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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 she picked in Moscow. Two years later, while Liza is selling lily-of-the-valley flowers, she meets a
The “Poor Liza” and Other Stories Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
- Nikolai Karamzin
place in Russian literature. In Russian literature: Drama and prose fiction. …the very popular story “Bednaya Liza” (1792; “Poor Liza”), a tale of lovers separated because they belong to different social classes, which seems cloying to the modern reader.
A beautiful peasant Liza, grappling with the hardships of life after the death of her father, falls in love with a true representative of a wastrel estate, a young boyar Ernest. The love which brings poor Liza closer to her death, once Ernest betrays her by getting engaged to marry a rich widow.
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Poor Liza by Nikolay Karamzin - The 3130th greatest book of all time. The narrative revolves around a tragic love story between Liza, a simple and innocent Russian peasant girl, and Erast, a nobleman with fickle affections.
"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 example of sentimental literature in Russia.
The “Poor Liza” and Other Stories Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
