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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen"
    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen"
    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen"
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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen"

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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry 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 Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535835541
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      A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horsemen" - Gale

      08

      The Bronze Horseman

      Alexander Pushkin

      1841

      Introduction

      The Bronze Horseman is a narrative poem by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Originally written in 1833 and titled Mednyi Vsadnik, it was not published until 1841, after Pushkin's death, and it was printed as a stand-alone piece. The delay was due to the disapproval of Tsar Nicholas I, who objected to its themes and portrayal of his royal ancestor, Tsar Peter I. One frequently used English translation (which is also used throughout this entry), is by the British novelist and poet D. M. Thomas (Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems, 1982), which, as of 2007, is out of print, but second-hand copies are available. The poem is also available in an English translation by Robert Powell-Jones (Alexander Pushkin, Bronze Horseman, Stone Trough Books, 1999).

      The poem's background theme is the building of the Russian city of St. Petersburg on the orders of Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great, 1672-1725) on marshland on the banks of the river Neva. The city was built by forced labor, and thousands of peasant builders are said to have died in the harsh conditions. This bloody history of the city informs the themes of the poem, which include the conflict between the interests of the state or historical destiny and those of the common man, a conflict that prefigures the struggle that was to rage in Russia for the next century. The main event of the poem is the flood that occurred in St. Petersburg in November of 1824.

      The poem has three main characters: Tsar Peter I, who appears first as a historical person and then as the bronze equestrian statue of Tsar Peter I, that stands in the city (which has been known since the poem became popular as the Bronze Horseman), and the humble clerk Yevgeni. It is widely considered a masterpiece, and has helped to cement Pushkin's reputation as Russia's greatest and most influential writer of the early nineteenth century.

      Author Biography

      The Russian poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer Alexander Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow, Russia, the son of Sergei Lvovich, an army officer, and Nadezhda Osipovna Pushkin. (Some sources predate the dates given here by several days, giving Pushkin's birth date, for instance, as May 26. This is because until 1918, Russia followed the Julian calendar, which was several days behind the Gregorian calendar used in Europe. The Julian calendar dates are often referred to as Old Style and the Gregorian calendar dates as New Style. Dates given here are New Style.)

      Pushkin's family was descended from aristocracy, though it no longer held the prestige it once enjoyed. Pushkin was proud

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