The Moor of Peter the Great

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The Mohr of Peter the Great ( Russian Арап Петра Великого , Arap Petra Velikowo), also The Mohr of the Tsar , is an unfinished historical novel by the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin , written in 1827 and 1828 in the sixth volume of the literary magazine Sovremennik appeared posthumously. Between 1829 and 1834, some preprints had already been published in the journal mentioned.

For the protagonist - that is the Moor Ibrahim - Pushkin took his maternal great-grandfather Abram Hannibal as a role model.

The translation into German by Wilhelm Lange came onto the market in Reclam's Universal Library in 1882 . One year later, Der Mohr des Zaren , an adaptation for the stage by Richard Voss, appeared .

Self-portrait 1829: Alexander Pushkin

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Peter the Great and his Mohr (around 1710, engraver unknown)

Peter the Great sends his godchild, the 27-year-old Moor Ibrahim, to the artillery school in Paris . Ibrahim falls in love there on the Seine with the married Countess D. The fruit of the relationship - a black baby - is exchanged for a white newborn. The horned husband is the only one in Paris who doesn't know.

Returning to Russia, the Tsar congratulates his godfather on becoming a lieutenant captain . Ibrahim serves in the bombarding company of the Preobrazhensky Regiment .

Countess D. writes from Paris that Ibrahim should turn his back on “barbaric Petersburg”. You wait for him. But Ibrahim is told that the countess has taken a new lover. In addition, the tsar has other plans with Ibrahim.

Peter the Great goes to the wealthy boyar Gavrila Afanasjewitsch Rzhevsky and advertises Ibrahim for his 17-year-old daughter Natalja Gavrilovna - called Natascha. The young girl's grandfather is horrified. Pushkin writes: “'How,' shouted the old prince ... 'Natascha, my granddaughter, is to be married to a Moor he has bought!'” Gavrila puts the old man in the picture. Ibrahim is the son of an Arab sultan who was sold to Constantinople and released there by the Russian envoy .

Ibrahim is soon going in and out of Gawrila's house. After two weeks, he never saw the bride once. Natascha only has one wish: she would like to die before the hated marriage is consummated.

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Pushkin's friend Alexei Nikolajewitsch Wulf has handed down the planned course of the novel. After her forced marriage, Natascha breaks the marriage, gives birth to a white child and is locked in a monastery as a punishment for this birth.

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reception

  • Keil writes in his Pushkin biography: "The Russian patriot and aristocrat Pushkin has created a venerable figure in Russian history in Peter."

German-language editions

Used edition

  • The Moor of Peter the Great. German by Michael Pfeiffer . P. 5–47 in: Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin: Novels and Novellas (Vol. 4 in Harald Raab (Ed.): Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin: Collected works in six volumes ). Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin and Weimar 1973 (4th edition, 504 pages)

Audio book

  • Alexander Pushkin: The Moor of Peter the Great. Read by Andreas Herrler . Translated from the Russian by Michael Pfeiffer. Edited and edited by the Klassikkollektiv Berlin. 2009, 1 CD, ISBN 978-3-8368-0411-0

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  1. ↑ The title of the novel Der Mohr Peter the Great does not come from Pushkin (Keil, p. 267, 2. Zvo).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 37, 4. Zvo
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 465
  3. ↑ Lange, Wilhelm in the German biography
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 466, middle
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 12, 14. Zvo
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 37, 14. Zvo
  7. ↑ Russian Вульф, Алексей Николаевич
  8. ↑ Edition used, p. 465 below and Keil, pp. 265–266
  9. ↑ Russian Alexei Wassiljewitsch Petrenko
  10. ↑ Russian Irina Stepanovna Masurkewitsch
  11. ↑ Russian How Tsar Peter married his Mohren
  12. ↑ Keil, p. 267, 14. Zvo