The Bronze Horseman (poem)

It was written in Boldin in the fall of 1833 . The poem was not allowed to print by Nicholas I. Pushkin published its beginning in the " Library for Reading ", 1834, Prince. XII, entitled: “Petersburg. Excerpt from the poem ” ^[2] (from the beginning to the verse“ Disturb the eternal dream of Peter! ”, With the passage of four verses crossed out by Nicholas I, starting with the verse“ And before the younger capital ”).

First published after Pushkin’s death in Sovremennik, vol. 5, 1837, with censorship changes made to the text by V. A. Zhukovsky . Without censorship edits that distort the author’s intention, the poem was first published only in 1904.

Based on the poem by A. S. Pushkin, the Russian Soviet composer R. M. Glier created the ballet of the same name, a magnificent fragment of which, “ Anthem to the Great City, ” became the anthem of St. Petersburg.

It is known that the poem was subjected to manuscript revision by Nicholas I. The manuscript is stored in the Pushkin House in St. Petersburg. ^[3]

In the article “The Bronze Horseman ” (1909) Valery Bryusov writes:

The story tells of a poor, insignificant Petersburg official, some Eugene, stupid, unoriginal, no different from his congregations, who was in love with some Parasha, the daughter of a widow living at the seaside. The flood of 1824 demolished their home; the widow and Parasha died. Eugene could not bear this misfortune and went crazy. One night, passing by the monument to Peter I, Eugene, in his madness, whispered to him several evil words, seeing in him the culprit of his disasters. Evgeny's frustrated imagination imagined that the copper rider was angry with him for this and chased him on his bronze horse. A few months later, the madman died.

• The Bronze Horseman (monument)

• V. Ya. Bryusov. The Bronze Horseman // Collected Works in seven volumes. - M .: Fiction , 1975. - T. 7: Articles about Pushkin. Articles about Armenian literature. Teacher teachers.
• Izmailov N.V. Textual study of Pushkin's poem “The Bronze Horseman” // Textology of Slavic Literature. - L .: Science , 1973.
• Izmailov N.V. Forgotten antiquity. (From observations of the text of the Bronze Horseman // Design, work, embodiment ... / Ed. V.I. Kuleshov. - M .: Moscow State University, 1977.
• Rudakov S. B. The rhythm and style of the Bronze Horseman (publ. E. G. Gernshtein) // Pushkin. Research and Materials / USSR Academy of Sciences , Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House); ed. M.P. Alekseev, D.D. Blagoy, V.E. Vatsuro, N.V. Izmailov, R.V. Jesuitova, S.A. Fomichev. - L .: Nauka, 1979.- T. 9 . - S. 294-324 .
• Arrested by A. L. Around the Bronze Horseman // Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A series of literature and language. - 1984. - T. 43 , No. 3 . - S. 238-247 .
• A. N. Arkhangelsky . A poem by A. Pushkin "The Bronze Horseman" . - Higher school , 1990. - 96 p. - 46,000 copies. - ISBN 5060008487 .
• Ospovat A. L. From the commentary on The Bronze Horseman // At the Turn of the Century: Collection in honor of the 60th anniversary of Alexander Vasilievich Lavrov / Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House); comp. V. Bagno, D. Malmstad, M. Malikova. - M .: New Literary Review, 2009. - S. 496-505 .

Text

• The Bronze Horseman in the Russian Virtual Library .
• The Bronze Horseman in the library of Maxim Moshkov

Fiction Reading

Literary and drama section of the Radio Fund of the State Television and Radio Fund catalog :

• Anton Schwartz : record of the 40s.
• Mikhail Tsarev : record of the 50s.
• Alexey Konsovsky : 1959 record.
• Dmitry Zhuravlev : record of 1961.
• Oleg Efremov : record of 1978.
• Jacob Smolensky : 1991 entry .
• Mikhail Kozakov : 1998 entry .
• Vasily Lanovoi : 2004 record .