Аннотация: Turgenev girls and the applicants (for the role of politicians). A note on chapters 21 - 25 of the Nicholas Bogoslovskiy's book "Turgenev."
Turgenev girls and the applicants (for the role of politicians). A note on chapters 21 - 25 of the Nicholas Bogoslovskiy's book "Turgenev."
'On the day when friends had fun at Fet's wedding, I. A. Goncharov, who had just completed a course of treatment on the waters in Marienbad, rode to Paris by fast train.' (Here and further - quotes from the book by Nicholas Bogoslovskiy "Turgenev").
'' The air was transparent and soft, the sun shone radiantly, but it didn't burn, the breeze flew into the open windows of the carriage and caressed our already elderly faces, and we drove around, surrounded by some festive autumn glitter - and perhaps, with also a festive, an autumn feeling in a soul ... "- so Turgenev described the trip in the company of Ivanov and Botkin around the outskirts of Rome."
A shadow falls on the relationship of Polina Viardo and Turgenev. Turgenev is writing the story "Asya."
Somewhere is - is! - they, Turgenev's girls ... - young, starting their lifes, women - a spiritualized, a selfless, with a thin feelings ... (Little is known about their religiosity ...).
Turgenev informs the whole world, including himself and Pauline Viardot, about the existence of Turgenev girls ...
Turgenev writes the novel Noble Nest. The characters from the "Dvoryanskoye gnezdo" (Дворянское гнездо) ["A Nest of Gentlefolk"; "Noble Nest"] are very different from some representatives of the Lutovinov family, who expanded their land holdings at the expense of their neighbors.
It's nice to read about educated, spiritualized, with a thin thoughts and feelings, people ...
Maybe Turgenev, without realizing it, having familiarized himself with the new type of Western politicians of various levels, showed some ideal people - although they were very pleasant in communication, but not capable of real political activity. These people had a perspective of a slow, gradual loss of power after 1861 ...
The creative process makes a bizarre turn: the attention of the Turgenev girl is redirected from a decent nobleman, intellectual and patriot (owner of the estate), to Insarov, a participant in the liberation struggle. Of course, Insarov had certain prospects ... Some features of the biography of the great artist Vereshchagin and his family are an illustration of this.
The transition to republican or semi-republican orders in a huge peasant country was associated with forced, and not very comfortable, complex socio-economic transformations.
You can do without complex, painful transformations. Mexico, for example, lived without industrialization and collectivization (on the model of the USSR). There is an interesting film about Mexico: 'Revolution, I love you!' - the general atmosphere of this film in some viewers will cause a feeling of hopelessness and of complete lack of a perspectives ...
But, if great transformations were necessary for the vast peasant Russia, then who could carry out these transformations? Of course, Turgenev (1818 - 1883) could not know about Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877 - 1926) and Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872 - 1959). (Only the locomotive of Vladimir Lenin, enveloped in flames, was able to pull these East-Republicans out of political non-existence).
But in the era of Turgenev, numerous "seminarians" began to show themselves - people, seemingly of "noble" origin, but without estates (without lands and palaces), without serious connections at the top, people living on a salary ...
'Once at a dinner with Nikolai Alekseevich [Nekrasov] Turgenev said:
'However, Sovremennik will soon become an exclusively seminary magazine [journal of "seminarians"] - with every new article, we saw a name of the author - he is a seminarian!'
- "Does it matter who wrote the article. The main thing is a quality' - Nekrasov objected to him.
- "Yes Yes! But where and how did the seminarians appear in literature?" - Annenkov intervened in the conversation.
- "It's a blame, gentlemen, of Belinsky. He is the reason that your noble dignity is insulted and you have to cooperate in the magazine together with seminarians," - Avdotya Yakovlevna Panayeva ironically noted. In such disputes she always defended Chernyshevsky and Dobolubov from attacks by writers-nobles. - "As you see, Belinsky's activity was not without a trace: mental development penetrated into other classes of society."
- "Here, it turns out, gentlemen, what opinion here about us," - Turgenev remarked, smiling bitterly.
Taking up arms against Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, liberal writers nevertheless often had to recognize their [Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov] tremendous intellectual and moral strength, the vastness of their knowledge. '
"History" by Karamzin, "Yuri Miloslavsky" by Zagoskin, "Life for the Tsar" by Mussorgsky were creating a general atmosphere ... You see ... there are historical habits ... traditions ...
In the novel 'On the Eve' ("Nakanune"), the Turgenev girl turns her gaze to Insarov. (She to look not to Belinsky, not to Dobrolyubov and not to Chernyshevsky ? ...). Indeed, in 1877, the Russian army will move to the Balkans ...
The novel "Ottsy i deti" ('Fathers and Sons') ... Bazarov ... Maybe he, Bazarov, will be effective? Maybe to hope for him? ...
Something doesn 't work out with Bazarov... There 's no intuitive trust to him, to his candidacy...
'... his productivity, so to speak, has fallen sharply. Before in a short period - 1855-1861 - four of his best novels were created: Rudin, The Noble Nest, Nakanune (On the Eve), Fathers and Sons, not to mention a large number of novels and short stories, and now since 1862 to 1867 inclusive - only a few stories and the novel "Dym" ('Smoke').
'The best time of his life and career was already behind.
(...)
Taking a closer look at the events in Russia after the post-reform era, he saw only chaos and turmoil in the transition period, a sharp breakdown of social relations, a rampant reaction. Characterizing later this period, Turgenev wrote: 'The new was poorly received, the old lost all power ... All the shaken life was like during an earthquake, swayed like a swamping bog."
Turgenev, along with the Viardot family, moves from France to Germany. (If this is an example of political intuition, then you should appreciate the good intuition of the Viardot family).
Turgenev's daughter is getting married (but this marriage will end in divorce proceedings) ...
Gradually Turgenev became one of the universally recognized symbols of European culture.
May 30, 2020 12:18
Translation from Russian into English: June 1, 2020 20:25.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Тургеневские девушки и претенденты (на роль политиков). Заметка о главах 21 - 25 книги Николая Богословского 'Тургенев''.