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From the history of the Novokhoperskaya land. A.N.Raevsky

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11 November 1834 marriage: Ekaterina Petrovna Kindyakova (Raevskaya) [Kindyakova] b. 1812 d. 1839

November 16, 1839 birth of a child: Alexandra Alexandrovna Raevskaya (Kindyakova) [Raevskie] b. November 16, 1839 d. 17 July 1863

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Alexander Nikolaevich Raevsky (1795-1868) - participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 (colonel), Odessa friend and rival of Pushkin, addressee of his famous poem “The Demon”.

The eldest son of General N.N. Raevsky and the granddaughter of M.V. Lomonosov Sofia Alekseevna, nee Konstantinova. He was educated at a boarding school at Moscow University. He began his service in 1810 in the Simbirsk Grenadier Regiment. As part of the 5th Jaeger Regiment, he took part in the Patriotic War and foreign campaigns. Since 1817 - colonel. In 1819 he was assigned to the Caucasian Separate Corps. In 1824 he was dismissed.

In December 1825, after the uprising on Senate Square, he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a conspiracy, but was soon acquitted and released from arrest. During the investigation, he behaved with dignity, did not name anyone, and said that he knew nothing about the secret society. After his release, on behalf of his father, Alexander remained in St. Petersburg for some time to keep abreast of the progress of the investigation of their relatives. When it became known that M.N. Volkonskaya intended to share her husband’s fate and follow him to hard labor, Alexander led a real family conspiracy to prevent her from doing this.

Raevsky met A.S. Pushkin in the Caucasus, where he went for treatment and where he served in the Caucasian Corps. They saw each other in the North Caucasus, in the Crimea, in Kamenka, in Kyiv and in Odessa. Later we met in Moscow. But a bitter aftertaste remained in Pushkin’s soul from the previous relationship - and communication was not resumed.

At one time, this man captured the imagination of the poet. He seemed extraordinary. Tall, thin, wearing glasses, with a smart, mocking look in his small dark eyes, Alexander Raevsky behaved mysteriously and spoke in paradoxes. Pushkin predicted an extraordinary future for him. It is believed that Pushkin’s “Demon” reflects the features of Raevsky. But fate decreed otherwise. Raevsky's brilliant mind, denying and ridiculing everything, could not create anything. The young man who promised so much became greedy and envious, as his famous enemy Philip Wiegel writes:

Even in winter, I instinctively heard the danger for Pushkin, I did not allow myself to give him advice, but once I jokingly told him that due to his African origin, I still wanted to compare him with Othello, and Raevsky with his unfaithful friend Iago. A few days after my arrival in Odessa, an alarmed Pushkin ran in to tell me that the greatest displeasure was in store for him. At this time, several of the lowest officials from the office of the Governor General, as well as from government offices, were dispatched for the possible extermination of the locusts crawling across the steppe; Pushkin was among them. Nothing could be more humiliating for him...

According to Wigel, it was Raevsky who proposed sending the poet to fight agricultural pests. He played with the poet’s feelings together with the governor’s wife Vorontsova; rumor suspected them of having an affair. Only later did Pushkin discover the true face of the one whom he considered his friend.

In 1826 he received the court rank of chamberlain, served as an official of special assignments under the governor of Novorossiya M. S. Vorontsov, whose adjutant he was back in 1813. In 1827, after a conflict with Vorontsov, which erupted due to Alexander Raevsky’s insane passion for Countess Elizaveta Ksaverevna Vorontsova, he retired.

Raevsky was exiled to Poltava, where he lived forever. Only in the fall of 1829, with special permission, was he allowed to go to Boltyshka to see his dying father. After his mother and sisters left for Italy, Alexander Nikolaevich took over the management of Boltyshka and began to put the disorganized economy of the estate in order. He regularly sent money to Italy and dealt with the property and financial affairs of M.N. Volkonskaya. Only in 1834 did he receive the right to settle in Moscow. His appearance in the capital's society could not go unnoticed, although by this time his “demonic” charm was no longer the same, he still remained cynical, calculating, who loved to embarrass secular decorum.

In November 1834, Raevsky married Ekaterina Petrovna Kindyakova (1812-1839), daughter of Pyotr Vasilyevich and Alexandra Vasilievna Kindyakov; her sister Elizaveta Petrovna (1805-1854), in 1824 married Prince I. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, and after divorcing him she became the wife of A. V. Pashkov.

