In Goncharov, Stolz is fraught with a certain mystery. Our perception is apparently hampered by the fact that Oblomov and Stolz are not equivalent, so to speak, from the point of view of artistic fullness and persuasiveness. As soon as the novel starts talking about Stolz, a tongue twister appears. In a number of cases, Goncharov does not show Stolz, but talks about him. The image of Oblomov is given in self-development, and Stolz was completely in the power of the author. By the way, Goncharov himself later admitted that Stolz was “weak, pale - the idea is too bare of an idea.”

This is largely explained by the peculiarities of the writer’s talent. Goncharov argued that literature is called upon to depict, first of all, what has already been established, established, and clearly identified in life. But Stolz and others like him were just appearing in Russian reality; their life positions, their role in the development of Russian society were not yet clear. Hence, there is some uncertainty about the image of Stolz in the novel.

Stolz's aesthetic inferiority can lead to rejection of this hero or to a distorted perception of him. Meanwhile, it would be nice to show objectivity and take a closer look at it. We must not forget that the narration in the novel is to some extent conducted on behalf of Stolz. “Write it down: maybe it will be useful to someone,” Stolz says to the author at the end of the novel. “And he told him what was written here.”

It is Stolz who delivers a speech of praise to Oblomov, so enthusiastic that it is not even clear which Oblomov the novel was written about? “This is a crystal, transparent soul; there are few such people; they are rare; these are pearls in the crowd!.. I knew many people from high qualities, but I have never met a heart purer, brighter and simpler...” - etc. Stolz alone understands what Oblomov is, is able to protect and appreciate him. “Reach out your hand to the man,” and that’s what he does. This is his purpose in the novel. To him, Stolz, the author entrusts some of his thoughts about Oblomov, ideas, views. For example: “It started with the inability to put on stockings, and ended with the inability to live.”

Who is Andrei Stolts? Businessman, pragmatist, rationalist. He destroys the old Oblomovka and actively creates his own, new one. When telling the story of Stolz, the author never strays into irony. But doesn’t Stolz’s “positivity” arouse some kind of suspicion in you? Stolz succeeds in everything! In Russia! In the pre-reform 50s! Is this possible? And in this regard, we will make a small digression.

Russian writers were not successful in portraying capitalists! So Goncharov wanted to create a positive Stolz - and it didn’t work out! And others did not even think of seeing some kind of creative principle in the representatives of the bourgeoisie. The destructive was seen, but the creative was not. Meanwhile, Russia became at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. one of the industrialized countries in the world. Who did this? In any case, not the Oblomovs.

In the western literary tradition we see something completely different. Balzac, partly Dickens, in the 20th century. Dreiser, without any disgust, described the joy and pleasure of getting rich, even a certain poetry of the stock exchange game... There was nothing like this in Russian literature.

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Having learned sad story about the life of Ilya Ilyich, don’t you want to exclaim: Oblomov, become Stolz! Or in other words: if only we could add Stoltz’s practical rationalism to Oblomov’s sincerity and Stoltsev’s efficiency, to Oblomov’s sincerity and naivety... But nothing will come of it! Oblomov will not become Stolz, and not only because of his deep aversion to any action. Firstly, Oblomov considers his lifestyle completely normal. And secondly, isn’t all of Stolz’s activity also a “product of peace,” also a desire for the “lost paradise”?

Take a closer look at how persistently the writer notes in Stolz the so-called “natural” desire to live through the four seasons during his life, how Stolz himself builds a modernized Oblomovka together with Olga! This is what is written in the novel: “They got up, although not at dawn, but early; they loved to sit for a long time over tea, sometimes they even seemed to be lazily silent, then they went to their own corners or worked together, had lunch, went to the fields, played music...” Like everyone else, as Oblomov dreamed... Isn’t it revealed some identity of the essential content of Oblomov and Stolz?

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The image of Stolz was conceived by Goncharov as an antipode to the image of Oblomov. In the image of this hero, the writer wanted to present an integral, active, active person, embody the new Russian type. However, Goncharov’s plan was not entirely successful, primarily because this type was not represented in Russian life itself.

