Pushkin was transferred to Ekaterinoslavl, and then assigned to dull work in Kishinev. Pushkin subsequently become disenchanted with romantism as reflected in the dramatic poem The Demon (1824). His narrative poem The Gypsies
begins on a romantic note but the hero Aleko is
realistically portrayed.
Pushkins deep affection for Russias past rwsulted in his historical drama Boris Godunov, completed in 1825 which Musorgsky used for his opera.
When letters in which Pushkin expressed radical political opinions were intercepted by the secret policy Pushkin was dismissed from his post and exiled to Mikhailovskoye in 1824.
In Mikhailovskoye he continued to work on his musterpiece Eugene Onegin. During his exile he wrote more than one hundred poems. Among them there wrere such beautiful works as Count Nulin. To my Nanny, Winter Road,
Slow the moon, embrased by shadow,
Climbs the hilly cloud of night
And upon the cheerless meadow
Sadly pours its pallid light.
Pushkins friends Delvig, Puschin visited him in Mikhailovskoye and told him about life in St. Petersburg
Pushkin often visited Trigorskoye, the manor of Osipova. There he met Anna Kern and was charmed by her. He dedicated to her the poem To
O wondrous moment! There before me
A radiant, fleeting dream, you stood,
A vision fancy fashioned for me,
A glimpse of perfect womanhood.
Pushkin worked on his masterpiece Eugene Onegin from 1823 to 1830. Written in eight chapters it was published in parts between 1825 and 1832, and as whole in 1833.
Among later Pushkins works Poltava (1828) is a romantic narrative poem about the famous battle in 1709, in which Peter the Great defeated the Swedes.
Two late historical works are the scholary History of the Pug
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