In literature, the image of a noble robber is quite popular. As a rule, people take this path when, for some reason, they become superfluous in society. They have either been betrayed by friends or loved ones have turned away from them, and they cannot achieve anything legally. In the case of Pushkin’s well-known story “Dubrovsky,” the main character chose the highwayman’s path because, thanks to the efforts of his closest neighbor, he was left without a father and without an inherited estate. V. A. Dubrovsky is more of a victim than a robber, because he was wounded in the very heart.
In order to restore justice, he and his gang began to take money only from the rich who deserved it. Thus, he wanted to convey to them that money is not the most important thing in life, there are more important things, for example, the loss of a loved one. Dubrovsky's biography remained unfinished, since after breaking up with Masha Troekurova, he left his associates and disappeared in an unknown direction. All that we know about him for certain is that the hero studied in the cadet corps in St. Petersburg and rose to the rank of officer. Having learned that his father, Andrei Gavrilovich, had fallen ill, he left his studies early and went home, where he was informed that the Dubrovskys’ closest friend and neighbor had taken away his father’s estate through the court.
This news struck the young man like a bolt from the blue. He decided to restore justice at all costs. The situation worsened when Dubrovsky Sr., aged from experiences, died. This happened after a frank conversation with Troekurov, which even more set the protagonist in a militant mood. The illegal actions of Dubrovsky’s bandit group began from the day when clerks settled in Kistenevka with the intention of taking it away and giving it to the Troekurovs. With the help of the blacksmith Arkhip, that night Vladimir Andreevich set fire to the property. Since then, together with the peasants loyal to him, Dubrovsky took up robbery and robbery of the relatively dishonest rich.
At the same time, he did not abandon his thought of revenge. By deception, he managed to get into the Troekurovs' house under the guise of a French teacher for the illegitimate son of a landowner. Introducing himself as Deforge, the teacher spent a lot of time with Troekurov’s eldest daughter Maria, and soon the young people fell in love. For Masha’s sake, Dubrovsky even found the strength to forgive his father’s enemy, but Troekurov ruined his life this time too. He married his daughter to a rich old man, Prince Vereisky, and did not want to change his decision, despite all the persuasion and tears of Masha.
The tragedy of the main character was that he was honest with himself and those around him in everything. He always tried to act justly and nobly. He was sincerely attached to his home, to the places where he was born and raised. Since childhood, Troekurov and Dubrovsky Sr. planned to unite them with Masha by marriage. Their dreams were close to fulfillment, but Troekurov’s greed and exorbitant pride again stood in the way. This tyrant landowner never allowed his daughter to find happiness. Masha was forced to marry Prince Vereisky, who was disliked by her, and Dubrovsky was forced to continue hiding under the guise of a robber. At the end of the work, due to the increasing attacks on his gang, he disbanded the peasants and disappeared abroad.
The basis for A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Dubrovsky” was real events - mass uprisings of peasants who were dissatisfied with their lives after the War of 1812. The main character of the book is the young nobleman Vladimir Dubrovsky, a noble robber. The events unfolding on the pages of the work are directly related to his life and fate.
Dubrovsky is a noble robber. Summary
For a deeper understanding of the image of Vladimir, it is necessary to refer to the contents of the book.
The fathers of the protagonist and Masha Troekurova were neighbors and service comrades. They are both widowers. Once Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky, while visiting Troekurov, spoke disapprovingly of the poor living conditions of his servants compared to dogs. In response to this, one of the hounds declares that “it would be nice for another master to exchange his estate for a dog kennel.”
Dubrovsky the father leaves and in a letter demands an apology from Troekurov. The tone of the letter does not suit Kirill Petrovich. At the same time, Andrei Gavrilovich finds Troekurov’s serfs in his possessions, stealing timber. He takes away their horses and orders them to be whipped. Troekurov decides to take revenge on his neighbor by illegally taking possession of his estate, the village of Kistenevka.
Due to strong experiences, Andrei Gavrilovich is weakening. A letter is sent to his son, Vladimir, and he comes to the village.
