A review by jgwc54e5
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin

3.0

This short book was entertaining but considering it is an historical novel recounting an uprising by Cossacks against the empress in the 1770s , the tone didn’t quite work for me. The narrator, the hero of the story is a young nobleman sent to serve in a far outpost. He’s young , frivolous and careless and I didn’t really care about him much. He has almost a pantomime bad guy, enemy in the character of Chvabrine, a rival for the girl and a turncoat who fights with the rebels. Perhaps it was the translation but story seemed too light for the background subject matter.