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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 historywritings 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 __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. Evdokimova considers Pushkin within the context of Romantic historiography and addresses the tension between Pushkin the historian and Pushkin the fiction writer . She also discusses Pushkin’s ideas on the complex relations between chance and necessity in historical processes, on the particular significance of great individuals in Russian history, and on historical truth.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Svetlana Evdokimova
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300070231
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, History & Criticism
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