What animal does Tatyana Larina see in a dream. Dream of Tatyana Larina

Yuletide week has always been the time when girls who do not have supernatural powers could find out about their fate and future. Despite the fact that Christianity officially condemned fortune-telling, she failed to eradicate Christmas fortune-telling. Many girls were happy to indulge in fortune-telling and did not see anything wrong with this tradition, rooted since paganism.

Tatyana Larina was no exception. The girl tried all possible fortune-telling that could only be used during Christmas fortune-telling, but none of them gave her an answer to such an exciting question about her future and relationship with Eugene Onegin. Sleep was the only way to lift the veil of uncertainty. This time, Tatyana managed to get more information. The revealed possible reality was frightening for the girl, the future did not promise her joyful days:

And Tatyana has a wonderful dream.
She dreams that she
Walking through the snow field
Surrounded by a sad haze;
In the snowdrifts in front of her
Noisy, swirling with its wave
Ebullient, dark and gray
A stream unfettered in winter;
Two perches, glued together with an ice floe,
Trembling, disastrous bridge,
Laid across the stream;
And before the noisy abyss,
Full of confusion
She stopped.

Like an unfortunate separation
Tatyana grumbles at the stream;
Doesn't see anyone who has a hand
On the other hand, I would give it to her;
But suddenly the snowdrift stirred.
And who emerged from under it?
Big, ruffled bear;
Tatyana ah! and he roar
And a paw with sharp claws
He handed it to her; she's holding back
Leaned with a trembling hand
And fearful steps
Crossed the stream;
Went - so what? bear after her!

She, not daring to look back,
Hasty quickens step;
But from a shaggy footman
Can't run away;
Groaning, the unbearable bear brings down;
Before them is a forest; motionless pines
In its frowning beauty;
All their branches are weighed down
tufts of snow; through the peaks
Aspens, birches and lindens naked
A beam of night luminaries shines;
There is no road; bushes, rapids
All are covered with a blizzard,
Buried deep in the snow.

Tatyana in the forest; bear after her;
The snow is loose up to her knees;
Then a long bough around her neck
Hooks suddenly, then out of the ears
Golden earrings will vomit by force;
That in the fragile snow with a sweet leg
A wet shoe will get stuck;
Then she drops her handkerchief;
She has no time to raise; fears,
Bear hears behind him,
And even with a trembling hand
He is ashamed to lift the edge of his clothes;
She runs, he follows everything,
And she has no strength to run.

Fell into the snow; bear nimble
She grabs and carries;
She is insensitively submissive,
Does not move, does not die;
He rushes her along the forest road;
Suddenly, between the trees, a miserable hut;
All around is wilderness; from everywhere he
Covered with desert snow
And the window shines brightly
And in the hut and scream and noise;
The bear said: “Here is my godfather:
Warm up a little!"
And he goes straight into the canopy
And puts it on the threshold.

She came to her senses, Tatyana looks:
There is no bear; she is in the passage;
Behind the door there is a cry and the sound of a glass,
Like a big funeral;
Seeing no point here
She looks quietly into the crack,
And what does he see? .. at the table
The monsters sit around
One in horns with a dog's muzzle,
Another with a cock's head
Here is a witch with a goat's beard,
Here the skeleton is stiff and proud,
There is a dwarf with a ponytail, and here
Half crane and half cat.

Even scarier, even weirder:
Here is a cancer riding a spider,
Here is a skull on a gooseneck
Spinning in a red cap
Here the mill dances squatting
And it crackles and flaps its wings;
Lay, laugh, sing, whistle and clap,
People's talk and horse top!
But what did Tatiana think?
When I found out among the guests
The one who is sweet and terrible to her,
The hero of our novel!
Onegin is sitting at the table
And he looks furtively at the door.

He will give a sign - and everyone is busy;
He drinks - everyone drinks and everyone screams;
He laughs - everyone laughs;
He furrows his eyebrows - everyone is silent;
He is the boss there, it's clear:
And Tanya is not so terrible,
And curious now
Opened the door a bit...
Suddenly the wind blew, extinguishing
Fire of night lamps;
The gang of brownies was embarrassed;
Onegin, sparkling eyes,
From behind the table, rattling, gets up;
Everyone got up; he goes to the door.

