Oh, the memory of the heart, or the Addressees of Pushkin's love lyrics

Human life is like a spark: flashed for a moment - and went out. However, sometimes people come to this world, the light from which continues to shine through the centuries. AS Pushkin belongs to their number.

Moreover, Pushkin is called the sun of Russian poetry - after all, in his lyrics he outlined the main ways, motives and images, which then developed in the works of the best representatives of our literature. And thanks to Pushkin, they did not sink into oblivion, many of his acquaintances were not in oblivion - with whom he was friends, talked to whom he sent letters or devoted poems. But we are especially interested in contemporaries of Alexander Sergeevich - addressees of Pushkin's love lyrics.

Love is the natural state of the human soul. And even more so, it is inherent in the creative personality. Love is in itself a beautiful, bright, original feeling. It is the source of strong experiences, deep passions, high creative impulse. Therefore, Pushkin was firmly convinced - one can not not love the heart, especially the heart of the Poet.

Who are they - Pushkin's favorite women? To answer this question, we will go on an exciting journey through his life.

Pushkin, love lyrics - words are synonymous. Few people were as amorous and passionate as he was. With equal enthusiasm and fervor, quite sincerely the poet could admire several beautiful ladies at once, seeing in them above all a high aesthetic ideal, external beauty, spiritualized by the beauty of the inner.

The first real female image, flickering in the verses of the young sixteen-year-old Alexander - Katenka Bakunin. She is twenty, she is a maid of honor under the empress, loves balls, dances wonderfully. Outwardly very nice, with a thin camp, a light, flying gait. With friends communicates simply, naturally, without affectation and pictures, so popular among young socialite ladies. And this especially captivates Pushkin, sensitive to all falsity and does not tolerate it.

A whole poetic cycle - twenty-two poems, which became a kind of encyclopedia of the first love with all its nuances and nuances of emotions - was dedicated by Pushkin to Bakunin. And many years later, the echoes of this light platonic fascination can be seen in his lyrics associated with already other female names. And the very first love, he will often remember with a "quiet melancholy of tears."

Both in his early youth and in his years of maturity, the poet intuitively and unmistakably fell in love not just with the external irresistibility, the feminine appeal of his chosen women-he was attracted by extraordinary people, endowed with a sharp mind, a subtle understanding of life. Perhaps, therefore, the addressees of Pushkin's love poetry, whether Avdotya Istomin, the glorified Russian ballerina, praised by him in the "flying bulk" of Eugene Onegin, or Anna Kern, who, thanks to the poet, became for all subsequent readers the personification of "the genius of pure beauty", the Madonna Natalia Goncharova - all of them cause in us a special sincere awe, sincere respect and admiration.

True love is love without boundaries of time and space. This is evidenced by the fervent enthusiasm of the young Alexander Evdokia Ivanovna Golitsyna, whom her contemporaries enthusiastically called the princess. Golitsyna was born twenty years before the poet, which did not stop Pushkin from being literally fascinated by her. Her literary salon was one of the favorite places of the most brilliant, cleverest people of that time. His mistress was distinguished by a lively mind, an excellent education, the ability to say the exact, accurate word. For the poet she was not just a fascinating woman, but also a friend, like-minded person, whom he devoted to creative ideas. And this is even more than love ... And therefore an ardent young man who always praised freedom as an absolute value, was not afraid to admit to him: "I have lost my freedom forever, I love freedom with my heart".

The years of the poet's southern exile were covered by two main lyrical heroines - Amalia Riznich and Elizaveta Vorontsova. Both beloved Pushkin's women are quite worthy of becoming his muse. Amalia is a bright, exotic butterfly, so unlike the languid secular beauties, bound by decency. She was not afraid to be herself, an eccentric, somewhat erratic, eagerly trying to experience everything in life - after all, the age of beauties is so short! Lust, energy, beating over the edge, stunning external data made it almost irresistible for men's hearts, even the most sophisticated. And what about the poet, flying like a moth on fire, at anything unusual, going beyond the generally accepted framework and standards.

Passionate and tender poem "Night" - to that testimony, as well as written much later the famous "On the shores of the native land of the distant," which became one of the favorite Russian romances. And the sad fate of Amalia - a serious illness and early death - superimposed on his memories of her sadness and compassion.

Pushkin liked to take risks, and courting Elizaveta Vorontsova, the wife of the de facto ruler of the entire southern edge of Count Vorontsov, added to his feelings an element of romance, courage, acuity of sensations and experiences. Vorontsov was considered one of the most perfect women of his time, and such responses did not scatter light. It was a great love and a great passion on both sides. Letters of the poet Elizaveta Ksaverevna preserved until the last days of her life. And he very much valued the expensive ring presented to her, which became for him a talisman. About this ring, about their feelings - one of the most famous works of the poet - "Talisman".

The addressees of Pushkin's love poetry, no matter how the poet's relationship with them developed, were grateful to Alexander Sergeyevich for his high poetry, which ennobled their passion in the poems. The humanity that cherishes the soul was the hallmark of his work. And it was reflected in lyrical lines.

In this regard, it is impossible not to say about Anna Olenina - after all, she was attracted to the piercing "I loved you ...", which became a model of the poetry of the soul, completely devoid of any egoism, prudence, which showed the poet's complete renunciation.

And the verses addressed to Natalia Goncharova ... Hardly a few dozen, similar to the same "Madonna", will be typed in world poetry ... The trembling of the soul, sublime purity and admiration, gratitude for the fact that this woman entered his life is the first , That we can understand, feel when we get acquainted with the poem. And then, reading and rereading, we discover for ourselves all the new moral and aesthetic depths. And therefore one can not help recalling Belinsky's assertion that Pushkin's poetry can bring up a person in himself.

Coming again and again into the eternally living Pushkin lines, marveling at the different recipients of Pushkin's love lyrics and finding in them, at the same time, common features - talent, beauty, spiritual and physical - we will forever be grateful to them for the wonderful poetry of the heart-the lyrics A. S. Pushkin.