Kochubey Natalia Viktorovna. Essay based on a painting by O.A

Forget everything;
In this new share
Be happy.
Only in the spring
Zephyr young
Captivated by Rose;
In my passionate youth
I was beautiful
I am passionate about the network.
No, I will not
Continue to sigh
I will forget the passion;
Suffer completely!
Sorrow is coming soon
I'll meet the end.
Oh! is it for you,
Young singer,
The beauty of Elena
Is it blooming like a rose?..
Let all the people
Seduced by her
Following the dream
Rushes in a crowd;
In a peaceful home,
On the ashes
Simple in a bowl
I will become humble
Draw up oblivion
And - for friends
Frisky with your hand
Move the string
My harp."
In a boring separation
That's how I dreamed
In sorrow, in agony
I pleased myself;
Kindled in the heart
Elena's image
I thought of exterminating it.
Last spring
Young Chloe
I decided to love.

Like a breeze
Drives a leaf
With a frisky wave,
So incessantly
Fickle
Played with passion
Lilu, Temiru,
I adored everyone
Heart and lyre
Dedicated to everyone. -
What? - in vain
From the beautiful breast
I tore off the shawl.
Treason is in vain!
Elena's image
It was burning in my heart!
Oh! come back,
The joy of the eyes
Cool, move on
My sadness. -
Cries in vain
Poor singer!
No! Doesn't meet
The torment is over...
So! To the grave
Sad, despondent,
Look for shelter!
Forgotten by everyone
entwined with thorns
The chains are dragging.....

This lyceum poem by Pushkin, according to researchers (in particular B. Tomashevsky), was dedicated to Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey, the daughter of Count Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey, Minister of Internal Affairs under Alexander I. Young Natalya and her parents spent the summer in Tsarskoye Selo in 1812. Nothing is known about this children's romance, and most likely, given the age of the chosen one and the young admirer, it was nothing more than a school hobby, and an unrequited one. The poet, without changing the style of his early anacreontics, sang Natalya Kochubey under the name of the beautiful Elena, raising the “young rose” above the host of all the young beauties he glorified, all with the same anacreontic names - Chloe, Lila, Temira. However, it is quite obvious that the poem does not reflect a fleeting “seasonal” feeling, but the story of a long (“poetic” chronology covers at least two years) struggle with passion for “proud Helen.” Cheating is recognized as a fruitless cure for love, and the lyrical hero feels doomed to loneliness until the grave. Perhaps the feeling was fueled by the fact that some other lyceum students, for example Ivan Pushchin, were in love with Natalya Kochubey. But the poetic chronology hardly corresponds to the real one, and the hobbies of Pushkin the lyceum student replaced each other quite often, and sometimes coexisted. In any case, as one might assume, the poet’s feelings remained unrequited. But Pushkin remembered this young love of his, and when already in the 1830s he sketched out the program for his future autobiography, a note appeared in it: “Gr. Kochubey.”

In 1820, Natalya Kochubey married Count Alexander Grigorievich Stroganov, and Pushkin subsequently, especially in the 1830s, met with Natalya Viktorovna several times both in the house of her husband and in the house of Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov, her father-in-law and cousin of Natalya Nikolaevna Pushkina . As you know, the Stroganov family played a largely unseemly role in the poet’s pre-duel history. Idalia Poletica, illegitimate daughter Grigory Aleksandrovich Stroganov, was involved in the anti-Pushkin “party” and, according to many researchers, actively participated in a conspiracy against the poet. Alexander Grigorievich Stroganov treated Pushkin with expressed hostility. He was close to the court and invariably held important government positions, in particular, from 1834 he was a companion to the Minister of the Interior. He far outlived his wife and died in 1891 at the age of 96.

In the 1830s, Natalya Viktorovna became close to the Karamzins’ salon (here she was called “Countess Natalya”), where she also met with Pushkin. In the Karamzins’ salon they gossiped a lot about Pushkin’s family affairs, and not always kindly. It is all the more important that in such a situation Natalya Viktorovna invariably took his side. Unfortunately, little is still known about this period in the life of the Stroganov family, and in particular “Countess Natalya,” and perhaps the archives contain many secrets and details unknown to us that could shed light on the intrigues of which he became a victim. Pushkin.

