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The high souls can come in embodiment only to very clean and spiritual mother. There are 200 years from the day of birth of Helena Andreevna von Hahn (Fadeyeva in girlhood) in 2014-th year - the mother of Helena Blavatsky.
H.A.Hahn was known as an authoress, permanent author of the «Library magazine for reading» of Osip Senkovsky and magazine the «Domestic messages» in XIX century.
Helena was born in nobiliary family with many children in small town of Ukraine, Rzhischev. Not by chance, probably, she took the writer pseudonym of Zeneida R-va, although family left from Rzhischev, when Helena was only one year old. Helena conducted childhood and youth at Yekaterinoslav (from 1926 Dnipropetrovsk). She belonged to the generation of princes of Dolgorukiy on a maternal line, her parents were Andrey Fadeyev (1789 - 1867), secret adviser, governor of Saratov, and princess Helena Dolgorukaya (in girlhood). Her sister, Ekaterina, was married after Julius Vitte (1814 - 1867). Their son Sergey Vitte (1849 - 1915) became the statesman, minister for finance of Russia.
Helena Andreevna was the cousin to the poetess Evdokiya Rostopchina and memorialist Ekaterina Sushkova, who was the friend of M.Lermontov, with which H.Hahn communicated in her house. «I know him personally. Clever brain! Poet, eloquent», - she wrote to her family. Her relatives on mother line was the known poet of that time Ivan Dolgorukov, grandchild of author of «Private messages» - Natalia Dolgorukaya and their first publisher, and also poet F.Tyutchev [7].
Helena married Peter von Hahn (1798 - 1873) in 16 years old. He was a captain of the ancient von Hahn family of German nobility (German: Uradel) from Basedow (Mecklenburg), transmigrating to Russia in the middle of 18th century. Helena was romantic nature, she dreamed about an ideal spouse with deep spiritual interests in girlhood, but tall, stately captain of equestrian artillery blew about her dreams quickly. Peter was the descendant of the German knights. He was brilliantly formed, but all of his interests was taken to the horse, guns, dogs and dinner-parties. He was distinguished by a rare wit and inveterate scepticism. Besides he was on 12 years older than his wife.
Helena Andreevna wrote: «All, to what I aimed from childhood, all of dear and sainted my heart it was ridiculed or proposed by him to me in pitiless and cynical light of his cold and cruel mind» [1, p.38]. She found refuge in writing novels about unhappy position of feme coverts in Russia.
Their first daughter, Helena (Helena Blavatsky), was born in 1831. The son, Sasha, was born in 1833, but died in 1835 in Romankov, and Helena Andreevna with daughter arrived to her parents to Odessa. They lived there from the spring of 1835. The second daughter, Vera (future authoress Jelihovsky), was born on 29 April, 1835 in Odessa. The metrical record of Preobrazhensky Cathedral testifies to it. Helena Andreevna together with little children and husband traveled on Ukraine all the time, they lived in Poltava, Uman, Romankov, Oposhna, Kamensky, Gadyach, Odessa. The family arrived in St. Petersburg in the spring of 1836 where they lived until May 1837. Here Helena von Hahn saw A.Pushkin on the exhibition. She wrote about that to her parents: «I recognize — Pushkin! I imagined him with black dark hair, but his hair are not darker than my, long, dishevelled. He is little growth, with a overgrown face, he was not beautiful, if not his eyes. Eyes are glitter, as coals, and in continuous motion. I, certainly, forgot pictures, to look at him. And he, seems, noticed it: once or twice, giving a glance on me, smiled. Evidently, my enthusiastic senses were represented on my face» [4, p.744]. Casual meeting in St. Petersburg in 1836 with A.S.Pushkin inspired her forever. It is known that Pushkin was in the Kishinev and Odessa houses of Fadeyev during South rustication. In addition she consisted of correspondence with decembrist S.I.Krivcov, met with Vl.Benediktov in Odessa, which was very high opinion about her books.
It was uneasy to live by nomadic life of wife of artillery officer. In her stories «Ideal» and «Vain gift» she wrote about the fate of woman: «Position of man with a higher mind unendurable in a province; but position of woman which nature put higher than crowd, is truly awfully» [2, p.43]. The family lived in Poltava for a long time. Vera, the sister of Helena Blavatsky in the book «As I was little», reminisces these days: «…mother was often ill, and when was healthy, she sat for hours after the green buckram partition and wrote something». This place was named a mother cabinet. Ideas about children tormented Helena Andreevna throughout last years of her life. When she was advised to give up to write for the maintainance of health, she answered: «I want despite my victims, that my children were well, but fundamentally well formed. And resources, except my feather, – I have not!..» [2, p.42].
