Captain's DaughterAlexander Pushkin
Captain's Daughter
by Alexander Pushkin · first published 2013
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I remember this from 19th century novel "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin[0]. While the book is fiction, the practice isn't presented as something extraordinary for the mid-18th century and may very well be true. I haven't looked for non-fictional sources.…
on “More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors” ↗In Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" there is a very nice piece in the very beginning: "Матушка была еще мною брюхата, как уже я был записан в Семеновский полк сержантом, по милости майора гвардии князя В., близкого нашего родственника."…
on “Tutor reveals the Ivy-admissions madness of rich penthouse parents” ↗BTW, calling that an epic novel is a stretch. Actually great Russian writers like Gogol (surprisingly, Dead Souls is a poem, in prose) and Pushkin (Captain's Daughter is neither novella or novel) had difficulties fitting into Western genres of fiction. I'm sure there are more examples.
on “Dostoyevsky Isn't Difficult” ↗