I loved you: love still, perhaps
In my soul it has not completely faded away;
But don't let it bother you anymore;
I do not want to sadden you with anything.
I loved you wordlessly, hopelessly,
Now we are tormented by timidity, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
How God grant you beloved to be different.
Analysis of the poem "I loved you" by Pushkin
Peru, the great poet owns many poems dedicated to women with whom he was in love. The date of the creation of the work "I loved you ..." is known - 1829. But still the disputes of literary critics about who it was dedicated to do not stop. There are two main versions. One by one it was the Polish princess K. Sabanska. The second version names Countess A. A. Olenina. For both women, Pushkin experienced a very strong attraction, but neither one nor the other responded to his courtship. In 1829 the poet proposes to his future wife, N. Goncharova. The result is a verse about a past hobby.
The poem is an example of an artistic description of unrequited love. Pushkin talks about her in the past tense. Years have not been able to completely erase from memory an enthusiastic strong feeling. It still makes itself felt ("love ... not quite extinguished"). Once she caused the poet unbearable suffering, being replaced by "now shyness, then jealousy." Gradually, the fire in his chest died out, only embers remained.
It can be assumed that at one time Pushkin's courtship was rather persistent. At the moment, he seems to apologize to his former lover and assures that now she can be calm. In support of his words, he adds that the remnants of the former feeling have turned into friendship. The poet sincerely wishes a woman to find her ideal of a man who will love her just as much and tenderly.
The poem is a passionate monologue of the lyrical hero. The poet talks about the innermost movements of his soul. The repeated repetition of the phrase “I loved you” emphasizes the pain of unfulfilled hopes. Frequent use of the pronoun "I" makes the work very intimate, reveals the author's personality to the reader.
Pushkin deliberately does not mention any physical or moral merits of his beloved. Before us is only an ethereal image, inaccessible to the perception of mere mortals. The poet worships this woman and does not admit anyone to her, even through the lines of the poem.
The work "I loved you ..." is one of the strongest in Russian love lyrics. Its main advantage is its concise presentation with incredibly rich semantic content. The verse was greeted with enthusiasm by his contemporaries and was repeatedly transposed to music by famous composers.
I loved you: love still, perhaps, In my soul has not completely faded away; But don't let it bother you anymore; I do not want to sadden you with anything. I loved you wordlessly, hopelessly, Now with timidity, now with jealousy we languish; I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly, As God grant you loved to be different.
The verse "I loved you ..." is dedicated to the bright beauty of that time Karolina Sobanska. For the first time Pushkin and Sobanskaya met in Kiev in 1821. She was 6 years older than Pushkin, then they saw each other two years later. The poet was passionately in love with her, but Carolina played with his feelings. It was a fatal socialite who drove Pushkin to despair with her acting. Years have passed. The poet tried to drown out the bitterness of unrequited feelings with the joy of mutual love. In a wonderful moment the charming A. Kern flashed before him. There were other hobbies in his life, but a new meeting with Karolina in St. Petersburg in 1829 showed how deep and unrequited love Pushkin was.
The poem "I loved you ..." is a small story about unrequited love. It amazes us with the nobility and genuine humanity of feelings. The poet's undivided love is devoid of all selfishness.
Two letters were written about sincere and deep feelings in 1829. In letters to Karolina, Pushkin admits that he experienced all her power over himself, moreover, that he owes her the fact that he has known all the shudders and torments of love, and to this day he experiences fear in front of her that he cannot overcome, and begs for friendship, which he thirsts like a beggar begging for a hunk.
Realizing that his request is very banal, he nevertheless continues to pray: "I need your closeness", "my life is inseparable from yours."
The lyrical hero is a noble, selfless man, ready to leave his beloved woman. Therefore, the poem is imbued with a feeling of great love in the past and a restrained, careful attitude towards the woman he loves in the present. He truly loves this woman, cares about her, does not want to disturb and sadden her with his confessions, wants the love of her future chosen one for her to be as sincere and tender as the love of a poet.
The verse is written in two-syllable iambic, cross rhyme (1 - 3 lines, 2 - 4 lines). From the pictorial means in the poem the metaphor "love has died out" is used.
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I loved you: love still, perhaps, In my soul has not completely faded away; But don't let it bother you anymore; I do not...
