Recently, more and more educated fellow citizens, and not fellow citizens, and not only the near, but also the far abroad, are convinced that the collection of adventure tales and anecdotes entitled "Official History" has little in common with real events and real characters. Having weighed the already accumulated material and rummaging through the records, I decided that another famous character of dreamers from history has the right to see the light, and you can be sure that such a “great” “personality” is no less syncretic than the same Alexander the Great or Napoleon, but, probably, first you need to tell about his father … The story will be somewhat different from the official coverage of the events of the life of the protagonist, who lived it to the envy of everyone, but, as the main character said to himself: “I am a cynic,a mere mortal and I don't give a damn about anything!"
Of course, with Napoleon everything is much more complicated than it seems … No, with the real Napoleon, whose life served as the basis for the bulk of fictional tales about the adventures of "Napoleon I", everything is clear. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic from December 20, 1848 to December 1, 1852, Emperor of the French from December 1, 1852 to September 4, 1870, himself distinguished by his remarkable literary talent, made a lot of efforts to paint with colors and in every possible way associate someone with his name, who is considered the great conqueror and the first unifier of Europe.
His faithful assistant and companion, who actively took part in this grandiose falsification, was his "cousin" (well, or "nephew", of course, if you really believe that Charles Louis himself was really the illegitimate son of the King of Holland, and a rootless ally "Count Cagliostro" from Friuli Istria - the son of the King of Westphalia …)
Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, or simply Prince Napoleon, a deputy from Corsica (that is, the fact that Napoleon (or rather one of them) was a Corsican, a statement absolutely beyond doubt) in the French National Assembly … how much he was "in action", says at least the fact that he really took part in the great campaign against Russia, and his images are still a model for portraits of the "great ancestor" …
Unfortunately, I still don't have enough material to cover such an interesting character as "Napoleon" as fully as possible, but I think that two brothers for a common understanding of "where the legs grow from", in principle, are enough, well, perhaps I can add that the story the emergence of Catholicism is also based on Bonaparte, and the character known to history lovers as "Julius Caesar" also belongs entirely to the pen of the great writer-Emperor Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and I will not sin at all if I put the portraits of two great publishers side by side (no, no, not writers, namely publishers, write dozens and hundreds, and publish in their own name a few) of historical fiction.
Alexandr Duma.
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Both photos belong to the same time period 1858-1860.
It’s a pity, it’s insanely sorry for the time spent on studying the twists and turns of the adventures of literary characters, I don’t remember who I read it, and I’ve met several definitions of the same type, but the wording “official history is political events released in the form of a collection of fairy tales and anecdotes” fell directly on my heart, let god of health to an unnamed author …
No, they are magnificent, like reading, and written by the diligence of the greatest fiction writers of the 19th century, but how can you imagine what darkness, dark villains and charlatans fed on these fairy tales, how many millions of human souls were ruined because they blindly believed in fairy tales and went on the occasion of the scoundrels … in general, it is a pity that such a dangerous tool as history was from the second third of the 19th century. left to the mercy of talented, but shameless romantics, who, in fact, made the most natural bookkeeping out of the exact science of "mathematics" ("how much is twice or two? I am wildly sorry, but how much do you need ?!"). In a word, let's leave this most interesting literary hero and his prototypes aside and move on to who we started with …
To begin with, I will immediately remove the intrigue so that everyone does not immediately rush to scroll the text to the end with the question "who, who, who killed the porter ?!" The ball, which was twisted by thousands of well-talented writers, unwinds tightly, “but still we are not used to retreating!”, As the lively boy from the newsreel “I want to know everything!” Said, the main thing is to find the right thread. And the right thread was quite close at hand, just like the whole world looks at the so-called. "Napoleonic wars" in fact, only through the eyes of a shell-shocked during the defense of Sevastopol during the "Crimean campaign" and received an indulgence from Tsar Alexander Count Leo Tolstoy …
No, then he did not write novels, then he was enough for a maximum of stories in "Invalid", which contemporaries sluggishly read out of squeamish curiosity. Only after a three-year trip to Paris in 1857-60, this ardent admirer of Dumas's work, allegedly horrified by the cult of Napoleon's personality, suddenly decided to create in 1863-69. multi-volume propaganda "War and Peace" (and a third of the novel "this amazingly Russian writer" wrote in French), for a century and a half replaced the whole world knowledge about the events in Europe at the beginning of the XIX century and made the name of Napoleon megapopular. Another Tolstoy, this time Alexei, showed the world the "gloomy face of Peter."
In fact, my compatriot, a native of Pugachev (Nikolaevsk) Alexei Alekseevich (Nikolaevich) Bostrom (Tolstoy), who became famous for such really talented, as it was customary to say in "our time", sci-fi works like "Aelita" and "Hyperboloid of engineer Garin", himself lived a life worthy of perpetuation in adventure novels.
His beautiful mother Alexandra Leontievna Bostrom (nee Turgenev) was a fairly good writer (I will warn you right away: not a relative, but madly adoring I. S. Turgenev) was born into the family of the leader of the nobility of the Stavropol district (Togliatti, 1858-1866) Leonty Borisovich Turgenev and Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Baggovut, jumped out at the age of 19 for the life-guard of the hussar Count Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, but life somehow did not work out, the husband of a brave handsome hussar was, frankly speaking, useless, and, roughly speaking, did not support his wife's hobbies for fine fabrics, and girl's love for her husband blew away like a wind …
Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy.
It was then that the teacher Aleksey Apollonovich Bostrom turned up. Well, how could a subtle nature, which is "all so in art", not fall in love with a romantic and not leave the bumpkin count? Of course not!
