“Return to Mikhailovskoye” is a novel, the first two books of which were published at one time in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”, were published in separate editions and aroused serious reader interest. The third and fourth were just written and have not yet been published. The first two are entirely devoted to a special period in Pushkin’s life: his two-year stay in Mikhailovskoye, after being deported from the south to his parents’ estate. Only later will he understand that this forced “stop” at Mikhailovskoye station - among forests and lakes, and snow, and, at times, complete loneliness - which at first seemed so catastrophic, was necessary for him. For here the time has come to “say goodbye once and for all to idle absent-mindedness” (as he will later say about Griboyedov) and the turn of concentration in oneself has come, which alone can save art in a person. The third and fourth books dramatically change the vector of the narrative: they concern subsequent events in the life of Pushkin and the country - the Decembrist uprising and the reprisal of its participants, including Pushkin's friends, the hero's return to the capital and a difficult attempt to get in touch with the new government, while maintaining himself as an artist in the conditions of the Nicholas era. The novel does not strive to to force the image of the poet into a certain scheme of a pre-built concept of his life and work. This is just an attempt to trace the inner path of the creator - the time of creation of “Boris Godunov” and “Eugene Onegin”. On the other hand, and this should be emphasized, “Return to Mikhailovskoye” is a historical novel, not a biographical novel, but a novel, an attempt to express the Artist and his Time.