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Summary. Liza is a poor serf girl who lives with her elderly, sick mother. Her father died, making Liza the breadwinner of her family at age 15. One of Liza's primary ways of making money is to sell flowers [6] she picked in Moscow. Two years later, while Liza is selling lily-of-the-valley flowers, she meets a handsome, rich man named Erast.
Poor Liza NIKOLAI M. KARAMZIN Karamzin's best known fictional work and a classic of Rus-sian sentimentalism appeared for the first time in the Moscow Journal in 1792. So successful was the story that pilgrimages were made to the pond near the Simonov Monastery outside Moscow in which the unfortunate Liza drowns herself in the story.
POOR LIZA (Bednaia Liza)by Nikolai Karamzin, 1794. "Poor Liza" ("Bednaia Liza") is by some way the most celebrated piece of Russian prose fiction in the pre-Pushkin period. Together with Pis'ma russkogo puteshestvennika (Letters of a Russian Traveler), which Nikolai Karamzin began publishing in installments in 1791, it is the outstanding ...
Karamzin’s tale “ Bednaya Liza ” (1792; “Poor Liza”), about a village girl who commits suicide after a tragic love affair, soon became the most celebrated work of the Russian sentimental school. In 1803 Karamzin’s friendship with the emperor Alexander I resulted in his appointment as court historian. The rest of his life was devoted ...
Microsoft Word - RUSS155W #1.docx. Nikolai Karamzin’s 1792 sentimentalist story “Poor Liza” aims to portray the inescapable. conquering of nature by civilization, an ongoing process inherent in every society since the. beginning of the human race.
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Poor Liza. by. Nikolay Karamzin. The narrative revolves around a tragic love story between Liza, a simple and innocent Russian peasant girl, and Erast, a nobleman with fickle affections. Liza falls deeply in love with Erast, who initially reciprocates her feelings but eventually abandons her for a life in the city and the pursuit of wealth and ...
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Feb 10, 2009 · Poor Liza is clearly a moral lesson (so obvious that it is known from the second page) but the story’s value does not lie in its appearance as a trite fable, but rather in the fact that we buy into it’s absurdity at all; Karamzin forces us to care and it is for this reason only that the reader cannot appreciate Erast’s decision.
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