Russia. West. East. Cultural relations: documents and materials from the meetings of the Pushkin House

The album introduces the little -known and new documents, as well as with visual materials from the meetings of the Pushkin House related to the history of the relationships of Russian and world culture. This commented publication presents unique autographs of domestic and foreign writers, translators, philosophers, church figures, musicians, scientists, crowned persons, prominent politicians of different eras - from the XVII to the XXI century. Among them are autographs of the Spanish king Philip IV, I. ​​S. Bach, F. Schiller, G. Heine, Napoleon, English Queen Victoria, J. G. Byron, V. Gyugo, A. Mitskievich, A. Dude, A. Dumas , G. de Maupassana, C. Dickens, C. Darwin, K. Marx, O. von Bismarck, A. S. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky, A. I. Turgenev, N.V. Gogol, A. A Blok, 3. N. Hippius, T. Tabidze and many others - all those whose life paths intersected on Russian intersections in a single cultural space between the West and the East