Author. Khromogin A.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. One of the most authoritative figures of Russian literature, whose works to this day are memorized by heart adults and children. Among contemporaries, he was known as a genius and freethinker, he was adored and envied. The poet’s life tragically ended in January 1837 as a result of a duel with the Frenchman Georges Dantes. In the last year of his life, Pushkin was seriously experiencing the recent death of his mother. The loss of a loved one had a heavily affected the work of Alexander Sergeyevich, for a long time he could not write a line. At the beginning of 1837, shortly before the death, the poet perked up: something completely new and amazing beginning to be born from under his pen. Pushkin is convinced that this will be his best work. There were several days left to the fatal duel... Tula commander Alexei Khromogin (“Lights in the Forest”, “The First Man on Earth”) represents a sketch of the Reflection of where the line between the masterpiece and mediocrity passes. Are we right when we call the brilliant another work in an endless series of masterpieces? Do the life and death of the person who created it affect our perception of the work? Or does the greatness of exemplary creation do not depend on the words and numbers that will be knocked out on the grave plate of the Creator?