Alexander MAYKAPAR

M.I. Glinka

"I remember a wonderful moment"

Year of creation: 1840. No autograph found. First published by M. Bernard in 1842.

Glinka's romance is an example of that inseparable unity of poetry and music, in which it is almost impossible to imagine Pushkin's poem without the intonation of the composer. The poetic diamond received a worthy musical setting. There is hardly a poet who would not dream of such a frame for his creations.

Chercher la f emme (fr. - look for a woman) - this advice is most welcome if we want to more clearly imagine the birth of a masterpiece. Moreover, it turns out that there are two women involved in its creation, but ... with one last name: Kern - mother Anna Petrovna and daughter Ekaterina Ermolaevna. The first inspired Pushkin to create a poetic masterpiece. The second - Glinka to create a musical masterpiece.

Music of Pushkin. Poem

Yu. Lotman vividly writes about Anna Petrovna Kern in connection with this poem by Pushkin: “A.P. Kern in life was not only beautiful, but also a sweet, kind woman with an unhappy fate. Her true vocation was to be a quiet family life, which she eventually achieved by remarrying and very happily married after forty years. But at the moment when she met Pushkin in Trigorskoye, this is a woman who has left her husband and enjoys a rather ambiguous reputation. Pushkin's sincere feeling for A.P. Kern, when it had to be expressed on paper, was characteristically transformed in accordance with the conventional formulas of a love-poetic ritual. Being expressed in verse, it obeyed the laws of romantic lyrics and turned A.P. Kern in "the genius of pure beauty".

The poem is a classic quatrain (quatrain) - classic in the sense that each stanza contains a complete thought.

This poem expresses the concept of Pushkin, according to which the movement forward, that is, development, was conceived by Pushkin as revival:"original, pure days" - "delusions" - "rebirth". Pushkin formulated this idea in different ways in his poetry in the 1920s. And our poem is one of the variations on this theme.

I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the anxieties of noisy bustle,
A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time
And dreamed of cute features.

Years passed. Storms gust rebellious
Scattered old dreams
And I forgot your gentle voice
Your heavenly features.

In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days passed quietly
Without a god, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.

The soul has awakened:
And here you are again
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

And the heart beats in rapture
And for him they rose again
And deity, and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.

Music of Glinka. Romance

In 1826 Glinka met Anna Petrovna. They began a friendship that survived until the death of Glinka. Subsequently, she published "Memoirs of Pushkin, Delvig and Glinka", which tells about many episodes of her friendship with the composer. In the spring of 1839, Glinka fell in love with the daughter of A.P. Kern - Ekaterina Ermolaevna. They intended to get married, but this did not happen. Glinka described the history of his relationship with her in the third part of his Notes. Here is one of the entries (December 1839): “In the winter, mother came and stayed with her sister, then I moved there myself (this was the period of Glinka’s completely deteriorated relationship with his wife Maria Petrovna. - A.M.). E.K. recovered, and I wrote a waltz for the B-dur orchestra for her. Then, I don’t know for what reason, Pushkin’s romance “I remember a wonderful moment.”

Unlike the form of Pushkin's poem - a quatrain with cross rhyme, in Glinka's romance the last line of each stanza is repeated. The laws required it musical forms. The peculiarity of the content side of Pushkin's poem - the completeness of thought in each stanza - Glinka diligently preserved and even strengthened by means of music. It can be argued that the songs of F. Schubert, for example, "Trout", in which the musical accompaniment of the stanzas is strictly consistent with the content of this episode, could serve as an example for him.

The romance of M. Glinka is constructed in such a way that each stanza, in accordance with its literary content, also has its own musical arrangement. Achieving this was of particular concern to Glinka. There is a special mention of this in the notes of A.P. Kern: “[Glinka] took Pushkin’s poems from me, written by his hand:“ I remember a wonderful moment ... ”, to set them to music, and lost them, God forgive him! He wanted to compose music for these words that fully corresponded to their content, and for this it was necessary to write special music for each stanza, and he fussed about this for a long time.

Listen to the sound of a romance, preferably performed by a singer, for example, S. Lemeshev), who penetrated into it meaning, and not just reproducing notes, and you will feel it: it begins with a story about the past - the hero recalls the appearance of a wondrous image to him; the music of the piano introduction sounds in a high register, quietly, lightly, like a mirage ... In the third verse (the third stanza of the poem), Glinka wonderfully conveys in music the image of “storms, a rebellious impulse”: in the accompaniment, the movement itself becomes agitated, the chords sound like rapid pulse beats (during anyway, that's the way it can be performed), throwing up short scale-like passages like flashes of lightning. In music, this technique goes back to the so-called tirats, which are found in abundance in works depicting struggle, striving, impulse. This stormy episode is replaced in the same verse by an episode in which tiratations are heard already fading away, from afar ("... I forgot your gentle voice").

