It is interesting to conduct a test among high school graduates of different years with the question: "When was Pushkin born?" For some reason, the date of death of the poet is voiced more often than the date of his birth. Well, he was born and born, the theme of his childhood somehow dashed across all school biographies. At the same time, the death of the poet was almost a textbook episode, not to mention the great poem of the young hussar M.Yu. Lermontov. How many historians and literary scholars trampled on the causes and consequences of the untimely death of the poet, struck into the subjunctive mood: what would happen if ... And then all sorts of speculation began.
But the year when Pushkin was born was a milestone: the eighteenth century ended, the nineteenth approached. The poet’s family was not quite ordinary. Not very rich, but an ancient noble family by father, but of an absolutely exotic origin by mother. The granddaughter of the famous Arap Peter the Great, Nadezhda Osipovna Hannibal, gave her son such an extraordinary appearance, for which he could be teased from childhood with an arapochka or a monkey. And he himself was ironic about his external data.
It is impossible to say that the young talent itself grew, grew and grew. Still, the circle of friends was first in the family (uncle Vasily Lvovich, a famous poet, Karamzin's friend), and then in the Lyceum was a factor that greatly influenced the interests and direction of the future poet's work. So, the history of the Russian state will forever be woven into the canvas of his various works. He will always return to various historical episodes in his work. And not one of Pushkin’s books will be addressed to “the affairs of bygone days, the legends of ancient times,” but many poems, dramas, poems, and novels. From the prophetic Oleg to Peter and Catherine with Pugachev - everything in the past of Russia was interesting to the poet. Perhaps youthful communication with Karamzin laid the foundation for this interest? But we often, speaking of Pushkin - the greatest poet, somehow forget about Pushkin - a serious historian who worked on the works of Pugachev and Peter the Great.
The period of the history of Russia, when Pushkin was born, when he grew and formed as a person, was truly extraordinary. Although there were not so many calm periods in the life of the Russian state, in the beginning of the century there were wars with Napoleon, including the Patriotic War of 1812 , and the uprising of the Decembrists of 1825. And if in the first events of his youth, Pushkin did not participate, but from the participation in the Decembrist uprising he was saved by the Mikhailovsky link. Researchers of the poet's biography laid out on the shelves how many times, where and for what sins the poet referred. This is four years in the south of the Russian Empire: in Bessarabia, Crimea, Odessa. He got there, by the way, thanks to the efforts of Karamzin. The freethinker was threatened by Siberia or Solovki. This is two years in the village of Mikhailovsky - the estate of his mother.
Talking about the work of Pushkin is accepted only in an excellent degree: the greatest, most talented. But what if this is true. Interesting and just personal interest in the figure of this person. Alas, when Pushkin was born, and even later, the appearance of a person could be reproduced only with the help of the talent of painters or artists, and the voice could not be repeated at all - the era of great discoveries was yet to come, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Therefore, the photographs of A.S. Pushkin do not exist, but there are numerous paintings and drawings. During the life of the poet, O. Kiprensky, V. Tropinin tried to capture, later I. Repin and numerous lesser-known artists wrote it. But after all, Pushkin himself was a wonderful schedule. With one stroke of the pen, he left his profile on paper, many other drawings of the poet have been preserved.
Surprisingly, each person himself discovers Pushkin. Or doesn’t open - but then he loses the whole universe ...