Boris Godunov - The Little Tragedies - The Miserly Knight & Mozart and Salieri & The Stone Guest & A Feast in Time of Plague

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin trans Stephen Mulrine Price: $19.95

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Boris Godunov

recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar
Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan
the Terrible, Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded
Tsar Fyodor, the heir to whose throne, the boy-prince Dimitri,
died mysteriously in 1591

It was widely rumoured that Boris had murdered him, and when a renegade monk later appeared claiming to be Dimitri, he rapidly became a focus for revolt

The four other plays in this volume belong to Pushkin’s ‘Little Tragedies’

They are A Feast in Time of Plague, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest