Chronicle of self-isolation in 1830.
“Nothing is more like a Russian village in 1662 than a Russian village in 1833,” said Pushkin. And Gogol wrote about Pushkin: "This is a Russian person in his development, in which he, perhaps, will appear in 200 years." Leafing through the calendar of the Boldinskaya autumn, a Moscow journalist and translator, editor-in-chief of the portal GodLiterature.RF Mikhail Vizel parses letters sent by Pushkin from the Nizhny Novgorod estate to his bride, friends, and business partners. Nothing is more like self-isolation in 2020 than the quarantine of 1830, right down to the genius's addiction to buckwheat! Pushkin and this is our everything.
Author's introduction:“Any quarantine can turn into the Boldin autumn,” we say in Russia. Indeed, if you look at it, it's just amazing how a short and purely economic trip to the Nizhny Novgorod estate in the fall of 1830 unexpectedly became a three-month "creative trip" for 31-year-old Pushkin. As we remember, from September 5 to December 1, 1830 "Onegin" was completed, "Little Tragedies" and innovative (for Pushkin himself and for all Russian literature) "Belkin's Tale", the poem "House in Kolomna" were written, not to mention several dozen lyric poems. Thanks to this, the Boldinskaya autumn went down in history as the highest rise of a genius in his prime.And Pushkin also wrote letters. We have received 19 letters to various correspondents - first of all, of course, to the bride - m-lle Goncharova, 18-year-old Natasha. But also to friends and colleagues, in which he adhered to the style, to put it bluntly, informal. And now we have at our disposal something like Instagram or Facebook, from which we can restore: what exactly did Pushkin do in his Boldin autumn? How did she end up - Boldinskaya? Pushkin's letters make it clear how.