And she's scared; and hastily
Tatyana tries to run:
It is impossible in any way; impatiently
Rushing, wants to scream:
Can not; Eugene pushed the door:
And the eyes of hellish ghosts
A maiden appeared; furious laughter
Resounded wildly; everyone's eyes,
Hooves, trunks are crooked,
Crested tails, fangs,
Mustaches, bloody tongues,
Horns and fingers of bone,
Everything points to her.
And everyone screams: mine! my!

My! - said Eugene menacingly,
And the whole gang suddenly hid;
Left in the frosty darkness
The young maiden is with him a friend himself;
Onegin quietly captivates
Tatyana in a corner and lays down
Her on a wobbly bench
And bows his head
To her shoulder; suddenly Olga enters,
Behind her Lensky; light flashed;
Onegin waved his hand
And wildly he wanders with his eyes,
And scolds uninvited guests;
Tatiana is barely alive.

Argument louder, louder; suddenly Eugene
Grabs a long knife, and instantly
Defeated Lensky; scary shadows
Thickened; unbearable cry
There was a sound ... the hut staggered ...
And Tanya woke up in horror...
Looks, it's already light in the room;
In the window through the frozen glass
The crimson ray of dawn plays;
The door opened. Olga to her
Aurora Northern Alley
And lighter than a swallow, flies in;
"Well, he says, tell me,
Who did you see in your dream?

Summarize: Tatyana's dream has a significant place in the text. On the one hand, this dream is a Christmas miracle, a terrible prediction of the future, a particularly strong influence in this industry occurs after subsequent events that ended with the death of Lensky, which was actually symbolically displayed in a dream.
On the other hand, Tatyana's dream is an allusion to the dream of Sofya Griboedov and partly the image of Svetlana Zhukovsky. This state of affairs helps to better understand the image of Tatyana, to identify some of her features that were not vividly described by Pushkin.

Tatyana, who attached great importance to dreams, was horrified - of course, the girl wanted the whole situation with Onegin to end happily and in this case she could be happy, but the dream promises her nothing but worries and sorrows - her lover turned out to be a monster, and not the ideal of her dreams.

Tatyana's dream is a symbiosis of various motives and emotions. It expresses both the girl's hopes for a successful resolution of her relationship with Onegin, and the fear that the current situation will not develop in the best way.

Since Tatyana's Christmas dream exposes her deepest feelings, the girl does not want to share with anyone the story about the essence of this dream, although what she sees incredibly worries and worries her. Such anxiety of Tatyana lasts until what she saw in a dream comes true.

Sections: Literature

(The compositional role of Tatyana's dream in A.S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin".)

The purpose of the lesson: to determine the place and role of "Tatyana's dream" in the work, to trace its connection with other scenes;

• to deepen students' knowledge of the composition of a work of art, to teach to analyze the text;
• develop the ability to think logically and independently draw conclusions;
• instill a sense of pride in Russian literature.

Lesson equipment: reproductions of paintings by K.I. Rudakova “Tatyana Larina”, I.V. Volkov and K.A. Korovin "Tatyana's Dream"; self-portrait of A.S. Pushkin, CD with a recording of P.I. Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin".

Epigraph to the lesson:

... the poet's world is inexhaustible:
In its depths is the secret of light,
Which is given to us like the sun...

Announcement of the topic of the lesson, familiarization of students with the goals and objectives.

A.S. Pushkin… Russian joy and Russian sadness… Noble heart and sublime soul… You have such strength and such a mystery that even after two centuries we are still peering into you, listening to your speech, discussing your every thought with friends.

Guys, studying the work of A.S. Pushkin, you and I have repeatedly seen that behind the works of the poet, as if clear in form, extremely deep in content and exhaustive in meaning, there remains something even more that has not yet been solved. “We see the sea, but behind it we anticipate the ocean,” A. Platonov wrote.

And today we will try to unravel another mystery of the poet - the mystery of Chapter V; to trace how it relates to other scenes and how it helps to understand the whole novel as a whole.

a) Reading by the teacher of stanzas I-II of chapter V of the novel.

This picture is familiar to us from childhood.

b) Conversation on the text.

And whose eyes do we see this winter landscape?

(The picture of winter is given through Tatyana's perception, this is what she loves, what is close and dear to her.)

Literature before Pushkin did not recognize descriptions of such “low” objects as “a sheepskin coat, firewood, a horse, a wagon ...” The poet was reproached for introducing very prosaic words and concepts into poetry. And he saw the beauty in life itself and teased his literary opponents with gentle humor.

