Two hussars

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Lev Tolstoy in 1856

Two Hussars ( Russian гусара Два , Dwa gussara ) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy , which was created in early spring 1856 and in the May issue of the same year in Sovremennik appeared. The author had changed his working title Father and Son on the advice of the editor Nikolai Nekrasov . In 1984 Vyacheslav Sigismundowitsch Krischtofowitsch filmed the novella for television. Oleg Jankowski played the father and son Turbin.

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Around 1828 the hussar Count Fyodor Ivanovich Turbin stayed in a hotel in the governorate town of K. and met his comrade Michail Wassiljewitsch Iljin, a cornet with the Uhlans . Both serve in the same division . So it is a good thing that Ilyin takes his comrade, who has gambled away his money, into his hotel room. Ilyin is not inferior to Turbin in the unsuccessful card game. The landlord Luchnow took from Ilyin 15,000 rubles in a game. The loser wants to give himself the ball because the amount lost is state money . Turbin promises Ilyin his help. First, the bare turbine borrows a hundred rubles from the cavalryman Savalshevsky. Sawalschewski introduces Turbin to his sister Anna Feodorovna Saizewa. The young, desirable, wealthy widow offends Turbin by trying to help him financially. Usually the count duels with an offender. But what do you do when this is a lady? Turbin knows what to do. He kisses and hugs her violently as a punishment. Before the count begins the onward journey, he takes the money he has stolen from the cardsharp Luchnow by force and gives it to Ilyin. Of the 16,300 rubles, the count receives 1,300 rubles back for his travel budget.

Twenty years later, in May 1848, Mikhail Ilyin is now Brigadier General . Count Turbin has long been shot in a duel. His son, the 23-year-old Hussar Rittmeister Count Turbin junior, stayed with his squadron in Morosowka. The owner of the village of Morosowka is the well-known widow Anna Saizewa. Turbin junior and his comrade, the cornet Polosow, court Anna's 22-year-old daughter Lisa. The young Turbin did not inherit any of his father's reprehensible traits; With one forgivable exception: on that moonlit May night that follows the evening we spent with Anna Saizewa, her brother Savalschewski and Lisa, he surprises Lisa slumbering by her open window during a walk in the garden. The frightened maiden runs away. Cornet Polosov, who that evening had been the more reserved of the two young men, called the young count a villain when his friend told the story at the window. A third officer - who is a good comrade of the two rivals - can only with difficulty prevent the pistol duel between the two inexperienced in love affairs.

reception

Ivan Turgenev , Nikolai Nekrasov and Vasily Botkin received the text enthusiastically. Alexander Druzhinin predicted a brilliant future for the author as a writer. Nikolai Chernyshevsky praised the step forward that Tolstoy had taken with the Two Hussars . The text was one of the author's first to be translated into a foreign language - French. Turgenew wrote on February 10, 1875 in Die Zeit that Tolstoy's principles of text construction could be read from the blueprint of the Two Hussars .

German-language editions

  • Two hussars. German by Gisela Drohla . P. 44–120 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Second volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Вячеслав Сигизмундович Криштофович
  2. ↑ Russian Фёдор Иванович Турбин
  3. ↑ Russian Михаил Васильевич Ильин
  4. ↑ Russian Лухнов
  5. ↑ Russian Завальшевский
  6. ↑ Russian Анна Фёдоровна Зайцева
  7. ↑ Russian Полозов
  8. ↑ Russian Лиза
  9. ↑ Russian Василий Петрович Боткин (1812–1869)
  10. ↑ Russian Александр Васильевич Дружинин (1824–1864)
  11. ↑ Russian source: Два гусара (повесть), section Критика - criticism
  12. ↑ Russian Бурнашева Н.В.