liberty.

(KSENIA, veiled, also comes to the window.) ONE OF THE PEOPLE. Brother and sister - poor children, like

birds in a cage.

SECOND PERSON. Are you going to pity them? Accursed

Family!

FIRST PERSON. The father was a villain, but the children are

innocent.

SECOND PERSON. The apple does not fall far from the

apple-tree.

KSENIA. Dear brother! Dear brother! I think the boyars

are coming to us.

FEODOR. That is Golitsin, Mosalsky. I do not know the

others.

KSENIA. Ah! Dear brother, my heart sinks.

(GOLITSIN, MOSALSKY, MOLCHANOV, and SHEREFEDINOV;

behind them three archers.)

THE PEOPLE. Make way, make way; the boyars come.

(They enter the house.)

ONE OF THE PEOPLE. What have they come for?

SECOND. Most like to make Feodor Godunov take the oath.

THIRD. Very like. Hark! What a noise in the house!

What an uproar! They are fighting!

THE PEOPLE. Do you hear? A scream! That was a

woman's voice. We will go up. We will go up! - The

doors are fastened - the cries cease - the noise continues.

(The doors are thrown open. MOSALSKY appears on

the staircase.)

MOSALSKY. People! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor

have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead

bodies.

(The People are silent with horror.) Why are ye silent? Cry, Long live the tsar Dimitry

Ivanovich!

(The People are speechless.) THE END.

THE STONE GUEST.

Translated by T. Keane This poetic drama is based on the Spanish legend of Don Juan and was written in 1830 as part of Pushkin's collection of four short plays titled The Little Tragedies. Unlike most traditional adaptations of the Don Juan tale, which tend to use a farcical and comedic tone, Pushkin's play is more in the style of a romantic tragedy. It is now believed that The Stone Guest was never meant for the stage, being a play with little action, except for a duel. The poet is believed to have been inspired after seeing the premiere of a Russian-language version of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Pushkin borrowed certain elements from the libretto, though he made the story his own by adopting the tragic tone.

'Pushkin' by Orest Kiprensky, 1827 CONTENTS.

SCENE I.