The book is compiled from authentic documents - testimonies of A.S.’s contemporaries. Pushkin. These are memoirs, letters, literary notes, individual statements of people who knew the poet closely - his friends and foes, relatives, social acquaintances. Selected by V.V. Veresaev from a variety of documentary materials, they convincingly depict the morals of Pushkin’s era, allowing not only to more fully present the biography of the great poet, but also to rethink his life and creative path.