Kirill Petrovich understands that he treated his old friend badly and goes to him to make peace, but when he sees him, old Dubrovsky dies.
The house is handed over to Troekurov. The serfs do not want to move to another master. Vladimir orders the house to be burned, and the officials inside die from the fire.
Soon a gang of robbers begins to operate in the surrounding area, robbing estates. There is a rumor that the leader of the robbers is young Dubrovsky.
Vladimir, as a French teacher, ends up in Troekurov’s house. Masha and young Dubrovsky fall in love with each other.
Vladimir opens up to the girl and disappears, as it becomes clear that Dubrovsky and the teacher are one person.
Masha is proposed to by the 50-year-old Prince Vereisky. Troekurov orders his daughter to marry him. Dubrovsky asks Masha on a date and puts a ring on her. Masha hopes that she can convince her father.
However, Troekurov does not yield, and he and Vereisky decide to speed up the wedding.
Masha and the prince are getting married. On the way back they come across Dubrovsky. The noble robber offers Masha freedom. Vereisky wounds Dubrovsky. Masha is married, so she refuses to run away with Vladimir. Dubrovsky disbands the gang.
The image of Dubrovsky at the beginning of the novel
On the first pages of the book, Vladimir appears before us as a young nobleman, his father’s only son. He received a good upbringing and education, and is serving. Dubrovsky leads a cheerful life, spends his father's money, and does not think about the future.
The reason for changes in the inner world and outlook on life
The news of the illness of his father, whom he loved very much, excited the young man. His death and the loss of his estate changed Vladimir's character. After the funeral, he realizes how lonely he is. Dubrovsky thinks about the future for the first time. Now he is responsible not only for himself, but also for his peasants.
Dubrovsky's Revenge
"Dubrovsky is a noble robber." An essay on this topic is offered to eighth grade students in every school. I would like to understand whether he is noble, given that he is driven by the desire for revenge? To take revenge for everyone who was wronged unfairly. He robs the rich and kills no one. His image takes on romantic features.
Obsessed with retribution, he enters the house of his enemy under the guise of the Frenchman Deforge. However, love for Marya Kirillovna disrupts his plans, and he abandons them. The nobility of nature overcomes the desire for revenge.
Why was Dubrovsky called a noble robber?
Vladimir Dubrovsky took the path of robbery because he saw no other way out of the situation in his life. He could not allow the family estate to go to Troekurov. Dubrovsky ordered the house to be set on fire, but at the same time the door was unlocked so that the officials could run out. Arkhip did not listen to the master, and the people burned. He did not count on the judges' leniency in considering this incident, since they did not spare his father in a just case. Dubrovsky and a gang of serfs took the path of robbery. This is how a completely different life began for Vladimir.
To answer the question why Dubrovsky is a noble robber, you need to remember the contents of the book. As it is written in the novel, the gang led by Vladimir robbed only rich people. Although the robbers terrified everyone, they did not kill anyone. For this they were called noble.
However, having embarked on this slippery slope, Dubrovsky, a noble robber, pursued by government troops, is nevertheless forced to abandon his principles and commit the murder of an officer.
To answer the question of why he was called that, it is also necessary to compare the life circumstances and features of the inner world of this young man. Vladimir comes from a noble family, a representative of the noble class, the son of a man who was distinguished by straightforwardness, courage, and enjoyed the respect of rich neighbors and the serfs entrusted to him. He adopted many positive qualities from his father, but, like Andrei Gavrilovich, young Dubrovsky was prone to ardor and did not tolerate injustice. After the loss of his father, he becomes the leader of a gang of people devoted to him.
For all these reasons, Dubrovsky is a noble robber.
How does the author relate to the hero?
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin certainly sympathizes with the main character of this novel. He endows him with such qualities as kindness, honesty, the ability to love and forgive. However, he debunks the myth of Vladimir’s nobility, explaining this by saying that an honest and decent person cannot abandon the people loyal to him to the mercy of fate and hide abroad. A noble person is responsible for his actions.
