 Under the modest name of "notes", this publication contains detailed biographies of Saitov's pen of almost all the most important figures of Russian literature of the early 19th century.Saitov received an incentive Pushkin Prize for this work.Some of these biographies are extensive, the first in literary studies of Russian writers; such, for example, are the biographies of Alexander Turgenev, Prince Peter Shalikov, Dmitry Dashkov, Mikhail Muravyov, Vladislav Ozerov, Vasily Kapnist, Vasily Pushkin, Alexander Gruzintsev.