Uncensored ""Boris Godunov

Chester Dunning is professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Russia's First Civil War. Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. Sergei Fomichev is professor of literature at the State University of Novgorod Velikii in Russia. Lidiia Lotman is senior researcher at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. Antony Wood is an award-winning translator of Pushkin's poetry. He is a member of the editorial board of the Pushkin Premiere series published by the Pushkin State Theater.

Boris Godunov is the most fascinating and problematic of all of Pushkin's texts. The story of The Uncensored Boris Godunov is really a kind of detective novel: why the earlier draft has not been preferred by Pushkin scholars, why perhaps it should be, and how history proper and literary history in particular have clouded the issue of what could have been the definitive text. - David M. Bethea, author of Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushin and the Life of the Poet