It is impossible to overestimate the influence of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin on literature and history. The outstanding scientist and literary critic forever erected for himself a “monument not made by hands” with his outstanding work “History of the Russian State.” Let us remind you that it was thanks to this person that words came into our speech that you, dear readers, probably think are originally Russian: “love”, “impression”, “touching”, “aesthetic”, “moral”, “future” ", "scene".
Nothing more than an announcement, we will present a brief summary for this story by Karamzin. “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter,” however, deserves to be read.
Prototypes of the characters in the story
At the same time, the writer Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is distinguished by his documentary and vivid perception of the history of the Fatherland. “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter” is a short and succinct artistic narrative documenting the era. Being a deep connoisseur of folklore, the author did not write his works in the language of the ancient Russian epic, as was traditionally the case. Although he always clearly indicated the historical roots of the work. It is characterized by documentaryism: historical information about the era always complements the summary.
“Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter” has an epistemological source associated with the biography of the boyar Artamon Sergeevich Matveev, the teacher of Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina (mother of Peter I). His biography is truly dramatic, first - a brilliant career (the boyar became the right hand of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich). After the death of the overlord Artamon Sergeevich, rival boyars slandered him, and he fell into disgrace (under the prince). This bright and tragic biography is divided by Karamzin into two parts: before the disgrace and after it. In particular, the ordeal with his young son Andrei was transformed by Karamzin into the sad story of a young man in hiding boyar Alexei Lyuboslavsky.
Plot of the story
Objectivity for a real scientist is above all, therefore history itself determines Karamzin’s story. Natalya, the boyar's daughter, lives with her father, boyar Matvey Andreev. (He is the owner of the “prosperous” part of the prototype’s biography.) Boyar Matvey is in favor with the tsar and respected by people, rich, active, fair. Widower. The delight of his soul is his only daughter, the beautiful Natalya.
She is already of marriageable age. She was raised by a nanny. The girl’s life flows in a rather narrow channel, regulated by a set of housekeeping rules - “Domostroy”. However, the matured girl feels with all her being the need to love; she already has a narrow life within the framework of “Domostroy,” which brings together Christian norms and everyday recommendations of the 16th century.
At mass in church, she sees a young man whose gaze awakens passion in her. After a second meeting with him, the nanny organizes a date for the young couple. When they meet, Alexey convinces Natalya of the need to follow him and marry without her father’s blessing. And so it happened.
When the nanny and the girl saw armed men near Alexei’s forest dwelling, they were frightened, considering them robbers. But Alexey reassured them by telling the story of his family’s disgrace. Having married secretly, they lived happily.
Further, the summary shows that the vassals proved their loyalty to the kings through military deeds. “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter” introduces the theme of war and service into the outline of its narrative. The young man learned about the beginning of the war with the Lithuanians. Alexey made a firm decision: with his valor he would earn the king’s mercy and the forgiveness of his family. He suggested that his wife Natalya return to her father for a while. But the girl, dressed in a military dress, said that she would be with him in the war, calling herself his younger brother.
The war ended in victory. In battles, Alexei’s military merits were undeniable. The tsar himself rewarded the hero, but the highest reward for Alexei was the end of disgrace. Having learned that Natalya, as a simple soldier, fought shoulder to shoulder with her beloved, the king was touched, and his father blessed their marriage. The boyar lived to a ripe old age with the friendly family of Alexei and Natalya, rich in children. On behalf of the author of the story, who heard this story from his great-grandmother, Karamzin at the end of the story testifies that he himself saw a huge stone over the grave of Alexei and Natalya.
Conclusion
By his convictions, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is a conservative. But he is a peculiar conservative, in opposition to everything that came to Russia from the outside. He sincerely considered the path of development of the Fatherland to be special, not Western. The historian idealized the pre-Petrine era. It is precisely this train of thought, dear readers, that you can grasp by reading the story “Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter.” Its summary is surprisingly harmonious, the author is witty, interesting to read, and there is a lot of subtle irony in the story.
Unfortunately, in real life, things don't always end with a happy ending. When Peter I, who ascended the throne, by his grace recognized the innocence of the boyar Artamon Sergeevich Matveev, elevated him and summoned him to himself, just then the Streltsy rebellion began. The boyar, trying to pacify the brewing uprising, was literally torn apart by troublemakers right in front of the windows of the royal palace. This cruel scene deeply impressed the man who later “cut a window to Europe.”
