![]() ![]() ![]() Almost on the brink of death, a mysterious fellow traveler guides him back to the main road, saving Pyotr’s life. On his way to military training in the city of Orenburg, Pyotr loses his way during a terrible blizzard. It is against this backdrop that Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is sent to join the Imperial Russian Army at the behest of his father, a retired Imperial officer. In the years following the rise of Empress Catherine the Great as ruler of the Russian Empire, numerous insurgent rebellions broke out among the peasant class. Over the years, The Captain's Daughter has been adapted to stage and the cinema. Set during Pugachev's Rebellion of the 1770s, Russian writer Alexander Pushkin’s historical novel The Captain's Daughter (1836) tells the story of seventeen-year-old Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov who leaves home to join the Russian Imperial Army in its fight against insurgents. ![]()
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