Friend of Karamzin and Zhukovsky, Pushkin and Mitskevich, Tyutchev and Stendhal; one of the largest Russian poets of the Golden Age, who went through a 70-year creative journey; master of journal polemics, historian of literature and Russian life, translator, memoirist; advisor and interlocutor of Alexander I and Alexander II; a brilliant socialite, a wit and a heartthrob... and one of the most dramatic destinies in the entire history of Russian literature. The favorite genre of Prince P.A. Vyazemsky had notebooks with which he compared himself at the end of his days: “I’m just a notebook, / Where life plays the role of a scribe...” The first complete biography of the poet, based on materials from the Ostafevsky archive, makes it possible to look into this “notebook” and appreciate the unique talents of Prince P.A. Vyazemsky.