The collection was compiled by studies and notes of prominent Russian Pushkinists: N.S. Ashukina, D.D. Blagova, S.M. Bondi, V.V. Veresaeva, G.I. Vinokura, S.Ya. Gessen, L.V. Krestova, P.S. Popova, B.V. Tomashevsky, M.Ya Tsyavlovsky, A.N. Shebunina, B.M. Eichenbaum, D.P. Yakubovich. The text is illustrated with numerous portraits, engravings, reproductions, facsimiles and drawings of the poet. On each spread are the names of the days and months of the calendar, descriptions of the events of the life of A.S. Pushkin and excerpts from his works related to these dates.