K. N. BATIUSHKOV’S LAST ADDRESSEE

The article deals with K. N. Batiushkov’s obscure correspondent P. I. Beletsky, a history teacher in the First and Second Military Cadet Schools, falsely accused of taking part in the Petrashevsky Coup and exiled to Vologda in 1849–1853. The exiled teacher met the poet after 1852. The personality of Beletsky, a vivid representative of the 1840s generation, and the previously unknown facts of his life are revealed through the data from the Manuscript Department, Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences; Manuscript Departments of the National Library of Russia, Russian State Historical Archive, State Archive of Vladimir Region.