N. Nekrasov describes in the poem two stories of the wives of the Decembrists: Princess Trubetskoy and Princess Volkonskaya. They showed remarkable courage, going for their husbands to hard labor. This feat can be an excellent argument, so keep on hand a very short summary of the poem “Russian Women” for the reader’s diary from Literaguru.
(378 words) Princess Yekaterina Trubetskaya is going to go to Siberia at night following her Decembrist husband. Her father, with tears in his eyes, rechecked the cart, fearing for the safety of her daughter, who leaves the house forever. The princess is also not easy to part with her parent, but her wife calls her duty. She leaves Petersburg. At each station, she generously bestows coachmen. She dreams of memories: childhood, youth, balls with all the fashionable light, honeymoon in Italy. He sees the uprising of the Decembrists, and a meeting with the arrested spouse. Waking up, she looks at the realm of beggars and slaves. She already knows that in Siberia she will meet her death. On the road, she hears chilling sounds that make her think that she will not get to the goal. Upon reaching Irkutsk, she meets with the local governor. He is trying to convince the princess to return home. She has to sign a renunciation of all her rights. The governor scares Trubetskoy that she will have to walk along with the convicts, she agrees. Seeing her allegiance, the governor tearfully confesses that he did this on the orders of the king, and gives her horses.
The second part begins with “grandmother’s notes” for the grandchildren of Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaya.
Maria Nikolaevna was a beloved daughter in the family of the famous general Raevsky. She was very talented: she sang, danced, knew several languages. At the balls, Maria conquered everyone with her beauty. Father finds her groom, Sergei Volkonsky, believing that she will be happy with him. The princess knew little of his fiance and husband, since he was often on the road. One night, Volkonsky, in a hurry, takes the pregnant Maria to his parent's house and leaves. The birth is difficult, Volkonskaya was recovering for two months. For a long time they hid from her where her husband was, and when everything was open, she met him in prison. Sergey is taken to Siberia. The family is trying to persuade Maria not to go after him. For the first time, she makes an independent decision and, leaving her son native, having received a threat from her father (which will come back in a year), leaves. In Moscow, she stops with her sister Zinaida. A ball is arranged where everyone admires Volkonskaya, she is the "heroine of the day." There she meets her friend of youth, Pushkin. Volkonskaya goes further, her road is difficult. In Nerchinsk, she catches up with Princess Trubetskoy, who says that their husbands are in Blagodatsk. Having reached the goal, Volkonskaya finds a mine where the exiles work. After the tearful prayer of the princess, the sentry misses her. In the mine, she meets Trubetskoy and other Decembrists in shackles, and then Sergey. The happy meeting was not long. Before her departure, her husband says "See you, Masha, in prison" in French.
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