Life of Pushkin: In the gardens of the Lyceum. On the banks of the Neva

Marianna Yakovlevna Basina is known to readers of various ages with her documentary stories about the great Russian writers - Gogol, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, but first of all - about Pushkin. Artistic and documentary novels" in the gardens of the Lyceum and "on the Brands of the Neva", which entered this volume, are devoted to the adolescence, youth and youth of A. Pushkin .. In the first of them, an amazing picture of the life of the closed world of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum unfolds in front of the reader. This is a living world of vivid characters of lyceum students and their mentors, the world of patriotic impulses: there is a war of 1812, dreams of love and literary glory, freedom -loving hopes. In this atmosphere, the talent of the great poet, his indomitable youthful rebellion, matures.
In the first years after the Lyceum (the story "on the Bregs of the Neva"), he fiercely seeks his way in poetry, his place in the social process. The growing glory, the murderous anti -government epigrams, causing public behavior, lead to the fact that, miraculously avoiding Siberia, the poet goes to an honorary link to the south of Russia.
Academician D. S. Likhachev wrote: "In the prose of M. Ya. Vasina, scientific accuracy with the artistry and fascination of the presentation, purity and clarity of the language are connected. The writer used a huge and diverse material. I know from my grandchildren and grandchildren of friends what interest these books are among schoolchildren. "