The image of Olga Ilyinskaya is a wonderful, masterful work by I.A. Goncharov, which was a great success for him. It is in the image of this woman that the author reveals the main character traits and appearance of a Russian woman.

Goncharov presents Olga as an ordinary woman. She was not endowed with great beauty, she did not have chic and brilliance. But, at the same time, her facial features came together and created harmony and grace. Such women were rare at that time.

Simplicity and naturalness were Olga’s highlight. She was alien to the surrounding society. She seemed out of place. Fortunately, her intelligence, intelligence and determination allowed her to take a worthy position among other people and find herself in life.

She attracts with her persona and is imbued with attention to Ilya Ilyich. The correlation and combination of the image of Olga and the image of Oblomov allows the author to reveal inner world the main character, to expose all his weaknesses to the reader. It was this woman who was able to make changes in the life of Ilya Ilyich. It was she who awakened in him at least a small desire to live and move forward.

What attracts Olga to Oblomov is his simplicity, his gullibility. He is not spoiled by social life. He is not spoiled, not cynical. But such different personalities cannot build joint happiness. Oblomov's inactivity and laziness frighten him. He understands that for the sake of his family he needs to move, be active, do something, strive for something. Therefore, one never dares to change oneself.

Olga sympathizes with Oblomov in many ways. Perhaps this is the most important feeling that guided her. She considers the relationship with Ilya her mission. A sense of duty filled her soul. To some extent, she tried to prove to everyone how hard her hard work and work on Oblomov was. She was not ready to stand alone with him life path. Both heroes are waiting for the impossible. Oblomov wants to receive boundless emotions of love from a woman, and Olga is trying to turn on and inspire Oblomov. Neither one nor the other happens. Olga expresses to Ilya her thoughts that everything in his life is lost and nothing else can be changed. She decides to propose and marries him. She is happy, but sometimes her heart is filled with longing and sadness. Part of the soul that loved Oblomov dies in Olga.

Olga’s image is a living image, vital and real. This is one of the most famous female images of that time, those works.

One of women's portraits in the novel there is the character of Olga Sergeevna Ilyinskaya, Stolz’s acquaintance and Oblomov’s beloved. Ilya Ilyich cannot forget this woman for a long time; he painted her portrait in his memory. "Olga in strictly speaking she was not a beauty, that is, there was no whiteness in her, no bright coloring of her cheeks and lips, and her eyes did not burn with rays of inner fire; there were no corals on the lips, no pearls in the mouth, no miniature hands, like those of a five-year-old child, with fingers in the shape of grapes...” Goncharov, I.A. Oblomov. A novel in 4 parts. - M.: Fiction, 1984. - 493 p. - P. 202. Such a woman could not leave the main character indifferent, who had not been seen in public for a long time.

Further, one can trace the view of I.A. Goncharov himself on the image of Olga: “Whoever met her, even absent-minded, stopped for a moment before this so strictly and deliberately, artistically created creature... the nose formed a noticeably convex, graceful line; the lips are thin and mostly compressed... the eyebrows gave a special beauty to the eyes... they were two light brown, fluffy, almost straight stripes that rarely lay symmetrically...” Ibid. - P. 202.

The motif of the statue can be seen here too. Oblomov himself compares Olga to a statue of “grace and harmony.” She “slightly tall was strictly matched by the size of her head, the size of her head was strictly matched by the oval and size of her face; all this, in turn, was in harmony with the shoulders, and the shoulders with the body...” But researchers note that Olga is not a statue. There is another analogy for it - a machine.

As a statue Ilyinskaya is certainly beautiful, but as a machine she is functional. Lyubov Oblomov seems to have curled up the hero, but then the plant ends and the hero himself freezes. The hero’s eyes no longer sparkle and are no longer filled with tears “from the words, from the sounds, from this pure, strong girlish voice” from which the heart beat so much before.

I.A. Goncharov gives a portrait of the heroine at different moments of her life. Here she sings “Her cheeks and ears were red with excitement; sometimes a play of heart lightning suddenly sparkled on her fresh face, a ray of such mature passion flared up, as if she was experiencing a distant future time of life in her heart, and suddenly this instant ray went out again, again her voice sounded fresh and silvery,” the author describes “the awakening of the heroine’s soul “When she understands Oblomov’s feelings: “... her face was gradually filled with consciousness; a ray of thought and guesswork crept into every feature, and suddenly the whole face was illuminated with consciousness... The sun also sometimes, coming out from behind a cloud, little by little illuminates one bush, another, the roof and suddenly bathes the whole landscape in light...” But a completely different Olga, after a farewell conversation with Oblomov, “she changed in her face: two pink spots disappeared, and her eyes dimmed... she strongly pulled a branch from a tree in passing, tore it off with her lips...”. This shows all the disappointment, excitement and even annoyance of the heroine.

