The Brazen Rider (poem)
The Bronze Horseman ( Russian Медный всадник / Medny wsadnik ; literally The Copper Horseman ) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin . The poem, published in 1833 , is about the equestrian statue of Tsar Peter the Great on St. Petersburg's Senate Square. The poem gave the figure, which was built in 1782, its characteristic nickname.
The poem is considered one of the most important texts in Russian literary history . It is still on every Russian curriculum today and is considered the founding work of the Petersburg text .
If the Neva floods heavily, the bride of a poor official dies. He blames Tsar Peter I for having Petersburg built in the wrong place. He threatens and curses his monument, whereupon it comes to life and pursues the officer until it goes insane.
Pushkin responded to Adam Mickiewicz's invectives (insults) against the Russian state in Part III of the drama cycle Funeral (“Ustęp”) with “The Bronze Horseman”.
Settings
The poem has been the subject of numerous settings, including:
- Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski : Tenth Symphony in F minor, Op. 30
- Reinhold Moritzewitsch Glière : Ballet “The Iron Rider” op. 89
- Boris Wladimirowitsch Assafjew : Opera "The Bronze Horseman"
expenditure
- The bronze rider from d. Soot. trans. by Rolf-Dietrich Keil (Russian and German). Novi gorod, St. Petersburg 1995. ISBN 5-88783-001-8 .
- The brazen rider . From d. Soot. trans. by Rolf-Dietrich Keil. With illustrations by Alexander Benua . Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Insel Verlag 1999 ( Insel-Bücherei 1195), ISBN 3-458-19195-X .
