Program

Research Programs: Collaborative Research

Period of Performance

6/1/2002 - 11/30/2003

Funding Totals

$35,000.00 (approved)
$35,000.00 (awarded)


The Uncensored Version of Pushkin's BORIS GODUNOV

FAIN: RZ-20919-02

Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Chester S. L. Dunning (Project Director: September 2001 to March 2004)

To support a transcription and translation of the uncensored play BORIS GODUNOV.



Media Coverage

Book reviews (Review)
Publication: Times Literary Supplement, Choice, Slavic Review, Russian Review, Slavonic and East European Review, etc.
Date: 12/21/2011



Associated Products

The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Alexander Pushkin's Original Comedy (Book)
Title: The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Alexander Pushkin's Original Comedy
Author: Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood
Abstract: This book, the product of our NEH grant, makes the case for treating the original version of Pushkin's famous play (Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrep'ev) as the text Pushkin intended to publish and to put on stage. We also argue that the well-known version of the play, Boris Godunov, published in 1831, was the product of censorship, not the growth of Pushkin's aesthetic sensibilities.
Year: 2006
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/uncensored-boris-godunov-the-case-for-pushkins-original-comedy-with-annotated-text-and-translation/oclc/237045853&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2130.htm
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780299207632

Did Schiller's Demetrius Influence Alexander Pushkin's Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrep'ev? (Article)
Title: Did Schiller's Demetrius Influence Alexander Pushkin's Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrep'ev?
Author: Chester Dunning
Abstract: In this article I make the case for Pushkin being aware of Schiller's unfinished play and for its probable influence on his Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otre'ev. published as volumes 29-30 of Stanford Slavic Studies (2005): 80-92.
Year: 2005
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Stanford Slavic Studies
Publisher: Stanford University Press

“The Tsar’s Red Pencil: Nicholas I and Censorship of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov” (Article)
Title: “The Tsar’s Red Pencil: Nicholas I and Censorship of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov”
Author: Chester Dunning
Abstract: This article makes the case for Tsar Nicholas I as the real censor of Pushkin's "Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrep'ev" and for the tsar also being responsible for the well-known, censored version of Pushkin's play published in 1831.
Year: 2010
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Slavic and East European Journal
Publisher: AAATSLL