Григорьев А. А. Воспоминания

Nedarom XIX stoletie nazyvai͡ut zolotym vekom russkoĭ poėzii: v ėto vremi͡a tvorili mnogie velikie khudozhniki slova, v chisle kotorykh byl i Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigorʹev. On khorosho izvesten li͡ubiteli͡am russkoĭ literatury kak poėt i kak kritik, no pochti sovershenno ne znakom v kachestve prozaika. Mezhdu tem iz-pod ego pera vyshli ne tolʹko romanticheskie rasskazy i khudozhestvennye ocherki, no i interesneĭshie, samobytnye vospominanii͡a, kotorye my rady predstavitʹ vashemu vnimanii͡u. Beri͡asʹ za "Vospominanii͡a", Grigorʹev stavil pered soboĭ zadachu bytʹ maksimalʹno chestnym i obʺektivnym: "Stolʹko ėpokh literaturnykh proneslosʹ i nado mnoi͡u, i peredo mnoi͡u, proneslosʹ dazhe vo mne samom, ostavli͡ai͡a izvestnye plasty ili, luchshe, sledy na moeĭ dushe, chto kazhdai͡a iz nikh gli͡adit na meni͡a iz-za dali proshedshego otdelʹnym organicheskim t͡selym, imeet dli͡a meni͡a svoĭ osobennyĭ t͡svet i svoĭ osobennyĭ zapakh. Iz "Vospominaniĭ" my uznaem ne tolʹko o zhizni pisateli͡a, no i naĭdem prevoskhodnye kharakteristiki obshchestvenno-literaturnym techenii͡am i sobytii͡am togo vremeni: "I͡A nameren pisatʹ ne avtobiografii͡u, no istorii͡u svoikh vpechatleniĭ, - poi͡asni͡al Grigorʹev, - beru sebi͡a kak obʺekta, kak lit͡so sovershenno postoronnee, smotri͡u na sebi͡a kak na odnogo iz synov izvestnoĭ ėpokhi, i, stalo bytʹ, tolʹko to, chto kharakterizuet ėpokhu voobshche, dolzhno voĭti v moi vospominanii͡a; moe zhe lichnoe voĭdet tolʹko v toĭ stepeni, v kakoĭ ono kharakterizuet ėpokhu".

No wonder the XIX century is called the Golden age of Russian poetry: at this time created many of the great artists of the word, among whom was the Apollon Alexandrovich Grigoriev. It is well known to lovers of Russian literature as a poet and as a critic, but almost completely unfamiliar as a writer. Meanwhile, from his pen came not only romantic stories and artistic essays, but most interesting, distinctive memories, which we are pleased to bring to your attention. Picking up "Memories", Grigorev had set a goal to be as honest and objective: "so Many eras and literary swept over me, and before me flashed even of me, leaving a well-known layers or, better, the marks on my soul that each of them looks at me for a gave the past a separate organic whole, has for me a special color and a special smell. From the "Memoirs" we learn not only about the writer's life, but also find the excellent characteristics of the socio-literary movements and the events of that time: "I intend to write an autobiography, but the story of their experiences, explained Gregory – take myself as an object, as the face of a total stranger looking at yourself as one of the sons of the well-known era, and, therefore, only what characterizes the era in General, should be in my memories; my personal will be included only to the extent that it characterizes an entire epoch."