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It is the tale of two lovers that belong to different social classes [4] which in this case is a young nobleman and a poor peasant girl. [5] The story popularized the sentimentalized peasant girl in 19th-century Russia.
The eponymous heroine of Karamzin's story is a peasant girl who is forced to sew, sell flowers, and pick cherries to maintain herself and her widowed mother. While selling flowers, she meets a young nobleman, Erast, and they fall in love.
The plot of the story is simple and touching: the young nobleman Erast is in love with the peasant girl Lisa. Their marriage is impossible because of class inequality. Erast is looking for a pure fraternal friendship, but he does not know his own heart.
- Nikolai Karamzin
She runs home and gives the rubies to another peasant girl, along with a message for her mother. Heartbroken, and feeling as though she has nothing left to live for, she drowns herself in the river. Her mother also passes away, and Erast, the cause of both women's deaths, is left poor and miserable, telling anyone who will listen about Liza.
- Nikolai Karamzin
A young rich nobleman fell in love with a poor peasant woman, seduced her, but, losing his fortune, married a rich widow. The peasant woman, unable to endure the loss of her lover, drowns herself in a pond.
Jan 3, 2015 · Poor Liza is the simple story of a young peasant maiden romanced and then abandoned by a noble. The story begins with Karamzin setting a dark scene, describing the Danilov monastery, depressing monks, and elders trying to escape life.
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Feb 18, 2009 · When Liza and Alexei first meet, the narrator describes the son as “a young hunter emerg[ing] from behind a clump of bushes” (31). However, lines later, the narrator says, “Alexei – for the reader has already recognized him – gazed fixedly at the young peasant-girl” (31).
