Rostopchina e biography

From the noble family. Her uncle N. Sushkov is a playwright, Grandmother M. Sushkova - a poet, was a poet of Evdokia - Dmitry Petrovich Sushkov. After the death of Daria Ivanovna in the city of Sushkov, busy with different matters, leaves children in Moscow, in the house of his grandfather - Ivan Alexandrovich Pashkov. They taught Evdokia Sushkov as it was supposed to teach a social young lady then.

As a child, she was fond of literature. Her great contemporary Pushkin, as well as Zhukovsky, Byron, Schiller, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, had a particularly strong influence on her. The little Dodo, as her relatives called her, began to write poetry, according to her memoirs, at the age of 13-14. In the city of Golitsyna, E. Sushkova, this event is met in the poem “Two meetings”, the first publication of the poem “Talisman” appeared in the Almanac “Northern Flowers for a Year” signed by D ...

.. Vyazemsky, often in the Pashkov house. The appearance of a new poet was marked by the poem "Dodo" by M. Yu Lermontov. In e gg. Rostopchina becomes widely known. The poetess is published in the magazines "Library for Reading", "Moscow Observer", "Contemporary", etc. Poems are also distributed in manuscripts. The portrait of the work of P. Fedotov, who is in the Tretyakov Gallery on May 28, Sushkova, marries Count Andrei Fedorovich Rostopchin-the son of the famous Moscow Governor-General.

Rostopchin did not find happiness in marriage, which laid out her stamp on her work, but the doors of the big light opened even wider before the beautiful, rich countess. Rostopchin was engaged in horses, collected rare books, had a large gallery of paintings. He did not know the score of money and was outlined by his father, leaving no inheritance to the children. Every year from the GG.

Subsequently, Rostopchins move to St. Petersburg, and again a secular life stretched. The literary salon by Rostopchina is visited by famous writers, composers and artists: A. Pushkin, V. Zhukovsky, P. Vyazemsky, V. Odoevsky, V. Solgub, P. Pletnev, S. Sobolevsky, I. Myatlev, A. Dargomyzhsky, M. Glinka, F. Liszt, P. Viardot, etc.

At the end of the 10th - early 20th years. Its first prosaic works were two stories “ranks and money” and “duel” printed in the journal, and then published by a separate book “Essays on the Great Light” of St. Petersburg. The critic and writer N. Poleva in his diary calls her "our Georges Zand." Watercolor P. Sokolov in February G. Rostopchin will again meet with Lermontov, will become an attorney of his feelings and plans.

She devoted several poems to Lermontov’s memory. The characteristics of M. Lermontov’s poems in comparison with Pushkin’s, his psychological portrait was given to Rostopchina in a letter addressed to A. Dumas-father Lermontov in the memoirs of contemporaries. Rostopchina published a collection of her poems. In this book there was ninety -one poem the period - gg.

Nikitenko wrote "On decisively the best verses of all" created by Russian writers the son of the Fatherland. Restrained, but positively, the book of Belinsky Poln spoke about the book. In the spring of Rostopchina, the whole family leave for Italy, where they lived for more than two years. From Italy, Rostopchina sends the poem “Nusilly Marriage”, published in the newspaper Northern Bee, Sokolova Rostopchina moved in December, Evdokia Petrovna organized literary “Saturday” - on which: M.

Pogodin, F. Tyutchev, N. Gogol, F. Glinka, M. Shchepkin, I. Samarin, then the writers of Y. Polonsky, A. Maykov, L. Tolstoy, A. Ostrovsky and others. About his sister Sergey Sushkov wrote: “Gifted by nature with a poetic imagination, cheerful wit, extraordinary memory, with an extensive well -readiness in five languages, a romantic perception of his own personality, vision of his life through the prism of literature predetermined the features of her work.

In the “Moscow period” of her life, Rostopchin wrote a number of works: “Invaluable”, a drama in five actions; “Poetry and prose of life. Diary of a girl ”, a novel in verses; "Family Secret", drama in five actions; "Happy Woman", a novel in prose; “Gifted”, dramatic fantasy taken from fairy tales of the XVII century. The plots of stories and poems maintain contact with the motives of the lyrics Rostopchina.

By the end of life, literary fame of Rostopchina falls. Posthumously, in the city of Evdokia Petrovna Rostopchina, there were years when she periodically left for the Voronezh province, her husband’s estate in the village of Anna, now the district center of the Anninsky district. Rostopchin leased Maslovka and Verkhota. A house was built in Anna, a beautiful park was broken.

The Barsky house stood on the high bank, a beautiful view of the Bityuga valley opened from its windows. A deciduous forest descended to the river from the house. Rostopchin sought to conduct an exemplary economy, using everything new and useful from the experience of other countries. In Anna, he is engaged in reversal and achieves great success. Horses of the English and Arapsky breed from its plant bring huge income.

The youngest son of the count inherited the lands and the estate, A. Rostopchin first came to the estate with her husband shortly after the wedding, in the summer of this year to G.Rostopchina lived in Anna every summer and autumn, and in —th. Two daughters and a son were born in Anna: Olga, Lydia and Victor Send P. P. Pletneva from Anna, this is a poem about Pushkin, Rostopchina wrote: “Two meetings” - the true story of my first two meetings with Pushkin, and I processed this thought for you and the “contemporary”, knowing how it is pleasant for you to collect in this publication that all related to the memory of the unforgettable.

” In winter, G. Rostopchins were in Voronezh. One of the first to visit A.