Peter the Great's African
Pushkin, Alexander / Chandler, Robert / Dralyuk, Boris / Chandler, Robert / Chandler, Elizabeth
Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.This volume presents Pushkin at his most questioning and experimental. "Peter the Great's African" is his first attempt at representing the man he saw as the most important of all Russian tsars. Here Pushkin presents him from the perspective of Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather, a former African slave whom Peter the Great educa...