History Literature / TheCaptainsDaughter

* ValuesDissonance: At one point, Pyotr is told to find something to do with his time, as he can't just spend all his free time thrashing [[OnceAcceptableTargets Jews]]. Note that this line would likely have been much less offensive to it's target audience [[FairForItsDay when it was written.]]

* {{Fainting}}: Masha is prone to this whenever stressed. She spends a portion of the story after the sacking of Belgorsk downright [[IllGirl feverish and bedridden.]]

* RealityEnsues: Pugachyov favors Pyotr greatly after Pyotr insisted on repaying him for saving his life early in the book, sparing his life and helping him rescue Masha from Shvabrin. When word of this gets back to the Imperial authorities, Pyotr is immediately arrested and accused of treason.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The book is framed like a memoir, ending with a note from the author (Pushkin) that "The memoirs of Pyotr Grinyov end here."

''The Captain's Daughter'' (Rus: Капитанская дочка) is a short Main/HistoricalFiction novel by Russian poet and playwright Creator/AlexanderPushkin published in 1836. The story concerns a young man named Pyotr Grinyov, who is enlisted in the military by his disciplinarian father and sent to a desolate fort in the corner of Russia. Along the way, however, his kibitka (carriage/sled) is caught in a snow storm and only through the intersession of a Cossack guide do they escape. Pyotr repays the guide for his help by giving him his hare skin pelisse. When Pyotr arrives a his destination, a run-down and inactive fort called Belogorsk, he meets a colorful cast of characters--the foolish Captain Mironov, the shady Shvabrin, and the Captain's pretty daughter, Masha, with whom Pyotr falls in love with.

* GermanRussians: In the beginning is an old general, a German in Russian service, who speaks with a thick German accent, presumably for comic effect. [[spoiler:When Catherine II appears in the story, her dialogue is rendered in proper, unaccented Russian.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, there are two men named Ivan stationed at Belogorsk, and one with the {{patronymic}} Ivanovich.

* OldSoldier: The entire garrison of Belogorsk is this save for Pyotr and Shvabrin. Most notably, the fort's commandant Ivan Kozumitch.

* TsaristRussia

* {{Cossacks}}

* ValuesDissonance: At one point, Pyotr is told to find something to do with his time, as he can't just spend all his free time thrashing [[OnceAcceptableTargets Jews]].

* ShownTheirWork: Depiction of Pugachyov's rebellion is very historically accurate.

As the story progresses, however, reports come in about the arrival of a Cossack known as Emelyan Pugachov, who claims to be the dead former Tsar, Pyotr III, and has been devastating the countryside around Belogorsk...

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Guide AKA Pugachyov.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Catherine The Great}}]], Emelyan Pugachyov, and the Russian folk bandit Khlopusha.

''The Captain's Daughter'' (Rus: Капитанская дочка) is a short Main/HistoricalFiction novel by Russian poet and playwright Creator/AlexanderPushkin published in 1836. The story concerns a young man named Pyotr Mironov, who is enlisted in the military by his disciplinarian father and sent to a desolate fort in the corner of Russia. Along the way, however, his kibitka (carriage/sled) is caught in a snow storm and only through the intersession of a Cossack guide do they escape. Pyotr repays the guide for his help by giving him his hare skin pelisse. When Pyotr arrives a his destination, a run-down and inactive fort called Belogorsk, he meets a colorful cast of characters--the foolish Captain Mironov, the shady Shvabrin, and the Captain's pretty daughter, Masha, with whom Pyotr falls in love with.

* TheCavalryOfficer: Zurin, a gambling cavalry officer who Pyotr comes across in his travels.

* MildlyMilitary: The Belogorsk garrison has not seen action for years, and spend their time holding drills, drinking tea, or helping the Captain's wife with household duties. They haven't even fired the fort's only cannon in years... [[spoiler: Showing why this trope isn't usually a good thing in real life, the fort is completely unprepared when Pugachyov and the Cossacks arrive and sack the place.]]

