The star of captivating happiness

“The characteristic feature of Pushkin’s genius is diversity,” wrote his lyceum friend I. I. Pushchin about the poet. “There was almost no phenomenon in nature, events in public life that would have passed by him without causing the marvelous and inimitable sounds of his muses, and therefore spaciousness and freedom, for every person, invaluable, for him were, moreover, powerful inspirers.” Pushkin’s poetry is universal, the thematic range of his lyrics is striking in its breadth, all -leature. This collection presents Pushkin’s poetic thoughts - about life and death, about the current day and historical events, about the calling of the poet, the appointment of man, about God. They reveal to us the intellectual biography of the poet - from youthful poems saturated with the atmosphere of cheerful hedonism, to the late revelations of the “Kamennoostrovsky cycle”. Before us is a person who knew the minutes of despair and spiritual crises, and nevertheless never stopped love life