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- He adds tragedy and nuance to the story and to the rebellion as a whole when he humanizes Pugachev and paints both sides of him, a merciless rebel as well as an almost caring father life figure or friend. Taking into consideration the period this novel occurs in, Pushkin pushes back against a black-and-white, good-versus-bad narrative.
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The Captain's Daughter (Russian: «Капитанская дочка», romanized: Kapitanskaja dočka) is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik and is his only completed novel.
- A. S. Pushkin, Natalie Duddington
- 1836
Set during Pugachev's Rebellion of the 1770s, Russian writer Alexander Pushkin’s historical novel The Captain's Daughter (1836) tells the story of seventeen-year-old Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov who leaves home to join the Russian Imperial Army in its fight against insurgents.
Traces the development of Pushkin’s social ideas and his involvement in contemporary politics. Devotes considerable discussion to issues of censorship and to Pushkin’s relationship with the ...
By juxtaposing two different characters – an unyielding hero and an officer who switches to the rebels when it is convenient for him – Pushkin poses a question of why do different people make...
- Nikolay Shevchenko
Complete summary of Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Captain's Daughter.
Analysis and discussion of characters in Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter
Aleksandr Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter (1836) represents the culmination of his nearly decade long creative investment in the story of Ernilian Pugachev. The characters and the plot were well-known to all classes of Russian society in Pushkin's day, and Emelian Pugachev, the leader of the peasant uprising that bears his name, was already a long
