"Three centuries with Pushkin" – that's how many of his admirers and admirers are trying to recognize the phenomenon of Russian genius. As if piecing together an endless puzzle and making sure every time: no, no one can complete that plan!Perhaps, for the first time on the pages of this book, points of intersection of Pushkin, previously unknown, with great names in world culture have been found: Andersen, Dostoevsky, Bunin.In the book, heroes of different eras peacefully coexist: Peter the Great and his pet Abram Hannibal, the grandson of the poet Leonti Dubelt and the dancer Serge Lifar, the Pushkin painter Modest Hoffman and Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, the great-grandson of the poet Alexander Mezentsov and our contemporary Baron Eduard Falz-Fein."Pushkin died in the full development of his powers and undoubtedly took with him into the coffin some great secret. And now we are solving this mystery without him," Fyodor Dostoevsky once said visionarily. As if bequeathing to us, future generations, not to give up those attempts.