If you have read Pushkin before you're in familiar territory and if you haven't well there is no loss there as you may find yourself wanting to read more Pushkin. Spoiler alert (if you've not watched the film either) there is no happy ending. It may not suit everyone's tastes, keep in mind this style of writing poetry doesn't exist any more and if you're not used to it you may feel like you're getting lost somewhere along the way, however, if you do feel like you're off the path Pushkin will set you right. Be that as it may the poem is well worth the read. I can't actually imagine what it must be like to adapt a poem into a screenplay. Inexplicably I thought this was meant to be a novel and not a poem, most film adaptions are taken from books. It was years ago so my memories of the film are abstract, which is just as well. Tsarskoe Selo was renamed after him.Īs to be expected I watched a film version of this first. Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.īecause of his liberal political views and influence on generations of Russian rebels, Pushkin was portrayed by Bolsheviks as an opponent to bourgeois literature and culture and a predecessor of Soviet literature and poetry. In 1837, while falling into ever greater debt amidst rumors that his wife started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society.
People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.
Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling-mixing drama, romance, and satire-associated ever with greatly influential later literature. People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
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