Diary for 1838

In the diary of the fellow student A.S. Pushkin according to the lyceum, which later became a large dignitar of the Russian Empire, Modest Korf, is captured one year of his life, closely related to the activities of the State Council. Korf was a state secretary, and his records are a chronicle of the functioning of this higher legislative institution of the empire. The diary is a valuable historical document of the era of Emperor Nicholas I. It exposes the hidden mechanisms of the struggle for power, for the influence within the government bureaucracy, significantly expands our ideas about many events, political decisions, and the actions of famous figures. Readers will meet here with many characters in Russian history - Emperor Nicholas I and his family, representatives of the dignity of bureaucracy, the military elite, and cultural figures. This is the corrected publication of diary entries by M.A. Korfa for 1838, carried out according to the original stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation