Grisha is a well-meaning commoner. The image of Grisha Dobrosklonov in the poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'” (School Works). People's Defender - Grisha Dobrosklonov

One of the controversial issues for non-krasologists is the role Grigory Dobrosklonov and the meaning of this image in the poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'”: Did Nekrasov create the image of a “people’s defender”, a fighter for people’s happiness, a “commoner, a revolutionary of the 60s. and revolutionary populist of the 70s,” or educator, educator of the people. In the draft version of the chapter, as the researchers note, “the true meaning of the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov, the people’s intercessor, was clearer. It was here that Nekrasov compared him with Lomonosov and predicted a difficult fate for him: “consumption and Siberia.” “Consumption” and “Siberia” were, of course, accurate indications of the revolutionary, anti-government activities of Grisha Dobrosklonov. But Nekrasov, even at the initial (pre-censorship) stage of his work, crossed out the lines: “Fate had prepared for him / A loud path, a glorious name / for the people’s intercessor, / Consumption and Siberia.” Only by the will of the publishers of the poem, already in Soviet times, these lines were included in the text. But the question of why the author abandoned these lines, which directly indicate the revolutionary activity of the hero, remains. Did Nekrasov do this as a result of autocensorship, i.e. knowing in advance that lines will not be skipped? Or was this caused by a change in the concept of Grisha's image?

A possible explanation for Nekrasov’s refusal to point out the tragic fate of Grisha Dobrosklonov was found by N.N. Skatov, who saw the reason in the desire to create a generalized image of a representative of the younger generation. “On the one hand,” writes the researcher, “he (Grisha Dobrosklonov) is a person of a very specific way of life and way of life: the son of a poor sexton, a seminarian, a simple and kind guy who loves the village, the peasant, the people, who wishes him happiness and is ready to fight for it. But Grisha is also a more generalized image of youth, looking forward, hoping and believing. It is all in the future, hence some of its uncertainty, only a tentativeness. That’s why Nekrasov, obviously not only for censorship reasons, crossed out the poems already at the first stage of his work.”

The place of the hero in the story is also controversial. K.I. Chukovsky was inclined to assign a key role to this hero. Actually, the appearance of such a hero as Grisha Dobrosklonov became the most important argument for the researcher in determining the composition of the poem. The “happiness” of the people’s intercessor Grisha Dobrosklonov should be crowned, in the opinion of K.I. Chukovsky, a poem, and not an enthusiastic hymn to the “benefactor” governor, which sounds in “The Peasant Woman”. The image of Grisha Dobrosklonov and other researchers perceive the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov as the final one in Nekrasov’s thoughts about “happiness”. According to L.A. Evstigneeva, “in the following chapters, the central figure of the poem was to become Grisha Dobrosklonov, whose image was only outlined in “The Feast...”.”

But there is another point of view, according to which Grisha Dobrosklonov is not the culmination of the poem, not its crown, but just one of the episodes in the search for peasants. “The meeting with Grigory Dobrosklonov,” the researchers believe, “was one of the episodes of the wanderers’ journey - important, significant, fundamental, etc., but still only an episode that did not at all mean the end of their search.” The same position is shared by V.V. Zhdanov, author of the book “The Life of Nekrasov”: “It is unlikely that all the paths of a polysyllabic narrative, all the diversity of images and characters can be reduced to Grisha Dobrosklonov,” he asserts, “it is likely that this is one of the stages on the way to the completion of the entire work.” The same idea is expressed by N.N. Skatov: “The image of Grisha itself is not the answer to either the question of happiness or the question of a lucky person.” The researcher motivates his words by the fact that “the happiness of one person (whoever it is and whatever is meant by it, even the struggle for universal happiness) does not yet resolve the issue, since the poem leads to thoughts about the “embodiment of the people’s happiness” , about the happiness of everyone, about “a feast for the whole world.”

