The Captain's Daughter

Alexander Pushkin

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

A young officer posted to a lonely steppe fort is caught in a peasant rebellion, and saved, again and again, by a chance kindness once shown to the rebel leader himself. Pushkin's stirring tale of love and honour in the Pugachev revolt.

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