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A few minutes before his death, while sitting on the sofa in his study, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin looked around at the bookshelves surrounding him and said, "Farewell, friends!" It was believed that he was addressing the books in this figurative way. But the head of the Pushkin Museum-Apartment on Moika, 12 in St. Petersburg, Doctor of Philology Galina Sedova, is convinced that he was saying goodbye to true friends who spent his last hours with the poet, in the rooms next to his study.