Konstantin Batyushkov was born at a time when Russia was experiencing an unprecedented rise: political thought was revived, the position of the empire in the international arena was strengthened, voices were louder and louder, demanding enlightenment and reforms in all spheres of life, which the government did not suppress with the powerful weight of censorship.
Years of life
Batyushkov lived long life– from 1787 to 1855 But only the first part of it turned out to be happy: the childhood and youth of the young nobleman were marked by the love and care of loved ones, who recognized his poetic talent early on. Born in Vologda, the scion of an enlightened noble family received excellent education in several private boarding houses in St. Petersburg. He easily mastered several foreign languages.
Next came the diplomatic service. Batyushkov dedicated his fifth year to work in the Ministry public education. In 1807, he felt a craving for a uniform - and joined the people's militia. Participated in the Prussian campaign.
Afterwards he returned to peaceful life, in St. Petersburg he made close acquaintance with the flower of the then enlightened society - with Vyazemsky, Karamzin, joined the ranks of the members of Arzamas, where a little later the young lyceum student came. From now on, Batyushkov devotes most of his time to literary creativity. His poems are light and airy - contemporaries even considered them the forerunner of Pushkin's poetry and they were right: Pushkin initially studied with Batyushkov, adopting the simplicity of the syllables and the clarity of the rhythms.
Batyushkov became one of the first to discern in the boy Pushkin the future “sun of Russian poetry.” In 1815, he, a brilliant officer who had been in battles, visited Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum- specifically with the goal of inspiring Alexander to active occupation literature. One can imagine the delight and admiration of 15-16 year old boys when they received a warrior who took part in foreign campaigns against Napoleon himself!
Afterwards, Batyushkov goes on duty to Italy. Life promised magnificent prospects. But illness struck. The poet's mental health began to deteriorate. He went crazy and spent all his remaining years with his relatives. During periods of enlightenment, he himself said bitterly: “I am like a man carrying a beautiful jug, but it broke. Now go and guess what was in it..."
In 1830, the terminally ill Batyushkov was visited by Pushkin. The sight shocked him so much that soon a poem full of pain was born, “God forbid I go crazy...”.
Poetry
Batyushkov’s work can be roughly divided into 2 stages. The first is the “pre-war” period: then the young man was interested exclusively in the mythical beauties Liley and Dorida, to whom he dedicated light, airy lines full of patterned beauty.
At the same time, the poet himself never loved with a real, “earthly” feeling: it was as if he was afraid of the love fire that could scorch his beloved woman. But his poems are impeccable: Pushkin spoke of them with sincere admiration and reverence, not only in his youth, but also in his mature years. We can say that Batyushkov marked the beginning of language reforms, continued by Pushkin: he removed everything heavy, complex, filled with “evil wisdom.”
The second stage is after 1813-1814. Here other motives are woven into creativity: Batyushkov visited several wars, he saw pain, blood and death up close. He himself said to one of his friends who wanted to know whether the poet had come from the pen of some new dedication to Chloe or Lilete: “How can I, after what I saw, write about love?”
Batyushkov cherished many creative ideas. Probably, volumes of his poems today would stand on the shelves of bookcases in every home if his illness had not struck him down. His talent did not have time to fully mature. But we are grateful to the poet for the images of his charming Dorids and, of course, to Pushkin, for whom Batyushkov became one of the guides who showed the Arzamas “Cricket” the way to the top of literary Olympus.
Batyushkov Konstantin Nikolaevich (1787 - 1855), poet.
Born on May 18 (29 NS) in Vologda into a noble noble family. His childhood years were spent on the family estate - the village of Danilovskoye, Tver province. Home education was supervised by his grandfather, the leader of the nobility of the Ustyuzhensky district.
From the age of ten, Batyushkov studied in St. Petersburg in private foreign boarding schools and spoke many foreign languages.
From 1802 he lived in St. Petersburg in the house of his relative M. Muravyov, a writer and educator, who played decisive role in the formation of the poet’s personality and talent. He studies philosophy and literature French Enlightenment, ancient poetry, literature Italian Renaissance. For five years he served as an official in the Ministry of Public Education.
In 1805 he made his debut in print with satirical poems “Message to My Poems.” During this period, he wrote poems mainly of the satirical genre ("Message to Chloe", "To Phyllis", epigrams).
