“The Life and Work of Turgenev” - Having settled in Berlin, Turgenev diligently took up his studies. In 1836, Turgenev completed the course with the degree of a full student. Turgenev's estate Spasskoye-Lutovinovo is the native nest of the great writer. Since 1850, Spasskoye-Lutovinovo began to belong to I. S. Turgenev. Library. Adulthood. I.S. Turgenev was born on October 28, 1818 in Orel.

“Years of Turgenev’s life” - XVI - Date. You have erected a lasting monument to yourself.. - “NOTES OF A HUNTER.” In 1838, Turgenev’s poems “Evening” and “To the Venus of Medicia” were published in the Sovremennik magazine. I keep a geranium flower... Sick I.S. Turgenev. Ring composition. Additional tasks: Bright memories. I.S. Turgenev wrote a great many works.

“The Years of Turgenev” - In 1833, 15-year-old Turgenev entered the literature department of Moscow University. Mother, Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, came from a wealthy noble family. Ivan Turgenev was born on October 28, 1818 in Orel. Annotation. Some film adaptations of works. 1818-1883. In 1841, Turgenev returned to his homeland.

“Turgenev Mumu” ​​- In May 1838 Turgenev goes to Germany. The writer's mother was an imperious serfdom. Portrait as a means of characterizing the hero. Autobiographical story "mumu". Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883). In May 1845 Turgenev retired. Through the pages of the writer's biography. The story "Mumu", written in 1852, has an autobiographical basis.

“The novel Fathers and Sons of Turgenev” - Find the correspondence of the heroes of the novel to their social status: Who does I.S. Turgenev sympathize with: 1. Revolutionary democrats 2. Commoners 3. Liberals 4. Monarchists. 1. “Notes from a Doctor” 2. “Notes on a Cuff” 3. “Notes from a Hunter” 4. “Notes from the House of the Dead.” 1. A.I. Herzen 2. V.G. Belinsky 3. N.A. Nekrasov 4. To another person.

I. S. Turgenev is an insightful and perspicacious artist, sensitive to everything, able to notice and describe the most insignificant, small details. Turgenev perfectly mastered the skill of description. All his paintings are alive, clearly presented, filled with sounds. Turgenev's landscape is psychological, connected with the experiences and appearance of the characters in the story, with their everyday life.

Undoubtedly, the landscape in the story “Bezhin Meadow” plays an important role. We can say that the entire story is permeated with artistic sketches that determine the state of the hero, emphasize his mood, feelings, and determine internal tension. “Bezhin Meadow”, in fact, begins with landscape sketches. The author describes a beautiful July day, when “all the colors are softened, light, but not bright,” when the “touching meekness” of nature is felt, the air is dry and clean. These pictures appear before your eyes and the smells of wormwood, compressed rye, and buckwheat, which the author mentions, are felt.

It's a wonderful day! The hero is happy with the grouse hunt. However, the feeling of calm and harmony did not last long. Evening came and it began to get dark. The hero lost his way, got lost, and was overcome by inner restlessness. Using the description of nature, the author manages to show his confusion. The hero was immediately overcome by an unpleasant, motionless dampness, which made him feel eerie. The bats were already “rushing”, and the belated birds were hurrying to their nests. As the hunter realized that he was seriously lost and would no longer be able to get out of the forest in the darkness today, “the night approached and grew like a thundercloud,” and “darkness poured out” from everywhere. And when the hero finally abandoned hope of getting home, he went out to Bezhin meadow, where the village children were sitting around the fire. They were herding a herd of horses. In this romantic setting, they told each other different stories. The hunter joined them. Gradually, the feeling of anxiety went away and was replaced by new feelings: calm, peace. He began to admire the sky, the river, the crackling fire, and enjoy the special, languid and fresh “smell of a Russian summer night.”

