Title: Alexander Pushkin – Selected Works in Two Volumes

This volume (Volume Two: Prose) brings together the essential short stories and celebrated fiction of Alexander Pushkin, the founding father of modern Russian literature. Masterfully translated into English by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, this collection features Pushkin's timeless works: "The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin" (including The Shot, The Blizzard, The Undertaker, The Postmaster, and Lady into Lassie), alongside the suspenseful masterpiece "The Queen of Spades", and his iconic historical novella "The Captain's Daughter". Printed in Moscow in 1985 by Raduga Publishers under their Raduga - Russian Classics series, this collectible hardcover comes bound in vibrant royal blue cloth with gold leaf motifs, protected by its original illustrated dust jacket featuring Pushkin's famous portrait by V. Tropinin. The interior includes full-page plates, historical art inserts, and portraits of Pushkin, his wife Natalia Goncharova, and the Pushkin House-Museum in Boldino.