Imperiia i sud'ba 2tt - Gordin Ia. A.

The first book of the two-volume book "Pushkin. Brodsky. Empire and Destiny" is permeated with Pushkin's theme. Pushkin - the "singer of empire and freedom" - is present even where he is not directly mentioned, because his fate, as well as the fate of other heroes of the book, is organically connected with the tragedy of the great empire. The chronicle "The death of Pushkin, or the sense of catastrophe" is not just a story about the last years of the life of the great poet, historian, thinker, but above all an attempt to show his visionary power. He desperately tried to warn Russia of the coming catastrophes. No wonder, when in 1917 disaster came, the name of Pushkin became a kind of password for those who did not accept the new bloody era. The great poets Akhmatov, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Blok, Russian religious philosophers, told in a great essay "The decay, or the Roll call in...