The Captain's Daughter

N. V. Gogol once said of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin: "Pushkin is an extraordinary and perhaps unique phenomenon of the Russian spirit: this is a Russian man in his development, in what he may become in two hundred years... It contains all the wealth, strength, and flexibility of our language..." Every work of Pushkin is a model of impeccable literary expression, unmatched in its beauty and power. And the story "The Captain's Daughter" is yet another confirmation of this. The action of the story unfolds during the Pugachev Rebellion, which Pushkin himself described as a "Russian rebellion, senseless and merciless."