Shvabrin Alexey Ivanovich

Officer Shvabrin had previously killed a man in a duel, for which he was exiled to serve in the Belogorsk fortress. He is described as a man with a "swarthy and extremely unattractive face, but extremely lively, with jet-black hair." Shvabrin does not believe in God, he is quite confrontational, which is why he challenges his fellow soldier Pyotr Grinev to a duel and wounds him. He was in love with Masha Mironova (the title character of the story), but she preferred Grinev to him. After the fall of the Belogorsk fortress, Shvabrin goes over to Pugachev's side, keeps Masha locked up, forcing her to marry him. When the uprising is suppressed, he ends up in the hands of the authorities, slandering his lucky rival. However, Masha begs forgiveness for Grinev from the empress, and Shvabrin is sent into exile. Full name - Shvabrin Alexey Ivanovich. Age - young man, no older than 30 years old. Occupation: combat officer. Family - not married. Social status: nobleman. Origin: comes from a noble family. Education is typical for noble families. Education is typical for noble families. Appearance: a short young man, dark-skinned, with an unattractive but expressive face. Character: smart, cunning, mean, vindictive, selfish, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, cowardly. Positive traits: intelligent, well educated. Negative traits: mean, calculating, vengeful, capable of betrayal.

Mr. Shvabrin is a young officer, a colleague of the novel's protagonist Pyotr Grinev. Shvabrin and Grinev serve together in the Belogorsk fortress. The hero's full name is Aleksey Ivanovich Shvabrin: "Shvabrin Aleksey Ivanovich has been transferred to us for five years now..." (Chapter III) He is a nobleman from a good, wealthy family: "... Aleksey Ivanovich, of course, is an intelligent man, and of a good family name, and has a fortune..." (Chapter IV) Previously, Mr. Shvabrin served in the guard, an elite unit of the army. Several years ago, he killed an acquaintance during a duel with swords. For this, he was demoted and sent to serve in the Belogorsk fortress as punishment. He has been serving here for five years already: “I guessed that this was an officer discharged from the guards for a duel...” (Grinev about Shvabrin, Chapter III) “Good, Alexei Ivanovich: he was discharged from the guards for murder, and he doesn’t even believe in the Lord God; and what about you? Are you getting into the same thing?” (Ivan Ignatyevich about Shvabrin, Chapter IV) "...he was transferred to us for murder for five years now. God knows what sin beguiled him; you see, he went out of town with one lieutenant, and they took swords with them, and started stabbing each other; and Alexei Ivanovich stabbed the lieutenant, and in front of two witnesses, too!.." (Vasilisa Yegorovna about Shvabrin, Chapter III) The following is known about Shvabrin's appearance: "...a young officer of short stature, with a swarthy and extremely unattractive face, but extremely lively..." (Chapter III) "He was dressed as a Cossack and had grown a beard..." (Shvabrin's appearance when he becomes a supporter of the robber Pugachev, Chapter XII) "I was amazed at his change. He was terribly thin and pale. His hair, recently black as pitch, was completely turned grey; his long beard was disheveled..." (Shvabrin's appearance when he is arrested for serving Pugachev, Chapter XIV)

Officer Shvabrin is an intelligent, witty man: "We immediately became acquainted. Shvabrin was not at all stupid. His conversation was witty and entertaining. He described to me with great cheerfulness the commandant's family, his society and the region where fate had brought me..." (Grinev's opinion, chapter III) "...Alexei Ivanovich, of course, is an intelligent man..." (Masha Mironova's opinion, chapter IV) Alexei Ivanovich Shvabrin is a quick-witted, resourceful man, according to Grinev: "With his usual resourcefulness, he, of course, guessed that Pugachev was dissatisfied with him..." (chapter XII) This hero knows French, like all educated noblemen. In his spare time, he apparently reads books in French: "Excuse me," he said to me in French... (Shvabrin speaks French, Chapter III) "Shvabrin had several French books..." (Chapter IV) According to Pyotr Grinev, Shvabrin is not as strong and courageous a man as he is, but at the same time he fences (fights with swords) better than Grinev: "...Shvabrin was more skilled than me, but I am stronger and more courageous..." (Grinev about himself and Shvabrin, Chapter IV) Shvabrin does not believe in God, according to Vasilisa Yegorovna: "Good, Alexei Ivanovich: he was discharged from the guards for murder, he does not believe in the Lord God; and what about you? Are you getting into the same thing?" (Vasilisa Yegorovna about Shvabrin, Chapter IV) He is a lying scoundrel, a "rascal": "You are lying, scoundrel!" I cried out in rage, "you are lying in the most shameless way..." (Grinev about him, Chapter IV) "Oh, this Shvabrin is a great Schelm*..." (the general about Shvabrin, Chapter X) (*rascal – rogue, sly person) "Shvabrin's shamelessness almost enraged me..." (Grinev about Shvabrin, Chapter IV) Shvabrin is a vile villain, according to Pyotr Grinev: "...all the trials to which the vile Shvabrin subjected her..." (Chapter XII)

