Alexander Pushkin
The poet many Russians call their greatest; his Eugene Onegin is a whole novel written in verse.
Books
Boris Godunov1831A play about a tsar and the pretender to his throne, written in 1825 and kept off the stage until 1866.
The Queen of Spades1834A short story about greed with a supernatural twist; Tchaikovsky turned it into an opera in 1890.
The Captain’s Daughter1836His only finished novel, a romantic tale set in Pugachev’s Rebellion of 1773–1774.
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