Family happiness of Natasha and Pierre. Natasha and Pierre

Sometimes love goes away on its own
Neither touched the heart nor the mind.
That is not love, but youth fun,
No, love has the right to perish without a trace:
She comes to live forever
Until a man perishes in the ground.
Nizami
No person is able to understand what true love is until they have been married for a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain

This article is included in the "school block":

Literature, in fact, has passed by the image of family love. Andrei Platonov once remarked: "The image of a family man, artistically equivalent to Don Juan, does not exist in world literature. However, the image of a family man is more inherent and known to mankind than the image of Don Juan." This observation can be extended to folklore. Russian folk tales with a love plot, and most of them end with a wedding with an afterword: "... they lived happily ever after and died on the same day." A L.N. Tolstoy in "War and Peace" went beyond these fairy tales and revealed the secret of these longevity and happiness, describing in detail the content of daily, family love.

The famous Russian psychotherapist N.E. Osipov (1877-1934) called the works of Leo Tolstoy “psychoanalysis in artistic form” and in his works mentioned the name of the writer no less often than the name of the founder of the psychoanalytic doctrine of S. Freud.

Moreover, N.E. Osipov sees in Tolstoy himself an intuitive psychoanalyst who anticipated Freud's discoveries even in the field of the treatment of mental illness. So, Tolstoy, according to N.E. Osipov, not only gave a surprisingly accurate description of Natasha Rostova's depression after the failed escape with Kuragin, but indicated the only true method of therapy. The scientist sees commonality in the methods of psychoanalysis and the artistic method of Tolstoy. N.E. Osipov considered common in Tolstoy and Freud attention to small strokes and attitude to them as having a deep meaning.

Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov are the favorite characters of L.N. Tolstoy and he describes them especially carefully, without embellishment, and sometimes even using harsh formulations, but with documentary accuracy, according to the principle "reliability is more precious than sympathy." Happy, loving families like Natasha and Pierre were, are and will be. And thanks to the "textbook of love" L.N. Tolstoy may be more.

Natasha Rostova went the usual way up the ladder of love: first she had a teenage crush on Boris, then an ardent "first love" for Andrei Bolkonsky, a passion for Anatole Kuragin, the final tragic chord with Andrei Bolkonsky. And only after she successfully passes the "courses of a young fighter" does she become "capable" of true love - the role of Mother - Wife.

Natasha - "black-eyed, with a big mouth, ugly, but lively girl", "graceful poetic imp", "capricious", "alarms everyone, and is loved by everyone", and also mobile and spontaneous, she was recklessly at the mercy of her feelings. With her temperament, a childish love for Boris Drubetskoy is inevitable. This sensual outburst caused in her an instant eclipse of reason, a complete paralysis of all other feelings. She plunged Natasha into deep experiences, and in these sufferings the soul develops. This is the first significant step from childhood to youth, and adulthood is still far away, somewhere beyond the horizon.

Natasha does not think at all about what she lives for, does not attach herself to thoughts about high ideals, or about "good heaven", or about virtue, or even about tomorrow. Natasha always does what her heart tells her, thinks little about the consequences of her actions, and therefore there is neither falsehood nor forgery. Admiring his heroine, L.N. Tolstoy singles out "simplicity, goodness and truth" in her. Her soul is developing, and can already accommodate and even requires a deeper feeling for Prince Andrei, with whom she falls in love and mutually. A stormy feeling, a declaration of love with Prince Andrei and an engagement with a year's test.

Prince Andrei in "War and Peace" falls into the trap of falling in love, as "a fish without fish and cancer." This trap is very common in socially restricted groups. Natasha Rostova may not meet his expectations and psychological characteristics at all, but she is "a person from her circle, a marriageable girl." There is a "key - lock" system. Prince Andrei wants to start a family, he has a need for love, and then Natasha appears. All further constructions of the heroes only in a favorable romantic form explain what happened to them. It seems to Natasha that already on the first visit of Prince Andrei to the Rostov estate, she fell in love with him, and him too. But this is self-deception. The true motive is the "couple waiting trap". L.N. Tolstoy was a good worldly psychologist, and therefore he allowed this couple to break up in the course of the story.
B.Yu. Shapiro, Dean of the Faculty of the MHSS, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, full member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, member of the European Association of Psychotherapists.

But Natasha's temperament does not tolerate such a long peace of mind, and now the demon has already beguiled her. In the absence of Prince Andrei, she meets and quickly becomes close to Anatole Kuragin. This is a tall handsome man with “beautiful big eyes”, he is not gifted with the mind, but “on the other hand, he had the ability of calmness, precious for light, and unchanging confidence.” And although Anatole does not pursue personal gain, he hunts for pleasures with an insatiable passion - and with a willingness to sacrifice any neighbor. So he does with Natasha Rostova, making her fall in love with him, preparing to take her away - and not thinking about her fate, about the fate of Andrei Bolkonsky.
“Three days,” Natasha said. - It seems to me that I have loved him for a hundred years. I feel like I've never loved anyone before him. You cannot understand this. Sonya, wait, sit down here. Natasha hugged and kissed her.
- I was told that it happens and you heard it right, but now I have only experienced this love. It's not like before. As soon as I saw him, I felt that he was my master and I was his slave, and that I could not help but love him. Yes, slave! What he tells me, I will do. You don't understand this. What should I do? What should I do, Sonya? - said Natasha with a happy and frightened face. Natasha, being in the power of feelings, decides on a desperate step - an escape from her parents' house.

