About the book: 1983 / An outstanding figure in the Russian liberation movement, Decembrist Nikolai Bestuzhev (1791–1855) was a richly and versatilely gifted person. A sailor and artist, inventor and traveler, naturalist, economist and ethnographer, he also possessed an extraordinary literary talent, although his literary fame during his lifetime was eclipsed by the fame of his brother A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. This book includes stories that reveal N.’s talent. Bestuzhev - one of the first Russian marine painters, as well as works with freedom-loving, republican, Decembrist ideas clearly expressed in them: “Notes on Holland 1815”, “December 14, 1825”, “Shlisselburg Station”, etc. Included in the one-volume book also the writer’s largest work - the story “Russian in Paris 1814”».