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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is known not only as a poet, but also as a prose writer. He is one of the founders of the Russian realistic trend in literature. He wrote hundreds of poems and dozens of works of art. The best books of Pushkin, the list of which is located below, are included in the list of required reading at school and higher educational institutions.
10 Stationmaster
“Stationmaster” opens the list of the best works of Alexander Sergeevich. In the center of the plot is the daughter of the stationmaster Dunya. Outwardly, she is incredibly beautiful. A wealthy hussar named Minsky falls in love with her. To stay at the station, he refers to the fact that he is sick. Thus, he wants to buy time and get closer to Dunya. He fraudulently takes the girl away with him, and she becomes his kept woman. Unable to bear the loss of his daughter, the girl’s father becomes an inveterate drunkard and dies.
9. Boris Godunov
“Boris Godunov” is one of Pushkin’s best historical books. The author was inspired to create the play by reading The History of the Russian State. The work is dedicated to the entire period of the reign of Boris Godunov.
The writing of the tragedy was a turning point in the writer’s work, when he moves away from romanticism to realism. The main character of the play is the common people, on which the fate of the whole state largely depends. One of the main themes that can be traced in the work is power and man.
8. Prisoner of the Caucasus
“Prisoner of the Caucasus” included in the list of the best poems written by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. In the center of the plot, a young hero, who is characterized by indifference to everything around him, despite his age, the prisoner is tired of life, has lost his former love. But despite everything, he longs for freedom.
The second main face of the poem is a Circassian woman who falls madly in love with a young captive and is ready to do anything for him. All events of the work unfold against the backdrop of incredibly beautiful Caucasian landscapes.
7. The tale of the dead princess and the seven heroes
“The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs” – a work written by Pushkin based on a Russian folk tale. The king is away. At this time, his wife dies after giving birth to a daughter. After grieving for a year, the king finds another queen.
Outwardly, the new wife is beautiful, but inside she is very cruel and insidious. She has a magic mirror with which she talks. The queen constantly admires herself, looking into him and asking if she really is the most beautiful in the world. The mirror tells her that there is no one better in the whole world.
But the moment comes when the mirror says that there is a more beautiful person on earth than she is. The queen becomes furious and is ready to do everything to ruin the girl.
6. Dubrovsky
“Dubrovsky” – a work of art by Pushkin, included in the list of the most popular. In the center of the plot is a couple in love – Vladimir Dubrovsky and Maria Troekurova. They belong to landowner families that have been at enmity with each other for many years. Masha’s father is going to marry her off to Prince Vereisky. Dubrovsky is trying to prevent this marriage.
Vladimir and Masha agree among themselves and build a plan to avoid this. The young man arrives for his beloved at the agreed time, but it turns out to be too late. Further events are not in favor of Dubrovsky.
5. Young lady peasant woman
“Young Lady Peasant” included in the list of the most famous books written by Alexander Sergeevich. In the center of the plot is the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Liza Muromskaya, who loves to play pranks. She pretends to be a peasant servant in order to get closer to Alexei Besterov, with whom the girl’s father does not get along.
Liza far-fetchedly gives the impression of an uneducated girl, whose training Alexey begins to engage in. He is delighted with how capable and quickly trained his pupil is.
A young man falls in love with a young maid and intends to marry her. Alexey is surprised and becomes even more delighted with his beloved when he learns about her origin.
4. The Queen of Spades
“The Queen of Spades” – one of the most popular stories written by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The work has been screened several times. In the story, the writer reveals the theme of fortune. The protagonist of the book, Hermann, is a German by origin, leading an ordinary life and gradually collecting savings.
One day, his friend tells a story about his grandmother, who lost all her possessions in cards. She wanted to borrow money from one count, but instead of financial support, he reveals to her the secret of three cards that will definitely win. Thanks to them, the countess regains all her property, remaining in the navara.
This story played a fatal joke with the main character. The desire to find out what these cards are becomes an obsession for Hermann and leads to a lunatic asylum.
3. The Tale of Tsar Saltan
“The Tale of Tsar Saltan” – a book written by the great master of the Russian word. The book tells about the marriage of Tsar Saltan and the further birth of his son named Prince Gvidon. Due to the intrigues of his aunts, Gvidon finds himself on a desert island. There he meets a powerful sorceress known as the Swan Princess.
It is thanks to her that the main character again finds himself next to his father and becomes a powerful ruler.
2. Captain’s daughter
“Captain’s daughter” – one of the best books of Pushkin. The genre of the work is a historical novel. Actions in the book are connected with the period of the uprising of the Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev. The main character of the literary work is Petr Andreevich Grinev.
An elderly landowner talks about the events of his past life. His father sends him to work. At this time, fate brings him together with Pugachev, when he was not famous and was known as an ordinary Cossack. He agrees to accompany the landowner in bad weather to the inn.
In gratitude for this, Grinev rewards Emelyan with a sheepskin coat. Arriving at the service, Peter meets Masha Mironova, who is the daughter of the commandant. Further events of the novel are more tied to the relationship of young people.
1. Eugene Onegin
“Eugene Onegin” tops the list of the best books of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The most popular work of the master of the word has received recognition not only in Russia, but also abroad. This is the first Russian novel written in verse. Work on it was carried out by the writer for seven years.
The work describes the events that covered the period from 1819 to 1825. This time period was marked by such incidents as the defeat of the Napoleonic army, and then the uprising of the Decembrists. The main storyline is connected with a love story.
A feature of this work of criticism is that each of the chapters has a complete meaning and could well be the last in the novel.