Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799 ~ 1837)

The text by Pushkin is Метель, The Snowstorm, from his Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin.

The historical background (in English) to the story has been provided by Beryl Williams, Reader in History at the University of Sussex.

Literary criticism (in English) provided by Sally Dalton-Brown, lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Sussex.

For biographical details see Stephany Gould Plecker's Pushkin Page