The collection includes essays on the article memoirs of a note by the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 put down by a partisan. In addition to great military-historical value, they are in the peculiarity of the monument of Russian literature 20-30. Last century. Pushkin noted in Davydov's prose "sharp features of an inimitable syllable" Belinsky highly appreciated her. The book is designed for the general reader.