This mystical ecstatic phenomenon was subsequently called, which were the result of the fascination with the external beauty of Natasha Anatole, Pierre Helene. These bright, stormy states quickly capture the fullness of the soul, blind, deprive the mind, but they also pass quickly.

Here is how Sergei Yesenin describes such a passion for Isadora Duncan (1923): “There was passion, and great passion. This went on for a whole year. And then it's all gone and there's nothing left, there's nothing. When the passion was, I did not see anything. And now! My God, how blind I was! Where were my eyes? It's true, they're always so blind."

After a failed escape, Natasha is having a hard time with her "low, stupid and cruel" act, something already similar to adulthood. The break with Bolkonsky, his injury and subsequent death led Natasha to a deep internal crisis. She indulged in despair and sorrow, withdrew into herself. All this, the eternal throwing of maturing souls.

Grief, parting with loved ones is an inevitable part of life, no matter how great the grief it is experienced.

Pierre: a massive, fat young man with an intelligent, timid, observant and natural look. The figure of Pierre Bezukhov, depending on the circumstances, can be either clumsy or strong, can express both confusion, and anger, and kindness, and fury. And Pierre's smile is not the same as that of others: When a smile came, his serious face suddenly instantly disappeared and another appeared - childish, kind.

Pierre also goes through all the stages of growing up. He participates in revelry, and here he manifests that riotous-lordly beginning, the embodiment of which was once his father, Catherine's nobleman, Count Bezukhov. The sensual beginning prevails over the mind: out of "great love" he marries the secular beauty Helen. But Pierre quickly realizes that he does not have a real family, that his wife is a frivolous woman. Dissatisfaction grows in him, but not with others, but with himself. Participates in duels, suffers again.

Pierre's life is a path of discovery and disappointment, a path of crisis and in many ways dramatic. He is smart, loves to indulge in dreamy philosophizing, exceptionally kind and absent-minded, at the same time he is distinguished by weakness of will, lack of initiative. The main feature of the hero is the search for peace of mind, harmony with himself, the search for a life that would be in harmony with the needs of the heart and would bring moral satisfaction.

Pierre, having returned from captivity and having learned that his wife has died and he is free, hears about the Rostovs, that they are in Kostroma, but the thought of Natasha rarely visits him: “If she came, it was only as a pleasant memory of the past.” Even having met her, he does not immediately recognize Natasha in a pale and thin woman with sad eyes without a shadow of a smile, who was sitting near Princess Marya, to whom he arrived.

Again, you can see how L.N. Tolstoy, a great master of seeing the psychological picture of human relations, accurately notices the emergence of Pierre's feeling of love for Natasha, which happened even when Andrei and Natasha's love was in full swing. The joy of their happiness mixed in his soul with sadness, with shades of envy. Unlike Andrei, Pierre's kind heart forgave Natasha after the incident with Anatole Kuragin. Although he tried to despise her, he saw the exhausted, suffering Natasha, and "a feeling of pity that had never been experienced had overwhelmed Pierre's soul." And love entered his “soul that blossomed into new life.” Pierre understood Natasha because her connection with Anatole was similar to his passion for Helen.

After a quarrel with his wife, Pierre's life quest continues. He became interested in Freemasonry, then there was a war, and the unrealizable idea of ​​​​murdering Napoleon, and burning Moscow, terrible minutes of waiting for death and captivity. Having gone through suffering, traumatized, tired soul of Pierre retained the origins of love for Natasha. Both of them, after tragedies, losses, if they crave something, then not new happiness, but rather peace. She is still all in her grief, but it is natural for her to speak out in front of Pierre without hiding about the details of the last days of her love for Andrei, because she felt her soul in him. Pierre “listened to her and only felt sorry for her for the suffering that she was now experiencing while telling.” For Pierre, it is a joy and a “rare pleasure” to tell Natasha about his adventures during captivity. For Natasha, the joy is listening to him, "guessing the secret meaning of all Pierre's spiritual work." Love woke up in their hearts, and suddenly “it smelled and doused with long-forgotten happiness”, and “the forces of life” beat, and “joyful madness” took possession of them. “Love woke up, life woke up.” The power of love revived Natasha after the spiritual apathy caused by the death of Prince Andrei. She thought that her life was over, but the love for her mother that arose with renewed vigor showed her that her essence - love is still alive in her.

Natasha is twenty-one years old, Pierre is twenty-eight.

Pierre's letter to Natasha:

“Dear Natasha, on that magnificent summer evening when I met you at the emperor’s ball, I realized that all my life I wanted to have a wife as beautiful as you. I looked at you all evening, without stopping for a minute, peered into your slightest movement, tried to look into every, even the smallest, hole in your soul. I never took my eyes off your gorgeous body for a second. But alas, all my efforts to get your attention were unsuccessful. I think that all the pleas and promises on my part will be just a waste of time. For I know that I have too little status in the empire. But still I want to assure you that you are the most beautiful creature in the world.