The narrator listened to the guys' stories with curiosity. At the most intense moments of the stories, nature, as if listening to them, sent small surprises. Every time, at the most terrible moment, something happened. After Kostya’s story about the meeting of the carpenter Gavrila with the mermaid, the guys hear a “lingering, ringing, almost moaning sound” that suddenly arose from the silence and slowly spread through the air. The story told by Ilyusha about how the huntsman Yermil met evil spirits in the form of a lamb frightens the children even more because suddenly the dogs got up and, barking convulsively, rushed away from the fire and disappeared into the darkness. The story about the dead and the prediction of death makes the children thoughtful. The appearance of a white dove, flying up to the fire out of nowhere, circling in one place and dissolving in the darkness of the night, makes them wonder if this is not a righteous soul flying to heaven. “The strange, sharp, painful cry of a heron,” heard in the silence, serves as a transition to a conversation about mysterious and terrible sounds: this is how a soul can “complain” or a goblin scream. All these pictures convey the anxiety, fear, tension of the children, emphasizing their mood. “God's stars,” to which little Vanya attracts attention, helps all children see the beauty of the night sky.

Turgenev's landscape is psychological, connected with the experiences and appearance of the characters in the story, with their everyday life.

The story also ends with a description of nature. “Everything moved, woke up, sang, rustled, spoke,” a new day, unusually beautiful, sunny and bright, combined with the sounds of a bell and invigorating freshness, serves as the final chord of this wonderful work.

The skill of I. S. Turgenev helps readers feel the beauty of their native nature, pay attention to what happens in it every minute, every hour.

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In the article we will talk about the cycle of stories by I.S. Turgenev - “Notes of a Hunter”. The object of our attention was the work “Bezhin Meadow”, and especially the landscapes in it. A brief description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” awaits you below.

About the writer

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is one of the greatest Russian writers.

This writer, playwright and translator was born in 1818. He wrote in the genre of romanticism, turning into realism. The last novels were already purely realistic, while the haze of “world sorrow” was present in them. He also introduced the concept of “nihilist” into literature and, using the example of his heroes, revealed it.

About the story "Bezhin Meadow"

The story “Bezhin Meadow” is part of the “Notes of a Hunter” cycle. The history of the creation of this cycle of independent stories is interesting. Together they create an amazing border of landscapes, excitement, anxiety and harsh nature (and the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” is an amazing reflection of human feelings in the mirror of the surrounding world).

When the writer returned to Russia after a trip abroad, the Sovremennik magazine began its long journey in 1847. Ivan Sergeevich was offered to publish a short work on the pages of the issue. But the writer believed that there was nothing worthy, and in the end he brought the editors a short story “Khor and Kalinich” (in the magazine it was called an essay). This “essay” had the effect of an explosion; readers began to ask Turgenev in numerous letters to him to continue and publish something similar. So the writer opened a new cycle and began to weave it from stories and essays, like precious beads. A total of 25 stories were published under this title.

One of the chapters - "Bezhin Meadow" - is known for its amazing pictures of nature and the atmosphere of the night. The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” is a real masterpiece. The meadow and forest, the night sky, and the fire seem to live their own lives. They are not just background. They are full-fledged characters in this story. Beginning with a description of early morning and dawn, the story will guide the reader through a hot summer day, and then through a mystical night in the forest and meadow with the mysterious name “Bezhin.”

Description of nature in the story "Bezhin Meadow". Summary.

On a very nice July day, the hero of the story went hunting for black grouse. The hunt was quite successful, and with a backpack full of game, he decided that it was time to go home. Climbing the hill, the hero realized that in front of him were places completely foreign to him. Deciding that he had “turned too right”, he walked down the hill in the hope that he would now rise from the right side and see familiar places. Night was approaching, and the path was still not found. Wandering through the forest and asking himself the question “So where am I?”, the hero suddenly stopped in front of an abyss into which he almost fell. Finally, he realized where he was. A place called Bezhin Meadow stretched out before him.

The hunter saw lights nearby and people near them. Moving towards them, he saw that they were boys from nearby villages. They grazed a herd of horses here.

It is worth mentioning separately about the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow”. She surprises, enchants, and sometimes frightens.

The narrator asked to stay with them for the night and, in order not to embarrass the boys, pretended to be asleep. The guys started telling scary stories. The first is about how they spent the night at the factory and there they were scared by a “brownie”.