Olga Ilyinskaya also changes throughout her acquaintance with Ilya Oblomov. If at first, before Ilya Ilyich’s confession, she is light, always cheerful, lively, open and trusting, “dependent” on Stolz (he is her teacher), then after the confession and subsequent parting with the main character, she is thoughtful, restrained, persistent, firm, confident, restrained. She is no longer just a flighty girl, but a woman.

The writer identifies in Olga Ilyinskaya two important, in his opinion, personality traits that are so lacking in modern women, and therefore especially valuable. These are words and movements. They are presented quite convincingly in the novel. This is the talent of I.A. Goncharova.

Olga Ilyinskaya is the culprit of some shake-up that Oblomov had to endure before plunging into his complete peace of Oblomovshchina (see article Olga and Oblomov). Olga is presented in the book as a girl with willpower and an active mind. What she has in common with Stolz is an independent nature and a love for an active life, full of movement and work. She is brought closer to Oblomov by her penchant for art, for general issues life, love of nature. Being proud and active, Olga loved to set herself difficult tasks in life and achieve their implementation. One of these tasks was to revive Oblomov to a new life, save him from Oblomovism, introduce activity and living movement into his life.

Goncharov. Oblomov. Summary

At first, Olga’s attempt was a success: having felt the charm of this smart and talented girl, Oblomov seemed to be resurrected. He leaves his sofa, his dusty rooms, he is on his feet all day, wanders with Olga, listens to music, makes plans for a bright future. But when the habits of her previous life take over this attempt to be reborn, Olga’s rationality turns out to be stronger than love to Oblomov. She writes him a letter in which she logically and in excellent literary form proves that she needs a life different from what is possible with Oblomov, and breaks up with him. The fact that Olga marries Stolz and lives happily with her rational and dry practical husband emphasizes the element of rationality in her nature.

Olga, in spirit, is close to Turgenev’s heroines - Elena (“On the Eve”) and Natasha(“Rudin”). This - strong nature who is not afraid of life. Her clear and free mind helps her understand people and the accidents of life. Dissatisfied with vulgarity and banality social life, with all her prejudices and decency, she wants to arrange her life herself so that she can breathe easily and those around her feel good. This independence in life is her characteristic feature, distinguishing her favorably from the named Turgenev heroines, who both need “leaders.”

Stolz recommended Oblomov to Olga's attention in the best possible way; He joked about his laziness and immobility, obviously without at first attaching much fatal significance to these traits, but he praised the bright sides of his soul. He tried to interest Olga Oblomov, because he considered the influence of this smart, energetic and kind girl useful for his friend. And so, having met Oblomov, having independently looked into his soul, Olga was convinced that the description made by Stolz was correct - that Oblomov was indeed “a kind, intelligent, gentle, noble person.” In her smart head a proud dream was born - to do the “job” - to return to a fruitful field cultural life this “good” person, only temporarily, as it seemed to her, evading the common human work for the benefit of the whole world.

First with a good-natured laugh, then with sincere affection, partly with coquetry, she really inspired Oblomov for a while, who was still under the influence of Stolz at that time. Oblomov not only resurrected spiritually, but even experienced a new feeling for himself - Love to Olga. And she also fell in love with him, but in this love there was some kind of condescension, something like mother's love to a child who has recovered from an illness. It was not a passion that subjugates man to man.

Olga Sergeevna Ilyinskaya is one of the main heroines of the novel by I. A. Goncharov, Oblomov’s beloved, a bright and strong character. Ilyinskaya was not distinguished by her beauty, but she was quite graceful and harmonious. She had a sincere simplicity and naturalness that was rare. Nothing pretentious, no tinsel. The girl was orphaned early and lived in the house of her aunt, Marya Mikhailovna. It is unclear where and when Stolz met her, but it was he who decided to introduce Olga to his friend Oblomov. The author of the novel emphasized the rapid spiritual maturation of the heroine. Her personality growth occurred by leaps and bounds. Ilya Ilyich fell in love with her after hearing her beautifully sing an aria from Bellini's opera. He became more and more immersed in this new feeling.

Olga was confident in herself and definitely wanted to change Oblomov, make him an active person. For this occasion, she even drew up a re-education plan. As Stolz wanted, positive changes really began to occur with his friend, and this was entirely the merit of Olga. She was very proud of this and began to transform herself too. However, the girl did not understand that this was more of a practical experience in re-education than sincere love. Moreover, Ilyinskaya’s soul and mind needed further development, and Oblomov changed slowly and reluctantly. Their relationship was doomed to break. Even after marrying Stolz, she never stops looking for herself. Her deep soul needs something else, but she doesn’t know exactly what. As the author shows, Olga’s main purpose is the eternal desire for development and a spiritually rich life.