The article is devoted to the evaluation of A.S. Pushkin, given by the largest Russian culturologist and philosopher Vladimir Vasilievich Veidle (1895-1979). In his emigre works, Veidle challenged the thesis of F.M. Dostoevsky's "world-wide responsiveness" of Pushkin's creativity, and, through a deep philosophical and cultural analysis, showed that Pushkin himself "decisively outlined the limits of his own all-irresponsibility," remaining a genius representative of "Russian Europeanism".