E.A. Baratynsky.
Artist Yu.V. Ivanov

Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800-1844) – poet.

The father of the future poet is Lieutenant General A.A. Baratynsky - was in the retinue of Paul I, his mother was a maid of honor to Empress Maria Feodorovna. Their son could count on a good career. But life decreed otherwise.

Evgeny Baratynsky was studying in the Corps of Pages when he took part in stealing money and an expensive snuff box from the father of one of his comrades. As a result, he was expelled from the corps and forbidden to enroll in public service, except for military soldiers. He was 16 years old. Baratynsky spent several years on the estates of his mother and uncle, and in 1819 he entered the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment as a private. In the spring of 1825, Baratynsky was promoted to officer, and in January 1826 he retired and came to Moscow.

In the summer of 1826, Evgeny Baratynsky married Nastasya Lvovna Engelgard (1804-1860), daughter of Major General L.N. Engelhard (1766-1836). Nastasya Lvovna turned out to be not only loving wife, but also a subtle, benevolent critic of his poems.

In the fall of 1843, Evgeny Baratynsky left for France, and from there to Italy. He died suddenly in Naples in the summer of 1844.

A.S. Pushkin about Baratynsky: “He is original among us - because he thinks. He would be original everywhere, because he thinks in his own way, correctly and independently, while he feels strongly and deeply.”

And today the poet has his own circle of admirers. There is no statute of limitations for Baratynsky’s poems:

Biography of Baratynsky

• 1800. February 19 (March 2) - Evgeny Baratynsky was born in the village of Vyazlya, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province. Father, Abram Andreevich Baratynsky (1767-1810) - retired lieutenant general, participant in the Russian-Swedish War (1788-1790). Mother, Alexandra Feodorovna, née Cherepanova (1776-1852) was a graduate of the Smolny Institute, maid of honor to Empress Maria Feodorovna.
• 1808. Study at a private German boarding school in St. Petersburg, where he studied German. He already knew Italian and French.
• 1812. Admission to the Corps of Pages.
• 1814. Baratynsky was retained for a second year. I found myself in a “freedom-loving” company of comrades: “The idea of ​​not looking at anything, of throwing off all compulsion delighted me; a joyful feeling of freedom excited my soul.”
• 1816. February - theft from the father of one of the accomplices of five hundred rubles and a tortoiseshell snuffbox in a gold frame. Expulsion of Evgeny Baratynsky from the corps with a ban on entering public service, except as a private for military service. Baratynsky lived for several years either on his mother’s estate in the Tambov province or with his uncle, retired Vice Admiral B.A. Baratynsky, in the Smolensk province.
• 1819. Baratynsky entered the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment as a private. Acquaintance with Delvig, Pushkin, Kuchelbecker, Gnedich. The appearance of Baratynsky's poems in print.
• 1820. January - Baratynsky was promoted to non-commissioned officer and transferred from the guard to the Neishlot infantry regiment in Finland, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel G.A. Lutkovsky is a relative of Baratynsky. Friendship with the adjutant of the Finnish Governor-General A.A. Zakrevsky N.V. Confused. Putyata about his first impression of Baratynsky: “He was thin, pale, and his features expressed deep despondency.”
• 1824. Autumn - at the request of Putyata, Baratynsky was allowed to be at the headquarters of General Zakrevsky in Helsingfors. Baratynsky's passion for the wife of General Zakrevsky A.F. Zakrevskaya. Baratynsky dedicated the poems “Fairy” to her, “No, rumor deceived you”, “Justification”, “We drink sweet poison in love”, “I am reckless, and it’s no wonder”, “How many you are in a few days”. About the object of love, Baratynsky wrote to Putyata: “What an unfortunate fruit of premature experience - a heart greedy for passion, but no longer able to indulge in one constant passion and is lost in a crowd of boundless desires!”
• 1825. Spring - order for promotion to ensign. November 13 – Evgeny Baratynsky in Moscow. Meeting Denis Davydov, who introduced him to the house of Major General Lev Nikolaevich Engelhardt. Denisov was married to the niece of a major general.
• 1826. January 31 - Baratynsky retired and moved to Moscow. From a letter to Putyate: “The chains imposed by fate fell from my hands.” June 9 – wedding of Evgeny Baratynsky and Nastasya Lvovna Engelhardt. Baratynsky about his family life: “I locked the door to the merry fellows, I am satiated with their exuberant happiness, and have now replaced it with decent, quiet voluptuousness.”
• 1827. Publication of the first collection of Baratynsky’s poems.
• 1828. Critical attacks on Baratynsky’s “exaggerated romanticism.” Thanks to Pushkin's high appreciation of Baratynsky's poems, he was recognized as one of the best poets of his time. Beginning of service in the Boundary Office with the rank of collegiate registrar, corresponding to an army ensign. Obtaining the rank of provincial secretary.
• 1831. Resignation. Managing estates and practicing poetry.
• 1835. Second edition of Baratynsky’s poems.
• 1837. The news of Pushkin's death found Baratynsky in Moscow while he was working on the poem "In Autumn." Baratynsky abandoned the poem, and it remained unfinished.
• 1839. Baratynsky: “There is nothing more meaningful in the world than poetry.”
• 1842. The collection "Twilight" is published. Concerned with the “urgent and useful,” Belinsky accused the poet of rebelling against science and enlightenment.
• 1843. Autumn - dream come true - travel abroad. Acquaintance in Paris with A. de Vigny, P. Merimee, M. Chevalier, C. Nodier.
• 1844. Spring - Baratynsky went through Marseille by sea to Naples. Upon the Baratynskys’ arrival in Naples, his wife suffered one of the nervous attacks that haunted her for many years. This caused an exacerbation of Baratynsky's headaches, from which he often suffered. June 29 – Evgeniy Abramovich Baratynsky died. He was buried at the Tikhvin cemetery.

