Nerazgadannye taĭny Pushkina (Pod grifom "Sekretno") (Russian Edition)

This book weaves many stories linked to Pushkin, partly based on newly disclosed archive materials, and partly on guesswork. It intimately portrays Pushkin's contemporaries, the writers Batiushkov, Zhukovskii, and Gogol, as well as other well-known and forgotten figures (Arakcheev and Minkina, the adventurer Roman Medoks, etc.). The author offers a version about a grande dame's (Poletika) involvement in Pushkin's death. One of the stories tells about little-known facts from the lives of Lzhedmitrii and Marina Mnishek. Supplement includes extracts from correspondence, poems claimed to be a variant of the 10th chapter of "Evgenii Onegin", poetry of Khlestakov's real life prototype, Platon Volkov. Illustrated with numerous portraits.