Biography to Kuchelbeker

Wilhelm Karlovich Kuchelbeker is a Russian poet and public figure, friend of Pushkin and Baratynsky, a classmate of Pushkin according to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, a college assessor, and the Decembrist. Wilhelm Kuchelbeker was born on June 21 in St. Petersburg. He came from the noble family of Russian Germans. In the year, V. Kuchelbeker graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where his friendship with A.

Pushkin and A. began in the Lyceum years of Kyuhl, as his comrades called, "the subject of constant and relentless ridicule of the whole lyceum for his oddities, awkwardness and often hilarious originality." Then Wilhelm zealously sought to leave the French, then he was no less ardently going to marry, and his first poetic experiments were tongue -tied and archaic. And most often in his epigrams he was not spared by Pushkin.

But it was Kuhelbeker who was dedicated to the first poem that appeared in the press “to a poet’s friend”, and when it was time to say goodbye to the lyceum, they promised to be faithful to the “holy Brotherhood”. Kuchelbecker began to be published with G. in early verses followed by the traditions of elegiac poetry V. Zhukovsky, since the beginning of the 19th years of the 19th century, actively opposed sentimentalism, protecting romanticism.

He wrote a program article “On the direction of our poetry, especially the lyrical, in the last decade“ published in the opposite of the “chamber lyrics”, Kuchelbecker created the Argivan tyrannical tragedy -, the poems “To the Akhates”, “To friends on the Rhine”, both are works performed by civic pathos. Kuchelbecker served in the College of Foreign Affairs, taught Russian and Latin.

In the years, V. Kuchelbeker traveled around Europe; He gave public lectures on Russian literature in Paris, while we were talking about the need for political transformations in Russia. The speeches were interrupted by order of the Russian Embassy. In the year, Kuchelbecker served in the Caucasus an official of special assignments under General A. In November, he was accepted by K.

Ryleyev in a secret northern society. During the uprising on December 14, in St. Petersburg, Kuchelbecker shot at Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, built soldiers for a counterattack. He was the only one of those who went to Senate Square after the defeat of the uprising to hide and escape to Poland. But the hope of crossing the border did not come true: in Warsaw, Kuchelbeker was identified and arrested.

The death sentence was replaced by 15 years of solitary confinement, followed by an eternal reference. He did not manage to go crazy only with the help of friends, thanks to whom he could even create in a dungeon. Kuchelbeker was sentenced to death, then replaced by hard labor in the Dinburg fortress. Since the year, Kuchelbecker lived in a settlement in Siberia.

In the imprisonment and exile, Kuchelbeker did not change his former ideals, the poems "Elegy" were written; "To the death of Yakubovich" and others. Although the motives of loneliness, doom: "October 19" intensified in his lyrics; "Fate of Russian poets"; The tragedy "Prokofiy Lyapunov" The mystical idea of ​​the predetermination of the tragic fate was reflected in the most significant prosaic work - the novel "The Last Column" was not over.

Wilhelm Karlovich Kuchelbeker died in Tobolsk on August 23. A great merit in the publication of Kuchelbeker’s works in the 20th century belongs to the writer Yu. Then, in the Lyceum, Pushkin Kyuhley’s challenge for the next epigram with the words “Kyhelbekerno and selly“ did not overshadow their relationship. Their friendship passed a genuine check when Wilhelm became a state criminal.

After Shlisselburg in the fall of the year, Kuchelbeker will be sent to a new place of imprisonment.

On the way at one of the stations, a random meeting with Pushkin will take place. A poet who has not seen a friend for more than seven years recognizes him - and they will rush into the arms. Then, in the Dinburg fortress, and it was she who had to become a refuge of Prisoner Kyuhle for 40 months to deliver books from Pushkin, and the verses written in imprisonment and mystery “Izhora” will be anonymously published by Pushkin and other lyceum comrade Anton Delvig.

Sent to the settlement to Siberia, Kuchelbeker wrote the first letter to Pushkin, and the death of a friend was a heavy blow for him. Until his death, even when he was blinded a year before her, the poet-decabber player with tuberculosis continued to work: "I want to leave my friends a memory that I am worthy of me, friends."