To convey the mood of “backwoods” and “darkness of confinement”, Glinka also finds a solution that is remarkable in terms of expressiveness: the accompaniment becomes chord-like, no stormy passages, the sound is ascetic and “dull”. After this episode, the reprise of the romance sounds especially bright and enthusiastic (the return of the original musical material is the same Pushkin revival), with the words: “The awakening has come to the soul.” reprise musical Glinka exactly matches poetic reprise. The enthusiastic theme of love culminates in the coda of the romance, which is the last stanza of the poem. Here it sounds passionately and excitedly against the background of an accompaniment that wonderfully conveys the beating of the heart "in rapture."

Goethe and Beethoven

For the last time, A.P. Kern and Glinka met in 1855. “When I entered, he received me with gratitude and that feeling of friendship that imprinted our first acquaintance, never changing in his property. (...) Despite the fear of upsetting him too much, I could not stand it and asked (as if I felt that I would not see him again) that he sing Pushkin's romance "I remember a wonderful moment ...", he performed it with pleasure and took me to delight! (…)

Two years later, and precisely on February 3 (on my name day), he was gone! He was buried in the same church in which Pushkin was buried, and in the same place I cried and prayed for the repose of both!

The idea expressed by Pushkin in this poem was not new. What was new was her ideal poetic expression in Russian literature. But as for the heritage of the world - literary and musical, it is impossible not to recall in connection with this Pushkin's masterpiece another masterpiece - a poem by I.V. Goethe "New love - new life" (1775). In the German classic, the idea of ​​rebirth through love develops the idea that Pushkin expressed in the last stanza (and Glinka - in the code) of his poem - "And the heart beats in rapture ..."

New love - new life

Heart, heart, what happened
What confused your life?
You beat yourself up with a new life,
I do not recognize you.
Everything has passed, than you burned,
What loved and desired
All peace, love for work, -
How did you get into trouble?

Boundless, powerful force
This young beauty
This sweet femininity
You are captivated to the grave.
And is change possible?
How to escape, escape from captivity,
Will, wings to gain?
All paths lead to it.

Ah, look, ah, save, -
Around the cheat, he is not his own,
On a wonderful, thin thread
I dance, barely alive.
To live in captivity, in a magic cage,
To be under the shoe of a coquette, -
How can such a disgrace be removed?
Oh, let it go, love, let it go!
(Translated by V. Levik)

In an era closer to Pushkin and Glinka, this poem was set to music by Beethoven and published in 1810 in the cycle Six Songs for Voice with Piano Accompaniment (op. 75). It is noteworthy that Beethoven dedicated his song, like Glinka his romance, to the woman who inspired him. It was Princess Kinskaya. It is possible that Glinka could have known this song, since Beethoven was his idol. Glinka mentions Beethoven and his works many times in his Notes, and in one of his arguments, referring to 1842, he even speaks of him as “fashionable”, and this word is written on the corresponding page of the Notes in red pencil.

Almost at the same time, Beethoven wrote a piano sonata (op. 81a) - one of his few program compositions. Each part of it has a heading: "Farewell", "Parting", "Return" (otherwise "Date"). This is very close to the theme of Pushkin - Glinka! ..

Punctuation by A. Pushkin. Cit. on: Pushkin A.S.. Works. T. 1. - M.. 1954. S. 204.

Glinka M. Literary works and correspondence. - M., 1973. S. 297.

"I remember a wonderful moment..." Alexander Pushkin

I remember a wonderful moment...
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

In the languor of hopeless sadness
In the anxieties of noisy bustle,
A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time
And dreamed of cute features.

Years passed. Storms gust rebellious
Scattered old dreams
And I forgot your gentle voice
Your heavenly features.

In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days passed quietly
Without a god, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.

The soul has awakened:
And here you are again
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

And the heart beats in rapture
And for him they rose again
And deity, and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.

Analysis of Pushkin's poem "I remember a wonderful moment"

One of the most famous lyrical poems by Alexander Pushkin "I remember a wonderful moment ..." was created in 1925, and has a romantic background. It is dedicated to the first beauty of St. Petersburg, Anna Kern (nee Poltoratskaya), whom the poet first saw in 1819 at a reception at the house of her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Olenina. Being by nature a passionate and temperamental person, Pushkin immediately fell in love with Anna, who by that time was married to General Yermolai Kern and raised her daughter. Therefore, the laws of decency of secular society did not allow the poet to openly express his feelings to the woman to whom he was introduced only a few hours ago. In his memory, Kern remained "a fleeting vision" and "a genius of pure beauty."