In 1807 he enlisted in the people's militia and, as the commander of a hundred-man militia battalion, went on the Prussian campaign. In the battle of Heilsberg he was seriously wounded, but remained in the army and in 1808 - 09 participated in the war with Sweden. After retiring, he devoted himself entirely to literary creativity.
The satire "Vision on the Shores of Lethe", written in the summer of 1809, marks the beginning mature stage Batyushkov's creativity, although it was published only in 1841.
In 1810 - 12 he actively collaborated in the journal "Bulletin of Europe", became close to Karamzin, Zhukovsky, Vyazemsky and other writers. His poems “The Merry Hour”, “The Happy One”, “The Source”, “My Penates”, etc. appear.
During the War of 1812, Batyushkov, who did not join the active army due to illness, experienced “all the horrors of war,” “poverty, fires, hunger,” which was later reflected in the “Message to Dashkov” (1813). In 1813 - 14 participated in foreign trip Russian army against Napoleon. The impressions of the war formed the content of many poems: “The Prisoner”, “The Fate of Odysseus”, “Crossing the Rhine”, etc.
In 1814 - 17 Batyushkov traveled a lot, rarely staying in one place for more than six months. Going through a tough one spiritual crisis: disappointment in the ideas of educational philosophy. Religious sentiments are growing. His poetry is painted in sad and tragic tones: the elegy “Separation”, “Shadow of a Friend”, “Awakening”, “My Genius”, “Tavrida”, etc. In 1817 the collection “Experiments in Poems and Prose” was published, which included translations , articles, essays and poems.
Biography
Batyushkov, Konstantin Nikolaevich, famous poet. Born on May 18, 1787 in Vologda, he came from an old, but humble and not particularly rich noble family. His great-uncle was mentally ill, his father was an unbalanced, suspicious and difficult person, and his mother (nee Berdyaeva) soon after the birth of the future poet went crazy and was separated from her family; Thus, B. had a predisposition to psychosis in his blood. B. spent his childhood in the family village of Danilovskoye, Bezhetsk district, Novgorod province. At the age of ten he was assigned to the St. Petersburg French boarding house Jacquinot, where he spent four years, and then studied at the Tripoli boarding school for two years. Here he received the most basic general scientific information. practical knowledge French, German and Italian language; much the best school for him was the family of his cousin, Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov, a writer and statesman, who directed his literary interest towards classical fiction. A passive, apolitical nature, B. had an aesthetic attitude towards life and literature. The circle of youth with whom he became friends upon joining the service (under the management of the Ministry of Public Education, 1802) and in social life, was also alien to political interests, and B.’s first works breathe selfless epicureanism. B. became especially friendly with Gnedich, visited the intelligent and hospitable house of A. N. Olenin, who then played the role of literary salon, N.M. Karamzin, became close to Zhukovsky. Under the influence of this circle, B. took part in literary war between the Shishkovists and the “Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science and the Arts,” to which B.’s friends belonged. The general patriotic movement that arose after the Battle of Austerlitz, where Russia suffered brutal defeat, carried away B., and in 1807, when the second war with Napoleon began, he joined military service, participated in the Prussian campaign and on May 29, 1807 was wounded near Heilsberg. His first love interest dates back to this time (to the Riga German woman Mugel, the daughter of the owner of the house where the wounded poet was placed). In this hobby (it was reflected in the poems “Recovery” and “Memory”, 1807), the poet showed more sensitivity than feelings; then his leader Muravyov died; both events left a painful mark on his soul. He fell ill. After being ill for several months , B. returned to military service, participated in Swedish war, was on a Finnish campaign; in 1810 he settled in Moscow and became close to Prince P. A. Vyazemsky, I. M. Muravyov-Apostol, V. L. Pushkin. “Here,” says L. Maikov, “his literary opinions became stronger, and his view of the relationship of the literary parties of that time to the main tasks and needs of Russian education was established; here B.’s talent met with sympathetic appreciation.” Among talented friends and sometimes “beauties of note,” the poet spent the best two years of his life here. Returning to St. Petersburg at the beginning of 1812, B. entered the Public Library, where Krylov, Uvarov, and Gnedich then served, but the following year he again entered military service and visited Germany, France, England and Sweden. From the grandiose political lesson, which young Russia then received and, in the person of many of its gifted representatives, established a close acquaintance with Europe and its institutions, B.’s share, due to the