In Short, Pushkin

Alexander Arkhangelsky is a famous prose writer, essayist, and documentary filmmaker. A laureate of various awards. For almost 20 years, he was a television host on the "Culture" channel, and now he has focused on books. Arkhangelsky has been writing about Pushkin since his youth, but he does not consider himself a Pushkin scholar; his task is to speak about Pushkin for everyone, relying on knowledge and following his feelings. The book raises sharp questions: how are the poems "To the Calumniators of Russia" and "Self-sufficiency" related, as well as patriarchy and individualism? What was Pushkin's calling, and why did he attempt to dive into ideology? This book is not a classical biography. It briefly tells about everything: the lyceum, exile, dialogue with the tsar, and the failure of hope. Happiness, faith, love, and family, politics, money, duel… Ellipsis.