The greatest Russian poet Alexander Pushkin lived an interesting and eventful life, writing many brilliant poems, stories and poems. At all times, Pushkin had a huge number of admirers of his talent, but few of them today know where this great man and amazing poet actually found his last refuge.
Pushkin's creative activity
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on May 26, 1799 in the Moscow landowner's family of a retired major. One of the great-grandfathers of the poet's father was a black Abyssinian Hannibal, from whom Alexander received curly hair and slightly atypical facial features for Russians. Having entered the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, young Pushkin successfully graduated from it and after graduation went to public service.
Little Alexander Pushkin wrote his first verse at the age of twelve, and since then has never stopped creating, surprising those around him with his imagination and talent.
The stumbling block in the fate of Pushkin was his scandalous poems, in which the rebel poet allowed himself to criticize the activities of important ruling officials. The figures condemned by the poet immediately and cruelly took revenge on him, exiling Alexander to the south of Russia. Six long years later, the poet was returned from exile by Tsar Nicholas I, thanks to whom Pushkin's talent was finally recognized in Russia, they stopped persecuting the disgraced rebel and showered him with all kinds of honors.
Throughout his life, Alexander conducted historical research that helped him write his literary works. In addition, the poet, on his own initiative, founded the then popular literary magazine called Sovremennik.
The last refuge of the poet
After the death of Alexander Pushkin on January 29, 1837, he was buried in the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands. The funeral cortege with the coffin in which the great poet rested was sent from St. Petersburg to the Pskov province, accompanied by a gendarme officer and Alexander Turgenev. Pushkin's remains were buried not far from his family estate in the village of Mikhailovskoye, on the territory of the Svyatogorsk monastery.
Pushkin could not stand the Petersburg cemeteries, contemptuously calling them a swamp and feeling the deepest disgust for them.
So, the greatest poet of the Russian land found peace in the Svyatogorsk monastery, where he had previously buried his mother, Pushkina Nadezhda Osipovna, who dearly loved her native places that reminded her of her son. After his mother's funeral, Alexander bought himself a place in the cemetery next to her grave in advance, wishing, at least after death, not to part with his beloved mother. In addition, the poet wanted to rest in the vicinity of the lands that belonged to his maternal relatives - the Hannibals.
