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One day Gogol came to Pushkin... Anecdotes about Russian writers

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Russian literary anecdote is a huge cultural space from the 18th to the 20th century parallel history of literature and life in Russia. It is a special history - bright, bitter, funny, tragic. Writers and poets, to whom we are accustomed since school days, appear as heroes and authors of anecdotes, appear in a completely different light, making us laugh at them, admire or sympathize with them. Here they are alive, with their weaknesses and oddities, pride and vanity. And with their troubles.
The world of literary anecdote - the world of talented natures, keenly noticing the unusual features of their fellow writers and their own. When Pushkin was once asked what he felt when he met Emperor Nicholas I in the street, he, proud and self-loving, honestly replied: "Meanness in all veins." The world of literary anecdote is a ruthless world. Monarchist and great skeptic Tyutchev left for posterity such a statement about his fatherland: "Russian history before Peter the Great - a continuous memorial service, and after Peter the Great - a single criminal case". A collection of these stories, funny cases, episodes, witticisms backstage of the great theater of our culture.
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