The second story is about the carpenter Gavril, who went into the forest and heard the call of a mermaid. He got scared and crossed himself, for which the mermaid cursed him, saying that “he will kill himself all his life.”

The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” serves not only as a decoration for these stories, it complements them with mysticism, charm, and mystery.

So, until dawn, the boys recalled terrible stories. The author really liked the boy Pavlusha. His appearance was completely unremarkable, but he looked very smart and “there was strength in his voice.” His stories did not frighten the boys at all; a rational, wise answer was ready for everything. And when, in the midst of the conversation, the dogs barked and rushed into the forest, Pavlusha rushed after them. Returning, he calmly said that he expected to see a wolf. The boy's courage amazed the narrator. The next morning he returned home and often remembered that night and the boy Pavel. At the end of the story, the hero sadly says that Pavlusha, some time after they met, died - he fell from his horse.

Nature in the story

Pictures of nature occupy a special place in the story. The description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” by Turgenev begins the story.

The landscape changes somewhat when the hero realizes that he is lost. Nature is still beautiful and majestic, but it evokes some kind of elusive, mystical fear.

When the boys slowly carry on their childish speeches, the meadow around seems to listen to them, sometimes supporting them with eerie sounds or the flight of a dove that has come from nowhere.

The role of the description of nature in the story "Bezhin Meadow"

This story is famous for its landscapes. But he doesn’t talk about nature, but about the story of the main character, about how he, having gotten lost, went to Bezhin Meadow and stayed the night with the village boys, listening to their scary stories and watching the children. Why are there so many descriptions of nature in the story? Landscapes are not just an addition, they set you in the right mood, captivate you, and sound like music in the background of the story. Be sure to read the entire story, it will surprise and enchant you.

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Nature helps the writer penetrate deeper into the event being depicted, characterize the hero, and more accurately determine the time and place of action.

In his works I.S. Turgenev more than once uses descriptions of nature, which make the literary text more expressive and colorfully richer. For example, the title of one of the stories in the series “Notes of a Hunter” is based on a precisely indicated place, Bezhin meadow, where the main events of the work unfold. Having gotten lost, the narrator went out to Bezhin meadow, where he met peasant children who talked about folk beliefs, omens, and people’s faith in good and evil spirits.

The story “Bezhin Meadow” begins with a description of a beautiful summer July day. Here I.S. Turgenev uses epithets: “dawn... spreads with a gentle blush”, “the sun is not fiery, not heated”, “lilac... fog”, “the color of the sky, light, pale lilac”, metaphors: “the sun... floats up peacefully”, “clouds” ... almost do not move”, “the colors are all softened”, comparisons: “clouds disappear... like smoke”, “like a carefully carried candle... an evening star”, which convey the beauty diffused in nature. Landscape sketches reflect the excellent mood and wonderful impressions of the narrator. The state of serene peace and silence emanating from nature is transmitted to the reader, who becomes, as it were, an accomplice in the events and feels, like the narrator, all the facets of the July day and the approaching evening: both the “scarlet glow ... over the darkened earth” and the “seal some kind of touching meekness,” and “accumulated heat,” and the smell of wormwood, rye, buckwheat.

The change in landscape conveys the changing mood of the narrator, his anxiety and excitement. Instead of the bright colors of a summer day, dark and black colors appear: “dark and round brown”, “gloomy gloom”, “blackening”, “bluish airy emptiness”. Nature reflects the state of the hunter, therefore the epithets and metaphors used by the writer create an atmosphere of fear: in the ravine “it was mute and deaf”, “places almost completely drowned in darkness”, “no light flickered anywhere, no sound was heard”, “he found himself above a terrible the abyss." Together with the narrator, the reader also feels fear and excitement.

Thus, the landscape in the story “Bezhin Meadow” helps the reader to more deeply convey the changing mood of the narrator. I.S. Turgenev is a master of landscape sketches, so the writer’s nature is the artistic image that reveals the psychological state of the characters.

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In the story by I.S. Turgenev's "Bezhin Meadow" nature is a source of inspiration and mystery for adults and children, but this is not its only role.

