The image of the righteous man is found in many works of Russian literature. This image can be found in Leskov’s work “The Enchanted Wanderer”, in Chingiz Aitmatov’s “The Scaffold”, and of course in Solzhenitsyn’s story “ Matrenin Dvor».

In the work "Matrenin's Dvor" the righteous woman is main character books - Matryona. Matryona is an honest and kind woman. Her fate decreed that Matryona's fiancé, Thaddeus, went to war and disappeared without a trace, and she had to marry his brother. The children who were born to them quickly died, and Matryona could not find the joy of motherhood. Suddenly Feddey returned from the war, he was ready to kill them both, but then he reconciled. Thaddeus married, he and his wife gave birth to many children, one of his daughters, Kira, was taken into custody by Matryona and raised as her own.

All her life Matryona lived for the sake of others: she helped the collective farm, her neighbors, but none of them reciprocated her feelings. She helped people unselfishly, no matter what, she did not lose faith in people and in the truth and continued to help everyone. Matryona's whole life is work, he saved her from despair, she worked for two. She was always at peace with her conscience, she was calm, she lived in harmony with herself, Matryona had nothing to reproach her for.

Matryona's righteousness lies in her ability to compassion, the ability to forgive, and to see a way out of difficult situations. Matryona was never greedy, greedy, selfish, did not seek benefit for herself. Everyone wanted to get rich at the expense of the main character; even before her death, they began to dismantle and transport Matryona’s room; while transporting logs, it was cut up by a passing train. At her funeral, everyone cried and wailed just because it was necessary. Nobody even talked about her kind words, many condemned her, but how much good she did to all these people.

The heroine of the work “Matrenin’s Dvor”

A small essay-discussion about a big story. Jacob

The story “Matryona’s Dvor” tells about Matryona and Ignatich, how they lived together and what happened in their house, what situations they found themselves in. The hero of the story, Ignatius, is very similar in description to Solzhenitsyn himself. But we are talking more about Matryona, about her, about a woman who did everything for others without selfishness.

Matryona is a woman of advanced years, with a sparkle in her heart that separates her from everyone else.
The image of Matryona is characterized in the text as righteous. This is proven by many facts that explain the very essence of Matryona. One of them is that she didn’t have a pig or a cow, not because she was a quitter, she didn’t have enough time for everything. Someone constantly came to Matryona and asked her to do something. And she, out of the kindness of her soul, went and did everything she was told. She didn't charge a penny for the work. One day, the wife of the collective farm chairman came to her and ordered her to take her pitchfork and go with everyone else to harvest potatoes. Matryona was not a member of the collective farm due to poor health. And yet... She went and did everything that was required. Matryona did not receive any income. This woman had no pension, no income. Only with the arrival of Ignatius everything went uphill. He paid an amount for his accommodation, the village council also paid extra because Ignatius worked at school as a mathematics teacher.

Matryona told almost no one about her fate, about life, about her dreams and complaints. She kept everything to herself. But one late evening, Matryona told Ignatius everything, and a lot became clearer in him about the old woman. She had a wonderful character. Her heart did not know the word “no.” Always, whether she wanted it or not, she agreed to any work.

There were many “bumps” in Matryona’s fate. At the age of 19, she was supposed to marry Thaddeus, who was 23 years old. But the war began in nineteen fourteen. Thaddeus was taken to the front. Thaddeus returned three years later, but it was too late... Matryona married his younger brother Efim. There were scandals because of this. Somehow everything worked out without any violence. You could even say she was lucky in this. After all, Efim did not beat her, unlike Thaddeus. Matryonina's life the marriage continued until June forty-one. Efim was taken to war and never returned.

At the end of the story there was a dispute between Thaddeus and Matryona’s three sisters over a piece of land in Cherusty. To master it, it was necessary to build a house there. But there was nowhere to get logs. And Matryona just had an upper room. Thaddeus wanted to dismantle it, take away the logs and build a house in Cherusty. In the end, he succeeded. Matryona didn’t even receive a ruble for these damned boards. She didn't even ask for anything in return. When at night Thaddeus began to take away the logs using a tractor, taken furtively from the collective farm and with the help of his relatives, Matryona went with them, throwing on a padded jacket. After some time they passed through the railway. But then something unexpected happened. One of the trailers became detached and remained on railway. While they were attaching it back, a train sneaked up on the railway unnoticed. A blow, a groan... The locomotive of the train overturned, the trailer was completely broken, and there were casualties on Fadey's part, and the worst thing is that Matryona, the heroine of the story, was dead. She was run over by a train while she was standing between the first and second trailers.

