Everyone knows about the literary talent of Alexander Pushkin, but his younger brother Lev Sergeyevich was also a decent poet. However, due to Alexander's fame, Lev remained in his shadow, although perhaps this was partly his own fault. Contemporaries remembered Lev Sergeyevich as a whimsical, frivolous, and somewhat lazy person. Despite good academic success, he never graduated from the Noble Boarding School.

Nevertheless, Lev played an important role when Alexander was exiled. He managed his brother's publishing affairs for a time and was his trusted confidant. Eyewitnesses testified that Lev had a phenomenal memory and knew all of his brother's poems by heart, including unpublished ones. Thanks to this gift, some works that Alexander did not manage to publish were restored.

In 1826, Lev Sergeyevich's life changed dramatically: he decided to dedicate himself to military service and joined the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment. At that time, there was a war in the Caucasus, where Lev distinguished himself as a brave cavalryman, was wounded, and became famous for his valor. It was in Chechnya that he learned of Alexander's tragic death. Shocked, Lev planned to go to France to take revenge on Dantes, but his comrades dissuaded him from this step.

After retiring, Lev got married and moved to Odessa, where he worked at the port customs. His house at the corner of Deribasovskaya Street became a literary salon, where he often recited his brother's poems from memory, talked about him, and sometimes presented his own works. Lev Sergeyevich passed away in 1852. In his last years, he suffered from tumors in his lower abdomen and was often ill. The official cause of his death was dropsy, which, as modern science knows, is caused by cirrhosis of the liver in 75% of cases and malignant neoplasms in 10%.