Sashka. Poem (1825, published 1861)

The poem is written in the first person. A student of Moscow University Sashka Polezhaev, a friend, is going to St. Petersburg to visit his uncle. Do you remember how Pushkin's hero also goes to his uncle at the beginning of the novel "Eugene Onegin"? It looks like it.

He was born in a small village near Saransk. His first home teacher was a footman from his father's household. The child early learned to swear in Russian and French, to play the balalaika. When he was ten years old, his father sent him to study in Moscow. First boarding school, then university. Oh the university! We have lagged behind Europe: worthy people receive education there, while we have a lot of fools and cattle. Silly, wild motherland, when will you wake up and overthrow your executioners?

But where is the hero now? Here he is, in a tavern having fun with beauties. Noise, singing, screaming, decanters and glasses rattling, vodka, wine and beer flowing like a river. This is how Moscow students spend their time. So, is this the only thing they are capable of? No, Sashka can speak French and German, and even composes poems in Russian. I'm not inclined towards mathematics, but I'm ready to fight with swords as a strong hussar. He is a desperate atheist, cannot stand priests and does not believe in Jesus Christ. A riotous drunkard and a tireless womanizer. We used to go with our whole company to the girls in one cheerful house in Maryina Roshcha, bully passers-by, pester pretty girls, everyone shies away from us... No, let's go to Sretenka! Hey cab driver! And here is a familiar hangout. We broke the lock at the gate, we go, swearing. “Tanka for me, Anyuta for you!” - says Sashka. We dance and jump like a goat with the girls. And then we fornicate.

I remember there was a fight in a den like this. The police intervened; there were more of them than us. Before this, Sashka had not shared one girl with someone, he was jealous of her, he beat her severely, and now they grabbed him and tied his hands. He calls for help, gasping: “Here! I won’t kill everyone here!” One of our guys, the healthiest, came to the rescue: he scattered all the policemen. Let's celebrate our victory - get drunk and sing a dashing song. Fly, sadness and sadness... here and there! Dance, girls, and praise Sasha! And I, finishing the first chapter, will say about him: well done!

After all, Sasha had to go to St. Petersburg to his rich uncle: he was completely without money, he needed support. He drank his last glass of vodka at the outpost, entering the northern capital. Night, Neva. Monument to Peter I. Sad without Moscow friends and girls! Don't be sad, Sasha, it's a shame to lose heart like that, everything will work out.

At first the uncle was angry and yelled at his nephew, but then he softened, became kinder, and gave him money: he was deeply touched by Sashka’s “sincere” repentance. And he’s glad: he started carousing again. He drinks vodka and goes to see the girls. But not only that: he also visits the theater! Moreover, there he looks not like a dirty student reveler, as in Moscow, but a metropolitan dandy, bored and disappointed, like the aforementioned Eugene Onegin. He has an excellent relationship with his uncle: Sashka managed to pretend to be a well-behaved and religious person who is interested in all sorts of lofty matters, art, and so on. It happened that he would have fun for his own pleasure with the beauties, and when he came home, he would tell his uncle that he had been to the Hermitage. What a scammer! Hey Sashka! Perhaps you forgot old friends? You've become such an aristocrat... Aren't you going back to Moscow? If you come back, you won't go anywhere...

And what? I was walking through the Kremlin garden one day, looking around, looking at the crowd, especially the ladies, and - oh, who do I see! But it’s Sashka! Is it you, dear friend? We hugged, cried with great joy and, of course, went to the tavern. And there they are all ours! Sashka has money and treats him. He said that his uncle sent him to university for another year. Great, old life again. It’s funny to remember how one of ours got drunk, puked himself and went to hug Sashka - his fashionable St. Petersburg suit got dirty; that made my friend happy! And he himself got drunk that day. And here comes a girl I know, tenderness begins...

I remember that we celebrated our happy meeting in the tavern until late at night, and the Kremlin garden was lit up with colorful lights.

Friends, here I told you something about my Sasha. Maybe he will be showered with vicious curses, and along with me, who sang of his ugliness. But I despise ill-wishers, and if I find out anything about Sasha, I will certainly tell you.

Author of the retelling: A. A. Ilyushin

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