Boris Godunov and the Little Tragedies

By Alexander Pushkin

Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor, the heir to whose throne, the boy-prince Dimitri, died mysteriously in 1591. It was widely rumoured that Boris had murdered him, and when a renegade monk later appeared claiming to be Dimitri, he rapidly became a focus for revolt.

The four other plays in this volume belong to Pushkin's Little Tragedies. They are A Feast in Time of Plague, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Release date: Jul 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781783192878

Reviews for Boris Godunov and the Little Tragedies

[john257hopper · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a splendid play by Pushkin focusing on the dramatic conflict at the beginning of the seventeenth century between Tsar Boris Godunov and the pretender to the throne, the False Dimitri. He was a young man who claimed to be the Tsarevich Dimitri, youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, and who had died at the age of seven. The story is vividly and clearly told and sticks pretty closely to the main historical facts. Quite a gem of a play.