's amazing how quickly things change!Just two centuries ago, when he heard the word "Lukomorye" only representatives of the aristocracy and artistic circles remembered Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".Ordinary people could just explain it everyday and ordinary name for them.Bay - it's all the same for a place and where it can be?Let's deal together.
Big World in a small masterpiece
In the prologue, "There stands a green oak," Pushkin was able to present two opposing sides: the light and dark forces.Scientist cat and Chernomor, Baba Yaga and Koschey fill this fabulous area.With the help of metaphors, the words used in a figurative sense (stupa, which "walks by itself") is drawn fantasy and fairy-tale world.Special melodiousness and lightness of product lines resemble a smooth line of oral folk tales that the future poet could hear from his nanny - Arina.To enhance the fairytale effect it uses obsolete and infrequent words and phrases, such as "USD", "Breg" and others.To become a fantastic reality closer to the reader, Pushkin confirms the reality of what is happening ending: "And there I was, and honey I drank ...»
Let's look at the version of modern researchers about what the great poet puts into the word value.Lukomorye Pushkin - what is it and where?
What does it mean?
ponder over this word, it is easy to discover its two component parts: "bow" - bend, bend, arc, and "Maurier" - the seaside.Putting everything together, we obtain a curved seashore.Ozhegov Dahl and about as explain the meaning of "Lukomorye."
Taking into account all of the above, it is possible to decipher Lukomorye in more detail how the curved arc of the Gulf Sea or similar in shape to the bow (ancient weapons) Beach.On the territory of our country under such a description may fit a lot of sea coasts, bays and coastlines.But modern scholars hold two main hypotheses about where Lukomorye.Pushkin, according to one theory, could under the influence of the books written by travelers, folk tales and place it on the shore of the White Sea and in Siberia.Another theory claims that the personal experiences of the poet from the Crimean Peninsula and visit Cape Fiolent gave him the word "Lukomorye" and prompted the writing of both the poem and this poetic introduction.
Slavic myths
Even in ancient times, the Slavs were legends about Lukomorye that this reserved area on the edge of the universe, which is growing the world tree, rooted in the depths of the underground, and the top rests against the sky.That is why the tree gods descend to earth, and a mere mortal, if he could get to it, can get into other worlds.
agree that there is a certain similarity to those described as the oak and Lukomorye Pushkin.Legends and records the time of travel indicate location of this mysterious object, which is also called Ivanov kingdom upper river Ob in western Siberia.
In this kingdom work miracles: half its population lived peacefully, but the rest of the year subsided.The palace of the ruler of the province of Ivan was constructed fountain of living water, which, after having drunk fasting, could turn from a decrepit old man in a young and healthy person.
Where is it located?
Through legends, some of which went into folk tales, all in varying degrees, to know about this mysterious region.According to Karamzin, in the XV century, none of the Muscovites was no question about where Lukomorye is that kind of place.All were convinced that it is located on the northern coast of the ocean, where half of the year there is only a day, and the second part - only night.
Medieval European travelers and cartographers showed confident in their drawings a specific area of Siberia, where it is located.Looking closely to the maps Gondiusa, Mercator, Cantelli and analyzed the 1549 book "Memoirs of Muscovy" Austrian baron and diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein, you come to the realization that in a bend of the River Ob and housed mysterious Lukomorye.
What is the area of the Russian state and the nations which live there, no one knew, and ordinary people easily believed not quite realistic stories of foreign pilgrims.
Lukomorye and gender Pushkin
And in the XVIII century it was thought that Bay - in Siberia, where today is the city of Tomsk, located its capital - Grasiona.It should be emphasized the special role of the Siberian region in the fate of the genus Pushkin.According to historical records, in the years 1601-1602 served as a son of warlord Mangazeya Tobolsk magistrates Eustache Pushkin - Savluk.Theodore S. Pushkin in the 1601-1603 biennium.Tyumen was the governor.In Tyumen, from 1625 till 1628 he served as the direct ancestor of the great poet Peter T. Black-Pushkin.
great-grandfather of Alexander - the son of an Ethiopian prince Abram Petrovich Hannibal - after the death of his patron, Emperor Peter I, was exiled to Tobolsk.It is logical to assume that Pushkin was a child of the stories of relatives learned the meaning of "Lukomorye."
modern legends confirmation
historians over the years lined version of where the inhabitants could vanish mysterious curving.Hypothesized about leaving all the inhabitants of the ground - in caves or specially built town.
And in 2000 in the media there were reports that at Tomsk were found curving structures of the ancient capital - Grasiony: laid paving stones and brickwork fortified underground tunnels, ventilation shafts and the big iron gate.
What does Lukomorye, we have seen - sea arcuate Beach.It is not clear why the Tomsk and its surroundings, next to which is not seen no seas, got its name.
agree that it would be more logical name "lukoreche."But historians, anthropologists and linguists believe that the word "Lukomorye" was brought peoples migrated from warm in the Ob.There is also a hypothesis that in ancient times the coastline of the northern seas was further south than today.
Crimean prototype
seemed to have figured out where the Lukomorye what a word means and how it turned out in a field of view of Pushkin.But some literary critics and historians believe that the great poet is not inspired by ancient legends and folk tales, and their own aesthetic experiences.
They believe that Alexander during his visit to the Crimean peninsula was in Cape Fiolent located on the monastery, founded in honor of the appearance of St. George and rescue them from the storm sailors.Poet struck by the beauty of centennial oak that grew on the beach and bay in the form of a bow, so that they appeared as bright line, anticipating a poem-fairy tale "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
Azov version
Pushkin traveled a lot across the expanses of Russia, and it allows different areas where there are bays and where the poet was coming, believe that their country has managed to inspire him to write a poem about Lukomorye.Residents of Taganrog believe that Alexander, following the Caucasus, dwelling in 1820 with Nikolai Rajewski and his family in the house of the mayor on Greek Street (today the house number 40 on the street, the III International), could see the beautiful bicentennial oak tree that grew in front of the mansion as ajust near the sea shore, the curved arc - curving.It is this image and inspired the poet to write the introduction to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".Thus, in the north-eastern part of Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea and its coast have become associated with the described Pushkin fairy Lukomorye.
It is this image and inspired the poet to write the introduction to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".Thus, in the north-eastern part of Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea and its coast have become associated with the described Pushkin fairy Lukomorye.
Perhaps it is somewhere nearby?
There is another version, advanced by S. Geychenko, the custodian of the Pushkin Reserve, in the popular book "Voskhod": Pushkin Lukomorye located in central Russia, near the village of Trigorskoe, where the river Soroti and great odds and form a small and quiet Baysurrounded by broom thickets.Thus, a fantastic country, where "the Russian spirit ... there smell of Russia!", Located in the Pskov region.Some might argue that the sea is not there, but the word "Lukomorye" is quite applicable to the bend of the river.Of course, if we assume that fabulous Lukomorye can stand not only on the coast, the number of applicants for the name will increase many times.