Poems by Baratynsky

Poem "Grumbling" Baratynsky wrote in 1819, 1826.

Poem "How many are you in a few days" Baratynsky wrote at the end of 1824 - beginning of 1825.

Poem "Muse" Baratynsky wrote in 1829.

Wonderful poem! These lines remind us that “Muse” and “music” have the same root.

My gift is poor, and my voice is not loud,
But I live, and on earth is mine
Existence is kind to someone:
My distant descendant will find it
In my poems; who knows? my soul
Will find himself in intercourse with his soul,
And how I found a friend in a generation,
I will find a reader in posterity. (E. Baratynsky)

Evgeny Abramovich Boratynsky (Baratynsky; 1800-1844) - Russian poet, friend of Pushkin, one of the most significant Russian poets of the first half of the 19th century.

Baratynsky was a “sincere and passionate seeker of truth,” his work is distinguished by its depth philosophical thought, perfection of artistic form.

Life path

He came from an old Polish family that settled in the 17th century. in Russia. The poet was born on February 19, 1800 into a noble family in the village of Mara, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province. He received his primary education in the village, under the supervision of an Italian uncle, then in a St. Petersburg French boarding school and page corps. As a result of a serious offense - theft is quite large sum money from a comrade's father - was expelled from the corps with a forever ban on entering service other than military service as a private. This punishment greatly shocked Baratynsky (he fell seriously ill nervous disorder and was close to suicide) and left an imprint on his character and subsequent fate.

The efforts of Baratynsky’s relatives to forgive him were not crowned with success; he leaves for St. Petersburg and enlists as a private in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment. Soon he was promoted to non-commissioned officer, and with the Neishlot infantry regiment he went to Finland, where he spent about 5 years. He was fascinated by the harsh, majestic nature of Finland, he observed local customs and everyday life, all this is reflected in his work.

Baratynsky's first poem was published with the help of A. Delvig in the magazine "Blagomarnenny" in 1819 1823-1824. - the time of Baratynsky’s greatest closeness with K. Ryleev and A. Bestuzhev, who published his poems in the Decembrist almanac “Polar Star”. But civil poetry was not Baratynsky’s calling. However, the well-known epigram on the Minister of War A. Arakcheev “The Fatherland's Enemy, Servant of the Tsar” (1825) and some other works speak of the rather oppositional sentiments of the young poet, but the idea of ​​​​changing the foundations of existence seems to him unpromising and useless.

Enemy of the Fatherland, servant of the Tsar,
To the scourge of peoples - autocracy -
Some kind of hellish love of grief,
He is not familiar with another passion.
Hiding from view, he acts in the dark,
To act more freely.
There is no need for a name: everyone has it on their lips,
As a terrible name of the ruler of the underworld.