“The Stolts, people with an integral, active character, in which every thought immediately becomes an aspiration and turns into action, are not yet in the life of our society... That is why from Goncharov’s novel we only see that Stolts is an active person, everything he worries about something, runs around, acquires things, says that to live means to work... But what he does, and how he manages to do something decent... - this remains a mystery to us,” writes N. Dobrolyubov .

The image of Stolz could have remained in the novel as a schematic, abstract symbol of active good, but the writer himself felt this inconsistency. Having designated positive traits hero at the beginning of the novel, Goncharov then creates a multifaceted, three-dimensional character, not ideal, not so consistent with the original plan, but complex, life-truthful, and realistic in its own way.

The novel presents Stolz's backstory. The writer talks in detail about his childhood, family, life in parental home. Andrei's father was German, from him his son inherited a love of order, pedantry and neatness, efficiency and diligence. A father who wants to see repetition in his son own destiny, gave him a “strict, practical upbringing” and an excellent education. But the tender love of a mother, a Russian noblewoman who dreams of seeing her son as a Russian master, Hertz’s variations, the proximity of Oblomovka, the prince’s castle - all this was intended to turn “the narrow German track into such a wide road that neither his grandfather, nor his father, nor himself had ever dreamed of.” "

However, Stolz’s “broad road” turns into his private family life. “And we don’t understand how Stolz could calm down in his activities from all the aspirations and needs that further overwhelmed Oblomov, how he could be satisfied with his position, calm down on his lonely, separate, exceptional happiness..,” writes Dobrolyubov. However, in the depiction of the hero’s character, Goncharov’s artistic flair, the flair of a realist artist who explored given character deep and full.

The first thing the writer notes in Stolz’s character is rationalism. “The dream, the enigmatic, the mysterious had no place in his soul. What was not subject to analysis of experience, practical truth, was in his eyes optical illusion... He did not have that amateurism that loves to search in the realm of the miraculous or quixotic in the field of guesses and discoveries a thousand years in advance. He stubbornly stopped at the threshold of the secret, not revealing either the faith of the child or the doubt of the veil, but waited for the appearance of the law, and with it the key to it,” writes Goncharov. Above all, Stolz valued persistence in achieving goals in people; he was afraid of imagination, dreams, violent impulses, and passions and tried to avoid them in life.

Goncharov emphasizes the “non-Russian” but “European” features in the hero. This is rationality, restraint, moderation in everything. Stolz “was unable to arm himself with that courage that, closing his eyes, would jump across an abyss or throw himself at a wall at random. He will measure an abyss or a wall, and if there is no sure way to overcome, he will move away, no matter what they say about him.” “Common sense of mediocrity” - with these words Tolstoy described one of his heroes, Nikolai Rostov, in the novel “War and Peace”. These words reveal the character of Goncharov’s hero in the best possible way.

Stolz is a strong, strong-willed person who controls not only all his actions, but also his feelings. He never completely surrendered to his feelings; “even in the midst of passion, he felt the ground under his feet.” He was not afraid of difficulties, he looked at life directly and simply. Pisarev notes that “Stolz is not one of those cold, phlegmatic people who subordinate their actions to calculation, because they have no vital warmth...”. However, the hero's sensitivity in this area is limited. Stolz is capable of love and friendship, but all these feelings are subordinated to his beliefs and certain formalities.

Limitations are also reflected in the hero’s “ideological quest.” All his “indefatigable activity” is “participation in some company that sends goods abroad.” While engaged in commerce, Stolz “made a house and money.” Olga's inquisitive, searching mind, her restless nature could not be satisfied with the quiet family idyll. When she tried to talk about it with her husband, the answer she received was advice to come to terms with life. “You and I are not Titans... we will not go, with the Manfreds and Fausts, into a daring struggle with rebellious issues, we will not accept their challenge, we will bow our heads and humbly survive Hard time...,” says Stolz to Olga.

