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Spring - Love time. In the spring, even the most institutional bloggers and bloggers are chosen from social networks, from dating sites and other selected space for correspondence. But it is precisely those who use a lot of Internet or forced to use them, know: love of correspondence is a special form of the existence of Amur. She is always pretty taste. In fact, Epistolar Love is always a consequence of what people feel to each other in fact.
Spring came out two new books that perfectly demonstrate this embodiment of real feelings on paper. Two love of two pairs that entered our story.
Diary of his wife
Sophia fat. Love and riot. Diaries of 1910. - M.: "ABC", 2013.
"Lev Nikolayevich, my husband, gave all his diaries since 1900. C. Chertkov and began writing a new notebook there, visiting Chertkov, where he went to visit June 12. In that diary, which he began to write from Chertkov, who he gave me to read, by the way it is said: "I want to fight with Sonya good and love." Fight?! What to deal with when I love him so hot and very much when one of my thought, one concern - so that he was good ... "
The fate of the marriage of Lion Tolstoy and his wife Sophia Andreevna is a story about how everything in the world is relatively and subjective. Their endless love of each other was not so cloudless and unequivocal. By the last years of life of the writer, their relations have become painful, hysterical outbreaks of complete misunderstanding. And this after four dozen years of living together, after the ministry - otherwise you will not call the role of Sofia Andreevna in this strange marriage. It is known that the author of the "war and the world" did not imagine families without children, and most of his life his spouse was either pregnant or recently born. She gave birth to 13 children! It is known how many times she rewrited with the delight of his many different works ... Sheil, knitted, could go to clean the snow, led a huge farm, the publishing affairs of Tolstoy, wrote the poems itself and prose, spoke in print, cared for his children and sick fortresses, took pictures ... Is it really all for that in 1910, as if hitting the husband of the teaching, to hardly write in the diary: "How he is tired of his role of a religious thinker and teacher, as he is tired of it!" The gap and renunciation from the Russian Orthodox Church of Tolstoy Sophia Andreevna very hardly perceived - although he was publicly in the press supported the spouse.
Tolstoy hated the luxury of Yasnocation of Life, Uklade; Sophia Andreevna objects to him in the diary: "And to whom, how do not Lerl Nikolayevich, you need this luxury? Doctor - for health and care; Two machines writing and two correspondence - for the Scriptures of Lion Nicol.; Bulgakov - for correspondence; Ilya Vasilyevich - Lackey for the care of the old man weak. A good cook - for the weak stomach of Lion H-a. All the severity of the mining of funds, farms, printing books - everything lies on me, so that the whole life is given to the lion nickname. Calm, convenience and leisure for his work. "
And what spouse? "And yet I can't believe that she is quite a wooden ..." he writes it in 1884 - when he first wanted to leave the house. Several times over the next 24 years, he will try to leave the clear clearing with Kotomka - until finally leaves. The rejection of the plot of a thick and striving for the enrichment of the house is Tolstoy - here is one of the main contradictions of the spouses.
And now we have the culmination of their common fate - "Sophia Tolstaya. Love and riot. Diaries of 1910. " 1910, the most difficult year, the year of the departure of the lion of Tolstoy from the family, from the house, from the clear Polyana, and the year of his death. This diary of Sophia Andreevna - reissue, but it draws a very complete and intelligible atmosphere of this story, because it consists only of the original source and is complemented by the memories of Tatyana's daughters and Alexandra and testimonies of those who entered the nearest environment of the writer, and saw all the offensive family, - V. G. Chertkov, D. P. Makovitsky, V. F. Bulgakov, P. I. Biryukova, etc.
