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Russian Versions of Don Juan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Clarence Augustus Manning
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The legend of Don Juan with all its wonderful possibilities could not fail sooner or later to reach Russia on its triumphant march through Europe from its home in Spain. In truth we find that as early as the reign of Peter the Great (the first quarter of the eighteenth century) there was produced a Don-Yan. Only the fifth act of this is preserved, but it seems to be a Russian translation of a Polish version of Villiers' Le Festin de Pierre. For a century more there is no Russian version and it is not until the time of Pushkin that we find a really valuable contribution to the development of the legend.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 1923 , pp. 479 - 493
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1923

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References

1 La Légende de Don Juan, Son Evolution dans la Littérature, Romantisme a l'Epoque Contemporaine, Paris, 1911.

2 Polnoye Sobraniye Sochinenii, III, 699.

3 Vsye Dramaticheskie Sochineniya Pushkina, Moscow, 1916, p. 171.

4 Gendarme de Bevotte, op. cit., p. 14.

5 Op. cit., p. 16.

6 Loc. cit.

7 A. Deutsch, Typ Don-Juana v mirovoy literaturye, Niva, 1911, III, 267.

8 Polnoye Sobraniye Sochinenii, III. 699.

9 Gendarme de Bevotte, op. cit., p. 67.

10 Palnoye Sobraniye Sochinenii, I. 69.

11 Op. cit., p. 67.

12 Quoted by Lirondelle, Le Poète Alexis Tolstoy, L'Homme et l'Oeuvre' p. 479.

13 Lirondelle, op. cit., p. 572.