"The Captain's Daughter" & "The Queen of Spades" – Alexander Pushkin

Read: "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin  - Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Resources:

• Brief biography from Daniel S. Burt's The Literary 100

• Richard Pevear's Introduction to Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

Online Articles:

• • "How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage" by Cynthia Green for JSTOR Daily

  • "How Pushkin responded to critics and insults" by Yulia Afanasyenko for Russia Beyond

  • "What’s behind ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, the iconic piece of Russian literature by Alexander Pushkin?" by Nikolay Shevchenko for Russia Beyond

Critical Articles: 

THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER:

• "Aleksandr Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter: A Poetics of Violence" - Alexander Groce

• "Between Nation and Empire: Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter" - Irina Anisimova

• "Grinev the Trickster: Reading the Paradoxes of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter" - Polina Rikoun

• "Grinev's Dream: The Captain's Daughter and a Father's Blessing" - Caryl Emerson

• "Poetic Justice and Injustice: Autobiographical Echoes in Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter" - Irina Reyfman

• "Pushkin's Novel The Captain's Daughter as Fictional Family Memoir" - Leslie O'Bell

THE QUEEN OF SPADES:

• "Choosing the Right Card: Madness, Gambling, and the Imagination in Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades'" - Gary Rosenshield

• "Numbers and Numerology in 'The Queen of Spades'" - Lauren G Leighton

• "Pushkin's 'Queen of Spades': A Displaced Mother Figure" - Adele Barker

• "Rereading 'The Queen of Spades'" - Andrew Wachtel

• "'The Queen of Spades': A Psychoanalytic Interpretation" - Murray M Schwartz and Albert Schwartz

• "'The Queen of Spades': A Seriously Intended Joke" - J Douglas Clayton

• "Up the down Staircase in 'The Queen of Spades'" - Nathan Rosen