I loved you: love still, maybe
In my soul it has not completely faded away;
But don't let it bother you anymore;
I do not want to sadden you with anything.
I loved you wordlessly, hopelessly,
Now we are tormented by timidity, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
How God bless you to be different.
1829
Eight lines. There are eight lines in total. But how many shades of deep, passionate feelings are put into them! In these lines, as V.G. Belinsky, - and "touching the soul sophistication" and "artistic charm".
“It is hardly possible to find another poem that would be at the same time so humble and so passionate, pacifying and piercing, as“ I loved you: love still, maybe ... ”;
The ambiguity of perception and the lack of an autograph of the poem gave rise to many disputes among Pushkin scholars about its addressee.
Having decided to find out who these brilliant lines are dedicated to, two categorical and mutually exclusive opinions immediately met on the Internet.
1. "I loved you" - dedication to Anna Alekseevna Andro-Olenina, Countess de Langenron, Pushkin's beloved in 1828-29.
2. The poem "I loved you ..." was written in 1829. It is dedicated to the brilliant beauty of the time, Karolina Sobanska.
Which statement is true?
Further searches led to an unexpected discovery. It turns out that various researchers of Pushkin's work associated these poems with the names of not two, but at least five women who were courted by the poet.
Who are they?
Venison
The first attribution belongs to the famous bibliophile S.D. Poltoratsky. On March 7, 1849, he wrote: “ Olenina (Anna Alekseevna)... Poems about her and to her by Alexander Pushkin: 1) "Dedication" - the poem "Poltava", 1829 ... 2) "I loved you ..." ... 3) "Her eyes" ... ". On December 11, 1849, Poltoratsky made a note: "She confirmed it to me herself today and said that the poem" You and You "refers to her."
The well-known Pushkin scholar P.V. adhered to the same version. Annenkov, who in the comments to the poem "I loved you ..." noted that "maybe it was written to the same person who is mentioned in the poem" To Dawe, Esq-r "", that is to A.A. Olenina... Annenkov's opinion was accepted by the majority of researchers and publishers of A.S. Pushkin.
Anna Alekseevna Olenina(1808-1888) Growing up in a spiritual atmosphere, Anna was distinguished not only by her attractive appearance, but also by her good humanitarian education. This charming girl danced splendidly, was a clever horsewoman, drew well, sculpted, wrote poetry and prose, however, without attaching great importance to her literary pursuits. Olenina inherited the ability to music from her ancestors, had a beautiful, well-trained voice, and tried to compose romances.
In the spring of 1828, Pushkin was seriously carried away by young Olenina, but his feeling remained unrequited: by the irony of fate, the girl herself then suffered from unrequited love for Prince A.Ya. Lobanov-Rostovsky, a brilliant officer of noble appearance.
At first, Anna Alekseevna was flattered by the courtship of the great poet, whose work she was greatly fond of, and even secretly met with him in the Summer Garden. Realizing that the intentions of Pushkin, who dreamed of marrying her, went far beyond the boundaries of ordinary secular flirting, Olenina began to behave with restraint.
Neither she nor her parents wanted this marriage for various reasons, both personal and political. How serious Pushkin's love for Olenina was, is evidenced by his drafts, where he painted her portraits, wrote her name and anagrams.
Olenina's granddaughter, Olga Nikolaevna Oom, claimed that in Anna Alekseevna's album there was a poem written by Pushkin's hand "I loved you ...". Two dates were recorded under it: 1829 and 1833 with the note “plusqueparfait - long past”. The album itself has not survived, and the question of the addressee of the poem remained open.
Sobanskaya
The famous Pushkin scholar T.G. Tsyavlovskaya attributed the poem to Karolina Adamovna Sobanskaya(1794-1885), which Pushkin was fond of during the period of his southern exile.
In the amazing life of this woman, Odessa and Paris, Russian gendarmes and Polish conspirators, the brilliance of secular salons and the poverty of emigration were united. Of all the literary heroines with whom she was compared, she most of all resembled Milady from The Three Musketeers - insidious, heartless, but still inspiring both love and pity.
