About the book: 2001 / Boris Nosik, a famous writer and translator, devotes his new book to the study of the life and work of one of the largest poets in Russia V. A. Zhukovsky. The reader is faced with a multifaceted image of Zhukovsky - both a mentor to the royal family, and a public figure, and a poet, concerned not only with the fate of Russian poetry, but also with the fate of his fellow writers, and simply a person endowed with passions no less than, for example, representatives Renaissance...All this is written about in a vivid and exciting way.