Pshenica i plevely

Boris Aleksandrovich Sadovskoy — poet, prozaik, memuarist, istorik literatury, byl horosho izvesten v literaturnyh krugah v konce XIX — nachale HH veka. V poslerevolyucionnye gody Sadovskoy, stradavshiy ot tyazhelogo zabolevaniya, vel zhizn' zatvornika i pochti ne publikovalsya, odnako prodolzhal aktivnuyu pisatel'skuyu deyatel'nost'. Dannaya kniga znakomit chitateley s prozoy Sadovskogo, sozdannoy v period s 1909 po 1941 god. V etih proizvedeniyah personazhi, sozdannye fantaziey pisatelya, peresekayutsya s real'nymi istoricheskimi lichnostyami — Pushkinym i Lermontovym, imperatorom Nikolaem I i mitropolitom Moskovskim Filaretom, pri etom haraktery i postupki vseh deystvuyuschih lic vypisany nastol'ko pravdopodobno, s takim tonkim psihologizmom, chto chitatel' chuvstvuet sebya pogruzivshimsya v samuyu guschu sobytiy. Avtor shiroko ispol'zuet, naryadu s podlinnymi, vymyshlennye dokumenty, harakternye dlya opisyvaemogo perioda: dnevniki, pis'ma, memuary.