Feta Biography Service

Fet Athanasius is melodic, almost indistinguishable in other languages, stanzas are full of captivating beauty and thin metaphysics.

The bright, air reflection of summer sunsets and spring rains in the transparent rhythm of his poems is one of the greatest achievements of domestic poetry. The childhood and youth of Athanasius Fet in September of the year of the Hesse noblewoman Charlotte-Elizabeth Bekker fled from her husband, a senior official Johann Fyota. With the Russian officer, veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Afanasy Neofitovich Shenshin, she left for his homeland, to Russia.

A couple of months later, on November 23, on December 5, in the village of Novoelovka, Mtsensky district of the Oryol province, she gave birth to a son called Athanasius. Literary scholars are still arguing about who his real father is Fet or Shenshin. This riddle with adolescence, as soon as a family secret revealed before him, tormented the poet himself. Until the age of 14, Athanasius was written by Schenshin, but in the year it was found that he was born before the marriage of his parents in the Orthodox rite, and therefore was forced to take the Russified surname Fet, as well as to move from noblemen and foreigners.

A sharp change in status caused heavy mental experiences: the nest that grew up in the atmosphere, the teenager in an instant turned into an outcast. Subsequently, for many years, Afanasy Fet sought a reckoning of the Shenschins and restoration in noble rights. The education of Athanasius Fet up to 14 years old Fet received home education. The greatest contribution to his development was made by the mother and brother of her father P.

Elizaveta Petrovna gave an exemplary German, his uncle instilled a love of nature and poetry. But in general, according to the memoirs of Afanasy Afanasevich himself, they taught him either Shatko or Valkko. Only after the change of surname, when the boy was sent to the private boarding house Heinrich Kryummer in the town of Vyra in Livonia, Fet began regular classes. Despite the clashes with the students and the hard discipline established in the institution, later the poet recognized the beneficial influence of the boarding house on the acquisition of thorough knowledge in the most important subjects and on the formation of his worldview.

In the year, Athanasius Fet was taken to the Moscow boarding house M. Pogodin to prepare for admission to the university, and the next he entered the legal branch of Moscow University, and two months later transferred to historical and philological. Fet was not a diligent student-twice due to failures in political economy and the Greek language, he remained for two years on the same course.

In his memoirs, Afanasy Afanasevich mentioned the boredom, with whom he attended lectures - in addition, perhaps, classes on the aesthetics that Professor I., the beginning of the creative activity of Athanasius Feta, was already in Pogotodin’s poetic inclinations, the teacher I. Vvedensky, a man with impressive knowledge, “ideal nihist”, drew attention to the poetic inclinations.

He inflated a creative spark in the summer young man, and from that time "the flame flashed, and the lot was abandoned." At the University, Fet became firmly made friends with A. Grigoryev, who had the most beneficial influence on the novice poet. He introduced Athanasius into Moscow literary circles, introduced S. Shevryov, F. Glinka, A. Ostrovsky, A. Herzen, T. Granovsky and others.

In addition, the best students of the university gathered at Grigoryev - historian S. Solovyov, poet Y. Polonsky, philosopher K. Cavelin, Slavophile V. So Fet acquired a vast circle of capital's dating in the intellectual environment. The literary debut of Feta fell for a year - then the collection “Lyrical Pantheon” was published, which included 58 poems.

Already in them, through the student imperfections, an outstanding poet was visible, and Fet received a lot of approving reviews. Soon he began to cooperate with the magazines Moskvityan and Domestic Notes, where even before graduation, he published dozens of poems. In the year, the influential critic of the era V. Belinsky called Fet the most gifted of the poets living in Moscow.

The work of Athanasius Fet in the year Fet graduated from the University. His hopes for the solid inheritance of his beloved Uncle P. Shensshin, who died in the same year, did not materialize. Wanting to get away from random earnings and bohemian life, and, at the same time, hoping with the acquisition of an officer rank to return the nobility, the young man entered the army.

