Captain"s daughter

The "Captain"s daughter" belongs to the clip of works by which the Russian writers of the 1830s responded to the success of Walter Scott"s translated novels. Pushkin planned to write a historical novel back in the 1820s. The idea of ​​the story of the Pugachev era raised during Pushkin’s work on historical chronicle - the story of the Pugachev riot. " In search of materials for his work, Pushkin traveled to the Southern Urals, where he talked with eyewitnesses of formidable events of the 1770s. According to P.V. Annenkov, the subcutaneous and only by appearance the dry presentation accepted by him in the "History found as if an addition to his exemplary novel, which had the warmth and the charm of historical notes", in the novel, which represented the other side of the subject - The side of morals and customs of the era. "