Title: Pushkin's historical imagination
First published: 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: History in literature, Knowledge, History, Pushkin, aleksandr sergeevich, 1799-1837, Knowledge and learning
People: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
LC classification: PG3358.H45 E94 1999