Elizabeth Khitrovo biography

The salons of E. Khitrovo and D. Fikelmon Salon E. Fikelmon Elizaveta Mikhailovna in the second marriage of Khitrovo was the beloved daughter of M. She was distinguished by European education and good awareness in matters of modern literature and socio-political events. Her youngest daughter Daria Fedorovna Dolly was the wife of the Austrian envoy K. Fikelmon at the Russian court.

Had an independent way of thinking and a bright mind. The researchers adopted two salons that these women held in one, since the circle of people visiting them was the same and the topics that were touched upon in the conversations had no differences. In the house, which today has the address Palace Embankment 4, the Austria embassy was located.

And here the whole color of the capital's society was going to the Salon Cunning-Fielmon. Usually the morning, just starting, however, from one in the afternoon, the guests spent at Elizabeth Mikhailovna, and by the evening they moved to the living room to Dolly. Vyazemsky wrote: "All a burning life, European and Russian, political, literary and public, had the right echoes in these two related salons." The house of the Austrian envoy as friends was regularly visited by Zhukovsky, Sologub, A.

Turgenev, I. I. In there it was always possible to find interesting people from diplomatic circles. Many of them had the most friendly relations with Pushkin, and some served as the Russian classics prototypes for the heroes of the passage "Guests gathered to the cottage." They learned from each other news that were not reported in the official St. Petersburg newspapers. The regularity of visiting Alexander Sergeevich this salon can be judged by the apt expression of Vyazemsky: "Diplomats and Pushkin were at home." Elizaveta Mikhailovna and Dolly bowed to Pushkin's talent.

I must say that Khitrovo was even carried away by the poet more than it should. Her letters were full of tender, almost maternal instructions she was 16 years older and were written quite often. She could not count on reciprocity. Pushkin occasionally even complained to friends of her annoyance, but at the same time he always treated this lady with emphasized respect and saw in her "his most sincere friend." She, in turn,, together with Dolly, after the poet’s marriage, helps his wife Natalya Nikolaevna, and later her sisters, in receiving the recognition of the capital's secular society, takes the troubles of arranging the publication of the Minor Magazine, defends Eugene Onegin from the attacks of the critics of the Northern Beekee.

Thanks to the help of Eliza, all information about important events in Russia and Europe is available to the poet when he is not able to leave Boldino. Having access to signal copies of books and magazines delivered to the Austrian embassy, ​​which were prohibited or not yet published in Russia, Khitrovo sends them to the poet, including the works of Hugo and Stendhal, articles in the Polinyak case.

An anonymous letter that led to a duel, on which Pushkin died, also sent this woman. But it was a fatal accident. Having received a package in her name with mail, but containing an Epistle for Alexander Sergeyevich, she, without opening the envelope and not getting acquainted with his contents, transported him further, to which the poet’s enemies were counting on.

The Fikelmon diary helps descendants understand the atmosphere in which Pushkin has passed among the gossip and intrigues. In the year, the salon ceased to exist in connection with the departure of the spouses Fikelmon abroad for the treatment of Dolly, it will never step on Russian land. Elizaveta Mikhailovna Khitrovna rides with them, but after returning to Russia, where he suddenly dies in May.

In the year, the husband of Countess Dolly was officially withdrawn to Vienna.