For the first time in Russian, a translation of the famous diary of Daria Fedorovna Fikelmon, the granddaughter of M.I. Kutuzov, the wife of the Austrian envoy in St. Petersburg Charles Fikelmon, which she led in 1829-1837, is published.
This diary is the Chronicle of Pushkin Petersburg of those years. The notes were made under the immediate impression of the moment and therefore they are more reliable than many memories of the past, clouded by a veil of time.
Dolly’s diary Fikelmon is unique, first of all, for Pushkinists. It is amazing that in it she did not ignore any of Pushkin, who was considered to be the St. Petersburg environment and even expanded the circle of familiar great poet.
The diary publisher Svetlana Mrochkovskaya-Balashova worked on the book for more than ten years and in detail commented on all the events mentioned on its pages, and the annotated index of the names includes about three thousand characters.
The beautiful author’s style gives the diary undoubted literary and artistic delights …
Author
Fixelmon Dolly
Editor
Savitsky V.V.
Translator
Chakyrova Maria, Mrochkovskaya Svetlana
Publisher
Past, 2009
Series
Pushkin library
Genre
Literary criticism and criticism
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