How to become a genius?Genius - is the fruit of parenting or a gift of God?What affects the non-standard thinking, strength of spirit, making it possible to "blow up" society with their ideas and thoughts?What are they geniuses, as a child?
childhood Pushkin
Summary any biographical opus mediocre person could meet in a few paragraphs, this person did not happen.The boy was born to a retired major Jaeger Regiment.Alexander was the second child.He was born on May 26 (6 June) 1799, which is in the church book Yelokhovo Cathedral recorded as of June 8.The family moved to Moscow a year before the birth of a boy.His father was appointed commissioner in commissariat depot in 1798.By this time the family of Lev Alexandrovich and Hope Osipovna already had a daughter, Olga (born 1797).In 1803, another boy was born, Leo.In addition to these three children, and later came to light five more, but to survive the age of the children failed.In adulthood, it includes only Olga, Alexander and Leo.
is easy to describe in a few words of Pushkin's childhood.Summary of available resources, in particular, the memories of his younger brother, give us the opportunity to assess the situation.Up to the age of eleven, Alexander lived with his parents, burdened with their concerns.The child was entrusted to the hands of frequently changing tutors and French.For this reason, the boy began to speak in Russian rather late, but the French possessed dignity.For eight years he was keenly interested in his father's library, consisting of, by the way, mostly from French literary publications.Wrote brother Leo, he just devoured books one after another.Assessing the merits of reading, I began to write his own compositions, comedy, epigrams.
Zakharova
But not only in the father's house passed childhood Pushkin.Summary of the letters of his maternal grandmother Maria Alexeyevna enables us to draw conclusions about the character of the young poet.Once my grandmother wrote that the boy is simply no halftones or "middle," he is either passive or active too.Negligent in training, but the "greedy" to read.Years of Pushkin's childhood spent at grandma's house near Moscow, gave him not only the knowledge of the Russian language, but also the ability to communicate in Russian (in the father's house, he was deprived of this for the sake of fashion).Nanny Arina, Uncle Nikita Kozlov and serfs were able to see the boy's grandmother to the "spirit" of Russian, which was the basis of the most picturesque creations, released years later.
Lyceum
While engaged in their children's education through tutors at home is considered normal.But the privileged schools gave children great knowledge.The family had decided to eleven Alexander arrives in Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where he studied for six years.Thanks to contacts her father and passed exams from October 19, 1811 the young poet began training in an educational institution, focused on training public officials.
childhood and youth were held in Pushkin era mixed.The War of 1812 could not pass in vain for the young ardent imagination.Moreover, the teachers denounce the lyceum students to the ideas of freedom and equality, patriotism.Already in the lyceum years young Alexander joined the ranks of the literary community "Arzamas", at meetings which is actively pursuing its vision of literature and society in general.He published his first work, and on graduation he reads his poem "Calm."
This patriotic poem painted youth and childhood Pushkin.Summary of his works of that time tells us longing for change, a desire for the glorification of the native language and culture.It is with such vivid impressions left in the world of the young author, familiar to us from childhood.