Stolz's limitations also affect his relationship with Oblomov. So, Stolz is constantly trying to “reshape” his friend’s character in his own image, to involve him in the circle of life, to keep him busy with work. However, the basis of these motives is simply a thirst for activity. “Olga, Stolz and Raisky are nothing more than samogud harps. They wake up Oblomov and Sofya Nikolaevna not out of love, not out of friendship, not out of wishing them well, but simply out of a feverish thirst for activity...” notes N.K. Mikhailovsky.

What is Stolz’s true attitude towards Oblomov? Andrei Ivanovich considers himself his friend, seems to love him, meanwhile he not only does not understand Oblomov, but also does not take him seriously, deep down considering him an empty and insignificant person. Having met Olga in Paris and noting how internally “this girl has developed,” he is at a loss: “Who was her teacher? Where did she take her life lessons? The Baron? It’s smooth there, you won’t get anything from his smart phrases! Not Ilya’s!..”

When Olga Ilyinskaya tells Stolz about her love for Ilya, Andrei cannot believe her. Conscious of his own superiority, he considers this relationship a mistake, a misunderstanding, a delusion, a deception - anything but love. “But for love you need something, sometimes trifles, which cannot be defined or named and which is not in my incomparable, but clumsy Ilya... Oh, if only it were true! - he added with animation. - If only Oblomov, and not another! Oblomov! After all, this means that you do not belong to the past, not to love, that you are free...” Stolz denies Oblomov the ability to love, denies him the right to be loved.

At the same time, everything is revealed in these words. Stolz’s uncertainty, his fear of competition with Olga’s “former admirer”. Andrei Ivanovich lacks the spiritual breadth characteristic of a Russian person; it is unknown whether he would have decided to propose to Olga if someone else had been her admirer.

Significant for Stolz public opinion, class prejudices. He obeys the established order in life in everything, and any violation of the “rules” is unacceptable to him. Rules and laws are the main thing life value in Stolz's mind. For him, it is not people and their feelings that are significant, but only formal compliance with the accepted order in society. He views Oblomov’s marriage to Agafya Matveevna as Ilya’s moral decline, as his death and, in fact, terminates all relations with him. “What was the meaning of this hopeless, desperate sentence? Ilya Ilyich married Pshenitsyna and had a child with this uneducated woman. And this is the reason why the blood connection was broken, Oblomovism was recognized as having crossed all limits!” - notes A.V. Druzhinin.

After Oblomov’s death, his son Andryusha was adopted into the Stolz family, but Oblomov’s servant Zakhar “was accidentally found among the beggars,” and “Ilya Ilyich’s widow was not close to her husband’s friends.” If Oblomov had been in Stolz’s place, everything would have been different. As A.V. Druzhinin notes, Ilya Ilyich would not break off friendship because of a misalliance made by a friend, he would take Zakhar to him, would help Stolz’s widow - “he would share his last piece of bread with them and, metaphorically speaking, would accept all of them exactly under the canopy of your warm robe.”

Stolz is inconsistent in his good impulses. So, in the novel he helps Oblomov twice, arranging his friend’s affairs with the estate, exposing Tarantiev’s financial frauds. But in general, Oblomov’s fate does not bother him.

Thus, the image of Stolz in the novel not only clarifies the image of Oblomov, but is also interesting to readers as such. This is a rather complex, realistic image, explored by the writer deeply and comprehensively.

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Goncharov's novel Oblomov is primarily remembered for its hero Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, who leads an apathetic, inactive way of life. In contrast to the lazy Oblomov, his friend is depicted - Andrei Ivanovich Stolts - a man of humble origin, who, thanks to his hard work, is awarded personal title of nobility.

Family and origin of Andrei Stolts

Unlike most of the main characters of the novel, Andrei Ivanovich Stolts was not a hereditary nobleman, like his father, Ivan Bogdanovich Stolts. Andrei Ivanovich received the title of nobleman much later, thanks to his hard work and diligence in the service, rising to the position of court councilor.

