Friend of my harsh days,
My decrepit dove!
Alone in the wilderness of pine forests
For a long, long time you've been waiting for me.

You are under the window of your room
Grieving like clockwork
And the spokes are slowing down every minute
In your wrinkled hands.

Looking through the forgotten gates
On a black distant path;
Longing, forebodings, worries
They squeeze your chest all the time.

Yakovleva Arina Rodionovna was born on April 10 (21), 1758 in the village of Lampovo, Petersburg province. Her parents were serfs and had six more children. Her real name was Irina, but her family used to call her Arina. She received her surname from her father Yakovlev, later she became Matveev's husband. Pushkin never called her by name, he was closer to "nanny". From the memoirs of Maria Osipova, "the old woman is extremely respectable - full face, all gray-haired, passionately loving her pet ..."

In 1759 Lampovo and the villages adjacent to it were bought by A.P. Hannibal, great-grandfather of Pushkin. In 1792, Pushkin's grandmother Maria Alekseevna took, as a nanny, Arina Rodionovna for her nephew Alexei. For good service in 1795, Maria Alekseevna gives the nanny a house in the village. And in December 1797, a girl is born in the Hannibal family, who is called Olga (the elder sister of the poet). And Arina Rodionovna was taken into the Pushkin family already as a nurse.
Shortly thereafter, Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich, moved to Moscow. Arina, as a nurse and nanny, was taken with them.
On May 26, 1799, a boy appears in the family, who is called Alexander. Maria Alekseevna also decides to move to Moscow. She is selling her estate, but Arina's house was not sold, but remained for her and her children.
Pushkin's sister Olga Sergeevna Pavlishcheva claimed that Maria Gannibal wanted to give Arina and her husband, along with four children, freedom, but she refused it. All her life, Arina considered herself a "faithful slave," as Pushkin himself called her in Dubrovsky. All her life she was a serf: first Apraksin, then Hannibal, then the Pushkins. At the same time, Arina was on special position, she was trusted, by definition V.V. Nabokov, she was a "housekeeper".
In addition to Olga, Arina Rodionovna was the nanny of Alexander and Lev, but only Olga was the nurse. Four children of Arina Rodionovna remained to live in the village of her husband - Kobrin, and she herself lived first in Moscow, and then in Zakharovo. A few years later, she moved to the village of Mikhailovskoye.
In rich families for the master's children, they took not only nurses and nannies. For boys, "uncle" was also relied upon. For Pushkin, for example, such an "uncle" was Nikita Kozlov, who was next to the poet until his death. But, nevertheless, the nanny was closer to Pushkin. Here is what Veresaev wrote about this: “How strange! The man, apparently, was ardently devoted to Pushkin, loved him, cared, perhaps no less than Arina Rodionovna’s nanny, accompanied him throughout his whole life. independent living, but is not mentioned anywhere: neither in Pushkin's letters, nor in the letters of his relatives. Not a word about him - neither good nor bad. "But it was Kozlov who brought the wounded poet into the house in his arms, he, together with Alexander Turgenev, lowered the coffin with Pushkin's body into the grave.
In 1824-26, Arina Rodionovna lived with Pushkin in Mikhailovsky. It was a time when young Alexander eagerly absorbed his nanny's fairy tales, songs, folk epics. Pushkin writes to his brother: "Do you know what my occupation is? I write notes before dinner, I have dinner late; after dinner I ride, in the evening I listen to fairy tales - and thereby reward the shortcomings of my accursed upbringing. What a charm these fairy tales are! Each is a poem!". Interestingly, Pushkin himself said that Arina Rodionovna served as a prototype for Tatyana's nanny in Eugene Onegin, as well as Dubrovsky's nanny. It is believed that Arina was the basis of the image of Xenia's mother in Boris Godunov.

