Biography of Natalia Tuchkova

Yakhontovo Dolgorukovo, the Insarsky district of the Penza province, now the Issininsky district - December 30, p.

Akshino Saransky district of the Penza province, a memoirist, daughter of A. On the complex, contradictory personality of Natalia Alekseevna and her role in the life of Herzen and Ogarsh, a lot has been written. The biography of the Tuchkova, who was looking for her path to human happiness, striving to change the position of a woman in society and the family, in articles and works or, on the example of her own life, leave a dual impression.

Natalya Alekseevna was the daughter of the leader of the Penza nobility and participant in the December events of the year Alexei Alekseevich Tuchkov. I received a home education. Seventeen -year -old Natalie responded to the feelings of thirty -year -old Nikolai Ogars. But only three years later, in the year after the death of the first wife of Ogaryov, they got married.

In the year, the family left for London. Natalya Alekseevna Tuchkova-Ogarsva in the first week of his stay in London thoughtfully said to her husband: “Iskander is so talented, so mighty.” And at the same time, completely defenseless, vulnerable! And a few months after arriving in London, his wife admitted to him that Herzen fell in love, wants to live with him and was ready to take upon herself raising his children.

Since the year, Natalya Alekseevna became a common -law wife of Alexander Herzen, raised his children. Natalie Tuchkova-Ogarsa was not fully happy with him. The nature of the cloud, the difficult model of family coexistence tightly tightened the knot of personal grievances. In the year, the family “secret”, which became intolerable torture for all participants in the drama, was officially open, and Tuchkova received the surname Herzen who she wore until her departure to her homeland.

In the year, having buried both Herzen in a foreign land and their common daughter Elizabeth Ogar, she returned to her homeland, where she wrote detailed - and in many respects ruthless to herself - memoirs. Tuchkova herself characterized her letters: “Thinking about the fate of these letters, Tuchkova, as always, was inconsistent, then asked them to burn“ what after our death is an outsider to delve into our lives, ”she carefully held this last connection with the past.

She wrote a lot and in detail, confessing, repenting, accusing herself and others, constantly realizing her duty to the memoirist, undoubtedly endowed with bias, tragic passion and literary talent: "I have been written on the family to cause grief to those whom I love." Even the generous, all -who seducing Ogarov could not say to his ex -wife: “I beg you, Natalie, come to your senses.

You poison the good lives around yourself: the lives of people who could still be useful; the lives of children who have all the young right to life; the life of your child, whom you do not lead in a direct way, but accustoms the races, jumps, and selfishness of Herzen. He spoke with her tougher: "Natalya Alekseevna brought from London the most valuable archive of Herzen. She watched Vlas Doroshevich bustard the return of Iskander’s works to his homeland, and lived until the first year of the Herzen seven -volume was released in the year.

Akshino, in Saransk -, Penza from several years old. Said books to the Public Library named after Lermontov in Penza: Tom in -96 years and volumes in years. Natalya Alekseevna died in the year at the age of eighty -four years, having survived Ogar for twenty -eight years and for thirty -five - Herzen. She lived a large, difficult, full of significant events.

Among her friends and acquaintances were dozens of truly wonderful people, starting from the Decembrists and Turgenev and ending with Garibaldi and Hugo, but it was the years of Tuchkova’s proximity to Ogarov and his great friend who still gave her appearance that she always aroused among his contemporaries. And the book, which Tuchkov left about her life, still retains its outstanding significance primarily as a story about the glorious activity of Herzen and Ogaryov, as a memoir monument dedicated to important pages in the history of our people.

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