Puškin's "Virtual Scene". Some Aspects of Puškin's Historiography. Boris Godunov as the Trivium on the Way to the Polyphonic Novel

In this paper I seek to draw attention to one of the specific characteristics of Puškinian dramaturgy encountered in the poet’s "romantic tragedy," Boris Godunov. By doing so, not only shall we be able to come across new points for the interpretation of the play or gain further insight into its genesis but we will also be able to get nearer to answering some of the questions about the after-life of Boris Godunov. This is likely to help us localize the Puškinian "historical drama" in the chronotopics of literary history.