The Prose

Pushkin and Natalya with Bulgarin and his wife
Pushkin’s manuscript Boris Godunov was plagiarized by a fellow author who also happened to be the tsar’s censor. (This image above shows Pushkin’s publisher, Pletnev, standing between Pushkin and Bulgarin in high fashion.) Finally, after much controversy Pushkin’s work was published – without any needed changes – and Bulgarin was seen as the thief he was.
Books by Pushkin include:
Prisoner of the Caucasus – 1821
Ode to Liberty – 1817
Ruslan and Ludmila – 1820
The Gavrieliad
To Ovid – 1823
Fountain of Bakhchisarai
Cleopatra – 1824
Gypsies – 1824
Bridegroom – 1825
Poltava – Mezzappa – 1828
Egyptian Nights – 1828
Tzar Sultan – 1831
Tales of Belkin – 1831
The Bronz Horseman 1833
The Golden Cockerel – 1834
Queen of Spades – 1834
The Fisherman and the Golden Fish – 1835
The Captain’s Daughter – 1836
Boris Godunov
Eugene Onegin
Since the time of Voltaire and
Catherine the Great, Russian
literature had grown in
importance, and by the early
1830s, it underwent an amazing
“Golden Age” in poetry, prose
and drama.
Russian authors to follow Pushkin:
– Nikolai Gogol 1809 -1852
– Mikhail Lermontov 1814-1841
– Ivan Turgenev 1818 -1883
– Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821-1881
– Leo Tolstoy 1828 -1910
– Anton Chekov 1860 -1904
– Vladimir Nabokov 1899 -1977
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1992-2017
– Alexander Herzen 1812 – 1870
– Ivan Goncharov 1812 – 1891
– Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
– A. Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
and more…