About the book: year / "This Pushkin drama, which belongs to the highest achievements of world art and the most intense Pushkin inspirations, thanks to its depth and unprecedented brevity, always remains somewhat mysterious. I want to peer again and again into this eerie and dark depth of primordial human nature. Pushkin's play, which fits on several pages and consists of only two scenes, is truly a tragedy in which the extreme facets of the human spirit are exposed. Hence her solemn seriousness and religious penetration. Rereading and rethinking it, you are imbued with new delight and almost superstitious surprise at this miracle of Pushkin’s creativity, to which so much is revealed in his inspirations…»