Natalia Goncharova Brief biography

She was one of the most beautiful women in St. Petersburg. This is evidenced by her portraits written by artists during the life of a diva. According to rumors, Emperor Nicholas I himself was in love with her. Until now, discussions and disputes do not subside around her personality. Childhood and youth were born Natalya Goncharova on September 8, the zodiac sign-Virgin on the estate of the Carian of the Tambov province, where the girl's family was forced to live because of the Patriotic War of the year.

Her father Nikolai Afanasevich was from a family of merchants and industrialists, who received the nobility during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. He was educated, knew foreign languages, played the violin and cello, served as secretary of the Moscow governor. In the genealogy of Natalia Ivanovna, representatives of the ancient noble family of the Pokryazhsky were.

Natasha owes her beauty to her. Later, the whole family moved to the Kaluga province, where the grandfather of the girl, Afanasy Nikolaevich, lived in the village of Perennaya Plant. He was an imperious and wasteful person, which was extremely not liked by his father. But in the year, his grandfather removed him from managing business. Natalia's parents decided to return to Moscow.

At that time, they had five children in their arms, and Afanasy Nikolaevich asked to leave his favorite Natalie in the estate. Some associated her with a head injury obtained when falling from a horse. But biographers who studied the archives are convinced that he still suffered from alcoholism. In a state of intoxication, he was rude and rogue, offended his wife and children. So, staying with his grandfather in the village, Natasha did not lose, especially since he pamper her as soon as he could: bought expensive dresses and hats, gave her toys and sweets.

At the same time, it is worth paying his due, paid great attention to the formation of his granddaughter. As a child, she studied the letter and score, mastered the French language. Later, having moved to Moscow, the girl received a worthy home education. She was taught Russian and world history, Russian language and literature, geography, as well as German and English.

By that time, she owned the French perfectly and even said that writing in French is much easier for her than in Russian. They were both attended by the dancer of the dancer Peter Yogel in the house on Tver Boulevard. At that time, the girl was only 16 years old. But the poet was immediately struck by her beauty on the spot. The portrait of Natalia Goncharova A. But the power mother said that Natalia was still too young.

In addition, she had heard about his reputation as a freethinker and political unreliability. But she still did not give a categorical refusal, therefore, in the fall, the poet came again to get married again. The engagement of the young took place on May 6 of the year, and the wedding, due to red tape with the dowry, is only on March 2. During the marriage in the Moscow Church of the Big Ascension at the Nikitsky Gate, Pushkin dropped the ring, and after it went out a candle.

Like many, he considered it a bad omen. Soon the couple moved to Tsarskoye Selo, and there the writer was happy. In St. Petersburg, the beauty of the poet’s wife impressed the local secular society. She quickly got used to it, becoming a frequent guest of cultural events. In the year, the lovers had a daughter Maria. In the same year, the grandfather of Natalia died, leaving the estate burdened with a large debt.

Life in the capital was a road, but for reasons of prestige, the young family continued to live in a large house. The poet’s chosen one loved to go out, and her husband sometimes played cards and lost. The family was in a difficult financial situation. In the same year, Nicholas I granted the classic of literature to the junior court rank of a chamber-junker, which Pushkin was extremely dissatisfied with.

But he understood that the courtyard wanted Natalya Nikolaevna to be attended more often at the balls. And although even then there were rumors that the emperor was not indifferent to her, the poet was even proud of the success of his wife in society, especially since she had never given a reason for jealousy, even coquetry against the sovereign was not noticed behind her. Then she met Georges Dantes - a French subject, cavalry guard and adopted son of the Messenger of the Netherlands Louis Gekkern.

The man began defiantly care for Pushkina. She was pleased with his attention, and she loved to dance at the balls, although then the young woman became pregnant again and visited the social raautes extremely rarely. But there was always trust in the spouses, Pushkin was the main support for her, she was his muse. There is an opinion that the lady, although she was carried away by a foreigner, was to her husband to the end.

In the year, the second son Gregory appeared in Semier. And in May, Goncharova gave birth to a daughter Natalia. The scandal with Georges Dantes, however, many in the deaths of the great poet blame Goncharov. She was guilty of a date with Georges in the apartment of her second cousin Idalia Poletika, which, by the way, was among the main enemies and persecutors of Pushkin.

But there is no confirmation of this meeting. Some believe that it was the flight that came up with this plan with Dantes, thus creating the grass around Alexander Sergeyevich.In the year, all the poet’s friends were sent a letter with an insulting content about the Pushkin couple. The writer immediately thought that this was the work of the Frenchman, and then for the first time called him to a duel.

But the duel did not take place, and the opponent was welded to the sister of Goncharova - Catherine. In society, some believed that the nobleman married an unloved woman in order to take all the suspicions from Natalia. Others saw in this act only another way to make the writer painful, because everyone knew how jealous Pushkin. The couple were present at the wedding of Dantes and Catherine, but did not go to the festive dinner.

They did not accept the newlyweds in their own house. However, they still met at social events. The duel and the death of the wife later at the ball of the Frenchman insulted the chosen one of the poet. Pushkin wrote to Geckern such a sharp letter that the duel was inevitable. But since he was a foreign ambassador, he could not participate in a duel, and Georges called the poet instead of his father.

The classic was seriously wounded in the stomach. On his deathbed, he asked his wife to worship for 2 years. After 2 days, on February 10, Alexander Sergeyevich died. The widow was heavily experienced by her wife’s death, she fell ill and left with her children in the estate in the linen factory. A secular lady resumed personal life not two years later, as the late husband bequeathed to her, but after seven years.

Her chosen one was Lieutenant General Peter Lanskaya. He was not rich, but sincerely loved Natalia and accepted her children as his own. Three more daughters were born in this marriage. The death of Natalya Goncharova fell ill in the year, every spring, the terrible bouts of coughing began to torment her every spring, which did not let her sleep. Doctors advised her to change the climate for a while.

Lanskaya took a vacation, and they went abroad with their daughters. All autumn the family lived in Geneva, in the winter moved to Nice. Soon Natalya Nikolaevna went recovering. However, doctors warned her that any cold would take her away as an autumn sheet. In November, the woman went to the christening of her grandson to Moscow and caught a cold. On the way back, her condition worsened.

She died in the year of her life on November 26. The cause of death was inflammation of the lungs. Her husband Peter Lanskaya survived her for 14 years. The grave of the Muse of the Russian poet is located in the Lazarevsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Marina Tsvetaeva’s memory in the Essay “Natalia Goncharova”, dedicated to the daughter of a socialite, also mentioned her mother: “There is nothing bad, nothing vicious in Natalia Goncharova, nothing that would not have in thousands like her, which are not counted by thousands.

There was one thing in her: beauty. Only - a beauty, simply - a beauty, without a correction of mind, soul, heart, gift. Naked beauty, spreading like a sword. And - struck. Just - beauty. Just a genius. " The poetess also devoted to Muse the classic such verses as “Happiness or sadness” and “Psyche”. After a while, contemporaries subjected filming hard criticism, because, according to the creators, in the tragic circumstances of the poet’s death, Nicholas I, who loved Goncharov, was guilty.

The Soviet film “The Last Road”, shot by director Leonid Menaker, is dedicated to the final hours of the writer's life. The film was shot based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov "Alexander Pushkin." The role of the poet went to Yuri Khomutyansky, and Elena Karajova depicted his beloved woman. Sculptors Alexander and Igor Burganov copied the scene after the wedding of the newlyweds.