Poltava

'Poltava' - a poem by the Russian genius poet, 'the sun of Russian poetry', playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). There are two lines in it: love (Mazepa - Maria) and historical (Peter - Mazepa - Charles XII). Personality The author was very interested in Mazepa. He even wanted to name the poem after him. But the main theme for Pushkin still remained the theme of the Russian victory over the Swedes. And therefore, before you is the most interesting 'Poltava', written in 1828, with its political intrigues, drama of public and personal relations. Illustrations for the poem were drawn by Taras Shevchenko in 1840. The work is a mandatory part of the school curriculum. Pushkin also wrote such wonderful works as 'The Scenes from Knightly Times', 'Tales of Belkin', 'Ruslan and Lyudmila', 'Eugene Onegin', 'Song of the Prophetic Oleg', 'Roslavlev', 'Notes of Brigadier Moreau de Braze' , 'The History of Peter', 'Caucasian captive', 'The Mermaid'. During his lifetime, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin earned himself a reputation as the greatest poet of Russia, whose work influenced the development of both Russian and and world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of the modern Russian literary language.