Dubrovsky is an unfinished novel

Novel

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 by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832

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 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841

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Plot summary

Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman

Nobility

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 whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov’s daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results.

Editions and translations

• “The Works of Alexander Pushkin”. Lyrics, Narrative poems, Folk tales, Plays, Prose. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. New York: Random House[1936]. viii, 893 p. Contents: Introduction. Lyrics and ballads <…> Dubrovsky. Egyptian nights (all translated by T. Keane). The Captain’s daughter (translated by Natalie Duddington).
• Reprinted: Unto myself I reared a monument, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 7, sec. 1, also in Moscow News, Moscow, 1937, v. 7, no. 7, p. 3, also in Moscow Daily News, Moscow, 1937, no 29, p 3,
• Behold a sower went forth to sow. Verses written during a sleepless night. Work, Parting, all translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 21, p. 5. Excerpts from Evgeny Onegin, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Moscow Daily News. Moscow, 1937, no 33. p. 2, 4,
• The Snowstorm reprinted in Moscow Daily News, 1937, no. 34—36.
• “The Captain’s daughter and other tales...” , Translated, with an introduction, by Natalie Duddington. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1933. xi, 266 p. (Everyman’s library.) Contents: Introduction. Bibliographical notes. The Captain’s daughter. The Queen of spades. Dubrovsky. Peter the Great’s negro. The Station-master. Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman in Books, New York, v. 10, Feb. 11, 1934, p. 12
• “Dubrovsky.” (In: Tales from the Russian [translated by Mrs. Sutherland Edwards?]. London: Railway and General Automatic Library [1892]) A copy in British Museum
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• “Dubrovski; a tale of old Russia... “Translated by Reginald Merton. (The Argosy. London, 1928. 8°. v. 4, no. 27, p. 33—54.)
• The Lady peasant. Dubrovsky; translated by T. Keane. (In: The Omnibus of romance... edited by John Grove [pseud, of John R. Colter]. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. 594 p.) A copy in Circulation Department.
• The Prose tales of A. Pushkin; translated by T. Keane. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1894. 402 p. 8°. Copy in British Museum.
• Contents: The Captain’s daughter. Dubrovsky. Queen of spades. Amateur peasant girl. The Shot. The Snowstorm. The Postmaster. The Coffin-maker. Kirdjali. Authority: W. S. Sonnenschein, A reader’s guide to contemporary literature. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895, p. 587.
• Reprinted with the addition of The Egyptian nights and Peter the Great’s negro in Bohn’s Standard Library, London, in 1896, 1911, 1916. Copy of 1896 edition in Library of Congress. A copy of 1916 edition. Authority for 1911 edition on verso of t.-p. of 1916 edition.
• Another edition issued in London by G. Bell and Sons In 1914, and reprinted in 1919, 1926. Authority for 1914 and 1919 editions on verso of 1926 edition. A copy of 1914 edition in the Library of Congress
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• Also published by the Macmillan Company, New York in 1894, 1896, 1914. Authority: American catalog, 1890—95, p. 358; 1895—1900, p. 399, and the Cumulative book index, v. 18, p. 618.
• Also published under title: "The Captain’s daughter and other tales", by Hodder and Stoughton, London, in 1915. Copy in Circulation Department. Reprinted in 1916. Authority: English catalog, 1916/20, p. 918.
• Also published in 1925 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. New York. Authority: Cumulative book index, v. 28, p. 1009.
• “Dubrovsky and Egyptian Nights” by Alexander Pushkin. Translated by Robert Chandler, with foreword by Patrick Neate,

Hesperus Press

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, October 2003, Paperback, English ISBN 1-84391-053-5

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

• Dubrovsky (opera)
  Dubrovsky (opera)
  Dubrovsky is an opera in four acts Op. 58, by Eduard Nápravník, to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky after the novel of the same title by Alexander Pushkin.-Creation and performance history:...
  
  by Eduard Nápravník
  Eduard Nápravník
  Eduard Francevič Nápravník was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades...
  
   (1839–1916), premiered on January 15, [OS January 3] 1895, St Petersburg.

• The Eagle, silent film

Director: Clarence Brown

Producer: John W. Considine, Jr./Art Finance Corp.

Writer: Hans Kraly (scenario)

Main Cast: Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...

, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, James A. Marcus

Cinematography: George Barnes, Dev Jennings

Distributed by: United Artists

Release date: November 8, 1925 (USA)

Country: USA

Running Time: 80 min.

• Dubrovsky, film, romantic adventure drama

Director: Alexander V. Ivanovsky

Main Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin

Vladimir Gardin

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, Mikhail Tarkhanov

Release Year: 1935

Country: Soviet Union

Running Time: 75 min.

• Aquila nera (Black Eagle), feature film

Director: Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...

Main Cast: Rossano Brazzi

Rossano Brazzi

-Biography:Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four...

, Irasema Dilián, Gino Cervi

Minor Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...

Release Year: 1946

Country: Italy

Running Time: 97 min.

• Dubrovsky, feature film

Director: William Dieterle

Main Cast: John Forsythe, Rosanna Schiaffino, William Dieterle

Release Year: 1959

Country: Italy / Yugoslavia

Running Time: 115 min.

• Noble Brigand Vladimir Dubrovsky, TV series

Director: Vyacheslav Nikiforov

Main Cast: Mikhail Yefremov

Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov

Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation ....

, Marina Zudina

Marina Zudina

Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina is a Russian actress of theatre and cinema. People's Artist of Russia. Meritorious Artist ....

, Vladimir Samoylov

Vladimir Samoylov

Vladimir Samoylov was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.-References:...

, Kirill Lavrov

Kirill Lavrov

Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a well-known Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor and director.-Childhood:Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was born on September 15, 1925, in Leningrad, USSR . He was baptized by the Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Divine in Lavrushinskoe Podvorie Monastery in...

Release Year: 1989

Country: Soviet Union

External links

«Дубровский» available at Russian Virtual Library

• Dubrovsky, transl. by Natalie Duddington. Dead Link