The story of Raevsky's marriage showed that his character had not changed at all. The Kindyakov House was one of the few houses that took upon themselves the mission of revitalizing Moscow and gathering the best of society. The Kindyakovs’ daughter, twenty-two-year-old Ekaterina, was considered the pearl of Muscovites. In 1833 Sushkova E.A. wrote in her diary about Kindyakova:

... Ekaterina Kindyakova is a meteor, this is a miracle... She is more ugly than beautiful; well built, but too short in stature; the head is thrown back, the nose is pimply and upturned, the arms are hanging; gallops like a magpie and is light as lead; Moreover, she is grimacing, affected and a coquette... She and her relatives are making things up in a terrible way. As soon as one of the gentlemen appears in their house, they rush to spread the rumor that this is a rejected groom - and these gentlemen in reality only laugh at her, despite her wealth, undoubtedly exaggerated and multiplied by the reviews of her loved ones.

The family of Major General Pyotr Vasilyevich Kindyakov welcomed Alexander Raevsky. Ekaterina Kindyakova even told him her heart secret. She loved Ivan Putyata, but his mother forbade him to marry, and then she married the confidant of her love, Alexander Raevsky. A.I. Turgenev wrote in his diary:

... He undertook to marry her to someone else, and he himself got married. The story is the most scandalous and has quarreled half of Moscow.

Pushkin, having met the Raevsky couple in May 1836, wrote to his wife:

... Raevsky, who seemed a little stupid to me last time, seems to have perked up and wiser again.

His wife is not a beauty - they say she is very smart.

The newlyweds settled with the Kindyakovs, in a large stone house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. But the couple did not live long - five years after the wedding in 1839, Ekaterina Petrovna died, leaving her husband with a three-week-old daughter, Alexandra. Now Raevsky’s whole life was devoted to raising his daughter.

Alexander Nikolaevich used his inheritance and his wife’s dowry very favorably, grew rich, and let his money grow. His daughter could sparkle with diamonds at balls.

In 1861 she married Count Ivan Grigorievich Nostits. But in 1863, the young countess died after giving birth, like her mother. Until the end of his life, A. Raevsky remained inconsolable.

The last years of Raevsky's life were spent alone abroad. And the loneliness of this unhappy man was a consequence of his character.

Raevsky died in October 1868 in Nice at the age of seventy-three. ...

at one time he was suspected of involvement in the Decembrist conspiracy, he was even arrested in Bila Tserkva and taken into custody, but was later released. He did his best to prevent his sister from leaving for Siberia and later broke off relations with her. Despite all these unpleasant facts, Alexander had one weakness - he madly loved his only daughter Alexandrina. He married late, and his wife Catherine died suddenly very young. The inconsolable widower devoted all his energy and unspent love to caring for his daughter. This very controversial type lived an atypically long life for the Volkonskys - 73 years

Pushkin, as literary critics said, “idolized Raevsky, was drawn to him, reached the edge in his passion, was tormented by him, then hated him and finally outlived himself.” The poet abruptly and forever broke off relations with Alexander Raevsky, having learned that he, through secret intrigues, had achieved the expulsion of Pushkin from Odessa.

Closest ancestors and descendants

Alexander Nikolaevich Samoilov

birth: 1744
military rank: lieutenant general
military rank: 1760, Private of the Life Guards Semenovsky Regiment
profession: 1775, chamber cadet
profession: from 1775 to 1787, ruler of affairs of the Imperial Council
military rank: from 1781 to 1783, commander of the Tauride Jaeger Corps
marriage: Ekaterina Sergeevna Trubetskaya (Samoilova)
profession: from September 17, 1792 to December 4, 1796, Prosecutor General of the Governing Senate and State Treasurer
title: February 7, 1793, January 27, 1793 - old style, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
title: 1 January 1795, Count of the Russian Empire
death: 1 November 1814

Military service

A. S. Pushkin

He did not believe in love, freedom;
He looked at life mockingly -
And nothing in all of nature
He didn't want to bless.

He was friends with A.S. Pushkin. I met the poet in the Caucasus, where Raevsky went for treatment and where he served in the Caucasian Corps. They saw each other in the North Caucasus, in the Crimea, in Kamenka, in Kyiv and in Odessa. Later we met in Moscow. But a bitter aftertaste remained in Pushkin’s soul from the previous relationship - and communication was not resumed.

