Thread: Literature Talk: Russian & Non -Discuss/Review/Q&As

Медный всадник!
What a marvelous combination of epic and comedy! It was my first experience of reading Pushkin's verse in Russian. Gave me some good laughs and an everlasting passion for Russian poetry. A guy told me once that there is not a single Russian who doesn't know at least a few lines of that poem by heart.
But still, I think Peter the Great was a bit too easily offended. "Ужо тебе" isn't really such a great insult for which to petrify a poor young man. I wonder what grievous curses a contemporary Evgeny would yell at the statue...