Vyazemsky

Friend of Karamzin and Zhukovsky, Pushkin and Mitskevich, Tyutchev and Standal, one of the largest Russian poets of the golden century, Master of magazine controversy, historian of literature and Russian life, translator, memoirist, adviser and interlocutor I Alexander I and Alexander II, brilliant secular lion, wit and hearty ... and one of the most dramatic destinies in the history of Russian literature. The favorite genome of Prince P. A. Vyazemsky was the notebooks with which he compared himself at sunset, I"m just a notebook, / where life plays the role of scribe ... ". The first complete life of the poet, based on the materials of the Ostafyevsky archive, makes it possible to look at this "notebook" and appreciate the uniqueness of the talent of Prince P. A. Vyazemsky. 2nd edition, corrected and complemented