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.'