In all his works, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov addresses the people. And the poem «Who Lives Well in Russia» is no exception. Nekrasov brought poetry closer to the people, he wrote about the people and for the people. The only judge for the poet is the people. He both glorifies and condemns him for being downtrodden, unenlightened, for allowing himself to be treated as a thing. Nekrasov wants the people to raise their heads, straighten their backs and live for themselves, so that no one can offend, reproach a simple peasant.
The hero of his poem Nekrasov chose not an individual person, but the whole people, the entire «peasant kingdom.» “Who Lives Well in Russia” is a folk poem that has never been in Russia. Nekrasov talks about the thousands of years of suffering of the people, but at the same time we see how much spiritual beauty and greatness there is in his heroes, ordinary peasants.
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