Pushkin House's video: Pushkin s Boldino Autumn - Readings in English and Russian

In the autumn of 1830, Alexander Pushkin had just got engaged to Natalia Goncharova and was staying at his family estate in Boldino. An epidemic of cholera broke out, and Pushkin was forced to spend the autumn and winter in isolation. During this period of separation, known as the Boldino Autumn, he wrote prodigiously, translated foreign works, and started many of the poems that would go on to bring him fame as the greatest Russian poet, and the father of Russian literature. In this online event from 9th June 2020, David Brummell introduces several of these works, which are read in English by Lucy Daniels, Antony Wood and David himself, and in Russian by Alla Gelich. http://www.pushkinhouse.org