Pushkin worked on his unfinished historical novel

Dubrovskii

[Dubrovsky] between October 1832 and February 1833. Pushkin’s prose style is clear, clean and succinct; he himself wrote that “Precision and brevity are the most important qualities of prose. Prose demands thoughts and more thoughts – without thoughts, dazzling expressions serve no purpose.”

Dubrovsky

, however, is so very simply and concisely written that it is easy for the reader to lose sight of its fundamental seriousness. Like

The Captain’s Daughter

, it is an account of a seemingly inevitable conflict and a plea for the importance of reconciliation.

The Dubrovskys are in some respects modelled on Pushkin’s own family. The Dubrovsky estate, “Kisteniovka”, bears almost the same name as that of a village

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Dubrovsky". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 May 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38953, accessed 04 December 2024.]

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