"Dubrovsky" is the most famous robber novel in Russian, an unprocessed (and unfinished) work by A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). It tells the story of Vladimir Dubrovsky's love for Maria Troekurova, descendants of two warring landowner families. It is believed that the idea for the novel came to the poet after his friend Pavel Nashchokin told him the story of a certain landowner Ostrovsky. This landowne...