Kyuhlya

Istoricheskiy roman "Kyuhlya" (1925) porazitel‘no zhivo i ob"emno vossozdaet obraz russkogo poeta i dekabrista Vil‘gel‘ma Karlovicha Kyuhel‘bekera, dolgoe vremya nahodivshegosya v polnom zabvenii. Ideyu romana podskazal Korney CHukovskiy, uslyshavshiy blestyashchuyu lekciyu Tynyanova o Kyuhel‘bekere; on zhe sposobstvoval opublikovaniyu romana. "Kyuhlya" byl napisan v udivitel‘no szhatye sroki, tak kak pisatel‘ davno vzhilsya v opisyvaemuyu epohu, usvoil ee stil‘, yazyk, nravy. Rasskaz o Kyuhel‘bekere – ego uchebe v Licee, zhurnalistskoy rabote i sochinitel‘stve, serdechnyh uvlecheniyah, druzhbe s Pushkinym, Griboedovym, uchastii v dekabr‘skom vosstanii, zaklyuchenii v kreposti i ssylke – razvorachivaetsya na fone obshchestvennoy i politicheskoy zhizni epohi, stol‘ bogatoy sobytiyami. YArko, rel‘efno i psihologicheski dostoverno izobrazhaet Tynyanov ee vidnyh deyateley – Pushkina, Del‘viga, Ermolova, Griboedova, Ryleeva, Pushchina, chlenov carskoy familii. Roman otlichayut ostrosyuzhetnost‘ i nasyshchennost‘ povestvovaniya, stroynost‘ kompozicii, i ta osobaya "mudraya" prostota, kotoraya svoystvenna tvorchestvu Tynyanova v celom. Roman imel ogromnyy uspekh. Po slovam CHukovskogo, "Kyuhlya" sdelalsya raz i navsegda lyubimeyshey knigoy i staryh i malyh lyudey ot dvenadcati let do vos‘midesyati.