Shvabrin is a vile villain, according to Pyotr Grinev: "...all the trials that vile Shvabrin subjected her to..." (Chapter XII) "...from the hands of vile Shvabrin..." (Chapter XIII) "...the name of Marya Ivanovna was not uttered by the vile villain..." (Chapter XIV) Alexey Shvabrin is a slanderer, a vindictive and vile person. Some time ago, he proposed to the captain's daughter Masha Mironova, but was rejected. This offended his pride. Since then, he has been speaking ugly about Masha, slandering, making evil jokes and singing indecent songs about her. This really displeases Pyotr Grinev, who is also in love with Masha. As a result, the young people sort things out in a duel: "... Shvabrin described Masha, the captain's daughter, to me as a complete fool..." (Shvabrin lies about the clever Masha Mironova, Chapter III) "I really didn't like his constant jokes about the commandant's family, especially his barbed remarks about Marya Ivanovna." (Grinev about Shvabrin, Chapter IV) "In his slander, I saw the annoyance of offended pride..." (Grinev about the reasons for Shvabrin's slander, Chapter V) "The words that gave rise to our quarrel seemed even more vile to me when, instead of rude and indecent mockery, I saw in them deliberate slander. The desire to punish the impudent slanderer became even stronger in me, and I began to impatiently await a convenient opportunity." (Grinev about Shvabrin, Chapter IV) When the Pugachev rebellion occurs and Pugachev's gang seizes the Belogorsk fortress, Shvabrin immediately forgets about the honor of an officer and joins the bandits in order to save his life. In other words, Shvabrin acts as a traitor and a betrayer:

Then, to my indescribable amazement, I saw among the rebellious elders Shvabrin, with his hair cut short and in a Cossack caftan. He approached Pugachev and said a few words in his ear..." (Chapter VII) In order to fit into the "new collective" (a gang of robbers), Shvabrin even cuts his hair into a circle and wears a Cossack caftan, like a real Cossack: "And what is Shvabrin like, Aleksey Ivanovich? After all, he cut his hair into a circle and now he's feasting with them right here! He's nimble, nothing to say!" (priest's wife, VIII) "Shvabrin met the impostor on the porch. He was dressed as a Cossack and had grown a beard." (Chapter XII) *1"I heard these words with horror: Shvabrin was becoming the commander of the fortress; Marya Ivanovna remained in his power! God, what will happen to her!" (Grinev on Shvabrin's appointment, Chapter IX) "...Alexei Ivanovich, who commands us in place of our late father..." (\Masha on Shvabrin, Chapter X) The protagonist's father, Andrei Petrovich Grinev, retired as a premier major, began to live in his Simbirsk village, and married the daughter of a local nobleman. At the age of five, Petrusha was given to the groom Savelich to be raised. When the protagonist turned 16, his father, instead of sending him to St. Petersburg to the Semenovsky Regiment (as had been previously planned), assigned him to serve in Orenburg. Savelich was sent along with the young man. On the way to Orenburg, in a tavern in Simbirsk, Grinev met the captain of the hussar regiment, Zurin. He taught the young man to play billiards and offered to play for money. After drinking punch, Grinev got excited and lost a hundred rubles. The upset Savelich had to pay off the debt. They went on. The weather turned bad, a severe snowstorm began, the road was covered with snow. However, the man they met agreed to take them to the nearest dwelling. On the way, Grinev dozed off and had a dream in which he saw something prophetic. Petrusha dreamed that he came to say goodbye to his dying father, but in his bed he saw a "peasant with a black beard." His mother called the peasant Grinev's "planted father," and told him to kiss his hand so that he would bless him.

Peter refused. Then the man jumped up, grabbed an axe and started killing everyone. The scary man called out affectionately: "Don't be afraid, come under my blessing." At that moment, Grinev woke up: they had arrived at the inn. In gratitude for his help, Grinev gave the leader his hare fur coat. In Orenburg, Grinev was immediately sent to the Belogorsk fortress, to the team of Captain Mironov. Chapter 3. Fortress "The Belogorsk fortress was forty miles from Orenburg." On the very first day, Grinev met the commandant and his wife. The next day, Pyotr Andreevich met officer Alexei Ivanovich Shvabrin. He was sent here "for murder" - "he stabbed a lieutenant" during duel. Shvabrin constantly made fun of the commandant's family. Shvabrin described Mironov's daughter Marya Ivanovna as "a complete fool", so at first Petrusha treated her with prejudice. However, after some time Pyotr Andreevich really liked her. Chapter 4. Duel Over time, Grinev found Marya Ivanovna to be a "reasonable and sensitive girl." Pyotr Andreevich began writing poetry and once read one of his works dedicated to Masha to Shvabrin. He criticized the poems and said that the girl would have preferred "a pair of earrings" instead of "tender verses." Grinev called Shvabrin a scoundrel, and he challenged Pyotr Andreevich to a duel. The first time they failed to meet - they were noticed and taken to the commandant. In the evening, Grinev learned that Shvabrin had proposed to Masha the previous year and had been rejected. The next day, Grinev and Shvabrin met in a duel again. During the duel, Pyotr Andreevich was called out by Savelich, who had run up. Grinev looked back, and his opponent struck him "in the chest below the right shoulder." Chapter 5. Love All the time while Grinev was recovering, Masha looked after him. Pyotr Andreevich proposed to the girl to become his wife, she agreed. Grinev wrote to his father that he was going to get married. However, Andrei Petrovich replied that he would not give his consent to the marriage and would even try to get his son transferred “somewhere far away.” Upon learning of the answer,

