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The mid-1970s, the era of stagnation at its zenith. Boris Alikhanov, a struggling writer from Leningrad with a slew of personal problems, comes to the open-air museum for the summer to work as a tour guide. Behind the series of absurd situations the protagonist finds himself in, lies an internal drama, a fracture, a crisis of a man mired in unsettled relationships, alcoholism, and creative failures. The events take place in Pushkin Hills, a landmark of Russian culture. Pushkin, too, was once a living person, though for those around Alikhanov, he is a monument, a portrait on the wall. "I wanted to portray in the Pushkin Reserve a literary figure whose problems lie in the same context as Pushkin's: money, wife, creativity, the state," wrote Dovlatov. "And it's not about the hero's abilities... but about the reserve itself, which is depicted like a mausoleum, and the indifference and blindness of those around it."

The book also includes "The Zone"—a story in fourteen episodes from the lives of prisoners and their guards, stories of human coexistence behind barbed wire, told simply and with sobering humor, behind which one can clearly hear: "Hell is us."
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