Vladimir Dubrovsky is presented as a noble defender of individual rights, an independent person capable of feeling deeply. The tone in which Pushkin writes about Vladimir Dubrovsky is always full of sympathy, but never ironic. Pushkin approves of all his actions and claims that all those who are offended should rob, steal, or even take the high road. So, my version: this is a novel about nobility. About nobility in the meaning indicated by V.I. Dal. “Nobility is a quality, a state, noble origin; actions, behavior, concepts and feelings befitting this title, consistent with true honor and morality.” Dahl directly connects nobility with the nobility, of course, and Pushkin did not separate them, so the topic is broader: the fate and purpose of the nobility or the honor of a nobleman. Surely Pushkin was very concerned about this topic. “Take care of your honor from a young age” is the epigraph of his next work, “The Captain's Daughter,” which again talks about this topic.
So, the novel is about nobility, the hero of the novel is a nobleman, “who became a victim of injustice.” There is no doubt about the nobility of the hero, but still sometimes he betrays his nobility. When does this happen for the first time? In Chapter 4 we read: “Tell Kirill Petrovich to quickly get out before I order him to be kicked out of the yard... Let’s go!” The servant ran joyfully.” The author did not say a word about the ardor of young Dubrovsky. And we can fully understand his feelings - he is amazed at his father’s condition: “The sick man pointed to the yard with a look of horror and anger.” But Dubrovsky’s hasty order to drive Troekurov out of the yard carries with it bad consequences, and the main one is not Troekurov’s offense, but the fact that the servants were allowed to behave impudently. “The servant ran joyfully. There is some kind of revelry of servile insolence in this “joy.” Dubrovsky can be understood and justified, but judge for yourself, is Dubrovsky right?
Dubrovsky became a robber, a noble robber: “he attacks not just anyone, but famous rich people, but even here he shares with them, and does not rob outright, and no one accuses him of murders...”
But Dubrovsky himself understands well the path he has taken. “A crime will never be committed in your name. You must be pure even in my crimes.” Pushkin nowhere gives any assessment of Dubrovsky’s actions (unlike, by the way, Troekurov’s actions; just the remark “Such were the noble amusements of the Russian master!” is worth it). The reader himself will guess that atrocities and crimes are incompatible with high honor. At the first explanation with Masha, Dubrovsky said: “I realized that the house where you live is sacred, that not a single creature connected with you by blood ties is subject to my curse. I renounced revenge as if it were madness.” But he did not give up revenge altogether, continuing to remember other offenders.
“Spending the night in the same room with a man whom he could consider his personal enemy and one of the main culprits of his disaster, Dubrovsky could not resist temptation. He knew about the existence of the bag and decided to take possession of it.” And our moral sense is indignant at the fact that Dubrovsky succumbed to temptation, once again betraying his nobility. And again, we can understand and justify Dubrovsky, and the author again does not give any assessments, but we cannot agree that this act does not correspond to the concept of true honor.
Let us now turn to the heroine of the novel. Marya Kirillovna is also a victim of injustice. Forced to marry a “hated man,” she too is looking for a way out. “Marriage scared her like a chopping block, like a grave.” “No, no,” she repeated in despair, “it’s better to die, it’s better to go to a monastery, it’s better to marry Dubrovsky.” But she does not cross the line beyond which pure morality ends. The priest uttered “irrevocable words.” The contemporary reader of Pushkin knew these words: “Lord our God, crown them with glory and honor.”
It is interesting that Pushkin ends this novel on almost the same note: “But I was given to someone else.” This is the highest point of nobility. Any other action will entail many misfortunes. “I don’t want to be the cause of some horror,” says Masha to Dubrovsky. Such an act requires much more strength than protest and revenge. Neither Onegin nor Dubrovsky can rise to such heights.
This gives me the assumption that this is precisely why Pushkin breaks up with his hero “at an evil moment for him.” It’s as if he has nothing else to do with it. And so he takes on another novel, and gives it a title that surprises me.
oh, “The Captain’s Daughter,” and in this novel the heroine’s name is again Masha for some reason, and the main question is about honor, nobility and loyalty. And Pyotr Grinev solves it brilliantly.
So, this is my understanding of A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Dubrovsky” and its main character Dubrovsky. What is the nobility of Dubrovsky in the novel.
