The city was built by forced labor, and thousands of peasant builders are said to have died in the harsh conditions. Petersburg on the orders of Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great, 1672-1725) on marshland on the banks of the river Neva. The poem's background theme is the building of the Russian city of St.
The poem is also available in an English translation by Robert Powell-Jones (Alexander Pushkin, Bronze Horseman, Stone Trough Books, 1999). Thomas (Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems, 1982), which, as of 2007, is out of print, but second-hand copies are available. One frequently used English translation (which is also used throughout this entry), is by the British novelist and poet D. The delay was due to the disapproval of Tsar Nicholas I, who objected to its themes and portrayal of his royal ancestor, Tsar Peter I. Originally written in 1833 and titled “Mednyi Vsadnik,” it was not published until 1841, after Pushkin's death, and it was printed as a stand-alone piece. “The Bronze Horseman” is a narrative poem by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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