The new era has put old questions on the spot — and rejected the old answers. No allowances have been made for Pushkin. Is he an imperialist? A militarist? If so, how can we love him? Was the government able to tame him, and he — influence it? Is it true that he wanted to emigrate? It is important to review the convention about “our everything” once a generation, no less often and no more often. A hundred years ago, Pushkin was already thrown over the ship of modernity. Now, in the era of new emigration, cancel culture, bloody trails of Russian history, the time has come to talk about many things. Philologist, publicist, teacher Alexander Arkhangelsky* is a professional conversationalist. “Pushkin. A Book about Everything” is not a biography or a textbook. This is a conversation. About Pushkin. And about everything.