AA Fet - a poet, whose work is characterized by the departure from the everyday hustle and bustle in the "realm of dreams."Nature and love constitute the main content of his poems.They subtly convey the mood of the poet, prove his artistic skills.
story of the birth
To this day, nobody knows for sure, to which belongs to the genus Athanasius Fet Afanasievich.Short biography can be presented with the following fairly well-known facts.His mother, a German Charlotte Becker, in 1818, became the wife of Ioaganna Fёta.After about a year they had a daughter.And after 6 months of treatment in Darmstadt arrived Athanasius Neofitovich Shenshin, impoverished Russian landowner.He fell in love with Charlotte and secretly took her to his country.During the shoot she was pregnant.Some biographers say that from her husband since given birth to shortly after arriving in Russia.Others believe that after all of Shenshin.I. Fёt himself in his testament that the child is not admitted.The boy was born in 1820.He was baptized as an Orthodox, and in the metric recorded as a son Shenshin.Only a year Fёt gave his wife a divorce, and she was able, by adopting a new faith, to marry with her new husband.Athanasius Jr. to 14 years was raised as an ordinary young master.
Years of training and feather samples
With 14 years of the life of the poet changed dramatically.His father took him first to Moscow, then in St. Petersburg, and then, on the advice of friends, determined to study at teacher training institutions of the Kryummera in the remote town of Livonia Verreaux.The fact that even in 1835 spiritual consistory decided to consider the boy's father Ivan Fёta.Shenshin have made enemies who seek to use the presence of an illegitimate child to harm him.He tried thus to further the well-being of the family.From now on, the boy had to be signed both by Afanasy Fet.His biography is not changed, but the bewilderment and dumb questions surrounding him do not like, and confused.In 1837, the young man became a student of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Moscow.He studied as much as 6 years old, as a foreigner.At this time he awoke poetic gift.The first collection of his poems was published in 1840.In 1842-1843 years he continued to publish in "Moskvityanin" and "Notes of the Fatherland."In 1844, the poet's mother was gone.His uncle, Peter Shenshin promised unsubscribe his estate to his nephew, but he died in Pyatigorsk, not at home, his legacy is ruined and stolen money from the bank.To get at least some money and get a title of nobility, Athanasius was forced to serve in the army.A year later, he received only the first officer's rank.
useful contacts
In 1848 the regiment, which arrived a poet, stayed in the village Krasnosele.There Athanasius met with Brzeski, leader of the local nobility, and through him - with her sisters Lazic, one of them fell in love.But Fet decided that is not good to marry a poor beggar.Soon Elena Lazic was killed in the fire.The regiment moved closer to the capital.In many respects, the decisive factor was dating that started in St. Petersburg Afanasy Fet.Biography creative it only benefited from the friendship with Turgenev, and through it - and many other writers.
Family Life
saw the light of the new collection of poems of the poet.He had a great success.In 1858 he issued a decree of Alexander II, according to which the title of a nobleman could only be obtained the rank of colonel.Fet understood that he had risen up to a ripe old age, and immediately retired.He moved to Moscow and in the same year proposed to M. Botkin.The woman, who had an illegitimate child, immediately agreed.They lived well.His father, a merchant-Tea-dealer, gave her a decent dowry.After receiving the money, just on the other hand has proved to Afanasy Fet.His biography, with the advent of finance, has changed for the better.In 1860, the writer bought an abandoned farmstead and converts it into a rich estate.Reform of 1861 the poet did not support.Fet proved a fierce defender of the old order.Now he was only thinking about augmentation of wealth and possessions bought one after the other.In 1863 he published two volumes of poems by A. Fet.A new generation was not accepted.The poet came a creative crisis, for many years he did not write a single line.
long-awaited respect
neighboring landowners chose feta magistrate.Position was quite honorable.Follow as much as 17 years on it remained Afanasy Fet.Biography of the poet but a creative crisis.Fet ceased to cooperate with the magazine "Contemporary", as there are established line-Chernyshevsky Dob.A poet does not want to take any side of democracy, nor the views of liberals.In 1873, the Senate issued a decree on including Athanasius Afanasevicha genus Shenshin.Chet fetov even able to buy a house rich in Moscow Plyushchikha.
last years of his life and work
Only in 1881 the poet returned to literature.First, he translated, and then again began to write poetry, and even later - a memoir.In 1889, Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov, a friend and admirer of the poet, honored him with the title of chamberlain.The last known descendants of the poem, was written in October 1892.The final edition of the works of feta have published only in 1894.Poet died in November 1892 of complications from bronchitis.So talking about the last days of his official biography.Afanasy Fet in fact, according to relatives before his death asked to drink champagne, tried to kill himself stylet, and then he had a stroke.
