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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831) is a collection of five short prose tales written by Aleksandr Pushkin.1
Composed during the autumn of 1830 while Pushkin was at his family’s estate in Boldino, this work represents a significant shift in his career toward prose writing. Along with his later works like The Queen of Spades (1834) and The Captain’s Daughter (1836), this collection signaled a broader transition in 19th-century Russian literature away from the dominance of Romantic poetry and toward the rise of prose.12