Аннотация: Interview about the Chamberlain Rezanov
Interview about the Chamberlain Rezanov
- In one of your works the first Russian circumnavigation with the participation of Ivan Krusenstern, Yuri Lisianski (Lisyansky), Nikolai Rezanov is described.
The tense plot of the relationship between Krusenstern and Lisyansky, on the one hand, and Rezanov, on the other hand, ends with the unsuccessful Rezanov Embassy in Japan.
Then Rezanov remains in east territories of the Empire.
The first round-the-world expedition continues the movement without him. Further about Rezanov in your work only a short mention: he has died on the way to Russia. There is an impression that author's interest in Rezanov at some point disappears.
- Look at the biography of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov.
An obscure point in his biography is related to his short stay at a young age next to the Empress Catherine II.
Later - not a bad, but nothing remarkable career.
Then he as meteor flies through the space of Russian history. But meteor is not Rezanov. He's a passenger of a meteor. Meteor is the First Russian circumnavigation. Then he "goes ashore". The expedition is moving on. He continues to act independently.
- That is, the interest in him is lost, disappears?
- Not that it is lost. The destiny is interesting in itself. But oddly there is difficult a question of a format of the description of his course of life. To tell something good? To tell something bad? It would be desirable to tell good ... But if to describe consistently, in a complex, more or less objectively, then the ambiguous, sad picture turns out ...
You may to read some of the details of his life. Like would, man not bad - initially. His fate is, at first glance, a set of circumstances. Through which he could not pass with success. Why was he missing? It is clear that he did not have the audacity (courage), such as, for example, at Alexander Radishchev, at the author "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow". Radishchev wrote himself, he performed (that is, published) himself, he himself went down in a history.
Not visible from the biography of Rezanov commitment to the development of knowledge, skills - as for example, the Yuri Lisyansky. Rezanov did have not those abilities, that the will, that "combinational" mind which Ivan Krusenstern had.
After a failed Embassy in Japan Rezanov took action to provide the population in the Eastern territories of the Empire with food. The result? It seems to have received something. But how? He left behind some sad dramatic story associated with a failed marriage.
On one bowl of scales - reputation, on another - the ship with food ... Somehow there is no wish to throw into him a stone. So and Alaska not for a great means was sold ...
It is possible to sneer at results of his activity, at his destiny in general. But for some reason there is no desire of it to do, there is a wish to leave him alone.
- But the Chamberlain Rezanov is a hero of a romantic work. How many they sang about him.
- Those who closed eyes to the real facts of Rezanov's biography sang. The mankind loves fairy tales.
- In your presentation he makes a strange impression. If he wasn't "untwisted" through "romanticizing" of a history, then all would forget about him?
- Maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Completely about him they would not forget. He is "integrated" into the history of the first Russian circumnavigation. This circumnavigation has an independent historical value. Independent of the history of Alaska and the history of the Embassy in Japan. Communication with others - the "historical" - people, "introduces" Rezanov into the story.
As for the period after Rezanov "got off the ship", it would be possible to forget about this period. Everyone has the right to be weak. Although the weakness of men and not a virtue, but kicking for weakness, no desire.
You find in Rezanov during the acquaintance to the facts of Rezanov's life a some nice lines, advantages.
Generally, it's a situation, when there is a wish to write nothing about the person. You provide this initiative to others.
- I thank for the expressed opinion.
October 27, 2018 06:41
Translation from Russian into English: October 27, 2018 07:38.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Интервью о камергере Резанове'.