Verstov is the first friend to read. Alexander Pushkin - Pushchin: Verse

The author talks about the beginning of everything in the life of every person. He insists that everything once happened to everyone for the first time. Suddenly, and for the first time in his life, a person meets another person. But we are also destined to tie our destinies for the rest of our lives. They become true friends.

The author tells about his faithful and devoted friend. His friend's name was Sasha. They met back in the kindergarten, but this meeting was very important and decisive for everyone. The author's friend had a very interesting appearance. He was thin, with huge green eyes. I always liked to be neat and neatly dressed. The friends loved spending time together. With pleasure each of them listened to the other.

Friends went to different schools. Each of them had friends of classmates, but they never doubted that they were the closest friends and this was for life. The author compares their friendship with the friendship between Pushchin and Pushkin. He is glad that his friend is also called the Great Poet. The author is proud and rejoices in the strong friendship of two great people. He wants to take their example. He says that fate has not yet tested his friendship with Sasha, but he is sure that they will be able to overcome everything and maintain their devoted friendship.

Their relationship will be as strong and eternal as Pushkin and Pushchin.

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My first friend, my priceless friend

190 years ago, the world's most famous poem about friendship was written.

I.I. Pushchino

My first friend
my friend is priceless!
And I blessed fate
When my yard is secluded
covered in sad snow,
Your bell has rung.
I pray holy Providence:
Yes, my voice to your soul
Gives the same comfort
May he illuminate the prison
Beam lyceum clear days!

Alexander Pushkin 1826

The friends met in Mikhailovsky at eight o'clock in the morning on January 11 (23rd according to the new style), 1825, and spent the whole day, evening and part of the night in conversation.
The arrival of Pushchin was a huge event for the disgraced poet. After all, even relatives did not dare to visit the exile, they dissuaded Pushchin from the trip.
The unexpected joy of the meeting illuminated not only that short January day, but also much that awaited friends ahead. When, thirty years later, Ivan Ivanovich Pushchin takes up his pen to describe his meeting with Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, every letter in his manuscript will shine with happiness. "Notes on Pushkin" is one of the brightest works created in the memoir genre in Russian.
Shortly before parting, friends remembered how they talked through a thin wooden partition in the Lyceum. Pushchin had the thirteenth room, Pushkin had the fourteenth. It's right in the middle of a long corridor. From a boyish point of view, the location is advantageous ─ while the tutor is coming from one end or the other, the neighbors will warn you of the danger. And Pushkin and Pushchin had a common window, a partition divided it strictly in half.
Reviews of the overseer Martyn Piletsky about the lyceum students have been preserved, here is what he wrote about the 13-year-old Pushchin:

"... Nobility, good nature with courage and subtle ambition, especially prudence ─ are his excellent qualities."

Who could have known then how useful Ivan would be both this courage and this prudence ...
The thirteenth number brought three bottles of Clicquot champagne, the manuscript "Woe from Wit", a letter from Ryleev, gifts from Uncle Vasily Lvovich, a lot of news to Mikhailovskoye, and took away the beginning of the poem "Gypsies", letters ... He left after midnight, at three o'clock January 12th.

"... The coachman had already harnessed the horses, the bell rang at the porch, the clock struck three. We still clinked glasses, but we drank sadly: as if it felt like the last time we were drinking together, and drinking for eternal separation! Silently I threw a fur coat over my shoulders and ran away in the sleigh. Pushkin was still saying something after me; not hearing anything, I looked at him: he stopped on the porch with a candle in his hand. The horses rushed downhill. I heard: "Farewell, friend!" The gate creaked behind me. .."

When Pushkin undertakes to complete his message to Pushchin, he will have been imprisoned for almost a year ─ first in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and then in the Shlisselburg Fortress. After the verdict, Ivan Pushchin and Wilhelm Küchelbecker were deleted from the "Memorial book of the Lyceum", as if they did not exist at all.
In October 1827, Pushchin, shackled in hand and foot shackles, was sent by stage to the Chita jail. The journey took three months.

"On the very day of my arrival in Chita, Alexandra Grigorievna Muravyova calls me to the stockade and gives me a piece of paper on which it was written in an unknown hand: "My first friend, my priceless friend! .."

This was early in 1828. And Pushchin saw the original poem only in 1842.

Dmitry Shevarov "Motherland", No. 5, 2016

Illustration ─ Nikolai Ge. "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the village of Mikhailovsky" (1875): Pushkin and Pushchin reading "Woe from Wit".

My first friend, my priceless friend!
And I blessed fate
When my yard is secluded
covered in sad snow,
Your bell has rung.

Analysis of Pushkin's poem "I. I. Pushchin»

Among his lyceum friends, Alexander Pushkin especially singled out Ivan Pushchin, with whom the poet had a very warm and trusting relationship. The two young people were united not only by common views on life, but also by a love of literature. In their youth, they even competed among themselves on the subject of who would write a poem on a given topic faster and better.

The fate of Ivan Pushchin was tragic. He was one of the participants in the Decembrist uprising, after the failure of which he received life imprisonment. The last time the friends met was just on the eve of these tragic events, in the winter of 1825. At this time, Pushkin lived in the Mikhailovskoye family estate, where, by order of the authorities, he was exiled for freethinking. And Pushchin was one of the first to visit the poet during this difficult period for him. The meeting of friends was short, but its meaning became clear to Pushkin much later, after the Decembrist uprising was ruthlessly suppressed, and his lyceum comrade was a prisoner of the Chita jail. Ivan Pushchin assumed such a development of events, so he came to Pushkin in order to say goodbye, although he did not say a word that he was to become one of the participants in a secret conspiracy and attempt on the life of Emperor Nicholas I. This meeting of friends turned out to be the last, more was not destined to meet.

