Myths and realities of Pushkin Studies. Selected works

The book of the famous literary critic V. M. Esipova see such problematic issues of Pushkin’s studies as Pushkin’s attitude to the ideas of Decembrism and the Decembrists, Pushkin’s relationship with Emperor Nicholas I, the authenticity of the notes of A. O. Smirnova-Rosset and many others. The earliest of the articles included in the book, the "historical subtext of the peak lady" ", was removed by Soviet censorship from the finished issue of the journal Literature Questions in 1984 and saw the light only in 1989, in the so-called perestroika. The latter in time is the article "between Onegin" and "Dmitry Impostress" (Tsar and Benkendorf in the confrontation of Pushkin with Bulgarin)" published in 2017 in the journal New World. V. M. Esipov - author of the books" Pushkin in the mirror of myths" (2006), "Divine verb. Pushkin. Block. Akhmatova "(2010)," from Barkov to Mandelstam "(2016)," Four lives of Vasily Aksenova "(2016), as well as the compiler and commentator of the posthumous publications of Vasily Aksenov