About the book: 2005 / It’s not for nothing that the nineteenth century is called the “golden” age of Russian literature. Just two years after the death of D.I. Fonvizin, A.S. Griboedov was born, four years later A.S. Pushkin was born, another year Baratynsky was born, and so on: Tyutchev, Gogol, Herzen, Goncharov, Lermontov, Turgenev , Dostoevsky, Nekrasov, Ostrovsky, Shchedrin, Leo Tolstoy... A continuous chain of Russian literature began, at the origins of which were Derzhavin and Fonvizin. Each link in this chain is an original jewel, a contribution to the treasury of world literature. The famous writer S. B. Rassadin talks about the life and work of those who made the pride of our culture, about the formation of the Russian intelligentsia.