On March 17, 2022, Dmitry Medvedev in the publication in Telegram quoted the famous poet, thereby illustrating that "anti -Russian hysteria is by no means new." We checked whether these words belong to Tyutchev.
On March 14, 2022, the former president of Russia, and now the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, made his own Telegram channel. Three days later in it appeared The first entry dedicated to the “most dramatic theme” - the “frenzied Russophobia of the West”, which, “apparently, will never reach the bottom.” In his text, Medvedev also gives such an argument: “The anti -Russian hysteria that we are now observing - the phenomenon is by no means new. She was both in the 19th and 20th centuries. Let us recall the famous words of Fyodor Tyutchev: “It was possible to predict for a long time that this frantic hatred, which is thirty years old, every year more and more, has been kindled in the west against Russia, it will someday with a chain. This moment has come. Russia simply proposed suicide, renunciation of the very basis of its being, solemn recognition, that it is nothing other The world, as a wild and ugly phenomenon, as evil, requiring correction. " It seems that it is written in 2022. "
This phrase attributed to Tyutchev began to actively spread in March 2022. For example, March 12 by a quote Placed In his Telegram channel, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, and the next day with her shared On its Facebook page, the Russian Embassy in Argentina. March 15 Tyutchev's quote Conducted In his speech in UNESCO, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia at the organization Tatyana Dovgalenko. At the same time, users of social networks began to actively publish the poet’s statement, although they had previously paid no attention to her.
Apparently, the wording of the quote used in the above examples is taken from Books literary critic Vadim Kozhinov about Tyutchev, who I went out In the series "Life of wonderful people" (for the first time in 1988, then in 2009). According to Kozhinov, he found the words about “frantic hatred” in a certain letter of Tyutchev of April 21, 1854. The author of the book about the poet brought the corresponding fragment with reductions and explanations, while Medvedev and others used this text in the form of a single quote.
The original of this letter is presented in an earlier biographical essay on Tyutchev, published back in 1874, next year after death poet. The author of this essay is the son -in -law of Tyutchev, a publicist and one of the ideologists of Slavophilism Ivan Aksakov. In his work, Aksakov cites several letters written by Tyutchev during the Crimean War and addressed to his wife, treated in Germany. In particular, on April 21, 1854, the poet talked about his reaction to an article by the French publicist Eugene Forkada, where they were placed without a signature of excerpt from other Tyutchev letters.
A completely quote from a letter written in French translated in Aksakov sounds So: “For a long time it was possible to predict that this frantic hatred-like a dog’s hatred-hatred, which is thirty years old, every year more and stronger, was kindled in the west against Russia, will someday with a chain. This moment has come. What was called Russia in the official language - no matter what it did in order to avert the fatal fate: it was wagged, and traded, and hid the banner, and even denied itself, nothing helped. The day came when they demanded even more prove her moderation from her, simply proposed suicide, renunciation of the very basis of her being, solemn recognition that she is nothing else in the world, as a wild and ugly phenomenon, as an evil requiring correction. ”
Thus, Medvedev in his post in Telegram (like many others) presented, although slightly edited, but still not distorted significantly Tyutchev’s quote. The corresponding fragment can be found in a poet’s letter to his wife, written shortly after the outbreak of the Crimean war.
True attribution of quote
- V. Kozhinov. Tyutchev
- I. Aksakov. Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev: Biographical Essay
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