I have never, never met such an amazing woman who has done so much for our country. And only your greatest modesty hides it.

Natasha, I love you!

Pierre Bezukhov

“From the day Pierre, leaving the Rostovs and remembering Natasha’s grateful look, looked at a comet standing in the sky and felt that something new had opened up for him, the question of the futility and madness of everything earthly that had always tormented him ceased to present itself. to him. This terrible question: why? for what?"

After marriage, Natasha underwent an amazing transformation, her life changes course 180 degrees. Natasha realizes her main life role for which she was intended. This role of hers was predetermined by her family upbringing. She grew up in the morally pure atmosphere of the Rostov family, a family that L.N. Tolstoy in the novel considers it harmonious, full-fledged, where complete mutual understanding reigns and there are warm relations between parents and children. It was the family that instilled in Natasha a love for art, a craving for culture, and that folk organicity that, L.N. Tolstoy considers a truly Russian person to be an integral part of the spiritual world. It was the family that shaped Natasha as a person. At the time of the end of the novel, she and Pierre had four children.

L.N. Tolstoy expressed his attitude towards Natasha in her new life with the thoughts of the old countess, who understood with “motherly instinct” that “all Natasha’s impulses had only the need to have a family, to have a husband like her, not so much joking as really , shouted in Otradnoe”. Countess Rostova "was surprised at the surprise of people who did not understand Natasha, and repeated that she always knew that Natasha would be an exemplary wife and mother."

“The general opinion was that Pierre was under the shoe of his wife, and indeed it was. From the very first days of their marriage, Natasha made her demands. Pierre was surprised at this completely new view of his wife, which consists in the fact that every minute of his life belongs to her and the family; Pierre was surprised at his wife's demands, but was flattered by them and obeyed them. After reading this, everyone can compare their understanding of "under the shoe of his wife" with the way L.N. Tolstoy and explains in detail to the wives how to make the husband himself want to be under her shoe.

“Natasha in her house put herself on the foot of her husband's slave; and the whole house walked on tiptoe when Pierre was studying - reading or writing in his office. As soon as Pierre showed some passion, so that what he loved was constantly fulfilled. As soon as he expressed a desire, Natasha jumped up and ran to fulfill it. The whole house was guided only by the imaginary orders of her husband, that is, the desires of Pierre, which Natasha tried to guess. And she, it’s true, guessed what the essence of Pierre’s desires consisted of, and, having guessed it once, she already firmly held on to what she once chose. When Pierre himself already wanted to change his desire, she fought against him with his own weapons.

“Everything that was a mental, abstract business of her husband, she attributed, without understanding it, of great importance and was constantly in fear of being a hindrance in this activity of her husband.”

There is such great support and understanding in married couples living in love that everyone feels protected. At the same time, no matter what everyone does, no matter what they say, everything is appropriate, everything is fine, everything is correct. This in itself gives the feeling that you are a kind person, gives a sense of your own importance. And this feeling is an important need of every person.

“Natasha, not knowing it herself, was all attention: she did not miss a word, or a fluctuation in her voice, or a look, or a twitch of a facial muscle, or Pierre’s gesture. On the fly, she caught a word that had not yet been spoken and directly brought it into her open heart, guessing the secret meaning of all Pierre’s spiritual work.

In each married couple, love is realized in different ways, but what they have in common is that the demands of the spouse do not cause irritation, but, on the contrary, a sense of satisfaction and pride, since they are perceived as a manifestation of care, their own need.

To describe his favorite L.N. Tolstoy does not spare harsh expressions. Natasha "what they call has sunk": she has ceased to care about her manners, words, clothes - about the whole external side of life. She gave up singing, abandoned all her former hobbies and activities. She gave herself completely to her family, husband, children - she almost disappeared into them, became part of them. Natasha was completely imbued with naturalness, began to live an almost natural life.

She sank, but sank to such a depth, telling about which L.N. Tolstoy never ceases to amaze. Natasha became a "beautiful and prolific female", in which "only her face and body were visible, but "I" was not visible"? Her "I" completely dissolved into "we". Natasha became not just a natural person, but a key "organ of the family", the embodiment of the eternal "wife-mother" - the coastline. In her dissolution into "we" she so merged with her husband that she began to understand him beyond words, almost telepathically. They talked, "with extraordinary clarity and speed, knowing and communicating each other's thoughts ... without the mediation of judgments, conclusions and conclusions, but in a very special way."

It was a way that was contrary to all the laws of logic - "nasty already because at the same time they spoke about completely different subjects ... Natasha was so used to talking to her husband in this way that a sure sign that something was something was wrong between her and her husband, Pierre's logical train of thought served for her. When he began to prove, speak judiciously and calmly, and when she, carried away by his example, began to do the same, she knew that this would certainly lead to a quarrel.

