Tales of Belkin Alexander Pushkin

One of the distinguishing features of Russia in the 19th century was its rigid class hierarchy, which dominated all aspects of Russian life, but most importantly the way that those from different classes related to one another; the upper class...

A theme that is immediately apparent in Pushkin’s The Shot is “the noble man with a romanticized view of life”. This theme was common during the Romantic Era, the period in which Pushkin wrote, but is important for more than historical reasons; in...