Grinev's parents, Marya Ivanovna was very upset, but did not want to marry without their consent (in particular because the girl was dowryless). From then on, she began to avoid Pyotr Andreevich. Chapter 6. Pugachevshchina News arrived that the "Don Cossack and schismatic Yemelyan Pugachev" had escaped from guard, gathered a "villainous gang" and "caused a disturbance in the Yaik villages." It soon became known that the rebels were planning to march on the Belogorsk fortress. Preparations began. Grinev did not sleep all night. A multitude of armed men came to the fortress. Pugachev himself rode among them on a white horse. The rebels broke into the fortress, wounded the commandant in the head, and captured Grinev. The crowd began to shout "that the Tsar was waiting for the prisoners on the square and was taking the oath." Mironov and Lieutenant Ivan Ignatyevich refused to take the oath and were hanged. The same fate awaited Grinev, but Savelich threw himself at Pugachev's feet at the last moment and asked him to release Pyotr Andreyevich. Pugachev recognized Savelich, remembered the hare fur coat that Grinev had given him, and pardoned Grinev. Shvabrin joined the rebels. Masha's mother was killed. The priest's wife hid Masha, calling her her niece. Savelich told Grinev that Pugachev was the same man to whom Pyotr Andreich gave the sheepskin coat. Pugachev summoned Grinev. Pyotr Andreyevich admitted that he would not be able to serve him, since he was a “natural nobleman” and “swore allegiance to the empress”: “My head is in your power: if you let me go, thank you; if you execute me, God will be your judge; and I told you the truth.” Pyotr Andreyevich’s sincerity amazed Pugachev, and he let him go “to the four winds.” In the morning, Pugachev told Grinev to go to Orenburg and tell the governor and all the generals to expect him in a week. The leader of the uprising appointed Shvabrin as the new commander in the fortress. A few days later, news arrived that Pugachev was moving towards Orenburg. Grinev was given a letter from Marya Ivanovna. The girl wrote that Shvabrin was forcing her to marry him and was treating her very cruelly, so she asked Grinev for help.

Having received no support from the general, Grinev went to the Belogorsk fortress. On the way, he and Savelich were captured by Pugachev's men. Grinev told the leader of the rebels that he was going to the Belogorsk fortress because Shvabrin was abusing an orphan girl there - Grinev's fiancée. In the morning, Pugachev, Grinev and his men went to the fortress. Shvabrin said that Marya Ivanovna was his wife. But when they entered the girl's room, Grinev and Pugachev saw that she was pale, thin, and the only food in front of her was "a jug of water covered with a slice of bread." Shvabrin reported that the girl was Mironov's daughter, but Pugachev still let Grinev go with his beloved. Approaching the town, Grinev and Marya were stopped by guards. Pyotr Andreich went to the major and recognized him as Zurin. Grinev, having talked with Zurin, decided to send Masha to her parents in the village, and he himself remained to serve in the detachment. At the end of February, Zurin's detachment set out on a campaign. After Pugachev was defeated, he gathered his gang again and went to Moscow, causing unrest. "Gangs of robbers committed villainy everywhere." "God forbid we see a Russian rebellion, senseless and merciless!" Finally, Pugachev was caught. Grinev was going to his parents, but a paper arrived about his arrest in the Pugachev case. Grinev arrived in Kazan on orders, he was put in prison. During the interrogation, Pyotr Andreevich, not wanting to involve Marya, kept silent about why he left Orenburg. Grinev's accuser, Shvabrin, claimed that Pyotr Andreevich was Pugachev's spy. Marya Ivanovna was received by Grinev's parents "with sincere cordiality." The news of Pyotr Andreevich's arrest shocked everyone: he was threatened with lifelong exile to Siberia. In order to save her beloved, Marya Ivanovna went to St. Petersburg and stayed in Tsarskoe Selo. During a morning walk, she got into a conversation with an unknown lady, told her her story and that she had come to ask the empress for pardon for Grinev.

That same day, the Empress's carriage was sent for Marya. The Empress turned out to be the same lady with whom the girl had spoken in the morning. The Empress pardoned Grinev and promised to help her with her dowry. According to the author, not Grinev, Pyotr Andreevich was released at the end of 1774. "He was present at the execution of Pugachev, who recognized him in the crowd and nodded to him." Soon Grinev married Marya Ivanovna. "The manuscript of Pyotr Andreevich Grinev was delivered to us by one of his grandsons."