Video: The garnet bracelet: the true story of the jewelry that inspired Kuprin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The story "Garnet Bracelet" - a wonderful hymn to the feeling "strong as death", written Alexander Kuprin … The plot of this work is based on real events, and the story brought to us a real garnet bracelet, which was a family heirloom of the Kuprins and became a symbol of tragic love in Russian culture.
A real bracelet, decorated with garnet stones, is in the Pushkin House (St. Petersburg). Its appearance differs slightly from that described by Kuprin. The bracelet is indeed decorated with large garnets, but it does not have the large green stone about which the writer spoke. At first, the bracelet was silver, over the years it was repaired, and at the same time gilded (which, by the way, was not approved by Kuprin himself). The decoration was the property of Maria Karlovna Kuprina-Iordanskaya, the first wife of the great Russian writer. There is no unambiguous version of how she got it: some historians say that the decoration passed to Maria as an inheritance from her mother, others claim that it was presented by Kuprin. Before her death, Kuprin-Iordanskaya gave the relic to the journalist Rappoport, who was friends with Alexander Ivanovich, and already his daughter bequeathed the bracelet for storage in the fund of the Pushkin House.
Kuprin heard the story of unhappy love in the family of his wife's relatives. Her real heroine's name was Lyudmila Ivanovna Lyubimova, and she bathed in the love of a simple guy named Yellow (in the story - Zheltkov). He worked as a telegraph operator and with his last money presented a beautiful lady with an adornment - a bracelet with an Easter egg and a congratulatory engraving. Having received a refusal, Yellow left the city, but, unlike the Kuprin story, he managed to overcome the melancholy and even get married. So there was no tragic ending, this is the fiction of the writer.
Continuing the topic - reasoning about the life of the reckless genius of Russian literature Alexander Kuprin.
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