On 12 Moyka Emb. in St. Petersburg as a Cultural and Philological Concentration of the Russian 19th Century History
The author argues that Pushkin's last apartment in Saint Petersburg at 12 Moyka Emb., where he had spent last months of his life and died, is the center of his diverse activities and of dramatic collisions in his private life. Therefore, this locus is in good repute as a historical evidence of the greatest insights of Russian thought and culture. Here Pushkin has finished his novel “The Captain's Daughter” and his last poems. As was apparent later on, these writings signified completing the reform of Russian literary language. In Moyka house Pushkin has also succeeded as editor and publisher of “The Contemporary” magazine, a literary and social journal of an essentially new type.