Peter Petrovich Lanskaya Biography

Thank you for worries and love. A whole life, complete devotion and love, would not be enough to pay them. In fact, when I sometimes think about the serious pregnancy that I brought you to you and that I have never heard from you not only the thirsts, but what do you want to find happiness in this, my gratitude for such self-confirmation is still growing, I can only admire and bless you.

From a letter to N. Pushkin-Lanskaya P. Lansky; I “My dear, good Pierre”, “My friend Pierre”, “My beautiful husband”, “My soul” - this is how Natalya Nikolaevna addressed in letters to her second husband, General Peter Petrovich Lansky. Nearly twenty years, their happy, calm and strong marriage lasted. Having loved Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkin, a young widow with four babies in her arms, Pyotr Petrovich Lanskaya replaced his father, and became a reliable support of a woman tired of loneliness and numerous difficulties.

But Daria Fedorovna Fikelmon was the rights when she wrote that Natalya Nikolaevna would not be happy that “she wears a stamp on her person”; And, indeed, slander destroyed her first marriage, pursued her in the second, and the reflection of this slander fell on Peter Petrovich Lansky. His official zeal, a strict attitude to his duties, the diligence was appreciated by the two emperors, serving whom, like all other military military people, rose along the service ladder.

But in Soviet Pushkinism, a biased attitude towards his career is intensively imposed. And the ambulance is she, and the brilliant de, and God knows what. Let's look into the military career of Lansky and compare it with a career of other military units of that time. So much is it different from them with swiftness and brilliance? To begin with, Pyotr Petrovich Lanskaya from the family of valiant military.

His father Peter Sergeyevich Lanskaya was a famous associate of M. Three Brothers Sergey, Pavel and Alexander were cavalry guards. All the Lansky brothers rose to the General Epipol, starting with junkers. The eldest Sergei Petrovich - accepted the baptism of military baptism near Austerlitz, participated in the battle of Borodino and received gold weapons. Fired from the service in the rank of Major General.

Pavel Petrovich - - General from the cavalry, the hero of the war of the year, participated in many battles, accompanied Emperor Alexander II to Prussia to participate in maneuvers, went with Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich to Holland and England. Two younger brothers Alexander Petrovich - and Petr Petrovich - were not due to the age in the war, but faithfully served the emperor in cavalry guards.

Alexander Petrovich died early, having served to the rank of colonel. Having received a home education, he entered a junker in a regiment in the city of his entire service, to the rank of colonel inclusive, he spent in the Cavalier Guard regiment. He was alarmed and exemplary service he was awarded the gracious location of Emperor Nicholas I, who unexpectedly for everyone and for Lansky himself appointed him in April in October of Lanskaya, he was promoted to the Major General with the appointment of a guards cuirassier division, and six months later he was appointed commander of the forehead.

In the year, a colonel, and in Major General of the Cavalier Guard Regiment, whose chief was Empress Alexander Fedorovna, and the adjutant of Emperor Nicholas I, Peter Petrovich Lanskaya, still does not know his future, his future feelings and a sharp turn in a personal fate. Let's clarify: June 25-from the Eaststarter Junkers of the Cavalier Guard Regiment. He is quite worthy of further promotion.

But the general’s personal life did not work out. He was enthusiastic about the Idalia of Grigoryevna's flight, an empty and cynical woman, which tormented him and repelled him. Having seriously survived the betrayal of his beloved, Lanskaya fell ill. On the advice of the doctors, he took a vacation and left for Baden-Baden. About further events, the daughter of Natalia Nikolaevna Arapova Alexandra Petrovna in her notes, based on home traditions, the stories of loved ones, wrote as follows: “...

In the beginning of the winter of the year, my father’s first acquaintance with Natalya Nikolaevna Pushkin took place. A year before he suffered a strong spiritual shock. The frivolous betrayal of the woman, whom he undividedly devoted the best years of his youth, so defeated him that he was subjected to a long, exhausting illness, and only the dedicated departure of the younger sister saved him from the threatening death.

The doctors sent him to the waters, abroad, and, resting from complex treatment, he spent the whole fall in Baden-Baden, where he came close to Ivan Nikolayevich Goncharov and his wife, nee Princess Meshcherskaya. His vacation ended, and, having learned that he was going directly to St. Petersburg, they asked him to deliver a letter and a package of his sister there. This was the reason for the first visit.

The mother was especially friendly with this brother; With a lively interest, I asked about him, about their life together; The topic was grateful. Father contrary to his silence, talked about foreign impressions and did not even notice how quickly time passed.Opping, he, in gratitude for the service rendered, received a welcoming invitation to be at N. during the winter of the visit, these all increased and each time he more and more experienced her enchanting charm.

In the heart, leaning rejected passion, new shoots quietly moved, the thirst for another, quiet happiness awakened. Thanks to such thoughts, the thought of marriage quietly crept into the head of an inveterate bachelor. He was just forty -five then, he turned out to be three months older than Pushkin, and, of course, not with the frivolity of the fascinated young man could decide on such an important step.

