Alexander Pushkin. The Close Era

Sergey Surin is a Petersburg literary scholar, writer, composer, author of the YouTube channel "Sergey Surin's Lectures", the text project "One Day of Alexander Sergeyevich", lecture-performances with classical and jazz musicians "Puzzle of Pushkin", the lecture project "The Phenomenon of the Pushkin Era", brain rings for high school students "Non-Textbook Pushkin", "Non-Textbook Lermontov", "Non-Textbook Griboedov".

In this book, a modern, vibrant, and often ironic language tells about Pushkin's fate up to September 1826, as well as about an amazing time — the golden age of Russian culture, — the time of the Alexander thaw, when the Russian language and Russian consciousness were forming. This is a time of magnificent salons and rapidly developing theater, dynamically changing fashion and the astonishing practice of Russian feasts, delightful beauties and imposing braggarts, scandalous divorces and beautiful manifestations of nobility…

We immerse ourselves in the affairs of long ago and forget about what is happening around us. The past — during the time of reading — becomes the present. Just don't forget to return to reality afterward!..