Kyuhlya. Tynyanov Yu.N.

The novel “Kyuhl” for the first time published in 1925 is dedicated to the tragic fate of his friend Alexander Pushkin since the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum - Decembrist Wilhelm Kuchelbeker.

What made an enthusiastic, romantic, painful boy from a poor German family of nobles -Theran to experience more painful experiences for Russia than his contemporaries, who was boasted in fashion after defeating Napoleon ostentatious patriotism?

Why did his lyceum years, in which a lot of caustic ridicule fell on the share of William?

And what brought him - not a warrior at all - to Senate Square, and then - to the casemates of the Alekseevsky Ravelin, to the Hell of Siberian hard labor and for many years of exile, from which he was no longer destined to return?..