"Pushkin's Angel" is about the introduction that the respondent saw in "Manyou" by chance when he was still in junior high school, and he was moved by this romantic story based on real historical events and never forgot it for many years.
In recent times, out of commemoration of the girlish feelings of more than ten years ago, coupled with the reverence for a generation of literary giants Pushkin, I have purchased a full set of "Pushkin's Angels" (rumored to be out of stock!). ）
He became fascinated by Pushkin and his work, as well as the poet's emotional world.
Regrettably, due to its age. The truth of history has been deeply buried in the dust of time by the whitewashing or distortion of later generations, and Pushkin and his wife, including his two aunts and lovers, have become little girls dressed up. People in Russia still have different opinions about the truth of Pushkin's history, and it is even more difficult for overseas readers to glimpse the true story of what happened.
Saito Chiho created this work with her imagination after conducting an in-depth historical investigation. Its drawing and text appeal are excellent.
It was precisely because of the comic strip "Pushkin's Angels" that I, a reader who originally knew only his name and talent, began to pay attention to the life and works of this "Sun of Russian Poetry", such as Yevgeny Onegin, Pushkin's Poems, and The Queen of Spades.
The private morality of these historically human characters can no longer be examined. For example, Pushkin's wife Natalia Gonzaloeva Pushkina has been given a bad reputation as a watery poplar, and there are rumors that she is innocent and slandered, and there are many letters from that year indicating that she and Pushkin have a good relationship. Unfortunately, there is no reliable evidence to prove all this now, and the private morality of the Pushkins is difficult to define, and both sides may have unspeakable grievances. Let's blur the real history and look at the Pushkins and the stories around them in a literary light.
This testimonial only pays tribute to Pushkin's outstanding contribution to the world literary scene and to Ms. Chiho Saito.
<h2 class="Editable-styled" >. Alexander P. Sergeyevich Pushkin</h2>
(June 6, 1799 – February 10, 1837) was a famous Russian writer who is considered by many to be The Greatest Russian Poet and The Founder of Modern Russian Literature. The main representative of Russian Romantic literature in the 19th century. He is known as the "father of Russian literature". His works are literary reactions to the rise of national consciousness in Russia and the aristocratic revolutionary movement. His representative works include poems such as "Ode to Freedom", "To the Sea", "To Chadayev", "If Life Deceives You", poetic novels such as "Evgeny Onegin", novels "Captain's Daughter", "Queen of Spades" and so on.
A real portrait of Pushkin in history
The image of Pushkin in "Pushkin's Angel"
Although Pushkin's Angel is a girl's comic, it can be regarded as a boudoir reading. However, the author's in-depth study of history and the mastery of relevant historical materials are admirable. Saito Chiho's portrayal of Alexander Pushkin's sadness at the time of his death really touched my heart, and the moment the "sun of Russian poetry" fell, the reader could not help but burst into tears.
Alexander Pushkin is my favorite character in this work.
Although Pushkin has many qualities that make me feel headaches, his charm is unparalleled.
Historically, we know that Pushkin's contribution to Russian Chinese literature is unparalleled, and his creation laid the foundation for modern Russian literature and heralded its golden age. This is well demonstrated in the comics of pushkin's poetry by the Russian high society.
A wanton poet is always ungrounded and floating in the sky. There is such a poet who is full of brilliant love and moving poems, whose pockets are destitute, whose relationships between men and women are too romantic, who are against the Tsar everywhere, and who are often checked for water meters, not only Natalia, I am afraid that any woman who wants to live a steady and stable life cannot stand it. What's more, although Pushkin is a world literary giant in poetry and novels, for Natalia, who has no interest in romantic poetry, Pushkin's charm in his eyes is probably far less than that of his two aunts who like to read poetry.
Pushkin himself was affectionate, and according to legend, he had an affair with Natalia's two sisters (not in the comics), but it is accepted in history and comics that Pushkin could not stand his beautiful wife being pursued by other men. This is reflected in the comics, from his frequent requests to duel with every man who chats with his wife, to his meticulous consideration for his wife, showing his sincerity about Natalia's love.