Finally, on April 21, 1825, Baratynsky received an officer rank, went on vacation and then retired. Changes also occur in the poet’s personal life: he marries Anastasia Lvovna Engelhardt. She did not have any particular beauty, but the poet himself said about her in the poem “She”:

There is something in her that is more beautiful than beauty,
What speaks not with feelings - with the soul;
There is something about her that is more autocratic over the heart
Earthly love and earthly charms.

Baratynsky's marriage turned out to be very happy.

Lyrics by Baratynsky 1826-1834 acquires an increasingly deeper philosophical character, it contains thoughts about the role of the poet and poetry, about the fate of humanity and art, about life and death, about human passions and the laws of eternal beauty...

In 1842, Baratynsky published his last collection of poems, “Twilight,” which included poems from 1834-1841. During this period, the motive for the discord between the surrounding reality and the inner world of man intensifies:

The century moves along its iron path;


Poetry, childish dreams,

Baratynsky died suddenly while traveling abroad, in Naples on June 29, 1844. His body was transported to St. Petersburg, where he was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra next to Krylov, Gnedich, Karamzin at the Tikhvin cemetery.

In the Muranovo estate near Moscow, where Baratynsky spent recent years life, a literary and memorial museum of E.A. was created. Baratynsky and F.I. Tyutchev “Muranovo” - from 1816 to 1918. Muranov was owned, successively replacing each other, by four families connected by family ties - the Engelhardts, the Boratynskys, the Putyats and the Tyutchevs. Each of them was involved in the literary life of Russia.

Creativity of E. Baratynsky

According to many literary critics, the main lines of Baratynsky’s work were parallel to the work of Pushkin: both began by imitating the dominant models of the beginning of the century - the erotic-elegiac poetry of Batyushkov, the elegies of Zhukovsky; both have passed through the stage of the romantic poem; Finally, the last period in the work of both is colored by a distinct realistic style of writing. But despite the similarity of the main lines, Baratynsky’s poetic style is distinguished by a remarkable originality - “originality”, which Pushkin himself so noted and appreciated in him (“he never trudged on the heels of a captivating genius of his age, picking up the ears of corn that he had dropped: he walked his way alone and independent").

As mentioned above, a youthful mistake and its consequences left a strong imprint on the poet’s fate: his work is distinguished by sharp individualism, concentrated loneliness, isolation in oneself, in one’s own inner world, a world of “dry sorrow” - hopeless thoughts about man and his nature, humanity and its destinies.

There is being; but what name
Name him? It is neither sleep nor vigil;
Between them it is, and in man it
Reason borders on madness.
He fully understands his
And meanwhile, like the waves on him,
Some are more rebellious and wayward than others,
Visions run from all sides:
As if from their ancient homeland
He was given over to spontaneous confusion;
But sometimes, inflamed by a dream,
He sees a light that is not revealed to others.

(“The Last Death,” 1827, excerpt).

The outside world, nature for these lyrics are only “landscapes of the soul”, a way of symbolization internal states. All these features take Baratynsky beyond the circle of poets of Pushkin’s galaxy, making his work close and akin to the poetry of the Symbolists. At the same time, due to the preservation of economic ties with the nobility, Baratynsky, like none of the poets of the galaxy, feels his closeness with the “fertile” 18th century - “powerful years” - the period of the highest class flowering of the nobility; he hates the approaching bourgeois-capitalist culture:

The century marches on its iron path;
There is self-interest in our hearts and a common dream
From hour to hour, vital and useful
More clearly, more shamelessly busy.
Disappeared in the light of enlightenment
Poetry, childish dreams,
And it’s not about her that generations are busy,
Dedicated to industrial concerns.

(“The Last Poet,” 1835, excerpt).

Along with elegies, Baratynsky’s favorite genres are the characteristic “small genres” of the 18th century: madrigal, album inscription, epigram. A rationalist seeking to overcome his rationalism, a “decadent” in his themes and their specific sharpening, a symbolist in some of his techniques, an archaist in language, in the general character of the style - from such complex, contradictory elements, Baratynsky’s integral and highly original poetic image is formed, “not general expression” - which the poet himself rightly recognized as his main advantage.

I am not blinded by my Muse:
They won't call her beautiful
And the young men, seeing her, followed her
They won't run in a crowd of people in love.
Lure with exquisite attire,
Playing with the eyes, brilliant conversation,
She has neither inclination nor gift;
But a glimpse of light is astonishing
Her face has an uncommon expression,
Her speeches are calm and simple;
And he, rather than caustic condemnation,
She will be honored with casual praise.

