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Three ugly people. "Troika" N

Nekrasov, who is rightly called the singer of the Russian land, was deeply concerned about the situation of peasant women. Before the reform of 1861, the lot of disenfranchised, downtrodden women was hard. It is impossible to read the poem “Troika” by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov and not sympathize with the fate of young peasant women doomed to eke out a miserable existence. The poem was created in 1846. Having become close to V.G. Belinsky, the poet continued to tirelessly raise the problem of the lack of rights of peasants, whose lives depended on the masters. Many of them were real tyrants. Nekrasov's muse is not a gentle aristocratic beauty, but a beaten and tortured dumb woman. At that time, peasant women rarely lived to old age, and by the age of forty, many of them seemed like old women. The master might have liked a young beautiful girl, but she should not have hoped to take any place in the master’s house.

The text of Nekrasov’s poem “Troika,” which is taught in a literature lesson in the 9th grade, is imbued with sad, melancholy notes. There is a feeling of doom in it. Many tragedies in Rus' were associated with the luring of peasant girls from their homes by barchuks and military men. The poet complains that the Russian serf beauty is “not entitled to happiness” and at the same time lowers the dreaming woman to the ground. A little time will pass, and she will be married off to a “slob man” who loves to drink and “teach” his wife wisdom with his fists. Taking care of the household, raising numerous children will fall on her shoulders, and her beauty, which is better conditions It could bloom for a long time, but it will wither. Nekrasov invites the girls to come to terms with their fate. “A sad anxiety in the heart,” a dream of illusory happiness can further darken her difficult lot.

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Why are you looking greedily at the road?
Away from cheerful friends?
You know, my heart sounded alarmed -
Your whole face suddenly flushed.

And why are you running hastily?
Following the rushing troika?..
At you, beautifully akimbo,
A passing cornet looked up.

It's no wonder to look at you,
Anyone wouldn't mind loving you:
The scarlet ribbon curls playfully
In your hair, black as night;

Through the blush of your dark cheek
Light fluff breaks through,
From under your semicircular eyebrow
The sly little eye looks smartly.

One glance of a black-browed savage,
Full of spells that set the blood on fire,
The old man will be ruined for gifts,
Love will rush into the young man's heart.

You will live and celebrate to your heart's content,
Life will be full and easy...
But that’s not what befell you:
You'll marry a man for a slob.

Having tied an apron under the arms,
You will tighten your ugly breasts,
Your picky husband will beat you
And my mother-in-law will die to death.

From work both menial and difficult
You will fade before you have time to bloom,
You will fall into a deep sleep,
You will babysit, work and eat.

And in your face, full of movement,
Full of life - will suddenly appear
An expression of dull patience
And senseless, eternal fear.

And they will bury you in a damp grave,
How will you go through your difficult path,
Uselessly extinguished strength
And an unwarmed chest.

Don't look longingly at the road
And don’t rush after the troika,
And sad anxiety in my heart
Hurry up and shut it down forever!

You won't be able to catch up with the crazy three:
The horses are strong and well-fed and lively, -
And the coachman was drunk, and to the other
A young cornet rushes like a whirlwind...

Nikolai Nekrasov tried to show the entire Russian reality in his work. He realistically described the life of nobles and peasants, and devoted a special place to the topic of serfdom.

Anarchy, hard work, oppression and punishment - this is the life filled with grief that he saw in the peasant environment, and against which he protested.

Against the backdrop of severe exploitation and complete lack of rights, the female role occupied a special place in his work. A huge number of texts are devoted to this topic, which helped to consider the problem from different angles. One of these Nekrasov poems is “Troika”.

The history of the poem "Troika"

This poem was written in 1846, when there were fifteen long years left before the abolition of serfdom. In it, Nekrasov, in his exquisite way, exposes a serious problem of society - oppression, inequality, dumbness of the people.

In this work, the author did not betray himself. He wrote with his characteristic realism. We can say that he is merciless towards his heroine, and does not leave her any chance for a better life. And the lot of women in Rus' in those days was very tragic.

The verse was not persecuted, and a year later it was published in Sovremennik. Some critics were delighted with both the content and the compositional idea.

The composers liked the first, lyrical part of the text so much that the poems were repeatedly set to music and became a romance. The first of the poems was made into a song by Nekrasov’s contemporary, Russian pianist and composer Alexander Ivanovich Dubuk.

Lovers of romances to this day pay tribute to the melodiousness of the poem, written more than 170 years ago.

Troika