Aleksandr Pushkin, Kapitanskaia dochka [The Captain's Daughter]

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

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First circulation or publication 1836

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Russia (Country of Origin)

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Pushkin wrote a first outline of what later became

Kapitanskaia dochka

[

The Captain's Daughter

] in January 1833. The novel is set in the early 1770s, against the background of a peasant rebellion in south-eastern Russia led by the Cossack Emelian Pugachev [Yemelyan Pugachov]. Pushkin had been interested for a long time both in Pugachev and in Stenka Razin, the leader of an important peasant rebellion in the seventeenth century. In a letter written as early as November 1824, he had asked his brother to send him a book titled

Life of Yemelka Pugachov

; in another letter he asked his brother to provide him with “the historical, dry information about Stenka Razin, the only poetic figure in Russian history”.

In early 1833, after obtaining permission to carry out research on Pugachev in the

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Kapitanskaia dochka". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11209, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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