To move in the Pushkin world, a modern reader, especially a young one, needs a compass, says the writer, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Moscow State University Vladimir Novikov, author of biographies of Blok and Vysotsky in the "ZhZL" series. He sees his new work as such a compass - the biography of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, presented as an experience of accessible narration, from which the reader can draw not concepts and hypotheses, but the most necessary information. At the same time, the author managed to catch the dynamics of the real fate of the great Russian poet. absorbing both 'hard work' and 'all the impressions of being'.