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St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education, 1831. In 8°, 212 x 125 mm. pp. [6], 142. Half-title and dedication to Karamzin, small loss in the upper corner of the title page, light and mostly marginal stains scattered around, contemporary binding in blond calf with blind-stamped frame on the covers, smooth spine with green insert, worn. Ownership signature on the title page.
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FIRST EDITION OF PUSHKIN'S FAVORITE TEXT, AND THE RAREST OF HIS FIRST EDITIONS (Smirnov-Sokol'skii).
This copy is complete with Pushkin's half-title and dedication to Karamzin , “whose genius inspired this work.” Boris Godunov, written while Pushkin was in exile on his estate, is the first Russian tragedy with a political theme. Pushkin wrote it under the influence of Shakespeare, having realized that “Russia had no truly national drama, but only an imitation of the French neoclassical school, and that it could be created only by returning to Russian themes and Russian folklore, and by making the Russian language a literary instrument fit for the rank of the French and German languages for which it had so often been discarded in his own country. ... in other respects, too, it was revolutionary: it was divided into scenes and episodes, it mingled poetry with prose, and it made use of Russian colloquial speech” ( Oxford Companion to the Theatre , p.651).
Written in 1824, and first published here in 1831, Boris Godunov is more than a historical drama: the "Time of Troubles", as the great dynastic crisis that hit Russia at the beginning of the 17th century was called, and the tragedy of Tsar Boris Godunov, which stands out against the backdrop of that era, are the prototype of the crises that, up to the present day, will shake Russia. Pushkin's drama, like Musorgsky's opera of the same name, is the emblem of a national destiny, relived by Pushkin with Shakespearean power.
Kilgour 884; Smirnov-Sokol'skii Pushkin 25.
This copy is complete with Pushkin's half-title and dedication to Karamzin , “whose genius inspired this work.” Boris Godunov, written while Pushkin was in exile on his estate, is the first Russian tragedy with a political theme. Pushkin wrote it under the influence of Shakespeare, having realized that “Russia had no truly national drama, but only an imitation of the French neoclassical school, and that it could be created only by returning to Russian themes and Russian folklore, and by making the Russian language a literary instrument fit for the rank of the French and German languages for which it had so often been discarded in his own country. ... in other respects, too, it was revolutionary: it was divided into scenes and episodes, it mingled poetry with prose, and it made use of Russian colloquial speech” ( Oxford Companion to the Theatre , p.651).
Written in 1824, and first published here in 1831, Boris Godunov is more than a historical drama: the "Time of Troubles", as the great dynastic crisis that hit Russia at the beginning of the 17th century was called, and the tragedy of Tsar Boris Godunov, which stands out against the backdrop of that era, are the prototype of the crises that, up to the present day, will shake Russia. Pushkin's drama, like Musorgsky's opera of the same name, is the emblem of a national destiny, relived by Pushkin with Shakespearean power.
Kilgour 884; Smirnov-Sokol'skii Pushkin 25.
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