220th anniversary of the birth of the Simbirsk poet Nikolai Yazykov
17.03.2023
Nikolai Yazykov is the brightest representative of poetry of the Golden Age of Literature.
The poet was born on March 16, 1803 in the family of a wealthy landowner. The family had a two-story stone mansion in Simbirsk, located on Spasskaya Street.
He was part of the closest poetic circle of A.S. Pushkin. Yazykov’s talent and talent were recognized not only by Pushkin, but also by Gogol, whom the Simbirian, by the way, met while traveling in Italy.
In 1833, the first collection of “Poems by N. Yazykov” was published in St. Petersburg, enthusiastically received by the most prominent writers in Russia.
Friendship with Yazykov brought Alexander Pushkin to Simbirsk: in 1833, Pushkin, collecting materials for “The Captain’s Daughter” and “The History of Pugachev,” traveled around the Volga region and the Urals. The poet visited the Yazykov family estate twice. And one day I didn’t find him at home. Then he carved his name with a diamond ring as a keepsake on one of the glass windows of his room. This became a precious autograph that was kept for a long time.
The name of Nikolai Yazykov is inscribed in the city space: in Ulyanovsk one of the streets and alleys bears the name of the poet, and in the center of the city there is a literary museum “The Yazykov House”, where the poet used to live.