A.S. Pushkin is a great Russian prose writer, poet and playwright. During his short life, he managed to write many poems, several poems, stories and tales, which today are part of world art.
Why and who killed Pushkin? Was it a duel motivated by jealousy? Or did the European secret services deal with the poet with the hands of Dantes? And to this day, disputes about this do not cease. To understand this a bit, we will talk about the poet himself.
Pushkin's biography: briefly about the years of his life
The beginning of the Pushkin family dates back to the time of the Principality of Alexander Nevsky, during the reign of which the distant ancestor of a poet of Prussian origin came to Russia. This is on the paternal side of the poet, and on the mother's side, the well-known ancestor was Hannibal, arap and godson of Peter I.
1799 is the year of Pushkin's birth. He was born on June 6, and according to the old style - May 26. The poet’s father is Sergei L. Pushkin, and his mother is Alexandra Sergeevna.
From 1805 to 1810, the future poet spends a lot of time in the village of Zakharovo near Moscow, with his mother’s grandmother, Maria Hannibal. It was she who first noted the inconstancy of Alexander, who always rushed from one extreme to the other.
The Patriotic War of 1812 finds young Pushkin at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where he was rated as a poet.
In 1814 in the journal "Herald of Europe" his poem was first published. It is called "To a Poet Friend".
Pushkin graduated from the Lyceum in 1817, received the rank of college secretary and was appointed to the College of Foreign Affairs. During this period, he often visits theaters, attends meetings of the Arzamas Society. Pushkin is a friend of many Decembrists, although he does not take an active part in their activities. At this time, his famous poems were published: “To Chaadaev,” “Liberty,” “Village,” “Love, Hope, Quiet Glory.” In the same period, work is underway on the poem Ruslan and Lyudmila.
The poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus" was written in 1822, it was she who made him one of the great writers of her time. A year later, the poet begins "Eugene Onegin." He already feels in himself a literary figure, and not a statesman. Therefore, it is transferred to Odessa, and then completely leaves the service. He is sent to the Mikhailovsky estate. There, the poet writes several poems, works on "Eugene Onegin." In 1826, Pushkin was called to an audience by Nicholas I, who promised him his protection and deliverance from censorship. During this period, the poet is very interested in Peter I, often travels to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Already since 1827 he was persecuted because of the poem “Gabrieliad” and the poem “Andrei Chenier”, behind him covert surveillance was established.
In 1829, the poet travels to the Caucasus. If we analyze his poems, then it was at this time that he was haunted by forebodings of his death. Although there remains another 9 years before the question arises as to why and who killed Pushkin.
In 1830, the poet re-married to Natalia Goncharova. In the fall, he goes to his father’s estate, there he writes “Eugene Onegin” and several other novels. And in the spring of 1831 in Moscow he was married to Goncharova, they went to Tsarskoye Selo, where they rented a summer house.
In the same year, the poet again enters the service of a historiographer. But in fact, he wants to access the archives. The country is turbulent; instability is also in foreign policy. All this is conveyed in his poems: “Slanderers of Russia,” “Borodino Anniversary,” “Before the Holy Sepulcher ...”. It is these works that cause indignation in the West. This begs the question of who actually killed Pushkin.
From 1832 to 1836, the poet writes a lot. This is a poem and prose. He again leaves the service, publishes the Sovremennik magazine, but he, unfortunately, is not popular.
The year 1837 is coming. Between Pushkin and Dantes (the son of the Dutch envoy Hekkeren) there is a conflict, the cause of which was Natalia. There was a duel in which the poet was mortally wounded.
According to the stories of comrade Pushkin in the lyceum of K.K. Danzas (he was the second in a duel and did not leave the poet until the last minute of his life), he had to fight not with Dantes, but with his father - Baron Gekkeren. But he, by his official position, could not fight a duel. Perhaps father and son deliberately spread rumors about the poet’s wife, knowing in advance about the consequences.
Who killed Pushkin? One thing can be reliably stated: Dantes inflicted a mortal wound on the poet, but his father, the Dutch envoy, was behind it.