Written by Russia's greatest poet, this fact-based tale of an illiterate Don Cossack who nearly succeeded in deposing Catherine the Great was greeted with hostility by Czar Nicholas I, who insisted on censoring it. Pushkin did fieldwork and research that would be the envy of any historian, and then fashioned it into a powerful literary narrative of uprising and rebellion. The first English translation of a masterpiece that has become a Russian classic.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
Original Language: Russian
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, b. June 6 (N.S.), 1799, d. Feb. 10 (N.S.), 1837, was Russia's greatest poet. His use of the vernacular as the language of poetry freed Russian writing from the constraints of tradition and set new literary standards for novelists and poets, and his preference for subjects from history and folklore brought fresh vitality to Russian literature.
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A precursor to the Russian Revolution.,
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This review is from: The History of Pugachev (Phoenix Press) (Paperback)
OK, Pushkin was a great Russian poet, but his historical writing does not stand the test of time. I give him credit for writing abount something that is not well known in the West. The Pugachev uprisings were indeed something the Russian monarchy under Catherine II needed to worry about. Here was a guy going around saying he was Peter III and leading the masses against the unjust system which oppressed the serfs, Cossacks, and other nationalities. It is a wonder this man managed to stir up so much trouble.
The translation is somewhat stilted. The footnotes should have been included in the text of the writings and not after. After reading this, one gets the idea that history does repeat itself. Over a hundred years after this episode, the Russian Revolution reared its ugly head.
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