Pushkin has his own way in literature. And he has his own heroine, unlike any of the literary heroines of that time, precisely because she is from life. Such girls as Tatyana, Pushkin saw, knew and tried to understand their spiritual world.

- So what was she like, Tatyana Larina?

(Loving books, nature ...; busy with her thoughts, feelings, and not the world around.)

How did her character develop?

(Books, nanny's stories, lonely walks - daydreaming; nanny's fairy tales - superstition, fear of otherworldly forces.)

c) “Coloring” illustrations by K.I. Rudakov "Tatyana Larina".

Task: color to convey the character of the heroine

(In the illustration, Tatyana is busy with her thoughts, feelings, and not with the world around her; in the guise of gentle sadness - the bluish-lilac tone of the portrait; her pallor is a sign of strong feelings, suffering).

G). “The holidays have arrived. That's joy!

The windy youth is guessing ... ”A student’s message about the types and methods of fortune telling in the old days.

“Tatyana, on the advice of the nanny
Gathering to tell fortunes at night,
Quietly ordered in the bath
Set the table for two appliances;
But Tatyana suddenly became afraid ...
And I - at the thought of Svetlana
I was scared - so be it ...
With Tatyana, we can’t tell fortunes.”

What Svetlana are we talking about? What other lines are consonant with Zhukovsky's ballad?

(... Tell me: which Tatyana?
Yes, the one that is sad
And silent, like Svetlana,
She came in and sat down by the window) - chapter III, stanza V.

How close are these characters?

(Svetlana, like Tatyana, wondered alone at night, and the long-awaited groom also appeared to her.)

Let's pay attention to the epigraph, these are lines from Zhukovsky's ballad "Svetlana". And this is not accidental, because the main place in the fifth chapter is occupied by "Tatyana's Dream".

The dream of Pushkin's heroine is not just the problematic center of Chapter V, it is the most mysterious episode of the novel, and perhaps of all of Pushkin's work.

1) Reading by the teacher of the XI stanza of the novel.

Nature in Tatyana's dream is alive, earthly: a sad winter night, a running stream, a fragile bridge.

How does Tatyana behave in this forest?

(Behaves naturally: she is afraid.)

2) Work with illustrations by Volkov I.V. and Korovina K.A. to the novel "Eugene Onegin". (Analysis of reproductions: plot, commentary on the choice of color.)

Volkov I. V. “Tatyana’s Dream”

Korovin K.A. "Tatyana's dream"

1. How important do you think the background of the picture is?

2. Why is the heroine depicted in this position? What did the artist want to emphasize?

3. By what visual means the artist reveals the inner world of the person depicted on the canvas.

3) Expressive reading by students of XVI-XVII stanzas.

In the hut that Tatyana gets into, there is fun (bright light, “shouting and clinking of glass”), but the poet says that what is happening is “like at a big funeral.” And this does not bode well (XVI stanza). Terrible monsters are feasting. But most importantly, besides them, Tatyana sees the one who is "sweet and terrible to her", Eugene, and, moreover, in the role of the "master", the ataman of a gang of evil spirits.

4) Interpretation of dreams.

Bridge- "hard work"; blizzard- "big trouble"; mill- "disturbed life"; bear– “accident, surprise; rich, strong, but cruel groom”; knife– “a sign of deceit and violence”; Fire– “anger, danger”; cancer, spider- “discord, sadness, annoyance; cunning."

5) - Remember, the plot of which Pushkin's ballad is close to the plot of “Tatyana's dream”?

(The ballad "The Bridegroom", written at the same time as Chapter V.)

What is the finale of Pushkin's ballad "Groom" and Zhukovsky's ballad "Svetlana"?

(Nightmares do not have their continuation and do not have any effect on the subsequent life of the heroines. Tatyana's dream is prophetic, and it will soon begin to come true.)

But in the work of Pushkin, such dreams occurred more than once.

-Remember them.

(“The Captain's Daughter”, “Ruslan and Lyudmila.”)

6) “..And Tanya woke up in horror…”

Find in the text descriptions of Tatyana's awakening. What was it like?

(Tatyana sees Olga; she is a complete contrast to both the awakening of her sister and the dark dream with the murder of her (Olga's) betrothed.)

Will this prediction affect Olga's fate later?

(After the murder of Lensky, Olga will quickly calm down and marry a lancer.)

