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The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.
Dargomyzhsky's setting of the poem. "I Loved You" (Russian: Я вас любил, Ya vas lyubíl) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin written in 1829 and published in 1830. It has been described as "the quintessential statement of the theme of lost love" in Russian poetry, [1] and an example of Pushkin's respectful attitude towards women.
Painting by Ilya Repin (1911) Pushkin's married lover Anna Petrovna Kern, for whom he probably wrote the most famous love poem in Russian He stayed in Chișinău until 1823 and wrote two Romantic poems which brought him acclaim: The Prisoner of the Caucasus and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray .
The last of Pushkin's four 'Southern Poems' written during his exile in the south of the Russian Empire, The Gypsies is also considered to be the most mature of these Southern poems, and has been praised for originality and its engagement with psychological and moral issues. [2] [3] The poem has inspired at least eighteen operas and several ...
Most recently Lera Auerbach created a ballet score titled Tatiana, with a libretto written by John Neumeier for his choreographic interpretation and staging of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, for a co-production by the Hamburg State Opera and the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow.
The poem remains one of Pushkin's most famous works and is often referenced in Russian popular culture, for example, in the title of the Soviet comedy Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, which is titled Kavkazskaya plennitsa (The female prisoner of the Caucasus) in Russian. [5]
This poem has received considerably less attention than Pushkin's other narrative poems, and its reception has been mixed. [4] A.D.P. Briggs sees Pushkin's fusion genres and subject matter as unsuccessful, calls it overly-long - at nearly 1500 lines it is one of the longest of Pushkin's narrative poems - and protests the lack of variety in ...
The Gypsies (poem) by Alexander Pushkin (1827) The Free Besieged by Dionysios Solomos (1828–1851) The Fall of Nineveh by Edwin Atherstone (1828–1868) Creation, Man and the Messiah by Henrik Wergeland (1829) The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin (1833) Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)