PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Brat'ia razboiniki ... (Pisano v 1822 godu.) Vtoroe izdanie [The Robber Brothers ... Written in 1822. Second edition].

Moscow, Avgust Semen, at the Imperial Medico-Surgical Academy, 1827. 8vo, one single sheet folded into 16 pp. including integral printed wrappers, unstitched and entirely uncut and unopened, as issued; small stamp and pencil marking to lower wrapper, minor tear to fold, but a very good, fresh copy; in a folding cloth box. Second edition of The Robber Brothers, following the first edition of earlier the same year. The present copy is preserved as a single sheet, unstitched and unopened, as originally issued. This unfinished narrative poem, written in 1822, had appeared in the Pole Star for 1825; it was inspired by the Russian folk play The Boat. ‘The Boat is clearly a dramatic version of the songs celebrating the seventeenth-century outlaw Stepan Razin. Its cast features a band of outlaws on a boat on the Volga. A stranger appears and tells his story: he and his brother were highwaymen; they were caught and put in prison; his brother died there but he escaped, having killed a prison guard. The stranger is welcomed with open arms. The next scene shows the outlaws sacking the estate of a rich landowner. The action is repeatedly interrupted by the singing of robber songs. The main stage effect is created by the actors’ sitting on the floor and making the motions of rowing a boat. “The Boat”, like the epic songs on the same subject, is explicit in its sympathy for the outlaws and in its hatred for landowners and government authorities’ (Victor Terras). Kilgour 881n; Smirnov-Sokol’skii (Pushkin) 10.

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• Bestellnummer: F1300

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