One person is not yet a person, only in a pair does he acquire harmonious integrity.
L. Feuerbach

This state is designated as perfect harmony and is valued as great happiness ("one heart and one soul") and, of course, by right... for this is the true experience of the deity, which, having taken possession of a person, extinguishes and absorbs everything individual in him... man and woman become instruments of continuing life.
C.G. Jung

Before us is a striking phenomenon that has not yet been fully disclosed. By transmitting several thoughts to each other at once, in one and the same second, they do not complicate their understanding by this, but, on the contrary, make it more complete and faster. And when they speak according to the rules of logic, not about many subjects at once, but about one, this does not facilitate their understanding, but, on the contrary, disrupts it.

Pierre's love for Natasha opened up new qualities in him - a mysterious insight appeared. "He, without the slightest effort, immediately, meeting with any person, saw in him everything that was good and worthy of love." "Perhaps," he thought, "I seemed then strange and ridiculous; but then I was not as mad as I seemed. On the contrary, I was then smarter and more insightful than ever, and life because... I was happy."

And Natasha and Pierre's inner understanding of each other stands on kindred foundations. Their "deep immersion" into each other, their multi-tiered exchange of different thoughts and feelings at once is the fruit of the merging of kindred souls.

The primary one is the “kinship of souls”, this predetermines mutual understanding, interest arises from communication, spiritual comfort develops in relationships, this causes a desire to do a good deed for a partner, and this causes an even greater desire to deliver pleasantness in return. All! The chain reaction of the development of love feelings has been launched and now it will develop until the end of the century "until man perishes into the earth." Moreover, over the years, love becomes even stronger and more beneficial.

Love is not so much a feeling that leads to marriage, but the disclosure of effective light energy and other abilities in life together. Love ceases to be a separate feeling, but becomes a universal state of the soul, body, mind, behavior. As the life-giving rain moisture impregnates the parched, cracked earth, so love has permeated the lives of Natasha and Pierre, their whole way of being.

Love is a state in which a person is able to feel and experience his absolute indispensability. In love, a person can feel the meaning of his existence for the other and the meaning of the existence of the other for himself. Love helps a person to manifest itself, revealing, increasing, developing the good, positive, valuable in him. This is the highest synthesis of the meaning of human existence. Only by loving, giving myself to another and penetrating into him, I find myself, I open myself, I open both of us, I open a person.
E. Fromm.

This love - a natural state is not like either Natasha's early feelings, or Pierre's stormy feelings for Helen, then they were in love

“After seven years of marriage, Pierre felt a joyful, firm consciousness that he was not a bad person, and he felt this because he saw himself reflected in his wife. In himself he felt all good and bad mixed up and obscuring one another. But only what was truly good was reflected on his wife: everything that was not entirely good was thrown away. And this reflection took place not by logical thought, but by another - a mysterious, direct reflection.

If ordinary writers describe different sides, the intricacies of love preceding the wedding, then outstanding writers describe how love transforms, reveals the best qualities in spouses when children are already born. And the experiences, passions preceding the creation of a family are only the forerunner of the main feeling in life, so vividly and comprehensively described by L.N. Tolstoy in the novel "War and Peace".

Love is a priceless gift. It's the only thing we can give and yet you keep it.
L.N. Tolstoy

We can learn a lot of interesting things about the details and details of the life of our heroes if we use the knowledge that opens

Socionic psychotypes: Natasha Rostova - sensory-ethical extrovert SEE - ESFP - Napoleon Pierre Bezukhov - intuitive-logical introvert OR - INTP - Balzac Andrey Bolkonsky - ethical-intuitive extravert EIE - ENFJ - Hamlet Without suspecting that L.N. Tolstoy chose the best dual relationship to describe the family union of his favorite heroes.

Duality is the highest reward of the creator, because only in the relations of duals is everything necessary to give them the harmony of perfection.
Psychologist O.B. Slinko

“In a word, the dual is really that very "half" about the meeting with which every socionic dreams (but a socionic cannot dream, because it is impossible to dream about what you have no idea about!). In the current dual dyad, people generally forget about, for example, what complexes are. No complexes! Duals are liberated, uninhibited, confident in their demand, in their need, in their usefulness (first of all, to the dual, and therefore to society) ”After getting acquainted with the description of duality in more detail, it becomes clear where the legend of androgynes came from, that it did not arise from mere imagination of the philosopher. This phenomenon is interesting L.N. Tolstoy also describes in the novel "Anna Karenina" about the loving spouses Levin and Kitty. Once, Konstantin Levin was late home, and Kitty, who had become nervous, met him with bitter reproaches. He was offended at her, wanted to say angry words to her, "but at that very moment he felt that ... he had accidentally hit himself." “He realized that she was not only close to him, but that he now did not know where she ended and he began.” "She was himself." Natasha's love for Pierre is not something unshakable, given once and for all, Natasha needs to renew it every day anew. Only such a contradictory, slow, at the same time smart and deeply thinking partner, like Pierre, can keep her attention for a long time. But for Natasha, these updates are not a burdensome work, a load, it is her interest, these are the puzzles of life that she willingly solves, enjoying it, feeling the fullness of life, joy, satisfaction with herself and her spouse. Natasha helps Pierre cope with bouts of blues, he is charged with energy and optimism from her. Natasha takes over from Pierre his vision of Time, it does not need to be rushed or slowed down, as it flows, let it flow, more confidently, without far-fetched drama refers to the future. can even predict how their sexual relationship developed. Almost always, Natasha was the initiator of these relations. After all, she is a sensory (a person who is confident in her feelings) and an ethicist (confident in her feelings for another person). As an extrovert, she is proactive and impulsive in relationships, easily expresses feelings, frank and decisive. While Pierre doubts the thoughts of the choice, she does it much faster to mutual pleasure. But if Natasha married Andrei Bolkonsky, it would be extremely unsuccessful at first for her, and already as a result for him. Andrey's relationship to Natasha can be described as patronage in the absence of feedback, something that she does not need. Over time, they develop into Andrey's almost complete disregard for Natasha. Since you do not need my protection, and I cannot give you anything else, then you do not need me. Instead of love, as it develops in relations with Pierre, it turns into a hindrance, an uninteresting, primitive burden that prevents him from fully thinking, living and being himself. The most important thing that gives all the qualities of a relationship: love, problems, conflicts, alienations can be calculated before they begin, i.e. before dating. First, socionic testing is carried out, and then everything will be explained.

