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The Captain's Daughter (Russian: «Капитанская дочка», romanized: Kapitanskaja dočka) is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik and is his only completed novel.
The Pugachev of The Captain’s Daughter is a source of sublime or childish terror, fearsome but incapable of inflicting suffering. In The Captain’s Daughter Pushkin-the-historiographer is vanquished by Pushkin-the-poet, and the last word about Pugachev in us remains forever with the poet.
A classic Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin about a young officer's love for the captain's daughter in a remote fortress. The story follows his adventures and misfortunes during a rebellion led by a false emperor.
Pyotr Grinev, a sixteen-year-old son of a wealthy landowner, is enlisted in the armed service and sent to a small garrison on the outskirts of the Russian Empire. Illustrations by Pavel Sokolov...
These are stories that upend expectations at every turn: in ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, Pushkin’s masterful novella of love and rebellion set during the reign of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a brutal uprising, while in ‘The Queen of Spades’ a man obsessively pursues an elderly woman’s ...
Presented as the memoir of Pyotr Grinyov, a nobleman, The Captain’s Daughter tells how, as a feckless youth and fledgling officer, Grinyov was sent from St. Petersburg to serve in faraway...
“Alexander Pushkin’s classic tale The Captain’s Daughter, set in the reign of Catherine the Great, appears here in a witty and engaging version that brings the Russian author to life for anglophone readers in a new way.