There is every reason for such an understanding of the hero’s role: the men’s journey, indeed, should not have ended with Vakhlachin. And at the same time, it is difficult to agree with the fact that Grisha Dobrosklonov is just one of many heroes. It is no coincidence that in the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov the features of people so dear to Nekrasov’s heart are clear - Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky.

But the problem lies not only in determining the hero’s place in the poem. The question of whether Nekrasov accepted the “happiness” of Grigory Dobrosklonov as the highest idea of ​​happiness seems controversial? Addressing this problem, K.I. Chukovsky claims that in his work Nekrasov correlated the life of only rich and influential people with the idea of ​​happiness, for example, the “owner of luxurious chambers” from the poem “Reflections at the Main Entrance” was called happy. But this statement is not entirely accurate. Nekrasov had a different understanding of happiness. And it was also expressed in his lyrics. For example, he called I.S. lucky. Turgenev:

Lucky! available to the world
You knew how to take pleasures
Everything that makes our destiny wonderful:
God gave you freedom, lyra
And a woman's loving soul
Blessed your earthly path.

The undoubted component of “happiness” for Nekrasov was not idleness, but work. And therefore, painting pictures of a happy future in the poem “The Grief of Old Naum,” Nekrasov glorifies “eternal vigorous labor on the eternal river.” This kind of Nekrasov confession is also known. In May 1876, the village teacher Malozemova wrote him a letter - a response to the poem he had read, which ended with the chapter “Peasant Woman”. It seemed to the teacher that the poet did not believe “in the existence of happy people,” and she tried to dissuade him: “I am already old and very ugly,” she wrote, “but very happy. I sit by the window at school, admire nature and enjoy the consciousness of my happiness... There is a lot of grief in my past, but I consider it a blessing-happiness, it taught me to live, and without it I would not know pleasure in life...” Nekrasov answered her much later - his letter was dated April 2, 1877: “The happiness you are talking about would be the subject of a continuation of my poem. It's not destined to end." Do these words mean that in the future the author wanted to continue the story about the life of Grisha Dobrosklonov? It is impossible to answer this question. But one cannot help but notice that Grishino’s understanding of happiness is really close to the happiness of a rural teacher. So, when Vlas is grateful to Grisha for his kind words and help, he wishes him happiness, as he understands it, peasant happiness:

May God give you silver too,
And gold, give me a smart one,
Healthy wife! -

Grisha Dobrosklonov disagrees with this understanding of happiness and contrasts it with his own:

I don't need any silver
Not gold, but God willing,
So that my fellow countrymen
And every peasant
Life was free and fun
All over holy Rus'!

Researchers have long noted the closeness of the fate and image of Grisha Dobrosklonov with the destinies and personalities of Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Dobrolyubov. The seminary past, the origin of Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov’s personality traits and even his last name become the direct sources of the image. It is also known how Nekrasov perceived his collaborators in Sovremennik: in the poems dedicated to Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky, their destinies are affirmed as the embodiment of an ideal destiny. But we can note a number of other details that indicate the special significance for the author of the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov. Nekrasov clearly sacralizes the image of Grisha: presenting Grisha as a “messenger of God,” marked with the “seal of God’s gift.” The angel of mercy calls on the path he chooses, the “narrow”, “honest” road. The song “In the Middle of the Below World,” sung by the angel of mercy, in the draft version was called “Where to go?” Researchers see in this title a clear analogy with the title of Chernyshevsky’s novel “What is to be done?” But we can also assume another source for these words: they echo the words of the Apostle Peter, who, as the ancient apocrypha testifies, asked Christ about the purpose of his journey: “Where are you going?” Answering Peter's question, Christ said: "To Rome to be crucified again." “After this, Christ ascends to heaven, and Peter, seeing in the words of Christ a proclamation of his martyrdom, returns to Rome, where he is crucified upside down.” This analogy also allows us to see the highest meaning of Grisha’s path. It is interesting to note that the original name of Nekrasov’s hero was Peter.

