Vereisky's attitude to Masha: are the feelings of the prince sincere?

The novel "Dubrovsky" is a masterpiece of Russian prose. It was written by our genius of all times - Alexander Pushkin. The events take place in the first half of the 19th century, the novel tells of the life of two quarreling landlords, Troyekurov and Dubrovsky, whose children passionately fell in love with each other, but could not be together. Because of the greed of Troyekurov, who gave his daughter for the old rich man Vereisky, the destinies of three people were destroyed. What was the attitude of Vereisky to Masha? And what connected it with Dubrovsky-junior? Let's try to find out.

The attitude of Dubrovsky and Vereisky to Masha. Was there love?

Maria and Vladimir fell in love despite all the circumstances. She flared to him with passion after his courage in the bear scene, but then she still did not know that it was Vladimir himself, and not the French teacher, whom he introduced himself initially. And the younger Dubrovsky fell in love with her literally at first sight, having changed his mind to take revenge on Troyekurov for his father.

A young handsome man who used to lead a loose life and played cards, now fell in love, forgetting about his past.

Unhappy marriage

Vereisky's attitude towards Masha was different: he was satisfied that the young wife was his "decoration", despite her tears and requests not to marry.

The prince is very narcissistic, does not want to change the way of life for the sake of a young beauty (the situation when he refused to go with her to walk, referring to poor health and dirt). Probably, and his bad habits, he will not leave, because he is no longer young and used to live his own way.

My father did not want to see Vereisky's attitude towards Masha. He was worried about the financial well-being of the prince, and not his love for a single daughter.

Like in the movies…

The attitude of Dubrovsky and Vereisky to Masha is best shown in the serial film "Dubrovsky", which was released in 1988.

The prince was played by the unbeaten Anatoly Romashin, who was able to portray a man of an intelligent, modest, slightly cowardly and completely indifferent to the experiences of his young wife. He is sure that a girl will love him with time or just get used to it - feelings are not important to him.

Vladimir performed by Mikhail Efremov is depicted as a noble, ambitious, strong man. He abandoned his treacherous plans for revenge Troyekurov, his light feelings for Masha crossed out all the accumulated anger at the enemy and forced to listen to his heart.

Beauty Marina Zudina excellently got used to the role of Masha, making her cry over the final scene of the film when Dubrovsky intercepted the carriage of the already married Vereiskys.

Vereiski's relation to Masha is difficult to call love. Rather, some self-satisfaction of the old rich man. It is a pity that Maria could not, forgetting everything, flee to Vladimir. But then there would be a very different story ...