Selected Poetry

Winner of the 2020 Read Russia Prize

A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood

A Penguin Classic

Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, based on the statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824, is widely considered to be his most successful narrative poem, the second most famous poem in Russian literature after his Eugene Onegin, and notoriously difficult to translate. One of the most influential works in Russian literature, ...