«THERE ONCE LIVED A POOR KNIGHT» (HISTORY OF CREATION)
- Authors: Fedotova S.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 34-47
- Section: History of a Poem
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/0131-6095/article/view/356059
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2025-4-34-47
- ID: 356059
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Abstract
The history of the creation of Pushkin's poem «There Once Lived a Poor Knight» has been interpreted differently by various researchers, since the four existing autographs (a rough draft and three clean copies) were introduced into academic circulation with intervals of decades. Pushkin intended twice to publish the poem in the Northern Flowers almanac, but nally gave up the idea, presumably for censorship reasons. In the summer of 1835, a shortened and revised text of the poem was included in his un nished . By dating each of the autographs and examining the iterations, we identi ed three versions of the poem «There Once Lived a Poor Knight».
About the authors
S. B. Fedotova
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: sverdlik@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8910-5033
Senior Researcher
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