Pushkiniana in the Collection of A.K. Tarasenkov (from the Book Museum Holdings of the Russian State Library)

Editions of A.S. Pushkinʼs works are more or less present in the home libraries and collections of all lovers of books and literature, because “Pushkin is our everything”, as the poet A.A. Grigoriev said in 1859 (for example, over 4 million copies of his works were produced during the Great Patriotic War). The library of A.K. Tarasenkov (1909—1956), which is an impressive collection of Russian poetry from the first half of the 20th century, was no exception (at the time of the collectorʼs death, it numbered about 10 thousand copies; currently, part of it is kept in the Russian State Library). Since the collection includes only poetry of the first half of the 20th century, the work of A.S. Pushkin as a poet of the 19th century is not presented in it directly, but thanks to the works of poets of the first half of the 20th century, through their vision, reading and impressions. Some of these publications are commemorative ones.