Poems "The lackeys of the eternal Europe" Pushkin did not write

Time is not easy today. Russia is a country that many connoisseurs of geopolitical realities in the early nineties considered doomed and soon to be dismembered - suddenly began to show its age-old unruly disposition again. Attempts to ignore the interests of the state came across unexpected and active resistance. Against the backdrop of the tragic events taking place in neighboring states, a natural interest arose as to how the best people of Russia treated such situations centuries ago. On the pages of the print media and in the electronic media, the biting verse "Lakes of Eternal Europe" was published. Pushkin, the great Russian poet, was declared its author. According to another version, the work came from Tyutchev's pen.

Does this information correspond to the truth? In this issue should be carefully understood.

Philological objection, or What rhymes with the word "Europe"

Experts in philology immediately questioned both main versions of the authorship of the work "Lakes of Eternal Europe". Pushkin or Tyutchev would hardly have rhymed "Europe" with "experience" - this does not fully correspond to the notion of elegant literature that dominated the twenties and thirties of the nineteenth century. By the middle of the century such attempts were sarcastically ridiculed by the poets of the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei Tolstoy and Ammosov who joined them, united in the collective pseudonym of Kozma Prutkov. Such a modern rhyme testifies to the late origin of the work, perhaps even modern. Stylistically, it resembles another verse of Pushkin. "The lackeys of the eternal Europe" is consonant with the dress of the "Sun of Russian poetry", known under the name of "Slanderers of Russia".

Pushkin's poem of 1831

Russia is a country so huge that the temptation to reduce its size has repeatedly embarrassed the minds of European rulers. For this purpose, they used any excuse. In 1830 on the territory of the empire, unrest broke out, which was subsequently called an uprising. Alexander Sergeevich, despite the very critical attitude to many aspects of Russian life of his time, was a patriot, and all separatism (in modern terms) perceived hostilely. His position on this issue, he clearly stated in his written work - rebuke the slanderers of Russia. Apparently, most modern readers confuse this ode, written in Tsarskoye Selo on August 2, 1831, with the poem "The lackeys of Europe forever". Pushkin was outraged by the intention of the French government to provide direct military assistance to the Polish insurgents, and prophesied, without much embarrassment in expressions, to the enemies a mournful fate "among unreached coffins", recalling the events of eighteen years ago. History, as is known, is repeated.

Original sources

So did the poem "Lakes of Eternal Europe" Pushkin write? The history of the creation of this work, while trying to figure it out, remains unknown. Reference materials in the form of complete collections of works of the great poet also do not give any information. Chronological clues are not present, to any known periods of creativity it does not concern. The same results give and attempts to find something similar at Tyutchev. Critics of this approach to clarifying authorship may argue that some particularly sharp works did not enter the official MSS for various reasons. Perhaps Pushkin's poem "The lackeys of Europe forever" turned out to be so seditious that, under the tsar or in the times of the USSR, the censors did not dare to present it to the general readership? But in the text there is nothing that could anger "satraps", even royal, even Soviet. And information about prohibited works is not entirely reliable. Most of the "secret" and obscene-scandalous works attributed to the great poet, in fact, have nothing to do with him. This is indicated first of all by their lack of talent.

Why attribution to Pushkin authorship?

Alexander Sergeevich became "our all", and this fact, alas, played a strange role in the popularization of the great Russian poet's work. Schoolchildren are literally forced to learn his works, often without doing any attempts to captivate that charming charm and wisdom that radiates every verse of Pushkin. "The lackeys of the eternal Europe" is attributed to "the main Russian poet," perhaps, sometimes consciously - in order to give weight to this work in the eyes of the uninitiated public. Nevertheless, there is no need for this. A. Pushkin has a lot of poems of a bright patriotic direction, and if they are not enough, one can read his correspondence with friends, in which he definitely does not accept contemptuous treatment of the Motherland, especially from foreigners. And the more so any distortions of the truth are harmful when the poem has a real author.

The True Author

Elena Fominichna Lavrentieva, who became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR in 1971, published two dozen books (the first appeared in 1964), who collaborated with the magazine Yunost for a decade, a remarkable poet, is the author of the poem "Lakes of Eternal Europe". Pushkin did not write it. The first known publication took place on October 23, 2003. The name of the work: "The so-called Galician elite". It so happened that it became more and more relevant, and therefore the popularity of the poem grew both in Ukraine and abroad. It was written in Donetsk and was dedicated to the "Heroes of the Maidan", even the first. The poet, or rather the poetess, was not heard by everyone.

Elena Fominichne was certainly pleased that her verse was attributed not to anyone, but to Alexander Sergeyevich himself. It's not a problem, it's fame. And it, according to another remarkable poet, the masters of the word will be considered. The same people.