7) The second part of Chapter V is dedicated to Tatyana's name day. Pushkin begins to describe this day easily, cheerfully, parodying Lomonosov's ode known in his time "On the day of the accession to the throne of Elizabeth Petrovna." In this parodic quatrain, the word “cheerful” sounds derisive, all the more so we know: Tatyana is not at all cheerful; Onegin also, reluctantly, agreed to go to the party.

8) Expressive reading by students of the XXV stanza.

Let's read these lines more carefully; they remind us of something.

It becomes clear who Tatyana dreamed about. The neighbors of the Larins only outwardly resemble people. Tatyana saw in a dream not a fairy tale, not just horrors born of fantasy. Her subtle mind could not help but appreciate the surrounding people. And the monsters from the dream, here they are, in reality. And it is not known yet where they are more terrible.

9) Listening to an excerpt from the opera by P.I. Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin".

How does this passage resonate with the text of the novel?

(The opera also contains a satirical depiction of the images of the Larins' guests.)

The dream turned out to be prophetic: it predicted both the near future (a duel) and a much more distant one.

What is the compositional role of Tatyana's dream in the novel?

(Connects the past and the future, explains the actions of the heroes, determines the further development of events in the lives of the heroes, predicts the future; the life of the heroes failed, it looks like a bad dream.)

to characterize the guests at the name day of the Larins.

Rezchikova I.V.

Dreams, as a special form of expression of the element of the unconscious beginning, have excited man since ancient times. Of particular interest are symbols that, creating their own model of reality, tell the dreamer about the true state of his soul and body, not only in the present, but also in the future. Most of the symbols that are born in the subconscious and visit our dreams are rooted in the pagan symbolism of the people and are often found in the works of UNT.

The peculiarity of the dream of a literary hero is that the reader, having the opportunity to compare its content with subsequent events in the fate of the character, can guess the author's logic and reveal the meanings of the symbols.

Word-symbol in art. The work is primarily a multi-valued structure, which is determined by the unity and interdependence of three semantic dimensions: a) Russian pagan symbolism; b) the micro- and macro-context of the work; c) the function of sleep, firstly, to reveal the state of mind of the dreamer (Tatiana) or his loved ones (placing a mirror under the pillow, Tatiana guessed at her betrothed, i.e. at Onegin); and secondly, to predict the future.

A symbol, as A.F. Losev wrote, is a model. That is, this is such a ratio of the primary and derived meanings of the word, which is further modeled, copied in the semantic structure of words associated with the reference symbol by the generality of the microcontext. This is the source of symbolization not only of the main, supporting, objects of sleep, but also of numerous details.

Let us consider the semantic structure of the key words-symbols, and how they are the source of symbolization of entire episodes and details of a dream. The supporting words-symbols of Tatyana's dream include the following: "winter", "bridge over a stream", "forest", "bear", "hut", "brownies".

"Winter" and words that can be combined into a thematic group with a common seme "cold": "snow", "snowdrift", "ice", "blizzard".

According to the plot of the dream, Tatyana first walks along the "snowy meadow", then along the "perches glued together by an ice floe", crosses a stream flowing in snowdrifts, "not constrained in winter", and ends up in a snowy forest, where "there is no road; the bushes of the rapids are all covered by a snowstorm , deep in the snow immersed."

1. Winter - "death". In folk beliefs, winter, which brings darkness and cold, is the period of death of nature. And if sunlight, warmth, fire were associated with joy and life, then winter with all its attributes - snow, ice, snowstorm - with sadness and death (Afanasiev: 1, 239). So, in folk riddles: "Neither frail, nor sick, but put on a shroud" (earth and snow). Or about snow: "I saw my mother, I died again" (Dal: 3, 644). So, in the description of the death of Lensky, the impending death of the hero is compared with a block of snow that rolls from the top of a mountain: "So slowly along the slope of the mountains, Shining in the sun with sparks, A snow block falls ... The young singer found an untimely end"

So, "winter" and the words of this thematic group: "snow", "snowdrift", "ice", "blizzard" - have the meaning of "sadness, death". As a model of a symbol, this semantic relation is the source of symbolization of plot twists and turns and dream details.

