A Romantic Love Letter written by Alexander Pushkin
October 15, 2009 by Carol
Filed under Missing You Love Letters
A Romantic Love Letter written by Alexander Pushkin to Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, his fiancee.
It is believed that this romantic love letter was written September 30, 1830
I have just been told that five quarantines have been set up between here and Moscow, and that it will be necessary for me to spend fourteen days in each; do a little counting and then imagine what a b-tch of a humour I must be in. As a crowning piece of good fortune, the rain has commenced and of course it will not stop before the beginning of sleighing…
May the hour be accursed when I decided to part from you in order to come to this beautiful land of mud, pestilence, and conflagration… My angel, your affection is the only thing in this world which keeps me from hanging myself in the main entrance of my sad manor house…
Preserve your affection for me, and believe that all my happiness is in it. Do you permit me to embrace you? That is of no consequence at a distance of 350 miles and across five quarantines. I can’t get these quarantines off my mind.
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Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer, to Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, his fiancee. Many of us have it too easy nowadays with global travel so easy. This missing you love letter sets out the problem so she can fully underastnd why he is not there with her sooner.
Put yourself in the shoes of this couple separated by 350 miles and 5 infectious diseases where he has to spend 14 days in each to show he is not carrying any infections back to another part of the country. Would a love letter carried by another human be able to get across the infection control zones any quicker?
Basically apart from having to travel 350 miles which could be done in six or seven hours by car nowadays but in those days could take a few days. In addition he has to spend at least 14 days in five different zones so that will take him at least over two and a half months to get back to his loved one. No wonder he is feeling troubled and concerned about the time it is going to take him to get home. Imagine how you would feel if you were to travel a distance then find yourself not allowed to continue on your journey to again see and feel your lover embraces. How frustrating that must be!
Then after a fortnight isolation you can travel again but you then find yourself held prisoner yet again to show you have no diseases. Then you can go a bit further and find yourself detained again for another two weeks. The same thing happening shortly afterward. Yes that is what the writer of this romantic love letter is saying. he misses his fiancee and is writing this love letter to say I miss you.
I know I would be stamping my feet and getting fairly uptight in those circumstances. Who is to say the love letters you are writing to your fiance are getting through any faster? How would she know that he is not allowed to travel faster?
His thoughts ” can she stay true to me all this time when she does not know what is happening?”. Will this missing you love letter reach her? Will I be allowed to embrace her when I get there?