But it is no coincidence that the author refuses this direct analogy with the fate of a follower of Christ, just as he refuses direct references to the revolutionary activity of Grisha Dobrosklonov. Grisha appears as an educator, “a sower of knowledge in the people’s field,” who is called upon to “sow the rational, the good, the eternal.” It is characteristic that the poem calling “sowers of knowledge to the people’s field” was written simultaneously with the chapter “A Feast for the Whole World.” But if in the poem “To the Sowers” ​​Nekrasov complained about the “timidity” and “weakness” of the sowers, then in the poem he creates the image of a hero endowed with determination, moral strength, and understanding of the people’s soul. Born into the people's environment, having experienced all their sorrows and sorrows, he knows both the people's soul and the path to the people's heart. He knows that he can “revive” Rus'. Life given to the revival of the people's soul, the enlightenment of the people, is thought of by Nekrasov as happiness. That is why Nekrasov ends his poem with the words:

If only our wanderers could be under their own roof,
If only they could know what was happening to Grisha.
He heard the immense strength in his chest,
The sounds of grace delighted his ears,
The radiant sounds of the noble hymn -
He sang the embodiment of people's happiness!..

We should agree with V.I. Melnik, who writes that the poet sang “every human sacrifice, every feat - as long as it was done in the name of other people. Such self-sacrifice became, as it were, Nekrasov’s religion.”

Endowing his hero with a truly “happy” fate, Nekrasov nevertheless does not end the chapter with the return of wanderers to their native villages. Their journey was to continue. Why? After all, the final lines indicated not only the author’s agreement with this understanding of happiness, but also the fact that the wanderers were already ready to share it. One of the possible answers to this question was given by G.V. Plekhanov, famous revolutionary figure. He saw the reason for this ending in the fact that the people and the “people's defenders” were not united in their aspirations. “The fact of the matter is that the wandering peasants of different villages, who decided not to return home until they decided who would live happily and freely in Rus', did not know what was happening to Grisha, and could not know. The aspirations of our radical intelligentsia remained unknown and incomprehensible to the people. Its best representatives, without hesitation, sacrificed themselves for his liberation, but he remained deaf to their calls and was sometimes ready to stone them, seeing in their plans only new machinations of his hereditary enemy - the nobility.”

This remark, reflecting the actual realities of Russian life, is still not entirely fair in relation to Nekrasov’s poem: Grisha does not appear as a lone fighter in the poem, the “Vahlaks” both listen to him and listen to his opinion. And yet Nekrasov did not want to complete the quest for his heroes in Vakhlachin. The journey must continue, and, as one of the researchers rightly writes, “it is unknown where it can lead the men. After all, the poem is built on the basis of the development of the author’s idea, and it is very important for Nekrasov to show what the wanderers learn during the journey, what, in particular, they learned from those new encounters described in “The Feast...”. Therefore, the events depicted in “The Feast ...” should not at all be the end of the poem; on the contrary, they became a new incentive in the further search for the seven men, the further growth of their self-awareness.”

Grisha Dobrosklonov is a key figure in Nekrasov’s poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'.” Let me tell you a little about him. Grisha was born into the family of a poor clerk, a lazy and untalented man. The mother was a type of the same female image drawn by the author in the chapter “Peasant Woman”. Grisha determined his place in life at the age of 15. It’s not surprising, because a hungry childhood, hard work, given by his father; strong character, broad soul, inherited from the mother; a sense of collectivism, resilience, incredible perseverance, brought up in the family and the seminary, ultimately resulted in a feeling of deep patriotism, moreover, responsibility for the fate of an entire people! I hope I clearly explained the origins of Grisha’s character?

Now let's look at the real-biographical factor of Grisha's appearance. You may already know that the prototype was Dobrolyubov. Like him, Grisha, a fighter for all the humiliated and insulted, stood for peasant interests. He did not feel the desire to satisfy prestigious needs (if anyone remembers lectures on social science), i.e. His primary concern is not about personal well-being.

