Pushkin and Decembrists. Eidelman N.Ya.

Nathan Yakovlevich Eidelman (1930-1989) - Soviet historian, Pushkinist, author of books about the Decembrists. In the series “I love Pushkin” one of his most famous works is presented - the book “Pushkin and the Decembrists”, written in 1979 and had a strong resonance. Many ideas and views of the Pushkin era, studied with scientific thoroughness, studied and described by Nathan Yakovlevich, the desire to follow the deep “thought of a poet who penetrated through the mystery of his time to all times,” turn out to be very consonant not only in the era of socialism, but also to our time.

In the center of the narrative - the events of December 14 and the relationship of the "First Poet and the First revolutionaries" of Russia. The book consists of a series of essays covering the southern period of Pushkin’s biography (1820 - 1824) and the time of the Mikhailovsky link (1824 - 1826).