Quotes from Alexander Pushkin's books, and about them
Eugene Onegin on Clarissa: “Dreaming herself the heroine Of the romances she preferred, Clarissa, Julia, Delphine,”
Crime and Punishment on Egyptian Nights: “It was in those days, that very year I believe, the 'disgraceful action of the _Age_' took place (you know, 'The Egyptian Nights,' that public reading, you remember?”
The Idiot on The Poor Knight: “I think the poet desired to embody in this one picture the whole spirit of medieval chivalry and the platonic love of a pure and high-souled knight.”
The Kreutzer Sonata on Little Feet: “Take all the poetry, the painting, the sculpture, beginning with Pouschkine's 'Little Feet,' with 'Venus and Phryne,'”
First Love on On the Hills of Georgia: “Recite to me: 'On the Hills of Georgia.'--Only, sit down first.” I sat down and recited, “On the Hills of Georgia.””