Sobanskaya was, it seems, was woven from contradictions: on the one hand, an elegant, intelligent, educated woman who is fond of art and a good pianist, and on the other hand, a windy and vain coquette, surrounded by a crowd of fans, who replaced several husbands and lovers, and besides rumored to be an undercover government agent in the south. Pushkin's relationship with Karolina was far from platonic.
Tsiavlovskaya convincingly showed that two passionate rough letters from Pushkin, which were written in February 1830, and the poem "What is in my name to you?" Are addressed to Sobanskaya. The list contains the poem "So-oh", that is, "Sobanskaya", in which one cannot but see the poem "What's in my name to you?"
What's in a name?
It will die like a sad noise
The waves that splashed into the distant shore,
Like the sound of the night in a deaf forest.
Until now, the poem "I loved you ..." has not been associated with anyone's name. Meanwhile, it is dated by the poet himself in 1829, like the poem "What's in my name for you", and is extremely close to it both in theme and in the tone of humility and sadness ... The main feeling here is great love in the past and restrained, respectful attitude towards in the present ... The poem "I loved you ..." is also associated with Pushkin's first letter to Sobanskaya. The words “I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly” develop in the first letter: “From all this I have only the weakness of the convalescent, the affection is very tender, very sincere and a little fear” ... With the poem “I loved you ...”, apparently , a cycle of the poet's addresses to Karolina Sobanska opens. "
However, a supporter of the attribution of poetry to A.A. Olenina V.P. Stark notes: “The poet could have written the poem“ What's in my name to you? .. ”into Sobanskaya's album, but he never would have“ I loved you… ”. For the proud and passionate Sobanskaya, the words “love has not yet died out in my soul completely” would have been simply offensive. They contain that form of dispassion that does not correspond to her image and Pushkin's attitude towards her. "
Goncharova
Another possible addressee is called Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova (1812-1863). There is no need to tell here in detail about the poet's wife - of all possible "candidates" she is the most known to all admirers of Pushkin's work. In addition, the version that the poem "I loved you ..." is dedicated to her is the most implausible. However, let's get acquainted with the arguments in its favor.
Regarding Pushkin's cold reception at the Goncharovs' in the fall of 1829, D.D. Blagoy wrote: “The poet's painful experiences were transformed at the same time into almost the most heartfelt love-lyrical lines he ever wrote:“ I loved you ... ”... The poem is an absolutely holistic, self-contained world.
But the researcher who asserts this could not have known about the clarification of the date of the creation of the poem "I loved you ..." Chereysky, who actually refutes his version. It was written by Pushkin no later than April, and most likely the beginning of March 1829. It was the time when the poet fell in love with young Natalia Goncharova, whom he met at a ball at the end of 1828, when he realized the seriousness of his feelings for her and finally decided to propose a hand and heart. The poem was written before Pushkin's first matchmaking to N.N. Goncharova and long before the cold reception of Pushkin in her house after his return from the Caucasus.
Thus, the poem "I loved you ..." by the time of creation and content cannot be attributed to N.N. Goncharova ".
Kern
Anna Petrovna Kern(nee Poltoratskaya) was born (11) on February 22, 1800 in Oryol into a wealthy noble family.
Having received an excellent home education, raised in the French language and literature, Anna at the age of 17 was married against her will to the elderly General E. Kern. In this marriage, she was not happy, but gave birth to three daughters to the general. She had to lead the life of a soldier's wife, wandering through the military camps and garrisons where her husband was assigned.
Anna Kern entered Russian history thanks to the role she played in the life of the great poet A.S. Pushkin. They first met in 1819 in St. Petersburg. The meeting was short, but remembered by both.
Their next meeting took place only a few years later, in June 1825, when, on the way to Riga, Anna stopped by to visit the village of Trigorskoye, her aunt's estate. Pushkin was often a guest there, since it was a stone's throw from Mikhailovsky, where the poet "languished in exile."
Then Anna amazed him - Pushkin was delighted with the beauty and intelligence of Kern. Passionate love flared up in the poet, under the influence of which he wrote his famous poem to Anna "I remember a wonderful moment ...".
He had a deep feeling for her for a long time and wrote a number of letters remarkable in strength and beauty. This correspondence has an important biographical meaning.
In subsequent years, Anna maintained friendly relations with the poet's family, as well as with many famous writers and composers.