“Natalia the Boyar's Daughter,” a work by Karamzin, is a striking example of a new movement that was used by writers of the late nineteenth century, including Karamzin. A new trend is sentimentalism, and if before this classicism was used, which depicted a worthy citizen of his homeland, his duty, honor, now the inner world of a person, his feelings, experiences are depicted, and an example of this is Karamzin’s work “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter.
Karamzin's work Natalya Boyarskaya daughter
What is this work about? Of course, about love, the real one. About that feeling that everyone wants to experience, that everyone dreams of, and Natalya, the main character, learned what love is, what it means to love. This work will tell us the love story of the daughter of Matvey Andreev, Natalya, and the son of the boyar Lyuboslavsky, Alexei.
Natalya fell in love with Alexei so much that she even decided to run away from home. She leaves her father just to be with her husband. But she never forgot about her father, so their man always brought news about Natalya’s father. We see the power of great love not only when Natalya leaves home to fetch her husband, but also when the heroine goes on a military campaign with Alexei, because her life was unthinkable without him.
The work ends with a good ending, because the sovereign forgives Alexei, just as Natalya’s father forgives. The couple go to Moscow and live happily there.
In Karamzin’s work “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter” there are several main characters. You can also highlight Matvey, Natalya’s father, who was honest and noble. One can single out the nanny, who replaced Natalya’s mother, and Alexei, Natalya’s lover, but still, the main character is Natalya, and it’s not for nothing that the author named his work after her. Natalya is an example of a real Russian woman who knows how to love and care for her neighbors. Her world, both internal and external, is beautiful. She is humble and yet strong-willed. Natalya is an example of devotion and fidelity; the ideal image of a wife, lover and daughter.
First of all, it is worth noting that N. M. Karamzin showed himself to be a master of a plot-based lyrical story on a historical theme in “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter,” which served as a transition from “Letters of a Russian Traveler” and “Poor Liza” to “The History of the Russian State.” In this story, the reader is greeted by a love story transported to the times of Alexei Mikhailovich, conventionally perceived as the “kingdom of shadows.” What we have here is a combination of a “Gothic novel” with a family legend based on a love affair with an inevitable successful outcome - everything takes place in an ideal country, among the most good-natured heroes.
It is interesting to note that the author does not spare extensive comparisons in order to show the heroine’s prettiness, her enchanting perfection: “No beauty could compare with Natalya. Natalya was the prettiest of all. Let the reader imagine the whiteness of Italian marble and Caucasian snow: he still will not imagine the whiteness of her face - and, imagining the color of a marshmallow mistress, he will still not have a perfect idea of the scarlet of Natalya’s cheeks.”
The events depicted were distinguished by their romantic poignancy - sudden love, secret wedding, flight, search, return, happy life to the grave... We are looking at more of a romantic poem, but N. M. Karamzin’s stories are generally close to poetry in rhythm, action, and vocabulary. However, something new appeared in the story. Although historical signs are rather conventional, they are a sign of national identity, which is the key to the authenticity of art. N. M. Karamzin made an attempt to recreate the Russian national character, revealing history as a subject of artistic depiction. The boyar in the story, Matvey Andreev, rich, smart, important, a great hospitable person, judges and judges, “placing a clean hand on a clean heart.” And his key phrase sounds like self-characterization: “this one is right in my conscience,<…>this one is guilty according to my conscience...” Thus, the matter was resolved without delay, and “the guilty one fled into the dense forests to hide his shame from people.” Skobichevsky A.M. was ironic about the story, writing that all its heroes are naive, the story has few “points of contact with pre-Petrine antiquity.” All literature was filled, especially when turning to history, with “stilted personifications of various passions.” Comprehension of time - objectively defined, quite accurate - was a matter of the future.
In my opinion, it was in this story that N.M. Karamzin addressed the Russian man in all respects. The work begins with an appeal to the readers, let us remember the introduction: “Who among us does not love those times when Russians were Russians, when they dressed up in their own clothes, walked in their own gait, lived according to their custom, spoke in their own language and according to their hearts, i.e. did they say what they thought?”
