Contemporaries of Pushkin Biography

Pushchin Ivan Ivanovich I. Drawing, Pastel F. in Tables about successes is certified: "In the Russian and Latin languages ​​- excellent successes and more firmly than brilliant; rare diligence, happy talents." In the recall of very stingy on the assessments of M. Korf: "With a bright mind, with a pure soul, with the most noble intentions, he was a favorite of all comrades in the lyceum." Pushkin made friends with Pushchin even before the entrance exams, and this friendship was unchanged to the death of the great poet.

In the lyceum, their rooms were nearby and this also contributed to the rapprochement of a serious and reasonable purebin with an ardent and fascinated Pushkin. The poet expressed his love and devotion to a friend in a number of poems written in the Lyceum: “To Pushchin”, “Memory”, “Here is a sick student” and “In the album of Pushchin” - on the eve of the end of the lyceum: you remember the fast minutes of the first days, sadness, joy, dreams of your soul and sweetness after the end of the Lyceum Pushchin He was decided on the guards horse artillery, and in the year he moved to the civil service in the Moscow Old Court, where he took a modest place of the judge.

He energetically fought with bribery and injustice and, according to his contemporary, was "the first honest man who was ever sitting in the Russian Treasury Chamber." Even in the Lyceum Pushchin, he participated in the Democratic organization "The Holy Artel" and somewhat later became a member of the Union of Blagificate and Northern Society. In January, Pushchin visited the disgraced poet in Mikhailovsky.

They talked about the political situation in the country, read in the manuscript the comedy “Woe from Wit” brought by Pushchin. In the monastery of deserted blizzards and a detachment, I got sweet to the poet’s joy, about my Pushchin, you first visited; Friends were no longer destined to meet. The December uprising of the year forever separated them. For participation in it, the Decembrist Pushchin was exiled to hard labor in Siberia.

A year later, Pushchin came to Pushkin’s penetrating poem “My first friend, my friend is invaluable”, addressed to the exile: I pray a holy providence: Yes, my voice is illuminated by a ray of lyceum clear days! A few years later, Pushkin met in the Caucasus with the Decembrist M. Pushchin, who soon wrote to his brother: "He loves you in the old way and hopes that you also keep the same feeling for him." The death of the great poet Pushchin perceived as personal and social loss.

It seems that if an unhappy story should have happened with me