Three days later there was Matryona’s funeral, along with her nephew, who was also there. The weather was not suitable. It was February and there were snowstorms. At Matryona's wake, few people said anything good about her. Although it was impossible to do without her. As Ignatius said: “We all lived next to her and did not understand that she was the very righteous person without whom, according to the proverb, the village could not be built. Neither the city. Neither the whole land is ours.”

Naturally, I was very interested in the story. Since it reveals honesty, hard work, as well as a person’s love for everyone living on earth. A woman who is ready to help everyone and always. She gave almost everything she had. Even, as they say, “Half a piece of bread and that one in half.”

The image of a righteous woman in Solzhenitsyn’s story “Matrenin’s Dvor”

I. The meaning of the word “righteous.”

II. Life or living?

1. Life of Matryona.

2. Death of Matryona.

3. Those around us in the mirror of Matryona’s life and death.

III. What remains for people?

A village does not stand without a righteous man.

Russian proverb

A righteous person is a fair, correct person who strictly observes the laws of morality. The heroine of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s story “Matrenin’s Dvor” probably did not consider herself a righteous woman, she simply lived the way her compatriots and fellow villagers lived.

Righteousness

A person is defined by what kind of life he lived, what death he died, what he taught people, what word they will use to remember him after his departure.

Matryona's life was similar to the lives of thousands of her compatriots. The difficulties of the war and post-war times forced people to experience common pain; suffering was supposed to unite people, a common misfortune to make them purer, kinder, more righteous. But this was not the case with everyone, because the war and difficult life You can write off your own sins - they say, we are not bad, life is bad.

No one would envy Matryona's fate. Not waiting for her husband to return from the war, she went to his brother - and suffered all her life

With the consciousness of her guilt, akin to betrayal, she reproached herself for her sin... And the whole sin was that she pitied Thaddeus’s family, who were left without help. She gave birth to six children - and not one survived.

Kira raised her daughter ex-husband. And all the wealth she acquired was a strong upper room, a dirty white goat, ficus trees and a lanky cat. Her fellow villagers restrainedly condemned her: she never kept a pig, “didn’t chase after breeding...

I didn’t struggle to buy things and then cherish them more than my life. I didn’t bother with outfits. For clothes that embellish freaks and villains...” And so she died in poverty.

Death puts everything in its place, sums it up human life. What will Matryona the Righteous leave as a legacy to her loved ones, what word will they remember her with, how will they remember her? They remembered, first of all, that now there was no one to help dig the garden, to “plow themselves with a plow” - the deceased helped everyone, did not take any payment.

What can we do now without her help? Best friend, who has been friends with Matryona for half a century, shyly asks to give her the “gray knit” promised to Matryona. Thaddeus is worried about one thought: he must take away the remaining logs, otherwise they will disappear. They argue about the hut: who will get it - the sister or the adopted daughter.

Crying for the deceased takes place according to all the rules, but ostentatious grief for Matryona, who died because of the greed of several close people, is combined with an attempt to justify oneself: “...And why did you go to where death was guarding you? And no one invited you there! And I didn’t think about how you died!

And why didn’t you listen to us?... (And from all these lamentations the answer stuck out: we are not to blame for her death, but we’ll talk about the hut later!).”

Matryona is buried and buried according to all the rules: and the priest conscientiously conducts Orthodox service, and are remembered according to custom (“Eternal memory”, as expected, is sung before the jelly!). And they are proud that everything is done like a human being...

Matryona left, “misunderstood and abandoned even by her husband, who buried six children, but did not have a sociable disposition, a stranger to her sisters, sisters-in-law, funny, foolishly working for others for free...” And only two people mourn Matryona sincerely: “not at all ritually,” the adopted daughter Kira sobs bitterly, like a woman, wisely and calmly, non-vainly, “a strict, silent old woman, more ancient than all the ancients” speaks about her death, the guest experiences sincere pain.

Yes, Matryona’s life is not the life of a saint. Not everyone was able to appreciate Her righteousness; many condemned her, but did they forget? She will remain to live in the memory of her adopted daughter, her life lessons will not be forgotten by the teacher who shared her shelter for a short time... And that’s all?

But is it really about how they evaluate you, what they say about you? The point is how you live your life, whether you can remain human, what page you write in the book of life.

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Municipal state educational institution

"Priobskaya Secondary School"

Literature lesson for 9th grade students

teacher Kubyshkina Galina Vladimirovna

GP Priobye

2017

The image of the righteous woman in the story by A.I. Solzhenitsyn "Matrenin's Dvor".