In the 1830s, Natalya Kochubey-Stroganova became one of the most brilliant St. Petersburg ladies. People fell in love with her, she, like Natalie Pushkina, shone at balls in the Anichkov Palace and was considered a recognized beauty. One of her inconsolable admirers was Nikolai Alexandrovich Skalon, a friend of the Rosset brothers and an acquaintance of Pushkin. This is how Alexander Karamzin described her: “... she comes in shiny, beautiful, in some kind of devilish dress, with a devilish scarf and many other things, also sparkling devilishly.” Sofya Karamzina in her letters hints that Pushkin had a special feeling for “Countess Natalya”, associated with past worship. One evening in September 1836, Pushkin and his wife, Ekaterina Goncharova and Dantes were with the Karamzins. “It was a pity to look at the figure of Pushkin, who stood opposite them, in the doorway, silent, pale and threatening,” writes Sofia Karamzina. “My God, how stupid all this is! When Countess Stroganova arrived, I asked Pushkin to go talk to her. He I was about to agree, blushing (you know that she is one of his *relationships*, and a slave one at that), when suddenly I see him suddenly stop and turn away with irritation. “Well, what?” - “No, I won’t go, there This count is already sitting." - "Which count?" - D "Antes, Gekren, or something!"

After Pushkin’s death, in March 1837, A. N. Karamzin wrote to his brother: “You should not, however, think that the whole society was against Pushkin after his death: no, it’s only the Nesselrod circle and some others. On the contrary , others, such as Countess Nat. (alya) Stroganova and Mrs. Naryshkina (Mar. (iya) Yakov. (levna) spoke with great fervor in his favor, which even caused several quarrels."

Some researchers believed that it was Natalya Kochubey who was dedicated to Pushkin’s long-term “hidden love,” which still intrigues Pushkin scholars. P. Huber adhered to this point of view. He was guided by the following arguments. In Pushkin’s famous playful Don Juan list, the name Natalya appears three times, the second time it is encrypted in the mysterious initials NN (under the first Natalya you should see the serf actress he glorified, under the third - Natalya Nikolaevna). In the drafts of Poltava, Maria Kochubey was first called Natalya. In one of his letters to Pushkin, his friend N. Raevsky mentions a meeting with the parents of a certain “Natalia Kagulskaya”, and P. Guber connects the nickname “Kagulskaya” with Pushkin’s famous elegy of 1819:

Intoxicated with memories,
With reverence and longing
I will embrace your formidable marble,
Cahul monument is arrogant.
Not a brave feat of the Russians,
Not glory, a gift to Catherine,
Not the Transdanubian giant
I'm being set on fire now...

This poem is about a monument erected in Tsarskoe Selo in honor of the victory of Count Rumyantsev over the Turks at Kagul. But it is quite obvious that this monument reminds the poet of some deeply personal event. Perhaps some memorable meeting took place here? It should be noted that the Kochubey family spent several years abroad and returned to Russia only in 1818. Natalya's return could stir up youthful memories in Pushkin's soul. Who knows?... P. Guber believed that it was Natalya Kochubey who could tell Pushkin the legend of the Bakhchisarai fountain (Pushkin designated the lady from whom he heard it with the initial K.). But in general, P. Huber’s arguments did not seem sufficiently thorough to the researchers, and his version did not find followers, although it took its place in long discussions about the poet’s “hidden love.” Natalya Kochubey was also considered as a prototype of Pushkin's Tatyana (along with many others). The corresponding note is also in the draft notes of P. V. Annenkov. We were talking, of course, about Tatyana, “the impregnable goddess of the luxurious royal Neva” (chapter 8, stanzas XIV-XVI). Natalya Kochubey, being the daughter of one of the top officials of the state, could not in any way resemble the savage Tatyana, who grew up “in a remote, distant side.” However, in the first case, it is hardly possible to discern any pronounced similarity between Pushkin’s Tatiana and “Countess Natalya.” According to the Karamzins, she was very flirtatious, and Alexander Nikolaevich Karamzin in 1837 directly complained in a letter to his brother Andrey about her “persecution”: “However, I also had adventures in the winter: remember, I once wrote to you that I was alarmed by the persecution of the Countess Stern. (anova). So! Since then it has only grown and blossomed even more! We were inimitable: me with my escapes, she with her persecutions, forcing me to dance long dances with her, arranging scenes of jealousy for me and pestering me gentle reproaches for my indifference, while I pretended that I did not understand anything of what she was telling me, and kept asking for explanations of her hints... Be that as it may, the former beautiful countess, it seems to me, gave up her plans for me and is content with making eyes at me, often coming to us, even on Holy Week, and showing me indirect courtesies by supplying my mother with many bouquets of flowers." However, with age, the character of Countess Natalia, whose life was spent in high society salons, could change. But one thing is certain: Pushkin did not forget about his young love and retained deep respect for Natalya Viktorovna. In 1835, he was thinking about the novel “Russian Pelham”, and in the plans he left behind, he named her name. Natalya Kochubey was assigned a noble role in the plot of the future novel: she was supposed to enter into correspondence with the main character in order to warn him against the intrigues being prepared against him (VIII, 974-975). With the same straightforwardness, she spoke out against Pushkin’s enemies in the tragic days of 1837.

