Poet, Rossiya i cari

Otryvki iz dnevnikov i vospominaniy Pushkina za 1821 -1835 gg. Otnosheniya s Nikolaem I i chlenami imperatorskoy sem'i, vstrechi i besedy s Derzhavinym, Speranskim, Karamzinym. Aleksey Nikolaevich Vul'f - otstavnoy shtabs-rotmistr, sosed po pskovskomu imeniyu i priyatel' Pushkina. Pod ego perom ozhivayut kartiny povsednevnogo byta toy pory, raskryvaetsya mirooschuschenie provincial'nogo russkogo dvoryanstva. Vospominaniya o vstrechah s Pushkinym peremezhayutsya rasskazami o lyubovnyh priklyucheniyah samogo Vul'fa. freyliny Marii Karlovny Merder posvyascheny sobytiyam 1834-1838 gg. Harakteristiki chlenov carskoy sem'i, baly i priemy, pozhar v Zimnem dvorce 1837 g., otnosheniya Dantesa i Natal'i Pushkinoy i dr. L'va NikolaevichaPavlischeva, plemyannika Pushkina, ohvatyvaet period s konca XVIII v. do 1880 g., v tom chisle otnosheniya Pushkina s rodnymi i druz'yami, predystoriyu dueli s Dantesom.