And yet, the assumption that the addressee of the poem "I loved you ..." may be A.P. Kern, it’s untenable. ”
Volkonskaya
Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaya(1805-1863), Lv. Raevskaya is the daughter of the hero of the Patriotic War of 182, General N.N. Raevsky, wife (since 1825) of the Decembrist Prince S.G. Volkonsky.
When she met the poet in 1820, Mary was only 14 years old. For three months she was with the poet on a joint trip from Yekaterinoslav through the Caucasus to the Crimea. Right in front of Pushkin's eyes, "from a child with undeveloped forms, she began to turn into a slender beauty, whose dark complexion was justified in black curls of thick hair, piercing eyes full of fire." He also met with her later, in Odessa in November 1823, when she and her sister Sophia visited her sister Elena, who was then living with the Vorontsovs, her close relatives.
Her wedding with Prince Volkonsky, who was 17 years older than her, took place in the winter of 1825. For participation in the Decembrist movement, her husband was sentenced to 20 years in hard labor and exiled to Siberia.
The poet saw Maria for the last time on December 26, 1826 with Zinaida Volkonskaya at a farewell party on the occasion of seeing her off to Siberia. The next day she went there from Petersburg.
In 1835, my husband was transferred to a settlement in Urik. Then the family moved to Irkutsk, where the son studied at the gymnasium. The relationship with her husband was not smooth, but respecting each other, they raised their children to be worthy people.
The image of Maria Nikolaevna and Pushkin's love for her are reflected in many of his works, for example, in "Tavrida" (1822), "Tempest" (1825) and "Do not sing, beauty, with me ..." (1828).
And while working on the epitaph of the deceased son of Mary, in the same period (February - March 10), one of Pushkin's deepest revelations is born: "I loved you ...".
So, the main arguments of attribution of the poem "I loved you ..." to M.N. Volkonskaya are as follows.
While composing the poem "I loved you ...", Pushkin could not help thinking about M.N. Volkonskaya, because the day before he wrote the "Epitaph to the Baby" for the tombstone of her son.
The poem "I loved you ..." was included in the album of A.A. Olenina accidentally, in the form of working off the embarrassed Pushkin "fine" for visiting her house in the company of mummers.
K.A. Sobanskaya's poem is hardly dedicated, because the poet's attitude towards her was more passionate than it says.
Feather and lyre
The first poem "I loved you ..." was put to music by the composer Theophilus Tolstoy, with whom Pushkin was familiar. Tolstoy's romance appeared before the poem was published in Northern Flowers; it was probably received by the composer from the author in handwritten form. When verifying the texts, the researchers noted that in the musical version of Tolstoy one of the lines ("We torment with jealousy, then we torment our passion") differs from the canonical magazine version ("We torment ourselves with timidity, then we torment ourselves with jealousy").
Music to Pushkin's poem "I loved you ..." Alexander Alyabyev(1834), Alexander Dargomyzhsky(1832), Nikolay Medtner, Kara Karaev, Nikolay Dmitriev and other composers. But the most popular, both among performers and listeners, was acquired by the romance composed Count Boris Sheremetyev(1859).
Sheremetyev Boris Sergeevich
Boris Sergeevich Sheremetev (1822 - 1906) owner of an estate in the village of Volochanovo. He was the youngest of 10 children of Sergei Vasilyevich and Varvara Petrovna Sheremetev, received an excellent education, in 1836 entered the Corps of Pages, from 1842 served in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, participated in the Sevastopol defense. In 1875, he was the leader of the nobility of the Volokolamsk district, organized a music salon, which was attended by neighbors - nobles. Since 1881, the chief caretaker of the Hospice House in Moscow. A talented composer, author of romances: on poems by A.S. Pushkin "I loved you ...", poem by F.I. Tyutchev "I am still languishing with melancholy ...", to the verses by P.A. Vyazemsky "It is not my face to joke ...".
But romances written by Dargomyzhsky and Alyabyev are not forgotten, and some performers prefer them. Moreover, musicologists note that in all these three romances, the semantic accents are placed in different ways: “in Sheremetev, the verb in the past tense falls on the first beat of the measure. I loved».
Dargomyzhsky's strong share coincides with the pronoun “ I AM". Alyabyev's romance offers a third version - “I you I loved".