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Pushkin in the letters of the Karamzins of 1836-1837. M.-L. 1960. P. 97.
Right there. P. 109.
Right there. P. 194.
Guber P. Don Juan list of Pushkin. Petrograd. 1923.
Pushkin in the letters of the Karamzins. P.204-205.

"This lyceum poem by Pushkin, according to researchers (in particular B. Tomashevsky), was dedicated to Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey, the daughter of Count Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey, Minister of Internal Affairs under Alexander I. Young Natalya and her parents spent the summer in Tsarskoye Selo in 1812 Nothing is known about this children's romance, and most likely, given the age of the chosen one and the young admirer, it was nothing more than a school hobby, and an unrequited one.

"Young Rose"

Everything is over!
It rushed past
Love time.
Passion of torment!
In the darkness of oblivion
You disappeared.
So I'm changing
Tasted the sweetness;
Proud Helena
I forgot the chains.

Heart, you are free!
Forget everything;
In this new share
Be happy.
Only in the spring
Zephyr young
Captivated by Rose;
In my passionate youth
I was beautiful
I am passionate about the network.

No, I will not
Continue to sigh
I will forget the passion;
Suffer completely!
Sorrow is coming soon
I'll meet the end.
Oh! is it for you,
Young singer,
The beauty of Elena
Is it blooming like a rose?..
Let all the people
Seduced by her
Following the dream
Rushes in a crowd;

In a peaceful home,
On the ashes
Simple in a bowl
I will become humble
Draw up oblivion
And - for friends
Frisky with your hand
Move the string
My harp."

In a boring separation
That's how I dreamed
In sorrow, in agony
I pleased myself;
Kindled in the heart
Elena's image
I thought of exterminating it.
Last spring
Young Chloe
I decided to love.

Like a breeze
Drives a leaf
With a frisky wave,
So incessantly
Fickle
Played with passion
Lilu, Temiru,
I adored everyone
Heart and lyre
Dedicated to everyone. -

What? - in vain
From the beautiful breast
I tore off the shawl.
Treason is in vain!
Elena's image
It was burning in my heart!

Oh! come back,
The joy of the eyes
Cool, move on
My sadness. -
Cries in vain
Poor singer!
No! Doesn't meet
The torment is over...

So! To the grave
Sad, despondent,
Look for shelter!
Forgotten by everyone
entwined with thorns
The chains are dragging.....

The poet, without changing the style of his early anacreontics, sang Natalya Kochubey under the name of the beautiful Elena, raising the “young rose” above the host of all the young beauties he glorified, all with the same anacreontic names - Chloe, Lila, Temira. However, it is quite obvious that the poem does not reflect a fleeting “seasonal” feeling, but the story of a long (“poetic” chronology covers at least two years) struggle with passion for “proud Helen.” Cheating is recognized as a fruitless cure for love, and the lyrical hero feels doomed to loneliness until the grave. Perhaps the feeling was fueled by the fact that some other lyceum students, for example Ivan Pushchin, were in love with Natalya Kochubey.

But the poetic chronology hardly corresponds to the real one, and the hobbies of Pushkin the lyceum student replaced each other quite often, and sometimes coexisted. In any case, as one might assume, the poet’s feelings remained unrequited. But Pushkin remembered this young love of his, and when already in the 1830s he sketched out the program for his future autobiography, a note appeared in it: “Gr. Kochubey.” In 1820, Natalya Kochubey married Count Alexander Grigorievich Stroganov, and Pushkin subsequently, especially in the 1830s, met with Natalya Viktorovna several times both in the house of her husband and in the house of Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov, her father-in-law and cousin of Natalya Nikolaevna Pushkina .

