Diology of the famous Soviet writer I.A. Novikova (1877–1959) “Pushkin in Exile”, consisting of two novels “Pushkin in the South” and “Pushkin in Mikhailovsky”, is dedicated to two periods in the poet’s life - the southern and Pskov exiles. These two works are rightfully considered one of the most famous in Russian Pushkin studies. This edition presents the novel “Pushkin in the South” - the first part of the dilogy by I.A. Novikova. It tells about the poet's southern exile. The reasons for Pushkin's southern exile were very trivial: the release of several caustic epigrams to those in power at the highest level. The geography of Pushkin's travels in 1820–1824 was very extensive and included the south of Little Russia, Crimea, and Bessarabia. The biography of the poet of that time is filled with bright events: here are the poet’s trips around the Crimea, and the delights of army life in Chisinau, and rich in events and intrigues, almost metropolitan life in Odessa. In Pushkin's works, the period of southern exile is called romantic. The poet's romanticism was not imposed by fashionable trends in Western literature; it was a reflection of that time and the events that took place in his homeland.