HaeckerN Biography

After marriage, she had to wear the unenviable stigma of the “killer’s wife”, she was not accepted in the light, she ended up in a foreign country, far from her relatives who almost abandoned her! And all because she dissolved herself in the all -consuming feeling, which overshadowed everything else for her! Rare news from the brother of Dmitry or from mother, from Russia, were stingy and strict, she in vain searched for at least a spark of that previous warmth of such seemingly recent, but in fact - distant times, which she called to herself "Pushkinsky".

Then the relatives completely stopped writing to her, she found out about them all the news through third parties in what wrong form this news reached her, you can only present letters from the sisters with whom she shared many troubles and joy in childhood and youth at all. But she considered it logical. Punishment for her immoderate passion for her husband, whom she did not cease to love now, after almost 5 years of marital life and the birth of three daughters.

I was waiting for the fourth child, carried everything hard, warmly prayed that the long -awaited son was born! The barefoot went to the Catholic chapel, kneeling heavily on a cold stone floor. I went through the pearl rosary. I prayed hotly, with tears! She did not want to upset her beloved husband. She remembered his restrained congratulations the next day after the birth of the third daughter.

He then with difficulty managed to hide dissatisfaction under the mask of cold politeness. The father-in-law, Baron Geckern, it seems, was delighted with the birth of a child more than a father and once everything was wrong. How long did she re -read the letter that Georges wrote to her while still in love: “Let me believe that they are happy because I am so happy this morning.

I could not speak with you, and my heart was full of tenderness and affection for you, since I love you, dear Katya, and I want to repeat it with the sincerity that is characteristic of my character and which you always meet in me. Then no one knew about their secret, which in correspondence, they jokingly called "potatoes". However, the sister, and Alexandrina, and the insightful Pushkin guessed about something, but she was not going to do then.

She was selfishly happy with her passion and mutual, as it seemed to her, the feeling of Dantes. And others what the difference to her what others think! She was not afraid of either convictions or contempt. However, it may be because then she had not yet drank this bitter bowl to the end. Her few acquaintances, and relatives - especially, then she tried to always reassure with visible indifference to the fact that they and Georges are not accepted everywhere, and not all of her former Russian compatriots can hide disgust, accidentally learning whose spouse she is.

So, she wrote from Vienna to her brother Dmitry in the Goncharovsky archive only two of her letters from the Austrian capital, where they spent the winter thanks to the invitation of the father -in -law, again, after a long opal, who received a diplomatic appointment: “I lead the life of a very quiet and sighing along my Elsassa valley, where I expect to return to the light, I find this at all, my husband and I find this.

Boring, we have a small circle of pleasant friends, and this is enough for us sometimes to go to the theater, to the opera, it is not bad here, we have a lodge there .. And yet, other letters on April 26 of the year: “Sometimes I mentally endure to you, and it’s not difficult for me to imagine how you spend time, I think, only its inhabitants have changed in the factory, I assure you, dear friend, all this is very interested in, maybe more than you think, I still love the plant very much.” That's just, having become a baroness, she was forced to leave horseback riding soon in the morning: the birth of one after another four children, the troubles associated with this, other duties of the mistress of an extensive estate almost did not leave time.

Due to the isolation in which she lived, there are very few memories and direct evidence of her. In the St. Petersburg highlight, she was considered an ordinary, not worthwhile. Whether this was hit by proud and wounded Ekaterina Nikolaevna, it is not known, she preferred to remain silent. Alexandra Nikolaevna, with her self -irony, did not fail to mention this in one of the letters to the linen factory.

However, without writing that often, having left for the ball, they were forced to borrow from familiar ladies, then gloves, then a fan, or even shoes at all, as it was at the ball of Bobrinskaya. S. Karamzina sarcastically recalled this in her letters to her brother. The Goncharov sisters, let's say, was not an easy childhood. They grew up in an extensive landowner estate with a huge park, greenhouses, south ponds, an equestrian plant, famous throughout the Kaluga province.Their Schoolfrantsuzian and dancing, history and elegant literature, but often three girls left their mother’s room with tearful eyes and red cheeks - for the slightest offense, Natalia Ivanovna, in his youth - the famous beauty, who circled the heads of many, the maid of honor of Her Majesty Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna - could be whispering The cheeks with gloves, or even just with his hand, were unexpected, unpredictable.

Beauty Freilina Natalia Pokryazhskaya was suddenly dismissed from service in connection with a lightning -fast exit to Nikolai Goncharov, a young nobleman, a native of an old merchant family, the owner of a paper factory and an estate with a strange name of a linen factory. However, this name has come since the time of Peter the Great - they made sails for the first ships of the Russian fleet at the factory.

