When was Pushkin born? The fact is well-known

It is interesting to conduct a test among high school graduates of different years with the question: "When was Pushkin born?" For some reason, the date of death of the poet is voiced more often than the date of his birth. Well, was born and born, the theme of his childhood is somehow dashed in all school biographies. At the same time, the death of the poet became almost a textbook episode, not to mention the great poem of the young hussar M.Yu. Lermontov. How many historians and literary critics trampled on the causes and consequences of the untimely demise of the poet, struck a subjunctive mood: what would happen if ... And then all sorts of speculation began.

But the year when Pushkin was born was a milestone: the eighteenth century was coming to an end, the nineteenth century was approaching. The poet's family was not quite ordinary. Not very rich, but an ancient noble family by father, but quite exotic by mother. Granddaughter of the famous arap of Peter the Great, Nadezhda Osipovna Hannibal, gave her son such an extraordinary appearance, for which he could be teased from childhood by a peasant, a monkey. And he himself was ironic about his external data.

To say that the young talent itself grew, grew and grew, it is impossible. Still, the circle of communication first in the family (Uncle Vasily Lvovich, a famous poet, a friend of Karamzin), and then at the Lyceum was a factor that greatly influenced the interests, the direction of the future poet's work. Thus, the history of the Russian state will forever be interwoven with the canvas in his various works. He will always return to different historical episodes in his work. And not one book of Pushkin will be addressed to "the affairs of days gone by, the traditions of deep antiquity," but many poems, dramas, poems, novels. From prophetic Oleg to Peter and Catherine to Pugachev - everything in the past was interesting to the poet to Russia. Maybe the youthful dialogue with Karamzin laid the foundation for this interest? But we often talk about Pushkin - the greatest poet, somehow forget about Pushkin - a serious historian who worked on the works about Pugachev and Peter the Great.

The period of the history of Russia, when Pushkin was born, when he grew up and was formed as a person, was truly remarkable. Although quiet periods in the life of the Russian state were, according to conscience, little, but at the beginning of the century there were wars with Napoleon, including the Patriotic War of 1812 , and the Decembrist uprising of 1825. And if in the first events of his youth Pushkin did not participate, but from participation in the Decembrist uprising he was saved by the Mikhailovsky reference. Researchers biographies of the poet laid out on the shelves, how many times, where and for what sins the poet referred to. This is four years in the south of the Russian Empire: in Bessarabia, Crimea, Odessa. He got there, by the way, thanks to the efforts of Karamzin. The freethinker was threatened by Siberia or Solovki. This is two years in the village of Mikhailovsky - the estate of his mother.

Talk about the work of Pushkin is taken only to an excellent degree: the greatest, the most talented. But what to do, if this is true. Interest and just a personal interest in the figure of this man. Alas, when Pushkin was born, and even later, it was possible to reproduce the appearance of a person only with the help of a talent of painters or artists, and the voice could not be repeated at all - the era of great discoveries is yet to come, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Therefore, photos of Alexander Pushkin do not exist, but there are numerous pictures and drawings. During the life of the poet tried to capture O. Kiprensky, V.Tropinin, later he wrote I. Repin and numerous artists, less famous. But after all, Pushkin himself was a wonderful schedule. With one stroke of the pen, he left his profile on paper, many other drawings of the poet were preserved.

Surprisingly, each person himself discovers Pushkin for himself. Or does not open - but then he loses the whole universe ...