Dubrovsky

3 hrs. 8 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Alexander Pushkin

Narrator Alexander Ponomarev

Description

One of the most dramatic and lyrical tales in Russian classic literature about love and loyalty, honor and dignity, nobility and justice.

A quarrel between the neighbor-gentlemen Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky and Kirill Petrovich Troekurov leads to the fact that the old Dubrovsky loses his estate. His son Vladimir, who came from Petersburg, decides to take revenge for his father: he burns down the family nest and goes with the peasants into the forest. He becomes a “noble robber”—not in the name of a romantic ideal, but according to the notions of a nobleman and an officer. Disguised as a teacher of French, he appears in the house of the Troekurovs, where he meets Masha Troekurova and gives up his plans for revenge. But Masha, married against her will to Prince Vereysky, refuses to break her word, remaining faithful to her duty…