Retired

In 1826 he received the court rank of chamberlain and served as an official on special assignments under the governor of Novorossiya
M. S. Vorontsov, whose adjutant he was back in 1813. In 1827, after a conflict with Vorontsov, which erupted due to Alexander Raevsky’s insane passion for Countess Elizaveta Ksaverevna Vorontsova, he retired. Raevsky was exiled to Poltava, where he lived forever. Only in the fall of 1829, with special permission, was he allowed to go to Boltyshka to see his dying father. After his mother and sisters left for Italy, Alexander Nikolaevich took over the management of Boltyshka and began to put the disorganized economy of the estate in order. He regularly sent money to Italy and dealt with the property and financial affairs of M.N. Volkonskaya. Only in 1834 did he receive the right to settle in Moscow. His appearance in the capital's society could not go unnoticed, although by this time his “demonic” charm was no longer the same, he still remained cynical, calculating, who loved to embarrass secular decorum.

Family

In 1834, Raevsky married Ekaterina Petrovna Kindyakova (1812-1839). The history of his marriage showed that his character had not changed at all.
The Kindyakov House was one of the few houses that took upon themselves the mission of revitalizing Moscow and gathering the best of society. The Kindyakovs’ daughter, twenty-two-year-old Ekaterina, was considered the pearl of Muscovites.
In 1833 Sushkova E.A. wrote in her diary about the Kindyakovs:

Pushkin, having met the Raevsky couple in May 1836, wrote to his wife:

Alexander Nikolaevich used his inheritance and his wife’s dowry very favorably, grew rich, and let his money grow. His daughter could sparkle with diamonds at balls.
In 1861 she married Count Ivan Grigorievich Nostits. But in 1863, the young countess died after giving birth, like her mother. Until the end of his life, A. Raevsky remained inconsolable.

The last years of Raevsky's life were spent alone abroad. And the loneliness of this unhappy man was a consequence of his character.
Raevsky died in October 1868 in Nice at the age of seventy-three.

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Alexander Nikolaevich Raevsky(-) - participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 (colonel), Odessa friend and rival of Pushkin, addressee of his famous poem “The Demon”.

Biography

Military service

Even in winter, I instinctively heard the danger for Pushkin, I did not allow myself to give him advice, but once I jokingly told him that due to his African origin, I still wanted to compare him with Othello, and Raevsky with his unfaithful friend Iago. A few days after my arrival in Odessa, an alarmed Pushkin ran in to tell me that the greatest displeasure was in store for him. At this time, several of the lowest officials from the office of the Governor General, as well as from government offices, were dispatched for the possible extermination of the locusts crawling across the steppe; Pushkin was among them. Nothing could be more humiliating for him...

A.N.Raevsky, 1820s.

According to Wigel, it was Raevsky who proposed sending the poet to fight agricultural pests. He played with the poet's feelings together with the governor's wife Vorontsova; rumor suspected them of having an affair. Only later did Pushkin discover the true face of the one whom he considered his friend.

Retired

The story of Raevsky's marriage showed that his character had not changed at all. The Kindyakov House was one of the few houses that took upon themselves the mission of revitalizing Moscow and gathering the best of society. The Kindyakovs' daughter is twenty-two years old Catherine was considered the pearl of Muscovites. In 1833 Sushkova E.A. wrote in her diary about Kindyakova:

In the family of a major general Peter Vasilievich Kindyakov Alexander Raevsky was received. Ekaterina Kindyakova I even told him my heart secret. She loved Ivan Putyata, but his mother forbade him to marry, and then she married the confidant of her love, Alexander Raevsky.

TWO ALEXANDERS Ice and Fire

Alexander Raevsky - Alexander Pushkin - Evgeny Onegin

They got along. Wave and stone

Poetry and prose, ice and fire

Not so different from each other.

First by mutual difference

They were boring to each other;

Then I liked it; Then

We came together every day on horseback,

And soon they became inseparable.

So people (I am the first to repent)

From nothing to do Friends.

But there is no friendship between us either.

Having destroyed all prejudices,

We respect everyone as zeros,

And in units - yourself.

We all look at Napoleons;

There are millions of two-legged creatures

For us there is one weapon;

We feel wild and funny.

Evgeniy was more tolerable than many;

Although he certainly knew people

And in general he despised them,—

But (there are no rules without exceptions)

He distinguished others very much

And I respected someone else’s feelings.

He listened to Lensky with a smile.

