About the book: 1989 / Lazhechnikov’s memoirs about Belinsky, with minor inaccuracies, contain valuable factual material, shedding light on the years of study and the Moscow period of the critic’s life, on his relationship with the Bakunin family, whose last name Lazhechnikov could not name (Mikhail Bakunin, as a “political criminal,” served exile in Siberia), but whose image is given a significant place in the essay. I.I. Lazhechnikov. “Basurman. The sorcerer on the Sukharev Tower. Essays-memoirs", Publishing House "Soviet Russia", Moscow, 1989 Notes - N.G. Ilyinskaya First published in the newspaper "Moskovsky Vestnik" (1859, No. 17. With. 203-212).