The book "Pushkin's Companions" by Vikenty Veresaev, which continues the series "I Love Pushkin", is intended to introduce readers even more closely to the life of the greatest Russian poet and thereby to understand his work more deeply. Behind each portrait-essay (and there are almost 400 of them in the book!) is the titanic work of the author to restore the biographies of those who are usually called people of the Pushkin circle. The task of this study, according to Veresaev himself, is " to give everyday literary portraits of people with whom Pushkin came into contact in his life, in other words, to surround Pushkin with living people. In accordance with this, the main attention is paid to the description of the personality of each companion and his everyday relations to Pushkin, and through this-to the characteristics of the life in which Pushkin had to live and create."