“Dubrovsky” is an example of Alexander Pushkin’s narrative prose, one of the first specimens of the Russian literary language. It tells the story of a man wronged by a rich neighbor and by justice—and it is based on a real court case. At the same time, the plot of the work strongly resembles Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.” What genre does “Dubrovsky” belong to? Is it an unfinished novel or an almost finished novella? Why did Pushkin leave a practically ready text and begin working on “The History of Pugachev” and “The Captain’s Daughter”? Literary scholars still argue about it, and readers happily follow the adventures of a young audacious nobleman…