Жемчужины Филда

In post-siege Leningrad, Yuri Davydov found the forgotten grave of Pushkin's lyceum friend, Admiral Fyodor Matyushkin. And wrote a book about him. Thus began the work of the writer in the historical genre. This book presents his writings of recent years and, as always, a document, careful archival research is just the beginning, then - literature: an original interpretation of the behavior of a famous historical person (Count Benckendorff in `Blue Tulips`); an event seen from an unusual perspective - the execution of the Decembrists through the eyes of performers, an officer and an executioner (`Road to Goloday`); the fate of two prisoners - the Decembrist, the poet Küchelbecker and the leader of the Jews, also a poet, a character from the `Old Testament` (`Zerubbabel`) ...