Adapted from Alexander Pushkin’s The Belkin Tales, Pushkin Stories is directed by Anatoly Shuliev, Chief Director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. Shuliev selects four stories—The Squire’s Daughter, The Shot, The Blizzard, and The Stationmaster—linking the love, fate, and partings of ordinary people through the changing seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Weaving Pushkin’s poetry into the dramatic narrative, the production evokes the unmistakable humanistic spirit of Russian literature through fluid and poetic stage language. Its characters, transformed by fate, radiate ardent emotional power at the intersection of history and coincidences.
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