On the eve of the anniversary of the Decembrist uprising, in the winter of 1826, Pushkin wrote a poem called “I. I. Pushchin ”, which was transferred to the convict a few years later through the wife of the Decembrist Nikita Muravyov. In it, the poet recalls their last meeting, noting that he “blessed fate” when Ivan Pushchin came to Mikhailovskoye to brighten up his loneliness and distract the author from gloomy thoughts about his own fate. At that moment, the best friend morally supported Pushkin, who was on the verge of despair, believing that his career was ruined, and his life was hopeless. Therefore, when Pushchin found himself in a similar situation, the author considered it his duty to send him an encouraging verse message, in which he confessed: “I pray to holy providence.” By this, the poet wanted to emphasize that he not only worries about the fate of his friend, but also believes that his sacrifice was not made to society in vain, and future generations will be able to appreciate this selfless act. At this time, the poet already knows that Ivan Pushchin refused to flee abroad after the failure of the Decembrist uprising and survived his arrest in his St. Petersburg house. Turning to a friend, the poet dreams that his voice, dressed in verse, will give him consolation. “May he illuminate the prison with a beam of lyceum clear days!”, Pushkin notes. Later, Ivan Pushchin wrote in his diary: "Pushkin's voice echoed in me with joy." Namely, this short message subsequently formed the basis of the memoirs of the former convict, which he dedicated to his friendship with the great Russian poet.

Pushkin was very upset by the separation from his friend, and subsequently addressed him a few more poems. Through his high-ranking acquaintances, he even tried to influence the decision of the authorities, hoping that the sentence of life imprisonment for Ivan Pushchin would still be mitigated. However, Emperor Nicholas I, who survived the horror of the assassination attempt on the day of his ascension to the throne, refused to pardon the Decembrist. Only after almost 30 years Ivan Pushchin received the right to return to St. Petersburg. He visited the poet's grave, located on the territory of the Svyatogorsky Monastery, as well as in Mikhailovsky, paying tribute to his lyceum friend, who did not turn away from him in difficult times.

I. I. Pushchin

Notes

I. I. PUSHCHIN. My first friend, my priceless friend!. It was not published during Pushkin's lifetime. Written December 13, 1826, in Pskov.

The poem was sent to Pushchin in Siberia for hard labor along with a message to the Decembrists "In the depths of Siberian ores."

For the first stanza of this poem, Pushkin took without changes the first 5 verses of the unfinished message to Pushchin, written back in 1825. See "From early editions."

From earlier editions

In an unfinished message to I. I. Pushchin in 1825, the verse "Your bell has announced" followed:

Forgotten shelter, disgraced hut You suddenly revived with joy, On the deaf and distant side You shared the day of exile, the sad day With a sad friend. Tell me where the years have gone, Days of hope and freedom> Tell me what are ours? what friends? Where are these linden vaults? Where is youth? Where are you? Where I am? Fate, fate with an iron hand Has broken our peaceful lyceum, But you are happy, O dear brother, On your chosen line. You defeated prejudices And from grateful citizens You knew how to demand respect, In the eyes of public opinion You exalted the dark rank. In its humble foundation You observe justice, You honor ........... ...................

Unfinished message of 1825. The message was caused by Pushchin's arrival in Mikhailovskoye, where he spent one day with Pushkin. At the end of the message, it is said about the position of the judge, elected by Pushchin after his departure from the guard¤

My first friend, my priceless friend!
And I blessed fate
When my yard is secluded
covered in sad snow,
Your bell has rung.

Analysis of the poem “I.I. Pushchin" Pushkin

Pushkin often turned to friends in his work. Among them, the closest was I. I. Pushchin, whom the poet met while still studying at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. The young people had similar interests and views on the future of Russia. Pushchin turned out to be one of those who did not lose favor with Pushkin during his exile. In 1825 he visited the great poet in the village. Mikhailovskoye. The poem “I. I. Pushchin.

It is known that the Decembrists hid plans for an armed uprising from Pushkin, as they did not want to bring suspicion on the poet. They understood the significance of his talent and wanted to save it for the future. During his visit to Mikhailovskoye, Pushchin also said nothing to Pushkin about the impending speech. The poet learned about him while still in exile. Pushchin was convicted and sent to a settlement in Siberia. Pushkin several times wrote appeals to the tsar with a request for mitigation of punishment, but was invariably refused. In 1826 he wrote the poem “I. I. Pushchin ”and sent him to distant Siberia. The unfortunate convict was very grateful to Pushkin for this literary news.

From the first lines, Pushkin addresses his comrade with very touching words (“first friend”, “priceless friend”). Pushkin was bored and lonely in the countryside. His only joy was the nanny - Arina Rodionovna. He is infinitely grateful to his friend for his visit, which is associated with the ringing of a bell. Russian poets and writers often note the magical sound of a bell that awakens a godforsaken village from hibernation and symbolizes the unexpected arrival of a guest.

Pushkin compares his village exile with Pushchin's Siberian imprisonment. He, of course, understands that the size of the punishment is not comparable. But both friends suffered for their sincere convictions, which they had at the same time back in the days of the Lyceum. Reminding Pushchin of "lyceum clear days", Pushkin emphasizes his unbreakable commitment to youthful ideals.

The poet guessed that even close friends did not say something. Subsequently, he realized that he could well share the fate of the Decembrists. The link to Mikhailovskoye became an unexpected salvation for the poet, as it made it impossible for him to stay in the capital. The poem "I. I. Pushchin ”is also a kind of apology from Pushkin to a friend.