The poet's passionate conversation,

And the mind, still unsteady in judgment,

And an eternally inspired gaze,—

Everything was new to Onegin;

He's a cooling word

I tried to keep it in my mouth

And I thought: it’s stupid to bother me

His momentary bliss;

And without me the time will come;

Let him live for now

Let the world believe in perfection;

Forgive the fever of youth

And youthful heat and youthful delirium.

But more often they were occupied by passions

The minds of my hermits.

Having left their rebellious power,

Onegin spoke about them

With an involuntary sigh of regret.

Blessed is he who knew their worries

And finally he left them behind;

Blessed is he who did not know them,

Who cooled love with separation,

Enmity - slander; sometimes

Yawned with friends and with my wife,

Jealous, not bothered by torment,

And grandfathers' faithful capital

I didn’t trust the insidious two.

Eugene Onegin. A.S. Pushkin

Raevsky, Alexander Nikolaevich(1795-1868). - Colonel. Pushkin's friend, the complete opposite of the poet, the prototype of Pushkin's demon. Pushkin became close to him during a joint trip to Caucasus. min. water, and lived instead in Odessa. “He will be more than known” (Brother, 1820). He was arrested on suspicion of participation in secret societies. Having learned about R.'s arrest, Pushkin was worried about him: “I don’t doubt his political innocence, but he has sick legs, and the dampness of the dungeons will be fatal for him” (“Delvigu”, 1826). Indeed, R. was soon released and returned again to Odessa, where gr. Vorontsova is a distant relative and the object of R.’s constant love. “For speaking freely about the government” (in fact, because Vorontsov was dissatisfied with his relationship with his wives, known to everyone in Odessa) was administratively exiled to the village. R.’s “caustic speeches” soon lost their charm for Pushkin. He met R. again in the Caucasus (1829) and later in St. Petersburg. and Moscow. During a meeting in 1834, he found R. “a little dumb from rheumatism in the head” (“Diary”). “It seems he has perked up and wiser again” (Women, May 1836). See M. Gershenzon. "Family of the Decembrists." “Byloe”, 1907, No. 11-12. His: “Ist. young Russia".

A. N. Raevsky was very ugly in appearance, but his appearance was original, involuntarily striking the eye and remaining in the memory. From the memoirs of Count P. I. Kapnist: “Tall, thin, even bony, with a small round and short-cropped head, with a dark yellow face, with many wrinkles and folds, he always (I think, even when he was sleeping) retained a sarcastic expression, which, perhaps, was greatly facilitated by his very wide, thin-lipped mouth. According to the custom of the twenties, he was always clean-shaven and although he wore glasses, they did not take anything away from his eyes, which were very characteristic: small, yellow-brown, they always sparkled with an observantly lively and bold look and resembled Voltaire’s eyes.” The intelligence and brilliant abilities of A. N. Raevsky opened up a brilliant future for him. In a letter to his brother dated September 24, 1820, Pushkin wrote that “he will be more than famous.”

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Raevsky Alexander Nikolaevich (11/16/1795 - 10/23/1868).

Materials used from Anna Samal's website "Virtual Encyclopedia of the Decembrists" - http://decemb.hobby.ru/

Retired colonel.

From the nobles. Born in the Novogeorgievskaya fortress. Father - hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, cavalry general Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky (14.9.1771 - 16.9.1829), mother - Sofya Alekseevna Konstantinova (25.8.1769 - 16.12.1844, granddaughter of M.V. Lomonosov). He was educated at the Moscow University boarding school. Entered service as a sub-ensign in the Simbirsk Grenadier Regiment - 16.3.1810, ensign - 3.6.1810, transferred to the 5th Jaeger Regiment - 16.3.1811, participant in the Russian-Turkish War in 1810, participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns, adjutant gr. M.S. Vorontsov with promotion to staff captain - 10.4.1813, captain - 10.4.1814, colonel with transfer to the Ryazhsky Infantry Regiment - 17.5.1817, to the 6th Jaeger Regiment - 6.6.1818, seconded to the Caucasian Separate Corps - 27.4.1819 , dismissed - 10/1/1824. Was close to A.S. Pushkin, whose poems “Demon”, “Insidiousness” and, possibly, “Angel” reflected his features.

He was suspected of belonging to secret societies, which was not confirmed during the investigation.

Arrest order - 12/19/1825, arrested in the town of Belaya Tserkov and delivered from the commander-in-chief of the 2nd Army by his adjutant, captain-captain Zherebtsov, to St. Petersburg to the main guardhouse - 6.1, 9.1 shown sent to the general on duty of the General Staff. The highest commanded (17.1.1826) to release with a certificate of acquittal.