conditions of his mental make-up, did not receive anything; he fed his soul almost exclusively with aesthetic perceptions. Returning to St. Petersburg, he learned a new passion of his heart - he fell in love with A.F. Furman, who lived with Olenin. But, due to his own indecision and passivity, the romance suddenly and pitifully ended, leaving a bitter aftertaste in his soul; To this failure was added failure in service, and B., who had already been haunted by hallucinations several years ago, finally plunged into a severe and dull apathy, intensified by his stay in a remote province - in Kamenets-Podolsk, where he had to go with his regiment. At this time (1815 - 1817) his talent flared up with particular brightness, last time before weakening and finally fading away, as he had always anticipated. In January 1816, he retired and settled in Moscow, occasionally visiting St. Petersburg, where he was admitted to literary society"Arzamas" (under the nickname "Achilles"), or to the village; in the summer of 1818 he traveled to Odessa. Needing a warm climate and dreaming of Italy, where he had been drawn since childhood, to the “spectacle of wonderful nature”, to the “miracles of the arts”, B. obtained an appointment for himself diplomatic service to Naples (1818), but served poorly, quickly experienced the first enthusiastic impressions, did not find friends whose participation was necessary for this gentle soul, and began to feel sad. In 1821, he decided to give up both service and literature and moved to Germany. Here he sketched his last poetic lines, full of bitter meaning (“Testament of Melchizedek”), a weak but desperate cry of a spirit dying in the arms of madness. In 1822 he returned to Russia. When asked by one of his friends what new he wrote, B. answered: “What should I write and what should I say about my poems? I look like a man who did not reach his goal, but he was carrying a vessel filled with something on his head. The vessel fell off the head, fell and broke into pieces. Go and find out now what was in it!” They tried to treat B., who attempted suicide several times, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus, and abroad, but the disease worsened. Mentally, B. was out of action earlier than all his peers, but physically outlived almost all of them; he died in his native Vologda on July 7, 1855. In Russian literature, with little absolute value, B. is of great importance as a forerunner of original, national creativity. He stands on the line between Derzhavin, Karamzin, Ozerov, on the one hand, and Pushkin, on the other. Pushkin called B. his teacher, and in his work, especially his youthful period, there are many traces of B.’s influence. He began his poetic activity, which ended with such a mournful chord, with anacreontic motifs: “Oh, before priceless youth rushes away like an arrow, drink from the cup full of joy”... “friends, leave the ghost of glory, love fun in your youth and sow roses along the way”... “let’s quickly fly on the path of life for happiness, let’s get drunk with voluptuousness and outstrip death, let’s pluck flowers furtively under the blade of a scythe and prolong our short life with laziness, prolong watch!" But these feelings are not everything and not the main thing in B. The essence of his work is more fully revealed in the elegies. “Towards his inner discontent,” said his biographer, “new literary trends came from the West; the type of person disillusioned with life was then taking over the minds younger generation... B., perhaps, was one of the first Russian people to taste the bitterness of disappointment; the soft, spoiled, self-loving nature of our poet, a man who lived exclusively by abstract interests, was a very susceptible soil for the corrosive influence of disappointment... This lively impressionability and gentle, almost painful sensitivity nurtured the high talent of the lyricist, and he found in himself the strength to express the deepest movements souls." In it, reflections of world grief are mixed with traces of personal difficult experiences. “Tell me, young sage, what is solid on the earth? Where is life’s constant happiness?” - asks B. (“To a Friend”, 1816): “we are wanderers for a moment, we walk over graves, we consider all days as losses... everything here is vanity in the monastery of vanities, friendship and friendship are fragile...”