To be bound by ice means "to be held together by death." According to the context of the dream, Tatyana stopped in front of the stream: "Two perches, glued together by an ice floe, Trembling, fatal footbridge, Laid across the stream ...". The key to this symbol is in the description of Lensky's grave, where two pines are "fastened by death", i.e. Lensky is buried under them: "Two pine trees have grown together with their roots; Under them, streams meandered the streams of the neighboring valley." In this regard, the epithet "disastrous" is interestingly played up, that is, not just dangerous, but in the literal sense foreshadowing the death of Lensky.

To find yourself in a snowy forest - "to get into the kingdom of death, i.e. into the other world, the world of souls." The forest reminded the pagans of the blissful Gardens of Eden, where the souls of the righteous should settle after death. From here, the forest often symbolized this kingdom, where the trees are the souls of the dead (recall the traditional comparison of a person with a tree in Russian folk songs, riddles, the motif of turning into a tree in fairy tales, etc.). (Myths of the peoples of the world: 2, 49; Afanasiev: 2, 320-325). In addition, the idea of ​​death was close not only to cold, but also to darkness, and therefore to sleep (Afanasiev: 3, 36-42). In this regard, we can recall the expression "sleep forever" or the old proverb "sleep of death brother." Therefore, it is not surprising that, having fallen asleep, Tatyana immediately fell into the kingdom of the dead.

If the forest is the kingdom of souls, then the owner of the forest is "the owner of the kingdom of souls." (Afanasiev: 2, 336; Lotman, 656; Myths of the peoples of the world: 2, 128-129). Since ancient times, the bear was considered the owner of the forest, which was called both the "forester", and the "forest devil", and the "goblin", and the "forest archimandrite" (SD: 2, 311). The bear is the owner of the forest, and therefore the guide in the realm of the dead, into which Tatyana finds herself. 2. Snow in the meaning of "bringing fertility." From here to cover with snow - "to cover with a wedding veil." It was believed that snow, like rain, carried the power of fertility. Therefore, the white snow cover was often compared in ancient times with the white veil of the bride. For example, in the words of a young girl on Pokrov: "Mother-Pokrov! Cover the earth with a snowball, I'm young with a scarf (or groom)." Apparently, deep snow, snowdrifts in which Tatyana gets stuck, falls and where a bear overtakes her and takes her in her arms, portends a future marriage.

The theme of marriage awaiting Tatyana continues in the next two characters - a bridge over a stream and a bear. According to folk tradition, for a girl to cross a stream means "to get married." A.A. Potebnya wrote about this ancient motif of Tatiana's dream. This article mentions the ancient Christmas divination for the groom: "They make bridges out of twigs and put it under the pillow during sleep, wondering:" Who is my betrothed, who is my mummer, he will take me across the bridge "(Potebnya, 564). It is significant that The "bridge" to marriage was the death of Lensky ("two perches glued together with an ice floe"). After all, it was after the duel and Onegin's departure ("Tatyana grumbles at the stream at an unfortunate separation") the heroine succumbed to her mother's persuasion and left for Moscow for the "bride fair" where she married a general.

The bear is one of the main characters in Tatiana's dream. It is he who takes the heroine across the stream, giving her paw, then chasing her and, having caught her, brings her to Onegin's hut.

1. Medved - "Tatyana's future fiance is a general." The meaning of "bear-groom" since ancient times is due to the fact that in the minds of the people the bear's skin symbolized wealth and fertility, and A.S. Pushkin emphasizes that the bear was "shaggy", "big disheveled". This meaning of the symbol has been noted by many researchers. So, for example, in the notes collected by A. Balov in the Yaroslavl province: "To see a bear in a dream portends marriage or marriage" (Balov, 210; Afanasiev: 1, 464; Lotman, 655; Usensky, 101). In one of the observed songs: "A puffing bear Floats along the river; Whoever puffs into the yard, To the son-in-law in the tower."

The bear brings Tatyana to Onegin's hut with the words "Here is my godfather." And indeed, in Moscow, at a reception, the general introduces Onegin, "his relatives and friend", to Tatiana - his wife. Perhaps Pushkin is playing with the figurative meaning of the word "nepotism": "official patronage of one's friends and relatives to the detriment of the cause (disapproved)" (Ozhegov, 322).

So, the three symbols are not just united by the common seme of marriage, marriage, but determine the plot of the dream.