The author even allows himself to slightly make fun of his own and very recent fiery Europeanism - his heroine “had all the properties of a well-bred girl, although the Russians did not then read either Locke’s On Education or Roussow’s Emil.”
Actually, “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter” is a farewell to youth, with its unrealistic dreams and delusions. N. M. Karamzin became disillusioned not with the “ancient stones” of Europe, but with what followed the Great French Revolution. The story was a kind of Karamzin statement that we have “become special.” The story in the story is still rather conventional and static; but the muse Clio, not yet fully revealing her face, imperiously called N.M. Karamzin to her. There were only a few steps left to mutual and happy love for life. The hidden, mocking mention of the idol of youth, J. J. Rousseau, only meant that one should seek wisdom not only in journeys far away, but also at home.
“Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter” is a stamp of the writer’s favorite thought that the past only does not pass when you love it; The closest thing to Russian talent is to glorify what is Russian, especially since one should accustom fellow citizens to respect everything that is their own and dear. If we approach it by today's standards, then the story in the story is just a panorama - a stage backdrop for the characters flaunting the colorful caftans of the times of Alexei Mikhailovich. But she spoke through the lips of her lovers in “Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter” - for the first time! ― simple-minded pre-Petrine Rus', and the author felt not like an imitator of Laurence Stern, but an artist, a pet of the earthlings Father and Father.
Reference material for schoolchildren:
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is a famous Russian historian, writer and poet. The author of one of the most recognized historical sources - the History of the Russian State.
Years of life: 1766-1826.
The most famous works:
“Eugene and Yulia”, story (1789)
"Letters of a Russian Traveler" (1791-1792)
"Poor Liza", story (1792)
“Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter”, story (1792)
“The Beautiful Princess and the Happy Karla” (1792)
"Sierra Morena", a story (1793)
"The Island of Bornholm" (1793)
"Julia" (1796)
“Martha the Posadnitsa, or the Conquest of Novagorod”, story (1802)
“My Confession,” letter to the magazine publisher (1802)
"Sensitive and Cold" (1803)
"A Knight of Our Time" (1803)
"Autumn"
The key figure is Natalya, who lives in the era of pre-Petrine Russia. A few words about the parents: father, boyar Matvey, is a rich man, a faithful adviser to the tsar; Natalya's mother died and she was raised by a nanny. According to the storyline of the work, the life of the heroes is regulated by the rules of “Domostroy”, and Natalya’s life is completely subject to this way of life. Early in the morning, together with the nanny, they go to church to pray, then give alms to the poor. At home, Natalya works at the hoop, sews, and weaves lace. Her father lets her go for a walk with the nanny in the garden, and then she sits down again to do her needlework. In the evening she is allowed to chat with her friends under the supervision of nannies. Natalya's life is closed and devoid of events, but even with such a life she knows how to dream and thinks a lot. The author shows how kind she is, how she loves her father and strict nanny, how she admires the nature and beauty of Moscow. She is hardworking and obedient, just like a girl of that time should be. But the time comes, and she literally begins to dream about love. The long-awaited meeting took place in a church, and Natalya fell in love at first sight, not even knowing the young man’s name. Not seeing him the next day, she is sad and suffering, does not eat or drink, while trying to hide her melancholy from her father and nanny. Having met him again, she is so happy that “the hour of mass was one blissful second for her.” The nanny arranged a date for the lovers, and the young people agreed to run away and get married secretly. And the author depicts in detail the heroine’s experiences: the happiness of love, unshakable trust in Alexei, guilt before her loving father, shame for the pain she causes him. But according to Domostroy, the wife must forget everything for her husband and obey him in everything. Natalya is ready for this. Even when the nanny, frightened by Alexei’s armed servants, screamed that they were in the hands of robbers, Natalya calmed down just by Alexei’s word. She believed and knew that he could not be an evil person. She is happy with her beloved husband, but she embroiders patterned towels for both him and her father. Natalya dreams that her father will forgive his daughter and prays for this. When Alexei got ready to go to war, the heroine doesn’t even think about letting him go alone. Putting on a man's outfit and hiding her hair under a helmet, she goes with Alexei to the battlefield and fights bravely, earning the forgiveness of the king and her beloved parent.
