The idea of this work is to search for historical truth and reveal the historical fates of the people of Russia in the pivotal years of its development. In a vivid form, the author skillfully depicts a whole gallery of sharply psychological portraits.
This book—by a well-known historian and writer—about the lyceum students of Pushkin’s class. The reader will meet Pushkin and his companions, the sons of the nineteenth century. They will become poets and ministers, country stay-at-homes and restless travelers, officers and “state criminals”—Decembrists…