Our enamored Pushkin Yegorova Elena Nikolaevna
"I loved you silently, hopelessly ..."
The poet's heart was broken, although this hackneyed phrase is hardly appropriate in this case. Figuratively speaking, the Olenins' house can generally be called “the house where hearts are broken” of Russian poets. In 1809 N.I. Gnedich passionately fell in love with the charming young Anna Fedorovna Furman, who was left an orphan in childhood and was brought up in the Olenin family. Elizaveta Markovna and Alexei Nikolaevich were very kind to Gnedich and advised him to get married, but Anna did not hide her indifference to the one-eyed poet disfigured by smallpox. In 1814, the brooding blue-eyed Anna fell in love with Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov, who returned to St. Petersburg from the army. The poet's passionate pleas and the advice of foster parents persuaded Anna to agree to marry him, but she honestly admitted that she could entrust her fate to him, and not her heart. The noble Batyushkov refused to marry. The unhappy love for Anna Furman largely contributed to the development of that mental illness, which he suffered later. Anna married for love only at the age of 30 to a wealthy businessman Wilhelm Oom, lived with him in Reval for several years and, early widowed, returned to St. Petersburg with four small children. To support an impoverished family, Anna Fedorovna served for many years as the chief overseer of the Petersburg Orphanage. She was still close friends with Anna and Varvara Olenin and was a welcome guest in their homes.
N.I. Gnedich. D. Doe (?)
from the original by O.A. Kiprensky 1822
At the end of 1828, Pushkin, not finding support and the expected understanding in the Olenin family, was deeply disappointed. In early December, the poet arrives in Moscow, where he receives a letter from A.A. Delvig, who writes: “The city of Petersburg considers your absence to be not aimless. The first voice doubts whether you really left unnecessarily, whether any loss was the reason; The 2nd assures that you went for the materials of the 7th song of "Eugene Onegin"; 3rd assures that you have settled down and are thinking of getting married in Torzhok; The 4th guesses that you are the vanguard of the Olenins, who are going to Moscow ... "
However, these are not all rumors about the relationship between Pushkin and the Olenins. When, upon arrival in Moscow, he visited the Ushakovs' house, they already knew rumors about the poet Olenina's hobby and the refusal of her parents. Ekaterina Nikolaevna Ushakova, whom the poet courted after returning from exile, was then betrothed to Dolgorukov. To Pushkin's question: "What am I left with?" - offended by the betrayal Ushakova answered with a stinging pun: "With antlers." In the album of her sister Elizaveta Nikolaevna Ushakova, married Kiselyova, autographs of the poet, several portraits of A.A. Olenina and the sisters' satirical drawings on the theme of failed matchmaking.
One cartoon shows a flirtatious young lady wearing a dark wide-brimmed hat. Near the hand of P.S. Kiselyov, the son of Elizaveta Nikolaevna, the inscription is made in pencil: "Olenina". A lady stands with a fishing rod on the bank of the pond and catches men floating on the surface with a bait in the form of a large beetle. The signature reads:
How to catch a fish
I'm a bait
I will be glad
Then - then I'll have fun
Then - then I will take a walk!
Caricature of A.A. Olenin and A.S. Pushkin in the album El. N. Ushakova. L. 94.1829
On the other side, a man in a top hat and with a cane is drawn, according to Kiselev, A.S. Pushkin, and it is written: "Madame, il est temps de finir!" ("Madam, it's time to finish!"). Addressing Olenina as a married woman suggests the following idea: the caricature contains a hint of Pushkin's fate if he marries her. Here one can feel a roll call with Ekaterina Ushakova's phrase about "deer antlers".
Particularly interesting is the drawing, which depicts a man with sideburns, similar to Pushkin, kissing the hand of a fashionably dressed lady. The signature was drawn by the hand of Ekaterina Ushakova:
Get away, get away
How restless!
Get away, away, get out,
Hands unworthy!
The depicted caricatured lady with a high hairstyle and small legs is very reminiscent of Olenin, as the poet painted her in the same album. Characteristically, her handle is folded into a figurine.
Caricature of A.A. Olenin and A.S. Pushkin in the album El. N. Ushakova
1829 g.
