The Stationmaster

Pushkin's tale "The Stationmaster" is a vivid example of sentimentalism in Russian literature. A young hustler landowner gets to a godforsaken backwater station, where he falls in love with the daughter of a poor caretaker ... All in all, the prose cycle "The Belkin Tales" by Alexander Pushkin includes such famous stories as "The Snowstorm", "The Shot", "The Undertaker" and "The Young Lady-Peasant Woman". Many of them are known from the wonderful film adaptations of the Soviet period.