The works of N. L. Brodsky, included in this collection, are only a very little of what he wrote and published over a long period of his scientific and pedagogical activity, the breadth and versatility of which is given by the bibliography of his printed works attached to the collection and the list of editions edited by him. The research works of N. L. Brodsky are mainly devoted to Russian literature of the XIX century. and the Russian theater of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Of the Russian writers, Pushkin, Lermontov and Turgenev attracted his special attention.