In 1825, fate again brought Alexander Pushkin and Anna Kern together. This time - in the Trigorsk estate, not far from which was the village of Mikhailovskoye, where the poet was exiled for anti-government poetry. Pushkin not only recognized the one that 6 years ago captivated his imagination, but also opened up to her in his feelings. By that time, Anna Kern had broken up with her "soldafon husband" and led a rather free lifestyle, which caused condemnation in secular society. Her endless romances were legendary. However, Pushkin, knowing this, was nevertheless convinced that this woman was a model of purity and piety. After the second meeting, which made an indelible impression on the poet, Pushkin created his poem "I remember a wonderful moment ...".

The work is a hymn to female beauty, which, according to the poet, can inspire a man to the most reckless exploits. In six short quatrains, Pushkin managed to fit the whole story of his acquaintance with Anna Kern and convey the feelings that he experienced at the sight of a woman who captivated his imagination for many years. In his poem, the poet admits that after the first meeting, “a gentle voice sounded to me for a long time and I dreamed of cute features.” However, by the will of fate, youthful dreams remained in the past, and "a rebellious storm dispelled former dreams." For six years of separation, Alexander Pushkin became famous, but at the same time, he lost the taste of life, noting that he had lost the sharpness of feelings and inspiration, which has always been inherent in the poet. The last straw in the sea of ​​disappointment was the exile to Mikhailovskoye, where Pushkin was deprived of the opportunity to shine in front of grateful listeners - the owners of neighboring landowners' estates had little interest in literature, preferring hunting and drinking.

Therefore, it is not surprising that when, in 1825, General Kern with her elderly mother and daughters came to the Trigorskoye estate, Pushkin immediately went to the neighbors on a courtesy call. And he was rewarded not only with a meeting with the "genius of pure beauty", but also awarded her favor. Therefore, it is not surprising that the last stanza of the poem is filled with genuine delight. He notes that "the deity, and inspiration, and life, and a tear, and love, have risen again."

Nevertheless, according to historians, Alexander Pushkin interested Anna Kern only as a fashionable poet, fanned by the glory of rebelliousness, the price of which this freedom-loving woman knew very well. Pushkin himself misinterpreted the signs of attention from the one that turned his head. As a result, a rather unpleasant explanation took place between them, which dotted the "i" in the relationship. But even despite this, Pushkin dedicated many more delightful poems to Anna Kern, for many years considering this woman who dared to challenge the moral foundations of high society, his muse and deity, before whom he bowed and admired, despite gossip and gossip.

Anna Kern: Life in the name of love Sysoev Vladimir Ivanovich

"GENIUS OF PURE BEAUTY"

"GENIUS OF PURE BEAUTY"

“The next day I had to leave for Riga with my sister Anna Nikolaevna Vulf. He came in the morning and, in parting, brought me a copy of the second chapter of Onegin (30), in uncut sheets, between which I found a four-fold postal sheet of paper with verses:

I remember a wonderful moment;

You appeared before me

Like a fleeting vision

Like a genius of pure beauty.

In the languor of hopeless sadness,

In the anxieties of noisy bustle,

And dreamed of cute features.

Years passed. Storms gust rebellious

Scattered old dreams

Your heavenly features.

In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement

My days passed quietly

Without a god, without inspiration,

No tears, no life, no love.

The soul has awakened:

And here you are again

Like a fleeting vision

Like a genius of pure beauty.

And the heart beats in rapture

And for him they rose again

And deity, and inspiration,

And life, and tears, and love!

When I was about to hide the poetic gift in the box, he looked at me for a long time, then convulsively grabbed it and did not want to return it; I forcefully begged them again; What went through his mind then, I don't know.

What feelings did the poet have then? Embarrassment? Excitement? Maybe doubt or even remorse?

Was this poem the result of a momentary infatuation - or a poetic insight? Great is the secret of genius… Just a harmonious combination of a few words, and when they sound in our imagination, a light female image, full of enchanting charm, immediately appears, as if materializing from the air… A poetic love message to eternity…

Many literary scholars have subjected this poem to the most careful analysis. Disputes about various versions of its interpretation, which began at the dawn of the 20th century, are still ongoing and will probably continue.

Some researchers of Pushkin's work consider this poem just a mischievous joke of the poet, who decided to create a masterpiece of love lyrics from the clichés of Russian romantic poetry of the first third of the 19th century. Indeed, out of one hundred and three of his words, more than sixty are worn out banalities (“tender voice”, “rebellious impulse”, “deity”, “heavenly features”, “inspiration”, “heart beats in rapture”, etc.). Let's not take this view of a masterpiece seriously.

According to the majority of Pushkinists, the expression "genius of pure beauty" is an open quote from V. A. Zhukovsky's poem "Lalla-Ruk":

Oh! Doesn't live with us

Genius of pure beauty;

Only occasionally does he visit

Us from heavenly heights;

He is hasty, like a dream,

Like an airy morning dream;

And in holy remembrance

He is not separated from his heart!

