The Captain's Daughter

A. Pushkin embodied his life-long, worldview, and literary quests both in poetry and in harmonious, flawless prose, reflecting the breadth of his interests and the transformation of the author’s views. “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin” is the acclaimed pinnacle of his prose legacy, in which different plots are realized: the story of a small man— the station master; the horrifying dream of the gravedigger; the story of the seduction of a young girl by an unworthy hero; the story of love and revenge; and a tale about the inevitability of a fated destiny. All the stories were united by one shared theme—Chance and Providence.

A. Pushkin’s “The Captain’s Daughter” is one of the most important works of Russian classics, proclaiming the saying “Cherish your honor from a young age” as the main life principle, and the tale “Dubrovsky” was conceived by the author as a novel from the Pugachev era, with a nobleman hero who joins the rebels yet remains faithful to the true concepts of honor and justice.