Russkaya literaturnaya usad'ba

Kniga kandidata filologicheskih nauk Vladimira Novikova rassmatrivaet unikal'noe yavlenie russkoy kul'tury - dvoryanskuyu usad'bu - s tochki zreniya ee vliyaniya na sud'by otechestvennoy literatury. Pushkin i Mihaylovskoe, Griboedov i Hmelita, Lermontov i Tarhany, Lev Tolstoy i Yasnaya Polyana, Turgenev i Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, Tyutchev i Ovstug, Chehov i Melihovo, Blok i Shahmatovo, Severyanin i Suda, Nabokov i Rozhdestveno... - eti imena i nazvaniya soedineny nerazryvno. Nekotorye usad'by izvestny blagodarya svoim gostyam: v Ostaf'eve podolgu zhil Karamzin, v Znamenskom-Gubaylove sobiralis' poety "serebryanogo veka", Slepnevo znamenito posescheniyami Gumileva i Ahmatovoy. Kniga V.Novikova - svoeobraznyy putevoditel', ohvatyvayuschiy dvadcat' shest' usadeb, bez kotoryh russkaya klassika - ot Derzhavina do Bunina, - nesomnenno, imela by sovsem inoe lico.