1892
CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHY OF PUSHKIN [ 1]
THE QUEEN OF SPADES [ 17]
THE PISTOL SHOT [ 70]
THE SNOWSTORM [ 97]
THE UNDERTAKER [122]
THE POSTMASTER [134]
THE LADY RUSTIC [155]
KIRDJALI [184]
THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF GOROHINA [195]
PETER THE GREAT'S NEGRO [214]
THE GYPSIES [268]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
"THE OLD MAGICIAN CAME AT ONCE" [19]
"SEATED BEFORE HER LOOKING GLASS" [24]
"PAUL AND LISAVETA" [27]
"THERE SHE SHED TEARS" [33]
"SHE TORE IT INTO A HUNDRED PIECES" [40]
"A FOOTMAN IN A GREASY DRESSING GOWN" [45]
"A STRANGE MAN HAD APPEARED" [47]
"ONE GLANCE SHOWED HER THAT HE WAS NOT THERE" [52]
"HERMANN STARTED AND FELL BACKWARDS" [60]
"HE SAW BEFORE HIM A QUEEN OF SPADES" [67]
"THE OFFICER SEIZED A BRASS CANDLESTICK" [73]
"HERE IS A MEMENTO OF OUR DUEL" [78]
"WE CLUTCHED OUR SWORDS" [80]
"HIS LIFE AT LAST WAS IN MY HANDS" [83]
"SILVIO! YOU KNEW SILVIO?" [89]
"MASHA THREW HERSELF AT HIS FEET" [94]
"THE LOVERS MET IN THE PINE WOOD" [98]
"SHE BURST INTO TEARS" [101]
"A TIME OF GLORY AND DELIGHT" [113]
"IN THE IVY BOWER" [117]
[PUSHKIN.]
Alexander Sergueievitch Pushkin came of a noble family, so ancient that it was traced back to that Alexander Nevsky who, in the thirteenth century, gained a great victory over the Swedes upon the ice of the River Neva, in token whereof he was surnamed "Nevsky" of the Neva.