The Daughter of the Commandant

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The Daughter of the Commandant or The Captain’s Daughter is a historical romantic novel by the Russian author Alexander Pushkin and is contemplated to be his excellently written prose. Pyotr Andreyich, a young lad is sent by his father to serve in the military in a Russian outpost, where he clings to glory and love in the midst of the intense attacks of the ethnics against the imperial government.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a poet, dramatist, and novelist from Russia of the Romantic era. He was noted to be among the highly remarkable Russian poet and the founder of contemporary Russian literature.

Pushkin came from a Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin, descended from a wealthy family of the Russian aristocracy from the 12th century. His mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal, descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian aristocracy. He wrote his first poem and published it when at a young age of fifteen years old, and was greatly remarked by the literary industry by the time when he finished his education from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. He was under the strict surveillance of the Tsar’s political police and was not able to publish his written works. Pushkin had written his most popular play, the drama Boris Godunov and his novel in verse, Eugene Onéguine was published in serial form in 1825 and 1832.

The poet was badly injured in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès, or Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment who tried to pursue the poet’s wife, Natalia Pushkina. The duel caused the early death of Pushkin at the age of 37.

He was also notable for works including Ruslan and Ludmila; The Gabrieliad; The Fountain of Bakhchisaray; Poltava; The Stone Guest; A Feast in Time of Plague; The Queen of Spades; The Bridegroom; and other famous works.
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