He is only in pure moments

Being happens to us

And brings revelation

Benevolent hearts.

For Zhukovsky, this phrase was associated with a number of symbolic images - a ghostly heavenly vision, "hurried like a dream", with symbols of hope and sleep, with the theme of "pure moments of being", tearing the heart away from the "dark region of the earth", with the theme of inspiration and revelations of the soul.

But Pushkin probably did not know this poem. Written for the holiday given in Berlin on January 15, 1821 by the Prussian King Friedrich on the occasion of the arrival from Russia of his daughter Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich, it appeared in print only in 1828. Zhukovsky did not send it to Pushkin.

However, all the images symbolically concentrated in the phrase “the genius of pure beauty” again appear in Zhukovsky’s poem “I used to be a young Muse” (1823), but in a different expressive atmosphere - the expectation of the “grantor of chants”, longing for the genius of pure beauty - in the twinkling of his star.

I used to be a young Muse

Met in the sublunar side,

And inspiration flew

From heaven, uninvited, to me;

On all earthly things

It is a life-giving ray -

And for me at that time it was

Life and poetry are one.

But the giver of hymns

I have not been visited for a long time;

his desired return

When can I wait again?

Or forever my loss

And forever the harp does not sound?

But everything from the beautiful times,

When he was available to me,

Anything from cute dark clear

I saved the past days -

Flowers of a solitary dream

And life's best flowers, -

I lay on your sacred altar,

O Genius of pure beauty!

Zhukovsky supplied the symbolism associated with the "genius of pure beauty" with his own commentary. It is based on the concept of beauty. “The beautiful… has neither name nor image; it visits us in the best moments of life”; “it appears to us only for minutes, for the sole purpose of expressing itself to us, reviving us, elevating our soul”; “only that which is not beautiful is beautiful”... The beautiful is associated with sadness, with the desire “for something better, secret, distant, that connects with it and that exists somewhere for you. And this striving is one of the most inexpressible proofs of the immortality of the soul.

But, most likely, as the well-known philologist academician V. V. Vinogradov first noted in the 1930s, the image of the “genius of pure beauty” arose in Pushkin’s poetic imagination at that time not so much in direct connection with Zhukovsky’s poem “Lalla Ruk” or “I’m a young Muse, I used to”, as much as under the impression of his article “Raphael’s Madonna (From a letter about the Dresden Gallery)”, published in the “Polar Star for 1824” and reproducing the legend that was widespread at that time about the creation of the famous painting “Sistine Madonna”: “They say that Raphael, having stretched his canvas for this picture, did not know for a long time what would be on it: inspiration did not come. One day he fell asleep with the thought of the Madonna, and surely some angel woke him up. He jumped up: she is here, shouting, he pointed to the canvas and drew the first drawing. And in fact, this is not a picture, but a vision: the longer you look, the more vividly you are convinced that something unnatural is happening before you ... Here the soul of the painter ... with amazing simplicity and ease, conveyed to the canvas the miracle that happened in its insides ... I… clearly began to feel that the soul was spreading… It was where it could be only in the best moments of life.

The genius of pure beauty was with her:

He is only in pure moments

Genesis flies to us

And brings us visions

Inaccessible to dreams.

... And it definitely comes to mind that this picture was born in the moment of a miracle: the curtain unfolded, and the secret of heaven was revealed to the eyes of a person ... Everything, and the very air, turns into a pure angel in the presence of this heavenly, passing virgin.

The almanac "Polar Star" with an article by Zhukovsky was brought to Mikhailovskoye by A. A. Delvig in April 1825, shortly before Anna Kern arrived in Trigorskoye, and after reading this article, the image of the Madonna firmly settled in Pushkin's poetic imagination.

“But Pushkin was alien to the moral and mystical basis of this symbolism,” says Vinogradov. - In the poem "I remember a wonderful moment" Pushkin used the symbolism of Zhukovsky, lowering it from heaven to earth, depriving it of a religious and mystical basis ...

Pushkin, merging the image of a beloved woman with the image of poetry and retaining most of Zhukovsky's symbols, except for religious and mystical

Your heavenly features...

My days passed quietly

Without a god, without inspiration...

And for him they rose again

God and inspiration...

builds from this material not only a product of a new rhythmic and figurative composition, but also of a different semantic resolution, alien to the ideological and symbolic concept of Zhukovsky.

It should not be forgotten that Vinogradov made such a statement in 1934. It was a period of broad anti-religious propaganda and the triumph of the materialistic view of the development of human society. For another half a century, Soviet literary critics did not touch upon the religious theme in the work of A. S. Pushkin.

