The Little Tragedies

'The Little Tragedies' by Alexander Pushkin is a collection of short dramatic plays written by the poet in 1830-1832 in Boldino. It consists of four works: 'The Miserly Knight', 'Mozart and Salieri', 'The Stone Guest' and 'A Feast in Time of Plague'. Anna Akhmatova wrote that 'perhaps in none of the works of world poetry are the formidable questions of morality posed as sharply as in Pushkin's Little Tragedies.' These works are characterized by a small volume, but contain deep ideas, masterful language and unique poetics. These tragedies of Pushkin are united by the theme of human destiny, internal conflicts and eternal moral dilemmas. Pushkin is the author of such works as 'Ruslan and Lyudmila', 'Eugene Onegin', 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Captain's Daughter', 'The Mermaid', 'The Little House in Kolomna', 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Poltava'. 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