To be honest, I have a little difficulty understanding pushkin's love.
Before Natalia married Pushkin, the genius poet who had already swept the whole of Russia had not read a single draft of poetry, which was not as good as those of us who had at least read "If Life Deceives You" in the language textbook at least in junior high school. Natalia speaks French, dances well, and rides horses, but her indifference to literature and poetry is hard to compliment.
There is no common language – which is a big hidden danger in couples.
However, Pushkin, who was mesmerized by Natalia for an encounter at a ball, apparently saw the muse on the outside, and blind love made him pursue Natalia madly. The poet's romance and true feelings easily impress the young girl of Huaichun, and Natalia, who is destitute but strong in the façade, finally marries Pushkin, who is also poor but sincere. It's just that sixteen-year-old Natalia has no love experience, and she prematurely took on the shackles of marriage. For her, Pushkin was good in every way, except for the overly romantic affair and the poetry she did not understand, the two got along relatively well.
Natalia would feel that Pushkin was a good person and considerate of herself. But she never fell in love with each other from the bottom of her heart, although she had long since become a source of inspiration for Pushkin's writing.
Yet, in Natalia's own words, Pushkin decorated her beautifully with her imagination, and that was not her true self.
Natalia's charm did make Pushkin's literary thoughts well, and romantic and immortal poems such as "The Captives of the Caucasus" were written when he was in love with Natalia. In the end, Pushkin took Natalia's marriage proposal letter and bathed in the morning sun, and the joyful smile and excited movements made me, a reader outside the book, feel the warmth of Pushkin's love, although he had many lovers, but there was no doubt that he was the most sincere to Natalia.
A romantic poet like Pushkin, whose love was pure and sincere enough to make Natalia unforgettable. Although Natalia herself had no feelings of love for Pushkin, at the time of her death, Natalia was greatly stimulated to faint and burst into tears. This reflects from the side that Pushkin's sincerity and warmth have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After marriage, Pushkin was troubled by his poetry manuscripts being checked by the water meter, and the constraints of life also made this poet who was full of calligraphy, painting, painting, chess, poetry, and hops, start to have headaches for chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea. Money, money, money... Even people like Pushkin had to be overwhelmed by the lack of money. But he still wrote tenaciously, and famous works such as "The Bronze Knight" were soon released. At this time, the evil star prophesied by the witch was already approaching Natalia.
Pushkin had seen Dantes and Natalia getting closer, and the rules of Nineteenth-century Russian high society allowed Pushkin to turn a blind eye to flirting with his wife.
But Pushkin burst into tears when he discovered that Natalia was also in love with Dentist.
At this moment, I felt once again that his love for Natalia was genuine. Pushkin even saw the ghost of his mother in this despair, and I knew at that moment that his spirit was dying. Under this blow, he once again wrote amazing poems. As some of Pushkin's around the comics commented, difficult and difficult circumstances often breed great works.
Love and psalms are all pushkin's, love is gone, only poetry can give him final comfort.
<h2 class="Editable-styled" > II. Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova</h2>
Natalia in history
Natalia in Saito Chiho's pen
It is not difficult to see from the details in the manga that Saito Chiho consulted a large number of historical materials, referring to many historical portraits of Pushkin, Natalia, and Dantes.
Natalia is said to be the most controversial woman in Russian history, and her husband Pushkin's influence on the Russian people is probably unimaginable to us, foreign readers.
The historical Natalia, buried in the St. Petersburg Cemetery of Fame at the time of her death, reads: Natalia Nikolayevna Lanskaya (i.e. Mrs. General Lanskoy), born in Moscow on August 27, 1812, died in St. Petersburg on November 26, 1863.
However, the world never relied on General Lanskoy's wife, and people only remembered that Natalia was once Lady Pushkin.
Pushkin spent not long with Natalia in her life, but it permeated her entire life.
