Publication

1999 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing5957101
  • Goodreads498629

Classifications

  • DDC891.71/3
  • LCCPG3358.H45 E94 1999

Description

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history - writings that have strongly influenced Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings of his drama Boris Godunov; such narrative poems as Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The Captain's Daughter and The Blackamoor of Peter the Great; lyrical poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but also as an original historical and political thinker.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Russian literature and thought

Other Editions

  • Pushkin's historical imaginationYale University Press1999-01-01

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