. He was tormented by memories of unsuccessful love: “Oh, memory of the heart, you are stronger than the mind of the sad memory” ... (“My genius”), “nothing cheers the soul, a soul alarmed by dreams, and a proud mind will not defeat love - with cold words” (“ Awakening"): "in vain did I leave the country of my fathers, friends of the soul, brilliant arts and in noise formidable battles, under the shade of the tents, tried to lull the alarmed feelings! Ah, an alien sky does not heal the wounds of the heart! In vain I wandered from one end to another, and the formidable ocean behind me murmured and worried” (“Separation”). At these moments, he was visited by self-doubt: “I feel that my gift in poetry has gone out, and the muse has extinguished the heavenly flame” (“Memoirs”). The best of all poems by B., “The Dying Tass,” also belongs to the elegies. He was always captivated by the personality of the author of “Liberated Jerusalem,” and in his own fate he found something in common with the fate of the Italian poet, into whose mouth he put a sad and proud confession: “So! I accomplished what Phoebus had appointed. From my first youth, his zealous priest, under the lightning, under the furious sky, I sang the greatness and glory of former days, and in chains my soul did not change. The sweet delight of the muses did not extinguish in my soul, and my genius strengthened in suffering... Everything earthly perishes - both glory and the crown, the creations of the arts and muses are majestic... But there everything is eternal, just as the Creator himself is eternal, who gives us the crown of immortal glory, everything is there the great thing that fed my spirit”... Russian classicism in B.’s poetry experienced a beneficial turn from an external, false direction to a healthy ancient source; in ancient times, for B. there was not dry archeology, not an arsenal of ready-made images and expressions, but a living and close to the heart area of imperishable beauty; in ancient times he loved not the historical, not the past, but the supra-historical and eternal - the anthology, Tibullus, Horace; he translated Tibullus and the Greek anthology. He is closer than all his contemporaries, even closer than Zhukovsky, in diversity lyrical motives and, especially, by the external merits of the verse, he approached Pushkin; Of all the harbingers of this greatest phenomenon of Russian literature, B. is the most immediate both in terms of internal proximity and time. “These are not yet Pushkin’s poems,” Belinsky said about one of his plays, “but after them one should have expected not some others, but Pushkin’s. Pushkin called him a happy associate of Lomonosov, who did for the Russian language the same thing that Petrarch did for Italian.” It still remains in effect best score, given by Belinsky. “Passion is the soul of B.’s poetry, and the passionate intoxication of love is its pathos... The feeling that animates B. is always organically vital... Grace is the constant companion of B.’s muse, no matter what she sings”... In prose, fictional and critical, B. showed himself, as Belinsky called him, “an excellent stylist.” He was especially interested in questions of language and style. The literary struggle is dedicated to him satirical works- “The Singer in the Conversation of the Slavic Russians”, “Vision on the Shores of Lethe”, most of epigram. B. was published in various magazines and collections, and in 1817 Gnedich published a collection of his works, “Experiments in Poems and Prose.” Then B.'s works were published in 1834 ("Works in prose and verse", published by I.I. Glazunov), in 1850 (published by A.F. Smirdin). In 1887, a monumental classical edition by L. N. Maykov was published, in three volumes, with notes by Maykov and V. I. Saitov; At the same time, L. N. Maikov released a one-volume, publicly available, affordable publication, and in 1890, a cheap edition of B.’s poems with a short introductory article (published by the editors of the “Pantheon of Literature”). L. N. Maikov owns an extensive biography of B. (1 volume, published in 1887). - Wed. A. N. Pypin “History of Russian Literature”, vol. IV; S. A. Vengerov “Critical-biographical dictionary of Russian writers and scientists,” vol. II; Y. Aikhenvald “Silhouettes of Russian Writers”, Issue I. The bibliography is listed in Vengerov - “Sources of the Dictionary of Russian Writers”, Vol. I.
The famous Russian poet Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov was born on May 18, 1787 in Vologda into a family that came from an old noble family. The poet's grandfather was mentally ill, his father was mentally unstable, and his mother lost her mind after birth and was separated from her family, which became the reason for the poet's predisposition to psychosis. The writer spent his childhood in the ancestral village of Danilovskoye, and at the age of ten, he was sent to the St. Petersburg French boarding school Jaquino. The future poet spent four years in the boarding school, after which he moved to the Tripoli boarding school, where, strictly speaking, he received basic general scientific information and practical skills in French, Italian and German languages. Interest in classical fiction instilled in the poet his cousin Muravyov Mikhail Nikitich, who was a writer and significant statesman. Batyushkov was an apolitical person with a pronounced passive nature; he approached life, as well as literature, aesthetically. In 1802, the poet entered the service of the Ministry of Public Education, where he became especially close friends with N.I. Gnedich, after which he himself began to try his hand at literature and write poetry. He also had access to the houses of A.N. Venison.
N.M. Karamzin, became close to Zhukovsky. In 1807 he entered military service, which was reflected in the poems “Recovery” and “Remembrance”.