The lines “in the silence of hopeless sadness”, “in the distance, in the darkness of confinement” are very consonant with “Eda” by E. A. Baratynsky; Pushkin borrowed some rhymes from himself - from Tatyana's letter to Onegin:

And at this very moment

Aren't you, sweet vision...

And there is nothing surprising here - Pushkin's work is full of literary reminiscences and even direct quotations; however, using the lines he liked, the poet transformed them beyond recognition.

According to the outstanding Russian philologist and Pushkinist B. V. Tomashevsky, this poem, despite the fact that it draws an idealized female image, is undoubtedly connected with A. P. Kern. “It is not without reason that in the very heading“ K *** ”it is addressed to the beloved woman, even if depicted in a generalized image of an ideal woman.”

This is also indicated by Pushkin's own list of poems of 1816-1827 (it was preserved among his papers), which the poet did not include in the 1826 edition, but intended to include in his two-volume collection of poems (it was published in 1829). The poem “I remember a wonderful moment ...” here has the heading “To A.P. K[ern], directly indicating the one to whom it is dedicated.

Doctor of Philology N. L. Stepanov outlined the interpretation of this work, which was formed back in Pushkin’s times and became a textbook: “Pushkin, as always, is exceptionally accurate in his poems. But, conveying the actual side of the meetings with Kern, he creates a work that reveals the inner world of the poet himself. In the silence of Mikhailov's solitude, the meeting with A.P. Kern evoked in the exiled poet both memories of the recent storms of his life, and regret for the lost freedom, and the joy of the meeting, which transformed his monotonous everyday life, and, above all, the joy of poetic creativity.

Another researcher, E. A. Maimin, especially noted the musicality of the poem: “It is, as it were, a musical composition, given both by real events in Pushkin’s life and by the ideal image of a “genius of pure beauty”, borrowed from Zhukovsky’s poetry. The well-known ideality in solving the theme, however, does not negate the lively immediacy in the sound of the poem and in its perception. This feeling of living immediacy comes not so much from the plot, but from the captivating, one-of-a-kind music of words. There is a lot of music in the poem: melodious, lasting in time, drawn-out music of verse, music of feeling. And as in music, in a poem, it is not a direct, not tangible image of the beloved, but the image of love itself. The poem is based on musical variations of a limited range of images-motives: a wonderful moment - a genius of pure beauty - a deity - inspiration. By themselves, these images do not contain anything immediate, concrete. All this is from the world of abstract and lofty concepts. But in the general musical arrangement of the poem, they become living concepts, living images.

Professor B.P. Gorodetsky in his academic publication “Pushkin’s Lyrics” wrote: “The mystery of this poem is that everything we know about the personality of A.P. is able to evoke in the soul of the poet a feeling that has become the basis of an inexpressibly beautiful work of art, in no way and in no way brings us closer to comprehending the secret of art, which makes this poem typical of a great many similar situations and capable of ennobling and enveloping the beauty of feelings million people...

The sudden and short-term appearance of a “fleeting vision” in the form of a “genius of pure beauty”, flashed amid the darkness of imprisonment, when the poet’s days dragged on “without tears, without life, without love”, could resurrect in his soul “both a deity and inspiration, / And life, and tears, and love" only in the case when all this had already been experienced by him before. Such experiences took place during the first period of Pushkin's exile - they created that spiritual experience of his, without which the later appearance of "Farewell" and such amazing penetrations into the depths of the human spirit as "Incantation" and "For the Shores of the Fatherland" were unthinkable. far." They also created that spiritual experience, without which the poem "I remember a wonderful moment" could not have appeared.

All this should not be understood too simply, in the sense that the real image of A.P. Kern and Pushkin's attitude towards her were of little importance for the creation of the poem. Without them, of course, there would be no poem. But the poem in its form in which it exists would not have existed even if the meeting with A.P. Kern had not been preceded by Pushkin's past and all the hard experience of his exile. The real image of A.P. Kern, as it were, resurrected the poet’s soul again, revealed to him the beauty of not only the irrevocably gone past, but also the present, which is directly and accurately stated in the poem:

The soul has awakened.

That is why the problem of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment” should be solved, as if turning it on the other side: it was not an accidental meeting with A.P. Kern that awakened the poet’s soul and made the past come to life in a new beauty, but, on the contrary, that forces of the poet, which began a little earlier, completely determined all the main characteristic features and the inner content of the poem, caused by a meeting with A.P. Kern.

More than 50 years ago, the literary critic A. I. Beletsky for the first time timidly expressed the idea that the protagonist of this poem is not a woman at all, but a poetic inspiration. “Absolutely secondary,” he wrote, “it seems to us the question of the name of a real woman, who was then elevated to the height of a poetic creation, where her real features disappeared, and she herself became a generalization, a rhythmically ordered verbal expression of a certain general aesthetic idea ... The love theme in this poem is clearly subordinated to another, philosophical and psychological theme, and its main theme is the theme of different states of the poet's inner world in the relationship of this world with reality.

