Dubrovsky

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Dubrovsky
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Dubrovsky, OGIZ Press, Moscow, 1946
Author Alexander Pushkin
Original title Дубровский
Country Russia
Language Russian
Genre(s) Novel
Publication date 1841
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 1-84391-053-5 (recent paperback edition)

Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841.

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[edit] Plot summary

Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov’s daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results.

[edit] First lines

Several years ago an old-fashioned Russian landowner, Kiril Petrovitch Troekurov, was living on one of his estates. His wealth, lineage, and connections gave him great weight in the province where the estate was situated. Spoiled by his surroundings, he was used to giving full rein to every impulse of his passionate temperament, and every idea of his somewhat limited intellect. His neighbours were glad to humour his smallest whim; the officials of the province trembled at his very name. Kiril Petrovitch accepted expressions of obsequiousness as his rightful tribute. His house was always full of guests, ready to amuse him in his lordly idleness, and to share his noisy and sometimes riotous pleasures..

—translated by Natalie Duddington

[edit] Editions and translations

  • “The Works of Alexander Pushkin”. Lyrics, Narrative poems, Folk tales, Plays, Prose. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. New York: Random House[1936]. viii, 893 p. Contents: Introduction. Lyrics and ballads <…> Dubrovsky. Egyptian nights (all translated by T. Keane). The Captain’s daughter (translated by Natalie Duddington).
  • Reprinted: Unto myself I reared a monument, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 7, sec. 1, also in Moscow News, Moscow, 1937, v. 7, no. 7, p. 3, also in Moscow Daily News, Moscow, 1937, no 29, p 3,
  • Behold a sower went forth to sow. Verses written during a sleepless night. Work, Parting, all translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 21, p. 5. Excerpts from Evgeny Onegin, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Moscow Daily News. Moscow, 1937, no 33. p. 2, 4,
  • The Snowstorm reprinted in Moscow Daily News, 1937, no. 34—36.
  • “The Captain’s daughter and other tales...” , Translated, with an introduction, by Natalie Duddington. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1933. xi, 266 p. (Everyman’s library.) Contents: Introduction. Bibliographical notes. The Captain’s daughter. The Queen of spades. Dubrovsky. Peter the Great’s negro. The Station-master. Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman in Books, New York, v. 10, Feb. 11, 1934, p. 12
  • “Dubrovsky.” (In: Tales from the Russian [translated by Mrs. Sutherland Edwards?]. London: Railway and General Automatic Library [1892]) A copy in British Museum.
  • “Dubrovski; a tale of old Russia... “Translated by Reginald Merton. (The Argosy. London, 1928. 8°. v. 4, no. 27, p. 33—54.)
  • The Lady peasant. Dubrovsky; translated by T. Keane. (In: The Omnibus of romance... edited by John Grove [pseud, of John R. Colter]. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. 594 p.) A copy in Circulation Department.
  • The Prose tales of A. Pushkin; translated by T. Keane. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1894. 402 p. 8°. Copy in British Museum.
  • Contents: The Captain’s daughter. Dubrovsky. Queen of spades. Amateur peasant girl. The Shot. The Snowstorm. The Postmaster. The Coffin-maker. Kirdjali. Authority: W. S. Sonnenschein, A reader’s guide to contemporary literature. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895, p. 587.
  • Reprinted with the addition of The Egyptian nights and Peter the Great’s negro in Bohn’s Standard Library, London, in 1896, 1911, 1916. Copy of 1896 edition in Library of Congress. A copy of 1916 edition. Authority for 1911 edition on verso of t.-p. of 1916 edition.
  • Another edition issued in London by G. Bell and Sons In 1914, and reprinted in 1919, 1926. Authority for 1914 and 1919 editions on verso of 1926 edition. A copy of 1914 edition in the Library of Congress.
  • Also published by the Macmillan Company, New York in 1894, 1896, 1914. Authority: American catalog, 1890—95, p. 358; 1895—1900, p. 399, and the Cumulative book index, v. 18, p. 618.
  • Also published under title: "The Captain’s daughter and other tales", by Hodder and Stoughton, London, in 1915. Copy in Circulation Department. Reprinted in 1916. Authority: English catalog, 1916/20, p. 918.
  • Also published in 1925 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. New York. Authority: Cumulative book index, v. 28, p. 1009.
  • “Dubrovsky and Egyptian Nights” by Alexander Pushkin. Translated by Robert Chandler, with foreword by Patrick Neate,

Hesperus Press, October 2003, Paperback, English ISBN 1-84391-053-5

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Directed by Clarence Brown
Produced by John W. Considine, Jr./Art Finance Corp.
Hans Kraly (scenario)
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, James A. Marcus
Cinematography: George Barnes, Dev Jennings
Distributed by United Artists
Release date November 8, 1925 (USA)
Running time 80 min.
  • Dubrovsky, movie, romantic adventure drama
Director: Alexander V. Ivanovsky
Main Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Release Year: 1935
Country: SU
Run Time: 75 minutes
  • Dubrovsky, features movie
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Starring: John Forsythe, Rosanna Schiaffino, William Dieterle
Directed by: William Dieterle
1959-Italy/Yugoslavia
Director: Vyacheslav Nikiforov
Main Cast: Mikhail Yefremov, Marina Zudina, Vladimir Samoylov, Kirill Lavrov
Release Year: 1989
Country: SU

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