Literature
Boris Godunov · Борис Годунов
Alexander Pushkin
Translated by Alfred Hayes
A tsar haunted by a murdered child, a runaway monk who claims to be that child, and a people who say nothing: Pushkin’s Shakespearean history play.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- Russian: the two scenes Pushkin cut from the printed play, “Fence of the Monastery” and “Marina’s Dressing Room”, are added from the Academy edition (Pushkin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 7, 1948), in modern spelling (24 October 2026).