Batyushkov is not ill

1. Gleb Shulpyakov is an expert on the described topic. He is the author of a series of lectures on the poet, several scientific articles, poems, and a play about Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov. The author has worked multiple times with original documents in the manuscript department of the RNB. 2. The book “Batyushkov is not ill,” despite its title, is not only about Batyushkov—here intertwine the fates of Vasily Zhukovsky, Nikolai Karamzin, Ivan Krylov, Nikolai Gnedich, and the “Arzamas group.” This book is a snapshot of an era, a tangle of complicated threads that the author carefully unravels and lovingly brings together into one stream. 3. The author immerses the reader in historical events, telling not only about the life of Konstantin Nikolaevich but also about the events of which he was a part—the battle near Geylsberg, the fire in Moscow, and the war of 1812, the Battle of Nations near Leipzig, and the capture of Paris. Thus, the poet's fate becomes part of the larger canvas of time.