Pushkin. Boldino. Quarantine. Self -insulation chronicle 1830

“Nothing looks like a Russian village in 1662, like a Russian village in 1833,” said Pushkin. And Gogol wrote about Pushkin: This is a Russian person in his development, in which he may appear in 200 years. Twisting the calendar of the Boldin"s autumn, the Moscow journalist and translator, the chief editor of the portal of the year-river.rf Mikhail Visel sags letters sent by Pushkin from the Nizhny Novgorod estate to the bride, friends, and business partners. Nothing is so similar to the self-isolation of 2020 as quarantine of 1830, up to the addiction of genius to buckwheat! Pushkin and this is our everything.
The author’s entry:
"every quarantine can turn into Boldin"s autumn, ”we say in Russia. And indeed - if you figure it out, it’s just amazing how a brief and purely economic trip to the Nizhny Novgorod estate in the fall of 1830 unexpectedly became 31 -year -old Pushkin with a three -month -old “creative business trip”. As we recall, from September 5 to December 1, 1830, “Onegin” was written “small tragedies” and innovative (for Pushkin himself and for all Russian literature) "Tale of Belkin", the poem “House in Kolomna”, not to mention about Several dozen lyrical poems. Thanks to which the Boldin autumn went down in history as the highest take -off of the genius in the prime.
And Pushkin also wrote letters. 19 letters to various correspondents reached us - first of all, of course, the bride is M -lle Goncharova, 18 -year -old Natasha. But also to friends and colleagues in whom he adhered to the syllable, directly to say, informal. And now there was now something like an “Instagram "or" Facebook ", according to which we can restore: what exactly did Pushkin do in his Boldin autumn? How was she - Boldinskaya? Pushkin’s letters make it clear how.
2nd edition, corrected and supplemented