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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom"
    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom"
    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom"
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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom"

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    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535835510
    A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom"

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      A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Bridegroom" - Gale

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      The Bridegroom

      Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

      1825

      Introduction

      Alexander Pushkin's narrative poem The Bridegroom is a retelling of The Robber Bridegroom, one of the German fairy tales compiled by the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 1800s. In Pushkin's version, a young woman comes home after a three-day absence. She is obviously traumatized, but the poet does not tell his readers what has frightened her. At the end of the poem, she tells the assembled guests at her wedding feast about a strange dream that she had, and the details of her story cleverly draw out a confession to murder. Pushkin combines psychology, sociology, and the macabre in the form of a folk narrative, popular when this poem was published in 1825, to give a new twist to an old legend.

      Alexander Pushkin is considered one of the greatest poets that Russia ever produced, if not alone the greatest. Part of his genius lies in his versatility: In addition to the folk narrative, which The Bridegroom illustrates, Pushkin also wrote ballads and plays, fiction and nonfiction, all with a commanding voice. Although a good English translation can capture the nuances of the story he tells, Russian literary experts confirm that the majesty of Pushkin's writing cannot be fully appreciated outside his native tongue. Still, the power of a tale such as The Bridegroom makes itself obvious in any language.

      Author Biography

      Alexander Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799, in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, who held a minor government job, came from a formerly rich, aristocratic landowning family, with a name reaching back six hundred years. His mother was a granddaughter of Abraham Hannibal, who had come to Russia as a slave in the early 1700s and was adopted by Peter the Great, eventually rising to be engineer-general of

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