Composition and Publication
Pushkin wrote "The Bronze Horseman" between October 6 and October 31, 1833 while he was staying on his family's estate at Boldino. Owing to censorship, only the Prologue was allowed to be published during the poet's lifetime. It appeared in 1834 under the title "Petersburg. An extract from a poem" in the journal Library for Reading .
The poem was first published in full as "The Bronze Horseman" only posthumously in 1837. It was printed in the journal Sovremennik (Современник), which Pushkin had begun a year earlier. Even then, the censor demanded certain important adjustments.
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