Griboedov Biography Picabu

The summary of the previous one: a person’s life can be considered as a literary work that develops in real time. The first to sit at the table of a fictional character and a living person Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Memory is a great virtual and real equalizer in the human mind. Photos and collages of Sergey Surin. The tie in November, Vasily Sheremetev, was not 23 years old.

A very young man, - eagerly, quick -tempered, but, of course, brave and noble. He was just raised in the rank-he became the headquarters of the Cavalry Guard Regiment, and from this October in St. Petersburg turned out to be extremely drunk: everyone noted the increase in Sheremetev, even trees and birds. It is not surprising that Vasily was overturning - he spent all his money and since the cavalry guard had a no longer a quarrel with his father, his unlimited Sheremetevs card was blocked.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that his beloved, Avdotya Istomin, is led from him. Although the ballerina, sung by Pushkin, later approved the Investigative Committee that she had gone at all because of the exhausted Vasily wallet would be ugly, but because of the bad appeal when the drunk-screaming, calling, assaulting; Tenderness - well, no. If life is like a novel, then events are spinning at an incredible speed, the pages themselves turn over, and time flies like a ballerina Istomin.

Griboedov, for 5 months, as a collegium of foreign affairs, abducts Avdoty, since she is free and unattended: hiding with the crew in an ambush at the Gostiny Dvor, Alexander Sergeyevich secondly grabs Avdoty from a special “social” carriage, which carried out evening theatrical fabrics at the expense of the budget, they transported the dancing and singing artists to their homes.

I believe, by preliminary agreement, the ballerina, Griboedov is taking her to his friend and colleague Alexander Zavadovsky, who rented a gorgeous apartment with the piano very close, on Nevsky, on 13, that is, on the same quasi-historical heel, where Eugene Onegin will sit down at the table with Peter Kavverin. Zavadovsky, being Angloman, treated everyone with a drink outlandish in Rus' - whiskey.

So why don't Istomina try whiskey, and Griboedov, meanwhile, will work with a taper, since in the Royal Hall? Maestro, waltz! By the way, do it not seem to you that we have already jumped smoothly from life into the text of an exciting novel? And now, rumors about a suspicious tasting of Petersburg are full of time flying, and headquarters of the Sheremetev with his friend, no less eagerly Alexander Yakubovich, having loaded Roma well, burst into the apartment of Zavadovsky-for steep disgraces.

It is clear as the day that, at the end of the chapter, the duel is already looming, but not simple, simple a lot, but a special agreed to pay attention-the duels assumed the ability of the noblemen to agree-that after the main duelists, Sheremetev and Zavadovsky, seconds will go to the barrier-Yakubovich Second Sheremetev and Griboedov Second Secondness. Yakubovich insisted on this, who considered Griboedov, who was in ambush at the Gostiny Dvor, the culprit of everything that was happening.

But with the same success, the guilty could be recorded by Yakubovich - after all, it was he who loaded Sheremetev Roma, rage and the need for revenge. So, on the one hand, two military officers, on the other, are two diplomats-ochkariks. Actually, duels because of women were categorically forbidden in the duel code, but a formal reason for the duel, when angry drunken officers burst into the apartment, is, as you know, very quickly.

Nowadays, under the same circumstances, an unpleasant fight with a swearing, beating furniture and windows, a call of riot police, the Russian Guard and an ambulance, did not forget anyone? That is, a fragment of an ordinary police series would have turned out. In the Pushkin era - nothing of the kind: it is worth the development of the conditions of the duel with the pages with Mordoboy and the puddles of the blood would then cause frank bewilderment, and they would simply be uninteresting.

And these conditions were the most gestured in Russian duel history - very actors wanted the head of their novels “Four Duel” to take the reader by the soul. Six steps between the barriers and six steps from the barriers - they converged from 18 steps at once, from 18 steps, to shoot. This is two steps less than the initial distance between Pushkin and Dantes after 20 years, and at a short distance each step is significant.

The culmination of Cavaliergard Vasily Sheremetev shoots the first, almost from the second step - and what to hesitate? The nature of the newly-minted headquarters-tractor did not imply a leisurely movement towards the barrier and a calm, increasing tension of the novel, aiming. Sheremetev misses. The bullet, tearing a piece of a frock coat on Zavadovsky’s sleeve, flies into the void.

What is Zavadovsky? After half a page, he will say an amazing phrase. I think, as a civilian person without combat and duel experience, Alexander was then not in reality, but in the text of his novel.This is absolutely romantic - to participate in a deadly duel, ladies on balls will whisper for a long time later, pointing to him ... When in his measured comfortable life he received such an exciting dynamic page!

And where did the young man from a duel from a 23 -year -old comfortable life come from? From the father. Pyotr Vasilievich Zavadovsky was a difficult man-it was he who pushed pushed away from Catherine of the II of the Serene Potemkin-Tauride, which only the Sun was more influential in our galaxy, and became the seventh favorite of the empress. Under her grandson, Emperor Alexander, Peter Vasilievich will be in Favor again - he will take the position of the First Minister of Education and will go into another world in the text of his novel 5 years before the Fourth duel.