However, the fateful events for Pushkin on the eve of the new year of 1829 do not take place in the Ushakovs' house, but at the Christmas ball at the dance master Iogel, where the poet first meets the young beauty Natalia Goncharova, his future wife. The outbreak of love for her displaced the former feeling for A.A. Olenina. At the beginning of 1829, the poet wrote a wonderful elegy "I loved you, love still, maybe ...", addressed to Anna. The poem captivates with refined romance, beauty and nobility of the described feelings:
I loved you: love still, maybe
In my soul it has not completely faded away;
But don't let it bother you anymore;
I do not want to sadden you with anything.
I loved you wordlessly, hopelessly,
Now we are tormented by timidity, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
How God bless you to be different.
The draft of the poem has not survived, so the exact date of its writing is unknown. For the first time the poem was published in the musical collection “Collection of Russian Songs. Words by A. Pushkin. Music of Various Composers ", the censorship permission for the publication of which was received on August 10, 1829. They probably started preparing the collection 3-4 months before it was submitted for censorship, since the notes were engraved by hand, which took a long time. The author of the music for the romance in the collection is named "Count T". This is, most likely, the amateur composer Count Sergei Vasilyevich Tolstoy, with whom Pushkin communicated in the house of his Moscow friends Ushakovs, where both of them were frequent guests. There he could get S.V. Tolstoy poems "I loved you ..." in early January or March - April 1829, when the poet lived in Moscow. The romance was written before the publication of the poems in Northern Flowers for 1830, probably according to Pushkin's autograph or an authoritative list. The sixth line in the text of the romance read "Now we torment with passion, now we are tormented by jealousy." This is how she was in the early version of the poem and reflected the feelings of the poet at the time of writing poetry.
A.A. Venison
Rice. A.S. Pushkin 1828
According to the testimony of the granddaughter of Anna Alekseevna Olenina Olga Nikolaevna Oom, who published her grandmother's diary in Paris in 1936, the great poet included some poems addressed to her in her albums. HE. Oom wrote in the preface to the publication: “Knowing how interested I was in her past, my grandmother left me an album in which, among other autographs, Pushkin in 1829 wrote the verses“ I loved you: love still, maybe… ”. Under the text of this poem, in 1833, he made a postscript: "plusqueparfait - long past, 1833". Having bequeathed this album to me, Anna Alekseevna expressed a desire that this autograph with a later postscript would not be made public. In the secret place of her soul she kept the reason for this wish: whether it was a simple regret about the past or an affected woman's pride, I do not know. " The album was kept in the family of O.N. Oom, in her first marriage to Zvegintsova, until 1917. The presence in it of Pushkin's autograph of the poem "I loved you ..." regardless of ON. Oom was confirmed by the famous composer Alexander Alekseevich Olenin, the grand-nephew of A.A. Olenina.
When could a poet write poetry into the mentioned album? For almost the entire 1829, the likelihood of his meeting with the Olenins was small. In October 1828, Pushkin went to Malinniki, and then to Moscow, while the Olenins remained in St. Petersburg. In early January 1829 he returned to St. Petersburg - they went to Moscow, in early March - he was again in Moscow, and they returned to St. Petersburg. The poet could meet with the Olenins, perhaps, fleetingly on the road, at best at the post station, where the situation was unlikely to be conducive to recordings in albums. On May 1, the poet went on a southern journey to Arzrum, and appeared in the northern capital only in November. He finalizes the poem "I loved you ..." and gives it to the "Northern Flowers" for publication. At this time, his relations with the Olenins escalated, which resulted in unfair lines in the drafts of Chapter VIII of Eugene Onegin, where A.N. Olenin is called "prolaz" and "zero on legs" (a hint of a monogram), and Anna Alekseevna - a cutesy, squeaky and unkempt young lady, the owner of an evil mind. Why did the poet write like that, and even crossed out the Olenins' surname from the list for mailing business cards for the new year 1830? It is not known for certain what caused Pushkin's sharp outburst of negativity: offensive memories that suddenly flooded in, fueled by someone's tactlessness, ridicule, gossip, slander, or some new misunderstanding. It is unlikely that the reason was the statements or actions of the Olenins themselves, who feared secular rumors that could cast a shadow on the reputation of unmarried Anna. The girl herself, moreover, had no need to speak out in the light on this matter almost a year later, when the incident had long been settled. She was carried away by prudent thoughts about the possibility of marrying Matthew Vielgorsky. And there were plenty of spiteful critics and gossips in high society.
