Valentin Nepomnyashchy's author's programme. The cycle is a lyrical confession by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. By reading the poet's verses and providing explanations and remarks, the author shows how the poet's ideas about love, about women, about himself, about creativity, and about life develop — for love was for Pushkin a matter of life and death, the meaning of existence, the essence of creativity, and the purpose of human life. The cycle covers the entire creative life of Pushkin, starting from 1813.