Anyway, but we can talk about Pushkininfinitely. This is exactly the same fellow who has always managed to "inherit". But this time we have to sort out the theme “Anna Kern and Pushkin: a love story”. This relationship could remain unnoticed for everyone, if it were not for the emotionally tender poem “I remember a wonderful moment” dedicated to Anna Petrovna Kern and written by the poet in 1825 in Mikhailovsky during his exile. When and how did Pushkin and Kern meet? The love story, however, they turned out quite mysterious and strange. Their first fleeting meeting took place in the salon of the Olenins in 1819 in St. Petersburg. But first things first.
Anna was a relative of the inhabitantsTrigorsky, family Osipov-Wulf, who were neighbors of Pushkin on Mikhailovsky - the family estate of the poet. Once in correspondence with her cousin, she reports that she is a big fan of Pushkin's poetry. These words reach the poet, he is intrigued and in his letter to the poet A. G. Rodzianko asks about Kern, whose estate was in his neighborhood, and besides, Anna was his very close friend. Rodzianko wrote an answer to Pushkin in a playful form, and Anna was included in this humorous friendly correspondence, she added several ironic words in the letter. Pushkin was fascinated by such a turn and wrote a few compliments to her, while maintaining a frivolous and playful tone. He expressed all his thoughts on this in his poem “To Rodzianka”.
Kern was married, and Pushkin well knew her not very happy marital status. It should be noted that for Kern Pushkin was not a fatal passion, as, indeed, it is for him.
Nee Anna Poltoratskaya was fair-hairedbeautiful woman with cornflower eyes. At the age of 17, she was married for a 52-year-old general who participated in the war with Napoleon. Anne had to obey the will of her father, but she didn’t like what she loved and even hated in her soul, she wrote about it in her diary. Two daughters were born in their marriage, Tsar Alexander I himself expressed a desire to be the godfather of one of them.
Anna is the undoubted beauty who attracted herselfattention of many brave officers who often stayed in their house. As a woman, she was very cheerful and charming in communication, which had a crushing effect on them.
Когда впервые Анна Керн и Пушкин встретились у ее Olenina's aunt, a young general, already then began to make casual romances and fleeting connections. The poet did not make any impression on her, and in some moments seemed rude and shameless. Anna liked him immediately, and he attracted her attention with flattering exclamations, something like: “Can one be so pretty ?!”
Anna Petrovna Kern and Pushkin met again,when Alexander Sergeevich was sent into exile to his Mikhailovskoye estate. It was the most boring and lonely time for him, after the noisy Odessa he was annoyed and morally crushed. “Poetry saved me, I was resurrected in soul,” he would write later. It was at this time that one of the July days in 1825 went to Trigorskoye to visit their relatives Kern. Pushkin was extremely happy about this; for some time she became a ray of light for him. By that time, Anna was already a great fan of the poet, she was eager to meet him and again struck him with her beauty. The poet was seduced by her, especially after she sang emotionally the romance “Spring Night Breathed”, which was popular at that time.
Анна Керн в жизни Пушкина на какой-то миг стала a fleeting muse, an inspiration that surged upon him in unexpected ways. Impressed, he immediately takes a pen and dedicates his poem “I remember a wonderful moment” to her.
From the memories of the Kern itself, it follows that in the eveningJuly day, 1825, after dinner in Trigorskoye, everyone decided to visit Mikhailovskoye. Two crews hit the road. In one of them, P.A. Osipova traveled with her son Alexei Wolf, in the other A.N. Wolf, her cousin Anna Kern and Pushkin. The poet was, more than ever, amiable and courteous.
It was a farewell night, the next day Kernwas supposed to go to Riga. In the morning, Pushkin came to say goodbye, brought her a copy of one of the heads of Onegin. And among the uncircumcised papers, she found a poem dedicated to her, read it and then wanted to put her poetic gift in a casket, as Pushkin snatched it frantically and did not want to give it away for a long time. This behavior of the poet, Anna did not understand.
Undoubtedly, this woman gave him moments of happiness, and perhaps returned to life.
It is very important in this matter to note thatPushkin did not consider his feeling for Kern as a crush. Maybe this is how he presented women for their tender affection and affection. In a letter to Anna Nikolaevna Wulf, he wrote that he writes a lot of love poems, but he doesn’t have love for Anna, otherwise he would become very jealous of Alexey Wulf, who enjoyed her favor.
B.Tomashevsky will note that, of course, there was an intriguing outburst of feelings between them, which served as the impetus for writing a poetic masterpiece. Perhaps Pushkin himself, giving it to Kern, suddenly thought that it might cause a false interpretation, and therefore he resisted his impulse. But it was too late. Surely at that moment Anna Kern was beside herself with happiness. Pushkin's initial line "I remember a wonderful moment" remained carved on her gravestone. This poem actually made a living legend of it.
Анна Петровна Керн и Пушкин расстались, однако are not known for their further relationship. She went with her daughters to Riga and playfully allowed the poet to write letters to her. And he wrote them to her, they have survived to the present day, however, in French. No hint of deep feelings could be traced in them. On the contrary, they are ironic and mocking, but very friendly. The poet no longer writes that she is “the genius of pure beauty” (the relationship passed into another phase), but calls her “our Babylonian harlot Anna Petrovna”.
Anna Kern and Pushkin next time will see each other in two years, in 1827, when she leaves her husband and moves to Petersburg, which will lead to gossip in high society.
Kern, along with his sister and father, after moving to Petersburg, will live in the very house where he first met Pushkin in 1819.
This day she will completely spend in the companyPushkin and his father. Anna did not find words of admiration and joy from meeting him. It was, most likely, not love, but a great human affection and passion. In a letter to Sobolevsky, Pushkin openly writes that the other day he had slept with Kern.
In December 1828, Pushkin will meet her precious Natalie Goncharova, live with her 6 years in marriage, she will give birth to four children. In 1837, Pushkin will be killed in a duel.
Anna Kern is finally free from the bondage of marriage,when her husband dies in 1841. She will fall in love with cadet Alexander Markov-Vinogradsky, who will also be her second cousin. With him she will lead a quiet family life, although he is younger than her by 20 years.
Anna will show letters and a poem by Pushkin as a relic to Ivan Turgenev, but the impoverished situation will force her to sell them for five rubles per piece.
One by one, her daughters will die. She will outlive Pushkin by 42 years and preserve in her memoirs the living image of the poet, who, as she believed, truly never loved anyone.
In fact, it is not clear who Anna wasKern in the life of Pushkin. The history of the relationship between these two people, between whom a spark flew, presented the world with one of the most beautiful, most elegant and heartfelt poems dedicated to a beautiful woman, who were only in Russian poetry.
After the death of Pushkin's mother and the death of the poet himselfKern did not interrupt his close relationship with his family. The poet’s father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, who felt acute loneliness after his wife’s death, wrote quivering cordial letters to Anna Petrovna and even wanted to live with her “the last sad years”.
She died in Moscow six months after the death of her husband - in 1879. She lived with him for a good 40 years and never stressed his inconsistency.
Anna was buried in the village of Prutnya near the town of Torzhok, Tver Province. Their son Alexander after the death of his parents committed suicide.
Pushkin's brother, Lev Sergeyevich, also dedicated a verse to her, which she read from memory in 1827 to Pushkin. It began with the words: "How can you not go crazy."
On this consideration of the topic "Pushkin and Kern: a love story" can be finished. As it became clear, Kern captivated all the men of the Pushkin family, in some incredible way they succumbed to her charm.
