Pushkins Historical Imagination

This Book Explores The Historical Insights Of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russias Most Celebrated Poet And Arguably Its Greatest Thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova Examines For The First Time The Full Range Of Pushkins Fictional And Nonfictional Writings On The Subject Of History-writings That Have Strongly Influenced Russians' Views Of Themselves And Their Past. Through Readings Of His Drama, Boris Godunov, Such Narrative Poems As Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, And Count Nulin; Prose Fiction, Including The Captains Daughter And Blackamoor Of Peter And 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.