This was hardly a serious incident. Having poured out his irritation on paper, the poet calmed down. The offensive lines about the Olenins did not get into Belovik. In the same period, Pushkin painted the above-mentioned wonderful portraits of A.N. and A.A. Olenin in the drafts of "Tazit". On January 12, 1830, the poet showed up at their house wearing a mask and dominoes in a cheerful company of mummers together with E.M. Khitrovo and her daughter D.F. Fiquelmont. The latter wrote that Pushkin and her mother were immediately recognized under masks. Then, most likely, the famous poem "I loved you ..." appeared in Anna Alekseevna's album. This translated their relationship into a different plane: Pushkin's love and courtship became a thing of the past.
There are different versions about the addressee of the poem "I loved you ...". Among his possible inspirers are Maria Volkonskaya, Karolina Sobanskaya, Natalia Goncharova and even Anna Kern. However, all these hypotheses are based on purely indirect arguments, and some of them are based on the dating of the poem to the end of 1829, which was adhered to until the discovery of the music collection with the first publication. And it is difficult to attribute to these women, whom the poet was fond of at different times, the 3rd and 4th verses: they could hardly have been disturbed or saddened by Pushkin's love. And to Anna Olenina these lines, like all the others, are quite natural to attribute. The most likely addressee of the poem is, of course, it is she, which is confirmed by Pushkin's autographed recording in the album "plusqueparfait".
In February 1833, Pushkin, together with the Olenins, took part in the funeral of N.I. Gnedich, a close friend of this family, almost a household member. Surely they remembered the lonely poet. An offensive postscript for Olenina could have appeared just then. It is unlikely that on such a mournful day Anna pestered Pushkin with a request to write in her album. She apparently just posted the albums for those who want to make a record. Perhaps, having written “long past,” the poet realized that the postscript would upset the girl, and to soften the impression, he wrote down on the next page, which was still empty, the poem “What is in my name for you…”:
What's in a name?
It will die like a sad noise
The waves that splashed into the distant shore,
Like the sound of the night in a deaf forest.
It's on the memo
Will leave a dead trail like
Tombstone lettering pattern
In an incomprehensible language.
What's in it? Forgotten long ago
In the excitement of new and rebellious,
It won't give your soul
Memories of pure, gentle.
But on a day of sorrow, in silence,
Say it longing
Say: there is a memory of me
There is a heart in the world where I live ...
Here, at the same time, sad notes of farewell to a woman, love for whom have remained in the past, and the hope that this woman will sometimes remember the poet. The poem was entered by Pushkin on January 5, 1830 in the album of Karolina Sobanskaya, to whom, most likely, it is dedicated.
Karolina Adamovna, a beautiful Polish woman, Pushkin was fond of during his southern exile. Sobanskaya was, it seems, woven from contradictions: on the one hand, an elegant, intelligent, educated woman who is fond of the arts and a good pianist, and on the other hand, a windy and vain coquette, surrounded by a crowd of fans, who replaced several husbands and lovers, and besides rumored to be an undercover government agent in the south. Pushkin's relationship with Karolina was far from platonic, as evidenced by the poet's letter to her: “You know that I have experienced all your might. I owe you what is most convulsive and painful in love intoxication, and everything that is most stunning in him. " But, as in the case of Zakrevskaya, the feeling for Sobanskaya that flared up again at the beginning of 1830 was short-lived and could not overshadow the tender love for Natalia Goncharova and the desire to unite fate with her, which came true in February 1831.
