К проблеме либертинажа и дендизма в пушкинскую эпоху (П. П. Каверин и П. Я. Чаадаев)

The article discusses the origins of the term “libertine” and its cognates, and explores certain aspects of “libertinage” and “dandyism” in the figures of Pushkin's contemporaries P.P. Kaverin and P.Ia. Chaadaev, who find themselves together in the first chapter of Evgenii Onegin. The author demonstrates their differences on the basis of autobiographical texts and memoirs of such contemporaries as P.A. Viazemskii, P.P. Vigel', I.D. Iakushkin.