The history of Lion Tolstoy and Sonechki Bar, who became his wife, companion, girlfriend and the enemy at almost half a century, is the story of passionate, moral and physical contradictions. "I want to close your eyes to all his weakness, and the heart turn away and look on the side of the world, who is no longer finding in our family darkness ..." - Writes S. A. Her diary - almost a collection of recipes for the scandals: "During Our hard explanation suddenly from Leo Nick. The beast jumped out: the evil knocked in his eyes, he began to say something sharp, I hated him at that moment and told him: "A! That's when you are real! "- And he immediately arrived." The voltage is so large, and the quarrels are so frequent that both in secret diaries dream only about death, about suicide even! With a terrible reality, in which Sophia Andreevna jealous of Tolstoy to his assistant, trusted the face of Chertkova, the tender memories of youth are mixed in it: "I remembered today, as long ago, a long-long lion. came to the bathing, where I bathed alone. All this is forgotten, and all this is not needed for a long time ... "After she follows him, hens the conversations, and again hysterics, or again an ice relationship:" ... I took the lion of the nickname. It is silent - silence all day and breed - stubborn, evil to be silent. With my alive, frank character, this silence is unbearable. But he wants to torment me, and fully reaches it ... "
And the final is a terrible isolation, when the lion is Tolstoy, an 82-year-old old man, at night, escaped from home and soon fell ill and died at Astapovo station.
The last letter of Sophia Andreevna to Tolstoy: "Do not be and to the tormentor, to hide from me the place of your stay ... We live together with holy and lovingly the last days of our life!"
Last letter of Lion Tolstoy to the spouse: "I love you and regret the whole soul, but I can not do otherwise than I do. Your letter is - I know that it is written sincerely, but you are not authorized to fulfill what I would like. And the point is not performed by some of my desires and requirements, but only in your equilibrium, calm, intelligent attitude to life. For now, there is no, for me, life is unthinkable with you. Return to you when you in such a state would mean to give up life for me. And I . - M.: Zakharov, 2013.
"My invaluable treasure! You will read these lines, lies in the bed in a stranger in an unfamiliar house. God forbid that the trip will be pleasant and interesting, and not too tiring or too dusty. I am very glad that I have a card and that I can follow it eagerly for you. I will be awful to miss you. "
Such a message to your beloved man could easily send any modern young lady by SMS - whether it can be expressed as beautiful, drumming, smooth style, like Empress Alexander Fedorovna. Spouse of the last king Nicholas II. The huge archive of their correspondence is stored in the State Archive: in 1923-1927. Missed three of the five planned volumes. It is this book and reprinted "Zakharov".
Nikolay and Alexander wrote each other in English. Exchanged letters and extensive telegrams whenever separated. This correspondence begins with the times of the war, since 1914, and ends simultaneously with the history of pre-revolutionary Russia - 1917. Reading letters, we see the essence of these two - the heads of state and his wife. These lines did not compose Kremlin PR; They were not published to raise the prestige of power. These are the real words of two loving people. For readers of the XXI century, comparisons are inevitable: if the current president's president and wife could be sincerely exchanged like letters ...
Most often, Alexander Fedorovna wrote a long, lengthy posts with reflections and descriptions of the past day; Nikolay answered telegrams or letters, male more brief, but very gentle. The whole life of the royal couple we see through their messages. Here Alexandra Fedorovna tells how she worked with her daughters in Lazarut and cared for the wounded. Only imagine: the first lady of the country with their own hands makes dressing three ordinary officers! Reminds her husband about the pilot, the brave youth, who has already received the St. George Cross, but worthy and other awards.
And Nikolai Alexandrovich shares his impressions, like, being in the bet, "Missed the Karaul Lab Kazakov, exposed far in the forest. They spend the night in dugouts - quite warm and cozy. Their task is to look out on airplanes. Wonderful smiling guys with swirls of hair sticking from under the caps. " "Wonderful smiling guys" - behind these simple words is hesitating not the power of it, but a simple person who can love people.
Being years, but every day their correspondence is increasingly and closer. "I will be extremely acute your absence, my invalid. Sleep well, my treasure! My bed will, alas, so empty! "
And finally - 1917. Before the death of both left half a year. The situation is heating, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, natural speeches are coming, which Alexandra prudently defines as simple "hooligan" anticipation of young men and girls. On March 3, the Empress writes Nikolai in the bid: "My beloved, my soul, my baby, - Oh, how my heart is bleeding for you! I am crazy, not knowing absolutely nothing but the most vile rumors that can bring a person to madness. "
And with each letter - until the most terrible end - their love remains with them.
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Love in writing looks like traces on the sand. What boots are such and traces. And what legs are such both shoes. The main thing is to try not to delete your correspondence. Suddenly, someone once wants to publish it. How to know, maybe you are actually Sophia Andreevna, the wife of a lion is fat? Or in general - Empress Alexander?