Anna Petrovna Kern, Pushkin and their love story

Whatever it was, but Pushkin can talk endlessly. This is just the same guy who has always managed to "inherit". But this time we will have to make out the theme "Anna Kern and Pushkin: the love story." These relations could have remained unnoticed for all, if not for the emotionally tender poem "I Remember a Wonderful Moment", dedicated to Anna Petrovna Kern and written by the poet in 1825 in Mikhailovsky during his exile. When and how did Pushkin and Kern meet? The love story, however, turned out to be rather mysterious and strange. Their first fleeting meeting took place in the Salon of the Olenins in 1819 in St. Petersburg. However, everything in order.

Anna Kern and Pushkin: a love story

Anna was a relative of the inhabitants of Trigorsky, the family of the Osipovs-Wolf, who were Pushkin's neighbors according to Mikhailovsky - the patrimonial estate of the poet. Once in a correspondence with her cousin, she reports that she is a big fan of Pushkin's poetry. These words reach the poet, he is intrigued and in his letter to the poet AG Rodzianko asks about Kern, whose estate was in his neighborhood, and besides Anna was his very close friend. Rodzianko in a playful manner wrote the answer to Pushkin, in this humorous amicable correspondence Anna joined in, she wrote several ironic words in the letter. Pushkin was fascinated by this turn and gave her a few compliments, while maintaining a frivolous, playful tone. All his thoughts on this subject he expressed in his poem "To Rodzianka."

Kern was married, and Pushkin knew her not very happy marital status. It should be noted that for Kern Pushkin was not a fateful passion, as, however, she is for him.

Anna Kern: family

In her maiden name Anna Poltoratskaya was a blond beauty with cornflower-blue eyes. At the age of 17, she was given in marriage for a 52-year-old general, a participant in the war with Napoleon. Anna had to obey the will of her father, but she did not really love her husband, but she hated it even in her soul, she wrote about this in her diary. In the marriage they had two daughters, the Tsar Alexander I himself expressed the desire to be the godfather of one of them.

Kern. Pushkin

Anna - an indisputable beauty, attracted the attention of many brave officers, who often visited their house. As a woman, she was very cheerful and charming in communication, which had a crushing effect on them.

When Anna Kern and Pushkin first met her aunt Olenina for the first time, the young general's wife had already started random novels and fleeting contacts. The poet did not make any impression on her, and in some moments seemed rude and impudent. Anna liked him immediately, and he drew her attention with flattering exclamations, something like: "Can I be so pretty ?!"

Meeting in Mikhailovsky

Anna Petrovna Kern and Pushkin again met when Alexander Sergeevich was sent into exile to his native Mikhailovskoe estate. It was the most boring and lonely time for him, after a noisy Odessa he was annoyed and morally crushed. "Poetry saved me, I resurrected my soul," he will write later. It was at this time, as it was impossible by the way, that Kern came to visit relatives in Trigorskoye on one of the July days of 1825. Pushkin was immensely pleased with this, she became for him for a while a ray of light. By that time, Anna was already a big fan of the poet, she craved meeting with him and again struck him with her beauty. The poet was seduced by it, especially after the soulful song of the popular at that time romance "The Night of Spring Breathed".

A poem for Anna

Anna Kern in Pushkin's life for a moment became a passing muse, an inspiration that surged through him in an unexpected way. Impressed, he immediately takes a pen and devotes her his poem "I remember a wonderful moment."

From Kern's reminiscences, it follows that on the evening of the July day in 1825, after dinner at Trigorskoye, everyone decided to visit Mikhailovskoe. Two crews set out on their journey. In one of them PA Osipova was traveling with her son Alexei Vulf, in the other, ANN. Wolf, her cousin Anna Kern and Pushkin. The poet was more polite than ever.

