Prisoner of the Caucasus

…After graduating, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1820 published the fairy-tale-like narrative poem Ruslan and Lyudmila, which won him enthusiastic support from the younger generation. However, he was sent to southern Russia because he sympathized with the Decembrists and wrote excellent political poems such as the ode to Liberty (1817) and The Village (1818), which criticized serfdom. His life in the south (1820-24) provided Pushkin, who was reading Byron at the time, with material for romantic narrative poems, beginning with The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1821). In 1824, a letter in which he affirmed atheism was confiscated, and he was dismissed from his official position as a person of interest and ordered to live in confinement in his estate in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Pskov Province. …

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…卒業後外務省に勤務，20年におとぎ話風の物語詩《ルスラーンとリュドミーラ》を発表，若い世代の熱狂的な支持を得たが，デカブリストたちに共感し，頌詩《自由》(1817)，農奴制を批判した《村》(1818)などのすぐれた政治詩を書いたため，南ロシアへ送られた。　南方での生活(1820‐24)はちょうどバイロンを読んでいたプーシキンに，《カフカスの捕虜》(1821)に始まるロマンティックな物語詩の素材を提供してくれた。1824年，無神論を肯定した手紙が押収され，要注意人物として官職を解かれ，プスコフ県ミハイロフスコエ村の領地で謹慎を命ぜられた。…

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