So the comfort of Alexander Zavadovsky, one of his two sons, is based on a huge papenkin inheritance. Note, saying goodbye to Peter Vasilyevich that you know his great -grandchildren well: she will marry Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 45 years after the duel. So, the bullet breaks the sleeve of the coat of the cousin of Sofia Andreevna Bers, leaving the scratch on his hand. And this returns Alexander from a romantic text, where he was surrounded by beautiful ladies, who asked for vies - like this, to shoot from 15 meters.

It was not just a novel - the dreamy Zavadovsky was in the bestseller! .. And then a torn frock coat and slight pain. Alexander falls to the ground. And he tells Sheremetev that very amazing phrase, undoubtedly, with his eyes stared: “Did you want to kill me? He could not believe that he missed. With one foot, Vasily still stood on this earth, where he did not like too much, but he had already brought another to go to his novel, where he had to stay forever.

Zavadovsky, finally realizing the reality, he is a diplomat, he is put in his post, - shouts: “To the barrier! According to the rules of the duel, if one of the opponents shoots, not reaching the barrier, and misses, then the second has the right to say “to the barrier”, after which the missing should approach his barrier and turn into a living target. Now his opponent, who stopped where the shot found him, can aim how much he wants.

This is already firing to defeat: the distance between Zavadovsky and the Sheremetev barrier did not exceed 7 meters. By the way, I thought everything, why didn’t Pushkin shouted “to the barrier! It turns out that before the fight they signed the rules where in the third paragraph it seemed: “After the shot, the opponents are not allowed to change their place in order to be the first to be fired at his enemy at the same distance.” That is, this position specially canceled the traditional duel rule “to the barrier!

But Sheremetev is not. Everyone rushes to Zavadovsky - to persuade him to shoot in the air. Who is everyone? Why the doctor was present at the duel, of course. But what did Kaverin do there? Well, there are wedding generals, and there are duel hussars. In general, the incident became an event in that era only if Peter Kaverin was present on it - he was a lively and life -giving legend.

Zavadovsky agrees. In the end - he is not a killer.

They played, popcinated, time to go to drink champagne. But now - the turn of an amazing phrase from Sheremetev came: "Shoot, or I will kill you with the next shot." Of course, the headquarters was eccentric and was in a state of affect. But he was not a moron - this was not accepted in the family of Sheremetevs. Why did he say so, leaving no chance of Zavadovsky, except to kill Zavadovsky well?

Sheremetev, as you remember, was already one foot in his novel. This novel will be simply brilliant, it will be carefully read ... “Beautiful” Ivan Kramskoy ... Young beauties will be sobbed over him and experienced officers will respectfully shake their heads. Is it worth it to abandon such a prospect, from such a book on a shelf and turning what was happening into a funny operetta was shot and went to drink champagne?

No - life is like a novel! .. Zavadovsky shoots defeat. Heavily wounded Sheremetev falls, rides in the snow, groans in pain. He will die finally crossing, already with the second foot, in his novel a day after a duel - almost like Pushkin. The epilogue and all other participants in the duel characters of future chapters “Four Duel” scattered in their novels. Kaverin will also be marked in this chapter with a winged phrase: he will say, going up to Sheremetev, who is dying in the snow: “What, Vasya, turnip?

And then he will hurry to the nearest lamp to “settle the case”. Pyotr Pavlovich thought that his authority would be enough to quickly hush up everything. It wasn’t there: local police were not from this world-they did not know Kaverin and, just in case, detained the legendary hussar for three days. Leaving three days later, Kaverin immediately rushed to Turgenev on a fountain to set there, removing stress, a world record for the use of champagne - 5 bottles in a row.The sixth champagne Kaverin will drink, walking along a thin cornice opposite the Mikhailovsky castle and reciting the satirical lines about the innocently murdered emperor Peter Pavlovich about Paul Petrovich.

Of course, he did this for a reason, and then, to get under a different name and with another drink - to the future novel by the wife of Sofya Andreevna Bers: “Putting a bottle on the windowsill so that it was convenient to get it, the Dolokhov carefully and quietly climbed out the window. Having lowered his legs and praised with both hands into the edges of the window, he tried his hands, he dropped his hands, moved to the right, moved to the right.

He took out a bottle to the left. For you, another page of the novel is in a hurry, and after 7 years we will get “grief from the mind”. And 7 years after that, he will put his life book on the shelf and chamber-university of the court of his Imperial Majesty, the third Alexander of Duelants, Count Zavadovsky, who, having inherited the next state-this time his deceased brother Vasily will move to Taganrog and will be bored there in abundance and loneliness, go along the shore of the Sea of ​​Azov and to the noise of the rolled warm waves.

Life back is to look for in her the very favorite pages where he says his amazing phrase and shoots at the distraught Sheremetev. Actually, none of the participants in the quadruple duel had children. Having scattered from their novels, they began to wait for their readers. Life is like a novel.