This historical novel is dedicated to the events of the Pugachev’s Rebellion in Russia in 1773-1775Pushkin was the first in Russia to write permanent fiction, the first truly original Russian novelist…. ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ was the only work of Pushkin’s that had a powerful influence on the next age - it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become - through it is still a story told in the orthodox manner, as a story should be.The only work of Pushkin’s that had a powerful influence on the next age.
