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Why did Aleksandr Pushkin receive the court rank of Kammerjunker?
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
Aleksandr Pushkin received the court rank of Kammerjunker (gentleman of the emperorâs bedchamber) in 1834, three years after he had returned to government service in St. Petersburg.
The primary motivation for this appointment was that the tsar wished for Pushkinâs wife, Natalya Nikolayevna Goncharova, to have the entrĂ©e to court functions. This obligation to participate in court social life proved to be a significant burden for the poet, as it was ill-suited to his creative work and contributed to the increasingly intolerable nature of his final years.1