The Uncensored Boris Godunov

Chester Dunning is professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century Russian literature, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Russian music. Sergei Fomichev is professor of literature at the State University of Novgorod Velikii and former director of the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lidiia Lotman is senior researcher at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. Antony Wood is an award-winning translator of Pushkin's poetry and has translated books and articles from German and Russian in the fields of art history, psychoanalysis, literature, and literary criticism. He is a member of the editorial board of the Pushkin Premiere series published by the Pushkin State Theater.

Includes the original Russian text and, for the first time, an English translation of that version.