Natasha ( Natalie ) Rostova (full name Natalya Ilinichna Rostov ; 1792 -?) Is the heroine of Leo Tolstoy ’s novel War and Peace . Daughter of Ilya Andreevich Rostov.
| Natasha Rostov | |
|---|---|
 Audrey Hepburn as Natasha in the 1956 Hollywood film adaptation | |
| Creator | L.N. Tolstoy |
| Artworks | "War and Peace" |
| Floor | female |
| Age | In the first volume - 13 years. In the fourth - 29 years |
| Date of Birth | 1792 |
| Family | Father - Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov; mother - Natalia Rostova; sister - Vera Rostov; brothers - Nikolai Rostov and Peter Rostov; husband - Pierre Bezukhov |
| Children | Masha, Lisa, Petya and another girl |
| Role | Lyudmila Savelyeva , Audrey Hepburn , Klemens Poesy , Lily James , Anna Kuzina |
Content
Natasha in the plot
At the beginning of the novel Natasha appears as a 13-year-old girl . She is in love with Boris Drubetskogo, who lives with his mother near the Rostovs. A little later, Pierre Bezukhov , who sometimes comes to the Rostovs, becomes Natasha's close friend. When Boris enters the service of Kutuzov , Natasha cools down to him. Soon Pierre introduces Natasha to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky , with whom Natasha falls in love. However, Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky - Andrew's father - considers Natasha an inappropriate pair for his son. He persuades his son to postpone the marriage for a year. During his absence, Natasha is fond of Anatoly Kuragin , after which she breaks off the engagement with Prince Andrey. Anatole intends to escape with Natasha and secretly get married, but Sonya, Natasha's cousin, learns about this and prevents it.
As Napoleon launched his attack on Russia , the Rostovs were forced to move to their Moscow estate. During the approach of Napoleon to Moscow, many wounded soldiers are accommodated in the Rostovs' house. When the Rostovs plan to evacuate from Moscow, Natasha asks her parents to use their carts for transporting the wounded, and not for household belongings. Seeing among the wounded Prince Andrew, Natasha takes care of him. However, the wounds are so serious that Prince Andrew dies.
After Napoleon left Moscow, Natasha moves closer to Prince Andrew’s sister, Princess Mary, who is very grateful to Natasha for her concern for Prince Andrew. Woe unites them, and they become friends. Also at that time, Natasha became close to Pierre Bezukhov, who had already become a widower. In the end, Natasha and Pierre got married, later they had four children.
Natasha's image
Partial prototypes of Natasha were the wife of the writer Sophia Tolstaya and his sister-in-law Tatyana Bers - a musical woman with a voice of rare beauty. Tolstoy is credited with such a review about Natasha's “models”: “I took Tanya, chafing her with Sonia, and Natasha went out” [1] [2] .
Natasha's appearance at the beginning of the novel is described as follows.
| Black-eyed, with a big mouth, an ugly but lively girl, with her children's open shoulders, who, squeezing, moving in their corsage from a quick run, with their black curls huddled back, thin bare hands and small legs in lace panties and open shoes. .. |
As the events of the novel unfold, Natasha Rostova turns from a girl who lives in an atmosphere of constant infatuation with a charming girl who reacts sensitively to everything that happens. Her natural charm, living fullness of life, inner beauty - in the novel is opposed to the cold beauty of secular ladies. In the young Natasha Tolstoy embodied his understanding of the ideal female nature, as the harmony of the spiritual and the physical. Her image bears the imprint of Tolstoy’s hostility to the then new ideas of female emancipation .
Natasha is Tolstoy's favorite heroine [3] . Natasha's world is full of liveliness and charm of youth, but also limited [4] .
According to this characteristic in the novel, Natasha "does not deign to be smart," her distinguishing features are emotionality, naturalness, spontaneity, responsiveness, even self-forgetting, an intuitive and non-rational understanding of life by the "mind of the heart." She is a loving daughter, caring sister. In many scenes of the novel, she helps others, acquaintances and strangers, presenting an example of an effective love of neighbor. “The essence of her life is love” - this is how Tolstoy characterizes her character. The writer emphasizes that the true understanding of life values, involvement in the national feeling, which is achieved by Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky as a result of the most complex moral quest, for Natasha is innate, natural; in the novel she serves as his incarnation. The most accurate characteristics of other characters often come precisely from Natasha. At the same time, Natasha, like other heroes of Tolstoy, is prone to err. Her natural, instinctive pursuit of happiness makes Natasha selfish, which is expressed in her passion for Anatoly Kuragin.
In the aesthetics of Tolstoy, the complexity of the tests itself gives spiritual strength to the heroes. Using the example of Natasha, describing her spiritual crisis after the death of Prince Andrew, Tolstoy described the strength of her experiences as the cause of her moral recovery: "And all three reasons for the decline of her spirit carried in themselves the causes of rebirth" [1] . The character of Natasha Tolstoy shows great inner strength.
At the end of the novel, Natasha is shown as the wife and mother of the family, fully immersed in his cares.
In the Russian cultural consciousness, the image of Natasha Rostova is associated primarily with scenes from the novel, like Natasha's first ball, Russian dancing at her uncle and an episode with the wounded, whom Natasha gave all the carts during the evacuation from Moscow [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 G.V. Krasnov Comments on “War and Peace”
- ↑ My memories. I. L. Tolstoy - Art. Lit., 1969 (p. 411)
- ↑ Natasha Rostov. by: A textbook on the history of Russian literature of the XIX century / L. I. Matyushenko, A. G. Matyushenko; Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov, Filol. fact - M.: MAKS Press, 2009. - 460 p .; - ISBN 978-5-317-02606-6
- ↑ Tolstoy L.N. // Literary encyclopedia : in 11 tons. - [ M. ], 1929-1939.
- ↑ Natasha Rostova - an article from the dictionary “The Big Linguistic and Cultural Dictionary”. - M .: State Institute of the Russian language. A. S. Pushkin. AST-Press. T. N. Chernyavskaya, K. S. Miloslavskaya, E. G. Rostov, O. E. Frolova, V. I. Borisenko, Yu. A. Vyunov, V. P. Chudnov. 2007
Literature
- My life at home and in Yasnaya Polyana. T. A. Kuzminskaya . (Ed: 1926, 1948, 1973, 1998)
- About Tolstoy: memories and stories. V. Bulgakov . Priokskoe Bookish Issue, 1964. –3 23 pp.
- Natasha Rostov - an article from the encyclopedia "Literary heroes." - Academician. 2009
- Natasha Rostova - an article from the dictionary "Large linguistic-cultural dictionary." - M .: State Institute of the Russian language. A. S. Pushkin. AST-Press. T. N. Chernyavskaya, K. S. Miloslavskaya, E. G. Rostov, O. E. Frolova, V. I. Borisenko, Yu. A. Vyunov, V. P. Chudnov. 2007
Links
- War and Peace - Summary.
- Illustrations for “War and Peace” - Natasha Rostova with illustrations by Nadia Rusheva
- Natasha Rostov (English) on the Internet Movie Database