The biography of Fet is interesting

All that you did not know about Athanasius Fete love, poverty, mysterious death are interesting facts from the biography of the poet Athanasius Fet is one of the most striking, distinctive and reverent Russian poets. His works are performed by such tenderness and lyricism that it is difficult not to fall in love with them. With his talent, awakened in it in his student years, he owes a difficult fate.

The struggle for the noble title, the tragic first love - all this is reflected in the work of the classic. In our material, we will talk about the most interesting, and sometimes mysterious facts from the biography of the writer. The secret of birth is the true origin of the classic still causes fierce disputes between biographers and historians. The fact is that Fet as a child was deprived of the noble title of father.

According to the documents, he was listed as the son of the first wife of the mother-Johann Fyota, Hesse-Darmstadt citizen. According to one version, Father's father himself contributed to such a development of events. The representative of the noble family Afanasy Schenshin initially recognized his son, but later agreed that the child was born out of marriage. And this was severely condemned by the Orthodox Church.

One way or another, this story influenced the whole future life of the poet. For many years, he had to fight for his rights in order not only to regain his surname and noble privileges, but also by Russian citizenship.

Foreigner Fet, having lost the right to the surname, the poet was considered a stranger, alien and a ranger. The writer was obliged to subscribe to this: "A foreigner Fet had a hand to this." With the same “title”, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Moscow. On liters, excommunication from the family and surname and the unstable pain about their own disorder, probably, aroused a poetic gift from the future classic.

In a student, Fet instead of attending lectures, he preferred to write poetry. In M, his first collection “The Lirric Pantheon” was released. In the period, 85 poems were published in the magazines. The talent of the novice poet was even marked by Gogol. Fet himself sent his texts to the writer, and soon received a review through a friend: "Gogol said this is an undoubted talent." The first success in the literary field did not bring Athanasius closer to the family condition.

Even the hereditary estate that his uncle left the writer was looted and brought more losses than income. In order not to starve to starve, Fet went to serve in the army, making a decision to achieve everything on his own. Fet and two Mary literary scholars are sure that it is impossible to feel the lyrics of Athanasius Fet without acquaintance with his personal love drama.

As an officer, the poet went to Kherson, where at one of the home balls he met Maria Lazich. The love between a rootless foreigner and the daughter of a poor military was doomed from the very beginning. Nevertheless, the novel by Athanasius and Mary lasted for some time, and the future gap only gave this platonic connection of tragedy and passion. Fet refused to marry. He explained such a decision with his lack of money.

Despite the prayers of his lover, the poet stopped communication with her, and after a short time Lazich died in fire - her sour dress caught fire from the lamp. Until the end of days, Fet believed that he was to blame for the death of Maria. At the dawn, you don’t wake her Afanasy Fet, a hard binding of the only wife and the faithful ally of the classic was also called Maria.

Botkin, the daughter of a Moscow tea merchant, seemed to the poet a very profitable party. And despite the fact that there was no particular passion in this pair, they lived peacefully and harmoniously for thirty -five years. It is worth paying tribute to Fetu: having finally gained a fortune, he not only kept him, but also managed to increase it. The donkey of Nekrasov between the two poets did not happen open clashes.

Nekrasov even praised a colleague in one of his articles. However, some misunderstanding between the classics still existed. It consisted mainly in the difference in styles and views on life. On Liters, their poetic “confrontation” ended with the fact that Fet brought a donkey on his estate - and dubbed him by Nekrasov, maliciously noting that the beast “the same sufferer of the Russian land as the poet”.

Moreover, the writer bequeathed to call every descendant of his pet in honor of the opponent. An amazing fact: in the estate of Fet and now - his museum still lives a donkey named Nekrasov. Whether he is a direct successor of the family of that same donkey is unknown. An attempt to suicide in the last years of his life Fet finally received public recognition. In m for the translation of the works of Horace, he became the first laureate of the full Pushkin Prize.

And two years later, the poet was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The poems of Athanasius Fet is a solid binding but neither titles nor regalia, which, it would seem, had to calm the rebellious soul, did not help to avoid the tragedy. It is known that shortly before his death, the poet tried to commit suicide. He died on December 3, and then rumors about Fet's suicide began to spread in Moscow.

There were even several versions of the classic suicide.According to the gossip, the poet stabbed himself with a stylet, a kitchen knife or even died of excessive use of champagne. The official story says: Fet died of “chest disease”, or pneumonia, but before his death he really thought about interrupting his earthly path. Books on the topic.