Biography
Russian poet and commander Denis Vasilyevich Davydov left a trace in world history as the leader of the Flying Gusar squad. Mikhail Kutuzov's associate and Mikhail Barclay de Tolly celebrated dozens of victories over the enemies under the cries of the crowd and sounds of fanfar.Childhood and youth
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a representative of the old nobility name, he was born in the family of a regimental brigadier in 1784. A significant part of early childhood was held in the Spartan military situation, so the boy was accustomed to strict discipline and work.
Father named Vasily Denisovich commanded light-block detachments, when the part was bored in Kharkov, a man got his wife. The daughter of the Local Governor General Evdokima Alekseevich Shcherbinina shortly after the wedding became the mother of two children with heroic fate.
According to information, hoped from the archives, Denis earlyly joined military life, learned to keep weapons, marching and riding. He loved to listen to stories about the battles and long-time victories of the Russian army, who told people admitted to the hospitable family house.
As a child, Denis suffered from complexes about his own appearance: he was distinguished by small growth and improper facial features. Judging by the preserved portraits of the representatives of the Davydov family, the commander of the "squadron hussar bat" was amazingly similar to the Father.
In the late XVIII century, the outstanding commander Alexander Suvorov was a star of the Russian capital and the stronghold of a multinational country. Denis, Evdokim, the former younger brother, and neighboring guys, seeing the live national hero, were sincerely surprised.
Generalissimus, who participated in the storming of an impregnable Turkish Izmail, kept under the wing of the family of Davydov with the permission of Catherine II. He predicted to the future biography of the sons of Brigadier Vasily Denisovich and discussed their abilities with a companion and his legitimate wife.
When the Russian throne was in the hands of Emperor Paul I, Suvorov lost authority and support for strong friends. The Father of the Future Gusar suffered from the circumstances: he was accused of lack of 100 thousand rubles.
In order to pay a debt, Davydov-senior sold the estate, the brigadier was fired from the service and disgraced before people. The man gathered the remaining funds and bought the village of Borodino in the Moscow region, Denis and Evdokim by this time ceased to be helpless children.
Personal life
In his youth, Davydov fell in love with a representative of the noble dynasty, but the Aglaia de Gramon preferred the Son of General, more attractive in appearance. Then a graduate of a ballet school appeared in the personal life of the young military, the beautiful Tatyana Ivanov attracted Denis as a magnet.During the years of service in the vicinity of Kiev, a matured man was carried away by Liza Zlotovitsky and conceived to make it a legitimate wife. The father of the bride set the condition - to receive state subsidies, and the descendant of the Moscow Brigadier did everything to get a family.
As long as the necessary paper was drawn, windy chosen changed, the cancellation of the wedding was a blow to the village of Borodino village. Friends introduced him to the Miloid Sophia Nikolaevna Chirkova, the new novel was worthy of descriptions in books or cinema.
By the time of the meeting with the future wife of Davydov, he became famous poet, he loved noisy companies, played cards and drank. Because of such addiction, he almost lost his beloved and a chance for a happy relationship, which was looking for so long.
Familiars took the threat of a gap of a stipulated engagement, and in the spring of 1819 Sophia went under the crown. When children appeared in the family (five boys and four girls), it turned out that Denis Vasilyevich was a caring and loving father.
In the middle of 1831, during a visit to colleague, the poet and Gusar fell in love with a girl under 20 years old. He risked to lose his spouse because of this hobby, but in the end released Evgeny Zolotarev and said no relationships.
Military Career
Denis Vasilyevich began served in the Sauna Region of St. Petersburg, he was produced in Lieutenants in 1803. Creating poems, songs and fables of satirical content sent to the head of the military inevitable misfortune.
Davydov was fired from the guard and sent to Belarus, during the first war with Napoleon Bonaparte, he was asked to the front. The appointment to the post of adjutant, General Peter Bagration, opened a new career horizon before the young hussar.
After fierce fights with the French under modern Kaliningrad, Denis received a reward for exploits a nominal saber and orders. Then there were battles with Turks under the start of the hero Yakov Kulnev, who brought the position of commander of the battalion of Akhtyrsky Gusar regiment.
From the first days of the Patriotic War of 1812, Davydov with a detachment of subordinates appeared in the most dangerous places. Clashing with the enemy at the village of the world and under Smolensk the leader of people in red uniforms described in prose and verses.
On the eve of the Borodino battle, General Mikhail Barclay de Tollya collected partisan detachments from resourceful and brave soldiers. Becoming an outstanding commander of the "squadron hussar flying", Denis Vasilyevich for "the case under Lyakhov" received a number of honored awards.
When the theater of the Military Action moved to Europe, a man in the rank of lieutenant colonel came out of the underground. In the novel "War and Peace", Lion Tolstoy was recreated the image of Davydov and the events of the important years of years were described.
After the defeat of Napoleon, the native of Moscow began troubles: he wanted to do with a draguan or leader of hurkers. Not wanting to part with a mustache, an indispensable hussar attribute, Denis achieved the mercy of Alexander I with high-ranking friends.
Creation
Hero of war Denis Davydov, as a talented writer, was the author of poems, romances and journalistic works. The man was a member of Arzamas and "conversations of lovers of the Russian word" - closed friendly communities created in the mid-1810s.Notes made in the course of open and partisan operations, formed the basis of memories published in the form of diaries. Creativity near the hussar commander with Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Evgeny Baratynsky and other representatives of cultural circles.
Death
The news that Alexander Pushkin died for a duel with George Charlel Dantez, undermined Davydov's health and triggered him in longing. He was also concerned about the fate of the relatives-Decembrists, failing to take the failure of the uprising as an annoying trifle.
Public troubles about the transfer of the ashes of Peter Bagration to the Borodino field were helped to cope with many years of depression - the place of glorious victories. So he noted the anniversary of the end of the Patriotic War of 1812, who left an indelible trace in the heart of the poet.
The causes of the death of Denis Vasilyevich in the 54th age were a violation of the blood supply of the brain and an apoplexy blow. The body of the poet and the commander of the Gusar partisan squad buried in the grave at the Novodevichy cemetery under the sounds of the Military Fanfar.
Memory
- In honor of the heroic person, Squares and Street are named, Davydov's monuments appeared in a number of Russian cities. The image of the poet and the military was used in the literature such authors as Leonid Grossman and Gennady Serebryakov.
- The films "Hussar Ballad" and "Escadron Hussar Volatih" have retained the memory of the outstanding native of Moscow for the people. Andrei Rostotsky and Valery Denisov, who played the role of Denis Vasilyevich, immediately became famous in the expanses of a multinational country.
Bibliography
- 1821 - "Experience of the theory of partisan action"
- 1825 - "Remarks on necrology N. N. Raevsky, published in the disabled in 1829, with the addition of his own notes for some events of the war of 1812, in which he participated"
- 1832 - "Poem of Denis Davydov"
- 1842 - "Notes of the late Denis Vasilyevich Davydova during his trip to 1826 from Moscow to Tiflis"