Talk by Robert Chandler “Pushkin the Historian and Russia’s Many Schisms”

On June 7, the Pushkin Club invites you to an online talk by Robert Chandler in celebration of Pushkin’s birthday on 6 June and by way of introduction to his recently published selection of Pushkin’s prose, Peter the Great’s African. Pushkin was acutely aware of the many schisms that Russia has suffered over the centuries: between the Orthodox Church and the Old Believers; between Slavophiles and Westerners; between liberals and authoritarians. He attached ever more importance to his work as a historian and, above all, to his study of Peter the Great. His unfinished novel Peter the Great’s African is his first attempt at representing the man he saw as the most important of all Russian tsars. You will also learn more about The History of the Village of Goriukhino, Dubrovsky and The Captain’s Daughter.

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