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Also known as " Aleksandr Pushkin. Izbrannye proizvedeniya. Poeziya."
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"Beauties, maids of honour, hostesses of regular gatherings, top government officials and ministers - all came to be referred to as Pushkin's contemporaries, - wrote Anna Akhmatova. - He won a victory over time and space. They say: Pushkin era, Pushkin Petersburg".
"The pre-Pushkin literature was secular entertainment, - described the historical situation the 20th century classic Maxim Gorky. Pushkin was the first to understand that literature is a national cause of primary importance. The poet managed to convey the soul of the nation and its life". And on top of that, to introduce Russian literature to the world.
The present volume of the selected works of Alexander Pushkin contains the lyrical masterpieces written between 1818 and 1836; the verse dramas "Mozart and Salieri" (1830), "The Stone Guest" (1830); "The Covetous Knight" (1830); the folk drama "The Water-Nymph" (1830); the poems "The Gypsies" (1826); and "The Bronze Horseman" (1833); the lyric poems: "The Caucasus", "Demons", "Elegy", "To my Nanny", and many others; and the fairy tales in verse based on themes from the legendary past of Russian folklore and magic, such as "The tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish" and "The tale of the golden Cockerel". The illustrations include Pushkin's drawings, portraits of the poet, his relatives and his friends, and pictures of places associated with Pushkin. In English.
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