The Stationmaster
30 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexander Pushkin
Author
Alexander Pushkin
Narrator
Theatre Actors
Narrator
Theatre Actors
Description
Audio drama based on A.S. Pushkin’s story of the same name from the cycle “Tales of Belkin,” recorded in 1987.
Perhaps the saddest of all A.S. Pushkin’s stories in this cycle is the tale “The Stationmaster.” The story of a poor girl seduced by a nobleman is a traditional plot—above all in Western European prose—but it is also well known to Russian readers (N.M. Karamzin “Poor Liza”).
In “The Stationmaster,” the fate of a minor official is told—the stationmaster Samson Vyrin. From the very first lines of his narration, Pushkin appears as a humanist writer, outraged by the powerless position of the lower class. The beginning of the tale is polemically opposed to the epigraph taken from Prince P. Vyazemsky’s poem “Station.”
“Collegiate assessor,
Dictator of the postal station.”
Perhaps the saddest of all A.S. Pushkin’s stories in this cycle is the tale “The Stationmaster.” The story of a poor girl seduced by a nobleman is a traditional plot—above all in Western European prose—but it is also well known to Russian readers (N.M. Karamzin “Poor Liza”).
In “The Stationmaster,” the fate of a minor official is told—the stationmaster Samson Vyrin. From the very first lines of his narration, Pushkin appears as a humanist writer, outraged by the powerless position of the lower class. The beginning of the tale is polemically opposed to the epigraph taken from Prince P. Vyazemsky’s poem “Station.”
“Collegiate assessor,
Dictator of the postal station.”
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