Abstract
In these notes (see also the previous volume of Slavica Revalensia ), Prof. Alexander Ospovat of UCLA identifies the sources of several segments of Alexander Pushkin’s novel _The Captain’s Daughter_ , uncovers themes and events silently implied in the text (e. g., the protagonist’s sexual amusements, the money system in 18 th -century Russia, a bath ritual in the Russian countryside, etc.), and reconstructs hidden meanings of individual episodes. Keywords: 19 th -Century Russian Literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837), The Captain’s Daughter (1836), Annotations, History of Literature.
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