She abandoned three children, and as soon as Bostrom became a member of the Zemsky Administration, in November 1881 she left with her lover for a tiny "estate" (farm) Sosnovka, where she "diligently engaged in literary creativity" (wrote articles in "Saratov leaflets"), there and was born on January 10, 1883, the great Russian, or rather, the Soviet writer. In 1897 the estate was sold and left for Samara, where Bostrom bought a house on Saratovskaya Street (V. Borodaevsky mentions this).
Alexey Apollonovich Bostrom.
Alexandra Leontievna Tolstaya.
There, Alexandra Leontievna made acquaintance with another scribbler then still Maksimka Peshkov, so that Alexei Alekseevich (Nikolaevich) Bostrom (Tolstoy), surrounded by writers from childhood, in fact, from birth developed a violent imagination and brought up a craving for writing. The son grew up, but I always want to eat, and now, tired of bohemian life, mother makes an attempt to return to her ex-husband, and Alexey, well-trained among the "engineers of human souls", took an active part in this.
And finally, a miracle happened: in 1899, 16-year-old NOBODY Alexei Bostrom became COUNT Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Here is how contemporaries described it casually:
Now, no longer a rootless bastard, but Count (!) Alexei Nikolaevich, the path to the capital of their Motherland, the city of St. Petersburg, was opened …
Alexandra Leontievna Bostrom and Alexey Tolstoy.
Despite the craving for technology (Syzran real school, St. Petersburg Technolozhka), the future "father" of "Peter the Great" continued to pull into bohemia, roots uncontrollably prevailed over the title, and he began to write.
The personal life of the newly-minted Count Tolstoy was not particularly distinguished by originality, and always gave a Bostromovism. The childhood love of 19-year-old Alyosha for the 21-year-old daughter of the district doctor Yulenka Rozhanskaya, the future merchant's wife from Riga, ended with an escape to St. Petersburg, a student wedding and … running away three years later, during the 1905 revolution, to Germany, "to a friend", with throwing his wife and child to the mercy of fate (the first-born Yuri, who was sent by Yulia "to his mother," died at the age of five).
In Germany, 22-year-old Alexei "Nikolaevich" meets 21-year-old artist Sara Itskhakovna Dymshits-Rosenfeld, this girl was already from a "good family" of a Jewish businessman, very relaxed and eccentric, not like the old woman Yulia, the gray mouse daughter of a regular doctor …
Sara-Sofya Itskhakovnoy Dymshits-Rosenfeld-Tolstaya.
And next year Alexei "Nikolaevich" returned to St. Petersburg with a new passion, and in 1907 comrade "Tolstoy" had to make an official marriage proposal. Sarochka, in order not to compromise her husband's biography, becomes the Orthodox Russian Countess Sophia. The most piquant moment is that the count lives with one wife, but does not let go of the other, but the gesheft is that in the same year he meets his third (!) Wife …
Sonechka and Leshenka were very fond of attending the Art School of S. S. Egornov, where the interrese society gathered, well, there Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin or there Moishe Khatskelevich Mark Zakharovich Shagal (son of Khatskel Mordukhovich and Feiga Mendelevna Shagal, also the grandson of Mordukh famous painter). So, right next to the newly-minted Russian countess, 23-year-old Sonechka, 19-year-old Natasha, the future "Russian poetess", the daughter of the publisher and journalist Vasily Afanasyevich Krandievsky, worked … but that will be later, but for now, in 1908, the newlyweds are rolling to the city of Paris, then in a couple of years one more time, but Sonya is no longer the same … daughter in Paris still turned out, but a strong social unit, alas, no …
Meanwhile, in 1914, 26-year-old Natasha, having changed one Russian surname
Krandievskaya with another Russian surname Volkenstein, got bored …
And here is the war, and we are tired; in general, a real patriot, Count Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, enlists as a military journalist and … flees from his beloved country to England and France, as if on a business trip. She writes beautiful “letters from the front” to Natasha and at the same time walks 17-year-old ballerina Margo Kandaurova.
Unable to find success, 31-year-old Count Tolstoy makes an overstagger from the ballerina to his wife's former companion in art school, and now, having made concessions to the mischievous Count, Krandievskaya-Volkenstein has already replaced the 30-year-old Countess Sofya Isaakovna.
On "honest business trips" from abroad, Alexei Nikolaevich bitterly mourns Mother Russia and still returns home … this time to take his "young" wife and emigrate to Constantinople, and then to Paris and Berlin, where the tarnished wife earned to feed the whole family …
Yes, real Russian patriots choose Berlin!
Natasha struggled alone for three years, until Bostrom-Tolstoy realized that he was not dreaming of something like that … and the rollback begins: he said goodbye to the emigre intelligentsia, picked up stories about Buratin, rewrote "Walking Through the Torment" in the right way … And then …
In 1923, while not the only one, but already imperious, they deigned to beckon Joseph Vissarionovich, and the prodigal Count Zelo Bostrom galloped home. In 1929, they ordered the bestseller Peter the First, which immortalized and consolidated in world historiography the view that we still, thanks to Stalin, look at Peter I …
And, I almost forgot, in 1936 the 53-year-old "red count" had a new wife, 31-year-old Lyudmila Ilyinichna Krestinskaya-Barsheva, after all, don't tell me, but Alexei "Nikolaevich" women …
What was the real Peter I? - Continuation in the next series, and this series was an easy introduction so that people understand how from Bostroms, Rozhansky, Dymshits-Rosenfelds, Krandievsky-Volkenstein, Krestinsky-Barshevs, etc. we get descendants of the “Russian” “counts” Dmitry, Nikita and the like Thekla Tolstoy, who tell us about the tsars of Peter the First, and do not tell something else …
Author: SKUNK69
