Аннотация: The Monologue of the Chairman of the Literary Panel
The Monologue of the Chairman of the Literary Panel
Some time ago, a grant was issued to the editorial office of the once glorious newspaper. Now the time has come to visit a spa beauty salon.
The Chairman of the Literature panel, he is also the Chairman of the editorial Board of the once glorious newspaper, on the way to the a spa beauty salon stopped by at office of edition. "It is necessary to appear periodically".
He was walking on an office-room and has heard a signal of the cell phone. The SMS has come from unfamiliar number: "Traffic jams. To stand not less than one hour".
"The friendly meeting is postponed for an hour", - the Chairman of the Literary panel has understood.
He has sat down in a chair and has got from the lower drawer of his desk the book by Paul E. Shchegolev "Duel and Pushkin's death".
This book was calming and adjusting on the necessary inner harmony. In his free time, the Chairman of the Literary panel loved to open it at random and read about took place once an events.
"A solid, absolutely superior majority was against Pushkin. And, at last, the monarch himself.
Pushkin was a foreign element in the body the higher layer of the social class to which he belonged by birth. And the body slowly but steadily was spewing the alien element ... There was one main difference... The material basis of Pushkin's life was radically different from the material bases of all the nobility. He didn't live on serf income, on peasant dues. He did not live on wages. The only parish in royalties provided, though not sufficiently, the existence of his and his family. ...With such an earnings, Pushkin was a black sheep among all his friends, among his society".
Modern Pushkin researchers have added and have specified this information on Alexander Pushkin's income. But, by and large, - it's the correct statement.
There will pass times when Pushkin lived . There will come a new times. "Fees", "royalties", "honorarium" as the phenomenon, gradually will begin to disappear. What "fees" can be in the absence of the competition between the remained publishing houses? With the debris of the book-selling system? In the absence of the normal systems of the edition of books and of the book trade a "fees" disappear!
Of course, the lack of normal systems of the edition of books and of the book trade doesn't mean that it is impossible to create the phantom of "the literary sphere", phantoms of "fees" ...
"To feel all the abundance, all strikingness of the revenge, which was planned by Pushkin, the revenge complete, perfect, overturning a person in dirt, it is impossible to stop on that option of interpretation of the letter, which I have given in the essay of the duel events. It is necessary to go further, it is necessary to accept the offered interpretation of the "Diploma" "on the regal line"".
"To draw the highest attention to the lampoon. To present , to submit the lampoon to the tsar ...
(...) Indication Heeckeren as the originator of an anonymous letter, insulting the family honor of the Imperial family, would be well serve to the Pushkin's undeniable benefits in the relationship of the tsar to the Pushkin family. Would be a defeat and other dangerous, -much more dangerous, than d'Anthes, Natalya Nikolaevna's admirer - Nikolay Pavlovich Romanov. The atmosphere would be sparse. That is a fine game, which Pushkin wanted to execute."
"Can be, Pushkin also hasn't sent the shattering accusation therefore whether that he has conceded to insistance of Zhukovsky or because Pushkin has stopped before those consequences, which could be occur not for the only Heeckeren. The unprecedented plan of revenge wasn't carried out ...".
And maybe, Pushkin hasn't sent the letter with the marking of Heeckeren as the originator of the anonymous lampoon, touching family honor of an imperial surname, for simpler reason? "... Pushkin was the black sheep ...". He didn't want to become such how "they", and "to play their games"?
In the diary of A. I. Turgenev the mention of Lermontov exists: "Lermontov's verses fine". Naturally, Paul E. Shchegolev doesn't write in his book in detail about M.Yu. Lermontov.
Who wrote the so-called "The Diploma of the cuckold" with his own hand?
"So, - the Prince Peter Vladimirovich Dolgorukov! The name was called many times. But each time the announcing person made the reservation, refusing the categorical statement (even Prince P. A. Vyazemsky). Now y we have the actual grounds to nail to the pillory the name of Prince Dolgorukov ... ... In this the vile case a team was involved . Dolgorukov, of course, acted not alone."
"Now we have to turn again to the Prince's personality, enter into the discussion of his intellectual qualities and find out the motives of his behavior in the Pushkin case."
"In 1831, on April 22, he was awarded the rank of chamber page (page at Court) [page (servant), page boy], but in the same year with it something happened, in something he was guilty, but I didn't manage to find in the remains of archive of the Page Corps (Corps des Pages) any data on his offense. According the highest command he was demoted for bad behavior and laziness from the chamber page in a simply page. What was the bad behavior, remains unclear. ...From the Corps des Pages the certificate was issued to him. In the certificate were mentioned and demotion for bad behavior in the Corps, and the inability to military service. Not the certificate, but directly the wolf passport".
"In 1836, in the autumn, when the family history of Pushkin was playing out, Dolgorukov was not yet full 20 years. He took part in a vile game against Pushkin not because of any personal relationship to Pushkin (such relations we do not know), but simply because, he was in a specific circle of Baron Heeckeren. So he could not to evade from participation in the General venture. In the memoir literature preserved the story of Adlerberg about how the winter of 1836-1837 on a one evening, he saw young Prince Dolgorukov standing behind Pushkin. Dolgorukov pointed out to someone toward d'Antes and lifted up fingers depicting horns."
