In post-siege Leningrad, Yuri Davydov, then a lieutenant, found the forgotten grave of Pushkin’s lyceum friend, Admiral Fyodor Matyushkin. And he wrote a book about him. Thus began the writer’s work in the historical genre. This book presents his works of recent years and, as always, a document; careful archival research is only the beginning, then literature: an original interpretation of the behavior of a famous historical figure (Count Benckendorff in "Blue Tulips"); an event seen from an unusual perspective - the execution of the Decembrists through the eyes of the perpetrators, the officer and the executioner (“The Road to Goloday”); the fate of two prisoners - the Decembrist, poet Kuchelbecker and the leader of the Jews, also a poet, a character from the “Old Testament” (“Zerubbabel”)...