About the book: 1991 / In the story "Version" S. Laskin offers readers his concept of the intrigue taking place around Pushkin and Natalya Nikolaevna. The novel “Hostage of Eternity” tells about the tragic fate of the Leningrad artist Vasily Kaluzhnin, a friend of Yesenin, Akhmatova, Klyuev... Both of these works, which take place in different centuries, are united by the artist’s opposition to smug aggressive inertia.