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The image of Pugachev in the story "The Captain's Daughter" A. S. Pushkin

Events described by Alexander SergeevichPushkin in one of his most famous works, is the story of a large-scale uprising of the peasants (1773-1774). The image of Pugachev in the story "The Captain's Daughter" caused a lot of controversy and indignation at that time. After all, for the first time the leader of the uprising appeared before the reader’s gaze not in the role of a bloodthirsty murderer, as the historians of that era portrayed him, but as a brave, talented leader of the people.

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Leader

Agility, wit, inexhaustible energy and outstandingthe personality abilities of the leader allowed him to lead one of the brightest peasant uprisings. The image of Pugachev in the story "The Captain's Daughter" is the image of a man who managed to gather around him people from all over the country. Among them were Bashkirs, Belogorsk Cossacks, Chuvash, Tatars, and workers from the Ural factories.

Pugachev, however, brutally cracked down on all those whohis opinion, oppressed ordinary people, peasants. In the face of the nobles, he saw only enemies, and good representatives of the government and landlords did not exist for him at all. It is for this reason that he is so cruel towards Captain Mironov, as well as his subordinates.

The man who remembers the good

Nevertheless, the image of Pugachev in the story“Captain's daughter” is a person who does not forget about the good ever made for him. So, he keeps Grinev’s life for a cup of vodka and a bunny sheepskin coat, which he once shared with the “leader” during a storm. Pyotr Grinev tried his fate three times, and all three times Pugachev pledged him. The fact that it was he who rescued Masha from Shvabrin’s hands, despite the fact that she was the daughter of the captain, and it was he who released Grinev along with her, also speaks about the magnanimity of the leader of the uprising. With this Shvabrina he punishes.

View from the outside

The image of Pugachev in the story "The Captain's Daughter"revealed through the prism of perception of Pyotr Grinev himself. He repeatedly had the opportunity to convince himself that this man was not at all so terrible as the royal authorities described him.

Во время первой их встречи Пугачев выступает в the role of "leader". Grinev at that time was extremely impressed by the composure and prudence of a new acquaintance. "Leader" leaves the impression of a simple man, whose appearance, in spite of everything, seems wonderful. Slim build, broad shoulders, medium height, black beard with gray and large lively eyes - these are the features that attracted the attention of Grinev. As he himself describes the appearance of the hero, "... his face had a rather pleasant expression, but a rogue."

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Simple cossack

Pugachev’s description in The Captain’s Daughter is notonly the image of the leader of the uprising, but also the guise of a simple Cossack. In Yemelyan’s speech there are proverbs, sayings, sayings, various allegories that seem to be incomprehensible to people from a different environment. So, he forces himself to be dubbed “the king-father”, explaining this by the fact that “faith in the good king” has always lived in Russia. His relations with subordinates are built on democracy, there is no honoring in them, and everyone has the right to disagree with the opinion of his “sovereign”.

Closer to the final works of Pugachev beginsOne feels keenly that he is only an impostor, becomes face to face with a sense of doom and continues to live only on hope for a bright future. “At the first failure, they [subordinates and colleagues] will redeem their neck with my head,” such words fall off his lips in a moment of frankness.

To be an eagle and die with dignity

However, the main features of the image of Pugachevhis heroism and greatness remain. This is also reflected in the symbolic tale of the raven and the eagle. The hero believes that it is better to live a short but dignified life, rather than drag out existence for many years and "eat carrion." Pugachev compares himself with an eagle that lives for only 33 years, but “drinks living blood”.

Pugachev's description in the captain's daughter
The story "The Captain's Daughter", the image of Pugachev inwhich is one of the main, allowed to look at the historical figure from a completely unusual perspective. Separating the mind, wit, heroism and courage in his hero, Pushkin makes him a collective image of the entire Russian people and its best qualities.

Nevertheless, the author himself is of the opinion thatReforms are always better than a bloody revolution, and more than once remind about it in their work. In particular, it is in “The Captain's Daughter” that words are found that later became widely known - “God forbid to see Russian revolt, senseless and merciless!” However, Pushkin did not set himself the goal of portraying Pugachev and his associates as villains and criminals. He sought to reflect in his narrative the history of the uprising and the personality of the peasant leader. And he managed it truly masterfully.

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