Dubrovsky (novel)

Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841. The name Dubrovsky was given by the editor.

Plot summary

Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov’s daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results.

Editions and translations

• “The Works of Alexander Pushkin”. Lyrics, Narrative poems, Folk tales, Plays, Prose. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. New York: Random House[1936]. viii, 893 p. Contents: Introduction. Lyrics and ballads <…> Dubrovsky. Egyptian nights (all translated by T. Keane). The Captain’s daughter (translated by Natalie Duddington).
• Reprinted: Unto myself I reared a monument, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 7, sec. 1, also in Moscow News, Moscow, 1937, v. 7, no. 7, p. 3, also in Moscow Daily News, Moscow, 1937, no 29, p 3,
• Behold a sower went forth to sow. Verses written during a sleepless night. Work, Parting, all translated by Babette Deutsch, in Russki golos, New York, 1937, Feb. 21, p. 5. Excerpts from Evgeny Onegin, translated by Babette Deutsch, in Moscow Daily News. Moscow, 1937, no 33. p. 2, 4,
• The Snowstorm reprinted in Moscow Daily News, 1937, no. 34—36.
• “The Captain’s daughter and other tales...”, Translated, with an introduction, by Natalie Duddington. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1933. xi, 266 p. (Everyman’s library.) Contents: Introduction. Bibliographical notes. The Captain’s daughter. The Queen of spades. Dubrovsky. Peter the Great’s negro. The Station-master. Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman in Books, New York, v. 10, Feb. 11, 1934, p. 12
• “Dubrovsky.” (In: Tales from the Russian [translated by Mrs. Sutherland Edwards?]. London: Railway and General Automatic Library [1892]) A copy in British Museum.
• “Dubrovski; a tale of old Russia... “Translated by Reginald Merton. (The Argosy. London, 1928. 8°. v. 4, no. 27, p. 33—54.)
• The Lady peasant. Dubrovsky; translated by T. Keane. (In: The Omnibus of romance... edited by John Grove [pseud, of John R. Colter]. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. 594 p.) A copy in Circulation Department.
• The Prose tales of A. Pushkin; translated by T. Keane. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1894. 402 p. 8°. Copy in British Museum.
• Contents: The Captain’s daughter. Dubrovsky. Queen of spades. Amateur peasant girl. The Shot. The Snowstorm. The Postmaster. The Coffin-maker. Kirdjali. Authority: W. S. Sonnenschein, A reader’s guide to contemporary literature. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895, p. 587.
• Reprinted with the addition of The Egyptian nights and Peter the Great’s negro in Bohn’s Standard Library, London, in 1896, 1911, 1916. Copy of 1896 edition in Library of Congress. A copy of 1916 edition. Authority for 1911 edition on verso of t.-p. of 1916 edition.
• Another edition issued in London by G. Bell and Sons In 1914, and reprinted in 1919, 1926. Authority for 1914 and 1919 editions on verso of 1926 edition. A copy of 1914 edition in the Library of Congress.
• Also published by the Macmillan Company, New York in 1894, 1896, 1914. Authority: American catalog, 1890—95, p. 358; 1895—1900, p. 399, and the Cumulative book index, v. 18, p. 618.
• Also published under title: "The Captain’s daughter and other tales", by Hodder and Stoughton, London, in 1915. Copy in Circulation Department. Reprinted in 1916. Authority: English catalog, 1916/20, p. 918.
• Also published in 1925 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. New York. Authority: Cumulative book index, v. 28, p. 1009.
• “Dubrovsky and Egyptian Nights” by Alexander Pushkin. Translated by Robert Chandler, with foreword by Patrick Neate,

Hesperus Press, October 2003, Paperback, English ISBN 1-84391-053-5

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

• Dubrovsky (opera) by Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916), premiered on January 15, [OS January 3] 1895, St Petersburg.
• The Eagle, silent film

Director: Clarence Brown

Producer: John W. Considine, Jr./Art Finance Corp.

Writer: Hans Kraly (scenario)

Main Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, James A. Marcus

Cinematography: George Barnes, Dev Jennings

Distributed by: United Artists

Release date: November 8, 1925 (USA)

Country: USA

Running Time: 80 min.

• Dubrovsky, film, romantic adventure drama

Director: Alexander V. Ivanovsky

Main Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Tarkhanov

Release Year: 1935

Country: Soviet Union

Running Time: 75 min.

• Black Eagle (Aquila nera), feature film

Director: Riccardo Freda

Main Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Irasema Dilián, Gino Cervi

Minor Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Release Year: 1946

Country: Italy

Running Time: 97 min.

• Dubrowsky, feature film

Director: William Dieterle

Main Cast: John Forsythe, Rosanna Schiaffino, William Dieterle

Release Year: 1959

Country: Italy / Yugoslavia

Running Time: 115 min.

• Noble Brigand Vladimir Dubrovsky, TV series

Director: Vyacheslav Nikiforov

Main Cast: Mikhail Yefremov, Marina Zudina, Vladimir Samoylov, Kirill Lavrov

Release Year: 1989

Country: Soviet Union

• Dubrovskiy, feature film and TV mini-series

Director: Alexander Vartanov and Kirill Mikhanovsky

Writers: Konstantin Chernozatonsky, Mikhail Brashinsky

Main Cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Igor Gordin, Klavdiya Korshunova, Yuriy Tsurilo

Producer: Evgeniy Gindilis

Cinematohraphy: Vsevolod Kaptur, Anastasiy Mikhailov

Composer: Aleksey Aygi

Release Year: 2014

Country: Russia

Running Time: 123 min. (film), 5 episodes of 42 min. each (TV mini-series)

External links

• (Russian) «Дубровский» available at Russian Virtual Library
• Dubrovsky, transl. by Natalie Duddington. Dead Link
• Dubrovskiy (1936) at the Internet Movie Database
• Il Vendicatore (1958) at the Internet Movie Database
• Blagorodnyy razboynik Vladimir Dubrovskiy (1989) at the Internet Movie Database
• Epub version (Spanish)

Alexander Pushkin
Narrative poems	Ruslan and Ludmila (1820) The Gabrieliad (1821) The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1823) The Gypsies (1827) Poltava (1829) The Bronze Horseman (1833)
Short poems	"I Loved You" (1830)
Verse fairy tales	The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1830) The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1831) The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1833) The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (1835) The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1835)
Verse novel	Eugene Onegin (1833)
Prose	The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1830) The Shot The Blizzard Peter the Great's Negro (1827) Dubrovsky (1833) "The Queen of Spades" (1834) A Journey to Arzrum (1835-36) The Captain's Daughter (1836)
Plays	Boris Godunov (1825) The Little Tragedies A Feast in Time of Plague (1830) Mozart and Salieri (1830) The Stone Guest (1830)
People	Anton Delvig Abram Petrovich Gannibal (great-grandfather) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès Anna Petrovna Kern Pyotr Pletnyov Vasily Pushkin (uncle) Natalia Pushkina (wife) Pyotr Vyazemsky
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