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Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605. It consists of 25 scenes and is written predominantly in blank verse. Modest Mussorgsky's opera, Boris Godunov (1874), is based on this play.
Boris Godunov, historical blank verse drama in 23 scenes by Russian poet and playwright Aleksandr Pushkin, written in 1824–25, published in 1831, and considered one of the most important plays of the early 19th century. Its theme is the tragic guilt and inexorable fate of a great hero, Boris.
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Modest Mussorgsky based his opera Boris Godunov on Pushkin's play. Sergei Prokofiev later wrote incidental music for Pushkin's drama. In 1997, the score of a 1710 baroque opera based on the reign of Boris by German composer Johann Mattheson was rediscovered in Armenia and returned to Hamburg, Germany.
Boris Godunov is a play written by famed Russian playwright and poet Alexander Pushkin. Originally written in 1825 and published in 1831 as a closet play, Boris was intended to be read by a sole reader
Heard all things with the ears of Godunov; Grant even that I might have fully proved it, Boris would have denied it there and then, And I should have been haled away to prison, And in good time—like mine own uncle—strangled Within the silence of some deaf-walled dungeon.
Boris Godunov. A Drama in Verse. By Alexander Pushkin. Rendered into English verse by Alfred Hayes. Presented by The Online Stage. In January of 1598, Feodor (Fyodor) I, the heir to Ivan the Terrible, died at the age of 40 and with him ended the Rurik Dynasty in Russia.
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