Аннотация: The Joking Fairy Tale about the letter of the poet Pushkin to the publisher Sobolevsky
The Joking Fairy Tale about the letter of the poet Pushkin to the publisher Sobolevsky
Alexander Pushkin see the dreaming vision that he comes to office of one of his publishers, and publisher offers him a good money as an advance payment.
"You, Alexander Sergeyevich, write great poetry! They are very popular! Now you need money. You may take. You write new poems. I'll publish them. The advance payment will turn into a honorarium for works, written and printed."
"Good idea!" - Pushkin has thought, and has taken money.
From that moment on, some new winds blew in his life.
A few people he barely knew began to show unusual activity. One, the other are coming with visits. And they all have a some urgent tasks. A good man needs help. An important public event. A charitable action. An opening of the Museum apartment of the famous writer. A book exhibition. A presentation of the honorary literary award.
"And here a new literary work! Very relevant! What will you tell about it, Alexander Sergeyevich? All Russia discusses!" Pushkin reads the relevant work ... He expresses his opinion ...
"There's nothing to be done! It is well-known that acquaintances, communications - the most valuable capital!"
There comes the moment when it is necessary to give the verses to the publisher in exchange of advance payment. And nothing is written.
Pushkin comes to the publisher, and he says: "I'm seeing your's face, Alexander Sergeyevich. I am understanding that by you the poems are not written. What do you want me to do? I'm not going to sacrifice my business for you... It is necessary to make your houses and estates a subject of negotiations for financial improvement of current situation ... And you prepare yourself for a debt prison. There you will write poems about your origin."
The debt prison has seemed to Pushkin an absolutely unpleasant option.
He asks the inventive publisher: "What to do?"
"So you do not spend your ability in vain, and engaged in a useful business, I enroll you in my publishing house for the post of clerk of lowest rank with a salary of 600 rubles a year. Remember Gogol! He worked in a similar position for almost a year. It was good for him."
"Here's your personnal desk in the office for employees."
"The working day from 9 o'clock in the morning and up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon." "The Russian literature, as we know, hasn't died yet. Good feathers are necessary!"
"And don't forget to sign a special additional agreement on non-disclosure of the terms of the employment contract."
"And in the evening, that you correctly spent a free time, you must to be present at dancing-parties. Dressed in a uniform of the clerk of lowest rank and with your young wife".
Pushkin has woken up and has remembered Sergey Sobolevsky. The mood has improved. "What for the bad dream vision?"
"Friend Sergey Sobolevsky! I will write you the letter!"
'У Гальяни иль Кольони
Закажи себе в Твери
С пармазаном макарони,
Да яичницу свари.'
"From Galliani or Coloni
Order yourself in Tver
With parmesano macaroni,
Do a Fried egg in Petersburg.'
Having thought, he have written some more lines:
'Бог помочь вам, друзья мои,
И в бурях, и в житейском горе,
В краю чужом, в пустынном море
И в мрачных пропастях земли!'
"God to help you, my friends,
Both in storms, and in an everyday grief,
In the foreign land, in the desert sea,
And in gloomy abysses of the earth!"
July 20, 2018 09:45
Translation from Russian into English: July 20, 2018 11:12.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Шуточная сказка о письме поэта Пушкина к издателю Соболевскому'.