In 1836 Helena von Hahn published compiling from the novel of Bulver-Litton «Godolfin» in «Library for reading» by publisher Senkovsky. Her first story, «Ideal», appeared under the pseudonym of Zeneida R-va in 1839. She met with rustication decembrists, being on Caucasus, in 1837. The impressions of this acquaintance served to creation of row of works: «Flashbacks of Zheleznovodsk» and stories: «Utballa» and «Dzhellaleddin», were published in 1838 (in «Library for reading»). Further the stories followed one by one (published there): «Medallion», «Court of light», «Teofaniya Abbiadzhio» (1839—1841) . Work, the «Vain gift», was created in 1842 and it was published in «Domestic Messages» (first part) in that year; the second part appeared in the posthumous collected works (1843); «Lyubonka» (year of creation - 1842 - also coincides with the year of publication in «Domestic Messages» and, accordingly, at times writing), «Lodge in Odessa opera» (was published in an almanac «Daguerreotype»). The collected works of Helena Andreevna von Hahn were published two times in St. Petersburg in 1843 and 1905 years [7].
The son, Leonid, was born in Saratov in June of 1840.
The literary appendix of forces of H.Hahn (Zeneida R-va) did not escape a notice. Belinsky named her «Russian George Sand». Many visible figures of that time responded to the publication of her works. «In this woman there was <.> both the hot Russian heart and experience of woman life, and passion of persuasions, — and nature did not say no in those „simple and sweet“ sounds, in which are happily expressed her internal life» — Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev [5, p. 370]. The prominent Russian critic V.G.Belinsky wrote about her: «It was not yet on Russia the woman is so gifted, not only feeling but also intellectual. Such lines can break forth only from under a feather writers with the great soul and great talent» [2, p. 41 - 43].
The family of Fadeyev goes down again in the estate under Odessa for rest and meeting with very sick Helena Andreevna von Hahn in the spring of 1842. She was only 28 years old, she wrote nine novels by that time, but nasty illness did not know mercy. Helena Andreevna was buried on a city cemetery which it was later begun to name Old, on 24 of June, 1842 in Odessa. The inscription on her grave was carved on a white marble column, twined about a marble rose: «The force of the soul killed life» [3, p.30].
Vissarion Belinsky in memory about Helena von Hahn wrote the followings lines: «There are writers which live by separate life from their creations; there are writers personality of which is closely related to their works. Reading the first, delighted a divine art, not thinking about an artist; reading the second, delighted contemplation of wonderful human personality, think about it, love it and wish to know it same and details of its life. Our gifted Zeneida R-va (Helena von Hahn) belongs to this second digit <.> Piece to the ashes of you, noble heart, prematurely torn by force own feelings. Piece to the ashes of you, unusual woman, victim of rich gifts of the elevated nature! We thank you for your short life: not for free it flowered by the magnificent, fragrant color of deep senses and high ideas. Your soul is in this color, and there will not be its death, and will be living it for every, who will want to enjoy its aroma» [6, p. 659].
The members of the Kiev subbranch of TS in Ukraine had a pilgrimage on the motherland of Helena Andreevna to Rzhischev on 17 of April, 2014, which is about 76 km from Kiev, and is the mestome of numerous archaeological finds of the Tripolsky epoch. An estate in Rzhischev belonged to mother of Helena Andreevna – Helena Pavlovna Dolgorukaya. Unfortunately the estate, where Helena was born, is not saved. But locals from a generation in a generation passed memory about finding of farmstead of Fadeyev. Tour guide of local regional museum rotined us a few old linden-trees from an alley which 200 years back conduced to the estate of family of Fadeyev. It is picturesque corner of Ukraine, the small river of Legchich flows alongside, and the brook Rapid joined to the farmstead. The future decembrists of Bestuzhev-Ryumin, brothers, Sergey and Ippolit Muravyev-Apostol, the prince Trubeckoy were guests in the estate of Dolgorukiy after war of 1812. Here, in farmstead gardens, they worked above the constitution of South society of decembrists.
Literature:
1. Howard Merfi «Helena Blavatsky», Ural LTD, 1999
2. S.Krenston «E.P.Blavatsky. Life and creation of founder of modern theosophical motion», Riga-Moscow: Ligatma, 1999
3. O.Bogdanovich «Blavatsky and Odessa», Odessa: Way of cognition, 1999
4. V.P. Jelihovsky - Russian old times, 1887, March
5. I.S. Turgenev Complete works in 28 volumes. M. - L., 1936. V.5
6. V.G. Belinsky Complete works. M., 1955. V.7
7. Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ган,_Елена_Андреевна
