About the book: 1989 / The events of the “thunderous year of 1812” served as a turning point in the life and work of Lazhechnikov. Much later, in his autobiographical essay “Recruit of 1812” (1858), Lazhechnikov will talk about the outburst of patriotic feelings caused in him by the news of the French entry into Moscow: it forced him to run away from home, join the army against the will of his parents and do it with her victorious path from Moscow to Paris. I.I. Lazhechnikov. “Basurman. The sorcerer on the Sukharev Tower. Essays-memoirs", Publishing House "Soviet Russia", Moscow, 1989 Artist Zh.V. Varentsova Notes N.G. Ilyinskaya First published: Lazhechnikov I.I. Full collection op. M., 1858. T. 1. Published according to the text of this publication.