Batyushkov, his life and works

L.N.Maykov mainly engaged in research in the field of Old Russian literature, but the literature of the New Time - XVIII and XIX centuries was also included in the sphere of interest.
Work is written over a hundred years ago, but still remains the most complete and authoritative biography of K.N. Batyushkova. The author went over all the materials in which there could be information about the external life of the Writer and its internal development. Materials are very scarce and fragmentary, but comparing them with literary works Batyushkov, with the characteristics of his friends, the author of the biography managed to portray how much it was possible, the mobile character of the writer, various sources and steps of his mental and poetic development and his literary merit, so wrote About her outstanding literary critic A.N. Pippin.
The publication proposed by the reader is complemented by a number of historical and literary articles (V.A. Kosheleva, O.A.Proskurina, A.L. Zorina, N.N. Zubkov), who shed a new light on some facts of the fate of the poet