A Comparative Study of Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, Nekrasov's Red-nosed Frost, and Blok's The Twelve The Wild World

This volume brings together for comparison three Russian narrative poems by authors who lived in different periods of modern Russian history, covering among their lifespans the whole of the 19th century and two decades of the 20th century. Numerous points of contact are seen to emerge, ranging from historical matters to a concurrence of ideas iterating the tragic nature of human life and destiny.