As you know, the Stroganov family played a largely unseemly role in the poet’s pre-duel history. Idalia Poletika, the illegitimate daughter of Grigory Aleksandrovich Stroganov, was involved in the anti-Pushkin “party” and, according to many researchers, actively participated in the conspiracy against the poet. Alexander Grigorievich Stroganov treated Pushkin with expressed hostility. He was close to the court and invariably held important government positions, in particular, from 1834 he was a companion to the Minister of the Interior. He far outlived his wife and died in 1891 at the age of 96. In the 1830s, Natalya Viktorovna became close to the Karamzins’ salon (here she was called “Countess Natalya”), where she also met Pushkin. In the Karamzins’ salon they gossiped a lot about Pushkin’s family affairs, and not always kindly. It is all the more important that in such a situation Natalya Viktorovna invariably took his side.

Unfortunately, little is still known about this period in the life of the Stroganov family, and in particular “Countess Natalya,” and perhaps the archives contain many secrets and details unknown to us that could shed light on the intrigues of which he became a victim. Pushkin. In the 1830s, Natalya Kochubey-Stroganova became one of the most brilliant St. Petersburg ladies. People fell in love with her, she, like Natalie Pushkina, shone at balls in the Anichkov Palace and was considered a recognized beauty. One of her inconsolable admirers was Nikolai Alexandrovich Skalon, a friend of the Rosset brothers and an acquaintance of Pushkin. This is how Alexander Karamzin described her: “... she comes in shiny, beautiful, in some kind of devilish dress, with a devilish scarf and many other things, also devilishly sparkling.” Sofia Karamzina in her letters hints at what Pushkin felt for “ Countess Natalia" has a special feeling associated with past worship. One evening in September 1836, Pushkin and his wife, Ekaterina Goncharova and Dantes were with the Karamzins.

“It was a pity to look at the figure of Pushkin, who stood opposite them, in the doorway, silent, pale and threatening,” writes Sofia Karamzina. “My God, how stupid all this is! When Countess Stroganova arrived, I asked Pushkin to go talk to her. He I was about to agree, blushing (you know that she is one of his *relationships*, and a slave one at that), when suddenly I see him suddenly stop and turn away with irritation. “Well, what?” - “No, I won’t go there.” This count is already sitting." - "Which count?" - D "Antes, Hekren, or something!"

The Pushkins celebrated New Year 1837 at the Vyazemskys. Among the guests was Natalya Kochubey-Stroganova. Dantes appeared with his fiancee Ekaterina Goncharova. Countess Natalya sensed the approaching catastrophe and told Princess V.F. Vyazemskaya that Pushkin looked so terrible that if she were his wife, she would not risk returning home with him. After Pushkin’s death, in March 1837, A. N. Karamzin wrote to his brother: “You should not, however, think that the whole society was against Pushkin after his death: no, it’s only the Nesselrod circle and some others.

On the contrary, others, such as Countess Nat. (alya) Stroganova and Mrs. Naryshkina (Mar. (iya) Yakov. (levna) spoke in his favor with great fervor, which even caused several quarrels." Some researchers believed that it was Natalya Kochubey who was dedicated to Pushkin’s long-term “hidden love”, who still intrigues Pushkinists. This point of view was adhered to by P. Guber. He was guided by the following arguments. In the famous humorous Don Juan list of Pushkin, the name Natalya appears three times, and the second time it is encrypted in the mysterious initials NN (under the first Natalya one should see the serf actress he praised , under the third - Natalya Nikolaevna).

In the drafts of Poltava, Maria Kochubey was first called Natalya. In one of his letters to Pushkin, his friend N. Raevsky mentions a meeting with the parents of a certain “Natalia Kagulskaya”, and P. Guber connects the nickname “Kagulskaya” with Pushkin’s famous elegy of 1819:

The corresponding note is also in the draft notes of P. V. Annenkov. We were talking, of course, about Tatyana, “the impregnable goddess of the luxurious royal Neva” (chapter 8, stanzas XIV-XVI). Natalya Kochubey, being the daughter of one of the top officials of the state, could not in any way resemble the savage Tatyana, who grew up “in a remote, distant side.” However, in the first case, it is hardly possible to discern any pronounced similarity between Pushkin’s Tatiana and “Countess Natalya.”