As an admirer of Pushkin, I didn't like Natalia very much, and even felt disgusted that she was a curse, which led to the premature departure of her genius poet husband and became a great regret in the world literary scene.
As a woman, I can understand her and even sympathize with her. It's just that I can't respect her. There is not much respect in this delicate flower that makes me feel respectful.
In the tragedy of her and Pushkin's love, I can feel Natalia's misfortune deeply, and it is understandable that she later fell in love with Dantes. After all, Pushkin is also to blame.
But I can't blame Natalia, she's too young and a kind person. Maybe every tragic character in this comic didn't want to hurt anyone, but the result is that everyone is hurt. It is precisely because of Natalia's innocence and being used as a game chip to get married prematurely, which led to the occurrence of this extramarital affair.
Pushkin's mercurial nature doomed him to an ordinary and uneventful family life, and Natalia's traditional female education made her equally unfit to combine with poets with such wild temperaments, and the fragile emotional bond between them was destined to withstand the powerful impact of the windy era on the couple's feelings.
The manga depicts a legend about the Pushkins: at the wedding, the ring fell off and the candles went out, and the German female fortune teller A. F. Kkhgov's prophecy about Pushkin's fate to eventually die in a duel. Once again, I would like to pay tribute to Ms. Chiho Saito, who is working hard to consult historical materials.
Pushkin was very fond of Natalia and wrote countless popular romantic poems for this beautiful woman who did not know poetry. From pushkin's death to the present, people have been quite critical of Natalia. Still, on her deathbed, Pushkin claimed that Natalia was not responsible for the duel and that she was innocent.
From a comic point of view, it's hard to say if Natalia is innocent. Every step she took was irreversible, and she certainly didn't want Pushkin to duel for herself and die because of it, except that Natalia was a weak woman and could not change anything.
I don't have any good feelings for this beautiful woman with beautiful appearance and poor heart, but I don't have any ill feelings either. She was so weak, like a flower in a flower room, that she didn't even have the commonly considered bad woman, Italia Borecica, whom I liked. It's just that in the eyes of men, women like Natalia are the girls who set off their manhood. As for the conspiratorial woman like Italia, she is the type that all men are afraid of.
But Pushkin loved Natalia.
Your beauty is supreme, and I love your heart more than your beauty. My ten million wishes have been fulfilled. ”
She made Pushkin happy, and for this reason all those who love and worship the poet owe a debt of gratitude to Natalia.
Natalia and Dantes' love is basically due to chemistry, and handsome men and beautiful women always seem to be a match made in heaven on the surface. It is said that historically Natalia had blatantly flirted with Dantes to stimulate Pushkin. Of course, as a wife who has long endured the romance of her husband, there is nothing wrong with doing so, gossip hurting Pushkin, hurting Yekatilina (Natalia's eldest sister, Dantes' fiancée), but also hurting Natalia herself.
Natalia's empathy is understandable, but she doesn't want to leave Pushkin. She even wished she could grow old with Pushkin normally, but her actions made it all the more impossible.
Naïve girls, young lovers, but unable to bear the enormous price.
Natalia may have realized before Pushkin's death that she loved her husband, but it was too late. She finally realized that she had killed her husband, but the tears of remorse could not be recovered.
< h2 class="Editable-styled" > III. George Dantes</h2>
Dantes in history
Dantes in the comics
The heroine of Pushkin's narrative poem "Evgeny Onegin" replied to Daziana's courtship to her former crush Onekin after marrying a woman:
I love you and why should I tell you a lie, but I have married another person, and I will always be loyal to him
I have no doubt that Natalia's love for Dantes is genuine, and she doesn't want to hurt Pushkin either, but she still does.
Natalia is not Pushkin's Daziana, and reality is always not as beautiful as the literature describes. Such an ending, it is lamentable.
I have to admit that Saito Chiho's Danteshi is too easy to make women move. Handsome and charming, romantic, like a beautiful teenager like an ancient Greek sculpture, he has a face that Gu Ying Narcissus can fall in love with. From my personal point of view, Dantes is indeed more able to impress women's hearts than Pushkin, that from the exuberant feelings, the untamed temperament, coupled with his sincere feelings for Natalia, in addition to not being able to write the moving chapters of butterflies like Pushkin, it is really romantic enough. It was a very normal thing for Natalia, who had been troubled by the life of a couple without a common language, to fall in love with him.
