The Pushkin Club invites you to a talk by Robert Chandler in celebration of Pushkin’s birthday on 6 June and by way of introduction to his recently published selection of Pushkin’s prose, PETER THE GREAT’S AFRICAN (NYRB Classics).
"God spare us from Russian revolt, senseless merciless Russian revolt.”
https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/pushkin-historian
Pushkin was acutely aware of the many schisms that Russia has suffered over the centuries: between the Orthodox Church and the Old Believers; between Slavophiles and Westerners; between liberals and authoritarians. He attached ever more importance to his work as a historian and, above all, to his study of Peter the Great. His unfinished novel Peter the Great’s African is his first attempt at representing the man he saw as the most important of all Russian tsars. Here he presents him from the perspective of his own maternal great-grandfather, a former African slave whom Peter the Great educated and made into one of his closest confidants; Pushkin’s central concern here is the success or failure of Peter’s attempt to refashion his vast, archaic empire and turn it into an integral part of Europe
All the best, Robert
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