Abstract
The note is a brief description of the manuscript collection stored at the Pushkin House and compiled at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries by the priest Stepan Vasilyevich Olkhovsky. A lo-ver of literature and, above all, poetry, he held the works by G. R. Derzhavin in an especially high esteem, and thus Derzhavin was represented in his collection by numerous poems of various years. Olkhovsky also enjoyed the verse by E. S. Urusova, approved of the efforts of N. M. Karamzin, showed interest in the work of I. I. Dmitriev, and made a point of reading the verse by the young poets, V. I. Krasovsky and P. S. Kaysarov. It is noteworthy that the collection opens with an ano-nymous translation of the fi rst three songs of Voltaire’s famous anticlerical poem The Orleans Virgin, as well as a burlesque poem by E. P. Lutsenko and A. M. Kotelnitsky The Abduction of Proserpine.
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