Nothing is more like the self-isolation of 2020 than the quarantine of 1830, right down to the genius's addiction to buckwheat! Russian Russian village in 1833," Nothing is more like a Russian village in 1662, " said Pushkin. And Gogol wrote about Pushkin: "This is the Russian man in his development, in which he may appear in 200 years." Flipping through the calendar of the Boldinskaya autumn, a Moscow journalist and translator, chief editor of the GodLiterature portal.Russian Federation Mikhail Wiesel examines the letters sent by Pushkin from the Nizhny Novgorod estate to the bride, friends, and business partners. Nothing is more like the self-isolation of 2020 than the quarantine of 1830, right down to the genius's addiction to buckwheat! Pushkin and this is our everything.Author's introduction:"Any quarantine can turn into a Boldin autumn," we say in Russia. And really-if you look at it, it's just amazing how a brief and purely economic trip to the Nizhny Novgorod estate in the autumn of 1830 suddenly became a three-month "creative business trip"for the 31-year-old Pushkin. As we remember, from September 5 to December 1, 1830, Onegin was completed, "Small Tragedies" and innovative ones were written (for Pushkin himself and for all Russian literature) "Belkin's Stories", the poem "The House in Kolomna", not to mention several dozen lyrical poems. Thanks to this, the Boldin autumn went down in history as the highest rise of a genius in the prime of life.And Pushkin wrote letters. We have received 19 letters to various correspondents — first of all, of course, to the bride-Mademoiselle Goncharova, 18-year-old Natasha. But also to friends and colleagues, in which he adhered to the style, frankly speaking, informal. And now we have something like an Instagram or Facebook at our disposal, from which we can reconstruct: what exactly did Pushkin do in his Boldin autumn? How did it turn out — Boldinskaya? Pushkin's letters make it clear how. 2nd edition, revised and expanded.