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'''''Tambov Treasurer's Wife''''' (Tambovskaya kaznacheysha, Тамбо′вская казначе′йша) is a poem by [[Mikhail Lermontov]], written |
'''''Tambov Treasurer's Wife''''' (Tambovskaya kaznacheysha, Тамбо′вская казначе′йша) is a poem by [[Mikhail Lermontov]], written and published by ''[[Sovremennik]]'' in [[1838 in poetry|1838]].<ref name="works_2">Commentaries to Tambov Treasurer's Wife. The Works of M.Yu.Lermontov in 4 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura Publishers. Moscow, 1958. Vol. 2. Pp. 495-497.</ref> |
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==Summary== |
==Summary== |
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A visiting [[uhlan]] falls in love with the 18-year |
A visiting [[uhlan]] falls in love with the 18-year-old wife of the old [[Tambov]]'s [[treasurer]] and, after several attempts to woo her, 'wins' her from her husband in the game of cards.<ref name="goodle_b">{{cite book | author = Michael Wachtel| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EPuAI-tHo48C&q=Tambov+Treasurer%E2%80%99s+Wife&pg=PA137|title = The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings| year = 1998| isbn = 9780521620789| access-date = 2014-01-13}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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On February 15, 1838 Lermontov informed M.A.Lopukhina (writing in [[French language|French]]): "I've been to [[Vasily Zhukovsky|Zhukovsky]] and, following his request, brought him ''Tambov Teasurer's Wife''. He took it to [[Pyotr Vyazemsky|Vyazemsky]], they read it together and liked it a lot. It will be printed in the next ''Sovremennik'' issue |
On February 15, 1838, Lermontov informed M.A.Lopukhina (writing in [[French language|French]]): "I've been to [[Vasily Zhukovsky|Zhukovsky]] and, following his request, brought him ''Tambov Teasurer's Wife''. He took it to [[Pyotr Vyazemsky|Vyazemsky]], they read it together and liked it a lot. It will be printed in the next ''Sovremennik'' issue." Since Lermontov speaks of the poem as if it had already been read by Lopukhina, it must have been finished by mid-January, when he left [[Moscow]].<ref name="works_2"/> |
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| ⚫ | The poem (signed "-v") was published in No.3 issue of ''Sovremennik'', with both editorial (by Zhukovsky) and censorial cuts. The title was curtailed to just ''Kaznatcheysha'' (A Treasurer's Wife). The manuscript of the poem has been lost. None of the omitted lines has been restored since.<ref name="works_2"/> |
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| ⚫ | The way the poem was treated outraged Lermontov. [[Ivan Panayev]] remembered: "...I found Lermontov at [[Andrey Krayevsky|Krayevsky]]'s greatly agitated. He [Lermontov] held a thin pink book of ''Sovremennik'' in his hands showing the intention to tear it apart, but Krayevsky wouldn't let him. "It's Devil knows what! - Lermontov was shouting, shaking the journal. - Is it permissible at all to do such things? That's unbelievable!" Then he sat at the table, took a large red pencil and on the sleeve of the journal where his Treasurer's Wife was published, drew some sort of caricature."<ref>Panayev, I.I., Literature Memoirs. Goslitizdat, Leningrad, 1950, p.135</ref> |
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| ⚫ | The poem (signed |
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| ⚫ | The way the poem was treated outraged Lermontov. [[Ivan Panayev]] remembered: "...I found Lermontov at [[Andrey Krayevsky|Krayevsky]]'s greatly agitated. He [Lermontov] held a thin pink book of ''Sovremennik'' in his hands showing the intention to tear it apart, but Krayevsky wouldn't let him. "It's Devil knows what! - Lermontov was shouting, shaking the journal. - Is it permissible at all to do such things? That's unbelievable!" Then he sat at the table, took a large red pencil and on the sleeve of the journal where his Treasurer's Wife was published, drew some sort of caricature."<ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 18:36, 6 December 2023
M.Rashevsky's engraving (based on Mikhail Klodt's drawing). 1874
Tambov Treasurer's Wife (Tambovskaya kaznacheysha, Тамбо′вская казначе′йша) is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written and published by Sovremennik in 1838.[1]
Summary
[edit]A visiting uhlan falls in love with the 18-year-old wife of the old Tambov's treasurer and, after several attempts to woo her, 'wins' her from her husband in the game of cards.[2]
History
[edit]On February 15, 1838, Lermontov informed M.A.Lopukhina (writing in French): "I've been to Zhukovsky and, following his request, brought him Tambov Teasurer's Wife. He took it to Vyazemsky, they read it together and liked it a lot. It will be printed in the next Sovremennik issue." Since Lermontov speaks of the poem as if it had already been read by Lopukhina, it must have been finished by mid-January, when he left Moscow.[1]
The poem (signed "-v") was published in No.3 issue of Sovremennik, with both editorial (by Zhukovsky) and censorial cuts. The title was curtailed to just Kaznatcheysha (A Treasurer's Wife). The manuscript of the poem has been lost. None of the omitted lines has been restored since.[1]
The way the poem was treated outraged Lermontov. Ivan Panayev remembered: "...I found Lermontov at Krayevsky's greatly agitated. He [Lermontov] held a thin pink book of Sovremennik in his hands showing the intention to tear it apart, but Krayevsky wouldn't let him. "It's Devil knows what! - Lermontov was shouting, shaking the journal. - Is it permissible at all to do such things? That's unbelievable!" Then he sat at the table, took a large red pencil and on the sleeve of the journal where his Treasurer's Wife was published, drew some sort of caricature."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Commentaries to Tambov Treasurer's Wife. The Works of M.Yu.Lermontov in 4 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura Publishers. Moscow, 1958. Vol. 2. Pp. 495-497.
- ^ Michael Wachtel (1998). The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings. ISBN 9780521620789. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ Panayev, I.I., Literature Memoirs. Goslitizdat, Leningrad, 1950, p.135