Byron. Pushkin. Mitskevich. Death and fate. SHAVIAVICHUS S.

In the book of the famous doctor S. Shopyavichyus (Vilnius) and the literary critic M. Ivinskaya (Vilnius), an unexpected approach to the study of the circumstances of leaving the life of the greatest geniuses of European and world literature - Byron, Pushkin and Mitskevich. Based on the achievements of modern medicine, an authoritative clinician (S. Shopyaviciyus) clarifies the causes of diseases that have become fatal for Byron and Mickevich. He also determines the nature of Pushkin’s disastrous wound, showing that in the conditions of medical science of that era, it was almost impossible to save the “sun” of Russian poetry.

The book is rich in historical and cultural commentary, produced by M. Ivinskaya, to the work of all three poets, shows their intensive creative “dialogue” in the context of the era of romanticism in Europe.

Without a doubt, this publication will be interesting to a variety of readers who seek the answers to the riddles of the life and death of outstanding artists of past centuries, and those who are interested in the life of European and Russian literature of their “golden age”.