According to the plot of the dream, the bear, exhausted by the pursuit, brings Tatyana to the "hut": "Suddenly, between the trees, a miserable hut; All around is wilderness; from everywhere it is covered with desert snow, And the window shines brightly ..." From the context, we learn that the "hut" is quite well-appointed "hut", with a passage, a table and benches, and that the owner of the house - Onegin - is celebrating something in the company of terrible monsters, which A.S. Pushkin calls "a gang of brownies". The hut is one of the main symbols of Tatyana's dream. The hut is Onegin's "poor house, hut, shack". The word comes from the Old Russian "khi (zha" (house, housing, apparently poor, or frail). One of the meanings of the word "hut" is a hut. That is why in the Old Russian language and dialects (for example, Siberian) the words "hut" and "hut" could call the same denotation (ESCh: 338-339; SD: IV, 547). Brownie - "guardian spirit and offender of the house" (SD: I, 466). The word is used precisely in the indicated meaning, so how most of the animals chosen by Pushkin to depict demons have a certain relation to the cult of the Russian brownie... So, for example, at the site of laying the foundation of a new hut, they buried the head of a rooster (cf.: "another with a rooster's head") to appease the brownie. A cat and a goat ( "witch with a goat's beard" and "half-cat") - animals that have wool - a symbol of prosperity and fertility. That is why they are dedicated to the spirit of the house. The hut was fumigated with the goat's wool if the brownie was "angry", and not a single housewarming party could do without a cat ( Afanasiev: II, 105-119) This is the meaning of the words "hut" and "brownie" in the context the plot of Tatyana's dream. Let's reveal the main levels of symbolization of these words. "Hut" - "Onegin", "brownies" - "the realities of his inner world." The house in the meaning of "man" is the oldest pagan symbol that arose on the basis of another symbol: fire (and hence the hearth) is the soul of man (Afanasiev: III, 197). That is, the house as a shell for the hearth was associated with the human body as a shell of the soul. So, for example, in a children's riddle about a house: "Vakhromey is standing - he frowned his eyebrows." If the house was associated with a person, then the windows in the house were with eyes: "Thekla is standing, His eyes are wet" (Childhood. Adolescence, 408, 410).

In modern Russian, the ratio "house-person" is reflected, for example, in the expression "not all houses" (BAS: 3, 958).

The symbol "house - man, his soul" formed the basis of the central image of M. Yu. Lermontov's poem "My House": "It reaches the very stars with a roof, And from one wall to another A long way, which the Resident measures not with a look, but with a soul ". A.S. Pushkin has the same meaning in "Eugene Onegin" in the description of the body of the shot Lensky: "Now, as in an empty house, Everything in it is both quiet and dark; The shutters are closed, the windows are Whitewashed with chalk. There is no hostess. And where, God knows, the trail is gone." Here "home" is a body without a "mistress", that is, a soul. Thus, Tatyana, once in the kingdom of souls, finds the most important thing for her - the soul of Onegin. After all, it was the mystery of the nature of this man that made her guess at Christmas time.

In the novel "Eugene Onegin" A. S. Pushkin created a captivating image of a Russian girl, whom he called his "true ideal", Tatyana, according to the poet, "Russian soul." Her common name itself - Tatyana, introduced by the poet into Russian literature, is associated with "old times", with folk life. She grew up among the forests and fields, in the atmosphere of Russian folk tales and legends. It is known that she was aloof from the noisy children's amusements, and "terrible stories // In winter in the darkness of nights // Captivated her heart more." A provincial young lady, she easily and naturally felt herself in the world of Russian folklore.

Yes, the author says more than once that his heroine read foreign novels and believed in "the deceptions of both Richardson and Rousseau." Moreover, he notes that Tatyana "knew Russian poorly ... and spoke with difficulty in her native language." And she even writes a letter to Onegin in French. But at the same time, with the help of a subtle artistic and psychological touch, the poet reveals the “Russianness” of the heroine’s soul: her dream is introduced into the novel. Including it in the story, the author helps the reader to understand the image of Tatyana Larina and the environment in which the provincial young ladies lived and were brought up. Tatyana reads foreign novels (Russians had not yet been created), but she has Russian dreams.

Her prophetic dream, all woven from folklore images and symbols, is probably caused by the longing of the heroine for unrealizable happiness. That is why Lel, the Slavic god of love, hovers over her to predict the girl's fate. Tatyana is obsessed with the thought of Onegin, she is worried about his indifference to her, hence the disturbing dream, full of terrible forebodings.