It's just that the dazzle is the dazzle. As my initial enthusiasm cooled, I found that I still liked the deep-writing poet Pushkin, rather than the frivolous Dantes who would please women.
It's just that Natalia doesn't see it that way, after all, she has no interest in poetry and literature.
If Natalia had married later, she would not have been with Pushkin for eternity, but for her personally, she might have been happier. It was just that Pushkin's death from the duel hit her too hard, so after Pushkin's death she was widowed for a long time and did not go out on Fridays (Pushkin died on Friday). Much later she remarried, but not to the widowed Dantes who killed Pushkin.
The real story is more like a play, a dream, a long poem written by Pushkin himself.
The historical George Dantes was originally a Prussian non-commissioned officer, but later came to Russia with a letter of recommendation from a powerful man. He was recognized as an adopted son by Hekron, the Dutch minister in Russia, when Deutsch's father was still alive, so this act of adopting a son caused a lot of gossip. Some suspected that Dantes was Hekron's illegitimate son, and others who published a collection of their correspondence believed that the two were gay. These rumors from two centuries ago were artistically processed by Ms. Saito Chiho and are truly reproduced in front of the reader.
The love between Dantes and Natalia in the comics has a clichéd beginning, that is, at the beginning, the two people do not look at each other well. However, the handsome Dantes soon won the favor of Natalia's eldest sister, Ekatilina, who was a female court official. Out of the love of her sister, Natalia began to contact Dantes, but things always followed a routine, and in the end, Natalia herself and Dantes came together.
At first, I just thought Dantes was a prodigal son who was very pleasing to women. Revel in the pursuit of a married woman, especially the beautiful woman Natalia who still has the resounding title of 'Lady Pushkin'. What can he love about this beautiful woman? Can they build a bridge of hearts between them?
Between them, it should be just a romantic experience in romanticism. It wasn't until Dantas offered Natalia to elope with her that I finally realized that he was really in the relationship.
Historically, dueling has been strictly forbidden since the time of Peter the Great, and violators have been punished with capital punishment. However, this method is still widely used among young people to resolve grievances. According to Pushkin's research experts, his duel with Dantes was the 21st (Pushkin had proposed 15 duels, and the other side had proposed 6 times). It was carried out 4 times, and the rest were mediated by Pushkin's friends to reconcile the two sides)
Ms. Saito recreates historical truths such as Hekron's anonymous green hat letter to Pushkin, the Tsar's obstruction of the first duel, and Pushkin's friend and even Natalia's aunt coming forward to dissuade the duel. In the end, dantes proposed to Ekatilina on the condition that the duel had to be aborted.
However, Dantes did not love Ekatilina at all, and he only had Lady Pushkin in his heart. At the wedding he was so drunk that he left his sad bride aside. A temporary expediency always fails to solve the underlying problem, and It is a fateful trajectory that Dantes and Pushkin must eventually draw their guns against each other.
Pushkin wrote a sharp letter to Hecklan forcing the other side to accept the duel, and Dantes finally stood against Pushkin with a near mental breakdown.
Sadly, the future of Dantes after Pushkin's death also collapsed. His beloved Natalia didn't end up marrying him either.
Many years later, Dantes and Natalia met in the woods, and time passed, and many things were no longer what they used to be. They can only talk like familiar old friends about people who have passed away, about children, and their once unforgettable love can only be hidden in the depths of each other's memories.
<h2 class= "Editable-styled" > IV, Yekatilina Gonzaloeva and Aleksandra Gonzalova</h2>
Ekatilina's life was filled with heartbreaking tragedies.
