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A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"
A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"
A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"
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A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"

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A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535839761
A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster"

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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster" - Gale

    5

    The Stationmaster

    Alexander Pushkin

    1830

    Introduction

    Originally published anonymously, The stationmaster (1830), is perhaps the finest short story by the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin. One of the Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, the story chronicles the tragic story of a humble stationmaster and his beautiful runaway daughter.

    The Stationmaster is considered influential for its concise, plain style, a hallmark of Pushkin’s writing. The story is told in chronological order, with a clear beginning, middle, and end and addresses themes such as familial vs. romantic love, moral corruption, the conflict between social classes, and the ambiguity of human existence.

    Author Biography

    Pushkin’s stature in the history of Russian literature is unparalleled; in fact, he is variously called Russia’s national poet and the father of Russian literature. While critics suggest that Pushkin’s relative obscurity outside of Russia is due, in part, to his particular use of language, which is not easily translatable, other masters of Russian literature, such as Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky acknowledged their great debt to the achievements of Pushkin.

    Born May 26 (June 6, modern calendar), 1799, into an aristocratic family, Pushkin was raised in a literary environment. He traced his lineage back six hundred years, including his maternal great-grandfather Hannibal, a black slave bought by Peter the Great in Turkey and brought back to Russia. Both his father, Sergei, and his uncle, Vasily, were writers, and the young Pushkin had free access to his father’s extensive library, which contained a large collection of French

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