The tireless researcher and foremost authority on A. S. Pushkin’s works, Boris Lvovich Modzalevsky, created more than 90 studies about the great poet—many of them have become bibliographic rarities.
This collection is a cycle of articles preserved in manuscripts but not published during the author’s lifetime, as well as those lost in long-ago, rare, or non-specialized editions. The significance of the materials published here is extremely great: it provides a psychological and everyday portrait of the noble-intellectual circle, written with great simplicity and without artifice; it paints the atmosphere in which the spiritual life of the Pushkin era unfolded.
The farther away that extraordinary time is from us, the more meaningful—and dear, in our view—become the testimonies about Pushkin from his earlier years.