Yury Tynyanov is a historical novelist, historian, and literary theorist—“a painter of human talents,” as K.I. Chukovsky put it—someone who could recreate the image and reveal the essence of a person of any era. His novel “Pushkin” was conceived by Y.N. Tynyanov as the concluding part of the trilogy “Küchelbeker — Griboedov — Pushkin.” The writer based it on the first part of Pushkin’s autobiographical plan, “The Program of Notes.” He managed to decipher many riddles—begun and then abandoned phrases, surnames. Relying on scanty data, he guessed the main thing and built upon it his living, engaging narrative about Alexander Pushkin.