Aleksandr Pushkin, Istoriia sela Goriukhina

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1837

Places

Russia (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novella

Resources

In 1830, when Pushkin became engaged to Natalia Goncharova, his father gave him the village of Kistenyovo, part of the family’s Boldino estate near Nizhny Novgorod. Now a landowner for the first time, Pushkin travelled to Boldino early that autumn, in order to have 200 serfs officially transferred to his name. Quarantine regulations imposed in response to a cholera outbreak prevented him from returning to Moscow and he was obliged – to his deep frustration – to stay in the village until early December.

During these months – now commonly referred to as the “Boldino Autumn” – Pushkin wrote an extraordinary number of masterpieces. Among them was his first complete prose work, Povesti …

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Istoriia sela Goriukhina". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 May 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38950, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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