The book is dedicated to the last six years of Pushkin’s life, when the great poet, who showed himself to be a profound historian and political thinker, foresaw the catastrophic future of the Russian Empire, believed in the reform intentions of Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, and tried with a gigantic spiritual effort to influence the fate of his country. A year after year, month after month, the author traces the actions of Pushkin, the stages of his grandiose plan, which collapsed in a collision with the steady course of Russian history. This is a book about great hope and bitter disappointment, a book about the fate of a true patriot, whose tragedy predicted the tragedy of the country. This is a book about how Russian society refused to understand the great poet and thinker, and criticism subjected him to vicious persecution, examples of which the reader will find in an extensive appendix. This is a book about the death of the prophet.