According to the Karamzins, she was very flirtatious, and Alexander Nikolaevich Karamzin in 1837 directly complained in a letter to his brother Andrey about her “persecution”: “However, I also had adventures in the winter: remember, I once wrote to you that I was alarmed by the persecution of the Countess Stern.(anova).So! Since then it has only grown and blossomed even more! We were inimitable: me with my escapes, she with her persecutions, forcing me to dance long dances with her, arranging scenes of jealousy for me and pestering me gentle reproaches for my indifference, while I pretended that I did not understand anything of what she was telling me, and kept asking for explanations of her hints...
Be that as it may, the former beautiful Countess, it seems to me, has abandoned her plans for me and is content with making eyes at me, often coming to us, even on Holy Week, and showing me indirect courtesies, supplying my mother with many bouquets colors".

However, with age, the character of Countess Natalia, whose life was spent in high society salons, could change. But one thing is certain: Pushkin did not forget about his young love and retained deep respect for Natalya Viktorovna. In 1835, he was thinking about the novel “Russian Pelham”, and in the plans he left behind, he named her name. Natalya Kochubey was assigned a noble role in the plot of the future novel: she was supposed to enter into correspondence with the main character in order to warn him against the intrigues being prepared against him (VIII, 974-975). With the same straightforwardness, she spoke out against Pushkin’s enemies in the tragic days of 1837.”

Nina Vladimirovna Zababurova
head Department of Theory and History of World Literature,
Professor/South Federal University , Rostov-on-Don

Kochubey Natalya Viktorovna (1800-1854)

In the surviving “Program of Autobiography” under 1813, Pushkin wrote: “Countess Kochubey. Death of Malinovsky...” This entry refers to Countess Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey, daughter of one of Alexander I’s closest collaborators V.P. Kochubey, later Chairman of the State Council and Committee ministers. According to M. A Korf, she was “Pushkin’s first love,” the early passion of the young poet.

Pushkin’s acquaintance and meetings with Kochubey date back to the first years of his stay at the Lyceum, when she lived with her parents in Tsarskoe Selo. The poet’s feeling for young Kochubey was apparently reflected in the poems “Betrayal” (1815) and “Intoxicated with Memories” (1819). In 1820, Kochubey married Count A.G. Stroganov. Her meetings with Pushkin became quite rare and dated back to the last decade of the poet’s life. They met in St. Petersburg secular society, and, by his own admission, Pushkin used the living nature of Kochubey to portray Tatyana in the eighth chapter of Eugene Onegin (1829-1830).

She was unhurried, Not cold, not talkative, Without an insolent look for everyone, Without pretensions to success...

IN last years During his lifetime, Pushkin met Kochubey at the Karamzins’, where she was a regular visitor, and at other mutual acquaintances. Soon after the poet's death, when St. Petersburg society was divided into defenders and enemies of Pushkin, Kochubey-Stroganova spoke “with great fervor” in defense of the poet. The image of Kochubey was reflected in the plans for the novel "Russian Pelam" (1834-1835). The unrealized plan was supposed to give a broad picture of St. Petersburg society in the 1820s, and one of the representatives big world should have been Kochubey.

Her face is familiar to many thanks to the wonderful portraits painted by O. Kiprensky, A. Bryullov and P. Sokolov. Many researchers call her Pushkin’s first love, and some argue that she was his “hidden love”, encrypted in the Don Juan list under the initials NN and becoming the prototype of the married Tatyana Larina. Countess Natalya Viktorovna Stroganova, née Kochubey, was a brilliant salon hostess and trendsetter, and no one disputed this. But contemporaries left very contradictory reviews about her behavior and personal qualities.

There are many blank spots in her biography. Only a few facts are known for certain. She was born in 1800 in the family of a diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs, Count V.P. Kochubey. Soon after his marriage, the count fell out of favor with the emperor, so early years Natalya Kochubey and her family spent abroad.

After Alexander I ascended the throne, the count was able to return to court. Soon Natalya Viktorovna was promoted to maid of honor. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna wrote: “Now the time has come to talk about the Kochubey family. They were absent for several years, and only in 1818 were the Count, Countess and their beautiful daughter Natalie introduced to me in Pavlovsk.” Lyceum student Korf claims that Natalya Kochubey was “Pushkin’s first love.” Some researchers support this opinion and believe that one of his earliest poems, “Betrayal,” is dedicated to her.

During this period, many family acquaintances speak of Natalya Viktorovna with genuine admiration: “She has an elegant figure, she dances charmingly, in general, she is exactly what you need to be in order to charm. They say that she has a lively mind, and I readily believe this, since her face is very expressive and mobile.” Another contemporary said that she was “quite beautiful, full of talents and well brought up.” M. Speransky wrote: “I saw Natasha here for the first time in a French quadrille, the embodiment of grace.”

