Natalia Goncharova

Series "Great beauties". She was called the first beauty of the era. He loved her more than life, the first poet of Russia died for her, to whom she was not only a wife, but also a muse. Natalya Nikolaevna lived with Pushkin for only six years, and, in all honesty, these years cannot be called a cloudless paradise - marriage with a genius is never simple and easy, - so Alexander Sergeevich in everyday life sometimes became unbearable: here is the "African" jealousy , and a difficult character, and debts, and at the end of everything - the terrible days of his death throes ... And dirty rumors that spread right after the fatal duel: they say, Pushkin's jealousy did not arise out of nowhere, they say, it was the "windy" wife who killed the genius poet , and no matter how much he could live, how much to write ... Natalya Nikolaevna probably knew about these gossip, she lived with this burden for a quarter of a century, proving to herself and others day after day: no matter what the envious and slanderers were lying, she was worthy of her great husband.
Illustrations for the books of Natalia Pavlishcheva.