About the book: 1989 / The work of the memoir series "How I Knew Magnitsky" tells about the state of Kazan University and at the same time, thanks to the peculiarities of the manner of Lazhechnikov the memoirist, who loves "side moves,” digressions by association, gives a picture of cultural life in the last years of the reign of Alexander I. In the center of the essay is the figure of Mikhail Leontyevich Magnitsky (1778-1855), at the time described - the trustee of the Kazan educational district. I.I. Lazhechnikov. “Basurman. The sorcerer on the Sukharev Tower. Essays-memoirs", Publishing House "Soviet Russia", Moscow, 1989 Notes by N.G. Ilyinskaya First published: Russian Messenger. 1866. № 1.