About the book: year / Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1800–1875) - historian, writer, publisher of the magazines “Moskovsky Vestnik” (1827–1830), “Moscow Observer” ( 1835–1837; together with a number of writers), “Moskvityanin” (1841–1856). In the second half of the 1820s he was close to Pushkin.