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Show Notes:
Note: This is a re-run of The Captain’s Daughter by Aleksandr Pushkin
It’s week 4 of Matt and Cameron’s June break. So this week, we’re looking back at one of our favorite books from this podcast, originally put out in October of 2021.
Major themes: Is it really fatalist?, My boy Pugachev, Benedict Anderson will never leave us alone
04:52 - It’s “Farmer’s Daughter” by Rodney Atkins, if anyone’s wondering.
35:09 - “Alexandr Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter: A Poetics of Violence” by Alexander Groce
39:08 - Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age by Dan Ungurianu
39: 54 - “Between Nation and Empire: Aleksandr Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter” by Irina Anisimova
47:45 - Close, but no dice. It’s The History of Pugachev
54: 52 - “Grinev the Trickster: Reading the Paradoxes of Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter” by Polina Rikoun
The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube.
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