The Bronze Horseman. Poems. With Comments

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799—1837) – a Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer. Even during his lifetime, contemporaries referred to him as the greatest national poet. The poem "The Bronze Horseman" (1833) tells the story of a poor official, Yevgeny, living in Saint Petersburg, who loses his beloved due to a flood. Driven mad by grief, Yevgeny begins to wander the city and, in a surge of emotion, blames the Bronze Horseman — the monument to Peter I on the Neva — for all his troubles. During Alexander Pushkin's life, "The Bronze Horseman" was published as a small fragment, as Emperor Nicholas I demanded corrections that Pushkin did not agree to. The first publication of the entire poetic tale was after the poet's death – in 1837. The collection also includes the main works of Alexander Pushkin, the study of which is part of the mandatory school curriculum, – poems ("The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1822), "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" (1824), etc.), lyrics.