Poet Yevgeny Baratynsky: biography of Pushkin's colleague

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

Baratynsky is often mentioned (together with Delvig) among the people surrounding Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. But he was a completely self-sufficient poet. We have the right to be proud that in the constellation of the great classics of Russian literature there is such a lyric philosopher as Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky. Biography, a brief description of the work of this thinker - this article is devoted to these topics. I just want to note the special impression that his poems create: one feels an extraordinary thought, clothed in an aesthetically impeccable form. His works reject everything inhuman, false, but are full of humanism and touching kindness.

Childhood and adolescence

Yevgeny Baratynsky, whose biography, unfortunately, has not yet been sufficiently studied by researchers, was born in March 1800 in the Tambov province, in the village of Vyazhlya. His parents were rich and noblepeople. His father was a retired lieutenant general, and his mother served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Marya Feodorovna before her marriage. From early childhood, the future poet mastered French and Italian, and learned German in a private boarding school in St. Petersburg. At the age of 12, he entered the Corps of Pages to pursue a military career, but in 1816 he was expelled from there for childish pranks. He had only one way left - as a simple soldier for military service, and in 1819 he joined the Jaeger regiment.

Meet Pushkin

Through a friend from the regiment, Baratynsky, whose biography from that moment becomes more documented, converges with Delvig, and then with Pushkin. A "simple" soldier who has not completed his education becomes a member of literary salons, begins to make friends with Gnedich, Kuchelbeker, Zhukovsky. He writes poetry, hones his style, and soon begins to publish himself. His youthful works betray a very pessimistic outlook. In 1820, with the rank of non-commissioned officer, he was transferred to serve in Kyumen (modern Finland).

Romantic

The harsh and wild beauty of the northern nature forced Baratynsky to retreat from several archaic forms of the Russian ode. In his works "Waterfall", "Finland", "Eda" the elegiac moods of Western European romanticism are intensified. It doesn't stop printing. In particular, his poems appear in the almanac "Polar Star", which was published by Ryleev and Bestuzhev. A. S. Pushkin highly praised "Edu", and Vyazemsky noted the originality and insightfuldialectics, which characterizes Baratynsky. The biography mentions the youthful love of the poet. The muse was the wife of General Zakrevsky, to whom he devoted many lyrical works ("Fairy", "Justification").

Poet

In 1926, Baratynsky, whose biography is reflected in his work, retires and marries Anastasia Lvovna Engelhardt. The measured life of a married civilian gives him the opportunity to devote himself to literature without restrictions. In addition to small poetic forms, he writes his famous poems "Ball", "Feasts", "Concubine". He tried himself in prose. So, in 1831, his story "Ring" was published in the magazine "European". The death of Pushkin Baratynsky - the biography of the poet in this matter is categorical - went through hard. He wrote almost no poetry and only issued one collection - "Twilight" (1842). In 1843, he and his wife went on a trip abroad. In Paris, he met many French writers (Lamartine, Mérimée, Nodier and others). But in Naples, A. L. Baratynskaya suffered a nervous breakdown, which fatally affected the he alth of her husband. The next day, 1844-11-07, he suddenly died.