In St. Petersburg there is a large gap between the rich and the poor. In Aleksandr Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman there's an accurate representation of this and how the poor feel towards Peter the Great. Throughout the poem Pushkin affirms that the main character of the poem, Yevgeny, a poor clerk, feels neglected and jealous of the Czar. In this paper I will discuss how Pushkin shows the difference between the rich and the poor, and also explore how accurate The Bronze Horseman represents St. Petersburg. Although some people would say that The Bronze Horseman misrepresents St. Petersburg, on a large scale The Bronze Horseman accurately depicts St. Petersburg, however when taking a closer look there seem to be some imprecise descriptions of the city.
In most of the poem the setting takes place in a huge storm in St Petersburg. Also, the poor people in St. Petersburg, represented by Yevgeny, resent and envy Peter the Great. For example, there is a part in the poem when the storm is really rough and Yevgeny says, "Our famed late sovereign still was sitting On Russia's throne-he sadly here Upon his balcony did appear And owned: "For czars there is no pitting Their power against the lord's" (Pushkin 14). What Pushk
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