Batyushkov is not sick. Shulpyakov G.Yu.

The book “Batyushkov is not sick” - an artistic study of the fate and work of Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov (1787–1855), one of the most unsolved and paradoxical classics of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. Soul illness overtook him early, but the legacy turned out to be so deep that it continues to hypnotize readers. Each generation “solves” Batyushkov again and again, and this book is another attempt to understand him.

writer Gleb Shulpyakov with love recreates the circumstances of the personal, literary and secular life in which the poet’s being is imprinted. On the pages of the book, his friends and close, beloved poets and artists come to life, as well as literary intrigues and scandals of that time. Together with Batyushkov, the reader travels around Germany, France, England and Italy, lives historical events of 1812, the battle of peoples and the capture of Paris, the witness and participant of which he was.