Andrei Ivanovich’s father had German roots; about twenty years ago he left his homeland and went in search of a better destiny, which took him from his native Saxony to the village of Verkhlevo. Here, not far from Oblomovka, Stolz was a manager and was also involved in teaching. Thanks to his hard work, he managed to significantly accumulate capital and get married successfully. His wife was a young girl from an impoverished noble family. Ivan Bogdanovich was pleased happy man V family life.

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Soon they had a son, who was named Andrei. The boy turned out to be capable of science, he easily mastered basic knowledge and actively took part in work at the factory and in the field, where he actively adopted his father’s knowledge in the field of agronomy.

The Stolts always lived modestly - the father saved money for his son and did not spend it on unnecessary things. According to the Oblomovites, the Stoltsy lived extremely poorly - their food was not high in fat, their diet included simple dishes.

Soon, Andrei’s father sent him to study at the university; his mother was very upset about the separation from her son. She was unable to meet him after graduating from university - the woman died. According to tradition, the father sends his son on a free voyage. For him, as a German, this was an everyday thing, which cannot be said about the local population, but since his mother was no longer alive at that time, there was no one to contradict Ivan Bogdanovich.

Education and upbringing of Andrei Stolts

From the first days, the upbringing of Andrei Ivanovich Stolts differed from the educational system traditionally accepted in society. Among the nobles, it was customary to pamper their children and take care of them in every possible way, but the father’s German roots do not give him the right to adhere to such a model of upbringing. From childhood, Ivan Bogdanovich tried to raise his son in such a way as to make it easier for him later life. He often went with his father to the factory and to the arable land, took an active part in all preparatory work, which greatly upset his mother, who wanted to raise him in the classical traditions of the nobles.

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The father "accepted" his little son to work as a craftsman and paid him 10 rubles a month for his work. This was not a formality - Andrei Ivanovich really worked off this money and even signed in a special book about its receipt, like all Stolz’s employees.

Such labor education soon brought its own positive results- at the age of 14, Andrei Stolts was an absolutely independent boy and could travel to the city alone on behalf of his father. Andrei Ivanovich always carried out his father’s instructions exactly and never forgot anything.

Like all children, Andrei Stolts was an active and inquisitive child, he constantly took part in various pranks. However, such restlessness did not prevent Stolz from getting a good education. He learned the basics at home, and then studied at a boarding school organized by his father for local children. After graduating from the boarding school, Stolz continues his studies at the university.

Andrei Ivanovich, like the nobles, knew French and was trained musical literacy, after which he actively played the piano four hands with his mother. In addition, Andrei Ivanovich knew German.

Appearance of Andrey Stolts

Goncharov does not provide readers with a description of Andrei Ivanovich’s appearance during his childhood and youth. We meet Stolz during his maturity. Andrei Ivanovich is the same age as Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, but outwardly Stolz looks much younger than his age. The reason for this was his active way of life. At thirty years old, Andrei Ivanovich was a well-built man with an athletic build. There was nothing superfluous in his physique; in his build he resembled an English horse, since he was similar in muscles and bones.

His eyes were green, there was something childish in them, they were expressive.

His skin was dark. This is where the meager description of Andrei Ivanovich Stolts ends.

Personality characteristics

What is most striking about Stolz is his hard work and passion for learning. While still a child, he actively explores the world and tries to adopt all his father’s knowledge.

Andrei Ivanovich spends a lot of time traveling - in this way he not only has fun and relaxes, Stolz sees in his trips an opportunity to exchange knowledge and learn business experience from foreign acquaintances. Stolz is constantly studying something, reading various books.

Andrei Ivanovich does not neglect secular society, he can often be seen in the light.

Andrei Ivanovich is an honest and sincere person, but he is completely devoid of romanticism. Stolz doesn’t even know how to dream; he is a down-to-earth, practical person. He retained his childlike vivacity and activity -

Andrey Ivanovich is constantly busy with something. Stolz knows how to value his time and spend it usefully. Andrei Ivanovich knows how to rationally distribute his time, thanks to this he manages to do a lot of things and be on time everywhere. Despite such external rigidity and pragmatism, Andrei Ivanovich is not devoid of the ability to empathize and compassion, but he is not used to demonstrating his feelings in front of people. Andrei Ivanovich is a very restrained person, he knows how to manage his feelings and is never a hostage to them.

