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Literary salons and circles of Pushkin's time through the eyes of their participants

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Literary salons and circles of Pushkin's time through the eyes of their participants
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The book includes diaries, notes, and memoirs from participants in several dozen literary salons and circles of the first decades of the 19th century, the era known as the Pushkin era. Pushkin himself appears among the attendees at one salon or another and is certainly an invisibly present presence everywhere—even where his antagonists congregated. Literary associations reflected the heterogeneity of the then noble society, which fragmented into groups with distinct aesthetic tastes. Fierce debates raged among their participants, and prominent writers and cultural figures often found themselves on both sides of the literary barricades, as, for example, in the confrontation between the "Conversations of Lovers of the Russian Word" and "Arzamas." But there were also salons—those of E. A. Karamzina, E. M. Khitrovo, Z. A. Volkonskaya, and others—where writers of different schools interacted with one another in a completely secular manner, though sometimes not without barbs. In short, it was a most interesting world, in which literature was closely intertwined with life, poetry with politics, and above all this reigned human ambitions.
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