Now we know something about Dobrosklonov. Let's identify some of his personal qualities in order to find out the degree of importance of Grisha as a key figure. To do this, we simply need to select from the above words the words that characterize it. Here they are: the ability to compassion, strong convictions, an iron will, unpretentiousness, high efficiency, education, a magnificent mind. Here we, unbeknownst to ourselves, have come to the meaning of the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov. Look: these qualities are quite enough to reflect the dominant idea of ​​the poem. Hence the conclusion is as prosaic as it is laconic: Grisha reflects one of the main ideas of the poem. This is the idea: living in Rus' is good only for those who fight for the happiness of the oppressed people. It is unlikely that I will be able to explain why - this is a philosophical question and requires knowledge of psychology. Still, I’ll try to give an example: when you save someone’s life, you get the feeling that you are strong and kind, a servant to the king, a father to the soldiers,...right? And here you save a whole people...

But these are only consequences, and we still have to find out where it began. Let's think about it, we know that from childhood Grisha lived among unhappy, helpless, despised people. What brought him to such a height, what forced him to sacrifice himself for the sake of the common people, because, frankly, limitless opportunities opened up for a literate and educated, talented young man. By the way, this feeling, quality or sensation, call it what you want, fueled Nekrasov’s work, from his input the main idea of ​​the poem was determined, patriotism and a sense of responsibility take their origins from him. This is the capacity for compassion. A quality that Nekrasov himself possessed and endowed with it to the key figure of his poem. It is quite natural that this is followed by the patriotism inherent in a person from the people, and a sense of responsibility to the people.

It is very important to determine the era in which the hero appeared. The era is the rise of a social movement, many millions of people are rising to fight. Look:

“...An innumerable army is rising -

the strength in her is indestructible..."

The text directly proves that people's happiness is possible only as a result of a nationwide struggle against the oppressors. The main hope of the revolutionary democrats, to whom Nekrasov belonged, was the peasant revolution. And who starts revolutions? - revolutionaries, fighters for the people. For Nekrasov it was Grisha Dobrosklonov. From here follows the second idea of ​​the poem, or rather, it has already flowed; we just have to isolate it from the general flow of thoughts. The people, as a result of the direction of the reforms of Alexander II, remain unhappy and oppressed, but (!) the forces for protest are ripening. The reforms fueled his desire for a better life. Did you notice the words:

"…Enough! Finished with past settlement,

The payment has been completed, sir!

The Russian people are gathering strength

And learns to be a citizen!..."

The form of transmission was songs performed by Grisha. The words precisely reflected the feelings with which the hero is endowed. We can say that the songs were the crown of the poem because they reflected everything that I was talking about. And in general, they inspire hope that the Motherland will not perish, despite the suffering and troubles that overwhelmed it, and the comprehensive revival of Russia, and most importantly, the changes in the consciousness of the ordinary Russian people.

Grigory Dobrosklonov appears in the epilogue of the poem, but its significance cannot be compared with the simple completion of the work.

The image and characterization of Grisha Dobrosklonov is the author’s attempt to instill in the reader’s souls optimism and faith in the future.

Description of the hero's father and life in his house

Gregory is the son of sexton Tryphon. The father occupies the lowest level among the ministers of the church. The father is very poor, it’s hard to imagine how the priest’s family lives. He's poorer

"the last seedy peasant."

There are two rooms in Tryphon's house - closets. In one there is a stove that smokes. The other is more than 2 meters high (fathom), suitable only for summer. There are no cows or horses on the farm. The dog and the cat left Tryphon. Mother was kind and caring. She didn't live long. The woman thought about the most essential thing - about salt; as in the song “Salty,” she had to cook for her son in tears. Two images - mother and Motherland - merged into one. Making their lives better became Grisha's goal.

