Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829-37)

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted--through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry--a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed.

This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works...