Arina Rodionovna, nurse of AS Pushkin

The name of this woman is known today to any schoolboy. There is hardly a person who will not answer, as the nurse Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich called. But what do most of our compatriots know about its origin and biography? So it turned out that her life was always for us in the shadow of the biography and creativity of her famous pupil. This, of course, is not surprising. Do not realize Pushkin as Successful and recognized poet, we hardly know who Arina Rodionovna is. However, Alexander Sergeyevich himself did not tire of repeating and emphasizing its important role in its formation and already in adulthood. Nanny Pushkin, without a doubt, deserves his share of recognition.

Origin and early years of Arina Rodionovna

She was born in April 1758 in one of the small villages of St. Petersburg province. Her parents were serfs. The name of Arina Rodionovna, Pushkin's nanny, is Yakovlev. In addition to her family, she had six children. In the first year of his life, the future nanny of Pushkin was listed as a serf owned by Count Fedor Apraksin. But in 1759 Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, the great-grandfather of the famous Russian poet, buys the neighboring lands together with the villages and the peasants inhabiting them. In 1781, Arina marries and moves to the village of Kobrino to her husband. With the move, she becomes a serf Osip Hannibal, the grandfather of the poet. Approximately at this time, she was taken to serve in the landlord's house, For work on childcare. At first she was the nurse Nadezhda Osipovna, Pushkin's mother, And in time, and for her children - Alexander, Olga and Leo - became a nanny. In 1972, she took the grandmother of the future poet Maria Alexandrovna as a nanny for her nephew Alexei. Three years later, Arina Rodionovna receives a gift from the landowner's family for her impeccable service to the cottage in Kobrino.

Nurse A.S. Pushkin

In 1879, Olga Pushkin (the poet's eldest sister) was born, and in 1799 the future Russian classic himself. Arina Rodionovna's shoulders, of course, bear a new responsibility for the upbringing of these children. It is interesting that the family of Hannibals in 1807 sells once bought land, which included the village of Kobrino. However, by that time the nurse was already attached not to the land, but to the owners, so the sale did not extend to her. She moved with her family to the Pskov province, to the Mikhailovskoye village. The next period, perhaps, is the lightest page of its Life.

The image of this woman often appeared in the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. His poems give her a very full description. Classical sister Olga recalled Arina Rodionovna as a real representative of Russian nannies, with a quivering and gentle attitude to children. At the same time AS Pushkin's nanny was attached to her pupils not only during their childhood, but throughout their entire life. Thus, during the Mikhailovsky exile of Alexander Sergeevich (1824-26), in which the poet was imprisoned for two years for freethinking, the woman was constantly beside him, brightening up the loneliness of the poet. Here, in Mikhailovskoye, Pushkin saw her for the last time in September 1827. Nine months later, Arina Rodionovna died at the age of 70 years of age. Then she was buried in St. Petersburg in the Smolensk cemetery.