White biography Petersburg

Andrei Bely in St. Petersburg Andrei Bely in St. Petersburg “... If you continue to affirm the ridiculous legend - the existence of a one and a half million Moscow population - you will have to admit that Moscow will be the capital, because only in the capitals there are one and a half million population; But in the cities of the Provincial, there is no one and a half million population, it didn’t happen.

And according to the ridiculous legend, it turns out that the capital is not Petersburg. If Petersburg is not the capital, then there is no Petersburg. It only seems that it exists ... ”The ghostly and mystical, invented overnight by the great Russian emperor, who seemed to come from nowhere, and yet, contrary to all superstitions and mythology, having a geographical designation on the map - such is Petersburg Andrei Bely, who is the main active“ face ”of his novel of the same name.

This is an amazingly multifaceted work that combines symbolism, an allegorical plot and characters that directly echoes the works of Russian classics who wrote about St. Petersburg and in St. Petersburg. An unusual syllable, the game with words and phrases - and all this against the background of the events of the year: strikes, revolution, terror from which a romantic raid is breaking away, and life appears before the reader in its rough, true light.

Although Andrei Bely was born and spent most of his life in Moscow, he is connected with St. Petersburg, both in creative and personal terms. Just on January 9, he first stayed in St. Petersburg and involuntarily became an eyewitness to everything that was happening, which was reflected in the novel. This book is the logical conclusion of two hundred years of St. Petersburg mythology, a collective image in which it is easy to find quotes from Gogol by the image of the characters and Nevsky Prospekt, from Pushkin, a copper horseman and an allegorical image of power, as well as from Nekrasov, Turgenev and Tolstoy.

Both the anarchy and the power in this irrational city are doomed to failure, for both of them are losing its original meaning here. Above St. Petersburg, Belo, who has absorbed all literary myths and traditions, gravitates a curse that will dissipate in the air with the “inevitable disappearance of the northern capital”, and the “Petersburg period of Russian history” will also end. Such a peculiar attitude towards St.

Petersburg is explained by the very strong and contradictory feelings that the writer experienced in relation to the people closest to him in this city - Alexander Blok and his wife, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva. Friendship with a block, which Andrei Bely himself christened “friendship-doctor” began unusually-with a correspondence, to which both young and talented authors pushed mutual interest in each other's work.

The Petersburger Blok and Muscovite Bely and common good friends - the Solovyov family. Thanks to Solovyov, Mikhail Sergeyevich, the younger brother of the famous philosopher V. Solovyov, his wife, artist Olga Mikhailovna and their son Sergey, the future poet Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, this real name Andrei Bely met with the early verses of Blok, he owes Mikhail his pseudonym.

Subsequently, the writer repeatedly visited Merezhkovsky in St. Petersburg, talked with writers and artists, and visited the famous “Wednesdays” by Vyacheslav Ivanov. It’s very pretty and sweet, it was only necessary to know his nature, nothing in him is surprised and not indignant at anything. I will add to finish him that he had enormous erudition, which he used rather ridiculous. The word "talent" is somehow a little applied to him.

But in the incredible heap of his endless scriptures, there are some places glimpses of genius in some places. "The same gippius said the following about the friendship of White and Blok:" It is difficult to imagine two creatures more opposite than Borya Bugaev and the bloc is a serious, especially motionless block and all wriggling, always dancing Borya. The stingy, heavy, deaf words of the block - and infinitely pouring, waterfall speeches of Bori, with gestures, with a face always changing - almost to the grimac, besides passion for mysticism and symbolism, some kind of kinship of souls connected them.

They were related to both both in the year, brought up in intelligent professorship, received excellent education and education, both showed interest in philosophy. She was really beautiful, simple, sweet and courteous, which conquered Andrei Bely and Sergey Solovyov, who came to stay in the country with Alexander Blok. At first, the worship of young people flattered the beauty, but she was the first to understand that such a game would not lead to anything good.

Enthusiastic young people who were enthusiastic by mysticism and philosophy made an object of a cult, strange and phantasmagoric, but Lyubov Dmitrievna before the wedding asked Blok to perceive it as a living person, a real woman with her shortcomings. Mysticism became a reality for Andrei Bely - he fell in love with a beautiful lady without memory, but seeing that she was ready to reciprocate, he was backward.

The wounded girl was deeply offended.All year passed for Andrei as in a fog: he rushed between Moscow and St. Petersburg, unable to be far from his ideal of femininity, postponed an explanation with a block and planned to leave with love to Italy. This trip did not take place, but still had to explain himself. The surprisingly calm block only said “Well - I was glad of Bely tried to call an ex -friend to a duel, but his second, sent to the block with a message about the upcoming bloodshed, fed, drove and convinced that they would shoot, and there was no reason, everything would be settled by itself.

And after all, it settled; More than once, two writers had to seriously quarrel and put up, reached mutual insults, but already on the basis of philosophical beliefs and views on life and creativity. Both Blok and Andrei Bely happily met the October Revolution, because both from their youth lived in a foreboding of world disasters and believed that, having passed purification with fire and blood, Russia would be revived for a new life.

But their hopes were not destined to come true: in a new life there was no place for free talented people of such a scope. This strange friendship connected White and Blok up to the death of the latter. Andrei Bely came to Petersburg for the last time a year when his friend was buried. Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev survived Alexander Blok for 13 years, having died in the year in Moscow, in the arms of his second wife, Claudia Nikolaevna Vasilieva.

The first - and beloved - Asya artist Anna Alekseevna Turgeneva remained in Dornnah, devoting herself entirely to Anthroposophy and the cause of Rudolf Shteiner. Philosophy was able to replace her love and husband.