Hero training

The clerk sent his son to a theological seminary. This is how it was supposed to be in Rus'. Grigory lives in terrible poverty, but his thirst for knowledge is amazing. At one o'clock in the morning the guy wakes up and waits for the morning when they will be brought the rush plant. The food was tasteless and not filling. The “grabber-economist” saved money on seminarians. The seminary description does not contain information about teachers, subjects, or classes. Nekrasov is stingy with words here: dark, cold, gloomy, stern, hungry. Behind every adverb a terrible picture emerges. Why paint with words what is dark in reality. The father is proud of his son's success, but does not try to improve his existence; he himself was always hungry.

Gregory's character

One can already notice from the description of his childhood and studies the distinctive features of Gregory’s character. He is firmly moving towards his goal. Such aspiration is not available to many, but young people have already appeared who brought knowledge and light to the masses. Grigory shares smart thoughts with ordinary men. He gets food in return. Nekrasov emphasizes that the hero is a special person. He has a gift from God, the ability to discern what is important in the ordinary, to convey the word to the heart. Gregory is the leader. He carries you along. Slaves, beggars, and the offended hear and understand the guy’s speeches. They are captivated by the seminarian’s sincerity. He blushes like a girl, but does not allow his anger to escape. Dobrosklonov is talented. He writes songs that people sing.

Hero's Dreams

Gregory is an intercessor, a warrior, a brave man. He charted his path from childhood. As a child he listened to his mother’s songs, he understands how great the power of song is, how it penetrates deep into people. Songs are the soul of the people. They convey problems and treat them, restrain negative impulses, and cultivate optimism and self-confidence. Gregory, with the help of songs, tries to rouse the peasants to defend their rights. An educated young man sees the reason for Russian poverty:

• serfdom;
• hard backbreaking work;
• rampant drunkenness among men;
• terrible poverty and hunger;
• greed and laziness of the nobility;
• ignorance of the common people.

Grigory is offended for the country that he loves with all his soul. None of the heroes of the poem have such patriotism.

Grisha prototype

N.A. Nekrasov chose a surname for the hero, indicating who was the prototype of the character. Dobrosklonov - Dobrolyubov. The common basis is good. These are people who bring good to the masses of the people. Based on the surnames, you can find out important characteristics. One persuades people to do good deeds, the other loves everyone and hopes that every person is initially good. The hero of the poem and the publicist have a lot in common:

• unique sense of purpose;
• hard work;
• giftedness and talent.

The literary character and the real person are united by a childhood tragedy. They were left without a mother, who left strength in their souls and raised the character of their sons. The hero and his prototype strive to change the world around them.

Hero selection

Grigory is a representative of revolutionary-minded young people who in the future will provide the people with a decent life. The fate of the hero is a bright path, a big name, the glory of an intercessor and defender, but consumption and Siberia stand in the same row. Grisha thinks a lot. The young poet came to the conclusion that people have two paths to happiness. One will lead a person to wealth, power and honor. This happiness is built on achieving material well-being. The second path is spiritual happiness. It presupposes unity with those whom they serve - with the people. The second path is difficult and thorny. Gregory calls to go towards cherished goals, to make as many people as possible happy: “freely and cheerfully throughout all holy Rus'” the farmer, the barge hauler and the simple man will live. There are already hundreds of people like the character in the poem, but the author believes that there will be even more of them. The entire multi-million Russian people are waking up and taking the path of struggle.

“The army is rising - Innumerable, the strength in it will be indestructible!” The song “Rus” is a hymn about happiness, the power of faith of Russian youth. The sounds of music and the meaning of words penetrated the hearts and lifted the spirit. The young man shared his optimism, and through him the author supported the ideas of his revolutionary friends.

So that my fellow countrymen

And every peasant

Life was free and fun

All over holy Rus'!

N. A. Nekrasov. Who can live well in Rus'?

The image of the people's intercessor Grisha Dobrosklonov embodied the author's ideal of a positive hero. This image was the result of N. A. Nekrasov’s thoughts about the paths leading to happiness for the Russian people. Truthfully, but very ethically, the poet was able to display the best character traits of Grisha - an optimistic fighter, closely connected with the people and believing in their great and bright future.