(“Muse”, 1829).

Lyrics by Baratynsky 1826-1834 is becoming increasingly philosophical in nature. The lyrics of these years contain elegiac reflections on the role of the poet and poetry, on the fate of humanity and art, on life and death, on human passions and the laws of eternal beauty...

In 1842, Baratynsky published his last collection of poems, “Twilight,” which included poems written in 1834-1841.

His poems stand somewhat apart from Baratynsky’s lyrics, overshadowed from his contemporaries by the work of Pushkin.

Baratynsky’s deeply original poetry was forgotten throughout the century, and only at the very end of it did the Symbolists, who found so many similar elements in it, renewed interest in Baratynsky’s work, proclaiming him one of the three greatest Russian poets, along with Pushkin and Tyutchev.

And the famous Russian poet of the Golden Age was born into a noble family. His father was a landowner, a retired lieutenant general. As a child, Boratynsky studied at a private German boarding school in St. Petersburg, and at the age of 12 he was sent to the Corps of Pages. However, pranks and refusal to obey the orders of the corps led to the fact that two years later he was expelled from there with a ban on entering military service except as a private.

After this, the young man lived on his relatives’ estates for several years and began writing poetry. At the beginning of 1819, Boratynsky finally decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and entered the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment as a private. He settled in the same apartment with Delvig, became friends with Pushkin, Kuchelbecker, Gnedich and began to publish. In 1820, Boratynsky received the rank of non-commissioned officer and was transferred to his relative’s regiment stationed in Finland. The harshness of northern nature made a great impression on this romantic poet. In 1824, he was appointed to the headquarters of General Zakrevsky, where he became interested in his wife, “Copper Venus” Pushkin. On next year he was promoted to officer. In 1826, due to his mother’s illness, Boratynsky retired and settled in Moscow, marrying Anastasia Engelhardt, the cousin of Denis Davydov’s wife.

After the publication of the poems “Eda” and “Feasts” in 1826, public opinion placed him among the best poets of his time. From 1828 to 1831 Boratynsky was in the civil service, in particular as a provincial secretary. After his retirement, Boratynsky went to privacy, arranged his wife's dowry - the Muranovo estate (later - the Tyutchev Museum, a relative of the Engelhardts).

In 1843, Boratynsky went on a trip abroad with his wife and three of his nine children. In Naples he died of a broken heart.

Along with writing the surname through O - Boratynsky, the variant with the letter A was more common for a long time. It was entrenched in encyclopedias and dictionaries, and not the least role in resolving this issue was played by the fact that Pushkin, speaking about his friend’s poetry, wrote about him "Baratynsky".

Meanwhile, the spelling of a surname with O has dominated literary criticism since the 1990s and is confirmed biographical information. Thus, the surname of the Boratynsky family, as stated in the work of the poet’s nephew, comes from the name of the Boratyn castle in Galicia. After one of the representatives of the family became a Russian citizen, due to the peculiarities of the new language, the letter A began to predominate in the spelling. It is known that the double version of the surname caused a lot of trouble when it came to official documents. Thus, a letter from the poet’s son, Nikolai Evgenievich Boratynsky, has been preserved, in which he points out an error in the papers and explains its origin: “...let me draw your attention to the fact that in the documents presented my surname is written Ba-, and not Boratynsky, while the native spelling is Boratynsky...<...>The alien letter originated from the Russian habit of pronouncing O as A, but in letters one can often mistake this letter for the second..."

Boratynsky himself signed the first verses as “Evgeniy Abramov, son of Baratynskaya.” However, in the official publication of his works and in his last collection, he used a different option in the signature - “Boratynsky”. Also - through O - his surname is immortalized on the poet’s tombstone in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Baratynsky (or rather Boratynsky), Evgeniy Abramovich - poet, b. 19 Feb. 1800, d. June 29, 1844. He came from a noble and ancient family of Poles with the Korczak coat of arms. His father, adjutant general and senator, was close to Emperor Paul, who granted him 1000 souls in the Tambov province, where he was born. Evgeny Abramovich in the village of Vyazhle, Kirsanovsky district. His mother, Alexandra Feodorovna, maid of honor of Empress Maria Feodorovna, nee Cherepomova, graduated from the Smolny Institute and was considered a very educated woman. She had to independently manage the initial upbringing of her son, since he lost his father at a very early age. Evgeniy Abramovich retained an ardent affection for his mother throughout his life, as can be seen from his letters. His uncle, Giacinto Borghese, had a significant influence on the poet in childhood. His stories about Rome, Naples, the Colosseum, and St. Peter's Church aroused the child's desire to visit Italy. Yevgeny Abramovich fulfilled this desire only at the end of his days. And there, in Italy, two weeks before his death, Baratynsky recalled the stories of his uncle in a poem dedicated to his memory.