“Now half of young families break up in the first year of life, two-thirds - in the first five years, in 70% of families that have not yet broken up, spouses are in a tense relationship ...”

Only 1.5% of the polled Russians answered positively to the question "Are your relations with your loved one harmonious?"

“According to official statistics, we have 70 divorces for every 100 marriages. And I say that for 100 marriages, all 100% of divorces. We don't have families. It's just that people live in isolation in one territory, isolated from each other. These are the families we have that only the outer shell keeps people together. I studied families where the marriage lasted 10-15 years, and asked, asked a question of this type: “would you marry your husband now, but only everything will repeat as it was.” And vice versa. As a result, only 5% of men did not regret that they married this woman. And 9% of women. But, let's say, I agree to marry her, and my wife would not marry me now, if on a new one. So, out of 11 thousand 400 families, it turned out that there are five such families where there is a mutual choice.”

A happy life in love has a big drawback - time flies quickly. After all, it is not in vain that the saying “happy hours are not observed” was born. No matter how long the life of a happy family,

George Bush (senior) lived in love with Barbara for 75 years, died in the same year 2018, he was 94 years old, she was 92 years old.

And of course it is longer than the unlucky one, it flies by quickly. Here is such a paradox.

Another sign is “Happiness is like health, when you don’t notice it, it means you have it.”
I.Turgenev.

So it turns out that a person, no matter how hard he tries, is never able to please the body, because what the body needs can not always be obtained, and if it is to be obtained, then one must fight with others; a person can always please the soul, because the soul needs only love, and for love one does not need to fight with anyone; ...on the contrary, the more you love, the more you get closer to other people. ...and the more each person loves, the more and more he not only becomes happy and joyful, but also makes other people happy and joyful as well.
L. N. Tolstoy

From the point of view of the creators of the national idea, L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky, Slavophiles, the destruction of the very foundations of Russia's existence begins with the destruction of the traditional foundations of the "home" - the Russian Family. Such a Family as Natasha and Pierre.

