The Bronze Horseman (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- First Published: 1837
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1703 and 1824
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Principal Characters: Peter the Great, The Bronze Horseman, Evgeny, Parasha
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Nineteenth century, Class consciousness, Poverty or poor people, Floods, Russia or Russian people, Proletariat, Sculpture
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
The Story:
Peter the Great stood on the desolate Baltic shore on the northwest borders of his domain and gazed off into the distance. The very landscape around him seemed unformed, unclear; the land was soft and marshy, the sun shrouded in mist, the Finnish huts flimsy and temporary. Peter’s design, however, was quite clear. Here, on the delta of the river Neva, out of nothing, he would build St. Petersburg, a fortress against the powerful Swedes, a new capital, a magnet to ships of all nations, a “window into Europe.”
One hundred years had passed, according to the...
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