Alexandra Smirnova-Rosset in Russian literature of the XIX century

Many years of friendship, correspondence, cooperation inextricably linve the secular lady, the wife of the diplomat Alexander Osipovna Smirnov-Rosset with the golden age of Russian literature, with the fate of A.S. Pushkin, V. Zhukovsky, P. Vyazemsky, N.V. Gogol, A. Khomyakov, the Aksakov brothers and other writers and poets of 30-40-year-olds of the XIX century. The Empress’s maid of honor left a great epistolary heritage: the famous "notes", memories of Pushkin, Gogol, Zhukovsky, extensive correspondence. I.A. Smirnova, historian and literary critic, the author of numerous studies and articles on the history of Russian literature and public life, in this book complements his long -term research, included in the book that had not previously published new archival documents