Happy is he who is happy at home.
LN Tolstoy Love. E. Pushkarev

From the day his wife arrived in Moscow, Pierre was going to leave somewhere, just so as not to be with her. Soon after the Rostovs' arrival in Moscow, the impression that Natasha made on him made him hasten to fulfill his intention. He went to Tver to the widow of Iosif Alekseevich, who had long promised to give him the papers of the deceased. When Pierre returned to Moscow, he received a letter from Marya Dmitrievna, who called him to her on a very important matter concerning Andrei Bolkonsky and his bride. Pierre avoided Natasha. It seemed to him that he had a stronger feeling for her than that which a married man should have for his friend's fiancee. And some kind of fate constantly brought him together with her. "What happened? And what do they care about me? he thought as he dressed to go to Marya Dmitrievna's. “Prince Andrei would have come as soon as possible and would have married her!” thought Pierre on his way to Akhrosimova. On Tverskoy Boulevard someone called out to him. — Pierre! Have you arrived long time ago? a familiar voice called out to him. Pierre raised his head. In a double sleigh, on two gray trotters throwing snow at the heads of the sleigh, Anatole flashed by with his constant comrade Makarin. Anatole sat straight, in the classic pose of military dandies, wrapping the bottom of his face with a beaver collar and bending his head slightly. His face was ruddy and fresh, his hat with a white plume was pulled to one side, revealing his hair, curled, oiled and showered with fine snow. “And right, here is a real sage! thought Pierre, “he sees nothing further than a real moment of pleasure, nothing disturbs him, and therefore he is always cheerful, satisfied and calm. What would I give to be like him!” Pierre thought enviously. In the hall, Akhrosimova, the footman, taking off his fur coat from Pierre, said that Marya Dmitrievna was asked to go to her bedroom. Opening the door to the hall, Pierre saw Natasha sitting by the window, with a thin, pale and angry face. She looked back at him, frowned, and with an expression of cold dignity went out of the room. - What's happened? asked Pierre, going in to Marya Dmitrievna. "Good deeds," replied Marya Dmitrievna. “I have lived in the world for fifty-eight years, I have never seen such shame. - And, taking Pierre's word of honor to remain silent about everything that he learns, Marya Dmitrievna informed him that Natasha had refused her fiancé without the knowledge of her parents, that the reason for this refusal was Anatole Kuragin, with whom her wife Pierre had taken and with whom Natasha wanted to run away in the absence of his father, in order to secretly marry. Pierre, raising his shoulders and opening his mouth, listened to what Marya Dmitrievna was telling him, not believing his ears. To the bride of Prince Andrei, so much loved, this formerly sweet Natasha Rostova, to exchange Bolkonsky for the fool Anatole, already married (Pierre knew the secret of his marriage), and fall in love with him so much as to agree to run away with him! - this Pierre could not understand and could not imagine. The sweet impression of Natasha, whom he had known since childhood, could not unite in his soul with a new idea of ​​her baseness, stupidity and cruelty. He remembered his wife. “They are all the same,” he said to himself, thinking that he was not the only one who had the sad fate of being associated with a nasty woman. But all the same, he felt sorry for Prince Andrei to tears, it was a pity for his pride. And the more he felt sorry for his friend, the more contempt and even disgust he thought about this Natasha, with such an expression of cold dignity, who now passed him along the hall. He did not know that Natasha's soul was filled with despair, shame, humiliation, and that it was not her fault that her face inadvertently expressed calm dignity and severity. - Yes, how to get married! said Pierre to the words of Marya Dmitrievna. - He could not get married: he is married. "It doesn't get any easier from hour to hour," said Marya Dmitrievna. - Good boy! That's a scoundrel! And she waits, the second day she waits. At least she won't wait, I should tell her. Having learned from Pierre the details of Anatole's marriage, pouring out her anger on him with abusive words, Marya Dmitrievna told him what she had called him for. Marya Dmitrievna was afraid that the count or Bolkonsky, who could arrive at any moment, having learned the matter that she intended to hide from them, would not challenge Kuragin to a duel, and therefore asked him to order his brother-in-law to leave Moscow on her behalf and not dare to appear to her on the eyes. Pierre promised her to fulfill her desire, only now realizing the danger that threatened the old count, and Nikolai, and Prince Andrei. Briefly and accurately setting out her demands to him, she let him into the living room. “Look, the Count knows nothing. You act as if you know nothing,” she told him. “And I’ll go tell her that there’s nothing to wait for!” Yes, stay to dinner, if you want, - Marya Dmitrievna shouted to Pierre. Pierre met the old count. He was embarrassed and upset. That morning, Natasha told him that she had refused Bolkonsky. “Trouble, trouble, mon cher,” he said to Pierre, “trouble with these girls without a mother; I'm so sad that I came. I will be frank with you. They heard that she refused the groom, without asking anyone for anything. Let's face it, I've never been very happy about this marriage. Suppose he is a good man, but well, there would be no happiness against the will of his father, and Natasha will not be left without suitors. Yes, after all, this has been going on for a long time, and how could it be without a father, without a mother, such a step! And now she's sick and God knows what! It’s bad, count, it’s bad with daughters without a mother ... - Pierre saw that the count was very upset, tried to turn the conversation to another subject, but the count again returned to his grief. Sonya entered the living room with a worried face. - Natasha is not completely healthy; she is in her room and would like to see you. Marya Dmitrievna is at her place and asks you too. “Yes, because you are very friendly with Bolkonsky, it’s true that he wants to convey something,” said the count. - Oh, my God, my God! How good everything was! And, taking hold of the sparse temples of gray hair, the count left the room. Marya Dmitrievna announced to Natasha that Anatole was married. Natasha did not want to believe her and demanded confirmation of this from Pierre himself. Sonya told this to Pierre while she was escorting him through the corridor to Natasha's room. Natasha, pale and stern, was sitting beside Marya Dmitrievna, and from the very door she met Pierre with a feverishly brilliant, inquiring look. She did not smile, did not nod her head at him, she only looked stubbornly at him, and her glance asked him only about this: was he a friend or an enemy like everyone else in relation to Anatole? By himself, Pierre obviously did not exist for her. “He knows everything,” said Marya Dmitrievna, pointing to Pierre and turning to Natasha. "He'll tell you if I told the truth." Natasha, like a wounded, driven animal, looks at the approaching dogs and hunters, looked first at one, then at the other. “Natalya Ilyinichna,” Pierre began, lowering his eyes and feeling a sense of pity for her and disgust for the operation that he was supposed to do, “whether it’s true or not, it should be all the same to you, because ... So it's not true that he's married? - No, its true. Was he married, and how long ago? she asked. - Honestly? Pierre gave her his word of honor. - Is he still here? she asked quickly. Yes, I saw him just now. She was obviously unable to speak and made signs with her hands to leave her.

The theme of love in the novel by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy is revealed in all its versatility. She pushes the heroes to do the most incredible things, enjoy life and be horrified by their own frivolity.

Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov are the nobles of that temperament, mind, upbringing, who find it so easy to find a common language, because their aspirations, dreams, hopes are so similar.

(Natasha Rostova)

Natasha was born into a family where she not only did not need anything, but had a loving father and mother, brothers and sisters, as well as the opportunity to reach her full potential. She is well brought up and educated, looks into the future with hope and joy and wishes the main thing - to meet the only one with whom she can go through life hand in hand as confidently as her parents.

