5 funny quirks and oddities of Russian writers

We used to admire the national classics. Writers and poets for us - unreachable star. But, nevertheless, even they were earth people - think about pressing issues, someone loved and hated, had their sometimes very strange features.

Website publishes a selection of amusing eccentricities writers, of which eyewitnesses.

Alexander Pushkin h2>

«The sun of Russian poetry", "our everything", Alexander Pushkin was very fond of lemonade. especially during operation. And immediately come to mind lines: "Let's drink, a good friend of my poor youth, have a drink with grief; where is the circle? The heart will be happier ».

It should be noted that a drink Alexander drank mostly at night. "Sometimes at night to write, he is now lemonade at night and put" - recalled the poet valet Nikifor Fedorov. This Pushkin loved and black coffee, but apparently emboldened him more lemonade.

Interesting fact: according to the memoirs of Konstantin Danzas, Lyceum Pushkin's friend and second's, going to a duel with Dantes, the writer went into the shop and drank a glass of lemonade.

Nikolai Gogol h2>

Nikolai Gogol's contemporaries testify that the writer hit them with their eccentricities. He had a love of needlework: with the greatest diligence he himself kroil scarves and vests corrected. < I write only standing, and sleeping - just sitting.

One of the many quirks of the writer had a passion for skating Corn balls. Poet and translator Nicholas Berg recalled: "Gogol, or walked around the room, from corner to corner, or sitting and writing, rolling balls of white bread, about which told friends that they help resolve the most complex and difficult problems. When he was bored at lunch, then again he rolled balls and silently threw them into the brew soup or sitting next to ... A friend brought this whole heap of balls and keeps reverently ... »

Anton Chekhov h2>

In Yalta Chekhov period of life for his family began to notice tendencies and amazing displays. His sister Maria Pavlovna recalled that the writer often squatted near a heap of rubble in the garden and began methodically hammer to break the rubble into small chips
In Yalta, a writer and a passion for collecting stamps. "He received and sent several thousand letters - writes chehoved. - These letters came to him not only from Russia but also from foreign countries. Anton Pavlovich these Marochko carefully removed from the envelopes, put them in pachechku and tied white thread. In each pack was 200 marks, and his entire collection of several thousand! »

Fyodor Dostoyevsky h2>

A striking feature of Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a never-ending interest in people. The writer loved to meet new people, start talking on the street with random passers-by, while looking at his interlocutor in the eye and vysprashivaya him about everything. Thus Dostoevsky gathered material for future works, formed the characters.

When the plan matures, Fyodor locked and had long worked, forgetting food and sleep. He paced the room and blurts out loud text. One even took with him a curious case. The writer worked on "Crime and Punishment" and loudly talked about the old woman money-lender and Raskolnikov. The waiter heard it from behind the door, she refused to serve Dostoevsky. He thought he was going to kill someone.

Leo Tolstoy h2>

Many contemporaries believed that Leo Tolstoy sbrendil very motivated his religious ideas, that's why walks in rags but rub shoulders with the riffraff. However, Yasnaya Polyana Count explained his passion for plowing, mowing and cutting of firewood usual habit to move.

If the writer of the day, never left the house even for a walk, then becoming irritable by the evening, and at night I could not sleep. That move - and a lot of pleasure. Largely because of this Leo remained until the last days remarkable vigor.

In addition Tolstoy loved to sew boots "on gifts». to give away their all - friends, friends, relatives. His son Michael Sukhotin (by the way, the leader of the nobility), wrote in his memoirs that this treasured memento from the test on the same shelf with "War and Peace».

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov h2>

Writing for Vladimir Nabokov was akin to ritual. Most of their texts he wrote on rectangular cards 3 to 5 inches (7 6 12 7 cm), which are then ligated into books. And Nabokov needed only razlineennye cards and only with sharp angles and pencils with eraser on the end. Other instruments writer is not recognized.

It is well known and his passion for entomology. That's a funny way of illustration, a photograph of the master in short shorts and a net.

Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov (Kataev) h2>

Yevgeny Petrov, known works, "The Twelve Chairs", "The Golden Calf", "bright personality" and others, written in collaboration with Ilya Ilf, was an outstanding personality. Only wild imagination Petrova could spawn into the world as original stories and novels to come up with a unique fascination.

The basis of the collection was the writer of the brand. At first glance, there is nothing mysterious, because then philately was widespread. But Yevgeny Petrov is expressed in the original form - he wrote and sent letters to the real country, but non-existent in the city and invented his own address
As a result, in about a month and a half of his letter returned back, crowned stamps, stamps and foreign post offices with a note: "Recipient not found." Such labeled envelopes and of interest to the writer. Original, is not it?



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