Name: The Tales of Belkin (Povesti Belkina)
Brand: Azbuka
SKU: 8693288599854
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Author: Alexander Pushkin
ISBN: 9785389026810

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Pushkin's turn to prose was a deliberate step, preceded by reflections on the nature of verbal art. And it's entirely possible that the first Russian poet's interest in prose was based on a sense of the unprecedented seriousness of the tasks facing Russian literature.
The collection includes works by A.S. Pushkin: 'The Blackamoor of Peter the Great,' 'Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin,' and 'The Captain's Daughter.'

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Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich was a Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer who laid the foundations of Russian realist literature, a critic and theorist of literature, historian, and publicist; one of the most authoritative literary figures of the first third of the 19th century.

He was born on June 6 (May 26, Old Style), 1799, in Moscow, into a poor noble family that nevertheless traced its ancestry to boyars from almost the time of Alexander Nevsky and to the “tsar’s Moor,” Abram Petrovich Gannibal.…

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