(Pierre Bezukhov)

Pierre is also from a wonderful family, where nothing is denied him, but he does not grow up as a spoiled representative of the "noble youth", but an intelligent and efficient person, who, although at times, has fantastic ideas (for example, personally kill Napoleon), but still enough pragmatism to confidently walk through life, increasing your own experience.

(Andrey Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov - poster for the film "War and Peace", USSR 1967)

Nothing foreshadows us at the beginning of the novel that the characters will create a happy family in the future. Natasha falls in love with Bolkonsky, but "loses face" with Kuragin. Pierre marries Helen, who has an inexplicable power over him. Both find themselves in the grip of the most severe disappointment and, it seems, will never again be able to open their hearts to a bright feeling, to trust anyone. The death of Bolkonsky shocks both, the war breaks into the life of every Russian family, leaving bloody wounds that do not heal in it.

Having been in captivity, having seen burning Moscow, having experienced terrible despair in anticipation of imminent death, Pierre returns to peaceful life completely transformed and devoid of his former romantic prejudices, he looks into the future through the eyes of a man who has experienced a lot and has become spiritually stronger. Natasha remains a secular woman even after the war, deprived of the “general secular imprint” that attracted Andrey so much in his time. The remaining childish soul of Pierre finally opens her eyes to the fact that it is he who is the embodiment of everything dear and valuable in people.

(Family of Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov)

For Natasha, Pierre has always been the only person who always, under any circumstances, brought only joy to the Rostovs' house. In difficult moments, when she was torn apart by remorse, mental anguish, and even self-hatred for everything that had happened, there was neither just reproach nor contemptuous indignation in his eyes. He really idolized her, and she was already happy with the fact that he is and became a consolation for her.

Leo Tolstoy saw in his heroine the embodiment of his own idea of ​​an ideal woman, whose vocation is to become a wife, mother, keeper of the family hearth. For her, the family is the main value and meaning of life. It was precisely such a woman that Pierre had been looking for all his life and found in his Natasha.

Introduction

In the novel War and Peace, Natasha and Pierre are the central characters. Many trials fell to their lot, which they had to overcome in order to find personal happiness at the end of the work.

Characteristics of Natasha Rostova

Natasha would hardly be able to impress anyone with her facial features. But, the lack of external attractiveness is more than compensated in the heroine by the beauty of the internal. It is no coincidence that Tolstoy often draws the reader's attention to Natasha's "shining" eyes. After all, the eyes, as you know, are the reflection of the human soul.

The main advantage of Natasha is the ability to love. She loves her parents, sister and brothers. Then, feeling the inner wealth of Andrei Bolkonsky, she gives her heart to him. At the end of the novel, the reader has the opportunity to observe how the love of Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov is born and grows stronger.

Natasha loves nature and her people. She likes to listen to her uncle's songs, the girl herself starts dancing with pleasure. "She knew how to understand everything that was ... in every Russian person."

Love and compassion for ordinary people makes Natasha persuade her mother to give carts to the wounded. But they had the poor belongings of the devastated Rostovs, including her dowry.

Characteristics of Pierre Bezukhov

The reader meets Pierre Bezukhov for the first time in the Scherer salon. From the rest of the representatives of the world it is distinguished by a look, smart and observant. It is this look that worries the hostess of a secular salon.

Pierre's life is full of sharp turns and vicissitudes. From the illegitimate son of a nobleman, he suddenly turns into a rich man and the most enviable groom of the capital.

Pierre is trusting, so he often becomes the prey of nosy and unscrupulous people. So, for a while, he makes friends with Dolokhov and Kuragin, who use him to their advantage. Falls under the influence of Prince Vasily, who almost forcibly marries him to his daughter. The hero gets the first beauty, Helen Kuragina, as his wife. Is he happy? At first, he thinks so. Over time, it becomes clear that Pierre and his wife are complete antipodes. Bezukhov hides a beautiful soul behind a not too attractive appearance. And the dazzling Helen has no soul at all.

An unhappy marriage pushes Pierre onto the path of moral quest. He tries to change the world for the better and joins the Masonic Lodge. But here he is in for a disappointment. All the ideas that Masons preach are hypocritical talk. It turns out that only Pierre is seriously ready for real transformations.

The character of Pierre finally changes during the war. From an unnatural and unreasonable desire to kill Napoleon, he comes to the realization of what is really important and valuable after saving a strange girl and life among soldiers in captivity.

Acquaintance of heroes and the development of their relationship

Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov meet in Moscow for the first time in the novel "War and Peace". Pierre, having appeared in the Rostovs' house, was struck by the warmth and understanding that reigned in this family. Thirteen-year-old Natasha immediately attracts Pierre's attention with her liveliness and naturalness, "and under the gaze of this funny, lively girl, he wanted to laugh himself, not knowing why." Although Pierre is 7 years older than Natasha, they are brought together by spontaneity and kindness.

