Pushkin

Pushkin could remember from 4 years old. Several times he talked about how once on a walk noticed how the earth swaying and shaking the column, and the last earthquake was recorded in Moscow just in 1803. And by the way, approximately at the same time there was a first meeting with the emperor Pushkin - little Sasha had almost fell under the hooves of the horse Aleksanrda I, who also went for a walk. Thank God, Alexander managed to hold his horse, the child was not injured, and the only one who got a fright in earnest - a nurse.

And in the famous Lyceum Pushkin, it turns out, he went to pull. Lyceum founded the minister Speransky set was small - only 30 people, but Pushkin had an uncle - a very famous and talented poet Vasily Pushkin, who was personally acquainted with Speransky. I do not know how to feel Uncle afterwards, but in the list of achievers who have prepared for prom Pushkin was the second from the end.

But at the Lyceum Pushkin for the first time I fell in love. It is interesting to read even a list of his victories, and reviews of different people there. His brother, for example, said that Pushkin himself was a fool, growth is small, but women somehow liked. That is confirmed by an enthusiastic letter of Vera Alexandrovna Nashchokin, which was also in love with Pushkin Pushkin was brown with very curly hair, blue eyes and an extraordinary appeal. However, the same brother Pushkin admitted that when Pushkin someone interested, it becomes very tempting. On the other hand, when Pushkin was not interested, his conversation was sluggish, dull and just unbearable.

The first duel Pushkin happened in high school, but in general he was summoned to a duel more than 90 times. Pushkin himself offered to shoot more than a hundred times. The reason could not be worth a damn - for example, in the usual dispute about trifles Pushkin could suddenly to call someone a scoundrel, and, of course, it ended in gunfire.

Even Pushkin had gambling debts, and quite serious. True, he almost always found the means to cover them, but when there is some delay, he wrote to his creditors malicious epigrams and drew caricatures in their notebooks. One such sheet found, and there was a big scandal.

Yes, and that's what they write about Pushkin foreigners. It turns out that Eugene Onegin - it is generally the first Russian novel (although in verse). It is written in the "Encyclopedia Britannica" edition of 1961. There it is written that before Pushkin Russian language was not at all suitable for fiction.

By the way, in Russia in 1912 and 1914 he published a collection of poems by Pushkin, which have now become a rarity: the collector was a certain Vladimir Lenin, and a foreword written by A. Ulyanov. Lenin - was a pseudonym publisher Sytin (his daughter's name was Helen), and literary Ulyanov was just a namesake.

And - finally - probably the most fun fact, which, however, has nothing to do, actually, Pushkin's biography. In Ethiopia, a few years ago as a monument to Pushkin. On a beautiful marble pedestal is inscribed: "Our poet."