At the age of 12, Baratynsky was taken to St. Petersburg, to a German boarding school and was soon transferred to the page corps, from where four years later (April 1816) he was expelled, with a ban on entering any service other than the military, and not otherwise. like a private. Too severe punishment for youthful offenses greatly affected Baratynsky’s character and worldview. The melancholic tone and disappointment are characteristic feature almost all of his works. According to the poet, during this difficult time for him, he was supported by his mother and uncle, who were able to understand his depressed state and encourage Baratynsky, who was ready to decide to commit suicide.

Portrait of Evgeny Baratynsky, 1826

He left for the village. The years spent there had a beneficial effect on him, and in 1819 Baratynsky entered the Jaeger Guards Regiment in St. Petersburg as a private. His first steps in the literary field date back to this same time. He enters into close friendship with Delvig, closely converges with Pushkin, Pletnev, Gnedich and partly with Zhukovsky. Baratynsky’s first literary experiments were published in Izmailov’s magazine “Blagomarnennyi”.

In 1820, with the rank of non-commissioned officer, Baratynsky was transferred to the Neishlot regiment, which was then stationed in Finland. He lived first in the fortification of Kymen (1820 - 24), and then for several months in Helsingfors. The regiment commander Lutkovsky, an old friend of Baratynsky's relatives, treated him as a close acquaintance. Baratynsky lived in separate apartment and, thanks to his friendship with the adjutant of the Governor-General S. M. Putyata, he was accepted into society. Nevertheless, Baratynsky was burdened by his position. Efforts about promotion to officers continued to drag on, and only in the spring of 1825 did the long-awaited production finally follow. His stay in Finland had a significant influence on Baratynsky’s work; it enhanced the melancholic tone of his works. The most famous of them are the poem “Edda” (1825-26) and the poem “Finland”. In 1825, having been promoted to officer, Baratynsky could retire and move to live in Moscow. But even here, finding himself again among relatives, friends and the best representatives of modern literature and journalism, Baratynsky regrets his Finnish solitude. Even later, in the best time of his literary activity, Baratynsky writes: “this region (Finland) was the nurturer of my poetry. The best dream of my poetic pride would be for future poets to visit Finland in my memory.”

A year after moving to Moscow, in 1826, Baratynsky married Nastasya Lvovna Engelhardt, a very educated girl, gifted with a subtle critical mind. As Baratynsky himself put it, he found in her a person who “encouraged with sympathy for inspiration.” Baratynsky tried to serve in the boundary office, but soon left the service and lived in the village with his mother, Vyazhle, or at home in Muranov, near Moscow. Continuing to study literature, he not only maintained his old connections with Pushkin, Delvig, Pletnev, Zhukovsky and Vyazemsky, to whom he dedicated his last collection of poems, “Twilight,” but also made new friends: Denis Davydov, Dmitrieva, Kireevskikh, Yazykova, Khomyakova, Pavlova. He was well acquainted with the publisher of the Moscow Telegraph, Polevoy, who generally disliked the circle of aristocratic writers, but made an exception for Baratynsky. The two poems “Ball” (1827) and “Gypsy Woman” (1830) should be attributed to this period of Baratynsky’s activity.

After them, Baratynsky focused exclusively on lyrics. Family life, farming, to which he zealously indulged in the village, gradually distracted Baratynsky from literary activity, although 1835 can be called one of the most fruitful years of his poetic life. With the death of Delvig (1831), and then Pushkin, Baratynsky moved more and more away from his previous literary acquaintances, did not make new ones, and became more and more immersed in the interests of his personal life. In 1839, during a short stay in St. Petersburg, in the company of the best representatives of literature, he felt only boredom and a desire to return home. While living in the village, Baratynsky became acquainted with the situation of the peasants and began to ardently sympathize with the abolition of serfdom. After manifesto of 1842 he writes: “I have sunshine in my heart when I think about the future.”

