She was not a beauty at all. Although it is not at all excluded that artists failed to convey all its beauties. After all, Anna Alekseevna Olenina was considered one of the main beauties of St. Petersburg.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin fell in love with Anna Olenina already at the first meeting. And why not. She was perfectly educated, she had a brilliant sense of humor, a cheerful temper. And she was well understood in poetry and art. One problem - Alexander Sergeevich she did not like. Yes, and in truth, this would have become another Mesallians - she is Freilin the Empress itself Elizabeth Alekseevna, and he is not a well-known son.
And Alexander Sergeevich was in blinked was insanely. And it was not just a passion. He swatched. But the mother of Anna was opposed to this party, and the deer Pushkin refused. It was offended, discouraged and literally destroyed. He also devoted his own poems to his beloved. However, there is an opinion that the Pushkin himself was married to the deer and did not come to them into the house when they were waiting for the poet to discuss his proposal.
Marry Anna Alekseevna came out after the death of the poet. True, before that, she was waiting for a whole chain of love disappointments. Her uncle Kiselev was even divorced for the sake of marriage on the venison, but then suddenly said that "his upset state does not allow him to think more about marriage." Count Wielgorsky, who also asked the hands of the deer refused her literally at the last minute, not explaining the reasons. This was followed by a lot of not obliging connections: Alfred de Dama, Chechulin, Kraist, Titov, Repnin ...
So, Anna Olenina married. The party was brilliant - the officer of the Life Guard Gussarian Regiment F. A. Andro de Langeron, the son of the French emigrant, who was the governor of Novorossiysk. But the husband was not far away, boring and terribly jealous - jealous to his wife to the dead Pushkin.
Who knows whether she sorry for his refusal to Pushkin. Later, nephews and grandchildren walked for her literally to choose and asked to spoke about their meetings with a great poet. And Anna Alekseevna kept his letters and poems in the cache and cried at night. She remained just one of the women of the long Donjan List of the Poet.
And the descendants remained beautiful poems written in her honor.
I loved you, love is still, perhaps, in my soul, I was not exactly, but let her no longer worry, I do not want to peel you with nothing.
I loved you silently, hopelessly, then timidity, then Tomov, I loved you so sincerely, so gently, how God God for your beloved to be different ...
(A.S. Pushkin)