Boris Godunov
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding Boris Godunov`s brief reign after the suspicious death of the nine-year-old heir apparent, Dimitry Ryurik. Although an able ruler, Godunov`s rule was attacked by a succession of pretenders, and weakened by the suspicion that he had a hand in young Dimitry`s death. The most threatening of the rivals to the throne was a young monk who, with an army of Polish sympathizers and Russian dissidents, claimed to be the dead Dimitry and marched his way through to Moscow. Often compared to Shakespeare`s Richard III , this is certainly the most ambitious of Pushkin`s dramatic works.

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