So, we see that the heroine is dreamy and feminine, her soul is full of subtle and contradictory experiences. At the same time, in difficult times, she can be strong and courageous, capable of decisive actions and believing in goodness and God's mercy.
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Sections: Literature
Class: 8
Lesson objectives:
- briefly introduce students to the biography and work of Karamzin;
- consider the historical basis of the story “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter”;
- give an idea of sentimentalism as a literary movement;
- develop expressive reading skills, episode analysis;
- to cultivate interest in the work of the sentimentalist writer N.M. Karamzin.
Forms of work and methodological techniques: teacher's story, student performances (individual research work), expressive reading, elements of text analysis (team work).
Equipment: portrait of N.M. Karamzin, presentation on the writer’s work.
During the classes
I. 1. Organizational moment.
2. Updating - homework survey.
II. Learning new material. The story of N. M. Karamzin “Natalia, the boyar’s daughter.”
1. Setting goals and objectives for the lesson.
2. The teacher’s introductory speech about N.M. Karamzin (1766-1826).
/Working with a presentation on the writer’s work./
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was born on December 1 (12), 1766 in the Simbirsk province into a well-born but poor noble family. The Karamzins descended from the Tatar prince Kara-Murza, who was baptized and became the founder of the Kostroma landowners.
For his military service, the writer’s father received an estate in the Simbirsk province, where Karamzin spent his childhood. He inherited his quiet disposition and penchant for daydreaming from his mother Ekaterina Petrovna, whom he lost at the age of 3.
When Karamzin was 13 years old, his father sent him to the boarding school of Moscow University professor I.M. Schaden, where the boy attended lectures, received a secular upbringing, studied German and French perfectly, read English and Italian. At the end of the boarding school in 1781, Karamzin left Moscow and joined the Preobrazhensky Regiment in St. Petersburg, to which he was assigned at birth.
The first literary experiments date back to his military service. The young man's literary inclinations brought him closer to prominent Russian writers. Karamzin began as a translator and edited Russia’s first children’s magazine, “Children’s Reading for the Heart and Mind.” After the death of his father in January 1784, Karamzin retired with the rank of lieutenant and returned to his homeland in Simbirsk. Here he led a rather absent-minded lifestyle, typical of a nobleman of those years.
A decisive turn in his fate was made by a chance acquaintance with I.P. Turgenev, an active freemason, an associate of the famous writer and book publisher of the late 18th century N.I. Novikova. For four years, the aspiring writer moved in Moscow Masonic circles and became close friends with N.I. Novikov, becomes a member of the scientific society. But soon Karamzin experienced deep disappointment in Freemasonry and left Moscow, setting off on a long journey through Western Europe.
In the fall of 1790, Karamzin returned to Russia and from 1791 began publishing the Moscow Journal, which was published for 2 years and had great success with the Russian reading public. The leading place in it was occupied by fiction, including the works of Karamzin himself - “Letters of a Russian Traveler”, the stories “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter”, “Poor Liza”. New Russian prose began with Karamzin's stories. Perhaps, without even expecting it, Karamzin outlined the features of an attractive image of a Russian girl - a deep and romantic nature, selfless, truly folk.
Beginning with the publication of the Moscow Journal, Karamzin appeared before Russian public opinion as the first professional writer and journalist. In noble society, the pursuit of literature was considered more of a hobby and certainly not a serious profession. The writer, through his work and constant success with readers, established the authority of publishing in the eyes of society and turned literature into an honorable and respected profession.
Karamzin established in Russian literature an artistic opposition to fading classicism - sentimentalism, which, paying main attention to the image of the world of the soul, contrasted the wealth of the pocket with the wealth of feelings. Time demanded from literature an understanding of the “language of the heart” and the ability to speak this language. Karamzin’s idea that one must “write as they say and speak as they write” has retained its meaning in our time. (See APPENDIX 2)
3. Student’s message “N.M. Karamzin is a reformer of the Russian literary language.”
4. The teacher’s word about sentimentalism. Vocabulary work.
The word “sentimentalism” comes from the English sentimental - sensitive and French sentiment - feeling. This is a literary movement in European literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Pushkin’s friend, poet P.A. Vyazemsky, defined sentimentalism as “an elegant depiction of the basic and everyday.” Sentimentalists, unlike adherents of classicism, gave priority to feelings rather than reason, glorifying the common man, with his rich inner world, experiences, and self-esteem. Hence the emotional nature of the narrative in the works of this lit. directions. Sentimentalism opposed the abstraction and rationality of the works of classicism. This movement is characterized by the desire to depict human psychology, the life of his soul.
