Fet Pictures Biography

As a result, the author himself admitted that "the publication from the editorial office of Turgenev came out as cleaned as mutilated." It is interesting to observe how much Fet in the days of Fet converges with modern realities. Here, having received a vacation in military service to improve health, he goes abroad. It immediately turns out that even then, for example, clothes in Germany were cheaper than in Russia.

And looking at the Strasbourg Cathedral, the traveler Fet said exactly the same thing that any of us could say: "These are not our modern buildings in which cold stones are united with the goal of covering a person in nothing of non -speaking cells from bad weather." Returning from abroad, Fet leaves military service, receives an inheritance from the deceased stepfather.

The person is “rather thorough, despite the fact that he writes poetry,” as one of the famous Botkin expressed about him, with whom he was related through marriage to one of his sisters, Athanasius Afanasievich acquired the estate of Stepanovka in the Oryol province. And he showed himself to be a very stringing manager. So much so that he soon began to receive a stable income, and later bought a house in Moscow and another estate, already much more.

In the estate of Athanasius Fet, the Kursk province. Photo: Evgenia Gorlov in the book gives detailed and accurate calculations of Fet on organizing a profitable multidisciplinary agricultural production in the conditions of Russian “risky agriculture”. At the first steps, the enthusiastic lyricist considered this work as a “commercial enterprise”, which is based on not barbecue, but an employment contract.

Fet publishes a cycle of essays “from the village” and “Notes on freedom work”. They are very instructive for Russia today. The entrepreneur believes the key problems that impede the heyday of the peasant country, firstly, the lack of respect for the law, the lack of intelligible generally accepted rules. And secondly, the community, which, on the one hand, does not allow the peasant to die from hunger, and on the other, it prevents his development as an employee and consumer.

But precisely the property reliably protected by law is also the basis of the political stability of Fet: “Each owner is, by virtue of things, the law enforcement officer and the historical conservative.” And what is noteworthy, especially for those who taught history in the Soviet school, Fet with specific examples proved that the laws in tsarist Russia are much more on the side of the employee than the employer.

In addition, "the king, inclined to the protection of the" weak ", who hated the bourgeoisie and capitalists, was intended not only to preserve, but also to strengthen communal land ownership." Later, Fet's main ideas will try to embody the reformer Stolypin, but will not have time. Athanasius Fet. Tulinov’s photograph for all this liberal press dubbed Fet almost a serf.

As the latter comes out of the first, second and third, it is difficult to understand, but the label of the “flame counter -revolutionary” is still hanging on Fet. He himself wrote about this easier and more convincing: “I love the earth, black scattered earth, the one that I am now swarming and in which I will lie ...” From this it is easy to understand the negative attitude of Fet to situations when, guided by the “abstract ideas taken from life experience”, “smart people act against their own interests, feeding their enemies.” And here it is difficult to disagree with him, if we recall how a number of Russian industrialists supported extremist movements like the Bolshevik, seriously believing that they secured insurance for the future ...

Already at the end of his life, Fet returned the surname Shenshin and the noble title. This happened according to the royal decree, and not because new circumstances opened in the history of his birth. Just in this way, in his opinion, justice was restored. She defeated, not without the help of a “childhood comrade”, a long -time patron, the Stalmeister of the Imperial Court I., he was granted the court rank of the chamberlain.

Friendly relations with the poet K. Romanov, who were mainly supported by correspondence, but this did not prevent them from being warm. Who died shortly before the onset of the twentieth century, which will not justify either his romantic or practical expectations, Fet remained in the memory of most compatriots “only” by the author of several lyrical masterpieces.

His business experience, civil activity, political intuition - all this was not useful to Russia. He was always firm in the positions of the builder, the singer of the country of labor and order, and the real, “imperfect” Russia went, as you know, in a different way. Nevertheless, the fate of Athanasius Fet, a German in blood and Russian in spirit, “liberal to the brain of bones” in his youth and a convinced conservative in adulthood, thin lyrics and strong business executive - an exciting story for every Russian.

Especially if he tries to make his country better. Arseny Annenkov, especially for the "new".