Book: The Muse and Mammon

Let them beware of the worst nicknames are those officials who are going to make a poetry for some private beds, encroaching on her secret freedom and preventing it to fulfil its mysterious value.

Many, probably most famous words of the Unit: Pushkin was not killed by the bullet of Dantes, he was killed by lack of air. This poetic metaphor has a definite social content. We are talking about public power and about the people that Pushkin's work interfered. These people, in turn, prevented the poet to fulfill its great historic mission.

Peter the great accelerated learning from Westernizing barbarous Russia, without stopping to barbaric means of struggle against barbarism.

The most important reason for the defeat of Pugachev was the instability of the peasant masses and its inability to consistently fight for their vital interests, age-old habit to surrender and obey the masters and the authorities.

Barkov humorous od didn't send you,
Radishchev, the bondage of the enemy, escaped censorship,
Pushkin poems in the censorship did not happen;
What needs? and so the other read.

A team of scientists and writers used what kind they may be, always ahead in all the raids of education, all the attacks of education. They should not be cowardly to be indignant at what ever they determined to take the first shots and all the hardships, all the dangers.

What does the aristocracy of the breed and wealth in comparison with the aristocracy writing talents?

Man can not exist without the social environment, with no known or traditional, or accepted way of life, without darkness surrounding conventions.

About poverty! I finally learned
The bitter lesson of yours! What I did to deserve
Your persecution, Lord hostile,
Contentment is the enemy, severe sleep mucical?..

Write books for money, God knows, I can't.

The phenomenon of Pushkin in Russian culture in recent decades has attracted the attention of Western scientists. The Englishman A. D. P. Briggs asks the question: what is the secret of the beneficial effects that the poet on the spirit of the nation, the morale of the Russian people? He says that a similar phenomenon is not easy to find in the culture of other peoples.

It's boring to explore the personality and life of the great man on his knees - the usual posture of biographers.

Poetry (and prose) Pushkin is an amazing mixture of high emotionality, with particular rationalism - precision and concreteness of the content.

By itself, the blind, and the tax falls indiscriminately on all States. - No tax can be revoked in all States, but usually falls to one.