Video: Life after Pushkin: how was the fate of Natalia Goncharova after the death of the poet
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On August 27 (September 8), 1812, a woman was born who played a fatal role in the life of A. S. Pushkin - Natalia Goncharova … Her personality, both among her contemporaries and in our time, has always caused extremely contradictory assessments: she was called both an evil genius who killed the great poet, and a slandered victim. She was judged by the 6 years that she spent in marriage with Pushkin, but the next 27 years of her life make it possible to get a much more complete and accurate idea of what one of the first beauties of the high society of the early 19th century really was.
Before his death, Alexander Sergeevich asked her: “Go to the village. Wear mourning for me for two years, and then marry, but only for a decent person. She complied with his request, but got married not after two years, but seven years later. At the age of 25, Natalia Pushkina was left a widow with 4 children. Many considered her to be guilty of the poet's death and called her a frivolous and empty secular beauty.
Two weeks after the death of Pushkin, Natalya and her children went to her brother Dmitry, to their family estate Polotnyany Zavod. There she led a reclusive lifestyle and received almost no one except relatives. Of course, after the glamor of the capital, high-society balls and receptions, this life seemed boring and monotonous to her, but it brought inner balance: “Sometimes such melancholy grips me that I feel the need for prayer,” she confessed. - These minutes of concentration in front of the icon, in the most secluded corner of the house, bring me relief. Then I regain the peace of mind, which was often mistaken for coldness and I was accused of it”.
Rich and titled suitors repeatedly wooed her, but they all received a refusal: none of them was ready to accept her four children. She was offered to arrange them in prestigious educational institutions away from home, but she answered: "Whoever is a burden to my children, that is not my husband." After 2 years, Natalia Pushkina again comes to St. Petersburg, but she rarely appears in the world and is engaged in raising children.
Natalya got married 7 years after the death of Pushkin, in 1844. Petr Lanskoy, a poor but sincerely loving her, became her chosen one - Lieutenant General, a colleague of her brother. At that time she was 32 years old, he was 45. The wedding ceremony was quiet and modest, only close relatives were invited to the wedding. He accepted her children as his own. In this marriage, three more daughters were born. In addition to her seven, Natalya nursed 4 more children of relatives. “My vocation is to be the headmistress of an orphanage,” she writes to Lansky. “God sends me children from all sides …”.
In the last years of her life, Natalya Nikolaevna was often ill. She stopped going out and often went abroad for treatment. She died at the age of 52 from pneumonia. Peter Lanskoy outlived his wife by 14 years.
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