Black River։ A Novel All Pushkinists agree that in Pushkin's life there was one secret love, unchanged from early youth, hidden from everyone. So, we found it. And at the same time they understood why he had always been interested in the fate of women dressed in men's clothes: cavalry maidens, popess Joanna... We have explained the secret causes of the events of 1848, 1861 and 1917. They found traces of the missing Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and traced the fate of Griboyedov, whose play "Cyrano de Bergerac" is still attributed to Rostand. This novel could be called "The Second Life of Vazir-Mukhtar", but it is better like this. Because Pushkin is the black, African river of Russian fate, which connected it with the ocean of world culture. And it is he who we think of as the main gap in the black-and-red blot of Russian history.
