The legal portal "Pravo.ru" published an article by Evgeny Karnoukhov, Managing Partner, Alliance Legal Consulting Group  

The case "Pushkin vs. Oldekop". 

On the 225th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. 

By 1824, Alexander Pushkin managed to publish three books: "Ruslan and Lyudmil", "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" and "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", which brought him unquestionable literary success. And if the first two earned mainly their publisher and booksellers, the dividends from the third edition has already collected the author himself. This is very encouraging to the poet and led to the idea of a second reissue of the first-born still had commercial success. 

While Pushkin was pondering who to entrust with the reprinting of at least "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", the poet was bypassed by an ordinary postal clerk Eustafiy Oldekop. 

️How, the main initiator of professionalization of Russian writers' work, turned out to be also a promoter of author copyright in full version of the article on the website of the legal portal "Pravo.ru".