A. S. PUSHKIN'S NAME DAY IN MIKHAILOVSKY: 1825-1827
The article examines and analyzes the contradictions existing in the literature on the question of the namesake of A. S. Pushkin. The church traditions of naming in the upper strata of Russian society by the beginning of the nineteenth century were blurred, in some cases the individual preferences of parents prevailed when choosing a child's name. In the case of Alexander Pushkin, there is a process of personal interpretation of the name given by the parents, as well as the creative development of the hagiographic text of the saint, who was his heavenly patron. Along with the evidence recorded in the sources of Pushkin's celebration of his birthday and name day, cases of their indirect fixation by the poet in various forms of everyday behavior are revealed - the phenomenon at the fair in the Holy Mountains in May 1825. Special attention is paid to such examples in artistic creativity - the poetic passage "How happy I am when I can leave...", and also in the epistolary genre - a collective letter by A. P. Kern on September 1, 1827.