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The article presents the author's insights on the relativist presentation of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in the book "Walks With Pushkin," by Andrey Sinyavsky. The author says that Sinyavsky was accused by the book's critics with Russophobia as he portrayed Pushkin as a relativist poet of nonsense and a vampire, who poaches on others' view. He says that his depiction of Pushkin only shows his antinomic poles, but not his total disagreement with relativism. He says that the book shows Pushkin as a post-modernist poet, who defies ideals of good, evil, and morality to be subjective. Moreover, he adds that such depiction of Pushkin shows his freedom, which turns the book usefulness as a postmodernist manifesto.