Perevalov, V. P. ‘And the Moon is Facing the Right Side’ (Ushakovsky’s Album, Spring)

Abstract: If we reconstruct the dynamics with which Pushkin filled in his Ushakovsky’s Album, we can assume that the Don Juan’s lists Puhskin composed in autumn was the continuation of his spring conversations with the sisters about love adventures. Most likely, it was influenced by the 2d edition of the first chapter of his Eugene Onegin and publication of his poem ‘Poltava’ at the end of March 1829. A visible evidence to that is Pushkin’s self-portrait as a romantic Poet and a female Trinity in other pages of the album. Consequently, Pushkin’s verse novel, especially the first chapters created in Odessa, keeps the secret of Pushkin’s love. Unlike åhe Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Eugene Onegin has never been thought to be the key novel in solving the mystery of A. S. Pushkin’s ‘secret love’.

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