Russian poets of the twentieth century. Evgeny Baratynsky

In the fall of 1843, Baratynsky with his wife and older children (there were nine in total) went abroad. The dream of his youth came true. Baratynsky's letters from abroad are full of sincere delight. First he visited Germany, and spent the winter of 1843-44 in Paris. Here he moved in different spheres: both in the salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and in literary circles. Yes, I met Merimee, Nodier, Thierry, Saint-Beuve, Lamartine, Guizot, and, at the request of some of them, translated about 15 of his poems into French (prose). In the spring of 1844, the poet went to Marseilles, and from there to Naples. Sea voyage inspired Baratynsky to write one of his best poems - “ Pyroscape" Italy delighted the poet, but he did not have to live there long - on June 22, 1844, he died suddenly. A year later, Baratynsky’s body was transported to St. Petersburg. and was buried in the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, not far from the graves of Gnedich and Krylov. On the monument there is a medallion with a bas-relief image of the poet, and under it two lines from the poem “Excerpt”:

“In humility of heart one must believe
And wait patiently for the end.”

Baratynsky's biography would be incomplete without a story about his family. E.A. Baratynsky was born on March 2 (February 19), 1800 in the village of Vyazhle, located in the Tambov province. His family belonged to a noble noble family. His ancestors were from a Polish family of nobles, who received their surname back in the 14th century after the name of the Boratyn castle they owned.

Father, Abram Baratynsky, served as an officer in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment. He was especially loved and appreciated by the heir to the throne, Paul I. However, the favorite soon fell out of favor and retired. The mother of the future poet, Alexandra Cherepanov, in her youth was a maid of honor at the imperial court.

Having received his primary education at home, in 1808 Eugene went to a private German boarding school. To his impeccable Italian and French German has been added. After boarding school, he moved to the most prestigious military educational institution at that time - the Corps of Pages. From there, he often wrote letters to his mother, in which he spoke of his absolute desire to devote his life to military affairs. But not all dreams are destined to come true. He found himself involved in an “ugly” story involving the theft of money. On the one hand, it was just a prank. On the other hand, it was a serious offense, for which he was expelled from the corps and deprived of the right to serve in a high military rank.

The beginning of a creative journey

At the age of 19, Baratynsky entered the Jaeger Life Guards Regiment as a simple soldier. Then he transferred to the Neishlot Infantry Regiment in Finland. At the age of 25 he received an officer's rank. He served in it for only a short time: exactly a year later he refused service and moved to the capital. There he soon married Anastasia, the beloved daughter of Major General Lev Engelhardt.

The first poetic work was published in 1819. The period under review was very eventful: close acquaintance in the northern capital with Alexander Pushkin and Anton Delvig; joining a narrow literary circle of Moscow writers and close communication with N. Yazykov, I. Kireevsky and A. Khomyakov. Year after year, starting from 1826, collections of his works have been published: the poems “Eda”, “Feasts”, “Ball”, “Concubine”, lyric poems and others.

Last years of life

At the age of 36, Baratynsky, after the death of his wife’s father, took possession of an estate near Moscow - Muranovo. He settled there with Anastasia Lvovna and the children, and practically never left. During the same period, in 1842, another cycle was published - “Twilight”.

And in the fall of 1843, the great Russian poet went on a family trip to Europe. Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Paris - this is an incomplete list of cities visited by the Baratynsky family. There were some pleasant surprises - new acquaintances with the writer Prosper Merimee, historians Amedee and Thierry, and poet Sainte-Beuve. They were delighted with his talent, and at their insistence he translated fifteen of his lyrical works.

With the arrival of spring 1844, the family decided to move to Naples. They went on a journey by sea, during which he wrote his last poem. The day after his arrival, Yevgeny Abramovich’s headaches that had previously bothered him intensified and he suddenly died.

Other biography options

• For children, the first acquaintance with creativity and short biography Evgeniy Baratynsky takes place in the 4th grade. Schoolchildren know that he was born in the era of Pushkin and was considered the first great Russian poet after him.
• At the age of 20, the young poet wrote a poem that was prophetic. In it, he said that he had already stepped into the second half of his life, and it would end not just anywhere, but in a distant and foreign country.
• They say that Baratynsky knew Russian grammar very poorly. Once he even asked A. Delvig what the “parent case” was. In his works he used only commas and no other punctuation marks.