Пушкин и Натали. Покоя сердце просит…

Kakoĭ ona byla, izbrannit͡sa russkogo genii͡a? Pustoĭ svetskoĭ krasavit͡seĭ, uvlechennoĭ balami, razori͡avsheĭ muzha nari͡adami, vinovnit͡seĭ ego gibeli?.. A. I. Kuprin pod vpechatleniem pushkinskikh pisem k zhene skazhet: 'I͡A khotel by predstavitʹ zhenshchinu, kotorui͡u li͡ubil Pushkin, vo vseĭ polnote schastʹi͡a obladanii͡a takim chelovekom'. Matʹ chetverykh deteĭ, gluboko religioznyĭ chelovek, zhena Poėta, kotoryĭ videl v neĭ 'chisteĭsheĭ prelesti chisteĭshiĭ obrazet͡s', 'miloe, chistoe, dobroe sozdanie'... Eĭ prishlosʹ mnogo stradatʹ, za svoi͡u krasotu ona zaplatila nepomerno vysokui͡u t͡senu.

What was she like, the chosen one of the Russian genius? A. I. Kuprin, impressed by Pushkin's letters to his wife, will say: 'I would like to present the woman whom Pushkin loved in all the fullness of happiness of owning such a person'. A mother of four children, a deeply religious person, the wife of a Poet who saw in her 'the purest charm of the purest sample', 'a sweet, pure, kind creature'... She had to suffer a lot, she paid an exorbitant price for her beauty.