Farewell to Pushkin: an account of the memories of friends

Consider a topic that interests very many high school students, "Farewell to Pushkin." The presentation of its main theses may be required in the literature lesson, since this topic is quite interesting and extensive. In this case, sources containing a description of this tragic event, it is desirable to use a wide variety. The main thing here is to depict as accurately as possible how the people perceived the news of the poet's death and how farewell to Pushkin passed. The presentation can be based on the memoirs of eyewitnesses. This, in particular, was written very much by the friends and friends of the poet: Prince PA Vyazemsky, VA Zhukovsky, AI Turgenev and others. We will rely on their texts in the future.

Farewell to Pushkin. Where to find the presentation?

Now, from the memories of the life and death of the great talent, we will try to restore those days and those emotions that all those who loved Pushkin had to relive and were affectionately attached to him.

The tragic news of his injury to the duel spread very quickly over Petersburg. On January 28, crowds of people from different estates began to come to the embankment of Moika, where the poet's house was located. Familiar and unfamiliar, they went up to the front door and called, hoping to find out the good news. There were so many visitors that Zhukovsky was forced to hang a ballot in which it was written that the patient was in extremely serious condition, and it sounded like a funeral ringing.

Farewell to Pushkin. Text of presentation

But people did not disperse. Meanwhile, the poet's pulse was barely perceptible. His life went away forever with each passing minute. In the office where he was dying, all the relatives gathered. Zhukovsky was sitting and silently sobbing. Natalia Nikolaevna, finding an excuse, was taken out. The friends stood silently next to the bed of the dying man, when suddenly he rose slightly on the bed and said: "Life is over." His face tied the mask of death, at that moment it began to express solemn calm. Zhukovsky went out to the crowd and announced that Alexander Sergeyevich had died. A mournful silence hung in the air. Twilight was approaching, a soft thick snow came. This happened on January 29 (February 10) in 1837.

V. A. Zhukovsky

Zhukovsky described all this in detail in his letter to the deceased friend's father, Sergei Lvovich, which was published under the heading "The Last Minutes of Pushkin."

Prince P. A. Viazemsky wrote to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich on February 14, 1837, that after the death of Alexander in all his house there was only 300 rubles, Count Stroganov immediately hastened to announce that he was taking the costs for the funeral and wanted to arrange very solemn the funeral. However, soon he received very different orders.

P. A. Vyazemsky

In the continuation of the topic "Farewell to Pushkin", the statement should be continued because the body was ordered to be taken out at night without torches and taken to the Stables church. Supposedly it was necessary for public safety. To say good bye to a friend came about ten people. Vyazemsky described his indignation about this. On the day of Pushkin's funeral, there were a lot of gendarmes in the house and on the street, and this instead of close people and admirers of his talent! This was due to the fact that Nicholas I ordered a parade at the Winter Palace of 60,000 cavalry and infantry, which was the pretext for carrying the funeral of Pushkin's body from St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Stables Church.

Natalie, not listening to the courtiers 'objections, buried her husband in a dress coat, and not in the Junkers' uniform - a striped caftan, as Pushkin called him. He once dropped a note to her in a letter, which she remembered: "It's not enough consolation for me to be buried in a striped caftan."

AI Turgenev

Turgenev recalled that, closer to midnight, the body of the deceased was taken from Konyushennaya Church. Among the escorts in the tent were Turgenev himself, a postman, a gendarme and a servant of the deceased. The coffin of the great Russian poet was ridden on a postal sledge, wrapped in matting and hidden under straw.

On the way, they stopped at Pushkin's favorite Trigorskoye, where his neighbor lived on a property and a great friend - Praskovya Alexandrovna Osipova and her daughters. One of them recalled that they had heard about Pushkin's duel, but they did not know anything else. And then on February 5, 1837 Alexander Ivanovich and another man came to them, they were carrying a box in long sleighs and, not knowing the road to the Svyatogorsky Monastery, decided to turn to their estate. Strongly vegetative, they wanted to rest, because the frost in those days was terrible.

Everything seemed to have turned out specially, for Pushkin could not help saying goodbye to the adored Trigorsky. My mother lodged guests for the night and in the morning she equipped the peasants from Trigorskoye and Mikhailovskaya to the Holy Mountains to dig a grave.

The funeral

Pushkin was buried by several monks together with the abbot of the monastery, Turgenev and two young ladies. In spring Osipova PA ennobled the crypt of the poet, since none of his relatives ever visited Alexander's grave, and the poet's wife arrived only two years later.

Such was the parting with Pushkin. The students write the presentation of this topic according to a given source. Most often in the role of the latter are exactly the texts of memories we have presented.