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What was his attitude towards the n clergy and Orthodox Church, as well as to Christianity and to religion in general? Did he believe in immortality of the soul and in Providence? Investigation of these issues was significant difficulties. As we know, Pushkin's contemporaries saw in the "pure" poet and as Baratynskij, were surprised to find it not only a brilliant poet, but also deep thinker. In addition, over the life of the views of Pushkin, in those on religion changed. Finally, in modern n conditions, this theme is extremely sensitive nature, thereby preventing the fair, objective investigation: how it happened many times in the past, Pushkin again become the object of ideological confrontation, but if it had seen revolutionary and an atheist, but now it is often turned into a deep believer Orthodox Christian. After the collapse of the Soviet system in have been re-published the work of Pushkin n philosophers and religious hierarchs of the Orthodox Church, there were dozens of books and

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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

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That one of the most famous lines in this play is the stage direction The People are silent with which the play closes, is enough indication of the complexities raised by this work. For how do you stage an ending silence? May be that is why the play called for an opera, for silences are as important and measured as the notes in a musical score. For even if several of Pushkin’s other plays and works became operas, may be this is the one that requires an operatic dimension to blossom into full flower.

This final line ought to be suspicious to us anyway, since it was the closing note of the second and censored edition of the play. Pushkin wrote it originally in 1825, when he was under house arrest, but it was not until 1831 that the edition was pruned. Some sections were cut, a romance was added (originally it had no female characters) and the optimistic final line of Long live Tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! disappeared. The Silent People though appealed both to the Church, during its time, and later, to the Soviet era. And

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University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No. 5 General Editor: Michael Holquist Advisory Board: Robert L. Belknap John Bowlt Edward J. Brown Victor Erlich Robert L. Jackson Hugh McLean Sidney Monas I. R. Titunik Edward Wasiolek René Wellek

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