(second lesson in the topic “A.I. Solzhenitsyn “Matrenin’s Dvor”)

1. Checking the d/z. Content survey.

A test on the creativity of A.I. Solzhenitsyn allows you to identify the level of knowledge of the text. Each question has four possible answers.

Evaluation criteria:

“5” (excellent) - the work was completed flawlessly

“4” (good) – from 12 to 14 correct answers

“3” (satisfactory) – from 8 to 11 correct answers

Test on the story "Matrenin's Dvor" by A.I. Solzhenitsyn

1.The original title of the story:

a) “A village is not worthwhile without a righteous person”

b) “The village is not worth it without Matryona”

c) “Matryona’s suffering”

d) “The Life of Matryona the Righteous”

2.What is Matryona’s last name:

a) Grigorieva b) Vasilyeva c) Fadeeva d) Efimova

3.Which characteristic is suitable for the main character:

a) “peasant woman, 80 years old, unemployed”

b) “peasant woman, single woman, 60 years old, released from the collective farm”

c) “lonely peasant woman, 60 years old, repressed”

d) “peasant woman, 60 years old, who worked all her life somewhere in a factory”

4.What information about Matryona is correct:

a) loved Efim, married Thaddeus

b) loved Thaddeus, married Efim

c) loved both Efim and Thaddeus, did not marry

d) never loved anyone

5. Finish the phrase: “Matryona’s living creatures included a lanky old cat, a dirty white goat with crooked horns, ...?.. yes ...?...”

a) “kittens and kids”

b) “cow and calf”

c) “mice and cockroaches”

d) “dog and sheep”

6. Explain what it means: Matryona gave birth to six children, but “ they didn't stand"

a) didn’t get up

b) haven’t run for a long time

c) were not independent

d) did not survive

7. During which war did Matryona’s husband go missing:

a) in the First World War b) in the civil war

c) during the years of the Finnish d) during the Great Patriotic War

8.Which information about Matryona is incorrect:

a) she always got involved in men’s affairs

b) a horse once almost knocked her into an ice hole in the lake

c) I gave the upper room to my pupil Kira

d) I gave the house to my pupil Kira

9. Pupil Kira is:

a) Matryonina’s illegitimate daughter b) Thaddeus’ daughter

c) a girl from an orphanage d) the daughter of the collective farm chairman

10.Why did Kira urgently need to transport part of Matryona’s house:

a) they are given a plot, but there must be a building on it

b) were given a plot of land, built a house, needed dry firewood

c) for resale and revenue

d) build a shed next to the house

11. How did Matryona die?

a) got hit by a truck b) got hit by a tractor c) killed at the station d) got hit by a train

12.About whom we're talking about: also Matryona, her husband beats her all her life, she also gave birth to six children?

a) wife of the chairman b) wife of Thaddeus c) Native sister d) girlfriend

13. Matrenin the guest worked:

a) postman b) chairman c) veterinarian d) teacher

14. Matryona's guest, watching the division of her simple goods, remembering the living Matryona, suddenly clearly understands that all these people, including him, lived next to her and did not understand that Matryona is the same one:

a) a real person b) a righteous person c) a person of hope d) a sufferer

15. The narrator is:

a) autobiographical character b) Matryona’s neighbor c) Thaddeus d) Kira

Answers:

2. Creation problematic situation at the lesson.

The teacher reads the epigraph written on the board.

...If, according to popular belief, no city can stand without the three righteous ones, then how can the whole earth stand with only the rubbish that lives in both my soul and yours, my reader.
It was both terrible and unbearable for me, and I went to look for the righteous, I went with a vow not to rest until I found at least that little number three the righteous, without whom the city cannot stand.

N.S. Leskov. Preface to the cycle “The Righteous”

What will we talk about in today's lesson? Please determine the topic of the lesson.

Lesson topic. The image of the righteous woman in the story by A.I. Solzhenitsyn "Matrenin's Dvor". (The theme of righteousness in the story.)

Vocabulary work: Who can be called righteous?

Righteous – 1. For believers: a person who lives a righteous life has no sins. 2. A person who does not sin in any way against the rules of morality (iron).

Righteous – 1. Pious, sinless, conforming to religious rules.

2. Based on truth, fair. (S.I. Ozhegov and N.Yu. Shvedova “ Dictionary Russian language").

Determine the objectives of the lesson.