Our ramshackle shack
Sad and dark.
What are you, my old lady,
Silent at the window?
Or howling storms
You, my friend, are tired
Or slumber under the buzz
Your spindle?
Let's drink, good friend,
My poor youth
Let's drink from grief; where is the mug?
The heart will be happy.
Sing me a song like a titmouse
She lived quietly across the sea;
Sing me a song like a damsel
She followed the water in the morning.
A storm covers the sky with mist,
Whirlwinds of snow twisting;
Like a beast she will howl
It will cry like a child.
Let's drink, good friend
My poor youth
Let's drink from grief; where is the mug?
The heart will be happy.

Pushkin A.S. 1825.

The last time Pushkin saw Arina Rodionovna was in Mikhailovsky on September 14, 1827. Nanny died when she was seventy years old on July 29, 1828 in St. Petersburg. For a long time, nothing was known about either the day or the place of the burial of the nanny. Neither Alexander nor Olga attended her funeral. She was buried by Olga's husband Nikolai Pavlishchev, leaving the grave nameless. And she soon got lost. Back in 1830, they tried to find the grave of Pushkin's nanny, but they did not find it. It was believed that she was buried in the Svyatogorsk monastery, near the poet's grave; there were those who were sure that Arina Rodionovna was buried in her homeland in Suida; and also at the Bolsheokhtinsky cemetery in St. Petersburg, where at one time a slab with the inscription "Nanny Pushkin" was even installed. Only in 1940 was it found in the archives that a nanny was buried in the Vladimir Church. There they found a record dated July 31, 1828 "5th class official Sergei Pushkin, serf woman Irina Rodionova, 76 old age, priest Alexei Narbekov." It also turned out that she was buried at the Smolensk cemetery. At the entrance to it, and today you can find a commemorative plaque. It was installed in 1977: "Arina Rodionovna, the nanny of A.S. Pushkin 1758-1828, is buried in this cemetery
"Girlfriend of my harsh days,
My decrepit dove"

Confidante of magical old times,
Friend of fictions playful and sad,
I knew you in the days of my spring,
In the days of joys and initial dreams;
I was waiting for you. In the evening silence
You were a cheerful old woman
And she sat above me in a shushun
In big glasses and with a frisky rattle.
You, rocking the cradle of a child,
My youthful ear captivated me with melodies
And between the sheets she left a flute,
Which she herself enchanted.

Yakovleva Arina Rodionovna

Years of life

(1758-1828)

Nyanya A.S. Pushkina, Arina (Irina or Irinya) Rodionovna Rodionova (Yakovleva-Matveeva) was born in the village of Suide (now the village of Voskresenskoye) in the St. Petersburg province. Her mother Lukeria Kirillovna and father Rodion Yakovlev had 7 children. Having lost her father, at the age of ten, the girl learned early the need and work. Their family was bought by the great-grandfather of the poet Abram Petrovich Gannibal.
In 1781, at the age of twenty-two, Arina married Fyodor Matveev, a serf from the village of Kobrin, located 60 miles from St. Petersburg. The village belonged to Pushkin's grandfather Hannibal. In 1797, she was taken to the Pushkins' house as a nanny-breadwinner for Pushkin's sister Olga Sergeevna, and when Alexander Sergeevich was born, she became his nanny.
Arina Rodionovna had 4 children: Maria, Nadezhda, Yegor and Stefan. She was widowed at 43 and never remarried. For the first summer in the life of the poet, he was under the supervision of a nanny. She looked after the young Sasha until the age of 7, and then he switched to the care of tutors and teachers.
Arina Rodionovna played a big role in the life of the poet. He saw her during his visits to the village of Mikhailovsky in 1817 and 1819.

