The Gypsies

'The Gypsies' is a poem by the brilliant Russian poet, 'the sun of Russian poetry,' playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). Before writing it, the author spent several days in a camp of Bessarabian gypsies. That is why the images of the gypsy Zemfira and the city dweller Aleko are so reliable, the tragic truth is the denouement of their love. The topic of personal freedom has always been of concern Pushkin. Aleko dreams of finding true will, freedom, but recognizes this right only for himself. S. Rachmaninov wrote the opera 'Aleko' based on the plot of the poem. The work is a mandatory part of the school curriculum. Pushkin is the author of many works - 'The Queen of Spades', 'Ruslan and Lyudmila', 'Eugene Onegin', 'Poems Not for Ladies', 'The Mermaid', 'The Little House in Kolomna', 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Pоltava', 'Thw Bronze Horseman', 'Tales of Belkin'. 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 world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of the modern Russian literary language.