Anna P. Markova-Vinogradskaya (Kern).

Anna Petrovna Kern, nee Poltoratskaya (11 February 1800 — 27 May 1879), was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of what is probably the best known love poem in Russian language, written by Pushkin in 1825. February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Russian (Russian: русский язык, russkiy yazyk, ) is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages. ... Pushkin may refer to: People Aleksandr Pushkin - a famous Russian poet Apollo Mussin-Pushkin - chemist and plant collector Aleksei Musin-Pushkin - statesman, historian, art collector Other Pushkin, a town in Russia Pushkin Square - square in Moscow Pushkin Museum - fine arts museum in Moscow This is a disambiguation page — a navigational...

Anna was born in Oryol in the mansion of her grandfather, the local governor. She was brought up in Livny, Ukraine. On 8 January 1817 she was married by her parents to the 56-year-old General Kern, whom she professed to detest thoroughly. Oryol or Orel (Russian: ) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Oryol Oblast. ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

After they settled in Saint Petersburg, Anna flirted with a number of Romantic poets, but her chief claim to fame was a love affair with Alexander Pushkin in summer 1825, during her stay with relatives in Trigorskoe, a manor adjacent to Mikhailovskoe, where the great poet was living in exile. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Aleksandr Pushkin was a Russian poet and a founder of modern Russian literature Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837), Russian author, whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

"Lately, our land has been visited by a beauty, who sings the Venetian Night heavenly, in the manner of the gondolier's cantillation", Pushkin wrote to his friend Pyotr Pletnev. Kern was one of many liaisons in Pushkin's life and she would not become the most famous of his mistresses if it were not for a poem which Pushkin put between the pages of the second canto of Eugene Onegin that he presented to her on the day of their parting. Eugene Onegin (Yevgeny Onegin, Евгений Онегин) is a novel in verse written by Aleksandr Pushkin. ...

The poem starts with the lines "Ya pomnyu chudnoe mgnovenie...", and Nabokov famously ridiculed attempts at the English translation of these magic lines. Aleksandr Blok marvellously metamorphosed Pushkin's poem into his own "O podvigakh, o doblestyakh, o slave...", while Mikhail Glinka put the poem to music and dedicated it to Kern's daughter Catherine. Vladimir Nabokov This page is about the novelist. ... Blok in 1907 Alexander Blok (Александр Александрович Блок, 1880-1921) was probably the most gifted lyrical poet that Russia produced since Alexander Pushkin. ... Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Mihail Ivanovič Glinka) (June 1 [O.S. May 20] 1804 - February 15 [O.S. February 3] 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. ...

"Every night I stroll through a garden and repeat in my mind: she was there - a boulder she stumbled upon rests on my desk, beside a withered branch of heliotrope; I write a lot of poems - and this, you may be sure, have all the symptoms of love..." — Pushkin wrote to Kern's sister several days after her departure. He maintained a correspondence with Kern for a year and a half, but this was largely facetious. Although Pushkin's biographers tend to idealise their relationship, it is known that he referred to her later as the "whore of Babylon" and wrote to one of his friends that "with God's help I screwed her the other day".

In 1826, Kern divorced her aged husband. Ten years later, she married her 16-year-old cousin, Alexander Markov-Vinogradsky. Her last years were spent in such an abject penury that she was constrained to sell out Pushkin's letters to her. She died in Moscow and, according to an urban legend, her funeral train passed Pushkin Square just in time when the famous statue of Pushkin was being erected there. This was their last meeting, so to speak. Government Russia District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ... Pushkin Square in Moscow, named for Alexander Pushkin, is located on the Boulevard Ring at the junction of Tverskaya. ...

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