THE KING AND THE POETS: PETERHOF ETUDE
The essay, which is a part from a future book, tells about the Peterhof everyday life of the 19th century, in which different aspects of the intellectual life of Russia were reflected, and literature played a significant role. In Peterhof lived European princesses, wives of grand dukes, who studied Russian language, which was often taught to them by famous writers, in particular, Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky.