Princess Ligovskaya
The Princess Ligowskaja ( Russian Княгиня Лиговская , Knjaginja Ligowskaja) is a 1836-1837 novel by the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontow . The abandoned fragment was published posthumously in 1882 in “ Russki Westnik ”.
According to Paul von Wiskowatow and Akim Schan-Girei, the text has autobiographical features. Because the model for the title figure is said to have been Lermontov's lover Varwara Bachmetewa .
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The 23-year-old single noble officer Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin - called George - grew up in Moscow and lives with his widowed mother Tatyana Petrovna in Saint Petersburg . Tatyana Petrovna, mother of two children, has three thousand serfs in the Saratov , Voronezh and Kaluga governorships .
The rapid drive of his coachman through downtown Petersburg on the afternoon of December 21, 1833 was applauded by Georges, even if a passer-by was hit. The officer Stanislaw Krassinski gets away with a push of the drawbar against the chest. The carriage races on without stopping.
In the evening at the opera during the intermission of a performance of the Mute by Portici , Stanislaw Krassinski has to overhear George boasting about the horse-drawn sleigh accident in front of his comrades. The officer then expressed indignation. George is expecting a duel. Krassinski is noble, but impoverished. He has to earn a living by working in a Petersburg ministry. A duel is out of the question for the officer. George replies to the washcloth: "I promise to have my driver flogged."
George is donjuanesk in Petersburg: Lisaweta Nikolajewna Negurowa has given a swarm of admirers in turn the basket in the past few years. Now the 25-year-old has no applicants. George takes pity for fun and, of course, leads Mademoiselle Lisaweta by the nose.
Aside from this joke, George used to be more serious with Verotschka, a friend of his 16-year-old sister, Varvara Alexandrovna - called Warenka. The 17-year-old Verotschka, daughter of Mr. R., is an extensive relative of George on his mother's side. The connection hadn't come off because George, as a defaulting student, had caused trouble for his mother at the time. The widow hadn't hesitated for long and had sent her unwary son to junior school. George had then taken part in the Polish campaign . Verotschka has now turned twenty-two and is newly married as Princess Vera Dmitrijewna Ligowskaja to the much older Prince Stepan Stepanowitsch Ligowski.
George still loves the princess, does not give up and makes another attempt at overtaking. The princess's husband is interested in a certain official Krassinski on business. The novel becomes a farce. George tracks down his intimate enemy (see picture on the right) and orders him to the salon of his adored Verotschka.
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After reading it for the first time, the lecture appears to be carefree. Lermontov brings in the history as needed and annoys the reader by belatedly submitting the name of the official Krassinski and letting the reader guess / guess the identity of Verotschka - Princess Ligowskaya. On closer inspection, such delaying tactics turn out to be a formal element to surprise the reader.
Sometimes it seems as if Lermontow is making fun of his writing. At the end of the fifth of the present nine chapters, he humorously interjects: “So far, dear readers, you have seen that the love of my heroes has not deviated from the general rules of every novel and of every budding love. Later, however ... you will see and hear strange things. ”Overall, however, the text is meant quite seriously. The threatened existence of the aristocratic upper class is relentlessly denounced - for example when Lermontov lets his official Krassinski say in the face of the princely idlers in the salon: “Their fate is pleasure and luxury, ours - work and worries; it has to be like that: if we weren't, who should work. "
Text output
- Princess Ligovskaya. German by Barbara Heitkam. P. 157–237 in: Michail Lermontow: Prosa und Dramatik. 584 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-352-00095-6 (edition used)
Web links
- Wikisource : Княгиня Лиговская (Лермонтов) (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Княгиня Лиговская (Лермонтов)
- ↑ Russian Шан-Гирей, Аким Павлович
- ↑ Edition used, p. 176, 10. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 201, 9. Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 225, 2nd Zvu