The documentary novel by A. B. Galkin "A Man with Prejudices" tells about the mysteries of the pre-duel history of A. S. Pushkin. The author compares the chronicle of the events of the last months of Pushkin's life and the testimonies of his contemporaries, confronts different versions of what was happening and challenges people and documents to a "confrontation," offering the reader his own convincing hypothesis of the main riddle of the poet's behavior before the duel: what was the reason for his confidence that the anonymous libel sent to him was composed by Baron Haeckern and his adopted son Georges Dantes, and what role did the sister of the poet's wife Ekaterina Goncharova play in this story? The book also presents the author's polemic with academician N. Ya. Petrakov and other newly-minted "Pushkinists."