Andrey Esaulov | Melancholic Waltz

Andrei Petrovich Esaulov or Esaulov (real name Petrov ) is a Russian composer of the first half of the 19th century , musician , violinist . He was probably born at the very end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century. As contemporaries note, he played the violin beautifully , but was a capricious and quarrelsome person. Quarreling with his superiors, he moved from regiment to regiment, and finally, without a place and without means of living, in 1832-1833 he went to Moscow to Nashchokin , who sheltered him and contributed to his placement in the theater orchestra in St. Petersburg . However, Esaulov soon left there too. A quarrelsome character and drunkenness - a vice of many talented Russian people - prevented him from creating a strong social position for himself: he gave music lessons, leading a chaotic lifestyle and being very poor. A.S. Pushkin took part in his fate. In the spring of 1834, Pushkin wrote to Nashchokin: “Andrey Petrovich (Esaulov) is in a terrible situation. He was starving and going crazy. Sobolevsky and I helped him with money - sparingly, with admonitions - generously. Now I’m thinking of sending him to the regiment as a bandmaster. He is an artist in his soul and habits, that is, he is careless, indecisive, lazy, proud and frivolous; prefers independence over everything. But even a beggar is more independent than a day laborer. I give him as an example the German geniuses who overcame so much grief in order to achieve fame and a piece of bread.” Drowned in the 1850s in Ryazan , while swimming.