After his marriage, Pushkin almost never visited the Olenins, but met with them at balls, official receptions and on walks in Tsarskoe Selo, where his dacha was located not far from the dacha of this family. Despite the cooling between A.S. Pushkin and A.N. Olenin, the relationship between them cannot be called hostile. In December 1832, Alexei Nikolaevich replied with unconditional consent to the poet's election as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where they later met at meetings. In 1835, Pushkin agreed to a letter from Alexei Nikolaevich about donating to a monument to the translator of the Iliad. In 1836 Olenin warmly introduced the poet to the sculptor N.S. Pimenov at the autumn exhibition at the Academy of Arts. Communication between Pushkin and other members of the Olenin family continued. It is believed that in the 1830s the poet visited the house of Pyotr Alekseevich, the son of A.N. and E.M. Olenin, a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812. In 1833 P.A. Olenin retired with the rank of general and settled with his wife Maria Sergeevna, nee Lvova, in the village of Borissevo, Novotorzhsky district, Tver province, where the road from St. Petersburg to Moscow passed. Pyotr Alekseevich was a very nice person, a talented amateur artist. Pushkin could meet with him in the Mitino estate near Torzhok, which belonged to the Lvovs, the parents of his wife.
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"I loved you: love still, maybe ..." Alexander Pushkin
I loved you: love still, perhaps
In my soul it has not completely faded away;
But don't let it bother you anymore;
I do not want to sadden you with anything.
I loved you wordlessly, hopelessly,
Now we are tormented by timidity, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
How God grant you beloved to be different.
Analysis of Pushkin's poem "I loved you: love still, maybe ..."
Pushkin's love poetry includes several dozen poems written in different periods and dedicated to several women. The feelings that the poet felt for his chosen ones are striking in their strength and tenderness; the author bows before every woman, admiring her beauty, intelligence, grace and a wide variety of talents.
In 1829, Alexander Pushkin wrote, perhaps, one of his most famous poems "I loved you: love still, maybe ...", which later became a talent. Historians to this day argue about who exactly this message was addressed to., since neither in the drafts, nor in the final version, the poet left not a single hint of who was that mysterious stranger who inspired him to create this work. According to one of the versions of literary critics, the poem "I loved you: love still, maybe ...", written in the form of a farewell letter, is dedicated to the Polish beauty Karolina Sabanska, whom the poet met in 1821 during his southern exile. After suffering pneumonia, Pushkin visited the Caucasus and on the way to Chisinau stopped for several days in Kiev, where he was introduced to the princess. Despite the fact that she was 6 years older than the poet, her amazing beauty, grace and arrogance made an indelible impression on Pushkin. Two years later, they were destined to see each other again, but already in Odessa, where the poet's feelings flared up with renewed vigor, but were not reciprocated. In 1829, Pushkin sees Karolina Sabanska for the last time in St. Petersburg and is amazed at how old and ugly she is. There is no trace of the former passion that the poet felt for the princess, but in memory of past feelings he creates the poem "I loved you: love still, maybe ...".
According to another version, this work is addressed to Anna Alekseevna Andro-Olenina, married to the Countess de Lanzheron, whom the poet met in St. Petersburg. The poet was captivated not so much by her beauty and grace as by her sharp and inquisitive mind, as well as by the resourcefulness with which she parried Pushkin's playful remarks, as if teasing and tempting him. Many people from the circle of the poet were convinced that he and the beautiful countess were having a stormy romance. However, according to Peter Vyazemsky, Pushkin only created the appearance of an intimate relationship with a famous aristocrat, since he could not count on reciprocal feelings on her part. An explanation soon occurred between the young people, and the countess confessed that she saw in the poet only a friend and an entertaining interlocutor. As a result, the poem "I loved you: love still, maybe ..." was born, in which he says goodbye to his chosen one, assuring her that let his love "no longer bother you."
It is also worth noting that in 1829 Pushkin first met his future wife Natalia Goncharova, who made an indelible impression on him. The poet achieves her hand, and against the background of a new hobby, lines are born that love “in my soul has not completely faded away”. But this is just an echo of the past passion, which gave the poet a lot of sublime and painful minutes. The author of the poem confesses to a mysterious stranger that he "loved her silently, hopelessly," which unequivocally indicates the marriage of Anna Alekseevna Andro-Olenina. However, in the light of a new love interest, the poet decides to abandon attempts to conquer the countess, but at the same time he still has very tender and warm feelings for her. This can explain the last stanza of the poem, in which Pushkin wishes his chosen one: "So God grant you loved to be different." Thus, the poet draws a line under his ardent romance, hoping for a marriage with Natalia Goncharova and wishing that the one to whom this poem is addressed was also happy.
