**From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers.** The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of *The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin* are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, *The Captain's Daughter* , has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature. *From the Hardcover edition.*
ALSO TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2016 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Foreword copyright © 2016 by Richard Pevear
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837, author. | Pevear, Richard, 1943– translator. | Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator.
Title: Novels, tales, journeys / by Alexander Pushkin ; a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. | “Borzoi book”—Title page verso. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015049350 (print) | LCCN 2016000916 (ebook) | ISBN 9780307959621 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780307959638 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PG3347.A15 2016 (print) | LCC PG3347 (ebook) | DDC 891.73/3—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049350
Ebook ISBN 9780307959638
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
This collection follows the contents and order in volume 5 of the “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura” edition of Pushkin’s works (Moscow, 1975), omitting a few very brief fragments.
Cover image: Alexander Pushkin (detail). Pictoral Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Cover design by Oliver Munday
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Contents
The Moor of Peter the Great
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
The History of the Village of Goryukhino
Roslavlev
Dubrovsky
The Queen of Spades
Kirdjali
Egyptian Nights
The Captain’s Daughter
Journey to Arzrum
Fragments and Sketches
The Guests Were Arriving at the Dacha
A Novel in Letters
At the Corner of a Little Square
Notes of a Young Man
My Fate Is Decided. I Am Getting Married…
A Romance at the Caucasian Waters
A Russian Pelham
We Were Spending the Evening at the Dacha
A Story from Roman Life
Maria Schoning
Introduction PUSHKIN’S DESCENT INTO PROSE
Alexander Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on the afternoon of January 27, 1837, at Chernaya Rechka, just outside Petersburg. “It is thus that the figure of Pushkin remains in our memory—with a pistol,” Andrei Sinyavsky wrote in
