My impressions on the novel I read today In the morning I read a novel called Poor Liza by Karamzin. It's a story about a fifteen-year-old peasant girl Liza who falls in love with a man from the upper class. Her innocence and beauty attracted the so called gentleman who was sick and tired of his routine pastime. Erast felt himself a better person around her. He was proud of their platonic relationships, yet he wanted to keep them a secret from Liza's mother. They spent late evenings and early mornings together walking in the countryside, enjoying the beauty of the nature and talking about their mutual love. One day Liza ran to him in tears. She got a proposal from a rich peasant and her mother wanted her to accept it. The girl passionately seeked consolation in the man's hug and she woke up his desire of physical love. From that moment every meeting was full of it but he was getting more and more distant from her, because there was no innocence left for him to be proud of and because there was nothing new in such relationships for him. Once he told her he was going to the war as that was his officer's duty. From that moment on she spent days waiting for him to come back alive. One day she went to the city to buy some medicine for her mother and she saw him. She was so happy but he told her they had to split up as he was going to marry. She slowly went away, miserable and frustrated, to the lake they used to have a magic time together. And she intentionally fell into water and got drowned. The plot is as old as the world, but I really felt pity for Liza and I hated Erast. She was so innocent and naive and she loved him from the bottom of her heart, so deeply as only few people can. He was disgusting as their love was just his whim, his attempt to try something unknown and it meant nothing for him.