pushkin realized this. source of what happened, yes, and so on, but at the same time alexander ivanovich hertsind that russia responded to the challenge of peter, the westernizing challenge of peter, with the genius of pushkin, pushkin is a synthetic genius who synthesized the russian tradition, yes western tradition. pushkin, of course, is truly a patriot, for pushkin a child of the twelfth year, he himself wrote about it, for him it is fundamentally important, the patriotic war of the twelfth year, he sharply responds to those who slander russia to those who try to talk to his country, regardless of their attitude. fugach's rebellion and the captain's daughter, and recently in one conversation the famous pushkinist and deceased dmitry palovich ivinsky noted that pushkin was very acutely aware of the fragility of the world around him, and not only the poetic world, but also the historical world, this can be seen in the bronze horseman, in boris godunov, in almost all of his texts, where history, historical consciousness is at least somehow present, pushkin constantly tells us about this, about