Book: The last year of Pushkin's life

Further neglect of his faithful subjects, of the increasing abuse in all branches of government, unlimited power, awarded to unworthy persons, all gives rise to more and more grumbling and dissatisfaction among the people.

Now I have more experience, the mind is more calm and reasonable, and I think it is better to make a few foolish decisions in youth to avoid them later on, then they'll end up learning your lesson, sometimes more harsh, but it's for the best.

What is happening in this vile world, torments me and brings terrible anguish.

From me yesterday Leila
Indifference was gone.
I said, "Wait, where?"
And she said to me:
"Your head of Seda"

Our social life is a sad thing. This lack of public opinion, this indifference to every duty of justice and truth, this is a cynical contempt for human thought and dignity - can indeed lead to despair.

We live in a kind of indifference to all, in the close horizon, with no past and future.

Precision and brevity are the first virtues of prose. It requires thought and thoughts - without them brilliant expressions to what does not serve.

So it was in the lives of many thinkers and poets, that their last works are marked by a sense of imminent departure, even seemingly completely devoted to the "outsider" themes, was distinguished by remarkable depth and perceived by the descendants of the prophecies.

"Let me owe life and many years!"
Seveso and that's what is everywhere and always
We are accustomed to pray - but how many troubles
Filled long life!

"Monument" is a Manifesto not of the Creator of celestial being, not a genius hermit, and the work is deeply personal, a cry from the heart of a hunted Pushkin.

Pushkin's wife was just an innocent pretext, not the cause of its explosive indignation against fate.

Pushkin's cruelly tight censorship. He asked someone else to censor. He was appointed Gajewski. Pushkin repents, but too late. Gajewski, until frightened by the guardhouse where you sat for eight days, now doubts whether you can skip to the press the news like so-and-so the king had died.

Time changes a person both physically and spiritually. Husband with a sigh or a smile reject dreams that agitated young man. The fool one is not changed, for time brings him development, and experiments do not exist for him.

The Emperor Paul ascended the throne, called Radischeva from exile, regained his rank and nobility, treated him kindly and made him promise not to write anything against the spirit of the government. Radischev has kept his word. He during the reign of Emperor Paul I haven't written a single line.