Arina Rodionovna is an example for others, she is "a wonderful example of spiritual beauty, wisdom and spiritual properties of our people." Finally, now she herself has become a genius: Arina Rodionovna: "the good genius of the poet." Under the influence of the nanny, Pushkin fell in love with the Russian language and the Russian people already in childhood.
The literary talent of the nanny was very great. She is "a talented storyteller who has absorbed all the wisdom of folk poetry." It is known that the poet wrote down seven nursery tales in drafts, which he then, almost verbatim, conveyed in his poems. Arina Rodionovna, as they say in the biographies of the poet, replaced his family, and for periods of friends and society. In winter, Pushkinists report, the nanny even replaced the stove for him: “In the Mikhailovsky House on a frosty winter evening, only the nanny’s love warms him.”
Pushkin loved her with a kindred, unfailing love, and in the years of manhood and glory he talked with her for whole hours. In letters to friends from Mikhailov's exile, he wrote that "the nanny is my only friend - and with her only I am not bored." With her, the poet was easy and comfortable, she brightened up his loneliness.
Arina Rodionovna died on July 31, 1828 in St. Petersburg in the house of Pushkin's sister Olga Sergeyevna Pavlishcheva after a short illness at the age of 70. Pushkin took the death of his nanny with great sadness. The poet kept the living image of Arina Rodionovna in his soul all his life with a feeling of deep sadness, the poet recalled his nanny, having arrived in Mikhailovskoye in 1835. He wrote to his wife: "In Mikhailovskoye I found everything the same as before, except that my nanny is gone..."

The grave of Arina Rodionovna was lost. Perhaps she was buried in one of the cemeteries (in particular, at Bolsheokhtinsky, because there is a memorial plaque with the inscription: "In this cemetery, according to legend, the nanny of the poet A.S. Pushkin, Arina Rodionovna, who died in 1828), was buried. The grave was lost in Petersburg, or maybe in the village of Mikhailovsky, where there is a monument with the inscription "Nanny". It stands on the right side of the poet's grave." In the village of Mikhailovskoye, the nanny's house has also been preserved. This is a house chopped from thick pine logs, with small windows.
A State Museum, which is called "The house of the nanny A.S. Pushkin Arina Rodionovna. This is a dilapidated, 18th century house, miraculously preserved to this day, but the exhibits of the museum are unique.

A.S. Pushkin. babysitter
Friend of my harsh days,
My decrepit dove!
Alone in the wilderness of pine forests
For a long, long time you've been waiting for me.
You are under the window of your room
Grieving like clockwork
And the spokes are slowing down every minute
In your wrinkled hands.
Looking through the forgotten gates
On a black distant path;
Longing, forebodings, worries
They squeeze your chest all the time ...
That makes you wonder...
(The poem is left unfinished)......

Friend of my harsh days,
My decrepit dove!
Alone in the wilderness of pine forests
For a long, long time you've been waiting for me.
You are under the window of your room
Grieving like clockwork
And the spokes are slowing down every minute
In your wrinkled hands.
Looking through the forgotten gates
To the black distant path:
Longing, forebodings, worries
They squeeze your chest all the time.
That makes you wonder...

Let's listen to this poem.

Analysis of the poem by A.S. Pushkin "Nanny"

A poem by A.S. Pushkin's "Nanny" is one of the simplest and most sincere confessions of the poet's love for his nanny. It is filled with tenderness and care. Arina Rodionovna, to whom it is dedicated, replaced the poet's mother. From childhood, a simple peasant woman surrounded the future poet with warmth, care, kind tales and words of love. According to the memoirs of Alexander Sergeevich, she was a good storyteller, loved to sing folk songs. Famous Pushkin's fairy tales are filled with images from childhood memories and told legends.

Respect and love for Arina Rodionovna Pushkin kept in his heart. Suffice it to say that in correspondence with acquaintances there was always a place for a story about the nanny, the poet's colleagues and friends constantly conveyed their regards to her. The quintessence of the feelings of Alexander Sergeevich was the poem "Nanny".

The genre of the poem is defined as a message, because it is filled with appeals to one addressee. In the form and order of presentation of thought, the verse resembles a letter, a very popular artistic genre at that time.

