About the book: 2017 / The development of literature and culture is usually considered as the activity of its individual representatives - often in line with a certain direction, school, trend, style, etc. If we talk about “personal” connections, then we mean mainly mutual influence and continuity or, on the contrary, struggle and polemics. But there are other, more complex forms of community. For Russia in the first half of the 19th century, this was primarily a circle and a family. Within these associations, the factor of influence or controversy is also important, as is belonging to a direction. However, factors of daily personal communication, friendships and family ties, and sometimes intimate and love relationships are no less important. The book presents the circle of N. Stankevich, from which came such remarkable figures as V. Belinsky, M. Bakunin, V. Krasov, I. Klyushnikov, T. Granovsky, as well as such an original phenomenon as the Aksakov family, which gave birth to the original writer S.T. . Aksakov, brilliant poets, critics and publicists K. and I. Aksakov. Many figures of Russian culture were associated with her.