: the things of the Faith. A stolen handkerchief, a note, an exhibition program - items that have been in the hands of a woman become expensive and incredibly valuable. Faith for G.S. is the only joy, consolation, thought. He does not evaluate his feelings as persecution.

Zheltkov gives the woman a garnet bracelet. This item was a family heirloom. She protected men from violent death, and rewarded women with the gift of foresight. The bracelet belonged to the great-grandmother, then passed to Zheltkov's mother. The gift made Vera's brother, Nikolai, very angry. The brother wants to put an end to this story. He goes to Zheltkov and demands to stop pursuing the princess. The man is waiting for the decision of his fate from Vera Nikolaevna herself. The woman also asks to stop the incomprehensible protracted romance in letters. Zheltkov wants to stay in the city and see his beloved at least once in a while, but Vera's words cut off all the threads of hope.

G.S. commits suicide. Before his death, he admiringly addresses his beloved: "Hallowed be thy name." Vera is freed from Zheltkov's feelings. But there is no peace in the soul of a beauty. She lost the love that "every woman dreams of." A beautiful feeling passed her by, she missed the opportunity to be a muse and the meaning of life, cut off her love and remained an ordinary married woman, no different from other secular ladies.