Dolly Fikelmon spoke about her like this: “Natalie Stroganova has a piquant physiognomy; definitely not being a beauty, she seems to be liked much more than many others beautiful women. The capricious expression on her face suits her very well. Her eyes are especially beautiful - they are her main beauty. At the same time, she is quite witty.”

In 1820, Natalya Kochubey married Count Stroganov. Most of his contemporaries unanimously call him a narrow-minded and mediocre person. The most merciless characterization was given to him by the historian S. Soloviev, who was the teacher of children in their family: “Alexander Grigorievich Stroganov ... served as a terrible example of what kind of people in Russia during the reign of Nicholas I could reach the highest levels of the career ladder. ... Having an extremely superficial mind, ... he would solemnly lay out some absurd thought and try to puzzle him with it, persistently supporting and arranging with other similar absurdities. At the same time, not the slightest nobility or delicacy.”

Solovyov did not spare his wife either: “The wife was even worse than her husband: with intelligence and education also superficial, with huge pretensions to both, with a complete lack of heart, selfishness incarnate, unscrupulousness of means, the ability to humiliate herself to the most indecent searches when it was considered necessary , and at the same time pride, exorbitant love of power - this is Countess Natalya Viktorovna Stroganova, nee Princess Kochubey. This couple was spoiled by the governorship. ... This superior position, this servility of the Russian provincial officials, nobility and merchants before the Governor General easily corrupted the Stroganovs.”

Many contemporaries considered their marriage unhappy - the count was not faithful to his wife, and she paid him in the same coin. Solovyov characterized the countess as “a woman without convictions and without a heart” and hinted that in St. Petersburg she led a dissolute life. Even Dantes is named among her lovers. Nevertheless, Pushkin often saw Countess Stroganova in the last decade of his life; she remained his faithful friend until her death. This salon owner was for the poet the standard of a society lady. Pushkin told Pletnev that Stroganova served him as a prototype for the image of the married Tatiana in the 8th chapter of Eugene Onegin.

P. Guber believes that it was Stroganova who became that very “hidden love” of Pushkin, for which he had unrequited feelings, but other researchers refute this statement: The history of the portrait of Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey, artist O.A. Kiprensky, 1813

Portrait of Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey 1813 artist Kiprensky Orest Adamovich

O.A. Kiprensky

Portrait of N.V. Kochubey

(1801 - 1855)

1813, Italian pencil, watercolor on paper
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Natalya Viktorovna Kochubey (1813) - daughter of V.P. Kochubey, Minister of Internal Affairs, member of the Secret Committee under Alexander I. When Kiprensky met her and wrote her, Natalya was still a teenager. Natalya was 13 years old.

Let's look at a piece of paper, yellowed by time, with faded colors - and it's as if a living current of life will pierce us. In these lungs. in slightly careless strokes sparkling gaiety and freedom, clarity and open-mindedness of the view.

The girl does not pose; it is as if any desire to take a frozen pose is unnatural to her lively, moving nature. How simply and naturally her head is turned - apparently she is addressing one of her interlocutors; there is dissatisfaction in her gaze, the dissatisfaction of a teenager who does not yet know how to hide her momentary feelings and impulses.

While Pushkin was studying at the Lyceum, her family spent the summer in Tsarskoe Selo. It is known that N.V. Kochubey visited the Lyceum, where Pushkin saw her. He dedicated “Betrayal” and his other poems to her.

TREATY
"It's all over!
It rushed past
Love time.
Passion of torment!
In the darkness of oblivion
You disappeared. ....."

Pushkin was attracted to her, but after the lyceum years they did not meet often

Natalya Kochubey
The famous Pushkinist Evgeny Ryabtsev in his book “113 beauties of Pushkin: unknown facts personal life of the poet" believes that the first serious romantic passion in the life of young Alexander was the proud secular beauty Natalya Kochubey. Many Pushkin scholars consider her the poet's "hidden love", encrypted in his "Don Juan" list under the initials N N. Apparently, the poet was passionately in love with a young charmer and was very worried when in 1818 she married Count Stroganov, a representative of one of the most influential and richest families Russian Empire. Natalya Kochubey caused Pushkin a strong, passionate love, but she herself remained cold and indifferent. She didn't even flirt with him, she simply rejected his feelings. According to Evgeny Ryabtsev, Pushkin's poems are connected with memories of Natalya Kochubey " Prisoner of the Caucasus", "Poltava" and "Bakhchisarai Fountain", some stanzas of the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin".

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