Stolz's life is not as carefree as it might seem at first glance, but he is not used to complaining to anyone or blaming anyone else for his failures - he associates all failures primarily with personal shortcomings. Andrey Ivanovich - strong personality, he is not used to retreating from difficulties and makes every effort to overcome them.

He never got lost in difficult situations– Stolz is guided by common sense in life – it is difficult to unsettle him.

Stolz loves order in everything - he has his own place for all his writing instruments, papers and books. Andrei Ivanovich always puts his things “in their place” and nothing else.

Andrei Ivanovich undoubtedly has determination and perseverance, he is able to work hard to achieve his goal.

Stolz knows how to evaluate his merits. He doesn't care much about what people say about him. Andrey Ivanovich is an open person. He willingly meets new people and is ready to support with his acquaintances friendly relations.

Ilya Oblomov and Andrey Stolts

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Andrei Stolts have been friends since childhood. They grew up in neighboring villages, so they knew each other since childhood. After Andrei Ivanovich’s father opened a boarding house, communication between Andrei Ivanovich and Ilya Ilyich switched to new level- During their studies together, they became strong friends, despite the difference in character and origin. Andrei Ivanovich often carried out Oblomov’s tasks out of pity for his friend - the lazy Ilya often neglected to complete tasks, could not force himself to learn anything - most of the tasks were carried out by Stolz. He did this not for selfish purposes - he was guided solely by friendly feelings and the desire to help his comrade.

From time to time Andrei Ivanovich comes to his friend on rented apartment and tries to stir him up. On one of these visits, Stolz decides to radically change the life of his friend - he forcibly draws him into the cycle of social life. Complaints about Oblomov’s fatigue touch Stolz, but he still purposefully goes towards his goal. Andrei Ivanovich does the unthinkable - he successfully agitates Oblomov to go abroad with him and even helps him organize training camps, but the planned trip does not take place - Oblomov, in love, decides to stay with the object of his adoration, and not join his friend. Offended by Oblomov’s apathy, Stolz does not communicate with him for some time, but minds his own business. At the next meeting, Stolz, without a shadow of resentment, comes to visit his friend and discovers that he was again covered by a wave of Oblomovism, but, this time, he is no longer so actively trying to pull Oblomov out of his swamp of laziness.

Despite such significant differences in character, temperament and way of life, Stolz and Oblomov maintain their friendship. There are two explanations for this paradox. The first is that their friendship began in their childhood, and the second is that they both primarily see positive character traits in a person. Based on this, Stolz notices not Oblomov’s laziness and apathy, but Ilya Ilyich’s good disposition.

From time to time, Andrei Ivanovich takes care of his friend’s affairs - since he cannot overcome his laziness and organize affairs on his estate on his own, but only hires people to act as managers who do not neglect to take advantage of Oblomov’s gullibility and lack of education in matters of housekeeping in their favor.

Despite all the efforts of Stolz, he never managed to pull his friend out of the swamp of Oblomovism. Ilya Ilyich began cohabiting with the owner of the rented home and soon they had a son, who was named after Stoltz - Andrey. After the death of Ilya Ilyich, Stolz takes his son into custody and takes care of Oblomovka’s affairs until he comes of age. little Andrey.

Andrey Stolts and Olga Ilyinskaya

Olga Ilyinskaya and Andrei Stolts were old acquaintances. The significant age difference did not initially allow them to build any relationship other than friendly ones. Andrei Ivanovich perceived Olga, despite the fact that the girl was 20 years old, as a child (at that time Stolz was 30). The girl herself has sympathy for Stolz, but does not dare to take the first step.

