Viskovatov biography of Lermontov

Life and creativity is the first detailed biography of Lermontov, which appeared in Russia. For the first time, the book was published in the year, by the summer of the death of the poet, and after that for almost years she was never reprinted - up to a year when she became a bestseller among all who studies, teaches and simply loves Lermontov. Here is such a library book of the edition of the year, read, dazzling, exhausted by numerous pencil notes - and fell into my hands.

The main value of this Lermontov biography is that the author personally talked with people who knew the poet. The second - Pavel Viscovatov had access to the most voluminous archival material, which somehow concerned Lermontov, unfortunately, the subsequent cataclysms that stunned Russia, measured this archive around the world, much lost or fell into private hands.

Third, this is the most complete and detailed biography of Lermontov, all his educators, teachers, friends and friends, all the circumstances of the poet’s life - from birth to death, are brightly outlined. The Viscovites are unusual by the author’s narrative manner of: leisurely, thorough, meticulous, somewhat old -fashioned and naive - but this only gives her charm.

The author writes about the most acute moments of the biography of Lermontov delicately, carefully and carefully here, for example, the characteristic of the poet’s father: “If you compare the laconic news of Yuri Petrovich, it was a kind, soft, but hot -tempered man, and this hot -tempered, with an easily ignited nature, could bring him to a severe and wild manifestations, incompatible even with the conditions of decency.

” It is meant that Yuri Petrovich could hit his wife - this would be written by a modern researcher, without sentiments. But in the XIX century, morals were different. Lermontov’s story of discord between the widowed father and grandmother of the poet, when they literally tear the child from each other from his hands bringing him to such suffering that he was thinking about suicide, is stated in all details.

This explains Lermontov’s difficult nature, which many contemporaries considered the cause of his death. Hence the constant motive of death in his verses. Pavel Viscovatov does not consider it necessary to hide the details of the “hussar runs” by Lermontov and the composition of the “immodest” erotic poems in the days of his youth and who did not compose them - and Pushkin is sinful, but the author of the biography writes with a noble restraint, as well as about the poet’s love hobbies.

In this book you will not find sensations, but you will not find lies. Some inaccuracies are explained by the author’s incomplete awareness, for example, Lermontov’s love story for N. Ivanova became known only in the 20th century. Many classmates of Lermontov at the Junker school rose to generals and higher ranks, and the poet died, being a root of one of the lower officer titles.

But for some reason, it was precisely these generals who were most angry when they were told that Lermontov was a great poet, and answered: “What is so great in him, we all wrote poems no worse than he is.” For example, Field Marshal Prince A. Baryatinsky, according to P. Viskovatoy, “came into indignation every time we spoke with him about Lermontov. He called him the "most immoral man" and "a mediocre imbeller of Byron" and was surprised how they could be interested in collecting materials from his biography.

" Later, when the biographer fell into the hands of the youthful poems of Lermontov, he understood the reasons for such anger: because of the "immodest" Lermontov poem "Hoster" the entire cadet school laughed over the Baryatinsky.

During his life, Lermontov made many enemies, and P. Viskovatov sequentially describes how this happened. For them, he was T -shirt, a freak out externally and internally. For us - "another, still unknown chosen one." Yes, oddly enough - unknown. This attracts him so irresistible ... Share the link:.