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Short Stories of Pushkin
A master of romance, satire, and tragedy—Alexander Pushkin’s greatest short stories come together in this beautifully bound collector’s edition that captures the birth of modern Russian prose and the timeless depth of human experience.
Short Stories of Pushkin unites ten of Alexander Pushkin’s most acclaimed tales, revealing his genius for blending emotional truth, irony, and historical insight. This collection includes The Queen of Spades, The Postmaster, The Pistol Shot, The Blizzard, The Undertaker, and other masterpieces that shaped the course of Russian and world literature.
From the haunting obsession of The Queen of Spades to the gentle pathos of The Postmaster, these stories explore love, betrayal, honor, and destiny with lyrical elegance and psychological precision. Pushkin’s narratives move between intimate human drama and sweeping social satire, portraying both the grandeur and fragility of 19th-century Russia.
Presented in a deluxe hardbound format, this volume celebrates the artistry that inspired generations of writers—from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Chekhov and Nabokov—making it an essential addition for readers of world classics, students of literature, and collectors of timeless storytelling.
The Queen of SpadesThe PostmasterThe Pistol ShotThe SnowstormThe UndertakerThe Lady RusticKirdjaliThe History of the Village of GorohinaPeter the Great’s NegroThe Gypsies – Narrative and Dramatic Poem
Short Stories of Pushkin unites ten of Alexander Pushkin’s most acclaimed tales, revealing his genius for blending emotional truth, irony, and historical insight. This collection includes The Queen of Spades, The Postmaster, The Pistol Shot, The Blizzard, The Undertaker, and other masterpieces that shaped the course of Russian and world literature.
From the haunting obsession of The Queen of Spades to the gentle pathos of The Postmaster, these stories explore love, betrayal, honor, and destiny with lyrical elegance and psychological precision. Pushkin’s narratives move between intimate human drama and sweeping social satire, portraying both the grandeur and fragility of 19th-century Russia.
Presented in a deluxe hardbound format, this volume celebrates the artistry that inspired generations of writers—from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Chekhov and Nabokov—making it an essential addition for readers of world classics, students of literature, and collectors of timeless storytelling.
The Queen of SpadesThe PostmasterThe Pistol ShotThe SnowstormThe UndertakerThe Lady RusticKirdjaliThe History of the Village of GorohinaPeter the Great’s NegroThe Gypsies – Narrative and Dramatic Poem
184 pages, Hardcover
Published June 16, 2026
About the author
Alexander Pushkin
2,933 books3,661 followersWorks 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.
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.
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