Andrei Ivanovich unintentionally becomes the cause of the great tragedy in the girl’s life - one evening he introduces Olga to his friend Ilya Oblomov. Stolz’s ignorance of Olga as a woman became the reason for the romance between Oblomov and Ilyinskaya. Despite the sincerity of the lovers’ feelings and the seriousness of their intentions, things did not go beyond a secret engagement - Oblomov and Ilyinskaya parted.

Olga Sergeevna goes abroad, where she meets Stolz, who is unaware of her unsuccessful romance. Andrei Ivanovich often visits the Ilyinskys - he brings Olga flowers and books, and then quickly leaves to work. Unbeknownst to himself, Stolz falls in love and for the first time in his life becomes a hostage to feelings. Stolz decides that his life will be unthinkable without this sweet girl and proposes to Olga. Ilyinskaya finds herself in a difficult situation - her relationship with Oblomov has completely discouraged her from tying the knot with anyone, the girl does not dare give any answer to Stolz and therefore decides to tell him everything about their relationship with Oblomov. After this conversation, a lot of things in Stolz’s mind fall into place, he now understands the reasons for Oblomov’s reluctance to go abroad, Andrei Ivanovich also clearly understands why the engagement of Ilyinskaya and Oblomov did not end with a wedding - lazy Oblomovism nevertheless finally dragged his friend into its swamp.

Despite Olga’s pessimism, Andrei Ivanovich does not give up his intention and soon he becomes Olga Ilyinskaya’s husband. It is not known how their wedding took place, but it is known for sure that in marriage both Olga and Andrey were able to realize themselves and achieve harmony. It cannot be said that marriage with Stolz erased unpleasant memories about her relationship with Oblomov, but over time Olga became much calmer about this period in her life.

Olga turned out to be a good mother - they have children in their marriage. Harmony in the relationship between Olga and Andrey was achieved primarily by the similarity of their character and attitude to life - both Olga and Andrey are used to being active figures, they are ready for changes and overcoming life’s difficulties, so such a marriage does not burden them. Olga becomes a mother not only to her children, but also to the son of Ilya Oblomov - her selflessness and her husband, friendly attitude And positive attitude allowed them to create not only a harmonious platform for the development of their own children, but also for little Andryusha, whom they treated as their own child.

Thus, Andrei Ivanovich Stolts managed not to succumb to the characteristic laziness of most nobles and achieve significant results in several types of activities - he established himself as a good owner of his estates, and as a good friend, and as a wonderful husband and father. Its active life position let him become harmonious personality and bring happiness into other people's lives.

Characteristics of Andrei Stolts in the novel “Oblomov”: description of appearance, character, origin in quotes

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Stolts Andrei Ivanovich is one of the main characters, a friend of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, the son of Ivan Bogdanovich Stolts, a Russified German who manages an estate in the village of Verkhlev, which is five miles from Oblomovka. “Stolz was only half German, but to his father: his mother was Russian; he professed the Orthodox faith; his natural speech was Russian: he learned it from his mother and from books, in the university classroom and in games with village boys, in discussions with their fathers and in the Moscow bazaars he inherited the German language from his father and from books.”

Stolz received a specific education: “From the age of eight he sat with his father for geographical map, sorted through the warehouses of Herder, Wieland, biblical verses and summed up the illiterate accounts of the peasants, townspeople and factory workers, and with his mother he read sacred history, learned the fables of Krylov, sorted through the warehouses of Telemachus. "Upbringing, like education, was dual: dreaming of so that the son grows up to be “kind”! bursh", the father in every possible way encouraged boyish fights, without which the son could not do a day, the disappearance of the child for half a day or more for unknown purposes in unknown places. If Andrei appeared without a lesson prepared “by heart”, Ivan Bogdanovich sent his son back to where he came from , - and every time young Stolz returned with the lessons learned. Stolz’s mother, on the contrary, tried to educate. a true gentleman, a decent, clean boy with curled curls - “in her son she saw the ideal of a gentleman, although an upstart, from a black body, from a burgher’s father, but still the son of a Russian noblewoman.” From this bizarre combination, the character of Andrei was formed, about whom not only the characters in the novel speak a lot and in different ways - a book has been written about him whole literature. Goncharov himself wrote in the article “Better late than never”: “...I silently listened to the reproaches then, completely agreeing that the image was pale, not real, not alive, but just an idea.” N.A. Dobrolyubov saw in the image of Stolz a type of bourgeois businessman-entrepreneur, focused only on the organization of personal happiness and well-being: “... how could Stolz in his activities calm down from all the aspirations and needs that overwhelmed even Oblomov, how could he be satisfied your position, to calm down in your lonely, separate, exceptional happiness..." ("What is Oblomovism?")

