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1799-2019
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(2212-2213)
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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 ...
Pushkin remembered himself from 4 years. He repeatedly talked about how once, during a walk, he noticed that the earth was swaying and columns were shaking, and the last earthquake in Moscow was recorded just in 1803. And, at about the same time, there was the first meeting of Pushkin with the emperor - little Sasha almost fell under the hoof of Alexander II’s horse, who also went for a walk. Thank God, Alexander managed to hold his horse, the child was not injured, and the only one who was really intimidated was the nanny.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin took part in many duels. After an unusual joke on his friend, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, he summoned a friend to a duel under the influence of feelings. The event was held in accordance with all the rules and both participants were shot. Their pistols were loaded with cranberries, thanks to which the conflict ended safely. Inseparable friends were together again.
Pushkin often played cards and accumulated serious debts. However, this pushed him to work, and he used to write so much in one night that he quickly compensated for the required amounts. When the sums of debts exceeded his possibilities, Pushkin drew furious caricatures of the besieging creditors in his notebooks. A lot of poisonous epigrams went to those who demanded money from him.
Pushkin called Arina Rodionovna his mother, and, according to the close friend of Pushkin’s family Anna Kern, “he truly did not love anyone except his nanny”. Being a model of spiritual beauty, wisdom, it served as an excellent inspiration and source of the poet’s creative ideas. In recognition of the poet, Arina Rodionovna was the prototype of Tatyana's nanny from Eugene Onegin, Dubrovsky's nurse, Xenia's nurse in Boris Godunov, female images of the novel Arap Peter the Great.
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I remember a wonderful moment:
Before me was you
Like fleeting vision,
Like a genius of pure beauty.
In languid sad hopelessness
In the worries of noisy bustle,
I heard a long gentle voice
And dreamed cute features.
Years went by. Storm storm rebellious
Scattered former dreams,
And I forgot your voice is gentle,
Your heavenly features.
In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days were quiet
Without deity, without inspiration,
Without tears, without life, without love.
The soul is awakening:
And here you are again,
Like fleeting vision,
Like a genius of pure beauty.
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him resurrected again
And deity, and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
The lyceum sage was published in the Lyceum. Pushkin wrote poems there. Once he wrote: "Wilhelm, read your poems so that I may fall asleep soon." Offended Kuchelbecker ran to drown in the pond. He managed to save. Soon a caricature was drawn in the Lyceum's Sage: Kuchelbecker was heating up, and his long nose was sticking out of the pond.
It is very curious to read not even a list of his victories, but reviews of different people about him. His brother, for example, said that Pushkin was himself a fool, small in stature, but for some reason women liked him. This is confirmed by the enthusiastic letter of Vera Alexandrovna Nashchokina, which Pushkin was also in love with:
However, the same Pushkin brother admitted that when someone was interested in Pushkin, he became very tempting. On the other hand, when Pushkin was not interested, his conversation was sluggish, boring and simply unbearable.
Little Pushkin spent his childhood in Moscow. His first teachers were French tutors. And for the summer, he usually went to his grandmother, Maria Alekseevna, in the village of Zakharovo near Moscow. When he was 12 years old, Pushkin entered the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, a closed educational institution with 30 students. In the lyceum, Pushkin was seriously engaged in poetry, especially French, for which he was nicknamed "Frenchman."
Pushkin got to the lyceum, as they say, according to a pull. Lyceum was founded by the minister Speransky himself, the set was small - only 30 people, but Pushkin had an uncle - a very famous and talented poet Vasily Lvovich Pushkin, personally acquainted with Speransky.
Pushkin was very well read and studied many languages. He perfectly knew English, French, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin and mastered the Slavic languages. In the library of Alexander Sergeyevich there were 3,560 volumes of books. One third of them were in Russian, and the rest were in foreign.
In 1821, Pushkin was adopted by the Freemasons. A distinctive sign of the members of the Masonic Lodge was a long nail on one of the fingers. The poet grew his nail on the little finger of his right hand and, in order not to break it, every time he traveled, he put a golden thimble on him. During the funeral of the poet, Pyotr Vyazemsky, according to the Masonic tradition, put a glove in his coffin as a sign of Pushkin’s recognition of his brother’s bed.
Worldwide, there are approximately 270 monuments to the great poet. About 200 of them are in Russia. Other monuments are installed in Armenia, Greece, Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Belgium, China, Slovakia and other countries. Of great interest is the monument to Pushkin in Ethiopia, where the ancestors of the poet came from. In the capital of the state, Addis Ababa, a bronze figure of Pushkin was installed, and on the marble pedestal the inscription was carved: "To our poet."