Chamberlain - January 21, 1826, official of special assignments under the Novorossiysk Governor-General, Count. M.S. Vorontsov - 1826, retired - 10/9/1827, in July 1828 on the complaint of gr. M.S. Vorontsov was expelled from Odessa to Poltava with a ban on entry into the capital, then received permission to live freely wherever he wanted. Lived in Moscow, died in Nice.

Wife (from 11/11/1834) - Ekaterina Petrovna Kindyakova (11/3/1812 - 11/26/1839); daughter - Alexandra, in 1861 she married gr. Ivan Grigorievich Nostitsa. Brother - Nikolai; sisters: Ekaterina (10.4.1797 - 22.1.1885), married to the Decembrist M.F. Orlov-vym; Elena (29.8.1803 - 4.9.1852), Maria (25.12.1805 or 1807 - 10.8.1863), married to the Decembrist S.G. Volkonsky; Sophia (11/17/1806 - 2/13/1881), maid of honor. Paternal uncle - Decembrist V.L. Davydov.

Raevsky Alexander Nikolaevich (1795-1868), eldest son of General N. N. Raevsky. Pushkin met him at the beginning of his southern exile (1820), but close communication dates back to the Odessa period (1823-1824). Raevsky was a widely educated man, had a sharp mind, but was distinguished by a cynical, arrogant, skeptical outlook on life: “He did not believe in love, freedom, and looked at life mockingly” (Pushkin).

Daemon

He did not believe in love, freedom;

He looked at life mockingly -

And nothing in all of nature

He didn't want to bless.

At one time, this man captured the imagination of the poet. He seemed extraordinary. Tall, thin, wearing glasses, with a smart, mocking look in his small dark eyes, Alexander Raevsky behaved mysteriously and spoke in paradoxes. Pushkin predicted an extraordinary future for him. It is believed that Pushkin’s “Demon” reflects the features of Raevsky. But fate decreed otherwise. The brilliant mind of Raevsky, denying and ridiculing everything, could not create anything. The young man who promised so much became bilious and envious, as his famous enemy Philip Wiegel writes:

Although we know that Evgeniy

I have long ceased to love reading,

However, several creations

He excluded from disgrace:

Singer Gyaur and Juan,

Yes, there are two or three more novels with him,

In which the century is reflected,

And modern man

Portrayed quite accurately

With his immoral soul,

Selfish and dry,

Immensely devoted to a dream,

With his embittered mind

Seething in empty action.

And it starts little by little

My Tatyana understand

Now it’s clearer - thank God -

The one for whom she sighs

Condemned by an imperious fate:

The eccentric is sad and dangerous,

The creation of hell or heaven,

This angel, this arrogant demon,

What is he? Is it really imitation?

An insignificant ghost, or else

Muscovite in Harold's cloak,

interpretation of other people's whims,

A complete vocabulary of fashion words?..

Isn't he a parody?

Alexander Raevsky, according to the definition of the famous literary critic V. Ya. Lakshin, is “a noticeable part of Pushkin’s mental life and spiritual movement.” Pushkin “idolized Raevsky, was drawn to him, reached the brink of his infatuation, was tormented by him, then hated him and finally outlived himself.” Raevsky “through the consciousness of the author, through Pushkin himself, is captured in the novel [“Eugene Onegin”]<...>Raevsky’s spiritual influence on Pushkin rose, flourished and fell, and all this was deposited in the layers of the novel, in the evolution of the hero.”

A sharp change in the poet’s attitude towards Raevsky occurred after he “used the power of holy friendship for evil persecution” (Pushkin): he turned out to be an intriguer, as a result of whose machinations the poet was expelled from Odessa.

Book materials used: Pushkin A.S. Works in 5 volumes. M., Synergy Publishing House, 1999.

Raevsky Alexander Nikolaevich (1795-1868). The eldest son of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 N.N. Raevsky Sr., colonel. In 1819, he was seconded to the Separate Caucasian Corps and was treated for leg illness at the Caucasian mineral waters. Here Pushkin met him, who arrived in June 1820 with the Raevsky family. Later they met in Crimea, Kamenka, Kyiv. They became close in Odessa (1823-1824). Raevsky is an educated and extraordinary man, with a sharp, mocking mind. According to Vigel, who knew him well, Raevsky’s character was composed “of a mixture of excessive pride, laziness, cunning and envy... Pushkin’s fame throughout Russia, the superiority of mind that Raevsky internally had to recognize in him over himself, all this worried and tormented his".

