The article examines the coverage of Pushkin's theme by S.N. Durylin in the mid-1930s. based on the material of his publication “Planned Escape. From forgotten evidence about Pushkin” in the Riga Russian-language “Newspaper for Everyone” (No. 29 for August 2, 1936). The academic value of this newspaper article lies in the introduction of a new name (F.P. Fonton) among A.S. Pushkin’s acquaintances, as well as in clarifying the fact of the poet’s biography: Durylin cites a letter from Fonton to P.I. Krivtsov, proving that Pushkin already desided to go to the Transcaucasian Front in the army of I.F. Paskevich in March 1828, i.e. a month before he asked the sovereign to be sent to the army and almost a year before his unauthorized trip to Arzrum. Based on Durylin’s correspondence with E.V. Genieva, we can conclude that the idea of this work dates back to an earlier period than the publication of the article: to the spring of 1931, when Durylin lived in a settlement in Kirzhach after exile to Tomsk. This can be considered indirect evidence that, in addition to scientific significance, this article shows the possibility of using Pushkin’s name / biography to express the author’s own state in the conditions of the impossibility of its live broadcast. Then the extensive nature of the first part of the article, describing Pushkin’s suffering in Imperial Russia, becomes clear; as well as the theme of the Caucasus introduced into the text, with an emphasis on the romantic interpretation of this image in Russian literature as a place of freedom; as well as the fact of publication in a newspaper of Russian emigration. All this allows us to insert Durylin’s article into the context of the theme of Pushkin’s “emigration”.
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