Captain's Daughter

For me, the Russian literature is one of the most influential and powerful literature of all times. Descriptive, wordy, and extremely emotional, these are the giants Chekhov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, etc. From all the literary giants, one of my most favorite is Alexander Pushkin. The poems written by Pushkin are more famous as compared to his prose. However, he also wrote verse prose, novels, and drama. One of his novels, “Captain's Daughter” is one of my favorite. In “The Captain's Daughter,” a historical fiction, Pushkin illustrates the well-known revolt of Pugachev against tsarism and serfdom. This era was the ...