Кюхля

Vpervye opublikovannyĭ v 1925 godu roman "Ki͡ukhli͡a" posvi͡ashchen tragicheskoĭ sudʹbe druga Aleksandra Pushkina so vremen T͡Sarskoselʹskogo lit͡sei͡a - dekabrista Vilʹgelʹma Ki͡ukhelʹbekera.Chto zastavilo vostorzhennogo, romantichnogo, do boli tonko chuvstvui͡ushchego malʹchika iz nebogatoĭ nemet͡skoĭ semʹi dvori͡an-li͡uteran ispytatʹ bolee boleznennye perezhivanii͡a za Rossii͡u, chem ego sovremenniki, kichivshiesi͡a voshedshim v modu posle pobedy nad Napoleonom pokaznym patriotizmom?Pochemu neprosto skladyvalisʹ ego lit͡seĭskie gody, v kotorye na doli͡u Vilʹgelʹma vypalo nemalo i͡azvitelʹnykh nasmeshek?I chto privelo ego - sovsem ne voiteli͡a - na Senatskui͡u ploshchadʹ, a potom - v kazematy Alekseevskogo ravelina, v ad sibirskoĭ katorgi i dolgie gody ssylki, iz kotoroĭ emu uzhe ne suzhdeno bylo vernutʹsi͡a?..

First published in 1925, the novel "Kyuhlya" is dedicated to the tragic fate of Alexander Pushkin's friend from the time of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum — Decembrist Wilhelm Kyuhelbecker.What made an enthusiastic, romantic, painfully sensitive boy from a poor German family of Lutheran nobles experience more painful feelings for Russia than his contemporaries, who boasted of ostentatious patriotism that became fashionable after the victory over Napoleon?Why were his lyceum years not easy, in which Wilhelm had a lot of sarcastic ridicule?And what brought him — not a warrior at all — to the Senate Square, and then to the casemates of the Alekseevsky Ravelin, to the hell of Siberian penal servitude and long years of exile, from which he was never destined to return?..