Shcherbatova Maria Alekseevna Biography

But over time, he found a new comfort. About Princess Maria Alekseevna Shcherbatova, there are rather scarce and disparate information. Meanwhile, the poet devoted to her the poem “Prayer”, “M. Shcherbatova ”,“ Why ”. Her name also went down in the history of the Duel Lermontov with Edmon de Barant, who entailed the poet’s second exile to the Caucasus. Having indicated that in the winter G.

Lermontov was “greatly interested in Prince. Smirnov in “Memorial notes” also says: “The rivalry in love and gossip quarched Lermontov and Barant, Maria Alekseevna Shcherbatova was the daughter of the Ukrainian landowner A. For the first time, the names Lermontov and Shcherbatova were mentioned together in S. Karamzina’s letters to E. Meshcherskaya on August 1, Lermontov soon began to visit Shcherbatov in Petersburg.

Her grandmother’s house and in the country in Pavlovsk. Rarely reading his works in secular living rooms, the poet undoubtedly made an exception for Maria Alekseevna.

Once, after reading the poem “Demon”, Shcherbatova told Lermontov: “I like your demon: I would like to go down to the bottom of the sea and fly to the clouds.” According to the memoirs of A. Smirnova, Maria Alekseevna always tried to help the poet overcome his spiritual torment. But, being most often unable to calm him down, she ordered Lermontov to pray when he had a longing.

He promised and wrote to her these poems: in a minute of life, a difficult one in the heart is sad: I will tell a wonderful prayer to a wonderful one. The poem was highly appreciated by Belinsky, who quoted him completely in the article “M. Lermontov’s poems”, answering those who denied the dignity of the poem “And Boring and sad”, wrote: “By the way, A.

Smirnova writes that Maria Alekseevna felt unhappy Ivanovna Shterich, who hated Lermontov and wanted Be sure to get married Maltsev. Shcherbatova’s life was complicated by those gossip who were associated with her unsuccessful marriage and a will of the late husband of Prince Shcherbatov. According to him, having lost her little son, she lost almost the entire condition, which went back to the genus of the Shcherbatovs.

The echoes of secular gossip and gossip on this subject were preserved in the memoirs of contemporaries, so the poet, admiring the persistent character and independence of Shcherbatova, write about her: as a native tribe, does not ask for a sovereign for alien support and sprinkles in proudly, after a duel Lermontov and Barant, Maria Alekseevna on February 22, hastened to Moscow, but later, later, later, later, later, later.

Arriving, at the grave of her son, she saw with the poet. Their meeting is known from the words of the duty officer P. Gorozhansky, a former pupil of the junkers school. It was he who allowed Lermontov to leave the guardhouse, risking being punished for it. In May, Lermontov and Shcherbatova were also seen in Moscow, where A. Turgenev visited it, who in his diary on May 10 loves Lermontov.

” Shcherbatova actually loved him very much. But did he reciprocate? To answer this question is definitely quite difficult. Of course, Lermontov was passionate about Shcherbatova, he was at her house, openly looked after her, meeting with common acquaintances, at secular balls and evenings. But Lermontov’s letters have been preserved, the memories of contemporaries are scarce.

Only the poem “M. M. Longinov, a distant relative of the poet, wrote like this: “Who does not remember the inspired portrait of a woman who was loved by him”: like the nights of Ukraine, the secrets of her mouth of fragrant Lermontov created an unusually attractive external and internal appearance of the heroine. Blonde with blue eyes, she has precisely those features that in the love lyrics of the first half of the XIX century.

However, the poet's feeling was not long. Despite the love of a young widow, by the year he stopped communicating with her.