Professor M. V. Stroganov went the furthest in identifying the image of the Madonna and the “genius of pure beauty” in this poem with the personality of Anna Kern: “The poem“ I remember a wonderful moment ... ”was written, obviously, in one night - from July 18 to July 19 1825, after a joint walk of Pushkin, Kern and Wulfov in Mikhailovsky and on the eve of Kern's departure for Riga. During the walk, Pushkin, according to Kern's memoirs, spoke of their "first meeting at the Olenins, expressed himself enthusiastically about it, and at the end of the conversation said:<…>. You looked like such an innocent girl…” All this is included in that memory of the “wonderful moment”, to which the first stanza of the poem is dedicated: the very first meeting, and the image of Kern - an “innocent girl” (virginal). But this word - virginal - means in French the Mother of God, the Immaculate Virgin. This is how an involuntary comparison takes place: "like a genius of pure beauty." And the next day, in the morning, Pushkin brought a poem to Kern ... The morning turned out to be wiser than the evening. Something confused Pushkin in Kern when he passed his poems to her. Apparently, he doubted: could she be this ideal model? Will she appear to them? - And I wanted to select poems. It was not possible to pick it up, and Kern (precisely because she was not such a woman) printed them in Delvig's almanac. The entire subsequent “obscene” correspondence between Pushkin and Kern can obviously be regarded as psychological revenge on the addressee of the poem for his excessive haste and sublimity of the message.

In the 1980s, the literary critic S. A. Fomichev, who considered this poem from a religious and philosophical point of view, saw in it the reflection of episodes not so much of the poet’s real biography as of the inner biography, “three successive states of the soul”. It was from that time that a pronounced philosophical view of this work was outlined. Doctor of Philology V.P. Grekh-nev, based on the metaphysical ideas of the Pushkin era, which interpreted man as a “small universe”, arranged according to the law of the entire universe: a three-hypostatic, God-like being in the unity of the earthly shell (“body”), “ soul” and “divine spirit”, saw in Pushkin’s “wonderful moment” a “comprehensive concept of being” and, in general, “the whole of Pushkin”. Nevertheless, both researchers recognized the “living conditionality of the lyrical beginning of the poem as a real source of inspiration” in the person of A.P. Kern.

Professor Yu. N. Chumakov turned not to the content of the poem, but to its form, specifically, to the spatio-temporal development of the plot. He argued that "the meaning of a poem is inseparable from the form of its expression ..." and that "form" as such "itself ... acts as content ...". According to L. A. Perfilieva, the author of the latest commentary on this poem, Chumakov “saw in the poem the timeless and endless cosmic rotation of the independent Pushkin Universe, created by the inspiration and creative will of the poet.”

Another researcher of Pushkin's poetic heritage, S. N. Broitman, revealed in this poem "the linear infinity of semantic perspective." The same L. A. Perfilieva, having carefully studied his article, stated: “Having singled out “two systems of meanings, two plot-figurative series”, he also admits their “probable plurality”; as an important component of the plot, the researcher assumes "providentiality" (31)."

Now let's get acquainted with the rather original point of view of L. A. Perfilieva herself, which is also based on a metaphysical approach to the consideration of this and many other works of Pushkin.

Abstracting from the personality of A.P. Kern as the inspirer of the poet and addressee of this poem and from biographical realities in general, and based on the fact that the main quotations of Pushkin's poem are borrowed from the poetry of V.A. Zhukovsky, who has the image of "Lalla-Ruk" (however, like other images of his romantic works) appears as an unearthly and intangible substance: "ghost", "vision", "dream", "sweet dream", the researcher claims that Pushkin's "genius of pure beauty" appears in its metaphysical reality as a “messenger of Heaven” as a mysterious intermediary between the author’s “I” of the poet and some otherworldly, higher entity – “deity”. She believes that the author's "I" in the poem means the soul of the poet. BUT "a fleeting vision" The soul of a poet "genius of pure beauty"- this is the “moment of Truth”, the divine Revelation, illuminating and penetrating the Soul with the grace of the divine Spirit with an instant flash. AT "languishing hopeless sadness" Perfilyeva sees the torment of the soul's presence in a bodily shell, in the phrase “a gentle voice sounded to me for a long time”- the archetypal, primary memory of the soul about Heaven. The next two stanzas "picture Being as such, marked by soul-wearing duration." Between the fourth and fifth stanzas, providentiality or the “Divine verb” is invisibly revealed, as a result of which "The soul has awakened." It is here, in the interval of these stanzas, that “an invisible point is placed, creating an internal symmetry of the cyclically closed composition of the poem. At the same time, it is a turning point – a return point, from which the “space-time” of the small Pushkin Universe suddenly turns, starting to flow towards itself, returning from the earthly reality to the heavenly ideal. The awakened soul regains the ability to perceive deities. And this is an act of her second birth - a return to the divine fundamental principle - "Resurrection".<…>This is the acquisition of the Truth and the return to Paradise ...