It was a farewell party, the next day Kern was supposed to leave for Riga. In the morning Pushkin came to say goodbye, brought her a copy of one of Onegin's chapters. And among the uncircumcised leaf she found a poem dedicated to her, read and then she wanted to put her poetic gift in the box, just as Pushkin convulsively grabbed him and did not want to give it away for a long time. This behavior of the poet Anna did not understand.

Undoubtedly, this woman gave him moments of happiness, and perhaps, and brought it to life.

Relations

It is very important in this matter to note that Pushkin himself did not consider the feeling he felt for Kern to be in love. Maybe, so he gave women for their tender affection and affection. In a letter to Anna Nikolayevna Wulf, he wrote that he wrote a lot about poetry about love, but he had no love for Anna, otherwise he would become very jealous of her for Alexei Wulf, who enjoyed her benevolence.

B. Tomashevsky notes that, of course, an intriguing outburst of feelings between them was, it was the impetus for writing a poetic masterpiece. Maybe Pushkin himself, giving it to Kern, suddenly thought about the fact that it could cause a false interpretation, and therefore resisted his impulse. But it was already late. Surely at these moments, Anna Kern was happy with herself. Pushkin's initial line "I remember a wonderful moment" remained etched on her tombstone. This poem actually made from it a living legend.

Connectivity

Anna Petrovna Kern and Pushkin parted ways, but their further relations are not known for certain. She left with her daughters to Riga and jokingly allowed the poet to write her letters. And he wrote them to her, they have survived to this day, true, in French. There were no hints of deep feelings in them. On the contrary, they are ironic and mocking, but very friendly. The poet no longer writes that she is a "genius of pure beauty" (the relationship has moved to a different phase), and calls her "our Anna of the Babylonian harlot."

Ways of Destiny

Anna Kern and Pushkin next time will see in two years, in 1827, when she will leave her husband and move to St. Petersburg, than cause gossip in high society.

Kern, along with his sister and father after moving to Petersburg, will live in the house where she first met Pushkin in 1819.

This day she will spend fully in the company of Pushkin and his father. Anna did not find words of admiration and joy from the meeting with him. It was, most likely, not love, but a great human affection and passion. In a letter to Sobolevsky, Pushkin openly writes that the other day he slept with Kern.

In December 1828, Pushkin met his precious Natalie Goncharova, lived with her for 6 years in marriage, she will give him four children. In 1837, Pushkin will be killed in a duel.

freedom

Anna Kern will finally be freed from the bonds of marriage, when her husband will die in 1841. She will fall in love with the cadet Alexander Markov-Vinogradsky, who also will be her second cousin. With him, she will lead a quiet family life, although he is less than 20 years old.

Anna will show letters and a poem by Pushkin as a relic to Ivan Turgenev, but a miserable position will force her to sell them at five rubles apiece.

One by one, her daughters will die. She will survive Pushkin for 42 years and retain in her memoirs a living image of the poet, who, she believed, really never loved anyone.

In fact, it is not clear who Anna Kern was in Pushkin's life. The history of the relationship between these two people, between which the spark flew, gave the world one of the most beautiful, most elegant and heartfelt poems dedicated to a beautiful woman who were only in Russian poetry.

The result

After the death of Pushkin's mother and the death of the poet himself, Kern did not interrupt his close relationship with his family. The poet's father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, who felt acute loneliness after the death of his wife, wrote to Anna Petrovna trembling heartfelt letters and even wanted to live with her "the last sad years".

She died in Moscow six months after her husband's death - in 1879. With him, she lived a good 40 years and never stressed his failure.

Anna is buried in the village of Prutnya near the town of Torzhok, Tver province. Their son Alexander committed suicide after the death of his parents.

Pushkin's brother Lev Sergeyevich also dedicated a poem to her, which she had read from memory to Pushkin at the meeting in 1827. It began with the words: "How can one not go insane."

This consideration of the theme "Pushkin and Kern: the love story" can be ended. As it became clear, Kern captivated all the men of the Pushkin family, they somehow incredibly succumbed to her charm.