Pushkin Biography Print

Petersburg - Alexander I, after the end of the Lyceum Pushkin, was determined by the College of Foreign Affairs, later in the year the board was transformed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among the colleagues of Pushkin was Griboedov. A month after entering the service, Pushkin had already received a vacation until September and spent about two months in the Mikhailovsky, Pskov estate of his mother.

Then Pushkin almost without a break remained for three years in St. Petersburg, not counting the trip to Mikhailovskoye in the summer of the year. After the lyceum in the year, Pushkin is published in magazines, selects poems for his collection, wants to release his book. He works on the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila", which he began to write in the last year of the Lyceum. The literary situation after the end of the Pushkin Lyceum changed.

If the last year of the Lyceum is the ideological influence of Arzamas, now when Pushkin finally got the opportunity to directly participate in the meetings of this society, it suddenly ceased to exist.

Pushkin graduated from the Lyceum just during the period of reorganization of secret societies. The first revolutionary community "Union of Salvation" was founded in the year. Naturally, the first impression of Pushkin after leaving the lyceum was political. The expansion of the political horizons contributed to the acquaintance with Nikolai Turgenev, an ardent supporter of the liberation of the peasants, Chaadaev, frequent communication with the Lyceum Comrade Pushchin, who entered the secret society, and with numerous representatives of the liberal officer with whom Pushkin made connections from the lyceum.

Pushkin does not enter secret societies. In March, he enters into a friendly Literary Society "Green Lamp", there there is a distribution of liberal ideas and criticism of the Alexander regime. During this period, Pushkin wrote political poems: “liberty” year, “to Chaadaev” year, “fairy tales” year, “village” year. In these verses, the influence of moderately liberal ideas is traced on Pushkin.

Pushkin’s negligence of the program created him a bad reputation in the government. Under the name of Pushkin, there were cycles of epigrams directed against Alexander, Arkacheev and others, but not all of them, as you can believe, belong to Pushkin. Pushkin’s poems became an instrument of literary propaganda in the hands of members of secret societies. They were very widespread in the lists, especially among officers, and created the glory of Pushkin to no less than his works that appeared in the press.

In two years - and - Pushkin printed only six poems. Pushkin intensely wrote "Ruslan and Lyudmila" during these years. In the Petersburg period, Pushkin led a very idle life, visited secular salons in particular, the salon of Princess Golitsyna. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin Pushkin constantly spent time among the young officers. Sicks, maps and heart hobbies of a most diverse nature were the usual form of Pushkin's pastime, not too burdened with the service.

Pushkin so brightly flaunted his position of the opposition civil poet that the tsarist government could not but notice this. A thunderstorm gathered, Alexander I decided to deal with Pushkin and send him to Siberia or Solovki, even a rumor that Pushkin was taken to the secret office and carved. Karamzin petitioned him, due to which the verdict was softened, and the decision was put forward to send Pushkin to Yekaterinoslav.

His office was under the jurisdiction of the College of Foreign Affairs, and thus, the link had a plausible form of transfer of service. At that time, "Ruslan and Lyudmila" were already in the press, and he entrusted the release of his collection of poems to Vsevolozhsky.