About the book: 2000 / Published in the magazine: “Zvezda” 2000, No. 6. The problem to which Igor Efimov’s essay is devoted does not arise for the first time in the literature about death Pushkin. The content of the libelous “diploma” transparently hinted at the tsar’s amorous interest in Natalya Nikolaevna. Pushkin's letters to his wife indicate that he was aware of the mortal danger of such a situation.