A.S. Pushkin in Kazan Выполнила Маннапова Лилия Константиновна УЧИТЕЛЬ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА ВЫСШЕЙ КВАЛИФИКАЦИОННОЙ КАТЕГОРИИ МБОУ «Гимназия № 125» Советского района города Казани РЕСПУБЛИКА ТАТАРСТАН 2012

Contents of presentation “The Bells of St. Petersburg” How it all began? “It was autumn of 1833”… Meeting with Eugene BaratinskY Meeting with Carl Fucks How did Pugachov find himself in Kazan Kremlin? “Reminiscences of Pushkin” Krupennikov’s mansion The Fucks Time to say ”Good-bye” Along the Volga River Productive trip Bibliography

“The Bells of St. Petersburg” “The Bells of St. Petersburg” Those evening bells! Those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells, Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. Those joyous hours are pass’d away, And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells And hear no more those evening bells. And so it’ll be when I’m gone That tuneful pearl will still ring on While other bards shall walk these dells And sing your praise sweet evening bells! This song was Pushkin’s favourite song. It was written by Thomas Moore and translated into Russian by I.I. Kozlov and soon after that Monjushko and Grechaninov composed music to it.

How it all began? In 1833 Pushkin decided to study the materials of Pugachov’s revolt. And he turned to different famous persons to let him visit Kazan and Orenburg Areas where the main events of this revolt had taken place. In his letter of September 1833, Pushkin wrote to his wife: “I’ve been staying in Kazan since the 5th of September. Here, I met the old men, Pugachov’s contemporaries. I’ve been visiting all the places and battle fields, asking and interviewing the people, writing everything down and, really, I’m pleased with my visit”.

It was autumn of 1833… That was the unforgettable autumn, when A.S. Pushkin visited our city. Pushkin’s cab reached the city at midnight and he stayed at the Hotel of Noble Assembly, in the centre of the city. The aim of his trip was to gather materials about Pugachov’s revolt so as to write his novel “The Story of Pugachov”. This building still exists in our city, in Rakchmatullin’s Street.

Meeting with Eugene BaratinskY Early in the morning, he met Eugene BaratinskiY, the famous Kazan poet, his fellow-student at Tzarscoselskiy Lyceum. Baratinskiy was a Kazaner at that time. He lived and worked in Kazan then. Drinking coffee, smoking pipes, they talked of the former fellows, of everything they’d suffered, about politics, poetry. E. Baratinskiy advised Pushkin’s visit and acquaintance with Kazan by visiting the so-called “Sukonnaya Sloboda”. Kazan house of Baratinskiy in our time E. Baratinskiy

Meeting with Carl Fucks So, “Sukonnaya Sloboda” is one of the Pushkin’s memorials in Kazan. The city’s changed a lot since then, but there’s still an ancient church, rebuilt and turned into the Puppet’s Theatre. It’s situated in former “Georgievskaya” street (now it’s “Sverdlov” street). Baratinskiy advised Pushkin’s meeting with Carl Fucks. He was a German professor, a doctor of many sciences in Kazan University. He was a connoisseur of Arts, of History. Pushkin tried to imagine and represent the events of summer of 1774, when roaming about Kazan. K. Fucks “sukonnaya Sloboda” at now house of Fucks today

Then Pushkin visited the village of “Troizk Noksa”. The road’s curling over the Arsk Field. From here, Pugachov’s troops were preparing to attack the city and here they were defeated. Pugachov’s camps were at Troizk Noksa at that time. Here, standing on the high bank of the Volga River, Pushkin watched the city. It had been spreading below for 9 miles. Pushkin imagined the heavy battles, held by Pugachov’s troops; that’s what he would write in this “Story of Pugachov”, in the 7th chapter of it about. Pushkin is asking about invasion of Pugachov to Kazan people Pugachov

Pugachov moved to Kazan Kremlin Soon after that Pugachov moved to Kazan Kremlin, but he failed to capture it. Here, in Kremlin, in the so-called “Gubernskaya Chancellery”. Pugachov was imprisoned. Pushkin’s interest in Kremlin lies not only because of “Pugachov’s Story”, but in his own interests, in personal aims. His great grandfather – Abraham Ganniball was the architect of one of the Kremlin objects. After that, Pushkin’s invited by famous Kazan merchant, Pertzov. This mansion’s still standing at the corner of “Profsojuznaya” street.

“Reminiscences of Pushkin” At that very evening, Pushkin became acquainted with the Fucks family. Later A.A. Fucks wrote in her “Reminiscences of Pushkin”: “Till the last days of his short life he had been paying some special attention to me; He, Pushkin, send me letters several times a year, writing his letters by himself, not a secretary”. Pushkin did not criticized Alexandra Andreevna’s poetic experience, but praised her for writing poetry. But, of course, her experience was poor. A.A. Fucks

Krupennikov’s mansion Pushkin visited the Krupennikov’s mansion. Krupennikov was a famous millionaire, a rich man, a merchant in Kazan. His mansion’s situated next to the University Building. Alas, but nowadays, there’s no such building in Kazan. It was destroyed many years ago. Krupennikov’s house

The Fucks That evening with the Fucks family had made it’s own contribution to the “Story of Pugachov”, to “the Captain’s Daughter”, written by Pushkin. In the 8 th Chapter of it Pushkin represented the episode with the German priest who’s been brought to Pugachov and was released by him. This very story, told by Fucks, was in the centre of “Captain’s Daughter” narration. Pushkin even asked Fucks to gather some additional materials about Pugachov’s revold. Fucks did it, but failed to pass them to Pushkin.

“Good-byes” The next day Pushkin said his “good-byes” to Baratinskiy and his companions, and made his way to Simbirsk. He’d made his way through “Bulgaria”. Pertzov, Baratinskiy, or- may be- the Fucks had told him about this magic old ancient capital of Bulgaria. On one of those days he wrote to his wife: “Today I’m going to Simbirsk, then to Orenburg, - the last destination point of my trip”. Pushkin’s impressed greatly even by the stones and ruins of destroyed churches, mausoleums of the former “capital”. The monk, who was his guide in this old city, told a lot of stories about those places. Volga

Along the Volga Descending from the high bank of Volga, Pushkin could not stand admiring the beauty of those places. He could see the vessels, the “burlaks”, going along the Volga beach, singing their monotonous songs. One can ask a question: ” Was this trip of importance for Pushkin?” And we can answer: “Yes, it was!” When travelling Pushkin collected many folk-stories, fables, fairy-tales, and folk-songs. Who knows, may be, those lines were originated in that trip: …”There once lived an old man and his good wife. On the shore of the deep blue ocean”…

Productive trip Pushkin made a lot of notes about the so- called “Russian character”, about Pugachov’s phenomenon, collected evidence of this revolt. No one but Pushkin had shown us Pugachov as a bright personality. …After visiting Bulgaria, Pushkin made his way to Tetjushi, then to Simbirsk. And even now we still keep remembering that unforgettable autumn of 1833, when late at midnight Pushkin reached our city…

Bibliography 1)S. Grechnikov “From Nizghniy to Simbirsk” 1)“Ancient Bulgar” – guide-book