Aleksandr Pushkin, Arap Petra Velikogo [Peter the Great's African]

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

Novel

Resources

From his days as a student at the Imperial Lycée, Pushkin remained passionately concerned with Russian history. In 1831 he was appointed Russia’s official historian laureate (istoriograf). He was only the second person – after the poet and historian Nikolay Karamzin – to be given this title, and he saw it as a great honour; he was well aware that Voltaire, whom he admired, had been granted a similar title by Louis XV. Pushkin made use of this position to do detailed archival research, both for his completed Istoriia Pugacheva [History of Pugachov] and for his never-completed study of Peter the Great.

One of Pushkin’s most eloquent statements about Russian history was …

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Arap Petra Velikogo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 June 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38954, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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