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“An excerpt from the letter [to D.]” by A.S. Pushkin: addressee, function, dating

2019

Alexander Pushkin Lev Pushkin Anton Delvig text criticism dating addressee problem text history narrative poem “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai” Crimea

2026

The article proves that the text, published in the literary almanac “Northern Flowers for 1826” under the title “An excerpt from A. Pushkin’s letter to D[elvig]”, was, in fact, created as a letter to Pushkin’s brother Leo (Lev Sergeevich). The article revises the date and pragmatics of this work, its connection with the literary and biographical context. The article contains a detailed critical analysis of the interpretations of the topic introduced by leading Pushkin scholars: Boris Modzalevsky, Mstislav Tsiavlovsky, Grigorii Vinokur, Vadim Vatsuro, Sergei Fomichev, and Yanina Levkovich. The conclusions of the author are based on a thorough study of the history of the text of the “letter”: its draft manuscript copy in the “Second Masonic notebook”, its fair copy, and all lifetime publications.

Balakin A. Blizko k tekstu: Razyskaniia i predpolozheniia [Close to the text: Research and assumptions]. St. Petersburg, Pal'mira Publ., 2017. 357 p. (In Russ.)

Balakin A.Iu. A.S. Pushkin i kniga I.M. Murav'eva-Apostola “Puteshestvie po Tavride v 1820 gode” [A.S. Pushkin and I.M. Muravyov-Apostol’s book “The Journey to Tauris in 1820”]. Russkaia literatura, 2017, no. 2, pp. 19–30. (In Russ.)

Chereiskii L.A. Pushkin i ego okruzhenie [Pushkin and his entourage]. 2nd ed. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1989. 544 p. (In Russ.)

Fomichev S.A. Rabochaia tetrad' Pushkina PD № 835: (Iz tekstologicheskikh nabliudenii) [Pushkin's workbook PD 835: (From textual observations)]. Pushkin: Issledovaniia i materialy. T. 11 [Pushkin. Studies and materials. Vol. 11]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1983, pp. 27–65. (In Russ.)

Kats B.A. Odinnadtsat' voprosov k Pushkinu [Eleven questions to Pushkin]. St. Petersburg, European University in St. Petersburg Publ., 2008. 160 p. (In Russ.)

Levkovich Ia.L. Avtobiograficheskaia proza i pis'ma Pushkina [Pushkin’s autobiographical prose and letters]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1988. 328 p. (In Russ.)

Mogilianskii A.P. Lichnost' Pushkina [Pushkin’s personality]. St. Petersburg, Elmor Publ., 1995. 111 p. (In Russ.)

Okhotin N.G., Rogova A.I. “Otryvok iz pis'ma k D” [“An excerpt from the letter to D”]. Pushkinskaia entsiklopediia: Proizvedeniia. Vyp. 3: L — O [Pushkin encyclopedia: Works. Iss. 3: L — O]. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2017, pp. 590–595. (In Russ.)

Petrunina N.N. Proza Pushkina: puti evoliutsii [Pushkin’s prose: paths of evolution]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1987. 335 p. (In Russ.)

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Pis'ma Aleksandra Bestuzheva k P.A. Viazemskomu (1823–1825) [Alexander Bestuzhev’s letters to P.A. Vyazemsky (1823–1825)], publ. and comment. by

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K.P. Bogaevskaya, intro. by N.L. Stepanov. Literaturnoe nasledstvo. T. 60. Kn. 1. Dekabristy-literatory. II [Literary heritage. Vol. 60. Book 1: Decembrists — men of letters. II]. Moscow, USSR Academy of Sciences Publ., 1956, pp. 191–230. (In Russ.)

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Pushkin A.S. Dnevnik. Zapiski [Diary. Notes], ed. by Ia.L. Levkovich. St. Petersburg, Nauka Publ., 1995. 336 p. (In Russ.)

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Pushkin A.S. Sochineniia: Kommentirovannoe izdanie [Works: Commented edition], ed. by David M. Betea. Vyp. 1: Poemy i povesti. Ch. I [Iss. 1: Narrative poems and stories. Part 1]. Moscow, Novoe izdatel'stvo Publ., 2007. 248 + 400 p. (In Russ.)

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Pushkin v perepiske S.A. Sobolevskogo [Pushkin in S.A. Sobolevsky’s correspondence], publ. and notes by M. Svetlova. Literaturnoe nasledstvo. T. 16/18: Aleksandr Pushkin [Literary heritage. Vol. 16/18: Alexander Pushkin]. Moscow, Zhurnal'no-gazetnoe ob"edinenie Publ., 1934, pp. 725–757. (In Russ.)

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Tomashevskii B. V. Istoriia tetradi Vsevolozhskogo [The story of Vsevolozhsky's copybook]. Pushkin A.S. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii: B 20 t. T. 2. Kn. 1 [Complete works: In 20 vols. Vol. 2. Book 1]. St. Petersburg, Nauka Publ., 2004, pp. 303–324. (In Russ.)

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Tsiavlovskii M.A. Letopis' zhizni i tvorchestva A. S. Pushkina. 1799–1826 [Chronicle of A.S. Pushkin’s life and work. 1799–1826], 2nd ed., ed. by Ia.L. Levkovich. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1991. 785 p. (In Russ.)

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Vatsuro V.E. “Severnye tsvety”: Istoriia al'manakha Del'viga — Pushkina [“Northern Flowers”: The story of the Delvig-Pushkin almanac]. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1978. 288 p. (In Russ.)

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Vinokur G.O. Iz kommentariev k Pushkinu [From the commentary to Pushkin’s work], publ. by O.A. Proskurin. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii. Vyp. 32 [Pushkin Commission Chronicle. Iss. 32]. St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences Publ., Rostok Publ., 2016, pp. 47–54. (In Russ.)