Quarantined during a cholera epidemic 190 years ago, the poet excelled. "Pushkin, who would never be allowed to travel outside Russia and was now stranded in the countryside amid 'rain, snow and mud up to your knees,' leapt across historical epochs, countries and genres"from the medieval French tower in 'The Miserly Knight' to Vienna in […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM on June 8, 2020