The tragic end of Pushkin's life is the subject of this documentary novel. The narrator is a young French diplomat vicomte Olivier d' Archiac who participated in the famous duel on January 27, 1837. Leonid Petrovich Grossman (1888-1965).
Leonid Grossman was a Russian Soviet literary critic and writer. Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Born into a family of a doctor. In 1911 he graduated from the law faculty of Novorossiysk University in Odessa, where he began teaching. From 1921 he taught at the Moscow Literary and Art Institute. Bryusov; later he worked as a scientific secretary of the literary section of the State Academy of Arts, in the literary and art department of the State Publishing House, then again taught at various pedagogical institutes in Moscow. In 1948 he was among the scientists who were accused of cosmopolitanism.
For the series "The Life of Remarkable People" he wrote biographies of Pushkin and Dostoevsky.