Pushkin in Life

The “MediaBook” studio releases the audio version of the book by Vykentiy Vykentyevich Veresayev — the famous Russian and Soviet writer, doctor, translator, and literary scholar, a laureate of the Pushkin and Stalin Prizes — “Pushkin in Life. A Systematic Collection of True Accounts by Contemporary Witnesses.” The edition is narrated by the popular theater and film actor Mikhail Roslyakov.

“By now the pillars of the barrier have turned white; here’s a cart running along Tverskaya through bumps and ruts. Through the passing boxes, women, boys, benches, streetlamps, palaces, gardens, monasteries, Bukharians, sleighs, vegetable plots, merchants, shacks, men, boulevards, towers, Cossacks, pharmacies, shops of fashion, balconies, lions on the gates, and flocks of rooks on the crosses.

This time, the road to Moscow was not covered by Pushkin with the swift speed with which a special courier could race alone. The whole trip took four days; and if you take into account that the official companion of the poet, for the second time in a row, for several nights drove without sleep over bumps and ruts, then the endurance of people of his kind really seems heroic. The couriers were named Val’sh.”

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