The historical novel "The Captain's Daughter",written by A. S. Pushkin, in the journal Sovremennik was published a month before the death of the poet himself. In it, most of the plot is devoted to the popular uprising of Yemelyan Pugachev during the reign of Catherine II.
He remembers the turbulent events of his youthElder landowner Peter Andreevich Grinev, whose childhood was spent in the Simbirsk province in a quiet and cozy parent estate. But soon Belogorsk fortress was waiting for him. In Grinev’s life, she will become a real school of courage, honor and courage, which will radically change his whole future life and temper his character.
When it came time to serve the Fatherland, Petrusha,still quite young and gullible, he was preparing to go to the service in the Semenov regiment in St. Petersburg and taste the beauty of city social life. But his strict father - a retired officer - wanted his son to first serve in tougher and even harsh conditions, so as not to flaunt his ladies with golden epaulets, but how to learn military affairs, and so he sends him to serve away from home and the capital.
And now Petrusha is already sitting in a sleigh and riding through the snow-covered fields to the Belogorsk fortress. Only now he could not imagine how it would look.
Mainly in the topic "Belogorsk fortress inGrinev's life ”work should begin with what our romantic hero saw instead of the formidable and unapproachable bastions of the fortress the usual deaf village, where stood a hut with a straw roof, surrounded by a log fence, a twisted windmill with lazy lowered broad-winged wings and three haystacks covered with snow.
Вместо строгого коменданта он увидел старика Ivan Kuzmich in a dressing-gown with a cap on his head, the brave army men were several elderly invalids, from a deadly weapon - an old cannon scored with various trash. But the funny thing was that the housekeeper’s wife, a simple and good-natured woman, Vasilisa Yegorovna, managed the whole farm.
However, despite this, Belogorsk fortress inGrinev's life will become a real anvil, which will make him not a coward and a soft-bodied traitor to the homeland, but a loyal oath, a brave and courageous officer.
In the meantime, he only meets with the lovely inhabitants of the fortress, they give him the joy of communication and touching care. There was no other society there, but he didn’t want anything more.
Ни военная служба, ни учения, ни парады больше не attract Grinev, he enjoys a calm and commensurate life, writes poetry and burns from love experiences, as almost immediately falls in love with the commandant’s daughter, beautiful Masha Mironova.
In general, as has already become clear, the Belogorsk fortress in the life of Peter Grinev became a “blessed fortress”, to which he attached himself with all his heart and soul.
However, over time, there were problems.At first, his partner, officer Alexei Ivanovich Shvabrin, began to laugh at Grinev’s feelings and called Masha “a fool”. The matter even reached the duel in which Grinev was wounded. Masha long and gently tended him, which brought them closer together. Petrusha even decided to marry her, but his father angry with his frivolous behavior does not give blessings.
Belogorsk fortress in the life of Grinev became hisfavorite quiet haven, but for the time being, then all this peace was disturbed by the popular uprising of Emelyan Pugachev. Fighting clashes forced anew to look at life and shake up officer Grinev, who, despite all the difficulties and dangers, remained a noble man, true to his duty, not afraid to stand up for his beloved, who in an instant became an orphan.
Peter shuddered, suffered, but was brought up asa real warrior when he saw Masha's father fearlessly dying The old and weak old man, knowing the vulnerability and insecurity of his fortress, went forward with his chest to the attack and did not coward before Pugachev, for which he was hanged. Another faithful and old servant of the fortress, Ivan Ignatievich, also behaved, and even Vasilisa Yegorovna went right to die for her husband. Grinev saw in them the gallant heroes of the Fatherland, but there were also traitors in the person of Shvabrin, who, moreover, went over to the side of the robbers, but almost ruined the captive Masha.
The role of the Belogorsk fortress in the life of Grinev is impossibleto underestimate, you see, his father knew what he was doing, and, perhaps, that is the way to do with “mama's sons.” Grinev himself was saved from the gallows by his servant Savelich, who was not afraid and asked Pugachev for mercy for the lordly child. He became angry, but remembered about the rabbit toe loop that had been presented to him in the guardhouse when he was on the run, released Grinev. And then Pugachev helped young Peter and Masha reunite.
Hatred of inhumanity and aversion tocruelty, humanity and kindness in difficult moments in the main character revealed to the full. The leader of the uprising - the rebel Emelyan Pugachev, who wanted him to swear allegiance to him, but Grinev could not step over the sense of duty and oath given to the empress could not fail to appreciate all these noble qualities.
The tests sent by God Grinev passed withdignity, they hardened and cleansed his soul, made him serious and confident. The White Mountain fortress in Grinev’s life helped him transform his whole future life, the words of his father “take care of a dress with a new one, and honor from an early age,” he always remembered and honored.