Grisha grew up in poverty. His father, Tryphon, a rural sexton, lived “poorer than the last seedy peasant” and was always hungry. Grisha’s mother, Domna, is “an unrequited farmhand for everyone who helped her in any way on a rainy day.” Grisha himself studies at the seminary, which was a “nurse” for him. No matter how poorly they were fed in the seminary, the young man shared his last piece of bread with his mother.

Grisha began to think about life early, and at the age of fifteen he already knew firmly “to whom he would give his whole life and for whom he would die.” Before him, like before any thinking person, he clearly saw only two roads:

One spacious road is rough. Passion slave...

A crowd greedy for temptation is moving along this path, for which even the thought of “a sincere life” is ridiculous. This is the road of soullessness and cruelty, since “for mortal blessings” there is an “eternal, inhumane hostility-war.”

But there is also a second road: The other is narrow, The road is honest, Only strong, loving souls go along it, To fight, to work...

Grigory Dobrosklonov chooses this path because he sees his place next to the “humiliated” and “offended”. This is the road of people’s intercessors, revolutionaries, and Grisha is not alone in his choice:

Rus' has already sent many of its Sons, marked with the Seal of God’s gift, to honest paths...

Grisha not only has a bright mind and an honest, rebellious heart, he is also endowed with the gift of eloquence. He knows how to convince the men who listen to him and believe his words, to console them, to explain that in the appearance of people like Gleb the traitor, it is not they who are to blame, but the “fortress”, which gave birth to both the “sins of the landowner” and the sins of Gleb and “unhappy Yakov.” Material from the site

Gregory understands the great power of words better than others, since he is a poet. His songs lift the spirits of the peasants and delight the Vakhlaks. Even a very young Grisha can attract the attention of disadvantaged people to the idea of ​​protest with his songs and lead them. He believes that people’s strength is “a calm conscience, a living truth,” and therefore he feels “immense strength in his chest.”

Grigory Dobrosklonov finds his happiness in love for his homeland and people, in the fight for their freedom, and with this he not only answers the question of wanderers about who lives happily in Rus', but is also the personification of Nekrasov’s understanding of the true purpose of his work , own life.

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Many works have not lost their relevance in our time. This, perhaps, happens because most of the problems and difficulties in a person’s life can be taken beyond the boundaries of time and the development of humanity as a whole. It has always been difficult for people to find their place in society, some did not have enough money to get a proper education, others did not have enough money to look the right way (society did not accept a person in a shabby suit either in ancient times or now). The problem of arranging life and providing food has always occupied the minds of people, especially those of low income. How to get out of the vicious circle of such problems and is it possible to do this in an honest way? N.A. is trying to answer this question. Nekrasov in his unfinished poem “Who Lives Well in Rus'.”

Many images could serve as a clear example for exploring this topic, but still the main body of information on this issue comes from the image of Grisha Dobrosklonov.

Name meaning and prototypes

In literature, the names of heroes are often symbolic. Their names and surnames in most cases are a brief description of a literary personality. If the issue of assigning names to characters, in view of the detailing of their personal qualities, is controversial, then the issue of the meaning of surnames is almost always resolved in favor of symbolism. Authors of past centuries took as a basis names that were widespread in society, in particular, they took into account the class being described. The hero's name should have been close and familiar to readers. The names of the characters were invented by the authors themselves. It was from associations with the surname that the further development of the image was based. It was based either on a game of contrasts, or on enhancing the effect of a person’s personal qualities.

The prototype of Grisha Dobrosklonov was the poet and publicist Nikolai Alekseevich Dobrolyubov. In society, he was known as a man of unique hard work and talent - at the age of 13 he was already translating Horace and successfully writing literary critical articles. Dobrosklonov and Dobrolyubov are united by a childhood tragedy - the death of their mother, which left an indelible impression on both the former and the latter. Similar qualities also arise in their social position - the desire to make the world kinder and better.