Raevsky was Pushkin's rival in his affair with E.K. Vorontsova. It was believed that he played a treacherous role in relation to Pushkin and that Pushkin owed his deportation from Odessa to a new exile partly to his intrigues. It is believed that Pushkin wrote about Raevsky in the poem “Insidiousness” (1824).

INSANE

When your friend listens to your speeches

He responds with caustic silence;

When he takes his from your hand,

As if from a snake, it will pull away with a shudder;

How, a sharp, nail-like gaze looks at you,

He shakes his head with contempt, -

Don't say, "He's sick, he's a child,

He is tormented by insane melancholy";

Do not say: “He is ungrateful;

He is weak and angry, he is unworthy of friendship;

His whole life is some kind of heavy dream."

Are you right? Are you really calm?

Ah, if so, he is ready to fall into dust,

To beg a friend for reconciliation.

But if you are the holy power of friendship

Used for malicious persecution;

But if you made an intricate quip

His fearful imagination

And I found proud fun

In his melancholy, sobs, humiliation;

But if the despicable slander itself

You were an invisible echo of him;

But if you threw a chain on him

And betrayed his sleepy enemy with laughter,

And he read in your dumb soul

Everything secret with your sad gaze, -

Then go, don’t waste empty words -

You are condemned by the last sentence.

ODESSA and Elise

Among Pushkin scholars, it is believed that the Vorontsovs’ marriage was a matter of convenience: Elizaveta Ksaveryevna was not one of the homeless women. The husband did not consider it necessary to remain faithful to her; Pushkin in his letters mentioned the count's red tape and love affairs - perhaps in order to somehow justify the behavior of Elizaveta Ksaveryevna herself?

In the eyes of friends and acquaintances (at least in their youth, before Pushkin’s intervention in their family life), the Vorontsovs looked like a loving couple. “What a rare couple! - A. Ya. Bulgakov reported to one of his correspondents. - What friendship, harmony and tender love between husband and wife! These are definitely two angels.”

“Vorontsova’s fate in marriage is slightly reminiscent of the fate of Tatyana Larina, but the crystal purity of this beloved creation of Pushkin’s fantasy was not the lot of the countess,” said the famous Pushkinist P.K. Guber.

It is no coincidence that researchers associate the name of Countess Vorontsova with the famous Pushkin heroine. It was the fate of Elizaveta Ksaveryevna that inspired the poet to create the image of Tatyana Larina. Even before her marriage, she fell in love with Alexander Raevsky, with whom she was distantly related. Elizaveta Branitskaya, no longer a young girl (she was twenty-seven - three years older than Raevsky), wrote a letter of recognition to Alexander, surrounded by the halo of a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. Like Eugene Onegin in Pushkin’s novel, the cold skeptic scolded the girl in love. She was married to Vorontsov, and the whole story seemed to end there. But when Raevsky saw Elizaveta Ksaveryevna as a brilliant society lady, the wife of a famous general, received in the best drawing rooms, his heart burned with an unknown feeling. This love, which dragged on for several years, distorted his life - this is what his contemporaries believed. Leaving service in the early twenties of the 19th century, tormented by boredom and idleness, he came to Odessa to win Vorontsova.

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It’s much more pleasant in the countess’s salon, she is more kind and friendly, she is witty and plays music beautifully, there is something about her that attracts and promises... She is not without a literary gift, and her style and conversation enchant everyone around her... She is with Pushkin in some kind of verbal rivalry, and an internal connection arises between them. The Countess lacks real passion; she seems to be running away from secret meetings and at the same time preparing for them. Undoubtedly, the magnetism of her quiet, enchanting voice, the courtesy of her enveloping sweet conversation, the slender figure and proud aristocratic posture, the whiteness of her shoulders, rivaling the radiance of her beloved pearls - however, thousands of other elusive details of deep beauty captivate the poet and many surrounding men. With innate Polish frivolity and coquetry, she wanted to please, and no one succeeded in doing this better than her. She was young at heart, young in appearance. The Countess turned many heads, and it seemed she liked it. All this and her exceptional femininity allowed her to turn the head of Emperor Nicholas, a great hunter of women, but she “out of pride or calculation dared to slip out of hands of the king,” which was usually not possible for inexperienced court ladies, “and this unusual behavior brought her fame” in secular circles.

http://www.peoples.ru/family/wife/vorontsova/

And then this long-standing, strange romance swirled her again, with new force, like the rounds of an endless waltz at the now endless “Vorontsov Balls.” It was impossible to resist the ardor of Raevsky - the “ivy”! Yes, she didn’t really want that! She was extremely flattered that he followed her everywhere like a shadow. From the White Church* (Branitsky family estate in Ukraine - author) to Yurzuf, from Yurzuf to Odessa... How many years! How many? She lost count!... She herself is already over... thirty.

