Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

''The people are silent''So ends Pushkin''s great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris''s reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin''s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical an...