Falling asleep for fortune-telling on Christmas night (as you know, in Russia it was believed that Christmas time - best time in order to find out her fate), Tatyana sees that she is “walking through a snowy meadow, // Surrounded by a sad haze ...”. According to dream books, walking along a snowy plain at night means meeting with intractable problems, with misfortune. And the very picture of the cold, snowy terrain is symbolic: it clearly indicates Tatyana's intuitive understanding that her lover will not reciprocate her love, that he is cold and indifferent to her. On the way, Tatiana encounters various obstacles: an unfreezing stream, “boiling, dark and gray...”, with a flimsy bridge across it, “snow loose up to her knees”, trees whose branches cling to earrings. It is not her lover who helps her overcome all these difficulties, but the bear acting as her betrothed - "shaggy footman". It is he who gives her his hand, takes her across the stream and carries her into the house. And here the dream also does not deviate from Russian folklore traditions. The bear is a characteristic image of folk tales. Tatyana freezes in horror when a bear picks her up, who has fallen into the snow, but she cannot resist her fate: “She is insensibly submissive, // She doesn’t move, she doesn’t die.”

Of course, a dream on a holy night is not conceivable without a beloved. And Tatyana sees him sitting at the table. At first, noticing Onegin among the fabulous monsters, who acts as the "leader" and owner of the company, Tatyana tries to calm down, but the drama of the situation remains.

Terrible creatures are sitting at the table: “One with horns with a dog’s muzzle, // Another with a rooster’s head, // Here is a witch with a goat’s beard ...”, “There is a dwarf with a ponytail, and here // Half-crane and half-cat.” In the description of the monsters, fabulous, folklore images are guessed. Before the eyes of the heroine, horns, bone fingers, hooves, trunks, "bloody tongues" mixed up. Probably, Tatyana met these images in the fairy tales of the nanny. However, despite the fact that the fairy tale should end happily, here everything prepares the heroine, and after her the reader, for a tragic denouement. That is why the creatures sit at the table, "like at a big funeral," and laugh wildly. And the denouement comes immediately. Already in a dream, the very tragedy that is destined to be in reality happens. As soon as Tatyana is left alone with Onegin, Olga and Lensky appear. Onegin scolds the uninvited guests, argues with them, and then "grabs a long knife" and kills Lensky. Olga also appears for a reason. Tatyana intuitively feels that her sister will unwittingly play a tragic role in the upcoming events.

Genuine horror seizes Tatyana, and she wakes up. But if Svetlana (the heroine of Zhukovsky's ballad of the same name), waking up, sees a sunny frosty morning in the window and the groom climbing the steps of the porch, then Tatyana is alarmed after waking up no less than during sleep. She tries to comprehend what she saw, because she believes in an omen: “Tatiana believed in the legends // of common antiquity, // And in dreams, and fortune-telling by cards, // And in the predictions of the moon.” At the level of intuition, the heroine realizes that the one whom she considered her betrothed will never be with her. Her fate is different.

The heroine’s dream sets the reader up to the fact that the predicted events will come true, therefore Onegin’s “strange” behavior visiting the Larins, his courtship of Olga is a logical chain, followed by a catastrophe - a duel of recent friends. The dream, introduced into the fabric of the novel, explains a lot to readers who are waiting further development events. And the ending of the work seems logical, when Tatyana reappears, already a secular married lady, but the same unhappy as before. “... You must, // I ask you to leave me... I love you (why dissemble?), // But I am given to another; // I will be faithful to him forever,” she says to Onegin. This is her fate, against which the heroine will not go. She will remain true to duty, this is her essence. In such an understanding by a Russian woman of her fate in Pushkin's novel, associations with the poems of V. A. Zhukovsky "Lyudmila" and "Svetlana" are guessed. Moreover, the image of Svetlana is considered the first reliable image of a Russian girl in Russian literature.

So, Tatyana's dream occupies an important place in the novel and has several meanings at once. It predicts the further course of events, on the one hand, and helps to get to know Pushkin's heroine better, on the other hand, the fortune-telling scene and Tatiana's dream itself, combined with Russian folklore and literary tradition in the development of the Russian national female character, reveals the deep psychology of the Russian woman. The idea of ​​the betrothed is connected with ideas of duty; the future spouse is conceived as destined by fate. Tatyana is inseparable from the national folk element with its beliefs, rituals, divination, divination and prophetic dreams, Tatyana's dream once again proves how close the heroine is to the folklore perception of Mia. She thinks and feels like a Russian person.