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Note: This is a re-run of The Captain’s Daughter by Aleksandr Pushkin

It’s week 4 of Matt and Cameron’s June break. So this week, we’re looking back at one of our favorite books from this podcast, originally put out in October of 2021.

Major themes: Is it really fatalist?, My boy Pugachev, Benedict Anderson will never leave us alone

04:52 - It’s “Farmer’s Daughter” by Rodney Atkins, if anyone’s wondering. 

35:09 - “Alexandr Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter: A Poetics of Violence” by Alexander Groce

39:08 - Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age by Dan Ungurianu 

39: 54 - “Between Nation and Empire: Aleksandr Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter” by Irina Anisimova

47:45 - Close, but no dice. It’s The History of Pugachev

54: 52 - “Grinev the Trickster: Reading the Paradoxes of Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter” by Polina Rikoun

The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube

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