name of the woman known today every schoolboy.There is hardly a person who does not respond as a nanny named Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.And that's what most of our fellow citizens aware of its origins and biography?It turned out that her life is always for us in the shadow of the biography and creativity by her famous pupil.This, of course, is not surprising.Pushkin is not realized as a successful and recognized poet would hardly have we ever knew who Arina.Yet Alexander himself never tired of repeating and emphasizing its important role in its formation and already in adulthood.Babysitting Pushkin undoubtedly deserves its share of recognition.
Origin and early years Arina
She was born in April 1758 in one of the small villages of St. Petersburg Province.Her parents were serfs.Last Arina, nanny Pushkin - Yakovlev.In the family, except for her six children.In its first year of life of future nanny Pushkin was listed land owned by Count Fyodor Apraksin.But in 1759 the surrounding land, along with the villages and the peasants inhabiting them have Apraksina buys Abram Petrovich Hannibal - the great-grandfather of the famous Russian poet.In 1781 Arina married and moved to the village Kobrino to her husband.With the move, it becomes a serf Osip Hannibal, grandfather of the poet.Around this time, it is taken to serve in the manor house, for work on child care.At first she was a nanny Hope Osipovna mother Pushkin, and eventually to her children - Alexander, Olga and Leo - has become a nanny.In 1972, it took the grandmother of the poet Maria Alexandrovna as a nanny for his nephew Alexis.Three years later, Arina receives a gift from pomeschitskoy family for their impeccable service hut in Kobrin.
Babysitting Pushkin
In 1879 born Olga Pushkin (the older sister of the poet), and in 1799-m, and himself the future of Russian classics.On the shoulders of Arina, of course, goes to a new responsibility for the upbringing of children.Interestingly, the family of Hannibal in 1807, sells the purchased once the land, which includes the village of Kobrin.However, by the time the nurse had not been attached to the land and to the owners, so the sale is not covered.She moved with her family in Pskov province, in the village of Mikhailovskoye.Beyond, perhaps, is the brightest page in her life.
image of women often appear in the poetry of Alexander Pushkin.His poems give it a very full response.Sister Olga Classic Arina Rodionovna remembered as a true representative of Russian nurses, with tremulous and gentle child.However, the babysitting Pushkin was tied to their pupils not only during their childhood, but throughout life.Thus, between St. Michael's links of Alexander (1824-26 gg.), In which the poet was imprisoned for two years for free-thinking woman he was constantly beside him, skrashivaya loneliness of the poet.Here in St. Michael, Pushkin had seen her for the last time in September 1827.Nine months later, Arina, died at the age of 70 years old.After that was buried in St. Petersburg at the Smolensk cemetery.
