Pushkin's historical imagination
By: Svetlana Evdokimova.
Series: Russian literature and thought
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Knowledge -- History.; History in literature.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.