Hostage of honor

Not all childhood bewilders are perplexed over the years. One of them is the Caucasus, the poem of Taras Shevchenko. This is a number of strong, immediately memorable winged expressions. Actually, the whole poem is an almost continuous winged expression, strong and excitingly beautiful.

We have the same, yak on those -

One Sibir is not anish!

And Turm, and Luda! .. Shcho!

One Moldavian to Fіnna

On all the yaziki, everything can be able to

Blagific!

If the empire could collapse from verbal blows, this would happen even then, in 1846.

One feature of the poem blows the head. The thing represents the ulcerative curse of the empire. There is a direct appeal to the resisting Caucasians: “Burry - get forth, / God be blossom! / For you the truth, for you fame / I holy will!”, But it is dedicated to anyone else, as a soldier of the empire. A soldier - in a general sense, and specifically - an officer, a friend of the author. The empire is mourned about his death for her, the Empire, because of her, a rezy-generial Taras hit the cruel anti-imperial sarcasm.

The whole system, the spirit, the syllable of the poems, each comma in it should cause hatred of imperiality, to its carriers, to those, first of all, who sheds the blood of rebellious peoples. Yakov de Balmen - count, landowner. He is exactly the same of those pans, to whose head the poet called a well-honed ax of the “silent slaves”. (Barnac, the hero of the poem of the same name: "I was riveling everything, the pan was called Pan.") Count - an officer of the tsarist army, general adjutant who died in the Caucasus directly in the case. Then they have not died under the bombs - he was killed by a Chechen bayonet or bullet. Therefore, he cut, shot. Like the same Lermontov, a 25-year-old lieutenant: cut, reports in a letter, all day, a river flowing in the battlefield, was red by the evening. These are the characters among the friends of Taras Shevchenko, that’s who the former serf is mourning.

The count was not enthusiastic about tsarism, condemned his imperial policy, the Caucasian war. His caricature of the king and generals of the chvastunov got into the secret police: "The hundredth and last conquest of the Caucasus. A great performance before the generals of the generals." He was related to the creation of the "Book of the Genesis of the Ukrainian People"-the desktop book of the Kirillo-Methodius fraternity. It was not a simple count - a rebel. Why did he go to this war? - The modern reader has long been ready. Couldn't, avoid it? Where to smear, pretend to be ailment (yes even crazy!), Connect Petersburg ties ... Why doesn't Shevchenko send him this issue to the next world? Friendship is friendship, but we are talking about participating in the extermination of mass of innocent people. Instead of showing revolutionary democratic principalism, the poet is lost on the real lamentation:

I drove you, a friend is a friend,

Mai Jacob Dobriy! Not for Ukrainian

And for ї Kat was a chance to shed

Kho is good, not Chorn. I had a chance to drink

Z Moskovko Chalki Moscow Treasure!

I had a chance to shed. What does it mean "happened"? That means. There was noble honor at stake. They would say that a coward. It seems that Shevchenko would be the first to say, and he would have less one friend.

Is there any other answer to modern bewilderment? I don't know, and is it necessary? Shevchenko did not compose his feelings and assessments - he expressed them, as was given to the poet. He felt hatred of tsarism - conveyed it. He wanted to cry at the thought of the dead friend - he cried. He was not a fanatic, was neither NEC nor a Demshiza.

The body of the murdered was not found. At the site of death, a bag was lying, and there was an album in it with its drawings. He illustrated the poems of a friend.