The father’s personal condition was very insignificant, but it was a neat person, with very modest needs, and income was enough with an excess for his idle life. To acquire at once a large family was the task that frightened the preceding grooms, and he himself thought about her, fearing complications and anxieties in the future. The awakened love stated its rights louder, the inner voice persistently repeated: you gained your happiness, do not miss it!

And time everything passed, spring has come ... ”;. This spring, Natalya Nikolaevna, in order to strengthen the health of children, decides to go with Vyazemsky to the waters in Helsingfors. Everything is ready to leave. But something happened that made the widow abandon the trip. Having embarrassedly stood up from the couch, she turned her leg. Lanskaya visited her almost every day.

They even more closely became close and more stretched to each other. The sick Natalia Nikolaevna had another visitor. Emperor Nikolai, who favored and sympathized with the family of a poor widow. Now I would not want to repeat and refute the dirty gossip that Soviet Pushkinists and those who consider themselves to be about the relations of Natalia Nikolaevna and Nicholas I will.

They do not have soils, have no evidence. Neither in any document of that era, nor in letters, nor in the diaries, nor in the memoirs of contemporaries, not to mention Pushkin’s friends - the Vyazemsky P. The exception is Pushkin’s Lyceum, known for his malignancy and poison Modest Korf, who did not fail to score Natalia Nikolaevna, comparing her with Maria Louise, who desired Napoleon’s bed with her.

Pushkin is one of those privileged young women whom the sovereign sometimes honors with his visit. She was also with her for six weeks ago, and as a result of this visit or simply by accident, only Lanskaya after that was appointed commander of the Horse Guards Regiment, which at least temporarily ensures their existence, because, except for the apartment, firewood, crew, etc.

Veselovsky, saying about Korf that he "generally loved to dwell his sharp feather in very black ink." Is there something special, out of the ordinary that the king sometimes visited his subjects? Both Alexandra Fedorovna and Nikolai Pavlovich visited their close associates at balls, masquerades, or simply on a visit. Such a social life is shown in Dolly Fikelmon's diary.

Why not the widow of the famous poet be among the privileged ladies? From the letter of the governess of the Nina Goncharov family, we know that Alexandra Fedorovna visited Pokryazheskaya on December 31, and Natalya Nikolaevna was presented to her with the children. The empress was very affectionate with the widow of 6. Karamzina Ekaterina Andreevna Tsarskaya couple also visited.

Yes, Nicholas I had an interest in Natalya Nikolaevna during Pushkin’s life, but during the pre-eal story, by the way, this interest was decline and the emperor would never dare to break the poet’s family peace, and after his death, the king had not seen Pushkin for almost four years and something did not strive for a meeting until she accidentally occurred in December, as you know, in an English store.

And in these years, Natalya Nikolaevna kept the king at a distance. She was terribly afraid of gossip, once suffering from the rumor of people, who destroyed her whole life, she protected her name and name of the departed husband. The life of the widow of the famous poet, every step, act, whose word was discussed and evaluated, was very in sight. She had a lot of observers.

First, in the same house, and then the family de local lived nearby, not far from the Stroganovs. It is worth mentioning the Karamzins, with whom the widow often communicated. Ekaterina Ivanovna Zagryazhskaya lived nearby and every day at seven o'clock she came to visit her nephews, Vyazemsky Peter Andreevich, before annoyance, took care of Natalia Nikolaevna and almost visited her every day, there were other friends of Pushkin: Pletnev, Nashchokin, who morally supported Natalia Nikolaevna and were very friendly to her.

And not one of them did a single hint on this, which means Natalya Nikolaevna behaved flawlessly. Pushkin's friends would not have forgiven her of royal attention. It is not for nothing that P. Vyazemsky, who, like no one is better, knew the life of the widow, said: "The widow is such a modest, such a pure blue that no enemy will overcome her." In addition, imagine a house stuffed with children, servants, nannies, the sister lives right there.

Whether the dates! And the nonsense that the visiting Frenchman writes about the alkal hobbies of Emperor Ach. Gallet de Kultur. Paris, r. Dobrolyubova, as Schegolev calls her, has nothing to do with the widow of the poet. If everything were different, there would be no terrible lack of money, the need, constant searches for the maintenance of a huge family, fear for the future of children, the royal passion would reign in society and would have everything that could be wished.

But even Modest Korf, at that time, the confidant of Nicholas I, his state secretary in his personal diary would be more clearly if there was a reason for this. Modinka Korf would not fail to gloom, would not miss the case to release poison from his sting. And on the other hand, Nikolai would not go to the ladies with famous goals, everything he needed was in the palace.

And modern serious historians know the names of the royal lovers, there is no need to list them, there is no name of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina among them;. After all, subjects turned to the king with requests, petitions, petitions, and often these requests were satisfied.