Аннотация: The Dialogue on the philosopher Ivan Gagarin
The Dialogue on the philosopher Ivan Gagarin
The student of the Literary institute to the writer Yury Valentinovich Trifonov comes. And says:
- At me to you, Yury Valentinovich, two questions.
The first. Your opinion on the book by Pavel Eliseevich Shchegolev "Duel and Pushkin's death"?
The second. I have met such phrase of one of characters in your novella "The Preliminary Outcomes": "I love foolish couplets like this, but this is my old one: "He has in gang a some post, sends a parcel post"". What did you mean, Yury Valentinovich?
Yuri Trifonov was astonished. He looked at the student in surprise:
- What for a foolish couplets? What for a post? What for a parcel post?
Student was confused.
Yury Trifonov felt that awkwardness turns out, and continued:
- What do You think about Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev?
The student was even more embarrassed.
Yuri Trifonov explains:
- Chaadayev is a historical figure.
I read the book by Pavel E. Shchegolev "Duel and Pushkin's death" now. Such episode is mentioned in this book: "The philosophic letter" by Pyotr Chaadayev has been printed in No. 15 of "The Telescope" for 1836. The letter has been written in French. In "The Telescope" his translation with some reductions has appeared. Besides, 25 separate stamps of article under the name "Philosophic letters to the Mrs. *** ("To E.D. Panova") Letter 1" have been printed. Pushkin has received one of these prints from Chaadayev through I.S. Gagarin. Chaadayev has been declared in connection of this publication a madman, "The Telescope" was forbidden, the editor his N.I. Nadezhdin was sent out from Moscow".
According to one of the biographies of Pyotr Chaadayev, "psychotherapy" happened in November 1836.
So has developed ... They "worked" in the mode "non-stop"...
- Ivan Gagarin was suspected, it seems, in a drawing up an anonymous pasquil addressed to A. S. Pushkin? - the student joined the dialogue.
- Pavel Shchegolev neutralized the suspicions in the production of anonymous libel, suspicions, addressed to Ivan Gagarin, - said Trifonov.
- Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin in 1831 entered the Main Archive of Foreign Affairs, where he served under the command of a prominent cultural figure A. F. Malinovsky. Remember: "Archived young men..."? On September 1, 1832, having passed the exam at the University, he was promoted to actuaries, and the following year, on may 4, he was assigned to the mission in Munich, where his uncle, prince Grigory Ivanovich, was envoy. In Munich, he became close to Fyodor Tyutchev. Ivan Gagarin many and persistently engaged in self-education. In January 1836, Gagarin was summoned to St. Petersburg. He was was promoted to rank of gentlman of chamber and temporarily assigned to the office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs. It was through him that the poems of F. I. Tyutchev got into the "Contemporary", - the student began to recall the biography of Ivan Gagarin from the Russian biographical dictionary.
- "Archival young man", university exam, the actuary... Assigned to the mission in Munich, summoned to St. Petersburg?.. Probably not the worst career, but also not the most outstanding ...
The question, about a person, who wrote the so-called "Diploma of the cuckold" with an own hand and who has sent it to Pushkin and his acquaintances, remained a long time obscure. With the greatest persistence the rumor called three a name: prince I.S. Gagarin, prince P.V. Dolgorukov and count S.S. Uvarov.
As Pavel Shchegolev writes, charges to the prince Ivan Gagarin and to the prince Pyotr Dolgorukov have been announced in the press for the first time in 1863 in the brochure by (with the indication of authorship of) A.N. Ammosov "A.S. Pushkin's the last days of life and his the death".
The self-justification of the prince Ivan Gagarin has appeared in No. 154 of "Exchange sheets" for 1865 ...
Ivan Gagarin wrote: "While all this story which has come to an end in Pushkin's death, I was in St. Petersburg. I lived in a circle to which both Pushkin, and d"Anthes belonged. And I with them almost daily had an opportunity to communicate. With Pushkin I was in the good intercourses; I highly appreciated his ingenious talent and to him had no reason of hostility. Circumstances which have given a reason for anonymous letters occurred under my eyes, but I in no way to them haven't been interconnected. I didn't know about letters and about them I had no information... At that time I lived on one apartment with prince P. V. D. [Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov] on the Million street. With D. [Dolgorukov] I also from the most juvenile age was sign. ... One morning, in office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I have heard from the count D. K. N. [Dmitry Karlovich Nesselrode; the son of the minister] that that Pushkin fought with d"Anthes the day before and that he was seriously wounded...".
At the beginning of November, 1836 the lampoon - "The Diploma of the cuckold" has been dispatched.
At the beginning of 1837 the tragic duel of A.S. Pushkin has taken place.
In 1838 the prince Ivan Gagarin was transferred to Paris. In the Russian biographic dictionary there is such phrase: " After the death of the uncle I. S. has been transferred, on April 13, 1838, by the junior secretary to Paris". (The uncle has died after a while, in several days after day of death of A.S. Pushkin, in February, 1837).
So, it seems, all is good. The uncle-envoy has died (an event tragic), but the career has gone for rise! Paris!
"... On April 9, 1838 Turgenev wrote Vyazemsky again: "I often meet with prince Ivan Gagarin here. He has got to the first-class fashionables [fashionable circle] and has to that full right: rich, clever, kind and curious"".
Gagarin's life in Paris was interrupting by travels across Germany, Belgium, Holland, England.
But some thoughts developed in consciousness of the prince I.S. Gagarin. It seems, and prospects quite good ... But, probably, these prospects, or something else, didn't him suit.
In 1842 unexpectedly for all Gagarin has passed into Catholicism, and in a year has entered an award of Jesuits.
A fundamental changes in life! Became a Catholic priest. Communications with Russia, with the Russian government, naturally, were reduced to a minimum. In the "self-justification" (publication: 1863, on August 1) - in the answer to the brochure by Ammosov "Last days of life and A.S. Pushkin's death" - the Moscow friend of Gagarin, Pyotr Dolgorukov, writes about Gagarin, as about "nowadays being in Beirut, in Syria".
Gagarin's "career" hasn't stopped. But she has begun to develop on absolutely other trajectory.
The prince Gagarin became the philosopher and the writer. "Having passed into Catholicism, Gagarin has put forward a thought of connection of East and Western churches which he carried out in his books ("La Russie sera-t-elle catholique?" (Paris, 1856)" is most known)" ["Russia whether there will be she Catholic?"].
- And what? Hasn't disappeared the interest of Ivan Gagarin in the Chaadayev's creativity? - the student has become interested.
- Wikipedia speaks about "The foreign edition of the chosen compositions by Chaadayev undertaken in 1862 in Paris in French by Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin".
- Therefore, he became not only the philosopher and the writer, but also the publisher, the editor? - the student has continued reasonings.
- Thanks for a visit. I wish successful studying of history of the Russian and world literature, - Yury Trifonov has smiled.
The student thanked Yury Trifonov for the conversation and the expressed opinions. The student has gone to institute.
August 27, 2018 - August 28, 2018.
Translation from Russian into English: September 7, 2018 17:10.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Диалог о философе И.С. Гагарине".