Main character. "The Bronze Horseman" is a verse poem by A.S. Pushkin

Poetic work "The Bronze Horseman" was created by Pushkin in the estate of Boldino in 1833 in a very fruitful period for the poet. But, unfortunately, this magnificent work did not pass through the censorship of Nicholas I. In one of the modern literary magazines in 1834, only the beginning was allowed. After the death of Pushkin in 1837 with the changes introduced by VA Zhukovsky, the poem nevertheless appeared in the journal Sovremennik. But without all the censorship corrections that distorted the author's meaning, the work was printed only in 1904.

Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman": the protagonist

The poem "The Bronze Horseman" was the last poetic story by Alexander Pushkin about the sovereign Russian Peter the Great and about the "Petersburg" period in the history of Russia. The main characters of the poem "The Bronze Horseman" - the most ordinary man - a resident of St. Petersburg - and the mythical statue of Peter I. However, here as always in Pushkin, everything is not so simple.

The work narrates about the tragic fate of the ordinary and in no way remarkable resident of Eugene, who suffered during the terrible flooding on the Neva River. This story became the basis for historical and philosophical generalizations, closely related to the role of the reforming tsar in Russian history and the fate of his main brainchild - Petersburg. This work became the first urbanistic poem in Russian literature.

Small man

The poem "The Bronze Horseman" is considered one of the most perfect works of the genius poet. It was written with a tetrameter iambic. At once it is necessary to note how accurately and artistically Pushkin creates visual and auditory images. First you can hear the festive metropolitan luxury in the glitter and noise of balls and the hissing of glasses, and then - see the poor and shocked Eugene, in a step from insanity, he walks along the pavement of the Neva.

The work is presented as a tragic tale in which an unhappy official is the protagonist. The bronze rider also symbolizes the state with which an ordinary person who has entered into a confrontation with him will never become a winner. The theme of the "little" person, an insignificant and pitiful hero, was very popular among poets and writers of the late 1920s.

Peter the Great

The very first appearing protagonist is the bronze rider Peter I, who does not appear in the work as a historical character, but is represented as a statue of a deified statue, and here it does not at all refer to the time of his reign. His epoch for the writer became a long period in the history of the Russian state, which did not end even after the death of the tsar-reformer. Pushkin does not address the origins of Peter's epoch, he is more interested in the results of modern times. He looked at Peter from the high historical point of the events of the recent past - in 1824 on November 7, when a terrible flood took place in St. Petersburg, which became the central plot of the work where the conflict between the city and the elements occurred. And this is a historical fact, the documentary nature of which is confirmed by the author himself in the foreword and notes.

The unfortunate Eugene

The second main character in the poem "The Bronze Horseman" and the central character is Eugene. The faces of the other Petersburg residents are indistinguishable, it is a crowded "people" on the street, sinking from the flood in the first part, and indifferent and cold people in the second. The real background was the famous Senate Square of the Northern Capital, streets and backwoods, where before the flood was the "old house" of the beloved girl Eugene - Parasha - and her widow mother.

Eugene had gone crazy with the tragedy that had happened, having learned that his beloved had died from the unexpectedly overwhelmed terrible natural disaster. He no longer returns to his home, but becomes an unhappy urban madman.

The mythological protagonist is a brass rider

An important role in the work is played by the legendary mythological semantic plan, it is immediately represented in the title of the poem - The Bronze Horseman. Then, in an introduction with a historical fact, he shades the plot, which tells about the fate of Eugene and the flood.

The idol on the bronze horse reminds of itself from time to time and becomes the culmination of a poem in which the main character - a brass rider - chases after Evgeny. There is already an image of the main mythological character that dominates the plot, and in the meantime Petersburg is already losing its real outlines and is becoming a conditional and mythological space.

Pushkin deliberately presents his hero without special signs, as the most simple man in the crowd, dreaming of quiet family happiness. In the finale of the poem Eugene, poor, lonely and unnecessary, suddenly sees and finds that in all his troubles the "proud idol" is to blame, and then he brings his anger upon him.

The poem clearly traces the perennial conflict between a state that is indifferent to the problems of the people, and a simple human person whose resolution has never been found.