The Daughter of the Commandant

ALEXKSANDR POUSHKIN, the Poet, was born at Petersburg in 1799 of good family, and died before he was forty, in the prime of his genius. The novel here offered to the public is considered by Russians his best prose work. Others are Boris Godúnof, a dramatic sketch, but never intended to be put on the stage, and The Prisoner of the Caucasus. Among his poems are «The Gipsies,» «Rúslan and Ludmilla,» «The Fountain of Tears,» and «Evgeni Onéghin.» The last, if I mi