The story begins with a description of a July day; from dawn to the evening star this day passes before us. Turgenev often said that nature speaks its own language, but it has no voice. The author of the story gives her the opportunity to talk to us: the conversation is conducted by squeaking bats, the rustling of hawks’ wings, the cries of quails, the sounds of footsteps, the splashing of fish, the noise of reeds, some “animal squeaked weakly and plaintively between the roots.” The real sounds of day and night are replaced by mysterious sounds, creating an atmosphere of fabulousness: “It seemed as if someone had shouted for a long, long time under the very horizon, someone else seemed to respond to him in the forest with a thin, sharp laugh, and a weak, hissing whistle rushed by down the river".

Each fragment of the landscape is an artistic canvas: the clouds are like islands scattered along the river, which flows around them with transparent sleeves of even blue.

Probably, at the horizon, the earthly river and the heavenly river converge.

Nature in the work is not only a background, but also a hero who empathizes and reflects the feelings of other characters in the story. The hunter got lost, got nervous - and he was overcome by unpleasant dampness, the road was gone, the bushes were “kind of unmown,” the darkness was “gloomy,” the stones seemed to have slid down into the ravine “for a secret meeting.” But then he found a place to stay for the night and calmed down near the fire, now “the picture was wonderful.” Nature comes to life in the children's stories, they populate it with living creatures: a brownie lives in a factory, a goblin and a mermaid live in the forest, and a merman lives in the river. They explain the incomprehensible to the understandable through comparisons (the mermaid is white, “like a minnow,” her voice is plaintive, “like a toad”) and through simple interpretations of complex things (Gavrila fell asleep, Yermil was drunk), although the simple does not arouse their interest. Nature itself seems to be participating in a dialogue with the children. We talked about mermaids - someone started laughing, they started talking about lambs and dead people - the dogs started barking. Stones, rivers, trees, animals - everything around is alive for the children, everything evokes fear and admiration. Not everyone is superstitious, but even the realist Pavel hears the voice of the drowned Vasya and believes in the merman.

Together with the hunter and the guys from the story “Bezhin Meadow”, we see, hear, talk with nature, understand how and why our ancestors once “populated” nature with spirits.

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   We see in the story how at night familiar places became mysterious, incomprehensible: now everything around was vague, gloomy, deaf. This is how the hunter perceived nature. The very sequence of descriptions of morning, afternoon, evening, night, to some extent, prepares understanding...

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   How to explain why the story is called “Bezhin Meadow”? What other works have you read that are named after the events that take place in them? The story is called “Bezhin Meadow” after the place where its events took place. Bezhin Meadow is thirteen kilometers away...

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   The place and meaning of landscape in the story. (A lot of space is given to the description of nature in Turgenev’s story; nature here is one of the characters, and this is marked by the title of the story. “Bezhin Meadow” begins and ends with a description of nature, and its central...

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   Turgenev has the human world in its manifestations, and in all its manifestations it continues in nature, we are overshadowed by nature. Therefore, the book is fundamentally deeply optimistic. Turgenev achieves a harmonious sound of the landscape motif! like to scale...

Ivan Turgenev is a true master of words, who in his works skillfully mixed words of the literary language and dialectic dialects of the Oryol province. Let's consider the role of the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow,” which is part of the wonderful cycle “Notes of a Hunter,” which is introduced in high school.

Features of the landscape

Nature occupies a special place in Turgenev’s short story, as if it becomes another character in it. Being a true patriot, the writer describes the scene of action so soulfully and accurately that truly beautiful pictures come to life before the reader’s eyes. Let's see how the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” helps bring the author’s plan to life.

First, the writer describes in detail the scene of the action. His hero goes hunting in the Tula province, while the time of action is also indicated - “a beautiful July day.” What picture appears before the eyes of readers who get acquainted with the story?

• Early clear morning. It is interesting that, being a true expert on folk signs, Turgenev means that such weather, as a rule, does not last long.
• The morning dawn is filled with a meek blush, like a timid, bashful girl.
• The sun is friendly, radiant, benevolent, the image itself gives a good mood.
• Describing the sky, Turgenev actively uses diminutive vocabulary: “clouds”, “snake”, compares clouds with islands scattered across the endless sea surface.

