Alyabyev Tobolsk biography

In the year after the card game that was carried out in his apartment, one of the guests died. Rumors of murder creeped around Moscow. Alyabyeva and his comrades were arrested. The investigation began, during which the version of the murder disappeared. But the criminal chamber recognized the defendant composer guilty of other sins: the assumption of the forbidden game, etc.

The absurd incident pulled out Alexander Alexandrovich from the environment close to him, brutally broke his life and condemned exile for many years. The trial lasted almost three years. Alyabyev was sentenced to deprivation of insignia, ranks and nobility and a link to Siberia. In the spring of the year, the composer was delivered to Tobolsk at the stage, his hometown, where his father once ruled the province.

One of the sisters of A. Alyabyeva Ekaterina Aleksandrovna became a faithful companion in captivity. She went to Siberia in order to facilitate the fate of her unfortunate brother in exile. In Tobolsk, Alexander Alexandrovich worsened a long -standing eye disease, his health was concerned with his relatives. The troubles began to return the composer to Moscow.

But they turned out to be unsuccessful, he was only allowed to leave for treatment in the Caucasus. The permission was obtained in the fall of the year, but only at the end of January next year Alyabyev and his sister were able to move on. At first they arrived in the regional Stavropol. We lived in it before the starting season on mineral waters, and then moved to Pyatigorsk. This was not the first visit of Alexander Alexandrovich for hot waters.

The composer’s biographers report that he visited here at the beginning of the year. In those days, the resort still looked deserted, only a few small turntable houses and tents and wagons were randomly placed in the Goryachevodsky Valley. Being a lieutenant of the horse-scale regiment, he then received an unlimited vacation "to cure the disease to mineral waters." There is no information about this trip.

The state archive of the Stavropol Territory stores the “Vedication of Hot Waters in the Season of the Year”, where there are reports of the arrival of A. The young headquarters of the Akhtyr hussar regiment rented an apartment in the house of Mrs. Tolmacheva that year. From archival documents it is known that in OM the disgraced composer lodged in the house of "deceased Majorshi Karabutova." In the very one that is now called the "House of Alyabyeva" in Pyatigorsk.

Part of the summer season, he and her sister lived here on the outskirts of the city. Then we left for Kislovodsk. Returning to Pyatigorsk in the fall, they chose the Tolmacheva estate for housing. In the house of Karabutova now st. Buachidze, 1 composer created the romance “Secret”, on the manuscript date: “Pyatigorsk. Probably, a wonderful polonais with a choir was created here. He was performed at a festival arranged by local authorities in Kislovodsk.

One of his contemporaries wrote that the holiday became "brilliant, as it had never happened here." A lot of Alyabyev’s music contributed a lot. He met on the waters with a folklorist M. Maksimovich and, not without his influence, arranged Ukrainian folk songs for his voice and piano. This was the first independent collection of samples of Little Russian musical folklore.

Probably Alyabyev worked on him in the same house. There is evidence that in Pyatigorsk the composer created church music. At the beginning of the year, when the composer was still on the waters, a collection of romances dedicated to E. Ofrosimova, where the Roman “Secret”, was published in the capital, went on sale. It is not by chance that the entire cycle is written with great lyrical inspiration.

It belongs to the number of most characteristic samples of the vocal work of Alyabyev. His music was reflected by the high feeling that was lucky enough to test Alexander Alexandrovich in Pyatigorsk. Ofrosimov, to whom he dedicated the romance, belonged to the famous Moscow family of the Roman-Korsakovs, famous for hospitality. Pushkin intended to bring the family as the main characters in the incomplete "Roman in the Caucasian waters." Katya Korsakova was the youngest of the five handsome daughters.

The poet V. Zhukovsky devoted poetry to her. Alyabyev also knew this family well. Relations of Ekaterina Aleksandrovna and Alexander Alexandrovich both in the Moscow period of the composer’s life and in the Caucasus are covered with a curtain of secrets. Katya Korsakova married in the year when Alyabyev was already under investigation. They did not see each other for seven years and met again on the waters in the summer of the year.

We probably will never know the details of the Pyatigorsk meetings, but there is no doubt - in the cardiac rapprochement of two people they were decisive. The romance “Secret” should be called the artistic monument of their relationship: Romanes-Acro -ostih compose the words “I love you”. Mineral waters have not yet given the desired result. Alyabyev’s vision continued to deteriorate.

There was a weak hope that the continuation of treatment would still bear fruit. After the end of the holiday season, Alexander Alexandrovich and his sister moved to Stavropol for the winter to return to Pyatigorsk next year. The sister of the exile went to Petersburg in the hope of getting an amnesty.However, the high “monarchy mercy” expressed in the fact that the emperor at the end of February ordered the composer to reside in Orenburg.

The postponement of departure from Pyatigorsk related to treatment did not solve the main issue - about the constant location. Not wanting to return to exile, Alexander Alexandrovich made an attempt to enter the School of Dan in the Caucasus region. Waiting for the decision of the Caucasian authorities, in June, he left Stavropol to Pyatigorsk and here again met with E.

Ofrosimova, who came with her husband for the waters.

There was no response to a request for a service from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus, and in September of the same year the composer left the Caucasian mineral waters. The theme of the Caucasus continued to develop in his work. Alyabiev can be called the ancestor of "Russian music about the East." In letters to friends from Orenburg, he called himself the “Caucasian singer” and also entitled the cycle of romances about the Caucasus.

They were published by a separate book in the year. The cover was decorated with the appearance of Pyatigorsk. There were only twelve romances in the book on the verses of Russian poets. Later, another “Caucasian” work appeared - the “Circassian song” to Lermontov’s poems. The song "Circassian" to the words of the composer himself is also known. Being on the Caucasian mineral waters, he recorded and remembered the musical melodies of the highlanders.

This helped when the composer decided to write the opera “Ammalat-Bek” on the plot of novels A. What a pity that it was never completed. This “Caucasian” opera was called “excerpts from its libretto were published only a year before the composer’s death. And in the year in Alyabyev’s life an important event took place - he married Ekaterina Alexandrovna Ofrosimova, who widowed by this time.

She combined her fate with her loved one, who was still in the exile position. Since the middle of the x, the composer was allowed to live in the Moscow province. The “house of the deceased Majorshi Karabutova” - the dwelling of the inspired composer in Pyatigorsk, acquired the greater historical value in Pyatigorsk. This is the only memorial monument in Russia, related to the biography of A.

ten years ago, despite the difficult times and the lack of funding, this house became one of the departments of the Museum-Reserve M. for the first time a bay over the secret birth and life of this ancient Pyatigorsk house was opened by an employee of the Museum of Lermontov, S. Nedumov, when he worked with the documents of the Pyatigorsk and Stavropol archives. He had a completely different goal - to find those valuable information about the stay of M.

Lermontov in Pyatigorsk, who had not yet been known, but as often happens with researchers, except for the necessary ones, the main ones, in the searches, there are also documents, which, sometimes, is sometimes impossible to pass. Initially, S. Nalumov came across a list where the owners of the house were indicated one after another: Kotyrev, and then Karabutov.

Later he was lucky to find information about the stay of composer A. Alyabyev in the year, who lived in the house of the "deceased Majorshi Karabutova." Thanks to the museum employee, this fact in the composer’s biography has long been introduced into scientific circulation. Professor A. Nelyubin in his work on Caucasian mineral waters, published in the year, mentions Kotyrev’s house later by A.

Karabutova as one of the best in hot waters.