There was a lot of unclear in this hasty, but brilliant marriage that Natalia Ivanovna managed to like Alexei Okhotnikov, supposedly the favorite of Empress Elizabeth, and for which he would not force jealousy! Yes, even a crowned person! But, however, these were only rumors and whispers. Outwardly, everything did not seem so bad. Until the moment, while Nikolai Afanasevich, who was passionately loved by the horses, did not fall with one of them during a walk, striking his head against a stone.

He remained alive, but his mind has since been clouded and all the reins of the reign to the estate, which executed orders on paper for the imperial court! Accustomed to a brilliant society from her youth, she hardly endured the customs of a provincial estate, her character gradually deteriorated, she could lose her temper for any, the most insignificant reason. She did not endure when she was overpowered - the unlimitedness of her domestic power contributed to this.

Living all the time under the mother’s oppression three smart and also proud young ladies were hard. They grew up, they were taken to balls: to Kaluga, Moscow. Often the young ladies of the Goncharovs took part in living paintings: mini-subjects for any mythological plot. They danced well, spoke several languages, which was accepted even in the province. It surprises something else - they could write in Russian almost without mistakes, sorted out the literature.

They read a lot, especially Catherine. There was a huge library in the estate, many books were prescribed by the father and grandfather Goncharovs right from abroad. Then many books from this luxurious meeting, with the permission of Natalia Ivanovna, will take Pushkin to St. Petersburg. Ekaterina Goncharova may be, Ekaterina Nikolaevna would get married before - there were parties, and more than once.

Close, one of the close neighbors, the Kaluga landowner, was seriously married. But the eternal questions of the attached - it was more than modest and painfully meticulously Natalia Ivanovna sorted out the advantages and disadvantages of the grooms! She liked few. Yes, and others liked her less and less. She began to apply to the glass, surrounded herself with a cloud of some incomprehensible sinking signs, became religious dialogue.

We can say that the marriage of the younger sister - the beauty of Natalia Nikolaevna - saved the older sisters, because the situation in the house became more and more for them. The memory of Nashchokin, one of the closest friends of Alexander Sergeyevich, has been preserved. When asked why he would take two more unmarried sisters of his wife to his family house, he was darkened and dryly replied that the young ladies live in the house of Natalia Ivanovna is more indecent: “She is uncrossed and amorous with all the lackeys!

You can even assume that at the resettlement of both Goncharov sisters to them, not Natalya Nikolaevna, but Alexander, but Alexander. Sergeyevich, who was cherished by the family name and the honor of the surname, could he imagine what tragedy this resettlement would turn out for himself! Maybe at first, upon arrival in Petersburg, Ekaterina Nikolaevna felt depressed: to get from the province at once Fikelmon, and being there in its place is not very simple.

I probably had to talk to her in order to feel her natural mind, charm, charm of conversation. They talked about her vanity, constant desire to arouse delight and admiration, but which of the young girls does not sin with this? At first, she had fun with the heart, and letters flew to the estates, brothers and mother, full of proud descriptions about the first balls, invitations for evenings and requests to send money for outfits and fashionable hats, a ladies' saddle for a walk in the park, an elegant harness for a horse.

She was also echoed by Alexander Nikolaevna, inserting witty remarks in letters about the gentlemen and St. Petersburg highlight. But time passed. It was not a profitable party.Catherine was more often sad, she was annoyed by the lack of money, which she had to literally beg from her brother, by that time that he had already controlled the estate and factory in one of the letters, the phrase was flashing: “It was painful to ask!

Dreaming all the passion, impulse of nature, she hid all her desires under the cover of quiet attention, even courtesy, insignificant smiles, half -joking, not promising chatter. That's why the foreigner hit the elite Russian troops so quickly - the guard, where Russian hereditary nobles usually received! He shone with witty chatter in the salons, knew how to like where necessary.

He was easily accepted not only at the regimental commander of the flight, but also in the cabin of Karamzins, Vyazemsky, Meshchersky, where he managed to become noticeable and almost his own. He was amused by anecdot, could bring a book prohibited for the publication in Russia for the son of the Dutch envoy, albeit a reception, there were no barriers and prohibitions, deftly dashed, was not lost during an witty conversation, there was a lot of poserity, a miserable courage, but there was much that it was valued in society, and especially among the guards: he was well fenced, sat perfectly in the saddle, perfectly in the saddle, perfectly in the saddle.

He owned weapons when Ekaterina Nikolaevna saw a handsome French woman at one of the balls, her heart was immediately conquered. Much has not yet been open, and it is not known whether the archival documents related to the confusing case of the last duel of the poet are stored in various private collections, often inaccessible: in embassies, aristocratic mansions and estates, and sometimes even in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this applies to the sensational activities on the activities of the Baron of Gecker in.

Russia found in the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

But even a little of what is known begins with secrets.