Born tall and thin, she was described by her mother as "looking like a broom handle" and grew up in a destitute and declining family. Twenty-five years old is also not cared about. In fact, Ekatilina looks ok, but she is eclipsed by the radiant Natalia compared to her. The poverty of her family made it difficult for her to marry, and Natalia, who was most likely to marry, was once trapped in the dilemma of no one proposing because of poverty and inability to get a dowry.
Natalia's embarrassment to her mediocre two older sisters can be imagined.
However, the biggest difference between Ekatilina and AlexAndra and Natalia is that they love poetry and literature and worship Pushkin and his works.
Ekatilina loved the poet Lenski in Yevgenyn, the poet who died in a duel, the shadow of Pushkin in that scroll. But in reality, she was tragically in love with George Dantes.
As a polished light bulb, Ekatilina silently endured the eyebrows of Dantes and Natalia beside her. Dantes danced with Natalia without anyone else, deliberately sitting on gossip and gossip, and she also endured. Most frighteningly, Dantes told Ekatilina that he thanked her because Ekatilina's presence made people chew less on their own personal affairs with Lady Pushkin. Such an unacceptable remark, Yekatilina actually endured.
Perhaps she loved Dantes so much, and so much so much that she loved her sister Natalia, that she was silent again at the discussion and the dysfunctional performance of Dantes at her wedding.
It was only when the three of them were swinging on the river together that Ekatilina could not hold on any longer, and she finally offered to go ashore alone.
After Pushkin's death, Ekatilina went to France with Dantes, where she had four children and died in childbirth. After her death, her husband still loved her sister, and Ekatilina sacrificed her lifelong happiness in order to mediate for the benefit of all.
Her noble qualities won her kindness from Dantes and Hexran, but she never won the love of her husband. Ekatilina's own qualities determine that she will not quarrel with her sister, and Ekatilina, who has taken care of the overall situation all her life, cannot win the forgiveness of her family. They hated her, hated her for being the wife of Pushkin's killer.
Ekatilina is really the most tragic character in the entire Pushkin Angel. And her greatest tragedy is that until her death, all the characters in the comics and me as a reader believed that Ekatilina was far from worthy of George Dantes.
Let's talk about Natalia's second sister, AlexAndra.
Aleksandra is probably the woman who loves Pushkin the most in the comics, and she even admires Pushkin more than her sister Ekatilina, and even memorizes the poems of Evgeny Onegin every time she serializes them. She was catchy in every poem by Pushkin, and after Pushkin's death, she unabashedly expressed her disgust for George Dantes.
In fact, it is not difficult to see that this old girl has long been in love with Pushkin, which is very different from her sister Natalia.
It's just that Alex Sandra, who was "as short as bread" in her mother's eyes, never opened her mouth, and she didn't hurt anyone. Until Natalia realized that Alexandra loved her husband deeply, she couldn't help but cry of grief.
At this moment, as a reader, I grieve with Natalia, and feel sad for all the tragedies of all people.
Alexandra's spiritual support for Pushkin was much greater than Thatalia's. Perhaps Alexandra is more suitable to be Pushkin's wife, but she is too grounded in relation to her sister and does not conform to the romantic and beautiful imagination of poets and readers.
Aleksandra, like her sister Ekatilina, is silent about her sister gaining the love of her sweetheart. Sisterhood and good upbringing made Alexandra choose to be patient and give up, until Pushkin's death when he evaluated Aleksandra euphemistically told her that he did not like her character.
All this, AlexAndra endured in silence. Later, when she became a female court official, she did not marry until she was forty-one years old, and Pushkin became a memory of love buried deep in her heart.
Saito Chie uses such an artistic technique to show the private affair between Pushkin and his two aunts in history, although it can be said that it is somewhat beautified, but who will know the truth whether it is really so helpless?
Knowing that his home and his life have all become chaotic, and they have been beaten to the miserable state of not being able to get up, why does the poet still write about the touching world? He must have believed it from the bottom of his heart! The more tragic the reality, the more you believe that your world is good—otherwise, you would not be able to write such a work. ———— excerpt from pushkin's angel in Russian Tsar Nicholas I's evaluation of Pushkin
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