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	PUSHKIN — BROTHER KOZMY PRUTKOVA Lately we have got used to sensations the political, economic, historical, criminal and any other. But there are still sensations-opening and in the literature world. About them it is known less — somehow not to the literature now, and it govoritsja-is informed on them in editions especially special, limited. About such litsensatsii today speech also will go. In magazine «Classical literature» (№ 3 for this year) there was article of Israeli literary critic Aron Shulermana «Mythical poet» which, without exaggeration, will shake all reading Russia. For the lack of a place we will not state in detail a sensational hypothesis of the respectable philologist, and its essence is in brief that: great poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is an ingenious mystification. The literature history knows examples such. And it is not proved, for example, whether there was actually a legendary Homere, till now argue on, whether is "Hamlet", "Othello's" author and other immortal plays William Shakespeare, and mystification with our unforgettable Kozmoj Prutkovym has been exposed far not at once — contemporaries long time believed in a real existing on light of such picturesque author Aron Shulerman assumes, as Pushkin is too only a literary name. More correctly, the person such lived-existed: was born in 1799, studied in Lycée, was lost on duel in 1837. Everything, as well as is described by biographers-Pushkin scholars. Except for one: real Pushkin if scribbled rhymes, rather mediocre. All has begun, under version SHulermana, with litsejskogo examination on which there was Derzhavin. The poem «Memoirs on Tsarskoe Selo» which was read before the patriarch of Russian literature by young Pushkin is a fruit of the collective composition of its friends of Delwig and Kjuhelbekkera. They have thought up it for fun, and it would be desirable to amaze the great poet: say, here is how lyceum students are able to compose! Have entrusted to play a role of young poet Pushkin — as to the most brisk. By the way, it is a lot of years later Pushkin's friends have as though blabbed out, having put in a known line a pronoun in plural: «Old man Derzhavin has noticed us and, in a coffin descending, has blest …» Gradually the joke was tightened, has outgrown in serious, epoch-making scales business. In Pushkin's creativity took part more than ten writers, as though creating collectively Russian ingenious writer. Pushkin in poetry are already mentioned lyceum students, and except them the mite have brought Zhukovsky, Venevitinov, Tyutchev and even young Lermontov. Not without reason then in the well-known poem «Death of the Poet» it will mention: The Poet was lost! — the slave of honour, Has fallen, slandered by a rumour, With lead In the BREAST and thirst to sweep … What there a breast! Real Pushkin, as is known, has been wounded in the bottom of a stomach, almost in a groin, but young Lermontov pripodymaet a reality, romaticizes: yes, Russian literature has been mortally wounded in the heart — already any collective efforts of second such genius will not create. As to other genres here the case played still the big role. Happened so, that other products of large writers for whatever reasons under their names to publish it was impossible, and then they were born under Pushkin's surname. So, «the Captain's daughter», «to Lead Belkin» and the majority of other prosaic things, and also «History pugachevskogo revolt» belong actually Karamzin's to feather. And "Boris Godunov" and «Small tragedies» have been found out in Griboedov's archive after his death. And during lifetime of Pushkin and already more than one and a half centuries after its  destruction researchers of a life and creativity of the poet do not cease to be surprised: what contrast between Pushkin-drunkard, the rake and the duelist in a life, and Pushkin-creator, what fantastic width of genres and subjects in its creativity, what surprising differences in style and a syllable … Well, Aron Shulermana's hypothesis in many respects throws light on these strangenesses.
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