* DeliberatelyBadExample: The author made use of one of these to avoid censorship: The hero Grinev is friends with the anti-Czarist rebel Pugachev, yet remains a positive character, which could have led to the book being banned in Czarist Russia. So Pushkin introduced [[spoiler: Shvabrin, a spineless, unscrupulous traitor who sells out everybody]] in comparison to this, the hero seems quite loyal and patriotic.
* TheDragon: An interesting example where the Dragon is also the main antagonist, Shvabrin becomes Pugachyov's Dragon at Belogorsk, but is also the greatest threat to Pyotr and Masha.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: After Belogorsk is sacked by Pugachyov, Pyotr seems to await the same fate as Captain Mironov and Ivan Ignatich, but his life is spared once Pugachyov [[spoiler: realizes that Pyotr was the man who gave him the hare-skin coat.]] He helps Pyotr out for the rest of the story, despite both of them technically being enemies.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Guide AKA Pugachyov.]]
* BigBadFriend: Pugachyov to Pyotr, to pay him back for giving him the pelisse at the beginning.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Catherine The Great}}]], Emelyan Pugachyov, and the Russian folk bandit Khlopusha.

The Captain's Daughter (Rus: Капитанская дочка) is a short Main/HistoricalFiction novel by Russian Poet and playwright Creator/AlexanderPushkin published in 1836. The story concerns a young man named Pyotr Mironov, who is enlisted in the military by his disciplinarian father and sent to a desolate fort in the corner of Russia. Along the way, however, his kibitka (carriage/sled) is caught in a snow storm and only through the intersession of a Cossack guide do they escape. Pyotr repays the guide for his help by giving him his hare skin pelisse. When Pyotr arrives a his destination, a run-down and inactive fort called Belogorsk, he meets a colorful cast of characters--the foolish Captain Mironov, the shady Shvabrin, and the Captain's pretty daughter, Masha, with whom Pyotr falls in love with.

!![The Captain's Daughter] contains examples of
* Main/AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler: What Shvabrin tries to do to Masha once he becomes commandant of the Fort.]]
* Main/BeardOfEvil: Pugachyov
* Main/BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: After Belogorsk is sacked by Pugachyov, Pyotr seems to await the same fate as Captain Mironov and Ivan Ignatich, but his life is spared once Pugachyov [[spoiler: realizes that Pyotr was the man who gave him the hare-skin coat.]] He helps Pyotr out for the rest of the story, despite both of them technically being enemies.
* Main/ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Coat Pyotr gave to the guide (Pugachyov)]]
* Main/ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Guide AKA Pugachyov.]]
* Main/BigBadFriend: Pugachyov to Pyotr, to pay him back for giving him the pelisse at the beginning.
* Main/DadTheVeteran: Pyotr's father was a soldier in the guards before the events of the story.
* Main/DefiledForever: Two of Pyotr's servants claim that Pyotr's French Tutor--Beaupré--ruined them. This gets him fired by Pyotr's father, much to the delight of Saveltich.
* Main/FalseRapeAccusation: In chapter one of the story, two of Grinyov's servants pretend his French tutor raped them in order to get him fired.
* Main/HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Catherine The Great}}]], Emelyan Pugachyov, and the Russian folk bandit Khlopusha.
* Main/GermanRussians: In the beginning is an old general, a German in Russian service, who speaks with a thick German accent, presumably for comic effect. [[spoiler:When Catherine II appears in the story, her dialogue is rendered in proper, unaccented Russian.]]
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* Main/AndNowYouMustMarryMe: What Shvabrin tries to do to Masha once he becomes commandant of the Fort.

* Main/BigBadFriend: Pugachyov to Pyotr, to pay him back for giving him the pelisse.

Main/AndNowYouMustMarryMe: What Shvabrin tries to do to Masha once he becomes commandant of the Fort.