Composition and size

The size of the poem fully embodies the image of the melodious Arina Rodionovna, because it is rhythmic and musical. This impression can be achieved with the help of Pushkin's favorite four-foot iambic rhyme. There is no division into stanzas, which makes it look like colloquial speech, monologue.

The composition has four parts. First lyrical hero affectionately addresses the nurse. Then follows a description of a cozy hut in the middle of the forest, where Arina Rodionovna lives.

The third part of the verse is devoted to the description of an old woman who constantly waits for her beloved pupil and worries about him. Accustomed to manual labor, she does not sit idle, however, her thoughts are occupied with spiritual experiences and full of sadness.

The end of the poem depicts the dreary expectation of Arina Rodionovna. It is no coincidence that at the end the narrative is interrupted by an ellipsis, allowing the reader to continue the thought himself.

The syntax of the poem is also subject to the idea and mood of the author. The first sentence is exclamatory, filled with joyful emotions. The second draws a portrait of the nanny. And the last two - with a complex syntactic construction - convey the author's guilt, his torment. Pushkin wants, on the one hand, to take care of his loving nanny and not disturb her once again with his absence, on the other hand, his arrival in Mikhailovskoye is impossible.

Thanks to this composition and syntax, the lyrical hero is clearly not depicted. But his presence is felt in every line, in every cordial appeal and caring description.

The image of the nanny Arina Rodionovna

The central image of the poem is Arina Rodionovna. The invisible presence of the lyrical hero remains in the shadows.

A modest affectionate woman is called the "dove" by the poet. In folk lyrics, this is an image that personifies quiet modesty, wisdom, affection and fidelity. With tenderness, the author uses unforgettable paraphrases: “my decrepit dove”, “friend of my harsh days”. They show sincere love and light irony, born of the joint memories of the past years.

Epithets show the loneliness of the old woman: “forgotten gate”, “black distant path”.

The metaphor of knitting needles shows how intense the attention of Arina Rodionovna is, who is always waiting for her pupil and constantly listening to see if the bell will notify the arrival of the long-awaited guest.

Contrasting the front room of the black path gives a contrast between the quiet wilderness and the stormy secular life, conveys anxiety for the pupil.

The language of the poem deserves special attention. It is simple, clear and understandable even to the most ordinary person. This is due to the fact that Arina Rodionovna is a serf peasant woman without education, but her simple language is so beautiful and figurative that it became the main object of depiction in the work of A.S. Pushkin.

The warm name of Arina Rodionovna is familiar to everyone from a young age. Knowing what role she played in the life of the great Russian poet, it is impossible to read the verse to “Nanny” Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin without emotion. Each of his lines is saturated with warmth, gratitude and tender sadness.

The poem was written by the poet in 1826, in St. Petersburg. By this time, Pushkin returned from Mikhailovsky, where he was sent in 1824 after another skirmish with his superiors. In September, there was a “reconciliation” between the poet and Nicholas I, who promised him his patronage, even though Pushkin did not hide from him his sympathy for the Decembrists.

The text of Pushkin's poem "Nanny" is divided into 4 parts. First, the poet friendly addresses his nurse, who was with him not only all his childhood, but also during his two years of exile in Mikhailovsky. My address “Decrepit Dove” could be called familiar, but Pushkin, firstly, loves very much, and secondly, respects the nanny immensely. She is not only a nurse for him, she is a friend of harsh days, much closer spiritually than a mother.

In the third part of the poem, which is now taking place at a literature lesson in the 5th grade, Alexander Sergeevich mentally returns to his father's house. The image of a wise and kind nanny endlessly touches him. With his mind's eye, Pushkin sees how Arina Rodionovna is grieving in front of the window of her room and waiting, waiting for the master, for whom he is very worried, peering tensely into the distance. In the last lines, the poet emphasizes that he cannot often visit Mikhailovsky and visit the nurse. He grew up, he has a different life, other concerns and aspirations.

Learning this lyrical work is quite easy. His text is soft, flowing, quick to remember.