The article is devoted to the analysis of I.S. Turgenev's reading perception of A.S. Pushkin's lyrical work. In the centre of the research attention are the materials of the writer's personal library, namely a book copy (vol. 3) from the first posthumous collection of the poet's works (1838-1841) with numerous notes of its owner. By analysing the traces of reading Pushkin's texts left by Turgenev's hand, a picture of the writer's thoughtful and responsive attitude to Pushkin the poet is reconstructed. Turgenev's reflection, preserving a deeply personal attitude to Pushkin's work, collects and unites the poetic texts of the classic of Russian literature into three predominantly overlapping thematic directions: moral and philosophical, love and biographical. However, a number of Pushkin's poems appear in Turgenev's reading outside a certain thematic direction. These are texts in 59 which he makes edits, trying from his own point of view to give them stylistic restraint. In any case, I.S. Turgenev's attention to both verse form and content reveals the depth of his mastery and assimilation of the structural and figurative system of Pushkin's lyrics, which had an extraordinary influence on his own artistic world. In addition, thoughtful and close reading of Pushkin's texts became for I.S. Turgenev an important factor in the formation of his individual aesthetic position
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