Pushkin's Historical ImaginationAuthor :
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Published : Friday 9 September 2011
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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 new 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 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 Pushkins 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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