Hey y’all! It’s Dav. Check out this awesome guest blog from our Dramaturg Extraordinaire, Neal Ryan Shaw! He’s been helping us on our Tolstoy project and shares fascinating insights daily. Enjoy!
An Excerpt from Alexander Pushkin’s Poem The Gypsies (1827) At last she comes and following her Across the steppe speeds a young man hurriedly. To the gypsy entirely he is a stanger, But the daughter speaks out openly: “Father, a guest, I met him recently Behind the mounds in the open plain And invited him to stay with us. And as a gypsy he wishes to live with us; But the law pursues him relentlessly. Now I will be his friend for ever. His name is Aleko and he will never Abandon me, nor will his faith swerve ever. (Photo courtesy Cardmine)
