It’s impossible to stop reading “The Free Highlander.” The Caucasus is at your fingertips! Russia at your fingertips! This is a collection of prose and journalism by Gary Nemchenko. The “nail” of the book is the story about Pushkin. The meaning of the title of the story and the entire book - “The Free Highlander” - is revealed by the epigraph from N.V. Gogol’s statements about A.S. Pushkin: “In Spain he is a Spaniard, with a Greek he is a Greek, in the Caucasus he is a free highlander in the full sense of the word... ".