The picture is truly delightful, and every word of the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” breathes with the author’s sincere love and cannot leave thoughtful readers indifferent, causing a response in their souls.

Composition

Despite the fact that the work is small in volume, several semantic parts can be distinguished in it:

• Description of a beautiful morning that turns into a fine day, as if ideally created for hunting.
• The hunter is lost, darkness is gathering around him.
• Meeting the boys, the world regains its beautiful colors.
• The night becomes solemn and majestic.
• Morning comes.

A brief description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” can be found in each of these semantic parts. Moreover, everywhere the landscape will be alive, psychological, not just a background, but an active character.

Nature and mood of the hero

So, first Turgenev paints us a picture of the early morning, it was then that his hero’s hunt for black grouse began. Nature itself seems to express the character’s high spirits. He shot a lot of prey, enjoyed amazing landscape views, and breathed in the cleanest air.

Further, the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” becomes even more important - the surrounding world begins to express the hero’s mood. He realized that he was lost. And nature changes along with the change in his mood. The grass becomes tall and thick, it is “creepy” to walk on it, and inhabitants of the forest that are not at all pleasant to humans appear - bats, hawks. The landscape itself seems to empathize with the lost hunter.

Picture of the night

Night falls, the hunter realizes that he is completely lost, tired and does not know how to get to the house. And nature becomes corresponding:

• The night is approaching “like a thundercloud.”
• The darkness is pouring.
• “Everything around was black.”
• An image of a timid bird appears, which, having accidentally touched a person, hastily disappeared into the bushes.
• The darkness becomes gloomy.
• A frightened animal squeaks pitifully.

All these images are full of psychologism, helping Turgenev convey the inner state of his hero. Note that very little is directly said about the fact that the hunter is scared, tired, and begins to feel annoyed. The author expresses his entire inner state through a description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow”. And his skill amazes him.

Therefore, the landscape becomes not just a place of action, but also a way to express the thoughts and experiences of the hero.

Meeting with the boys

In the analysis of the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow”, the passage telling about the hero’s meeting with the village boys has a special meaning. Noticing lights in the distance, a tired hunter decides to go out to the people to wait out the night. This is how he meets simple and simple-minded boys who deserve his sympathy and admiration for their closeness to nature and complete sincerity. After talking with them, the author’s perception of the surrounding landscape also changes, its gloom, dullness and black colors disappear. To quote: “The picture was wonderful.” It would seem that nothing has changed, it’s still the same night, the hero is still far from home, but his mood has improved, the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” becomes completely different:

• The sky became solemn and mysterious.
• The characters are surrounded by animals that have long been considered friends and helpers of people - horses and dogs. In this case, sounds are very important - if before the hunter heard a plaintive squeak, now he perceives how the horses are “vigorously chewing” the grass.

Extraneous frightening noises do not disturb the hero; he found peace next to the village children. Therefore, the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” helps not only to recreate the scene of action, but also to express the feelings and experiences of the hero.

Artistic drawing methods

To create pictures of the landscape surrounding the hunter, the writer uses color and sound images, as well as smells. That is why the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” by Turgenev turns out to be lively and vivid.

Let's give examples. To recreate the beautiful pictures that appear before the hero’s gaze, the prose writer uses a huge number of epithets:

• "Round reddish reflection."
• "Long Shadows"

There are also a large number of personifications, because the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” shows it as a living character:

• dust rushes;
• the shadows are approaching;
• darkness fights light.

There are also sounds in the image of the surrounding world: dogs “bark angrily”, “children’s ringing voices”, boys’ ringing laughter, horses chew grass and snort, fish quietly splash. There is also a smell - “the smell of a Russian summer night.”

In a short passage, Turgenev uses a huge number of visual and expressive techniques that help him paint a truly magnificent, life-filled picture of the world around him. That is why we can say that the role of the description of nature in the story “Bezhin Meadow” is great. The sketches help the author convey the mood of the hero, who is close in spirit to Turgenev himself.