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The Captain’s Daughter was not at all what I expected from a Russian writer. My first Pushkin, and I really don’t know what to think. It is almost a farcical story about young love. It was easy reading, but not much depth to it; like watching a b-rate swashbuckler movie.
Alternate title: The Captain's Daughter
The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin is a fictional novella, a romanticized retelling of the Cossack Rebellion led by Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev during 1773 and1774, under the reign of Catherine II, usually referred to as Catherine the Great.
(Wiki info on the history of the rebellion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugache... )
Pyotr, the son of a renown but now retired Russian military officer is sent by his father to Orenburg, 1478 km / 91 ...more
The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin is a fictional novella, a romanticized retelling of the Cossack Rebellion led by Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev during 1773 and1774, under the reign of Catherine II, usually referred to as Catherine the Great.
(Wiki info on the history of the rebellion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugache... )
Pyotr, the son of a renown but now retired Russian military officer is sent by his father to Orenburg, 1478 km / 91 ...more
After have enjoyed so much The Queen of Spades, I couldn't resist to read another masterpiece written by Pushkin.
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Mar 27, 2012
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