Works. Prose. Apukhtin A. N. Apukhtin A.

Apukhtin Alexey Nikolaevich - a classic who is not required and not required. He was born in a family where they bowed before literature. Some of his relatives were closely connected with Pushkin, Fet, Dostoevsky, Zhukovsky, Karamzin. There were Apukhtins, among the ancestors of I. S. Turgenev - with the great writer Alexei Nikolaevich talked from the age of ten, and met Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy later. The genius of Russian literature represented the young writer to numerous critics.

At the same time, Apukhtin was known and first of all from romances on his poems. At the school of law as a boy, he became friends with his peer - Tchaikovsky. They carried this friendship through their whole life. Pyotr Ilyich introduced Alexei Nikolaevich into the circle of famous Russian composers, S. V. Rachmaninov, A. S. Taneev, I. A. Borodin worshiped his work.

During the life of Apukhtin, few knew that he was an excellent prose writer. The poet’s story will be found after his death among papers in the bag. Later they were admired by Mikhail Bulgakov: “The shape of these works is so artistic, and the compression of the presentation is so great that these three small stories are the whole volumes of the works of most modern novelists.”

Today they are somewhat forgotten, and therefore presented in this book...