The literature of sentimentalism is addressed to everyday life, to the private life of people. Therefore, the genres characteristic of sentimentalism - elegy, message, epistolary novel (novel in letters), diary, travel, story - largely imitate the direct experiences of a person, records dictated by the immediate movement of the heart.
One of the characteristic features of Russian sentimentalism is the idyllic image of the village and peasantry. The life of ordinary people in the lap of nature is depicted as ideal and morally pure. In this regard, landscape plays a special role in works of sentimentalism. A person must live in harmony, in harmony with nature, follow natural desires, and draw peace from nature. The contrast is the city - the center of evil, unnatural life, empty vanity.
Some works of sentimentalism contain a protest against social injustice, against the humiliation of the “little man.” The attention of sentimentalists to human psychology played a large positive role in the development of Russian literature.
5. The historical basis of the story “Natalia, the boyar’s daughter.”
The historical past has always interested Karamzin. For 20 years, he worked on the multi-volume “History of the Russian State,” in which he reflected his view on the events of the political, cultural, and civil life of the country over seven centuries.
Karamzin’s main historical work is “History of the Russian State.” But the history of a state consists of the history of individual people, great and ordinary, outstanding and inconspicuous. The stories “Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter” and “Martha the Posadnitsa” tell about Russian antiquity, about people as the writer imagined them.
We know that the story was created during the reign of Catherine II, but after reading it, we are transported to the era of the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, to Moscow in the 17th century. It is important to remember that not only for us, but also for the writer himself, this is ancient times, “ancient patriarchal times.”
6. Student’s message about the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov.(See APPENDIX 3)
Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, born on March 19, 1629, ascended the throne at the age of 16, after the death of his father Mikhail. He was a supporter of the ideas of piety and moral improvement, and zealously observed fasts. The actual administration of the country at the beginning of his reign was carried out by his educator and guardian, boyar Morozov. It must be said that in the circle of the king, nicknamed the Quietest, there were not only noble people. Credit was also given to those who were endowed with abilities (Morozov, Ordin-Nashchokin).
The Council Code (1649), drawn up at the beginning of the reign of Tsar Alexei Romanov, made it possible to lay the legislative basis for Russian society. The practice of attracting military specialists from other states to the Russian army continued. The importance of the Boyar Duma and Zemsky Sobors gradually came down to zero. But the Near Duma, which included only Alexei’s close associates, gained strength. One of the most notable events of the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov was the schism of the church. In the confrontation with Patriarch Nikon, the priority of royal power over church power was finally secured.
Alexei Mikhailovich's foreign policy was marked by almost continuous wars. The borders of the state expanded to include the lands of the Far East and Eastern Siberia. Internal – mass social protests. This is Stepan Razin's war, riots (Medny and Solyanoy).
The biography of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov reports that the tsar was married twice and had 16 children. 13 - from his first wife Maria Miloslavskaya, 3 - from Natalya Naryshkina. Subsequently, three of his sons occupied the Russian throne.
The king died on February 11, 1676, at the age of 47. It is believed that one of the reasons for early death was excessive obesity. Even according to the boyars, Tsar Alexei was considered a very obese man.
(The material was prepared based on information from open sources. /http://historynotes.ru/car-aleksey-mihaylovich-romanov/)
