Anniversary
release
1799-2019
Kuban
N 100-101
(2212-2213)
News
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2019
... Get together sometimes read my true scroll,
And, listening for a long time, say: this is it;
This is his speech. And I, forgetting the grave dream,
I will come up unseen and sit between you,
And I will hear myself ...
To say something new about Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is very difficult. Researchers of the life and work of the greatest Russian poet, literary critics, seem to have paid attention to more than one day of his life, having analyzed almost every line of his works. It seems that here he is a poet, a writer, a thinker, a philosopher, and just a man: a husband, a father, a man, finally, an amorous and beloved, someone nice, and someone hated, but extraordinary - in a word, Pushkin!
"SEEN I AM THE BANK
KUBAN ... "
Attempts to determine the route and timing of Pushkin’s journey to the Caucasus and the Black Sea region were made more than once by many writers, literary critics, and researchers of the poet’s life. The last historical literary years of V. B. Vinogradov known to us on this subject date back to 1999.
Black Sea indescribably struck the poet. Later he wrote to his brother Lev Sergeyevich: “I saw the banks of the Kuban and the guard villages — I admired our Cossacks. Forever on horseback; always ready to fight; in perpetual precaution! He rode in the type of hostile fields of free mountain peoples. 60 Cossacks rode around us, a loaded gun dragged behind us, with a lit fuse. Although the Circassians are now rather docile, but one cannot rely on them; in the hope of a big ransom - they are ready to attack the famous Russian general. And where the poor officer safely jumps on the slings, there the highly superior can easily fall for the lasso of some Chechen. You understand how this shadow of danger pleases the dreamy imagination. Someday I will read you my remarks on the Black Sea and Don Cossacks ... "
Proceeded through Prochnopok, then along the lines of the villages of the so-called Right flank of the Caucasian line through the Tsaritsyn Redoubt, the villages of Temizhbek and Kavkazskaya.
We will not talk about the contradictions in determining the timing of Pushkin’s visits to the Kuban or the Black Sea Territory, we will only say that, according to the researchers, there is no doubt: in August 1820, A.S. Pushkin and the family of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, N. N. Rayevsky, visited Kuban, its military city Yekaterinodar, following to Taman, from where they departed by sea to the Crimea.
Later, the hero of the novel "Eugene Onegin" will travel the same road, which Pushkin himself drove by in the hot August of 1820.
Sorry, snow mountains tops,
And you, Kuban plains;
He goes to the shores of others,
He arrived from Taman in the Crimea.
It is known that in May 1820 a young poet Alexander Pushkin, an official of the board of foreign affairs, ended up in Yekaterinoslav. In fact, it was a link. Alexander I, having become acquainted with the poems of the poet Liberty, The Village, Towards Chaadaev and several others, decided: “I must send Pushkin to Siberia.” And only the intercession of Karamzin saved the young poet: he was sent under the command of General I. N. Inzov, the governor of Bessarabia and the chief trustee of the colonists of the southern region.
The memory of Alexander Pushkin’s stay here is carefully preserved in the Kuban. In the year of the centenary of the birth of the great poet, the Pushkin city public library was opened in Ekaterinodar.
In 1999, on the 200th anniversary of Pushkin in Krasnodar, a monument was erected, and we immediately recognize the Poet and are proud: this is our Pushkin, a Kuban, a Cossack. As a young man, he is thin, full of charm with pictures of southern nature. New generations of admirers of Pushkin are coming to the monument - to gather good and wisdom, healing heat and spiritual strength.
On the very next day of his acquaintance, Inzov wrote to I.A. Kapodistri, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: "I did not have time to get acquainted with Pushkin, but I notice, however, that it is not the corruption of the heart, but because of his youth the unbridled morality of the mind, the cause of his errors; I will try to keep my advice not fruitless, and I will keep it more in front of my eyes. "
But soon because of the poet’s illness (Pushkin caught a cold after having bought himself in the Dnieper) Inzov let him go with the Raevsky family to the Caucasus. In early June, travelers arrived in Stavropol, and then to Goryachevodsk. The impressions received by A. S. Pushkin in the Caucasus and the Kuban left a deep imprint on the poet’s soul and found, one way or another, reflected in many of his works.
In the poem “Mstislav” he had planned, a significant place was given to the events that took place on the Kuban land. The poet mentions about the “Zakuban plains” in several of his poetic works: “I have seen the Asian limits of Asia ...”, “Do not sing, beauty, in front of me ...”, “Excerpts from Onegin's journey”.
Meetings with old-timers and vacationers, acquaintance with local legends, songs - all this was extremely worried about the poet and, remembered, was embodied in artistic images. Meeting in the mountains of the Caucasus with the old Cossack, who told his story, gave impetus to the writing of the poem "The Caucasian Captive".
Thus, the shores of the Kuban were remembered by the poet for a long time, and the impressions of this trip were scattered with the help of A. S. Pushkin.
