To the question Tell me, please, what does the expression "paradoxes friend" mean? Where did it come from? Who is author? Interesting to know)) set by the author obliquely the best answer is A paradox is understood as a statement that diverges from the generally accepted opinion and seems illogical (often only with a superficial understanding). The paradox strikes with surprise.
Paradoxicality - surprise, unusualness, originality, inconsistency with oneself, initial premises, generally accepted, traditional view or common sense in content and / or form.
Many brilliant discoveries are based on paradoxical premises.

Answer from Pavel Ivanov[guru]
A. S. Pushkin

Answer from Eurovision[guru]
Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have
Prepare the spirit of enlightenment
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes,
And genius, paradoxes friend,
A. S. Pushkin, “Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have ..

Answer from throw[guru]
Oh how many wonderful discoveries we have
Prepare enlightenment spirit
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes,
And genius, paradoxes friend,
And chance, god is the inventor.
1829

A. S. Pushkin

Answer from Natalya Shamrayeva[active]
A. S. Pushkin.
"Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have
Prepare the spirit of enlightenment
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes,
And genius, paradoxes friend
And chance, God is the inventor."

These lines were the epigraph to the popular program "Obvious-incredible".

Answer from Anatoly Rozet[guru]
"Paradox friend" is a REAL HISTORICAL PERSON.
He was a friend of Pushkin - remember the lines dedicated to him "And a genius is a friend of paradoxes, And chance is a god, an inventor ..." - and died with him in the same year.

His name was Pavel Lvovich Schilling von Kanstadt.
P. L. Schilling von Kanstadt was one of the most mysterious people in Russia. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, had a unique collection of 9,000 volumes of the rarest Tibetan and Buddhist books. Mongolian Buddhists considered him to be the incarnation of one of the deities. Was it not he who taught A. S. Pushkin such high self-control during duels and inspired him with confidence in his invulnerability? In any case, P. L. Schilling von Kanstadt taught A. S. Pushkin to fight with swords and shoot accurately with a pistol. Yes, and the great successes of A. S. Pushkin among women, too, may be the result of the influence of P. L. Schilling von Kanstadt.
He was a member of the mystical order of the Rosicrucians.
P. L. Schilling von Kanstadt was especially fond of studying the treatises of the great Indian mystic Abhinavagupta. His ingenious teaching about the essence of the human voice and its influence on the vital energy of a person, the so-called "living brilliance", which can fan the flame of passion in a person. Perhaps, thanks to this knowledge, which A. S. Pushkin received from P. L. Schilling von Kanstadt, he, being a not very attractive man, could win the hearts of many beauties of high society with his passionate speeches.
He created the first insulated electrical conductor that could be used for remote detonation of mines.
In 1813 he received an order and a nominal saber "For Bravery", and in 1814 he organized the first lithograph in Russia.
He created the first ever weapon system for a submarine - a harpoon with an underwater mine on a wire - for fighting the Turks near Silistria.
Conducted the world's first demonstration of a functioning telegraph "about six indicators and eight wires" on October 21, 1832.
He was one of the leaders of the Gendarme Corps with the rank of colonel in the Russian army.
He was a relative of Benckendorff and a protégé of Arakcheev. Cheerful fat man and ladies' man.

Pushkin, who asked to go with him on one of the expeditions, he did not take with him (remember these lines)
"Let's go, I'm ready; wherever you are, friends,
Wherever you want, I'm ready for you
Follow everywhere, arrogantly running away:
To the foot of the wall of distant China,

Prepares enlightenment spirit
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes,
And genius, paradoxes friend,

Science in Pushkin's work

Inclusions of "scientific" themes in Pushkin's poetic works are quite frequent. But this five-verse can be called the quintessence of the theme "Science in Pushkin's work."
Only five lines, and what coverage - enlightenment, experience, genius, chance- all the components that determine the progress of mankind.
Pushkin's interest in contemporary science was very deep and versatile (as, indeed, in other aspects of human activity). Confirmation of this is his library, which contains works on the theory of probability, the works of Pushkin's contemporary, academician V.V. Petrov, a Russian experimental physicist in the study of electrical phenomena, and others (in Russian and foreign languages).
Pushkin's library in his museum-apartment includes many books on natural science topics: the philosophical works of Plato, Kant, Fichte, the works of Pascal, Buffon, Cuvier on natural science, Leibniz's works on mathematical analysis, Herschel's works on astronomy, research on physics and mechanics of Arago and d'Alembert, Laplace's work on the theory of probability, etc.
Pushkin, being the editor and publisher of the Sovremennik magazine, regularly posted articles by scientists reflecting scientific and technical topics in it.
Pushkin could also learn about the achievements of physics of that time from communication with the famous scientist, inventor P.L. Schilling, the creator of the first electromagnetic telegraph apparatus, an electric mine. Pushkin knew him very well and Schilling's inventions could well be seen in action.
The Poet's interest in Lomonosov's work can be estimated from the fact that, having read the "M.V. Lomonosov's track record for 1751-1756" in the Moscow Telegraph magazine, he was struck by the versatility and depth of research. The poet expressed his admiration as follows: “Combining extraordinary willpower with extraordinary power of concept, Lomonosov embraced all branches of education. Historian, rhetorician, mechanic, chemist, mineralogist, artist and poet, he experienced everything and penetrated everything ... ". And later he adds: "He created the first university. It is better to say that he himself was our first university."