Goals:

2. find out what qualities allowed the author to call the heroine the righteous woman of the Russian land;

3. think about these moral concepts as: kindness, mercy, sensitivity, conscience, humanity; think about the meaning of human life;

4. develop the skills and abilities of analyzing a prose work.

3. Text analysis.

What is the original title of the story? How does it relate to the epigraph for the lesson?

1. “A village is not worthwhile without a righteous man.”

2. Solzhenitsyn approaches the topic of righteousness unobtrusively and even with humor. Speaking about Matryona, his hero remarks: “Only she had fewer sins than her lame-legged cat. She was strangling mice!..” The writer rethinks the images of the righteous in Russian literature and portrays the righteous person not as a person who committed many sins, repented and began to live like a god, but makes righteousness a natural way of life for the heroine.

Does the main character of the story, Matryona, evoke sympathy, pity, irritation or admiration in you? Justify your opinion.

Remember under what circumstances the author’s first acquaintance with Matryona takes place? Why isn’t she one of the “applicants” who could have a guest?

For the residents of the village, Matryona is a useless housewife who does not have the opportunity to properly receive a guest in her neglected house.

But the hero-narrator suddenly feels that this life is internally close to him - and remains to live with Matryona.

How did Matryona attract the narrator’s attention? Let's get to know her better.

How was Matryona different from other residents of the village of Talnovo?

Matryona went to work even if she was sick; did not “settle scores” and did not discuss “who came out and who didn’t come out”; could not refuse when someone asked for help with agricultural work: digging up potatoes, plowing their own garden; did not take money for the work; she fed the shepherds food that she did not eat herself; did not annoy anyone with questions; didn't gossip; raised someone else's girl; I gave the upper room to my adopted daughter.

Matryona had to endure a lot of grief and injustice in her lifetime: broken love, the death of six children, the loss of her husband, backbreaking work in the village, severe illness - illness, a bitter resentment towards the collective farm, which squeezed all the strength out of her, and then wrote it off as unnecessary, leaving without pension or support.

But Matryona did not get angry, she retained a good mood, a feeling of joy and pity for others, a radiant smile still brightens her face

How do her fellow villagers treat her? Do they understand Matryona? Why?

Relatives almost did not appear in her house, apparently fearing that Matryona would ask them for help. Everyone unanimously condemned Matryona that she was funny and stupid, working for others for free. The sister-in-law, who recognized Matryona’s simplicity and cordiality, spoke about this “with contemptuous regret.” Everyone took advantage of Matryona's kindness and simplicity - and unanimously condemned her for it.

And after her death, all the reviews about her were disapproving: “...she didn’t chase after the acquisition, and she wasn’t careful; and didn’t even hold a pig; ...and, stupid, helped strangers for free”; I didn’t chase clothes, I didn’t accumulate property for death.

This is her world, this is how she lives.

The arrival of Thaddeus destroys the established way of life, peace, and silence.

Compare Matryona and Thaddeus. How do they behave around others? life situations? (work in groups)

The answer lies in the very comparison of the heroes: no matter how difficult and inevitable fate may be, it only more clearly reveals the measure of humanity in each of the people.

“Those people always have good faces who are at peace with their conscience,” the author bluntly states.

Matryona turns out to be extraordinary, sincere, pure, an open person. Them sharper feeling the guilt that the narrator experiences: “There is no Matryona. A loved one was killed. And on the last day I reproached her for wearing a padded jacket.” “We all lived next to her and did not understand that she was the very righteous person without whom, according to the proverb, the village would not stand. Neither the city. Neither the whole land is ours.”

What do you see as the tragedy of Matryona’s fate?

The tragedy isn't just about the lost fiancé, the missing husband, and the dead children. The tragedy manifested itself when Matryona becomes a victim of human greed, money-grubbing, and drunkenness.

The tragedy is that the villagers could not understand the good feelings that guided Matryona in life. Therefore, after her death, her relatives want to quickly seize the “goods” that were left after her.

What caused Matryona's death?

The external cause of death was her dedication and desire to help. That is why she finds herself between a sleigh and a tractor at an ill-fated railroad crossing.

Among the underlying reasons tragic death The heroine's affection for Thaddeus and his pupil, his daughter Kira. It is she who unwittingly becomes the culprit of the destruction of the house where she lived with Matryona and where Matryona herself lived for forty years. The people who dismantled the upper room are destroying the house, main value families. The death of the house was also predetermined by the death of Matryona. She would no longer be able to live in a damaged house. The author condemns the greed and greed of Thaddeus, who is obsessed with the desire to seize a piece of land. Hence his order not to make a second voyage, and the removal of surviving logs during funerals and wakes. Matryona’s son-in-law, a railway worker, is also to blame for not warning the station about the transportation.