In 1810, Batyushkov settled in Moscow and became close to Prince P.A. Vyazemsky, I.M. Muravyov-Apostol, V.L. Pushkin and spent two best of the year In my life. In 1812, the poet returned to St. Petersburg and entered the public Library, where Gnedich, Krylov, and Uvarov served. Then the writer again entered military service and visited England, France, Germany and Sweden. Returning to St. Petersburg, something new happened to him. love interest A.F. Furman, who was living with Olenin at that time, but due to his monstrous indecision, the romance soon fell apart. After a love failure and constant troubles in the service, the poet plunged into deep depression and was haunted by hallucinations. In 1816 he retired and settled in Moscow. Dreaming of Italy and needing a mild climate, the writer obtained diplomatic service in Naples. There he found neither friends nor peace of mind, the poet moved to Germany, where he sketched his last poetic lines, “The Testament of Melchizedek.” In 1822, Batyushkov returned to Russia and tried to commit suicide several times. Although the poet’s friends tried to treat him, the illness worsened. The poet died in Vologda in 1855.
Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov was born on May 18 (29), 1787, in Vologda. He came from an old noble family and was the fifth child in a large family.
Having lost his mother early, he soon entered one of the St. Petersburg boarding schools to study.
Konstantin did a lot of self-education. Under the influence of his uncle, M.N. Muravyov, he learned Latin and became interested in the works of Horace and Tibullus.
On duty
In 1802, the young man, under the patronage of his uncle, was assigned to serve in the Ministry of Public Education. In 1804-1805 held the position of clerk in the office of M. N. Muravyov. During his service, he continued to be drawn to literature. He became close to the founders Free Society lovers of literature” by I. P. Pnin and N. I. Gnedich.
In 1807, Konstantin Nikolaevich, contrary to the opinion of his father, became a member people's militia. In the spring of this year he took part in hostilities, for his courage he was awarded by Anna III degree.
In 1809 he moved to Moscow, where he met with P.A. Vyazemsky, V.A. Zhukovsky and N.M. Karamzin.
At the very beginning of 1812, Batyushkov moved to St. Petersburg and entered the service of the public library. He regularly met and communicated with I. A. Krylov.
Studying the short biography of Batyushkov, you should know that in July 1813 he became the adjutant of General N.N. Raevsky, the hero of the Patriotic War, and reached Paris.
Literary activity
The first attempt at writing took place in 1805. Konstantin Nikolaevich’s poem “Message to My Poems” was published in the magazine “News of Russian Literature.”
During the military campaign of 1807, Batyushkov undertook the translation of “Liberated Jerusalem” by Tass.
Batyushkov’s main merit is his deep work on Russian poetic speech. Thanks to him Russian poem filled with strength, began to sound harmonious and at the same time passionate. V. G. Belinsky believed that it was the works of Batyushkov and Zhukovsky that prepared the ground for the discovery of the powerful talent of A. S. Pushkin.
The work of Batyushkov himself was quite unique. From his youth, fascinated by the works of ancient Greek thinkers, he unwittingly created images that were not entirely understandable to the domestic reader. The poet's first poems are permeated with epicureanism. They amazingly combine mythology and the life of an ordinary Russian village.
Batyushkov wrote such prose articles as “An Evening at Kantemir’s”, “On the Works of Muravyov” and “On the Character of Lomonosov”.
In October 1817, his collected works “Experiments in Poems and Prose” were published.
last years of life
Batyushkov Konstantin Nikolaevich suffered severe nervous disorder. This disease was passed on to him by inheritance. The first seizure occurred in 1815. After that, his condition only worsened.
In 1833 he was dismissed and placed in his hometown, in the house of his own nephew. He lived there for another 22 years.
Batyushkov passed away on July 7 (19), 1855. The cause of death was typhus. The poet was buried in the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery, which is located 5 versts from Vologda.
Other biography options
- His elder sister Alexandra also suffered from mental illness, inherited by Batyushkov.
- In his youth, Batyushkov was deeply in love. He asked A. Furman for her hand in marriage, but she gave her consent to the marriage only under the influence of her relatives. Realizing that he was not nice to her, Konstantin Nikolaevich himself refused the marriage.
- In 1830, Pushkin visited Batyushkov. Finding himself deeply impressed by the poet’s depressing state, he wrote the poem “God forbid I go crazy.”
Konstantin Batyushkov, short biography whom is described in this article, was a talented Russian poet with a difficult fate.
Childhood
Nikolai and Alexandra Batyushkov were looking forward to the birth of their fifth child in the family. They dreamed of a son, since they had already given birth to four daughters. Their long-awaited boy came into this world in May 1787 in Vologda. The father of the family belonged to the old noble family, but was in disgrace because of his uncle, who participated in a conspiracy against the empress.
