Pushkin Hills

“Pushkin Hills” is an autobiographical novella by Sergei Dovlatov, written in 1978. The plot is based on the author’s experience working as a tour guide at the Mikhailovskoye Pushkin Museum-Reserve. The protagonist, writer Boris Alikhanov, arrives at the reserve to earn money and make sense of his life. The work is filled with Dovlatov’s characteristic humor, irony, and profound reflections on Soviet reality, artistic creation, and personal freedom.