Pushkin as a historical personality

Nestor Alexandrovich Kotlyarevsky is a historian of literature, a critic, the first director of the Pushkin House, who became his beloved brainchild and main care. He delved into a thousand details - from the repair and weighting of paintings to receiving funds to purchase collections and organizing lectures, and also enriched the house with a very valuable contribution, passing him all his personal, very extensive library, collected with full knowledge and with great love.
In addition, Nestor Alexandrovich is the author of the study "Pushkin as a historical person", represented in the series "I love Pushkin". From a line to a line, from chapter to the head of Kotlyarevsky’s book "Pushkin as a historical person", the surprisingly bright and cheerful appearance of the poet is loomed: as an outstanding person and as a brilliant creator. “He is our national poet,” writes the author, “the first artist, from the words of which we begin to learn to love and appreciate our popular genius. He is a friend of our childhood, our youth, and its creation is the subject of thought and research of our mature years and our old age. <...> Russia should have prepared for Pushkin’s arrival.
decades, and maybe centuries, should have passed in organic consistent work before an artist of such a talent could appear. But fate ordered differently: it gave it to us when our elegant literature had just arisen and instructed him to create it almost from chaos"