ON THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THIS BOOK + SINYAVSKII 'STROLLS WITH PUSHKIN'

When the stoolpigeons put Pushkin on a sheet of iron and began to roast him over the bonfire, he shouted a sentence to the onlookers standing in the distance. I could not choose anything better for my epigraph if only I considered myself worthy of repeating it: “Hey, crooks! Tell people I died a thief!…”. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.