Daniel Granik

[Тютчев]

Turgenev and Viardot together again

Yuri Kovalenko (Paris)

Monument Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev opens in the Paris suburb of Bougival, on the estate "Ash", which belonged to the Russian classics. Opening of the monument dedicated to the 100 th anniversary of the death of Pauline Viardot.

Singer and writer depicted on both sides of the monument, made in the form of sheet ash. Its author - a famous sculptor Gregory Potocki. At the opening of Marina Vlady read in Russian and French excerpts from "Song of Triumphant Love."

Forty-year friendship of the singer and author of "Sketches" is devoted to the play "Song of ash" with the French actor Michel Lonsdalya, Kathryn Fant Gournay and Mark Zvigilskogo. Performance in the former estate of the writer, which is located Turgenev Museum, opened in 1983. And although the novel Turgenev and Viardot Maupassant called "the most beautiful love story XIX century, most literary critics believe that their associated platonic relationship.

Ivan Sergeevich, together with Pauline and her husband Louis Viardot purchased the estate in Bougival in 1874. In the villa the couple moved Viardot, and next, about fifty meters, Turgenev built a house resembling the one in which he lived in the Spassky-Lutovinovo. The writer himself calls the estate "Ash" - in the park grew a lot of these trees. In "Yassen" Turgenev wrote the novel "Virgin Soil," most "Poems in Prose" and more than six letters. In the last days of life seriously ill, Ivan Sergeyevich dictated Pauline Viardot in the French stories of "The End" and "Fire on the Sea. In "Yassen" He died Sept. 3, 1883.

Turgenev, played a crucial role in bringing together Russian and French cultures. He translated the works of Russian writers - from Pushkin to Saltykov-Shchedrin. However, Pauline, who was a famous singer, popularized in France, music by Russian composers. A friend of Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Daudet, and did everything to acquaint Russian readers with their books.

And in this Year of Russia in France Turgenev devoted many cultural events. For example, Orel Drama Theatre, named after him, will show "Yassen" scenes from Tolstoy's play "The Power of Darkness." The museum will host exhibitions Bougival "Laughter of Gogol and Turgenev's laughter," Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, and even a chess tournament - Ivan Sergeyevich very fond of this game. Two classics often forces were measured, and Tolstoy with displeasure admitted that Turgenev in chess was stronger.

http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article3141960/
http://www.turgenev.org.ru/index.html