Борис Годунов 1960г.

 The book is dedicated to the period of the reign of Boris Godunov from 1598 to 1605 and the invasion of False Dmitry I. At the meeting with the tsar (which ended the exile), the author read him excerpts from “Boris Godunov”. The drama is written in imitation of Shakespeare's historical chronicles - mainly in blank verse with a few prose scenes. The play in its entirety was first published (with censored abbreviations) at the end of December 1830 with a publication date of 1831, but was staged only in 1866. The reason for this is the supposed non-stage nature of the work. But the main thing is that until 1866 the tragedy was prohibited from being presented on stage. With censorship exceptions and cuts, it was first staged on September 17, 1870 on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater by artists of the Alexandrinsky Theater. The tragedy marked Pushkin's complete departure from romanticism with its heroism to the realistic embodiment of characters. For the plot, Pushkin used a popular rumor about the murder of Tsarevich Dmitry on the orders of Boris Godunov, which has not been historically confirmed. One of the main themes raised in the tragedy is power and people. Pushkin gives an absolutely clear definition: any power is violence, and therefore evil.

Engravings by V Favorsky - Russian and Soviet graphic artist, master of portraits, woodcuts and book graphics, art critic, set designer, muralist, teacher and theorist of fine arts, professor.

Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1962; corresponding member 1957). People's Artist of the USSR (1963). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1962).