Upon learning that Natasha cheated on Andrei, trying to escape with Anatole Kuragin, Pierre cannot believe it. He cannot calmly think "about her baseness, stupidity and cruelty." It is Pierre, having learned that Helen contributed to the shame of Natasha, who is trying to restore her reputation. Opponent of all violence, Pierre challenged Dolokhov to a duel, almost strangled Anatole. Bezukhov's act is quite understandable. He secretly loves Natasha. The hero confesses to the French officer Rambal he saved that he fell in love with her as a girl, and that this love will remain with him forever.

Love Natasha and Pierre

At the end of the novel, we see Natasha as Pierre's wife and mother of four children. “She grew stout and fat, so it was difficult to recognize in this strong mother the former thin, mobile Natasha.” The heroine finds happiness not in visiting salons and fashionable evenings, but in the family. Pierre is also happy, who has found not just a beloved wife, but a faithful friend who takes part "in every minute of her husband's life."

Conclusion

I would like to end my essay on the topic: “Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov in the novel “War and Peace” with a quote: “It is joyful to realize that worthy people who have been tested by fate for so long receive a well-deserved reward at the end of the journey.”

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Epic novel by L.N. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is one of the pinnacles in world literature. It strikes the scale of the depicted life, the versatility and diversity of the work. The author examines various problems of society at the beginning of the 19th century, trying to find answers. One of these problems was the problem of true love and spiritual beauty of man.

Natasha Rostov.

One of the main characters in the novel was Natasha Rostova. The writer pays a lot of attention to her, and this is not surprising, because Natasha's soul is in itself a whole novel, a life story, and all the most important and most important is manifested in her spiritual qualities and actions.

In the novel, the words "Natasha" and "love" are inseparable. Love is part of her soul. Love for father and mother, for Andrei and Pierre, for Nikolai and Sonya ... Each feeling is different from the other, but they are all deep and true. Let's remember the meeting between Natasha and Andrey at the ball. They understood each other suddenly, from half a glance, they felt something uniting them both. Prince Andrei grew younger next to Natasha. He became at ease and natural next to her. But from many episodes of the novel it is clear that Bolkonsky could remain himself only with very few people. “Prince Andrei ... loved to meet in the world that which did not have a common secular imprint. And that was Natasha.

But true love still won, woke up in Natasha's soul much later. She realized that the one whom she idolized, whom she admired, who was dear to her, lived in her heart all this time. That person was Pierre. His "childish soul" was close to Natasha. And he was the only one who brought joy and light to the Rostovs' house when she was ill, when she was tormented by remorse, suffered, hated herself for everything that had happened. She did not see reproach and indignation in Pierre's eyes. He idolized her, and Natasha was grateful to him only for the fact that he exists in the world and that he is her only consolation.

Natasha Rostova is the most beautiful female image in Russian literature, which is unusually real and at the same time divine. This is how a mother should be. The image of Natasha embodied the ideal of a woman for Tolstoy - a woman for whom the family is the meaning of her whole life.

Pierre Bezukhov.

LN Tolstoy shows us the young Pierre Bezukhov for the first time in the salon of Anna Pavlovna Scherer as a clear violator of both public peace and the smooth flow of the evening in general. He is distinguished from everyone in the living room by an intelligent, observant look. It is he, and not a huge growth or a brown coat, that inspires Anna Pavlovna with anxiety. Pierre is greeted with a bow referring to people of the lowest hierarchy. He is the illegitimate son of Catherine's nobleman, Count Bezukhov, and later his legitimate heir. In a short time he becomes the owner of thousands of souls and millions. And now he is a welcome guest of all the salons and houses of both capitals.

Count Leo Tolstoy, no doubt, loves Count Pierre Bezukhov very much. He makes him the most enviable groom in Russia, but at the same time, he marries a stupid and depraved creature, the brilliant St. Petersburg beauty Helen Kuragina. And at that seemingly most “romantic” moment, when Pierre “asks” Helen’s hand, he always relies on the word “seems” in his thoughts: “seems” I love, “seems” happy.

He seeks happiness in married life and does not find it. The search for truth leads him to the Masonic lodge. It seems to Pierre that in Freemasonry he found the embodiment of his ideals. The thought of perfecting the world and oneself embraces him. The ideas of brotherhood, equality and love most of all attract a young man in Freemasonry. He wants to act, to benefit people. First of all, he decides to alleviate the fate of the serfs. But hypocrisy and hypocrisy also penetrated into the milieu of Freemasonry. There is no personal happiness either. In his life there comes a period of disappointments and mistakes.

Natasha's love is Pierre's reward for all the hardships and mental anguish. She, like an angel, enters his life, illuminating it with a warm, gentle light. Finally, Pierre found his happiness in family life.

He becomes a member of a secret society. Pierre speaks with indignation about the reaction that has come in Russia, about Arakcheevism, theft. At the same time, he understands the strength of the people and believes in them. With all this, the hero strongly opposes violence. In other words, for Pierre, the path of moral self-improvement remains decisive in the reorganization of society.

Intense intellectual search, the ability to selfless deeds, high spiritual impulses, nobility and devotion in love (relationship with Natasha), true patriotism, the desire to make society more just and humane, truthfulness and naturalness, the desire for self-improvement make Pierre one of the best people of his time .

Natasha and Pierre are two "poles", completely different people, separated by an abyss of worldviews. But their love became a bridge across this abyss, brought them closer and connected them.