The work publishes the responses of St. Petersburg press to the death of a literary historian, academician Alexander Nikolaevich Pypin. The correspondence, notes, and obituaries of three newspapers – Peterburgskie Vedomosti, Rus’, and Novoye Vremya – for November 27–29, 1904 are presented. The materials are arranged in the chronological order of their publication in each edition. In newspaper correspondence, notes with exact date and time indication, event details, names of participants, a series of farewell events with A. N.