Литературный факт (Jun 2019)

“The unhappy lover of the girl getting married”: A.S. Pushkin’s acquaintance Vasily Vasilievich Davydov

  • Alexander Kurochkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2019-12-234-244
Journal volume & issue
no. 2 (12)
pp. 234 – 244

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The article is dedicated to the admirer of Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova-Pushkina whom the poet repeatedly mentioned in his letters to her. Pushkin called him only by the last name — Davydov. His full name had not been known to scholars earlier. The author identifies the personality of Pushkin's acquaintance and provides the information about him.

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