As we see, Nekrasov took the surname of the literary figure as a basis, modifying it, but at the same time one cannot deny the fact of its symbolism. The character's surname also reflects his personal qualities. It is based on the noun “good”, which corresponds to the general characteristics of Grisha. He is truly a kind person by nature, full of good aspirations and dreams. The second part of his surname is formed from the verb “to incline.” That is,

Age, appearance and occupation of Grigory Dobrosklonov

The reader becomes acquainted with the image of Grigory Dobrosklonov in the last parts of the poem - partly in “A Feast for the Whole World” and, in more detail, in the epilogue of the poem.

We do not know the exact age of the hero; the fact that at the time of the story he is studying at a seminary gives us the right to assume that his age is about 15 years old, the same guess is confirmed by the author, saying that the boy is “about fifteen years old.”

Gregory's mother's name was Domna, she died early:

Domnushka
She was so caring
But also durability
God didn't give it to her.

His father’s name is Tryphon, he was a clerk, in other words, he was at the bottom rung of the clergy career ladder. The family's income was never high - the mother tried her best to change this situation and give a proper education to her children - Grisha and Savva. The woman was often helped by fellow villagers to feed her children, so she

Unresponsive farmhand
For everyone who has anything
Helped her on a rainy day.

Naturally, hard physical labor and poor living conditions had an extremely adverse effect on the woman’s health and she soon died. Grigory is grieving the loss of his mother - she was kind, good and caring, so at night the boy “sorried for his mother” and quietly sang her song about salt.

Life after mother's death

After Domna’s death, the family’s life deteriorated significantly - “Poorer than the seedy / Last peasant / Lived Tryphon.” There was never enough food in their house:

No cow, no horse,
There was a dog Itchy,
There was a cat - and they left.

Grigory and Savva are often fed by their fellow villagers. The brothers are very grateful to the men for this and try not to remain in debt - to somehow help them:

The guys paid them.
To the best of my ability, by work,
Trouble in their affairs
We celebrated in the city.

Nekrasov gives a meager description of Grisha. He has “wide bones,” but he himself does not look like a hero - “his face is too emaciated.” This is because he is always half hungry. While at the seminary, he woke up in the middle of the night from hunger and waited for breakfast. Their father is also not a ruler - he is just as eternally hungry as his sons.

Gregory, like his brother, is “marked by God’s seal” - his abilities in science and the ability to lead crowds, so “the sexton boasted about his children.”

Studying at the seminary is not joyful for Gregory, it is “dark, cold and hungry,” but the young man is not going to retreat; his plans also include studying at the university.

Over time, the image of the mother and the small homeland merged together; they soon became determined by the desire to serve the common people, to make the lives of ordinary men better:

Gregory already knew for sure
What will live for happiness
Wretched and dark
Native corner.

Gregory does not dream of personal wealth or benefits. He wants all people to live in goodness and prosperity:

I don't need any silver
Not gold, but God willing,
So that my fellow countrymen
And every peasant
Life was free and fun
All over Holy Rus'.

And the young man is ready to do everything possible to get closer to fulfilling his dream.

Dobrosklonov is optimistic, this is especially noticeable in the lyrics of his songs, where he tries to glorify the love of life and outline a wonderful, cheerful future.

Gregory's fate is typical - a joyless, hungry childhood, sad memories of studying at the seminary. What will happen next? This is quite predictable, the fate of such people is always the same:

Fate had in store for him
The path is glorious, the name is loud
People's Defender,
Consumption and Siberia.

Summarize. The image of Grigory Dobrosklonov is optimistic. The young man is full of wonderful aspirations - he is a future revolutionary, ready to sacrifice himself for the good of other people. Gregory is driven by a good intention to improve the lives of ordinary people, just like himself, to provide them with a decent, not a miserable life.