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Popov V.G.

FROM PUSHKIN TO BRODSKY. Guide to literary St. Petersburg / Valery Popov. - St. Petersburg: “Strata”, 2016. 198 pp. ISBN 978-5-906150-84-4 Throughout all centuries, literary life has been in full swing in St. Petersburg - and we, together with the author of the book, writer Valery Popov, find ourselves in the very thick of it. Author on as an eloquent and experienced guide, he leads us through the center of St. Petersburg, looking into the windows of the houses where Krylov, Tyutchev and Gogol, Nekrasov and Saltykov-Shchedrin, Pushkin and Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Akhmatova and Gumilev, Blok, Zoshchenko, Brodsky, Dovlatov, lived, Konetsky, Volodin, Shefner and many other personalities who have become the pride of Russian literature. It seems that everything is known about these people, but Valery Popov’s strong and bright, laconic and succinct style, the ability to see long-familiar people and a beloved city from a different perspective colors our knowledge in other tones. After reading the book, we will agree with the author: in terms of the number of literary geniuses who inhabited St. Petersburg at different times, our city has no equal.© V. G. Popov, 2016© “Strata”, 2016