Average rating: 4.4
During his short but bright creative life, A.S. Pushkin presented us with many images of noble romantic heroes. One of them is Vladimir Dubrovsky, a character in the story of the same name, published in 1841.
Vladimir is a young hereditary nobleman, the only son of Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky, known for his integrity, honesty and incorruptible character. By the will of the author, Vladimir has to endure two heavy losses: the death of his beloved father and the loss of his family estate. Having learned that the culprit of all the troubles is the landowner Kirila Petrovich Troekurov, young Dubrovsky decides to take revenge on him at any cost. The first thing he does is take his serfs, who had gone to Troyekurov in a corrupt court, into the forest and become the leader of a gang of robbers.
The first impression of Dubrovsky may not seem very attractive: “he allowed himself luxurious whims, played cards and went into debt, not caring about the future and envisioning sooner or later a rich bride, the dream of his poor youth.” He was characterized by behavior characteristic of most young people of his age and class. However, as the plot develops, the author reveals such character traits of Dubrovsky that allow us to talk about his nobility, decency, responsibility and honor.
For the first time, Dubrovsky shows these qualities when approaching his parents’ house: “he looked around him with indescribable excitement.” The depth of Vladimir's feelings is manifested in the description of Vladimir's meeting with his father and nanny Egorovna. Having learned about the cause of his father’s illness and Troekurov’s meanness, young Dubrovsky decides to take revenge on the offender. But the insult did not blind Vladimir: having led a detachment of robbers, he robs only those people who, in his opinion, have lost their human qualities because of money and power. In turn, Dubrovsky, by his actions, constantly confirms that for him the concepts of honor, dignity, nobility are not an empty phrase. Having caught a clerk on the road with money for a guards officer, he did not take this money away, but returned it back. Later, when meeting with the mother of this officer, he will say: “... Dubrovsky himself was a guards officer, he will not want to offend his comrade.”
The positive qualities of young Dubrovsky are also evidenced by the fact that all his father’s serfs were ready to lay down their heads for him. But, feeling responsible for the fates of the people who entrusted themselves to him and realizing the doom of his situation, at the end of the story Dubrovsky orders the peasants to disperse and reconcile. Under the circumstances there was hardly a better solution he could offer his men.
Strength, courage and fearlessness are visible in all of Dubrovsky’s actions. And only when he meets his beloved girl, Masha Troekurova, does the formidable robber become timid and reserved. Love for him is a pure, sublime feeling. The fact that deception and love are incompatible things for Dubrovsky once again confirms his nobility. To resolve this contradiction, Vladimir confesses to Masha who he really is, leaving the girl the right to choose. Moreover, in his desire to make the girl happy, not to darken her life with the loss of her relatives, Vladimir is ready to abandon his original intention.
And although the author will leave the readers the opportunity to “finish” Vladimir’s future fate themselves, the image of the “noble robber” Dubrovsky can be put on a par with such fictional and real people as Robin Hood, Zorro, Oleksa Dovbush and Emelyan Pugachev.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders have nothing to do with their problem, they are only doing their job...
The noble hero in Pushkin's story is Vladimir Dubrovsky. Although Troekurov was illegal, out of anger he deprived Andrei Gavrilovich (father of Vladimir Dubrovsky) of his family name and because of this he died. He became a bandit, but he didn’t have more than one murder to his name. He did not take “bloody” revenge on him and even fell in love with his daughter, Masha. That is, he showed nobility towards Troekurov
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
The noble heroes in the novel are Andrei Dubrovsky and his son Vladimir. Andrei Dubrovsky was a modest landowner, he did not have a huge fortune, a large number of servants, but he was a noble landowner, and people respected him for this. Vladimir Dubrovsky, although he was an eccentric man due to his young age, nevertheless, he knew what nobility was. When he decides to set fire to the house, he asks the servant to open all the doors in order to avoid someone's death. But the servant, on the contrary, closes all the doors. Thus, Vladimir showed nobility. He understood that those officials who arrived on Troekurov’s orders had nothing to do with their problem, they were only doing their job.
