What is the charming "Russian soul"?

If Pushkin's emphasis on onegin in yevgeni onegin is that he is divorced from the people, then in tatiana, the poet deliberately shows her deep connection with the people. The poet gave the heroine a civilian name-Tatiana, which was only used by maids in those years, implying that she grew up in a village far from the city and among simple people. The ancient Russian folk customs are full of national traditional family atmosphere, and the beautiful folk stories told by the old wet nurse on a quiet night cultivate her feelings of communicating with the Russian people. She loves Russian folk songs and stories, and believes in ancient folklore, dreams, card divination and the omen of the moon, all of which are in the same strain as the simple temperament of the Russian people.

In tatiana's life, nature has always been her closest friend. She cultivated the heroine's sincere and kind feelings and shaped her simple and beautiful temperament. She likes to greet the morning glow on the terrace before dawn and take a walk in the quiet garden. She likes the beauty of Russian summer nights and the magnificence of Russian winter snow and ice. Before she left for Moscow, she said goodbye to the mountains, rivers and Woods in her hometown so affectionately, as if she had said goodbye to her best friend. In Moscow, she has become a noble wife, but she "hates the noise of the upper class, dreams of rural life, dreams of rural areas and poor farmers, and dreams of clear and quiet corners of streams". When she later rejected onegin, she also confessed, "Now I am willing to/take these boring masquerade parties,/this flashy, busy and empty life/exchange for a bookshelf of books, a deserted garden,/exchange for our shabby house,/exchange for the place where I first met you in onegin,/exchange for that simple grave,/there, under the cross and under the shade/. It can be seen that the influence of Russian people and Russian nature is the most profound reason for the formation of tatiana's personality and the most solid foundation of this "Russian soul".

Naturally, Pushkin also described the influence of social thoughts sweeping Europe and Russia on tatyana at that time. The poet wrote that tatyana likes reading Richardson and Rousseau's works best, especially Rousseau's new love for Lois. Pushkin's description of Tatyana's new love Lois reading Dangerous Books in the garden is exactly the same as that of Lin Daiyu reading The West Chamber in the garden in A Dream of Red Mansions. However, it should be pointed out that poets only show this influence in the moral category, especially in the aspect of personality liberation. This is consistent with the status that Russian women had no right to participate in social activities at that time.

Onegin attracted tatyana with her contempt for reality and distinctive temperament. She bravely wrote a letter to onegin with a girl's sincere and pure feelings. Her sincerity and purity tested onegin's character and soul. Tatyana is unfortunate. She fell in love with a person whose spiritual life is much more empty than her, a person who can't understand her purity and sincerity, a person who can't find her place in society and can't bear true love. After all, tatiana could only be taken to the "marriage market" like other girls at that time and married to a "fat general". The free and pure love life she pursued failed to come true after all. In this sense, tatiana is also a tragic figure.

Tatyana later became the wife of a general. Her elegant temperament and grace make her as elegant as a "hibiscus" in the hypocritical upper class. In particular, her attitude towards onegin shows the purity and nobility of her spiritual world: "I love you, but since I have married someone else, I will be loyal to him all my life." She doesn't want to live a double spiritual life. This attitude of being responsible for her actions reflects her spiritual beauty deeply rooted in the people's soil. Belinsky said: "In this morally bankrupt world, there are still some rare and comforting special characters ... This is tatyana written by Pushkin. Tatiana is a flower, just born in a rock crack. " Tatiana is a beautiful and moving female image, which has provided beneficial enlightenment to many Russian writers and exerted great influence. There are many moving female images in Russian literature, which can be said to be "born out of tatiana" to varying degrees. (Anonymous)