“Pushkin is just a normal Russian person in a torn Russia.” This is just one of the thoughts that amazes with its simplicity and obviousness, which the author of this book comes to, literary critic and writer Yu. F. Karyakin (1930–2011). The collection consists of notes, Karyakin’s thoughts about Pushkin, his role in our history, “strange connections” between Pushkin and Goya, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. The book is based on an unknown work from the 70s, “The Last Supper of Mozart and Salieri.” What makes us dismayed by the tragic figure of Salieri? Why did he poison Mozart? Maybe, among other things, because Mozart is a personality, and it is the personality in another, the other in another, that people like Pushkin’s Salieri cannot stand? Karjakin came to conclusions about post-Pushkin Russia, which are now receiving surprising confirmation.