Alexander Pushkin, Tales of Belkin (1831)translated by Joshua Billings (2009)In addition to the tale
Alexander Pushkin, Tales of Belkin (1831)translated by Joshua Billings (2009)In addition to the tales, which you were pleased to mention in your letter, Ivan Petrovich left behind a great number of manuscripts, a portion of which reside with me, and a portion of which were used by his house-keeper for various household tasks. In this manner, last winter, the windows in her wing of the house were stopped with the first chapters of an unfinished novel. The above-mentioned tales were apparently his first attempts. Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people. However, he invented almost all the proper names in them; the names of the villages and towns, on the other hand, were borrowed from our neighborhood; even my estate is mentioned somewhere. All this was done not through any bad intentions, but simply from a lack of imagination. -- source link
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