An unfamiliar classic: interesting facts about Pushkin

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin… What does this name mean to you? Is it “our everything”, Russian-speaking Shakespeare or a boring poet who is still required to be studied in schools? In 1999, in the year of the anniversary of Alexander Sergeevich, foreign newspapers wrote: “Russia was seized by “pushkin mania”. The inhabitants of the country memorize huge excerpts from his works, and topics related to the work and biography of the poet dominate radio and television programs and on the pages of printed publications. Do you know any interesting facts about Pushkin? Perhaps it is worth telling about them to the children suffering from "Eugene Onegin" so that the poet finds flesh and blood, becomes close and understandable? Shall we try?

Interesting facts about Pushkin: childhood

1. The poet has always suffered from his "African-American" appearance. It seemed to him that thick lips, black curly hair and bulging eyes spoiled him. It was not for nothing that the future author of great poems was teased as a “monkey” at school.
2. When Sasha Pushkin was 4 years old, he first saw his namesake, Emperor Alexander I. The meeting almostcost the baby his life. The monarch was riding, and the "Arapchon" almost ended up under the hooves of his horse. Fortunately, the emperor managed to cope with the horse, the future "sun of Russian poetry" did not suffer, only the nanny almost fainted.
3. In the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum - a privileged educational institution - Pushkin got through an acquaintance. His uncle put him there, also a poet Pushkin, only Vasily Lvovich.
4. Sasha's poetic gift manifested itself in childhood. Otherwise, he might not have become the pride of a closed boarding school famous for its brilliant graduates, as he graduated from school, demonstrating the third (from the end) result.

Interesting facts about Pushkin: relationships with people

1. According to various sources, the poet took part in 29 fights, he was challenged to a duel 9 dozen times, and he himself “threw the gauntlet” and even more - about 150 times.
2. Pushkin's wife, Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, was 10 centimeters taller than the poet, and he was shy about it.
3. A month before the tragic duel with Pushkin, Baron Dantes married Goncharova's sister, Ekaterina, so the duelists were brother-in-law to each other.

Interesting facts from Pushkin's biography: a bit about the benefits of superstition

It is said that the great poet was very superstitious. He believed in the mystical power of stones and wore special rings for every occasion. One day, foresight (or intuition) saved his life. On the eve of the uprising on Senate Square, Pushkin was under house arrest. Petersburg, but was about to go to a meeting of the Secret Society in the capital. However, on the way, a hare ran across the road (a bad sign), then a priest met (also a harbinger of trouble). The servant, who went with Pushkin, is suddenly overcome by a severe fever. As a result, the superstitious poet returned home, and at night he had a strange dream: 5 teeth had fallen out. The next day, 5 leaders of the revolutionary society were arrested and executed.

Interesting facts about Pushkin: a sharp mind

Despite his poor performance, the poet had an amazingly sharp mind. He reacted instantly, always found the exact answer, often immediately clothed it in a brilliant rhyme. Sometimes his epigrams and impromptu were caustic and offensive. Perhaps, not everyone understood, next to the genius of what magnitude they had the honor to live.

Once the poet Zhukovsky said that he was not present at a friendly dinner, as he had an upset stomach when Kuchelbecker came to visit. Pushkin immediately reacted with the lines:

"So it was for me, my friends, And kuchelbekerno, and sickening…"

Poor Kuhla often got it from Pushkin. However, he himself gave reasons. So, in the Lyceum, he tried to drown himself after a poem by Pushkin, in which there was a line: “Wilhelm, read your poems so that I fall asleep sooner.”

But the poet reacted brilliantly and witty in any situation. He even wrote to Emperor Alexander I:

Aphedron you are fat your

Wipe with calico;

I'm a sinful hole

I don't spoil the child

And Khvostov's tough ode, Though I wince, but I work."

The poet's jokes were sometimes on the verge of decency or went beyond it. But it was amazingly funny. This talent would shine today on the stage of KVN! Such is Alexander Pushkin. Interesting facts related to his biography and work can be listed in dozens! He had a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he sometimes wrote a poem in one night. For the Fountain of Bakhchisarai he received 3,000 rubles - never before had a poet received such an amount for his creations. He laughed contagiously, was not afraid of anyone, looked like a child (African roots, perhaps, affected?). Women fell in love with him endlessly. And how to resist if he was able to instantly compose:

"I'm in love, I'm fascinated, -In a word, I'm disappointed…"

Of course, it was an outstanding personality. I would like schools to talk about the different facets of the poet's life, and not draw an emasculated, boring portrait to the point of yawning.