Alexander Nikolaevich Raevsky, colonel of the headquarters of the 2nd Russian army, later stationed in Europe, from the end of 1812 served under the direct command of General Vorontsov, as an adjutant on special assignments. He accompanied Vorontsov on his trip to France and England in 1820-22. In addition, he was familiar, as a distant relative, with Eliza’s mother, Countess Alexandra Vasilievna Branitskaya. At the time of her marriage - May 2, 1819 - Countess Eliza was 27 years old. To M. S. Vorontsov himself - exactly a dozen more - the author).

The Countess shook her head lightly, returning from the depths of her memories to the boring babble of her guest, and persistently continued to look with her eyes, flashing from time to time with living golden sparkles, for her devoted “page”.

And there he is, at the opposite wall, talking with this strange gentleman, who recently arrived from Chisinau to Michel’s office, with some kind of order, or order from the government.

This gentleman kept disappearing in the library, rummaging through ancient papers and tomes.

She asked her husband who he was, and hearing the light and strange surname: “Pushkin,” I remember, she asked keenly, “Isn’t that the poet who wrote the lovely “Naina”? - “Ruslana and Lyudmila”! - her husband corrected her slightly mockingly, and said that he had written a special report about him to the Emperor, and a letter to Alexander Ivanovich Turgenev, a member of the State Council, Pushkin’s friend and patron, in which he promised him to look after the poet, “and fully contribute to the development of his talent.”

Eliza gasped and spread her arms: “Can her strict pedant, Michelle, understand anything about poetry?!” - and he only laughed that “if anything happens, he’ll take the necessary lessons from her!” - and, turning his sloping shoulders, he sent him back out of the office, muttering something in a low voice in English, without opening his lips.

She made out these words: “Ladies and poets, oh, they’re the same thing, you just need to add children to them!” - and smiling to herself at her husband’s habit of thinking out loud in English, she left and didn’t bother me with any more questions, fortunately, she had enough of her own things to do!

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Raevsky was exiled to Poltava, where he lived forever. Only in the fall of 1829, with special permission, was he allowed to go to Boltyshka to see his dying father. After his mother and sisters left for Italy, Alexander Nikolaevich took over the management of Boltyshka and began to put the disorganized economy of the estate in order. Raevsky adhered to a regime of strict economy: he ate the same as the servants and dressed modestly. He regularly sent money to Italy and dealt with the property and financial affairs of M.N. Volkonskaya. During the cholera epidemic of 1831, he took measures to prevent the spread of the disease in the district. Only in 1834 Raevsky received the right to settle in Moscow. His appearance in the capital's society could not go unnoticed, although by this time his “demonic” charm was no longer the same, he still remained cynical, calculating, who loved to embarrass secular decorum.

In the same year, on November 11, Raevsky married the humble and ugly daughter of a Siberian landowner-single estate, Ekaterina Kindyakova, who had been in love with another for many years. The family of Major General Pyotr Vasilyevich Kindyakov welcomed Alexander Raevsky. Ekaterina Kindyakova even told him her heart secret. She loved Ivan Putyata, but his mother forbade him to marry, and then she married the confidant of her love, Alexander Raevsky. The parents of her chosen one categorically refused to give their blessing to the marriage with a girl from a family who “specialized” in making mattresses and shoemaking. Catherine trusted Raevsky, who for a long time and skillfully weaved the intrigue of the pimp, “comforted” the unfortunate woman and in the end married her himself. He always knew how to take advantage of a stalemate.

The newlyweds settled with the Kindyakovs, in a large stone house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.

A.I. Turgenev wrote in his diary:

“... He undertook to marry her to someone else, and he himself got married. The story is the most scandalous and has quarreled half of Moscow.”

Pushkin, having met the Raevsky couple in May 1836, wrote to his wife:

“... Orlov is an intelligent man and a very kind fellow, but somehow I’m not a fan of him due to our old relationship; Raevsky (Alexander), who last time seemed a little dull to me, seems to have become livelier and wiser again. His wife is not a beauty - they say she is very smart. Since now I have added to my other advantages the fact that I am a journalist, I have a new charm for Moscow...”

