Pushkin. Brodsky. Empire and fate. In 2 volumes

The first book of the two-member "Pushkin. Brodsky. Empire and fate "permeated by Pushkin theme. Pushkin - "Singer of Empire and Freedom" - is present even where he really is not mentioned, for his fate, like the fate of other heroes of the book, is organically connected with the tragedy of the Great Empire. Chronicle "The death of Pushkin, or the monitoring of the catastrophe" is not just a story about the last years of the life of the Great Poet, the historian, the thinker, but above all attempt to show his inaccurate power. He desperately tried to warn Russia about the coming catastrophes. It was not for nothing that in 1917 the catastrophe occurred, the name of Pushkin became a kind of password for those who did not accept a new bloody era. About how inquisition for Pushkin perceived the tragic fate of Russia - a red terror and defeat of culture - the great poets of Ahmatov, Mandelstam, Pasternak, a block, Russian religious philosophers, told in a large essay Disintegration, or a roll call in the gloom. In the book, the reader will find a whole gallery of portraits of a wide variety of participants in centenary drama - from the Decembrists to victoryossev and Stolypin, from Alexander II to Kerensky and Lenin. The last part of the book seizes the Soviet period before the early 1990s.
The heroes of the second part of the book "Pushkin. Brodsky. Empire and Fate "- one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century Joseph Brodsky, deep historical novelist Yuri Davydov and the great enlightener historian Nathan Eidelman. Each of them had its own organic connection with Pushkin. Each of them in his own way reflected the fate of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Soviet. Each had its own empire, its idea of ​​the essence of the imperial idea and its creative method of its understanding. They were united by another important circumstance for the plot of the book - the author of the book was connected with each of them many years of friendship. And therefore, in addition to analytical aspect, there is also a significant memoir aspect in the narrative. The purpose of the book is an attempt to delineate the individuals and fate of three bright talented and original people who put their lives to the ministry of Russian culture and playing a role in it still not fully understood