Yuri Druzhnikov went from a Soviet journalist, a dissident writer, an emigrant to a professor of Slavic at the University of California. Along with the sensational anti-Soviet ones, first published in the West, he wrote a novels by the trilogy-study of the prisoner of Russia about the life and death of Pushkin. This topic was continued in this book of polemic essays, where many myths about the poet are debunked and challenged traditional Pushkinism. In his “independent investigations”, in some ways very scandalous, friendship disputes the generally accepted parameters of Pushkin’s growth, the mythologized image of Arina Rodionovna, and, most importantly, the reasons for his family conflict, which led to mutual misfortune, unequivocally raising the question of how much the poet’s life would have been extended if the dueling with Dantes was avoided.
Author
Druzhnikov Yuri
Editor
Levanchuk M.I.
Publisher
Algorithm, 2014
Series
Pushkin’s life
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