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Video: Legends of St. Petersburg: Where is the House of the Queen of Spades located, and what secrets it keeps
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who in childhood did not summon the Queen of Spades? Did she manage to come to you, or did you run away from the room even before her visit? Such "callers" were an interesting way to have fun, and at the same time to figure out the cowards in the company. Having matured, many began to think that the Queen of Spades was not there, but is that so? Or maybe you still have it? After all, nothing just does not arise, but first of all - the St. Petersburg legends …
Mansion of Princess Golitsyna
In St. Petersburg, at 10 Malaya Morskaya Street, there are the mansions of that very Princess Golitsyna. Although someone may doubt the accuracy of the address - "is this really the place described in the great work?" Why did Alexander Sergeevich put the main character here? You can answer simply - it was not for nothing that Pushkin captured in his diary the lines, according to which, between Princess Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna and the literary countess among the people, they revealed a similarity, but they reacted to it condescendingly. It is this reference that dispels all doubts about the accuracy of the character's address.
Currently, everyone has the opportunity to touch the house that has become the "hero" of the work, and also to notice the similarities between the real object and the building described in the book by Alexander Sergeevich. Of course, it will be more problematic to assess the internal content, or rather the luxurious front staircase made of marble, which leads to the site with a fireplace, and the very elite will be honored to contemplate the graceful staircase from which Herman descended after his rendezvous with Lisa.
Three, seven, ace
Before creating his creation, Pushkin lived very close to this house and made friends with the princess's nephew. It was the latter who told Alexander Sergeevich a mystical story about how, in his next fiasco, one old woman, now known to everyone, told him about the secret of three cards. The very old woman was informed about this by the then charmer and magician, the Count of Saint-Germain, who was popular in all of St. Petersburg.
Pushkin was so inspired by what he heard that he decided to capture it for posterity. And since there were no blogs or LJ before, the story was a suitable option to share the story with descendants, which in the published version very quickly sold out among fans of the literary genre.
Mystic number 3
In real life, the princess was overly superstitious, so her image was better suited as a prototype for the heroine. She was so imprinted in the memory of her contemporaries and sunk into their souls that even the official death of a woman seemed very mysterious to everyone. Rumor has it that the spirit of a black officer visited her, who took her body to the grave, and left the princess's soul to languish in the house.
Her idyllic spirit could not leave indifferent another talented person, the composer Tchaikovsky. After all, it was the latter, based on the Queen of Spades, who composed the opera. Someone may object, remembering that he began to create it while still in Florence. But at the same time, if you recall well, the last days of his life were spent in his brother's apartment, through whose windows this mystical mansion was looking.
Can all this be called a coincidence? Is there really the mysticism of the number 3? Unfortunately, there are no definite answers to all these questions. But one thing is known that the mentioned creators departed to another world exactly three years after this mystical "Queen of Spades" was born. Alexander Sergeevich died in 1837, three years after the release of the work from circulation, and this happened in 1834. The first production of Pyotr Ilyich fell on 1890, and he died in 1893 …
For the sake of fairness, it should be said that today in St. Petersburg there are several more houses claiming to be the "House of the Queen of Spades". And this means that a completely different lady may turn out to be a real "peak" …
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