If you, my guest, have read my Marginal Notes in the right column, now look at what this poem could have been like if the Poet had tried to complete the line with the missing rhyme.

Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have
Prepares enlightenment spirit
And experience, the son of difficult mistakes,
And genius, paradoxes friend,
And chance, god is the inventor...
And an idle dreamer.

Pushkin volume [collection] Andrey Bitov

Paradoxes friend (Autumn of Pushkin)

Paradox friend

(Autumn of Pushkin)

Oh how many wonderful discoveries we have

Prepare enlightenment spirit

And Experience, [son of] difficult mistakes,

And Genius, [paradoxes] friend,

[And Chance, god the inventor].

Pushkin, 1829

Written and not completed in the autumn of 1829. How easily, however, Pushkin neglected his friend dropping it halfway… a paradox in itself.

Paradoxes - this is such a surname, but he had a friend ... No wonder: we had a student at school named Phenomenov.

Paradoxical to everyone in everything understandable our Pushkin for the first time reached the Soviet schoolchild in his inexplicable love for autumn. What good is it when the holidays are over and it's back to school! Again around the chain.

Oh, red summer! I would love you

If it weren’t for the heat, yes dust, yes mosquitoes, yes flies ...

What flies are there! When cool flour. Yet again:

Winter! Peasant triumphant

Goes holding on to the tip...

And why is this a peasant so much triumphant?

And - no need to plow. Can trade fruits of summer labor.

We have forgotten the closeness of lordly and peasant life.

Pushkin starts plow autumn, harvesting your experience difficult mistakes. One cannot do it. But then he comes to the rescue friend.

Here we are sitting in the Central House of Writers with Vladimir Sokolov over a glass.

- I can't sleep at all! - either with bitterness, or with pride, he utters a great phrase.

Word for word, and - Pushkin!

“Here,” he says, already calmly, but angrily. - Everyone says "harmonious" ... What is there! Always a contradiction.

October has already come - the grove is already shaking off

The last leaves from their naked branches ...

What kind of leaves are there if the branches are naked!

I remembered Volodya and felt sad: how many of us have already flown around ... What am I holding on to?

It turns out that in vain I then removed the quatrain from the poem dedicated to his death:

A poem called "Story"

Everything tormented him, but he did not write.

There is no plot other than death

Especially when old age is in store.

Indian summer again. Sad time, eyes charm…

"I love the magnificent nature of wilting." Petersburg is not Moscow, but Mikhailovskoye is not Boldino either. The truth is also in where autumn is worse.

Two poor trees, and one of them is one

Rainy autumn completely surrounded,

And the leaves on the other, getting wet and turning yellow,

To clog the puddle, just waiting for Boreas.

Only. There is no live dog in the yard.

"Boredom, cold and granite" - only in St. Petersburg autumn is even worse. And this was another, final condition for writing The Bronze Horseman.

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From the author's book

Pushkin's Dreams (125) Pushkin early noticed the mysterious phenomenon of sleepy dreams, and over the years, as we shall see, at times thought intently about it. In his works, starting with "Ruslan and Lyudmila" 1817-1819, ending with "The Captain's Daughter" 1833, he depicted five dreams.

"Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have

Prepare enlightenment spirit

And experience, the son of difficult mistakes ... "

These lines from a poem by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin are a kind of parting word for people and make you think about the role of experience and mistakes in their lives. What is experience? Experience is knowledge gained over a lifetime. Is it possible to gain experience without making mistakes? Practice shows that it is not. You can learn from the mistakes of others, but it is impossible to live without making your own. Each person, having been born, begins to gain experience, making mistakes in order to become better than they are. “Experience and mistakes” can be called relatives, because experience comes from mistakes. These two concepts are very close and one is a continuation of the other. What role do experiences and mistakes play in people's lives?

These and other questions are cause for long reflection. In fiction, the topic of choosing one's own path, in the course of making mistakes and gaining experience, is touched upon very often.

Let us turn to the novel by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". This work tells about the unsuccessful love of Eugene Onegin and Tatyana Larina. Onegin at the beginning of the work is presented as a frivolous nobleman who has lost interest in life, and throughout the novel he tries to find a new meaning for his existence. Tatyana takes life and people seriously, she is a dreamy person. When she first met Onegin, she immediately fell in love with him. When Tatyana writes a love letter to Eugene, she shows courage and puts all her love for him into it. But Onegin rejects Tatyana's letter. This happened because then he was not yet in love with her.

Having fallen in love with Tatyana, he sends her a letter, but then she could no longer accept his feelings. She learned from her mistakes and did not repeat them again, now she knew that falling in love with such a frivolous person, she made a big mistake.

Another example where one can trace the acquisition of experience from mistakes is the work of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”. Evgeny Bazarov was a nihilist all his life, he denied everything, all feelings that could be born in a person, including love. His nihilistic views were his biggest mistake. Having fallen in love with Odintsov, his world begins to crumble. He could hardly talk about his feelings, which he so vehemently denied. And although Odintsova loved Evgeny, she still chose a quiet life and refused him. Before Bazarov's death, the covenant was precisely the one because of whom his world was destroyed, his love did not disappear. Before his death, he realized his mistake, but, alas, he could no longer correct anything.

So, mistakes are what allows people to accumulate life experience. And it is not so important whose mistakes they are, a person must learn from his own mistakes, as well as from the mistakes of others. Only in this way will people be able to improve and develop as a person.

Updated: 2017-04-02

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