The amplification of the sound of the last stanza of the poem marks the fullness of Being, the triumph of the restored harmony of the "small universe" - the body, soul and spirit of a person in general or personally of the poet-author himself, that is, "the whole of Pushkin."

Summing up her analysis of Pushkin's work, Perfilieva suggests that, "regardless of the role that A.P. Kern played in its creation, it can be considered in the context of Pushkin's philosophical lyrics, along with such poems as "The Poet" (which, according to the author of the article, is dedicated to the nature of inspiration), “Prophet” (dedicated to the providential nature of poetic creativity) and “I erected a monument to myself not made by hands…” (dedicated to the incorruptibility of spiritual heritage). In their series “I remember a wonderful moment…” indeed, as already noted, there is a poem about “the entire fullness of Being” and about the dialectics of the human soul; and about "man in general", as about the Small Universe arranged according to the laws of the universe.

It seems that he foresaw the possibility of the appearance of such a purely philosophical interpretation of Pushkin's lines, the already mentioned N. L. Stepanov wrote: “In such an interpretation, Pushkin's poem loses its vital concreteness, that sensual-emotional beginning that so enriches Pushkin's images, gives them an earthly, realistic character. . After all, if we abandon these specific biographical associations, the biographical subtext of the poem, then Pushkin's images will lose their vital content, turn into conventionally romantic symbols, meaning only the theme of the poet's creative inspiration. We can then replace Pushkin with Zhukovsky with his abstract symbol of the “genius of pure beauty”. This will impoverish the realism of the poet's poem, it will lose those colors and shades that are so important for Pushkin's lyrics. The strength and pathos of Pushkin's creativity is in the fusion, in the unity of the abstract and the real.

But even using the most complex literary and philosophical constructions, it is difficult to dispute the statement of N. I. Chernyaev, made 75 years after the creation of this masterpiece: “With his message“ K *** ”Pushkin immortalized her (A. P. Kern. - V. S.) just as Petrarch immortalized Laura, and Dante immortalized Beatrice. Centuries will pass, and when many historical events and historical figures are forgotten, the personality and fate of Kern, as the inspirer of Pushkin's muse, will arouse great interest, cause controversy, speculation and be reproduced by novelists, playwrights, and painters.

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The poem "K ***", which is often called "I remember a wonderful moment ..." on the first line, A.S. Pushkin wrote in 1825 when he met Anna Kern for the second time in his life. For the first time they saw each other in 1819 at mutual acquaintances in St. Petersburg. Anna Petrovna charmed the poet. He tried to attract her attention to himself, but he did not succeed very well - at that time he had only graduated from the Lyceum for only two years and was little known. Six years later, having again seen the woman who once so impressed him, the poet creates an immortal work and dedicates it to her. Anna Kern wrote in her memoirs that on the day before her departure from the Trigorskoye estate, where she was visiting a relative, Pushkin gave her the manuscript. In it, she found a piece of poetry. Suddenly, the poet took the sheet, and it took her a long time to persuade her to return the poems back. Later, she gave the autograph to Delvig, who in 1827 published the work in the collection Northern Flowers. The text of the verse, written in iambic tetrameter, acquires a smooth sound and a melancholy mood due to the predominance of sonorous consonants.
TO ***

I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the anxieties of noisy bustle,
A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time
And dreamed of cute features.

Years passed. Storms gust rebellious
Scattered old dreams
And I forgot your gentle voice
Your heavenly features.

In the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement
My days passed quietly
Without a god, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.

The soul has awakened:
And here you are again
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.

A.S. Pushkin, like any poet, experienced the feeling of love very keenly. All his experiences, sensations poured out on a sheet of paper with wonderful verses. In his lyrics you can see all the facets of feelings. The work "I remember a wonderful moment" can be called a textbook example of the poet's love lyrics. Probably, every person can easily recite at least the first quatrain of the famous poem by heart.

In fact, the poem, "I remember a wonderful moment" is a story of one love. The poet in a beautiful form conveyed his feelings about several meetings, in this case about the two most significant ones, managed to touchingly and sublimely convey the image of the heroine.

The poem was written in 1825, and in 1827 it was published in the almanac "Northern Flowers". The publication was handled by a friend of the poet - A. A. Delvig.

In addition, after the publication of the work of A.S. Pushkin began to appear various musical interpretations of the poem. So, in 1839 M.I. Glinka created the romance "I remember a wonderful moment ..." to the verses of A.S. Pushkin. The reason for writing the romance was Glinka's meeting with Anna Kern's daughter, Ekaterina.

