Biography Maria Raevskaya

Persona Volkonskaya Raevskaya Maria Nikolaevna Volkonsky with noble women. Lomonosov, who in his youth was called the "Virgin Gang", did not reconcile with her daughter’s act until his death: to follow her husband to Siberia. Maria Nikolaevna was brought up at home, played on the piano, sang perfectly, knew several foreign languages. The early youth of Maria Nikolaevna was marked by a meeting with A.

Pushkin during the years of his southern exile, their joint trip to Gurzuf, where the poet stayed in the Raevsky house. By the way, to this day, the Pushkin alley exists in Gurzuf, and the Raevsky house in the city of Pushkin will depict her or devote her poems and prose to her: the “Caucasian captive” image of the Cherkeshenka, “Bakhchisarai fountain”, “Eugene Onegin” is a lyrical retreat: “In my opinion, M.

Lunin was in love with it, which, however, had never laid the boundaries of decency. There is a version that she did not love her husband and cheated on him with Alexander Zhajio, even considered children Volkonsky by children of the priest. You can get acquainted with information on this issue in the memoirs of D. Zavalishin in the book of N. Berberova “Iron Woman” by N.

Sabashnikov, author of memoirs. Children Nikolai 2. Pushkin met with Maria Raevskaya in St. Petersburg in years and in the south in the years. The last time the poet was seen with her in Moscow December, on the eve of her departure to Siberia to her husband, Decembrist S. Volkonsky, sentenced to 20 years in hard labor. This act of her was a feat of selflessness, fidelity and courage, which contemporaries already appreciated.

Pushkin, full of admiration, even worshiping this young woman, dedicated her his new poem “Poltava”. According to some researchers, the cycles of lyrical poems written by the poet in the south are associated with the name of Maria Raevskaya-Volkonskaya, and two poetic masterpieces of a later time: “Do not sing, beauty, with me” and “On the hills of Georgia” the materials of the book were used.

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But if the old Volkonsky, absorbed in his agricultural exercises and all that went into the people, was not burdened by the city and was much more interested in the village, then his wife, Princess Marya Nikolaevna, was completely secular, loved society and entertainment and managed to make the main center of Irkutsk public life from her house. They say that she was good, but, from my point of view of a summer boy, she could not seem different like an old woman, since she passed in 40 years then; I remember her woman tall, slender, thin, with a small relative to her head and beautiful, constantly squinting eyes.

She kept herself with great dignity, spoke slowly and generally on us, children, made an impression of proud, dry, like an ice person, so that we were always somewhat shy in her presence, a white -headed N. from the recollections of the Siberian about the Decembrists. Selected pages.