"My entire life is in letters". From the correspondence of V. G. Belinsky

The compiler and author of the introductory article I.R. Monakhova.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky, the great figure of Russian culture is a literary critic, a philosopher, a publicist - in his correspondence, as in life and creativity, was very sincere, open, "violey". His letters are a kind of epistolary diary, where lyrical revelations coexist with sharp remarks about the current reality, and reflections on "eternal" topics - with estimates of the literary works of its contemporaries, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol.
In the book included passages from Correspondence V.G. Belinsky, which most brightly show him as a person, the life of his soul, as well as his views - philosophical, literary, public. What kind of person was a "frantic Vissarion"? Why did he become the Central Nature, "one of the heads of public consciousness of his time" (according to I.S. Turgenev)? Letters can say a lot about it. Moreover, Belinsky himself somehow noticed: My whole life is in letters.
For a wide range of readers interested in the history of Russian literature