Like many writers, Alexander Pushkin often created multiple versions of the same work, leaving readers to wonder which he intended as final and authoritative a question complicated, moreover, by his fraught relationship with the repressive regime of tsar Nicholas I. Illuminating the creative processes and historical realities that shaped Pushkin s writing, this richly annotated series reproduces each work exactly as it appeared in the final Russian-language edition published during Pushkin s lifetime, resulting in the handsome artifactual feel of an original Pushkin text. In volumes edited by...