7. Student’s message “Brief plot of the story “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter.”
Objectivity for a real scientist is above all, therefore history itself determines Karamzin’s story. Natalya, the boyar's daughter, lives with her father, boyar Matvey Andreev. (He is the owner of the “prosperous” part of the prototype’s biography.) Boyar Matvey is in favor with the tsar and respected by people, rich, active, fair. Widower. The delight of his soul is his only daughter, the beautiful Natalya. She is already of marriageable age. She was raised by a nanny. The girl’s life flows in a rather narrow channel, regulated by a set of rules for housekeeping - “Domostroy”. However, the matured girl feels with all her being the need to love; she already narrowly lives within the framework of “Domostroy,” which brings together Christian norms and everyday recommendations of the 16th century. At mass in church, she sees a young man whose gaze awakens passion in her. After a second meeting with him, the nanny organizes a date for the young couple. When they meet, Alexey convinces Natalya of the need to follow him and marry without her father’s blessing. And so it happened. When the nanny and the girl saw armed men near Alexei’s forest dwelling, they were frightened, considering them robbers. But Alexey reassured them by telling the story of his family’s disgrace. Having married secretly, they lived happily. Further, the summary shows that the vassals proved their loyalty to the kings through military deeds. “Natalia, the Boyar’s Daughter” introduces the theme of war and service into the outline of its narrative. The young man learned about the beginning of the war with the Lithuanians. Alexey made a firm decision: with his valor he would earn the king’s mercy and the forgiveness of his family. He suggested that his wife Natalya return to her father for a while. But the girl, dressed in a military dress, said that she would be with him in the war, calling herself his younger brother. The war ended in victory. In battles, Alexei’s military merits were undeniable. The tsar himself rewarded the hero, but the highest reward for Alexei was the end of disgrace. Having learned that Natalya, as a simple soldier, fought shoulder to shoulder with her beloved, the king was touched, and his father blessed their marriage. The boyar lived to a ripe old age with the friendly family of Alexei and Natalya, rich in children. On behalf of the author of the story, who heard this story from his great-grandmother, Karamzin at the end of the story testifies that he himself saw a huge stone over the grave of Alexei and Natalya.
Plan
Introduction
N.M. Karamzin in the story refers to the historical past of Russia.
Main part
Natalya is the main character of the story:
a) the heroine’s childhood, her parents;
b) features of upbringing;
c) first feelings;
d) secret wedding.
Peculiarities of the relationship between Alexey and Natalia.
Conclusion
The heroine is dreamy and feminine, but at the same time capable of decisive actions.
N.M. Karamzin in the story “Natalya, the Boyar’s Daughter” refers to the historical past of Russia.
Natalya, the main character of the story, lives in the era of pre-Petrine Russia. Her father, boyar Matvey, is a rich man, a loyal adviser to the tsar. Natalya's mother died and she was raised by a nanny. At that time, the rules of “Domostroy” were the main ones in people’s personal lives, and Natalya’s life is completely subject to this way of life. Early in the morning, together with the nanny, they go to church to pray, then give alms to the poor. At home, Natalya works at the hoop, sews, and weaves lace. Her father lets her go for a walk with the nanny in the garden, and then she sits down again to do her needlework. In the evening she is allowed to chat with her friends under the supervision of nannies. Natalya's life is closed and devoid of events, but even with such a life she knows how to dream and thinks a lot. The author shows how kind she is, how she loves her father and strict nanny, how she admires the nature and beauty of Moscow. She is hardworking and obedient, just like a girl of that time should be. But the time comes, and she begins to dream of love.
The long-awaited meeting took place in a church, and Natalya fell in love at first sight, not even knowing the young man’s name. Not seeing him the next day, she is sad and suffering, does not eat or drink, while trying to hide her melancholy from her father and nanny. Having met him again, she is so happy that “the hour of mass was one blissful second for her.” The nanny arranged a date for the lovers, and the young people agreed to run away and get married secretly. And the author depicts in detail the heroine’s experiences: the happiness of love, unshakable trust in Alexei, guilt before her loving father, shame for the pain she causes him. But according to Domostroy, the wife must forget everything for her husband and obey him in everything. Natalya is ready for this. Even when the nanny, frightened by Alexei’s armed servants, screamed that they were in the hands of robbers, Natalya calmed down just by Alexei’s word. She believed and knew that he could not be an evil person. She is happy with her beloved husband, but she embroiders patterned towels for both him and her father. Natalya dreams that her father will forgive his daughter and prays for this.
When Alexei got ready to go to war, the heroine doesn’t even think about letting him go alone. Putting on a man's outfit and hiding her hair under a helmet, she goes with Alexei to the battlefield and fights bravely, earning the forgiveness of the king and her beloved parent.
So, we see that the heroine is dreamy and feminine, her soul is full of subtle and contradictory experiences. At the same time, in difficult times, she can be strong and courageous, capable of decisive actions and believing in goodness and God's mercy.
