The road to true love is never easy, and it is particularly difficult when a blizzard blows up on the way to church – threatening to ruin a perfectly good elopement.
Russia’s greatest author, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) thrills us with this engaging story about an elopement and all the things that can go wrong when you decide on a secret rendez-vous with your beloved.
Pushkin led a literary revolution changing the way Russians wrote. A duellist and a rake, he was known as a womaniser and the tsar feared him as a revolutionary.
He was killed in 1837 in a duel over his wife against a French mercenary.
His life experience placed him in the perfect situation to write of the perils of meeting a young lady late at night.
This accessible and charming translation is designed to be read by all those who enjoy a good story without slowing it down with footnotes or annotations. Sit back an enjoy a modern translation of a story written by a true master.