Pushkin's “Boldino Autumn” is perhaps one of those periods when creativity from the great Russian genius flowed like a river. Alexander Sergeyevich was just preparing for the wedding with Natalia Goncharova, but after the engagement, which took place in the spring of 1830, some material difficulties appeared to solve them, the man went to Boldino. He went to the village on August 31, 1830 and planned to stay there no longer than a week, after which he would return to the bride, but fate decreed otherwise. During his stay in Boldino, an epidemic of cholera began and, due to quarantine, the writer could not return not only to Moscow, but even to Petersburg.
Pushkin's “Boldino Autumn” presented the world with a lot of interesting and talented works, both in prose and in poetry. The village had a beneficial effect on Alexander Sergeyevich, he liked solitude, clean air, beautiful nature. In addition, no one interfered with him, so the writer worked from early morning until night, until the muse left him. “Boldin Autumn” in Pushkin’s life is considered the brightest period of his work. It was in the village that he revealed himself in many genres and created the maximum number of works in a short period of time (he stayed in Boldino for about 3 months).
Alexander Sergeyevich usually woke up at 6 a.m., took an ice shower, drank coffee and, lying on his bed, wrote prose and poetry. And he did it so quickly, as if he did not compose his own works himself, but recorded them under dictation. The writer himself was glad of such a creative mood and, without losing a single free minute, he created masterpieces of Russian classics. Pushkin’s “Boldinskaya Autumn” turned out to be very productive, during his entire stay in the village the writer managed to create three dozen poems, write one story in octaves, 5 short stories in prose, several small tragedies, and the last 2 chapters of “Eugene Onegin”. In addition, there were many unfinished works.
Genre versatility is what distinguishes Pushkin’s “Boldin Autumn”. Poems written during this period can be divided into two categories: memories of the past and impressions of the present. There are love elegies (“Spell”), a description of nature (“Autumn”), political and philosophical works (“Hero”, “My Genealogy”), genre paintings (“Demons”), epigrams (“It's not a trouble ...”) . It was in the autumn of 1830 that Alexander Sergeyevich created his best lyrical masterpieces.
In addition to poetic works, it should be noted novels written in prose. In Boldin, Pushkin wrote Belkin's Tales, which helped him establish himself not only as a poet, but also as a prose writer. These works were given to the writer especially easily and naturally, he created them with high spirits and unprecedented enthusiasm. The story Alexander Sergeevich released not under his own name. In them, he introduced a lot of soft irony, observation and humanity.
Pushkin's “Boldin Autumn” is not only the most saturated and bright page in the work of the great writer, but also an example of an inexplicable creative upsurge. Alexander Sergeevich was almost the only one in the world for such a short period of time created a huge number of brilliant works.