After production "The Diploma of the cuckold" the life of Prince Dolgorukov gradually began to improve.
"In 1839, he was engaged in a genealogy; according the document to office of Ministry of National Education, dated 28 April 1839, he was allowed to research in the heraldry office of the ruling Senate and to survey of books of noble childbirth."
"...He 'had, despite his youth, the consciousness of own mental abilities granted to him by God, and, - maybe, - not of a quite ordinary own intellectual skills.""
"Dolgorukov turned to researches in a genealogy: after "The Russian genealogy collection", published in 1840-1841, he sat down for a huge "The Russian genealogy book". It's four volumes appeared in the years 1855-1857. His work is recognized as outstanding in the field of genealogy and has not yet lost its value."
"...Prince Peter Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, who arbitrarily and secretly left the Fatherland in 1859, was an emigrant of a very special type, and he waged a brutal literary war with the dignitaries of the Russian government."
"I will allow myself to dwell on the incident "Dolgorukov-Odoevsky" a little more.
In 1860, in ? 1 of September 15, of his magazine 'Будущность' ("The Future"), Dolgorukov published an article " Minister S. S. Lanskoy."
In the note Dolgorukov has given to the prince V.F. Odoevskythe most venomous characteristic ..."
"I send to Peter Dolgorukov the following answer:
Стихов не писал,
Музыкой не надоедал,
Спины не сгибал,
Честно жил, работал,
Подлецов в рожу бивал.
I didn't write verses,
I didn't bother with music,
I didn't bend a back,
Honestly lived, worked,
I was beating into faces a villains
Отчего и теперь не отказываюсь при первой встрече.
To beat and now I do not refuse at a first meeting.
But what's a use?! if I shoot him in the belly, his slander will go unanswered. Where to write? In our journals [my reply] cannot be. Forbidden to talk about banned books. Abroad? Where? is to send to the "Bell" magazine? strange position in which a rules of censorship put us".
"...The Odoevsky's article didn't appear in the press. And on February 14, 1861 he wrote down in the diary: "Poltoratsky with news that my article against Prince Dolgorukov cannot be printed here."
The Nicholas I's regime was breaking all of them. Whether it managed to him to break them? It depends on what criterion to accept for recognition of a human as a broken, damaged.
Pushkin. He was on the verge to send the "diplomatic" letter with "implication" . With the marking Heeckeren as the originator of the anonymous lampoon, insulting the honor of the Imperial family.
But he didn't sent.
The case ended in a duel.
Lermontov. Under the threat of decreasing to position of ordinary soldier he was forced to mark the friend as the distributor of the lermontovsky poem on death Pushkin. It was heavy to live with such the moral weight. And didn't allow "to get out" of this situation. Too - a duel.
Peter Dolgorukov. On something "have caught" or in something "substituted" in early youth. Perhaps, by levity or ignorance he have at some moment done "not a correct thing". Have issued "the wolf passport". They have inclined him to participation in the hunting for Pushkin.
Odoevsky. He couldn't respond in the press to the humiliating publication of Peter Dolgorukov. It was not really pleasant to live the offended, without having an opportunity to give the public answer in the press.
(Involuntarily there is an assumption that they were skillfully have been directed to the mutual conflicts).
But, however, the Nicholas I's regime was breaking all of them, but couldn't etch from them people, couldn't take away from them the human essence.
Pushkin. He didn't send the "diplomatic" letter.
Lermontov. "Through fog the siliceous way shines; Night quiet." That says it all.
Peter Dolgorukov. Have involved him in the dirty story: according to Paul E. Shchegolev, the Dolgorukov's hand has written "The Diploma of the cuckold", sent to Pushkin. At the same time, "the wolf passport" partly has saved Dolgorukov. Instead of a service, civil or military, he worked according to own interests in archives. He ran abroad. He became the historian, the writer, the editor, the publisher. His works are recognized as the works having value, and today.
Odoevsky. He continued to work for the benefit of Russian and world culture. Although he lived after the defamatory publication of Peter Dolgorukov relatively not long period - he died in 1869 (at the age of 65 years).
The Chairman of the Literary panel looked at his watch. An hour had passed. It was necessary to go to the spa beauty salon. The chairman of the Literary panel has glanced in a small portfolio. There, as it was necessary, the chubby package was laying.
"In such portfolios, perhaps, Pushkin was carrying manuscripts."
To transfer a package during the visit of the spa beauty salon is no difficulty. What's next? All the same...
Yes! The new madam has appeared on the cultural horizon. What did she say in a recent interview? "I've been doing this all my life! I was a journalist, writer, editor of a newspaper of a literary direction". Something like, "I fulfilled a putting, a combining of a words, together, during whole my life"? "I was putting a one word next to another..."?
Yes! New challenges!
The Chairman of the Literary panel slapped upon the portfolio: "we are going to put one word next to another, to combine words, to aggregate phrases!"
He headed for the exit. It was time to go to the spa beauty salon.
August 27, 2018 11:41
Translation from Russian into English: September 3, 2018, September 9, 2018.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Монолог председателя Литературной панели'.