A book consisting of local history essays introduces a kind of literary biography of the city of Pushkin. This city is known not only for its wonderful monuments of architecture and landscape gardening, but also for the fact that many outstanding writers and poets lived and worked in it. Among them - A.S. Pushkin, M.Yu. Lermontov, F.I. Tyutchev, S.A. Yesenin, A.N. Tolstoy, V.Ya. Shishkov and many other Russian writers and poets. The introductory essay is devoted to the history of the city of Pushkin, in the past one of the brilliant suburban royal residences.