The Bronze Horseman

About “The Bronze Horseman”

The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833. It centers on the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824. The poem was not published in full during Pushkin's lifetime because of censorship. It is regarded as Pushkin's most successful narrative poem and has had a lasting impact on Russian literature. Critics, including A. D. P. Briggs, have called it the best in the Russian language and one of the best poems of the nineteenth century. The work is considered highly influential and a key reason Pushkin is known as the "founder of modern Russian literature." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)