Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде

by Alexander Pushkin

Написана в 1830 году в Болдино. Опубликована в 1840 году. Входит в список обязательной литературы для средних школ.

Genres: Classics, Russian Literature, Poetry, Fairy Tales, Russia, Childrens, Fiction

9 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1840

About the author

Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.

See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin

People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.

Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the imperial lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Social reform gradually committed Pushkin, who emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals and in the early 1820s clashed with the government, which sent him into exile in southern Russia. Under the strict surveillance of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will, he wrote his most famous drama but ably published it not until years later. People published his verse serially from 1825 to 1832.

Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, later became regulars of court society. In 1837, while falling into ever greater debt amidst rumors that his wife started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d'Anthès, to a duel. Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.

Because of his liberal political views and influence on generations of Russian rebels, Pushkin was portrayed by Bolsheviks as an opponent to bourgeois literature and culture and a predecessor of Soviet literature and poetry. Tsarskoe Selo was renamed after him.

Reviews

[Анатолій Волков · Rating 4 out of 5]

Сказка хорошая несомненно, но для меня не столь любима и ценна как остальные сказки Александра Сергеевича. Быть может потому что главный герой – хитрец с нехитрым именем Балда просто и незамысловато обводит вокруг пальца всех, при этом не преследуя какой-то собственной цели. Да им многое не понятно, зачем Балда нанимается работником без особой для себя выгоды, а только ради того, чтобы наказать скупого попа? Вопросов таких зачем много, но они не существенны, в принципе, а только лишь бы придраться.

[Taliarochminska]

А Балда приговаривал с укоризной:
«Не гонялся бы ты, поп, за дешевизной»

[David Blynov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Im beginning my exploration into Russian literature with Pushkin's "A Tale about a Priest and His Servant Balda". Even though my initial reading was in English (edited by Robert Chandler), I do hope to reread it in Russian; it feels like a bit of the rhythm and rhyme was lost in the translation.

Edit: Эту скаску лучше было читать по-русски! Я люблю ритму и куплетную схему в етой скаске. Точна буду читать больше Пушкина!

English rating: 3.6/5
Русский рейтинг: 3.9/5