About the book: 2004 / The book by the famous literary critic Nikolai Skatov is dedicated to the biography of N. A. Nekrasov, remarkable not only for his poetic creativity, but also for his contribution to national culture, which he contributed while being the editor of major literary and journalistic magazines. Nekrasov appears in the book as a “Russian historical type,” as Dostoevsky put it, in all the splendor of his rich and contradictory nature. Nekrasov is not only a great poet, but also a great player, a hunter; he just as passionately loves all the pleasures that wealth gives a person, as passionately as he passionately wants to alleviate the plight of the oppressed and oppressed people. [Adapted for AlReader]