What is it moral meaning story told by the writer?

The concept of “righteous person” acquired a new meaning in Solzhenitsyn.

The moralizing meaning of the story is that you cannot live only for yourself, be a money-grubber and a hoarder. The meaning of human existence is in kindness, selflessness and the radiance that a person can emit, illuminating the destinies of other people.

Solzhenitsyn helped us to see a great soul in a simple Russian woman, to see a righteous woman.

4. Lesson summary. Reflection.

This is exactly what Matryona from the story could have been, with an awkward, as if inept, smile, wise, calm eyes, with some amazing naturalness, authenticity that lights up on her face - or face? - light coming from somewhere deep, from the soul. “Those people always have good faces, who are in harmony with conscience his". You can’t say it better than Solzhenitsyn.

Matryona, the only one in the village, lives in her own world: she arranges her life with work, honesty, kindness and patience,preserving your soul and inner freedom.Popularly wise, sensible, able to appreciate goodness and beauty, Matryona managed to resist evil and violence, preserving her “court”. Matryonin's yard is Matryonin's world - the special world of the righteous. A world of spirituality, kindness, mercy.

Righteous Matryona - moral ideal a writer on whom, in his opinion, the life of society should be based.

Today, mutual hatred, bitterness, alienation have reached enormous proportions, it seems that there cannot be people like Matryona. But I will never agree with the statement that Russian people have degenerated morally over the past decades and have completely lost the spiritual identity that was once inherent in them. I don’t agree, because I am convinced: no even the most terrible shocks can completely destroy the spirituality of a people, disfigure, pervert - yes, but not destroy.

5. Grading.

6. Homework . Answer one of the questions in writing.

1. What changed in the meaning of Solzhenitsyn’s story “A village is not worth it without a righteous man” when the writer called it “Matryonin’s yard”?

2. Do you think such righteous people are needed in our lives?

3. What is Matryona’s righteousness?

Literature:

1. Internet resources.

2. N.S. Leskov. Preface to the cycle “The Righteous”.

3. S.I.Ozhegov and N.Yu.Shvedova. Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language.

4. A.I. Solzhenitsyn. Matrenin's yard.

For a long time it was believed that the Russian land rests on the righteous. Real righteous people lived without money, selflessly helped other people and did not envy anyone. Fully fits this description Matryona from Solzhenitsyn's story "Matrenin's Dvor".

Matrena Vasilievna is a righteous and pure woman who lived in a small village near a railway crossing. In his youth, Fadey wooed her, but he was taken to war. Matryona was waiting for his return, but three years later Efim, Fadey’s brother, wooed her. Fadey unexpectedly returned from captivity - and was worried for a long time. He said that he would have killed his fiancée if she had not been his brother's wife.

Matryona lived well, but she was unlucky with her children. Her children died one after another - and not one of the babies survived. In 1941, her husband was drafted into the active army - and he never returned home. At first Matryona waited for her husband, and then accepted his death. To brighten up her loneliness, Matryona Vasilyevna took herself into care youngest daughter Fadeya, Kiru. She selflessly looked after the girl. When Kira grew up, she married her to a train driver in a neighboring village.

After the pupil’s departure, Matryona’s house became empty and sad, and only ficus trees brightened up the poor woman’s loneliness. She selflessly loved these plants - and even during a fire she saved not the hut, but the ficuses. Out of pity, Matryona sheltered a lame-legged cat, who lived with her for many years.

Notable was the fact that Matryona worked her whole life on the collective farm for the ticks that the foreman put on the report card. Because of this, she did not receive a labor pension. Only after much work Matryona managed to secure a pension for herself. As soon as she had money, it turned out that Matryona Vasilievna had three sisters.

After some time, Fadey arrived and asked for a room for Kira. Matryona donated her upper room for construction - and also diligently helped remove the logs.

When, due to the greed of the tractor driver and Fadey, the second cart got stuck at the crossing, Matryona rushed to the rescue. She always helped others unselfishly, so she could not accumulate much good. Those around her and relatives considered Matryona sloppy and mismanagement. And, unfortunately, no one appreciated the honesty, kindness and sacrifice of this righteous woman.

Matryona is a symbol of kindness and sacrifice, which is very rare in modern people. In our world, business acumen and the ability to make money are valued, but such good-natured people die with a smile on their sweet face. They know the true value of life, so material wealth does not play any role for them. Our land rests on the righteous, but we do not appreciate this.