A genius is always indisputable and impeccable, as his admirers believe, denying him the right to be an ordinary person with simple weaknesses and whims. But each of those who went down in history by virtue of the gift of heaven - talent, lived the same simple life, consisted of the same flesh and blood as any layman. Pushkin’s biography suggests that he is no exception. There was a place in his life for simple human passions, and high spirituality, and cynicism, and the mystical principle. Needless to say - the son of the era ...
A. S. Pushkin: an interesting biography
The Pushkin family is an untitled Russian noble family. The poet repeatedly mentioned in his writings about his aristocratic family, faithfully serving the sovereigns, but not recognized as deserved and even persecuted. The image of the maternal great-grandfather, African Abram Petrovich Hannibal, who was patronized by Peter the Great, was also reflected in the poet's work. Alexander Sergeyevich owes this relationship not entirely Slavic appearance and black curly hair. Pushkin’s biography is unthinkable without the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, within the walls of which many great poets were brought up. Oddly enough, the future genius was accepted into the lyceum due to patronage: his uncle Vasily Lvovich Pushkin put in a word for his nephew in front of the lyceum's curator, Minister Speransky. Perhaps his uncle had to regret this step more than once: oddly enough, Alexander studied poorly, and only Russian literature and foreign languages ​​were interesting to him. Grandmother Maria Alekseevna Hannibal wrote about him like this: “I don’t know what will come of my eldest grandson. The boy is smart and a book hunter, but he studies poorly; then you won’t stir it, then it will turn around and diverge in such a way that you won’t get anything from it: it rushes from one extreme to another, it has no middle ground. ”
Pushkin's biography: young years
Meanwhile, talent developed in its own way, not knowing the barriers: after all, he had so little time ... According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, Alexander Sergeyevich in his youth became a famous poet. A rebel by nature, sympathizing with the Decembrists and ordinary people, he nevertheless was not with them on Senate Square. There was too much life in it to surrender entirely to one idea. From the age of 16 he knew love, and until the end of his days remained a passionate admirer of women. And he was, I must say, very illegible in communications. Being wholeheartedly in love with a secular beauty, he could give attention to girls of easy virtue. Being married to his beloved woman, Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, the mother of his children, he fell passionately in love with other women and wrote passionate confessions to them. Any secular lion could envy his success with women. Very ordinary in appearance, of small stature, quick-tempered and unstable, with a poisonous tongue, he possessed some unknown attractive force. His cocky character was known to everyone. It was recalled that the poet had about ninety duels - it cost him nothing to insult a person or take offense at an empty word and call someone to the barrier. Pushkin believed that he was protected by providence. Perhaps providence at some point turned its back on the rebellious poet.
Pushkin’s life biography and work have always been enveloped in a fleur of mysticism and recklessness at the same time. His other passion was cards: he was a player and was forever stuck in debt, which was also the subject of numerous quarrels and duels. One can only guess what an overwhelming burden it is to be the wife of such a great and complex person.
Mystery of the last day
It was noted above that his whole life was marked by a certain mystical light. Alexander Sergeyevich believed in signs and talismans ("Save me, my talisman ..."). During duels, he always put on his finger his favorite ring, which he considered his talisman.
And on that fateful day, going to the Black River, put on another ring, with a carnelian - a gift from her lover. As it turned out, the insert was made of the grave stone of Karaites ... In general, there was a lot of incomprehensibility in this duel with Dantes. The reason for the quarrel was jealousy, while Dantes was married to the cousin
of Pushkin
's wife . In the chronicles they wrote that Dantes was saved by a button on his uniform, but contemporaries assumed that he was wearing chain mail. But there was no additional investigation.
Everything is no coincidence in the life of a genius - both life and death. Pushkin's biography ended at age 37 - a fateful, mystical age for Russian poets. Who knows, maybe he left because he did everything that was written to him. He left his work, his name - and left to stay forever.