Since April, he served in the cavalry-first in the military order of the Kirasir regiment in Ukraine, and then in the Life Guards of the Ulan regiment in St. Petersburg. To Feta’s annoyance, it was in the imperial decree that he canceled the automatic receipt of personal nobility with production in the first officer rank, “raising the bar” to the 9th grade of ranks. Only in January of the year, together with the receipt of the title of Guard Lieutenant, Fet again became a nobleman.

During the Crimean War, his regiment was covered by the Estland coast. At the end of the hostilities and the long-term vacation conducted abroad, the guard of the headquarters of the captain Fet resigned. Military service, despite the monotony and lack of deep interest, the poet put above the university bench. Fet's creative flowering also occurred in the army years.He took friendship and acquaintance with the most prominent writers of the middle of the century - I.

Turgenev, N. Nekrasov, L. Tolstoy, I. Goncharov and others. His poems gained the fullness of expression, shone with unique colors. The collection of the year received enthusiastic reviews. Poems and translations of the “Russian Heine” were published in the most prestigious magazines - “Contemporary”, “Domestic Notes”, “Library for Reading”. Feta was revered for the first poet of the era.

It was these successes that expressed him in January to leave the service and choose a career as a professional writer. The army period of Fet's biography ended. However, the era soon changed. Cardinal social changes in the great reforms and the abolition of serfdom radicalized society. Feta began to be accused of indignant, the absence of a “right” civil position. The new rulers of the thoughts fell upon lyrical poetry as something harmful, and Fet was forced to shut up for 20 years.

He acquired the estate of Stepanovka in the acres in the Mtsensk district and devoted himself to agriculture. The retired military and the former military man carried out the affairs, with knowledge of the matter: at first he bought a mill, a few years later he acquired an equestrian factory, brought an apiary and ponds with fish. In the complete opposite of his poetic life, in everyday life, Afanasy Afanasevich was distinguished by rationality and methodology, steadily increasing capital.

In the year, a large estate into the acres in Shchigrovsky district passed into his possession. Here, in the silence of the evenings, Fet indulged in his beloved work - poetry. His poetic gift has not been weakened over the years, but even more filled with a philosophical contemplation of life and transparent melancholy. The reign of Emperor Alexander III rehabilitated representatives of pure art, including Fet.

In the year, the poet is “resurrected” for the general public, publishing a collection of poems “Evening Lights”, and in, and gg. The late lyrics of the master was filled with metaphors and elusive charm. Then Fet was seriously carried away by the translations of Latin authors: his full translation Horace was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Academy of Sciences, Juvenal, Katull, Tibulls, Ovid, Virgil, Property, Persia, and Martial were published in Fetov translations.

Much has been translated into Russian for the first time. Along with Roman classics, Fet published treatises of his beloved Schopenhauer. During the years of forced silence, Fet drove with I. Turgenev on the basis of socio-political views, but became close to L. They talked a lot, corresponded, shared what they saw and experienced. However, the drift of Tolstoy towards his own Gospel became the end of friendship: Fet, who stood on the conservatively-domestic positions, could not accept the extreme views of the author of the “War and Peace”.

Among the new Fet's confidants were critic N. Strakhov, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, philosopher V. In the year in Moscow widely noted the fly in the creative activity of the poet. He was granted the title of chamberlain. The last noticeable works of Fet were memoirs - “my memories” published in the year, followed by the “early years of my life” in the year. The family and personal life of Athanasius Fet during his stay in Paris after the end of the Crimean war, Afanasy Afanasevich married - on August 16 on August 16, his wedding with Maria Petrovna Botkina took place -, the sister of the longtime friend of the poet V.

Dobrai and the sympathetic girl liked the poet. Although he did not feel a strong love attraction to his wife, everyone recognized the marriage very successful. Fet himself loved to repeat that "everyone has the wife that he needs." It was the inheritance of the wife that became the basis of family wealth: with her money, Fet bought Stepanovka, established the farm there, significantly multiplied the invested capital.

Maria Petrovna clung to her husband with all her heart and after his death she lived for no more than a year. There were no children's children. Everyone noted an amazing contrast between Fet Paet and Feto-House. The romantic, immersed in the dreams of the poet became an energetic, disciplined businessman when the question touched the economy. Fet could not sit back.