There was a lot of controversy about Stolz: soon after the release of the novel, he was assessed by critics and Goncharov’s contemporaries as an almost certainly positive figure, designed to awaken the sleepy kingdom of the Oblomovs and call on its inhabitants to useful activities. What was confusing was that it was not a Russian, but a German who was chosen as the hero. Stolz's "foreignness" causes rejection of his personality by some characters in the novel, in particular Tarantiev, who speaks of him with open hostility not only because Stolz debunks his machinations. “Good boy! Suddenly, out of his father’s forty thousand, he made three hundred thousand in capital, and in the service he became a servant, and the scientist... now he’s still traveling! The arrow has ripened everywhere! Would a real good Russian person begin to do everything? A Russian person will choose one thing, and even then slowly, little by little, somehow, or else, damn it!
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Andrei Ivanovich Stolts is a friend of Oblomov, from the time when he studied at the boarding school in Verkhlev. Despite their friendship, Stolz’s life turned out completely differently than Oblomov’s life. Since childhood, Andrei Stolts knew how to set goals for himself, strive for them, and achieve what he wanted. His vision of life can be read in these lines: “Work is the image, content, element and purpose of life, according to at least mine."

Throughout the entire novel, Andrei Ivanovich tries to stir up Oblomov, to awaken in him a desire to act. But all his attempts ultimately turn out to be useless, and the life paths of two long-time friends diverge. While Oblomov vegetates on Vyborg side, in Pshenitsyna’s house, Stolz increases his activity, taking on new enterprises. Andrei Ivanovich Stolts, unlike Oblomov, walks life path like a winner. In the work, this is shown by the fact that everything that was ever dear to Oblomov sooner or later ends up with Stolz: he takes Olga, who was once Oblomov’s bride, as his wife; becomes the manager of the estate in Oblomovka and, to top it off, takes his son to raise.

Thus, the novel confirms the idea: a new social force is replacing the baseless dreamers, gradually displacing the nobility.

The bourgeois-capitalist class brought to life Various types energetic and enterprising people whose goal was personal enrichment. How then did it happen that the image of Stolz in Goncharov’s work came out more sketchy and less vivid than the image of Oblomov, although the latter spent almost all his time lying on the sofa, and Stolz was always moving, acting, striving? There is only one explanation here: the image of Andrei Stolz, which was interesting by design, in fact turned out to be aesthetically under-drawn in the work, and therefore difficult to understand. The author mainly does not so much show us Stolz in practice, but rather talks about him. From the text we gradually learn that Stolz, according to Tarantiev, “made three hundred thousand capital,” that he always easily deals with affairs, both his own and Oblomov’s. But we are not shown exactly how Stolz acts.

The people who replaced the baseless dreamers and quitters were needed by life itself and desired by society. But the image of Andrei Ivanovich is quite far from the ideal Russian public figure. Stolz himself tells Olga: “You and I are not titans... we will not go... to a daring fight against rebellious issues.” And therefore Dobrolyubov speaks of him: “He is not the person who will be able to tell us this almighty word “forward!” in a language understandable to the Russian soul. For Dobrolyubov, as for other revolutionary democrats, the ideal “man of action” manifested himself in serving the people and the revolutionary struggle. Stolz did not correspond to this ideal at all. And yet, against the background of Oblomovism, he looked like a progressive phenomenon.

Updated: 2015-04-17

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