To whom is it dedicated?

A poem is dedicated to A.S. Pushkin to the niece of the President of the Academy of Arts Olenin - Anna Kern. For the first time the poet saw Anna in Olenin's house in St. Petersburg. This was in 1819. At that time, Anna Kern was married to a general and did not pay attention to the young graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. But that same graduate was fascinated by the beauty of the young woman.

The second meeting of the poet with Kern happened in 1825, it was this meeting that served as the impetus for writing the work “I Remember a Wonderful Moment”. Then the poet was in exile in the village of Mikhailovskoye, and Anna arrived at the neighboring Trigorskoye estate. They had a fun and carefree time. Later, Anna Kern and Pushkin had more friendly relations. But those moments of happiness and delight are forever imprinted in the lines of Pushkin's work.

Genre, size, direction

The work belongs to love lyrics. The author reveals the feelings and emotions of the lyrical hero, who remembers the best moments of his life. And they are connected with the image of the beloved.

The genre is a love letter. “... You appeared before me ...” - the hero refers to his “genius of pure beauty”, she became a consolation and happiness for him.

For this work, A.S. Pushkin chooses iambic pentameter and cross type of rhyme. With the help of these means, the feeling of the story is conveyed. It is as if we see and hear the lyrical hero live, who slowly tells his story.

Composition

The ring composition of the work is based on antithesis. The poem is divided into six quatrains.

1. The first quatrain tells of the "wonderful moment" when the hero first saw the heroine.
2. Then, in contrast, the author draws heavy, gray days without love, when the image of the beloved gradually began to fade from memory.
3. But in the finale, the heroine appears to him again. Then in his soul again resurrects "and life, and tears, and love."

Thus, the work is framed by two wonderful meetings of heroes, a moment of charm and insight.

Images and symbols

The lyrical hero in the poem “I remember a wonderful moment ...” is a person whose life changes as soon as an invisible feeling of attraction to a woman appears in his soul. Without this feeling, the hero does not live, he exists. Only a beautiful image of pure beauty can fill his being with meaning.

In the work we meet all kinds of symbols. For example, the image-symbol of a storm, as the personification of everyday adversity, everything that the lyrical hero had to endure. The image-symbol "the darkness of imprisonment" refers us to the real basis of this poem. We understand that this refers to the exile of the poet himself.

And the main symbol is the "genius of pure beauty." It is something incorporeal, beautiful. So, the hero elevates and spiritualizes the image of his beloved. Before us is not a simple earthly woman, but a divine being.

Topics and issues

• The central theme in the poem is love. This feeling helps the hero to live and survive in harsh days for him. In addition, the theme of love is closely related to the theme of creativity. It is the excitement of the heart that awakens inspiration in the poet. The author can create when all-consuming emotions bloom in his soul.
• Also, A. S. Pushkin, like a real psychologist, very accurately describes the state of the hero in different periods of his life. We see how strikingly contrasting are the images of the narrator at the time of the meeting with the "genius of pure beauty" and at the time of his imprisonment in the wilderness. It's like two completely different people.
• In addition, the author touched upon the problem of lack of freedom. He describes not only his physical bondage in exile, but also an inner prison, when a person closes in on himself, fenced off from the world of emotions and bright colors. That is why those days of loneliness and longing became a prison for the poet in every sense.
• The problem of separation appears before the reader as an inevitable but bitter tragedy. Life circumstances are often the cause of a gap that hurts the nerves, and then hides in the depths of memory. The hero even lost a bright memory of his beloved, because the awareness of the loss was unbearable.

Idea

The main idea of ​​the poem is that a person cannot live fully if his heart is deaf and his soul is asleep. Only by opening up to love, its passions, you can truly feel this life.

The meaning of the work is that just one small event, even insignificant for others, can completely change you, your psychological portrait. And if you change yourself, then your attitude to the world around you also changes. So one moment can change your world, both external and internal. You just need not to miss it, not to lose it in the hustle and bustle of days.

Means of artistic expression

In his poem A.S. Pushkin uses a variety of paths. For example, to more vividly convey the state of the hero, the author uses the following epithets: “wonderful moment”, “hopeless sadness”, “tender voice”, “heavenly features”, “noisy bustle”.

We meet works and comparisons in the text, so already in the first quatrain we see that the appearance of the heroine is compared with a fleeting vision, and she herself is compared with the genius of pure beauty. The metaphor “a rebellious storm dispelled former dreams” emphasizes how time unfortunately takes away from the hero his only consolation - the image of his beloved.

So, beautifully and poetically, A.S. Pushkin was able to tell his love story, unnoticed by many, but dear to him.

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