Young Pushkin: A Novel

by Yury Tynyanov · 1936

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Tynyanov's novel on Pushkin's formative years, written in the 1930s and early 1940s, is an entertaining panorama of the human, social and political forces that shaped Russia's greatest writer, from everyday home life to the wider St Petersburg scene and affairs of state in the Napoleonic era.

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