Don Juan

The Poda Boula"s Podbuly is the first version of this plot belonging to the famous Spaniard Tirsco de Molina. Olnola or unwittingly, the only Spanish hero Tolstoy endowed the features of the heroes of Russian literature, "extra people": Onegin, Pechorina, Pushkin Faust ... echoes, almost quotes from Pushkinsky, Lermontov-seeing insights ... and conversation Don Juan about God with Mauro Baabdil is, in essence, the conversation of Ivan Karamazov with Mechnyakov: another "Russian motive" in the "Spanish play" of Count Tolstoy. The poems of the play, being pleasing poetry, sound like a conversational speech (reminding, and not only, "grief from the mind"), and the meaning of the author invested in them turns out to be at all times so modern because times, although changing, of course , but something remains unchanged