But the couple did not live long - five years after the wedding in 1839, Ekaterina Petrovna died, leaving her husband with a three-week-old daughter, Alexandra. Now Raevsky’s whole life was devoted to raising his daughter.

Alexander Nikolaevich used his inheritance and his wife’s dowry very favorably, grew rich, and let his money grow. His daughter could sparkle with diamonds at balls.

In 1861 she married Count Ivan Grigorievich Nostits. But in 1863, the young countess died after giving birth, like her mother. Until the end of his life, A. Raevsky remained inconsolable.

The last years of Raevsky's life were spent alone abroad. And the loneliness of this unhappy man was a consequence of his character.

Raevsky died in October 1868 in Nice at the age of seventy-three.

* http://ricolor.org/history/cu/lit/puch/satana/

The volleys died down on Senate Square on December 14. Raevsky was suspected of having connections with “criminals” and was brought with his brother Nikolai to St. Petersburg; he was kept under arrest. “He is sick with his legs,” Pushkin wrote to Delvig in January 1826, “and the dampness of the casemates will be fatal for him. Find out where he is and calm me down." Raevsky turned out to be not involved in the conspiracy, and he was released.

In subsequent years, the name of Raevsky disappears from the pages of Pushkin’s correspondence, and memoirists do not mention him (in connection with Pushkin). New meetings in 1834 and 1836 were accidental.

L.A. Chereisky. Contemporaries of Pushkin. Documentary essays. M., 1999, p. 114-

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Hero of the Russian Federation Alexander Mikhailovich Raevsky

Raevsky Alexander Mikhailovich - test pilot of the State Flight Test Center named after V.P. Chkalov (city of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan region), colonel.
Born on January 1, 1957 in the city of Postavy, Vitebsk Region (Belarusian SSR). He graduated from 8 classes of secondary school, in 1974 - Minsk Suvorov Military School.
In the Armed Forces since 1974. He entered the Kiev Higher Military Tank Engineering School, but the next year he transferred to the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and graduated in 1979. He served in the only 299th aviation regiment of naval aviation in the Soviet Union, which was based at the Saki airfield in Crimea. The regiment was armed with Yak-38 vertical take-off and landing aircraft. From 1981 to 1984 - pilot of the 311th separate naval assault aviation regiment, which was based on the heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers of the Pacific Fleet "Minsk" and "Novorossiysk". Completed several long-distance sea voyages, made 234 landings on the decks of cruisers
In 1985, he graduated from the Test Pilot Training Center and was sent for further service as a test pilot at the State Air Force Flight Test Center named after V.P. Chkalov.
The collapse of the Soviet Union caught A.M. Raevsky as a test pilot of the aviation test aviation regiment of the Feodosia branch of the Research Institute in Crimea. He categorically rejected the offer to take the oath to Ukraine, with great difficulty he transferred to the Russian army and in 1992 he was appointed senior test pilot at the GLITs named after V.P. Chkalova.

Master of testing airplanes and helicopters of the Navy, mastered and tested 56 types of aircraft, including a number of modifications of the Yak-38 vertical take-off and landing aircraft, ship-based Su-25UTG, Su-27K. By 2004, he had about 2,300 flight hours. A.M. Raevsky’s especially great merits were in testing naval aviation. In 1993, he first landed a Su-33 on the deck of an aircraft-carrying cruiser in heavy fog, and in 1994 he safely landed the plane on the deck of an aircraft-carrying cruiser with failed navigation instruments. He was the first in Russia to successfully land planes on the deck at night and in a storm, rejecting the ejection permissions received. All the experience gained is transferred to combat pilots of carrier-based aviation, preparing over 10 of them for takeoffs and landings on the deck of a ship. In total, Alexander Raevsky has made 78 landings on the deck of the tanker "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov".
U Order of the President of the Russian Federation dated August 17, 1995 for courage and heroism shown during testing of aviation equipment, Colonel Raevsky Alexander Mikhailovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
He continued to serve in the Russian army. He served as deputy commander of an aviation test squadron, in 2000 - head of the first department - deputy head of the Flight Test Center for flight operations, from December 2002 - head of the Flight Test Center, since 2006 - chief of staff of the GLITs named after V.P. Chkalov.
Died in a car accident on August 30, 2008 in the Tula region. He was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
Colonel. Awarded medals. Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation (2002).