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The Captain's Daughter
"The Captain's Daughter"
also: Капитанская дочка, Капит дочка
Pushkin's historical novel, cited by Chekhov alongside Lermontov's "Taman" as evidence of the close kinship between fine Russian verse and elegant prose.
Reading notes
- To Ya. P. Polonsky, 18 January 1888. Moscow. §6 Pushkin's "Captain's Daughter"
Pushkin's historical novel The Captain's Daughter, paired with Lermontov's "Taman" as Chekhov's second example of the same phenomenon -- poets who excel equally at prose.