Six years after the birth of Konstantin, his mother was overtaken by trouble - mental illness. She died in 1795.
Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov spent his childhood on the family estate and was educated at home. And after the death of his mother he was sent to a boarding school in St. Petersburg. His main hobbies were French and Russian literature, he learned Latin perfectly and was engrossed in the works of Horace and Tibullus.
Youth
Thanks to the patronage of his uncle, trustee of Moscow University Mikhail Muravyov, in 1802 Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov entered the service of the Ministry of Public Education. During next year worked in Muravyov's office.
In 1807, disobeying his father’s will, the poet enlisted in the militia and went with a police battalion to Prussia. During the fighting he was wounded and sent for treatment to Riga, and then to his native estate for recovery.
In 1808 he took part in the war with Sweden. Afterwards, I took a long vacation because my health deteriorated. The mother’s illness also affected the children; it was hereditary. From about this time, Batyushkov, whose short biography will not describe all the colors of what happened, begins to suffer from hallucinations.
At Christmas 1809, the poet came by invitation to Moscow, where he met Karamzin, Pushkin, and Zhukovsky. He became very close friends with the first two people.
In May 1810 he received his resignation. A terrible premonition his illness did not allow him to live in peace. He rushed between Moscow and the village where his sisters lived.
In 1812 he moved to the capital to work in public library. His colleague was I. A. Krylov.
The poet participated in Patriotic War from 1813, he was the adjutant of General Raevsky. He returned home only in 1814.
Mature years
In the spring of 1818, he visited Odessa with the local governor. It was then that he received a letter from his friend Turgenev, which said that Batyushkov was invited to diplomatic mission in Naples.
Since 1819, the poet lived in Venice. In 1821 he visited Germany to improve his mental health. He began to feel as if he was being followed. The situation was getting worse.
Since 1822 he was in the Caucasus and Crimea, it was there that the most tragic cases related to his state of mind. He repeatedly tried to kill himself.
In 1824, it was decided to send Batyushkov to a psychiatric hospital in Saxony. There he spent four many years, and returned to Moscow when his seizures practically stopped.
A. S. Pushkin saw the poet for the last time in 1830. He was so impressed by this quiet tragic madness that he wrote the poem "God Forbid Me
In 1833, Konstantin Nikolaevich was transported to Vologda, to the house of his nephew, where he lived until his death for exactly twenty-two years. Batyushkov, whose brief biography does not reflect the full drama of his fate, died of typhus at the age of sixty-eight.
Creation
Batyushkov’s first poetic experiments occurred around 1804, when he became close to members of the “Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Sciences and Arts.” Following his friends, he tried to compose, and his works began to be published.
During the Prussian campaign, he writes a few more good poems and begins to translate "Jerusalem Liberated", a poem by Tassa.
During the battle of Leipzig he is killed best friend and comrade in arms Ivan Petin. Batyushkov dedicated several poems to him, including “Shadow of a Friend” - one of best works poet.
In one of difficult moments in his life, Batyushkov, whose short biography is not able to contain them all, turned to Zhukovsky for support. It was after his passionate speeches that the poet began preparing for release an edition of his works, which was published in 1817.
Since 1815, the poet was a member of the Arzamas society.
Konstantin Batyushkov, whose work has great value for Russian literature, did a great deal of work on the poetic speech of the Russian language. His poems are unusually sincere and “breathe deeply.”
Most literary scholars claim that it was Konstantin Batyushkov, whose poems were pure, brilliant and imaginative, who influenced the development of Pushkin.
Personal life
The poet's personal life was not happy; he never married and had no children.
I experienced the feeling of falling in love for the first time in Riga during treatment after being wounded. It was the girl Emilia, the daughter of a local merchant. Their romance had no continuation after Batyushkov’s departure.
In 1812, in the Olenins’ house, the poet met Anna Furman, whose feelings for her instantly overwhelmed him. Their communication lasted about three years, and everyone believed that things were heading towards marriage. But Anna was not in love with Batyushkov, she only wanted to fulfill the will of her guardians and enter into a profitable marriage.
Konstantin Nikolaevich, realizing this, abandoned the wedding and fell ill with a severe nervous disorder, for which he was treated for several months.
In the remaining years, he never met the one and only.