Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Prof. Briggs provides an introduction which looks closely at the poetryand then, taking the death of Lensky as the most important event, considers the sotry, the characters and the hidden meanings of thenovel. English introduction, Russian text and notes and glossary.

This edition of Pushkin's tragedy "Boris Godunov" is part of the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series. The series is designed to meet the needs of the growinghigh school and undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context

Considered in his day Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was famous not only for works that inspired ballets and operas, such as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov, but for his stories--"The Queen of Spades" and many others--all of which are collected here in a translation that captures their grace and vitality.