Pushkin's friend Pavel Voinovich Nashchokin. Raevsky N.

After the death of Delvig, it is unlikely that any of the friends, except, perhaps, Zhukovsky and sometimes Pletnev, the poet treated with such tenderness as P. V. Nashchokin.

responds with great warmth with great warmth Pushkin about a friend in letters to his wife: “Nashchokin here is one of my joy”, “Loves me alone Nashchokin.” The long -term correspondence of Pushkin and Nashchokin testifies to their exceptional attachment to each other and complete friendly frankness. In addition to friendly love and common everyday interests, Pushkin and Nashchokin were most connected by literary interests. As one of the contemporaries of Pavel Voinovich wrote: “Thanks to the enormous readiness, he knew well French and Russian literature, and through French translations he also got acquainted with the literature of other peoples. With his knowledge of life, with his taste and love for all sectors of elegant arts, he possessed a critical instinct and stood above his time. "

the work of the wonderful Pushkinist N. A. Raevsky, the work proposed to the attention of readers, is at the present Time is the only biography of P.V. Nashchokin and therefore will be interesting to all lovers of Russian literature.