Did Pushkin write that the king’s motto is “steal and Vry”?

In recent years, on the network you can meet the fourth -west Pushkin, in which the autocracy is sharply criticized. We checked whether Alexander Sergeyevich wrote this.

On November 9, 2021, Russian opposition leader Gennady Gudkov posted on his twitter Demotivator Next content:

"Frightening with external enemies,
We are killed from the inside.
But does not change over the years
The motto of the king is "Swear and Vry."

A. S. Pushkin, 1830. "

This is the quatrain, in which many see parallels with today's state of affairs in the country, have gained great popularity in the Russian -language segment of the Internet. More than 500 people shared the tweet of Gudkov. In the social network "VKontakte" Pushkin quote at least 220 users and publics (including Popular Pages), on Telegram the corresponding publications Read tens of thousands of users. Lines with attribution to the poet can also be found on resources "YaPlakal", "Aidaprikol", Sports.ru And Lragir.am. Quote Curses In one of his books, State Duma deputy of three convocations from the Communist Party Ivan Nikitchuk, it can also be seen in the business magazine "Club of directors".

There are no similar lines in any of Pushkin's works. However, with all the depth of analysis to which literary critics subject the poet’s texts over the past two centuries, there are many works that in different years were mistakenly attributed to him in various authoritative publications. That's just in list The specified quatrain is not included either. It was not possible to find it in the “gray zone” - among poems, whose authorship was not fully established either by Pushkin - one of the candidates. Not to mention the fact that, according to promoted views, the indicated quatrains sharply contrasts with the poem "Slanderers of Russia", Which Pushkin wrote in the following, 1831.

Moreover, a simple search shows that until 2020, these lines, if there were, were not published anywhere. In July 2020 in "Vk", In December of the same year in comments to the news and in January 2021 in Telegram The quatrains did not yet have an author. In September 2021, in a slightly converted form, it was placed on his site page "Poems.ru»A writer writing under the pseudonym Yar Velesov. Pushkin’s attribution will appear a little later - in particular, as we see, on November 9, Gennady Gudkov in his tweet, allegedly used the already existing demotivator. And although in some revealing articles the authorship of the lines attributed Yar Velesov, we see that his option, not so slender, was first posted on the network many months later than the first cases. Well, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin did not write this for sure.

Picture on the cover: I. Tomilov. The conversation of Emperor Nicholas I c A. S. Pushkin in the Miracle Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin, held in 1826

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